Transforming DanTDM’s Minecraft Base

Previously I tackled Felix’s summer house and transformed it into a lighthouse it was a nice break from transforming entire bases but this time we’re digging deep and taking on arguably the biggest minecraft youtuber around my name is Oscar and today I’ll be transforming dantdm hardcore base my initial thoughts while

Starting this build were full of dread as there was a lot of different builds to this minecraft pace all being unique and varying in style and design I thought the best place to start was the center of the base and work my way outwards so once I had done some

Terraforming and neatened out the landscape a little bit I began by making a wooden bridge that connected the two sections of land and on one end began adding his water elevator that would lead to his small floating castle now as you may have realized I was building this along with

His playthrough so that as they gradually appeared in his episodes I added them into the base bit by bit in the same order this is earlier on in his series so he initially creates just the one tower he then moves on to the other side of the bridge where

He builds a giant block of flats for his villagers in the style of a giant vending machine which by the way I thought was a very cool and unique way of theming the building I make small separate rooms for each villager role and continue to staircase

To the top floor once built I decide to reposition it slightly closer to the water’s edge and then quickly add in his nether portal in the side of the sand dune and his little farm next to the bridge dan decides to make a fishing farm and yet again he disguises it into

A small fishing boat which was also a clever way of incorporating the farm into a build now coming back to the castle I start to progress the design by adding the clouds beneath the tower digging out the ground below and add on his extra side Tower that is also being

Held up by cloud completing the floating castle and how it currently looks in his series again on the other side of the water I did some paths and lighting his hole of cows and next to the portal the sandstone and gold throne for his cat beneath the floating castle I converted

The soul sand pet into his turtle pen and atop the hill to the left of his base added in a larger field of farms lastly I quickly include his little witch hat in the river next he decides to make this interesting stable for his horses which underwent a few style

Changes and ended up changing that roof for stone bricks instead now this was where a few larger changes took place in his series he ended up digging and flattening out the entire section of land beneath his castle and adding in a few separate clouds to feature his sheep

Pen and carrot farm with a few small clouds in between to allow him to jump from one to another onto the final section of recreating Dan’s base I had to remake his iron golem far this includes a lava pit covered in water with floating containers on either side which would house villagers and

Then a floating section in the middle which would then house the zombie and iron golems would spawn on top I tell you now I was not looking forward to transforming this section of the build I literally had no idea what I intended to do to make this functional yet aesthetically pleasing round the

Backside of that farm I did some small terrain editing and rebuilt his cactus and bamboo auto farms which mainly just included a lot of Pistons lastly he disguises it as a giant cube like cactus and with that I think we’re all done here His base legitimately looks decent especially for a hardcore survival world now it’s time to do what I do best there was a lot of individual bills to tackle in so I started by lifting some of them up into the air to allow me to terraform and mean up the landscape a little bit

From this completely flat wasteland after doing some basic bits and bobs I decided to drain the river dig it deeper down and then once done fill it back up with water the reason for this was that I wanted to add a bit of color to the debts so I scattered around different

Colored coral and sea grass I also included some sea pickles to give some light below and well who doesn’t love a good sea people on the mainland above I decided to raise the center up and clean things up once more right so the first build I decided to take on was his

Automatic cactus farm that he disguised as a giant cactus so what I intended to do was create a giant cactus and then using welded it I can copy and paste his farm into the center once complete I made it out of lime terracotta and lined it with strips of green where needed

Lastly I wanted to make those spikes on the cactus so using sandstone walls I covered it from head to toe and then adjusted them where needed finally as I clip through to the bottom here you can see where i hollowed out the cactus and place the farm in including a small

Doorway to enter because i decided to relocate the cactus and bamboo farm i had to make a way to reach it so crossing the river i created this upgraded version of the wooden campfire bridge that dan created which later on I intend to adjust to match the other

Bridge as you can see I’ve relocated the vending machine into the sky behind so that I can use it as reference when creating his upgraded version I basically wanted to keep the same kind of thing he had going on but with some adjustments to make it look more like a real-life vending machine

I made slots in the vending machine for each villager role with plenty more to fill up the space on the right I added buttons the change slot at the bottom that would act as the entrance and a small display at the top from blue stained glass once I added the large

Piece of glass covering the front I lit the entire thing out I included a ladder at the front to make it practical and around the side here you can see me including a power cable coming out of the back of the machine and plugging it

Into the cliff face as a means of power I don’t know how that’s meant to work either but it’s minecraft so you can do what everyone anyway it still functions the same way as it did before it’s just a little bit bigger now I decided to

Clear some area as I wanted to build a barn house for the animals I opted for a traditional looking red barn outlined with white concrete I built the barn doors to look like sliding doors which came out looking decent and to the left of the barn added

In a large red silo to match I capped it off with a roof and added this little top section in the middle that finished a little bit higher and as we fly inside you can see I’ve started sectioning off areas into separate pens for animals and lining the building with local support

Beams I started on the second level with a ladder at the end of the building the leading up to that floor in the middle I included a rope ladder that hangs down on either side to allow access to the small room the top i scattered hay bales

Around the decking of the top floor and as we come outside of the building I’ve included a red sand path added in some grass and decided to remove the stable entirely next to the barn I added in Dan’s portal I’ve made this design before in previous builds or at least is

Very similar I basically create a circular portal and embedded it into the cliff edge to make it look like it’s part of the sanding lastly I connected up the path to the portal moving on to the fishing boat I relocated it into the center of the river as I intended to

Expand on it further now I will admit I did grab inspiration from reference images of other boats I found online as I’m generally not the best at coming up with good boat designs and I don’t do it too often however I was pretty happy with how this was coming along and

Genuinely had the most fun building this out of everything else in the base once done with the main hull of the ship I had a decking and worked on the sail now I know this isn’t entirely accurate as the boat isn’t moving so it would

Make sense for the sail to be up but I was just mimicking the way that Dan had it on his boat plus I think it looks better with the sail down even if it makes no sense I included some diamond blue color into the sale and made up these custom

Banners with the same color and pinned them around the ship lastly I connected the pathway and started adding in some lamp posts around to lay off the place and finally added white banners and carpet over the ropes to look both sheets hanging out to dry or something

As for the witch hat again I repositioned it to make it more accessible to land and started playing around for the design I really didn’t want to differ too heavily from the original as I liked the idea of a small beaten-up Shack I loved how the roof

Design turned out and finished off the house by adding science to ball up the windows I also used carpet leaves and vines as moss and plant life to creep up the side of the building next to the portal I started working on transforming the throne however I wanted to spice

Things up a little bit and decided to add a statue of a man sitting in the throne using some walls for limbs I was able to make a pretty decent looking human statue for that size of build I finished it off by having him hold a

Torch to light the way and turned him into an old man with white hair and a beard before duplicating him to the other side to mirror the portal it was time to begin designing his new wooden bridge to cross the river I based the concept on the other bridge I have

Previously made and once done decided to use a combination of slabs and trapdoors to create this canopy all roofing atop the bridge now once I’ve completed it on this bridge I knew that I had to include it on the previous bridge so I flew over

To the other side of the river and did just that this was a little trickier as it ended differently on each end of the bridge but with a little bit of tweaking I was able to pull it off now on to probably the main reason that most of

You clicked on this video it’s time to transform his castle I knew I was gonna have a lot of fun with this one as castles are kind of my thing but once I cleared the area and created a platform to build off of I was straight into transforming the main

Tower oh and I decided to raise this a lot higher into the sky so that it fits in with the clouds now I wanted to keep to a sort of theme for this castle as the castle is literally mid-air sitting in clouds I went for a more fantasy

Disney-esque build I also wanted to keep things relatively simple in the layout and design as I intended it for it to be a small and personal castle if I made it too big it would just look completely out of place in the sky actually now that I think about it the castle will

Probably always look out of place because it’s floating in the sky whatever you get working the back towers are basically the same as the front I just raised them higher and added in a little outcropping that raised the top further I placed the roof on top and adjusted it including little windows on

Either side and once done mirrored it to the other side of the castle I filled in the remaining gaps with two walls connecting the towers together I decided to add a roof to the middle section with a miniature Tower atop of it under this was the main living area

Of the castle so I didn’t really wanted to be exposed finally I added these spikes that line each of the roofs and car away at the platform soon adding to the underside of the castle I needed something solid for the castle to sit on before adding clouds so I

Brought the rock platform down to create these giant static types for for each Tower and a large one in the center once happy with how they looked it was time to start adding the cloud I opted to change the pre-existing white wall that Dan used for his cloud for white and

Light gray stained glass as it gives us some transparency and adds to the illusion of it being a cloud in the first place lastly I spent some time repositioning the castle around to fit better with the base below and thinned out the cloud a little bit and that’s it for the castle

Floating in the clouds okay so earlier I made this hill in the terrain and I already knew what I had planned for it I wanted to make a shrine atop it now obviously I wanted to make this completely accessible and contemplate how to get to the floating castle in the

First place so instead of a water elevator I decided to use a command block beneath a pressure plate in the center of the shrine so that once stood on teleports you to the castle entrance now no this isn’t possible in survival and some could argue that it’s a little

Bit cheaty but I didn’t really want a huge water elevator reaching into the sky connecting to the castle as it would just look bad plus I really loved the idea that the only way to access the floating castle is by making it to the shrine where you’ll be teleported into the clouds as

I said earlier this was part of the build I was most scared for as I really had no idea how I was gonna transform this my own golden fog in the end I decided to turn it into a Coliseum of sorts I moved the area for the zombie

Into the middle of the arena and added the little village of booths on either side held up my supports and finally added a layer of seating for any audience members that wish to watch the iron golem spawn and burn to death while down here I decided to scatter around

Some simple foliage just to fill out the dead space and for the final stage of the transformation we’re back in the castle where I place down a beacon that comes through the floorboards and pieces out the top of the center tower into the sky going through some blue stained

Glass in the roof to change the color of the beam now I’ve spent way too long on this transformation as is but I had to do some sort of interior to make it more livable after cleaning up the walls a little bit I add in this grand staircase

That leads to the second level under the middle roof I also make a secret little room behind the stairs if ever needed as for the towers excuse the crazy camera work here I decided to make a simple spiral staircase that leads to each of the different floors and the walkways

Atop the walls of the castle I end up doing this on each of the towers which isn’t ideal but it can easily be adjusted to make more rooms lastly we come to the second level of the main area again I added a small spiral staircase that led up to the small tower

In the middle added some supports and lighting and with that we’re done here ladies and gentlemen can I please have your attention I’ve just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story I need all of you to stop what If it’s made with bits of real panther so you know it’s good it’s quite pungent Smells like gas 60% of the time it’s impotent that makes it As always I hope you guys enjoyed if you did then please like the video and comment down below to let me know how you think I did if you’re new here and you want to see more of these transformations then hit that beautiful red subscribe button and turn on

Notifications with that little bell next to it so that you’ll be alerted as to when I next upload also if Dan does get to see this then I think it’ll be really interesting to see it from his perspective and having a look around the place so let me know if any of you

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