Why You Suck At Building Houses in Minecraft

Showing How To Design and Build Beautiful Houses in Minecraft When You Are a Beginner Or Out Of ideas. Step by step tutorial on helping you improve house layouts, window design, roof design, interior decorations and much more!

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[jonchikponchik]

Here's some extra tips that made me a better builder and will hopefully work for you.

1. Put some time into the shape, or plan out the build in creative. Making the shape is imo the hardest part.

2. Know what you're building. Is it going to be a standalone building? Is it going to be part of a much larger build like a transformed village? This helps a lot with keeping the theme uniform.

3. While texture is important, depth is much more helpful so try and have a good mix of both.

4. Work with the terrain. Instead of completely removing an area and making it flat, try working with the terrain next time. Landscaping is very useful for this.

5. If you are trying to hide farms while building over them, build the farm first. It's much easier to build a house than a redstone contraption.

6. Try and pre-plan your color palette. Personally what I do I try and use certain blocks in certain biomes.

Last but not least, don't be afraid to build. You won't get better if you don't try. Even if it doesn't look as good as you wanted, take pride in your work. Thanks for reading and I hope this helps you out.

[disruptivebuilds]

Ayy cheers for using my build! Also, I must credit my boy @Cryptozoology, we collabed on the house design :)

[johnkenrickchua]

Here are 2 tips that I like to use when building:

1) Try to design things on a creative copy of your world and figure out what looks good or not

2) Try building small and medium builds with the materials you have or can get easily in the early game before going on to make massive building projects when you are in the late game so you won't have to have stress when trying to gather materials(like quartz & purpur) for the build when you are still in the early game

[hesus]

Disruptive builds is genuinely a good channel. It's good for inspiration.

[Official_Frenzo]

That’s how the guys in hermitcraft make such a good base 😮

[monke]

Personally, unless you want to go for a mega build, you don't need to go with everything on the video. He's just making sure your builds aren't looking bad. Here's a shorter version:
1. Use different blocks of the same type. (like using spruce, dark oak and birch instead of plain oak. or use stone, andesite, brick and smooth stone instead of just cobble)
2. Try out combination of different materials.
3. Try making out different shapes to remove the cube feelings of your buildings. (Use stairs, slab, trapdoors, even campfire and fences.)
4. LOOK FOR REFERENCE BEFORE STARTING
5. start building from the floor. Always build a blueprint.
6. Just slap some useless work station or items around. Like barrels and cauldron, its not about efficiency, its about design.
7. LANTERN AND CHAINS EXIST

[acid]

Been invested into building for around 8-9 years now, I'll leave some suggestions here:

1. I wouldn't recommend using wool or wood blocks for the outline of the facade, if you change your mind about something you will have a LOT of work to do, it wastes time
2. When you use a stone block for the bottom layer, I wouldn't recommend using wood pillars, it doesn't really make sense, I would recommend stone bricks.
3. When I think of old, medieval houses, I always think of rotten, or mossy buildings with discolouring. Try to implement gradients, like this one:
(from top to bottom):
Stone
Andesite
Cobblestone
Tuff
Cobbled Deepslate (depending on how you dark you want the shade of grey to be, you might want to leave this one out);
while also adding 1-2 moss blocks at each corner to symbolise that overgrown look, and for wooden facades I tend to use multiple wood types as well, like this:

(from dark to light)
Spruce Log
Dark Oak Log
Stripped Dark Oak log
Stripped Spruce Log
Oak Log
Jungle Log (if you have it);
I use these to "fake" sunlight shining on the building, so placement has to be realistic and not just random.

4. This house here has a relatively spacious interior, so I would recommend adding another layer of a wall inside, this time using more colour, making it look like there is a wallpaper. Bdouble0 does this a lot, it looks very good.
5. Check out professional builders' or even builder teams' pages (Pixelbiester for example, amazing building team)

EDIT: because many people have asked for more building inspiration:
Pixelbiester (as already mentioned, but check out their server)
Corestudios (corestudiosmc on Instagram)
WBC Builds (on YouTube and on Instagram, but their server is in creative and they use lots of blockstates that are complicated to do and impossible for survival, also great Discord with an entire channel dedicated to real buildings as an inspiration)
Cubed Creations (cubedcreations_mc on Instagram)
History Builds (_historybuilds_ on Instagram, I really like their roof designs)
And just real life! Check out your local area, or use Google Maps maybe.

[advaitjain]

I really love the way they have used Disruptive's build as an example and this is one of the houses I have made as well. Overall, it is a really great video for newcomers. Keep up with the good workd Shulkercraft.

[mee]

Glad to see a collab with Disruptive builds, genuinely underrated builder, have been watching some of his builds and concepts, nice to see that you're recognizing such a good builder.

[Limucc]

I love disruptive builds videos, your easy tutorials are great for us

[Springflut_]

Very well done! Here are a few things that have been implemented, but which I would like to highlight again:

1. the height of the ceiling should always be at least 4 blocks, but better 5 or more.
2. don't just use Minecraft buildings as templates/refferences, use real buildings/objects and look at most similar Minecraft buildings if you want to know how you can best implement something.
3. pay attention to how you design the ceiling, this was done very well in the video and unfortunately the design of the ceiling is often underestimated.

That's it, the rest was clearly mentioned and described in the video. Good luck =)

[tsoul]

honestly my fav type of house is simply finding a hill, choose a spot to put the door and dig out the house.
kind of like seeing the statue within the rock and I'm just chiseling it out.

[nonerrorr]

My house 6 years ago, big diamond block cause I did not know how to build

My house now, big wooden block cause I still don’t know how 💀

But THIS VIDEO actually helped

[Official_Frenzo]

Learned to build a good house now thanks❤
I was a person who always made a hobbit hole on mountains but now i am able to make good house on plain land bcuz of you 😊

[Minecraft-qmni]

Yea, Now I know how they make such insane buildings

[rowanrooks]

Does anyone know what tool is being used to create the line at 3:44 ? That looks super useful

[ohnoezitsjoez]

Aha so this is why Disruptive Builder videos started showing up in my feed today! Pretty cool stuff all around

[arturom]

I'll be the most honest with my opinion here: if you suck at building is because you keep comparing to others. I don't substract the intention of the video, is a nice tip, but it actually could kill the things every people can offer.
It tooked me a while to find my own method, but i feel very happy with it. I love the concept of doll houses, where you see the house cutted and some of the interior is revealed. I never plan or make outlines, everything goes on irregular shapes. I love integrate the builds to the terrains and making them the most ... transitable? (Is that the world in english?) posible. So a build can go up and down, in and out the terrain. I still haven't get to the point of the colors, but i'll reach there one day.
The only thing that annoys me is the roofs, i still can find the mind set for them.
I'll share you some of my mind sets when i'm building: the walls don't surround they emerged from the ground. The floors circulate. The space transforms (this third point is an arquitect concept).
So, my advice is: stop watching tutorials on "how to make a preaty house", remember the first day you played Minecraft and how you builded. That's your original method. Now perfect it.
Write down your mind sets.

[daviddunn]

A couple of important points I feel were left out:
-plan what you want inside of the build first (don't be surprised if a fully automatic sorting system doesn't fit in your castle if you didn't plan for the sorting system first)
-With the exception of Greek, Roman, and governmental style buildings, try and avoid symmetry
-Tie it into the environment, a farm and a dock that goes to a boat on this build with a couple of custom trees would go a long ways in making this build better.
-Choose a realistic pallet before you start building. Don't build out of diamonds unless you can afford it. Generally when choosing a pallet, you want to choose a primary block (usually a wood block) which is used for pillars and framing, a secondary color, which is used for walls, and a tertiary color which is used for accents. In this build primary was spruce, secondary was cobble/andersite, and tertiary was diorite. It is usually a good idea to choose how you want your foliage to look at this point is planning too.
-Have inspiration, but don't copy. Studying the style you are going for prior to building will help you alot. Asking yourself: (what makes a build look modern or mid-evil specifically) Like for example, it wasn't mentioned, but having the second story having a larger foot print then the build that it sits on is a common build technique when building in the mid-evil style.

[andreadrabik]

I love building any house in Minecraft! I’d say, I’m pretty good at them!