Zueljin Gaming – How to Build a Roof in Minecraft – Slopes and Styles (Tutorial)

Hello guys Elgin here welcome to roofing 101 typically I do a Minecraft indoors episode every week but I had a request to do a roofing tutorial a little while back so I figured that I would give you guys some fundamental concepts about roof design and how it pertains to

Minecraft to start off you’ll see that I have a bunch of different roofs prepared but before we go over each individual one let’s talk a little bit about slope slope is really really difficult to manipulate in Minecraft one of the things you’ll notice is when you get a building layout as in the

Shape the general shape and outline of the building as it refers to walls when you go to design a roof you always have to count out and worry about pitch so there’s a couple ways to determine pitch you can either elongate it like if you have a really wide roof

You’re going to want to do something that doesn’t necessarily affect the shape of the build or though the the type of build that you want to do for instance let’s say you want to do a born everybody knows that a born roof looks different than a house roof if you want

To do a commercial building everybody knows that a commercial building roof typically looks different than a house roof or a born roof so there’s a couple different ways to look at it you just have to determine how high you want the peak of the roof to go in order to give

You adequate coverage on top of the actual walls so there’s a few different ways you can do that for width you can stretch out the tile of the actual building paint so let’s say you have a build that is oh I don’t know let’s see three six nine twelve twenty-four wide

And you want to do a gable style roof which we’ll go over in in you don’t want if you use a stair block or a half block for each individual tile and you going up one half block at a time you’ll end up having a roof that’s very very tall for

24y and that may not necessarily be what you want to do so what you typically have to do is stretch out each tile so right here in this example I have three tile stretched out so I went one two three one two three one two three one

Two three and now I have a total of a two block height over half of it this would be the peak of it so you can go on the other side and stretch this out just a little bit more and when you got to the middle of it you just start

Sloping back down in the same measure and you would have your desired height if that is not high enough for you you can shorten up the tile by two as I did in this example or if you want the really tall roof you can go to the one

Again this is just using half slabs you can do the same principle in stairs now here for the shorter style homes it’s really hard to manipulate how high you want your roof if you want a really tall roof without knowing how to slope correctly so there’s a couple different

Things you can do here one you can use the half style blocks like I did here and just go up a half tile at a time if you want to give the same type of feel but a little bit different depth you can do it with three half slabs at a time or

You can use hold blocks kind of like this and go up three just like this so this build is only three four five six seven wide so typically you can have a twelve by twelve house and on either side have this design and really really have a tall short looking roof

You can also manipulate the the corners using stairs kind of like this to emulate just a little bit more slope if you like this like that so what you want to do as for as roofs go there’s a couple different things to consider when you’re building

A round style roof you can either go out sloped or you can store it on the middle depending on how you want you spire to look what I did here is I basically started off with the exact design of the the walls and I just spread out one pile

From there and I just kept on inside until I had the desired half slab peel you basically just want to start off by marking your entire outside with slabs and then going up one just like this and then up another just like that I have a

Bat in there from spawn it’s funny so the next style you can do go with for a small house is you can go just half slabs now for the square type proves there’s a bunch of different styles that go from building this particular style I believe is called a hip roof basically

There’s no specific pitch on either side it’s kind of all pitched accordingly and it slopes up every side until you meet in the very middle you can go up any type of number of slabs that you want or you can go up just one at a time kind of

Like I did here or even mix it up with stairs just to meet in the middle this is the same song here blue pixel it’s a little bit sharper because it doesn’t have the outlying edges here this is what’s known as a dormer roof now a dormer roof basically is a regular gable

Style roof except that it has a proportion that jets out of it too form up corners and to have windows you see this on a lot of two-story homes and it’s mostly what you want to do when you want to incorporate windows into the second-story while actually having the

Roof go over a section of it so this is what’s known as a hip roof and it’s basically it’s it’s basically a gable style roof and you just get this corner out the method I guess you could say to use this is just start off exactly where

You want your windows placed and build up and then just kind of join it with the stairs surrounding it and fit your window in however you like this is a kind of a gable style roof using one of the concepts that I showed you in sloping there let me set the time so

This is a batch I guess you’d call it because I use a veils just to show you that it’s possible to use kind of any block but the hey bells work well because it aligns and it works well in the vanilla textures too I’m using sort

X fan bear but you can use it in anything but basically a gable style roof is the same type of slope on either side with the sides not exposed this is different from the regular hip roof because it doesn’t have a slope on this side so if I wanted a gable style roof

You just use slopes on two sides if you want a hip roof you have slopes on four sides here we have kind of the same concept in a hip roof except that I did some stairs instead of just the regular half slabs mostly with with stairs and

Some half slabs just to fit on the corners where it was necessary this is a smaller style gable roof and there’s a couple design concepts you can use here you can either take the stairs and go underneath here just to make it a little slope on the outside and finish up the

Top with a stair or another half slab I personally like the stairs better because it doesn’t do that but you can do it either way that you like or you can fill in the entire width of it with the same material as the roof and give it that appearance naturally these

Houses are relatively short just to conserve on build time and I was trying to makes an example so do as you will as you see fit whatever fits your bills the best here is something a little different now this is this doesn’t necessarily have a roof type that I know

Of it’s more or less a gable style roof with an extension so typically you’ll see some houses that have the same slope going up until there’s an extension on to it and then a portion of it goes down this is a really really difficult concept to do but with stairs or half

Slabs sometimes it’s possible you basically want to mimic the same slope as you have on one side all the way out through the extension and then on the next side you really just have to play it by ear and getting this insert right is pretty hard sometimes you can use the

Same material sometimes you can join it up with stairs I made an attempt here to kind of make it fit and with this style it’s pretty hard so what I ended up doing is just going with the upside down stairs although you can do half slabs if

You like to whatever whatever fits your build style is is fine and whatever looks good you know so you can do a number of different things here with the actual build in order to incorporate what you like the best and here we have a Shan type roof now

Basically this is a simple concept where all you do is take a normal house and extend the one side of it up in order to reflect just a single slope so 1/2 slope that just just out to a sharp drop-off and that’s it you can come off to it a little bit and

Do some more sloping on this side let’s say let’s go ahead and take this down just to show you and instead of doing the upside down stairs here I would do the regular style stairs here and I would again come out like this now this particular style of roof is known as a

Believe it’s a I believe they call this a Cambria I want to say embryos no it’s not a gambrel it’s a it’s a salt box that’s what it is a salt box is gonna have slopes on both sides kind of like you will a gable roof except one side is

Going to be a shorter slope or a different pitch than the other so there’s a number of different things you can do here with that design and this is just your classic gable and I just wanted to show you the difference of what you can do with it if you want to

Come out on the ends right here with a gable roof and make it look good a lot of the times you’ll just want it to conform evenly so by putting stairs upside down like I did here or half slabs upside down it kind of gives you a

Different look you can always come out and make it solid kind of like I did the design back there or you can leave it flat this typically isn’t usually as flattering unless you have a portion of the house that’s the same material but you can easily do that by just taking

The material that your roof is if you don’t want the trouble and creating just solid textures is like that that way it gives you the illusion that it’s that it’s still roof and that’s where the house cuts off even though when you walk in you’ll see that it’s actually taller on

The inside so that’s another different kind of concept so that’s basically roofs guys there’s a number of different things you can do possibilities for roofs but you always just want to concentrate on how wide the actual build is or how long the actual build is and what the different type of proof that

You want is so you can use pretty much any type of material if it’s full blocks as long as you keep this style of sloping in mind and you can use stairs or half slabs to anything that’s available in Minecraft to have any other style roof so I hope this helps you guys

And thank y’all for watching as always this is all gents on and off have a good