shovel241 – How To Build a House on the Moon in Minecraft [Tutorial]

Hey everybody welcome back to another tutorial video and today i’ll be showing you how i made my crescent cottage build i’ll be going through my methods in a more detailed manner and hopefully you can follow along if you want to make something like this yourself let’s hop into it

You’re going to want to be on a server that has world edit and voxel sniper to do this you can do it by hand if you want but it’s going to be way more tedious and a lot of it’s not going to apply to you to skip ahead to the

Portion on the house you can click the chapters in the description the main shape is shown here in emerald blocks and i’ll put the dimensions on the screen for you if you have trouble making circles check out this online tool to help once i have the outline

Done i’ll fill it in with diamond blocks and stack it forward stack is a world edit command and i use it by selecting the area that i once stacked looking in the direction i want it to stack to and doing the command slash slash stack

Space 6 space minus a 6 is the number of times that i want my selection to stack and minus a just stops the air blocks from my original selection from being stacked then i’ll copy and flip these diamond blocks to the other side and now we’ve got a rough shape

To knock down these sharp corners and make the moon a bit more organic i’ll use the blend ball brush from voxel sniper to get this brush get an arrow and hold it in your hand use the command slash b space bb this sets it to blend

Ball use slash b space two to set the size to two and then just go through and aim for the corners to round out the shape the amount of smoothing is fairly subjective but just go until you like the look of it i want there to be some grass on this

Moon but i spent so much time smoothing i don’t want the diamond blocks from my moon to be changed instead of doing this by hand i can create another layer of blocks on top of them with the overlay command from world edit to use this command select the area you want to be

Overlaid and do the command slash overlay space emerald underscore block this makes it so every solid block in your selection gets an emerald block on top of it after i’m satisfied with my moon shape i’ll start blocking out the house with placeholder blocks i usually will take inspiration for houses from some

Reference images and i’ll put the one for this house on the screen i don’t normally try to make a direct copy of the reference but it’s more of just a catalyst to get me going after a little bit i will just start to make it my own

And the command i used a lot on this build specifically was the slash walls command if you haven’t used this it’s really simple you select your two positions of the area that you want your structure to have and then type in slash slash walls space blue underscore wool

Or whatever material you want this makes it so four walls appear on each side of your selection but the interior is hollow i changed up my normal method for this roof instead of using loft from archeon i’ll use the stack command again i create the main shape of my roof select

The two points of the area that i want stacked look into the direction i want it stacked to and do the command slash stack space 8 space minus a and once i’m happy with it i’ll just flip it to the other side i’ll continue this pattern to block out

The rest of the structure i’ll go a little slower if you want to follow along and there we go i like that shape in this stage don’t get too caught up in making it completely perfect i catch myself doing that quite a lot but remember that this is supposed to be a

Really rough guideline to what you want your build to be you can always change it up in detailing when i texture i try to break up my color palettes into four categories terrain walls trim and roof and you’ve seen this in my other videos before i even start changing up my placeholder

Blocks i’ll lay out my palettes for each of these categories don’t lay out your detailing blocks just yet these should only be full blocks to establish color once i have the palettes established i’ll start texturing i’ll hold a shovel in my hand and create my brush for the moon using the command

Slash br sphere strips jungle wood 2. and i’ll mask it to diamond blocks with the command slash mask diamond block since this is the darkest color in our terrain palette i’m painting it where i think the shadows would be when i’m done with the first color i’ll transition to

The next block in the gradient which is stripped oak wood i’ll start the switch to a lighter color by creating a transition brush composed of strip jungle and stripped oak the command is slash material space 30 strips jungle wood comma 70 stripped oak wood i’ll go through and

Then i’ll paint only the edges of where the strip jungle wood is and it’s just enough to show some mixing between the two blocks after i’ve outlined the entire area with that transition i’ll move on to a brush with 100 stripped oak wood then i’ll continue this pattern

Moving through all the blocks in my gradient until i’ve textured all of the diamond blocks and i’ll do this for the rest of the categories with this same exact method i’ll texture the walls by hand since it’s a small area but the rest i’ll do with brushes if you want to

Know more about texturing and worldedit brushes you can check out my other tutorials if you want some more inspiration or examples on color usage i’d recommend checking out snarple on instagram they are the authority on color palette building and execute far better than i ever could you can also check them out

On tick tock and youtube and the links are going to be in the description now that i’ve got the colors down it’s time to start detailing before you touch anything make sure that you change the gravity affected blocks that you painted earlier here i have some cyan concrete

Powder in my roof gradient if i broke one they would all update and fall which is a huge pain to replace to prevent this i’ll simply select the entire area and do slash replace cyan concrete powder space red wool and red wool is just going to be our placeholder block while we’re

Working we’ll change it back at the end i’ll start by texturing the chimneys and adding some walls to make them feel a little less blocky in general focus on knocking out harsh corners and adding depth to large flat surfaces that’s the main goal of detailing trim is a very

Time intensive part of detailing specifically on the roof stairs slabs and trap doors are your best friends here try to knock out that full block transition that you see here and that will give it a more continuous look to the trim if it looks a little strange

Right after you finish it remember to take a step back and see how it looks from a distance once you’re happy with one side select the trim stand on the center point of the roof do slash copy look in the direction you want it to flip to do slash flip and slash paste

Minus a to make the windows for this build i’ll take a trick i learned from both painter gigi and sword self make sure to check both of them out links are in the description put black concrete behind a wall of scaffolding and then you can use

A light brush or just light blocks to make it light up to make a light brush you can just take your shovel on your hand and do slash slash br sphere light one and one’s just the size and then you can do slash mask zero to mask it to air

The roof looks a little blocky so i’ll smooth it out here with some stairs and slabs there’s no exact science to this it just comes down to personal preference i’ll do this with the rest of the build as well adding little details where i feel it’s a bit bland

Another trick i learned from sword self and painter is using lecterns for trim if you take a left turn and you place it so it’s facing away from the viewer it adds a nice effect with a lot of depth then some final details on the chimneys and the structure looks pretty much

Complete to make a build feel more alive and give it some atmosphere make sure you put in some foliage i’ll start by pasting in one of my spruce tree schematics i just use the same tree and rotate and paste it multiple times it saves time and you can be a lot more

Creative with it pasting them at different heights and even stacking them on top of each other can give the illusion of different trees and last but not least is a foliage brush this is like the imitate ivy or any other miscellaneous shrubbery so i’ll put the brush i used on the screen

And in the description if you want to use it yourself you can just copy and paste it into your command line i’ll mask it to air with slash mask 0 and i’ll go around and brush down where i see fit and after that the build is pretty much

Complete and thanks to everyone for tuning in i hope that this format was helpful and you learned a little bit let me know in the comments what you thought of this video and any suggestions for new videos i’m still trying to define my style on youtube and it’d be great to

Hear some of your opinions i’m trying to up the quality and focusing more on editing got a new microphone and everything so hopefully that is increasing your enjoyment and if you liked it then don’t forget to like and subscribe and yeah that’s pretty much it have fun good luck have a good day

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