The Nether Wastes | Custom LEGO Minecraft World

Over the course of this series we’ve spent a lot of time making sure the overworld is as fleshed out and as beautiful as possible but i think it’s time to spice things up and travel to another dimension the nether this is one you guys have been requesting for ages and i’ve been

Really looking forward to starting this one because of recent updates of course there’s so much content in this biome and i think a lot of the biomes within the nether are some of the most interesting looking biomes in the entire game let’s get building this thing To start out with though we’re going to keep it pretty basic and stick to the default nether look that we’re all familiar with the nether wastes i’ll be utilizing dark red for netherrack and orange up in the top left for lava module of course is going to be

What has become standard the 16 by 32 studs or 8 by 16 blocks in the game i want to incorporate a lot more functionality into this model than some of the other ones i’ve had so i’m actually going to try to make the lava light up and to do that i’m going to

Utilize third-party i know ridiculous lighting here which is just a small battery-powered fairy light thing that i picked up at clearance at barnes noble years ago in order to do this i’m going to painstakingly weave the wire through a network of one by one round plates

That are transparent so the light can go through them but this ensures the lights aren’t going to move anywhere and that the bulbs are actually exactly where i want them to make sure that the light comes through the surface i’ll use a mixture of orange tiles and also trans orange

Tiles gives the lava some texture and looks pretty great of course this will sit one plate lower than a regular block just so it sinks into the ground just a little bit the effect in the dark is especially striking i want to make sure that the

Battery box is still accessible so i can turn it on and off and switch out the batteries if needed so i’m going to make a removable platform above it that does mean that i do have to raise this entire build up quite a bit which eats up a lot

Of my sweet sweet dark red bricks that’s something interesting i’m trying with this model not planning it you see i’m not really sure how much dark red i have on hand with things like brown i know i have enough but i want to push these bricks as far as they possibly can and

Obviously there’s a lot of different sizes of bricks there’s some of them are more useful than others basically i want to keep building with them until i run out so this thing could end up really small or quite spectacular we’re hoping for more spectacular than anything else Of course we need another portal in this build another function that i want to add to this one is the ability to turn it on and turn it off that’ll be accomplished using a simple manual sliding mechanism found in the back of the model simple though it might be i

Think the effect is perfect for a model like this and something that lego has utilized a lot of their kits as well so here is the mechanism itself you’ll notice that i found a use for that cursed 1×5 dang it i hate how useful it is because i hate it

But that’s actually in this model that will slide cleanly into place so you can see the portal is unlit here but we still get the frames on each side and if we slide it over the portal becomes lit i want to tuck this mechanism away as best as possible so it’s not too

Painstakingly obvious but still easy enough to actually turn on and off i want limits on each side so it always locks into the place you want it to be while i build i’m trying to incorporate other familiar elements of another like fire patches all over the place also

Some gold ore and trying to recreate the really crazy landscape that happens here i also need to be really resourceful with pieces you’ll see slopes all over the inside of this thing just to stretch that dark red as far as i possibly can it’s not all that common of a color

Unfortunately which seems to be the case with a lot of these minecraft colors except brown thank goodness brown is common of course i do need a lava fall on the side as well i’m gonna make a pretty randomized texture using again orange and trans orange just like i did

For the lava pool below and all the while i still need to make sure that this section can be lifted off so i can access the battery box underneath to be totally honest i’m getting further with my dark red than i thought i could and

The section that i have to lift off to get access the battery box is becoming quite obnoxious and i keep finding myself accidentally attaching it to the main part of the model quite frequently so we’ve made pretty good progress we’ve got a lot of height on this model i’m at

A point where i’m ready to tile off that and call it a day i’ve left a little plateau on top so we can have all sorts of mobs and of course i had to capture that wonderful part the tiling process which is just so satisfying to see and even more

Satisfying to do for models like these in fact the only parts that i really purchased specifically for this was a bunch of two by two tiles in dark red from lego pika brick beautiful let’s populate these things with some mobs of course we have zombie pigmen and

I gotta put in that baby zombie pigmen i’m also gonna add some mushrooms which is just a regular dark tan disc on top of two white pips blaze of course belongs in this model and i do have a couple piglens as well so those are gonna end up here too if i’m being

Completely honest though something feels off about this model it doesn’t feel finished one change that i really feel is necessary is to make a door to access that battery box instead of ripping the model in half to access it and so it was back to the drawing board as i ripped

Out that section and decided to implement a hinged door in the back to reach it this would just make it so much cleaner and easier to access and the process of turning on the lava was no longer a nightmare even if it took a lot of work to implement i totally think it

Was worth it that being said that wasn’t what was going to fix this model for me i felt like this needed just a little bit more verticality and because of the changes i made to the door in the back of the model i had freed up some more

Dark red small and silly though the idea of a change like this might seem i think the effect was quite drastic it also allowed me to incorporate some quartz which had otherwise been missing from the model another thing that i had been missing was glowstone which is just a crazy combination of tan

Glow-in-the-dark pips and trans yellow it’s an ugly block in the game very noisy and i think this recreates that effect pretty well the addition of the new height i think quite literally doubled the value of this model even though it did not double the height it just feels more like this environment

That i was trying to recreate it’s more immersive taller it feels more imposing and that’s exactly what i want out of this rather frightening biome and here’s that door in the back so much easier to turn this thing on and off so that’s it what do you think of adding more

Functionality to these models what do you think of pursuing this nether display a little more i definitely have plans for a warped forest but i’d be curious to hear what you think should be added to the another display next of course there is that wonderful new summerset that brings a lot of new

Nether mobs into lego form for the first time i’m looking forward to incorporating those into this separate nether display episode 9 is not yet determined i’ve left a poll in my community tab that i encourage you to vote on let me know which one you want to see specifically for episode nine and

Don’t worry all of them will be built at some point as always have a great life i’ll see you next time You