Sliding Architecture – 20 Unique Minecraft Builds: Ideas For Your Next Project

Are you starting a new Minecraft world? Or do you  need inspiration for your next project? Well today   I’m taking you through 20 plus Minecraft build  ideas, so let’s get into it. First of all let’s   get cozy and comfy in this valley cottage. I  wanted to go with a calming palette for this  

Build, and some of my favourite features include  the bay windows, where I used both glass panes and   full glass blocks, to help round out the window.  The leafy vines spreading their way all over the   build, to really bring home that rural feel, and  of course the roof, where I used mangrove roots,  

Backed by dark oak planks, to give a thatch  style to it. For the garden I wanted to focus   on lots of foliage, with raised flower beds,  ramshackle walls, a calming pond and gazebo.   Overall I’m incredibly happy with this build. If  you want to keep with the cozy vibes, but go a  

Little more fantasy, then this Mushroom House  could be ideal. For this house I really wanted   to bring in a touch of whimsy. So it features a  variety of mushrooms of different sizes, shapes,   and colours. The stoutest mushroom acts as the  main entrance, on this raised platform, leading  

Up to the pink and cyan towers. While the large  red mushroom, to the side, acts as an anchor to   the build. And I’m very fond of the small windows  and weird balcony area that helps you traverse up  

The build. It was great fun working with organic  shapes, and a lot of colour. But keeping with   those organic vibes; you could conquer the jungle  with this mighty custom tree and treehouse.   So I went with this rather mystical looking tree  using primarily Spruce Wood and then a mix of  

Jungle and Mangrove wood to add to the texture of  the tree. This is all topped off with a variety of   leaf types. I find this helps to provide a bit of  definition to a tree canopy, rather than all the  

Leaves merging into some kind of blob. Then we  have a very basic t-shaped house primarily using   materials from the jungle itself. This build is  surrounded on all sides by a supported balcony.   So you can enjoy the wide range of views and the  shade from the tree. Sticking with the fantasy  

Route I’ve got the perfect Elven house for you. I  find that Elven builds are often represented with   quartz, supported by strong colours. However,  that’s not the route I wanted to take. I wanted   to stick to a much calmer nature-based  palette, with some added pops of colour  

From the complementary oranges and cyan. One of my  favourite features of this build is the windmill,   which I’ve curled the sails of, which I think adds  to the fantasy vibe. Then of course you also have   the large crane to help with the movement of raw  materials. Probably a task better left for the  

Dwarves, but the word mine is literally in the  game’s name. Sticking with the fantasy vibes,   but increasing the grandeur. Let’s become  our own Saruman with this epic Wizards Tower.   We’re gonna be going very tall with this  build. Starting with a wide squatter base,  

Made primarily of tuff and mossy cobblestone, with  dark oak woods shaped around the outside to add   some detailing. We’re going to continue a gradient  up to the very peak of the tower, while breaking   it up with pops of colour from Crimson, leaves and  bamboo. To support the main tower I’m adding three  

Different White Towers, which again is a gradient  from diorite, through calcite, into white wool.   We’re also going to add a canopy for an extra bit  of colour and finishing off that colour theme I’m   gonna add both an orange and a cyan Tower high  up on this build. Helping to improve the shape of  

The build overall, whilst also adding some focus  points. The tower is complemented by an enchanted   forest, featuring some colourful custom spruce  trees. Now if you have enjoyed the video so far   make sure to hit that like button and by the end  of the video let me know what your favourite build  

Is in the comments. Next up we have a lighthouse  on its own custom island. Which I think adds some   cool terrain like this tunnel under the build  itself. The island is adorned by a large weeping   willow and custom spruce trees while the build  itself was a fun opportunity to play with shapes  

And add some interesting detailing options. If the  lighthouse was slightly larger we could easily fit   in a rotating redstone lamp display, but for now  I enjoy the scale of the build. Sticking with the   seaside vibes but upgrading the fun. You could  have your very own Minecraft beach house. Well  

I certainly went uber colourful with this one, but  I think that makes sense for a nice Beach getaway,   plus generally the colours pop nicely against the  water of the ocean. The build provides plenty of  

Options for viewing out across the sea. And on the  beach I did some very basic terrain and added some   custom palm trees, and a fun campfire party area,  with a huge slab of food ready to be roasted.   From down at sea level let’s move up into the  mountains with this Lantern inspired hanging  

Mountain House. This build was actually my starter  house on a server prior to getting into content   creation. It has since been updated with this  use of cherry wood and a little bit of bamboo.   I was also inspired by a Mythical Sausage video  surrounding a hanging Mountain House. I added  

A lot more suspension and went with a very  different vibe as far as the house itself.   Overall a very fun build to see peaking  out of the distance high up in the air.   Now we could stick with the mountains but take  things in a slightly different route. Let’s say an  

Industrial route with this steampunk Factory. For  this build I wanted to go for a mix between an oil   well and a steampunk Factory. There is a reliance  on the copper piping and water steam vats that you  

Might see in steampunk but the copper and andesite  machinery gives off a distinctive pump vibe to me.   Before being brought back around to the steampunk  aesthetic with the huge chimneys at the top of the  

Build. This could be used as a base, but was also  primarily designed as a trading hall for the likes   of armorers, weaponsmiths Etc Or it could even  be used for a furnace array. Plenty of options.   Sticking with the steampunk vibes how about  we launch ourselves into the sky itself with  

A steampunk airship. There are a lot of things  I’m fond about in this build; the palette,   the cogs, the whimsical chimney, the almost  helicarrier-esque fans and of course the huge   hot air balloon. But the best thing about getting  a general shape down for a build like this is you  

Could take it into a variety of directions  such as this cherry and crimson Airship,   with a fairly unique sail, which I used as a nice  starter base on the Channel 64 SMP season 3. By  

The way that is an ongoing series still in its  infancy so if you fancy checking it out I will   be putting a link at the end of the video. Before  we head completely back down to earth let’s visit   one more mountain and this lovely Observatory.  Although cold colours, in a cold environment,  

Can certainly work well together I think bringing  a bit of a warmth to these mountains is a great   idea. It helps to stand out the build as a real  landmark in an otherwise desolate environment.  

Also you’re not going to need to worry about the  likes of the city drowning out all the stars in   a mountain such as this. But be careful while  spending time at the observatory. You may come   into contact with an extra terrestrial  being, and experience a UFO landing.  

UFOs are often depicted as sleek and slender  grey blobs in the night sky. I prefer to think   in reality that they would be audacious, over the  top, and kind of glamorous, while retaining that   standard sci-fi grittiness. One of my favourite  aspects of this build is that I got to channel  

My inner Final Fantasy nerd and reference the  rings around Balamb Garden when it flies. Plus   considering how spacious the build is it could  be a hub for any experiments you wish to perform,   or maybe just some Redstone gizmos. I guess.  So that’s some of the weirder stuff but how  

About some options as far as the standard houses  go. Let’s head back to the Tudor period with the   Stable Masters house and barn. Amongst the rolling  hills of wheat, vegetables and flowers, you can   find this Tudor house. Overall it’s a fairly basic  house but that is sometimes what you need is a  

Jumping off point. Plus using Spruce slabs and  stairs, in interesting ways, plus a lovely leafy   trellis can add some much needed detail to a build  of this nature. You can also make this build feel   more situated in the land with additional builds  such as this Silo and horses stables. On the  

Other hand with the barn I went very monochromatic  and heavy on depth and detail. This is more posh   than your average barn of course. Plus the barn  comes with its own pair of silos, which could be   perfect for hiding away storage, while adding  a bit of contrast to the rest of the build.

Now are you ready to move out of the Medieval  Age and into something modern with this cliffside   house. It seems in recent years modern  houses have started to move more into   the realm of adding colour and wood materials  to the otherwise slightly lifeless concrete.  

So I took big advantage of that as well as adding  foliage and of course it can’t be a modern build   without huge windows and a swimming pool. In my  opinion the key with these builds is a variety  

Of shapes, depth and height to make the build more  interesting overall. Okay with modern out the way   let’s head to the East and the great country of  Japan and try out some more traditional building.   Japanese building, especially in Minecraft tends,  to lean towards the more traditional builds and I  

Wanted to honour that whilst adding my own spin  on it. The heavy emphasis on a variety of rooves   and the colours red, orange, and green, which are  often seen in these types of builds, are all here.  

I’ve also added a nice balcony area and an emblem  of a dragon made out of bamboo. It’s always fun   to play around with trap doors slabs and stairs  and see what shapes you can create. This build  

Would look even better with some trees, maybe a  bridge, or a pond and a tea room. Maybe this is   something you could take on yourself. We’ve really  injected some colour into the build and let’s keep   along that vibe with the Bavarian inspired house.  Bavaria is a region of Germany and from all my  

Research typically has houses with exposed beams,  colour and a lot of flora. So I’ve done my very   best to replicate that here. Bavarian is actually  one of my favourite styles to build in. Often   people can feel trapped in one style of building  but I highly encourage trying out a variety of  

Styles, like in this video, to increase your range  of skills. While also it’s circumventing boredom.   By the way if you are enjoying this video make  sure to subscribe. My channel has a heavy emphasis   of Minecraft building and on channel 64 we have a  lot of Storytelling. So if you enjoy that kind of  

Thing I hope to see you around more. A lot of  these builds have been surrounded by a lot of   greenery so how about we bring a touch of that to  this Desert Oasis house. Desert builds often seem  

To have a very muted palette. Considering a lot  of it is based on ancient Egyptian architecture it   is worth considering the use of colour as this is  something they seem to rely on. In an environment   like the desert these aspects of colour really  make the build stand out. And when you combine it  

With the Desert Oasis foreground the builds can  be an event in a biome such as this. Also make   sure to consider the use of a variety of height  and shape to the build to make up for the flat  

Rooves and provide a lot of opportunity for shade.  Now this has been a great journey but we’ve yet to   face the perils of the nether. So let’s take  a look at this grungy cyberpunk style house.  

I have to admit this is my first ever time working  in a cyberpunk style. I highly enjoyed this   build and think it works particularly well in the  nether. It’s always fun to take the opportunity to  

Use blocks that you are less familiar with such as  Basalt, red nether bricks and frog lights to make   unique builds. The ominous glow this build gives  off seems to work really well in this environment,   and it’s certainly a build style I’m going to  approach more in the future. Okay we’ve come to  

The final build of the episode. So let’s end with  a bang and the second biggest build of the episode   with a huge Viking longhouse. In my opinion  asymmetry can be a often underutilized friend   in Minecraft building but I have to admit when a  symmetrical build works out it can certainly be  

Very special. This arguably would not be a simple  habitat for a Viking and gives us off more of the   vibes of a feasting hall, meeting place or maybe  a mansion. Pretty certain Vikings didn’t have   Mansions but anyway. The rooves were one of the  key aspects of this build allowing it to expand  

Into the sky from its simple rectangle buildings.  Although I did add some offshoots to either side   to provide some depth and improve the shape  once again. The build is fairly monochromatic   but that felt appropriate except for a few  splashes of red to add some extra interest to  

The build. I hope you enjoyed. Thanks so much for  watching. Like and subscribe. Love ya! Byeeeeee