31 Genius Minecraft Build Hacks!

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[saphironkindris]

The minecraft way:
Step 1: Build a 'temporary' box house or cave home
Step 2: After playing for awhile and gathering materials, prepare to build your new house
Step 3: Look up some builds people have done for their houses for inspiration
Step 4: Realize that to accomplish any of those, you'll need to get 10x the resources you already have and spend like 10 hours of dedicated building time
Step 5: Stop playing for 8 months
Step 6: Start playing again, but feel completely lost and confused as to wtf you were doing
Step 7: Decide to start a new world so you can just start from the start instead of trying to remember everything from your current world
Step 8: Return to step 1

[cleverballoon]

Also for the wall facade tip, most logs color match the next darkest plank, oak log=spruce plank, spruce log=dark oak plank, but dark oak log also matches itself

[teentraveler]

As a underground miner, it's been difficult to branch out into building. But this really helped. Thank you.

[explodingsnowmanyt]

If there’s anything I’ve learned over the years of building in Minecraft, is that you shouldn’t be afraid to try new things and find inspiration for builds on the internet!

Practice makes perfect after all

[RevolutionaryOven]

Step at beginning of the video: "Just extend the room with basic shapes."
Step at end of the video: "Now build an entire warehouse."

[cenk.]

A building tip for nether portals:
You could use some nether blocks while your making your portal look good in overworld. It looks like nether is taking over the world just like mojang did with the ruined nether portals.

[CarrotKing]

Just wanna real quick say that if you plan on being really good at building, this is NOT the only tutorial you need, not even remotely. Being an expert at building requires near perfect understanding of the basics, ie what they are and how to execute them. You need to understand most if not all of the simple concepts there are, have a huge amount of tricks and ideas saved up for detailing and really anything for that matter, often times even understand things like color theory. There is way too much to becoming a good builder to fit into a single video, especially an 8 minute one. But as far as guidelines for people who just want a nice house this video is great, pretty much everything is spot on and will make things look good almost every time you build it.





Also if you want to get really into building, I would recommend watching all of Grians tutorials, and once you've gotten to a decently advanced level, watching tutorials from another, far smaller youtuber who goes by Horace - Minecraft. he is an amazing content creator and is incredibly talented in his craft, in my opinion, even better than grian is, though they do build in vastly different ways so there isn't much comparison that works there.

[VOLTROX]

I'm just not that creative 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[leopoldiv]

3:05 Tip for the trees: Use Spruce Planks with Oak Logs, because they have the same color. Also works with Dark Oak Planks on Spruce Logs.

[Lavanda_Sychte]

This is the reason why your name is “Skip the tutorial”

[epicman]

wow what a nice house! wish i had the patience to build it!

[commenter]

7:26 Ah yes, soul lanterns before you build the nether portal. Makes perfect sense.

[Astralpaces]

Here’s an extra tip: Place Netherrack in different spots in the ground of the nether portal to make it look like it’s spreading into the world.

[GainedTiger]

This was surprisingly helpful I had currently been struggling with my builds thanks man

[trentonrobertson]

Just spent 5 hours using these tips to build a great survival base and boy does it look nice

[camerongalovan]

This was great! Can you do another similar one for bases that aren’t houses?

[Banana_Peel]

Thank you for these tips. I’m gonna apply these to my dirt house.

[zay]

I already forgot the things in the video as soon as I went to try to build a house

[gwendolynsnyder]

what I like to do with indoor ways (paths that are supposed to be near the sleeping room and somewhere where I'd usually walk in socks) is to make a 5 blocks wide path, as I always wood, the middle three blocks are carpet, and the blocks on the edges are whatever floor block I'm using. I really like it when things look regular, sort of.

[zopus_maximus]

I will 100% be doing some of these :D
Also, farm tip: You can make a sort of vineyard using two-block tall fences, berry bushes (so it's functional), leaves, and vines ;)