#minecraft building tutorials

[theluckiestrose]

Itd be nice if minecrafters had better defined names for contraptions

I struggled for like an hour trying to figure out how to make a machine to push blocks further than a piston normally can

I started with a basic design i thought should work (it didnt) and decided to check online because i know for a fact others have come up with good designs for this contraption

None of my queries bore any fruit. I was shown basic tutorials on piston mechanics, information about piston circuits like OR and AND gates, and one particularly unhelpful reddit thread in which a bedrock player was having a similar issue to me and the ONLY responses were that modding isnt possible (or else rarely done? Not quite clear on that point) on bedrock. The player in question didnt need to mod or root around in config files, they just needed a doohicky

So i ended up inventing the doohicky because i couldnt find any examples online. Either the existing designs are unnamed, have a specific name that doesnt occur to the average player, or they have a name with poor SEO.

My design is definitely not optimized but it's what i could come up with as an amateur redstoner. Anyway. Presenting

The PISLONGENER

The repeater needs to be set to 2 ticks, it breaks if it's set to 1 tick. The honey blocks can also be slime. Honey blocks are my preference because i've got a ton of them. The piston also has to be sticky, as normal pistons won't pull the honey blocks back to reset the machine.

This PISLONGENER is being used to set up a sand wall around an ocean monument, and it makes an extremely annoying task trivial. You can also set them up in tandem with other types of smart piston to make branching block lines, like perhaps a grid to help drain the sea or mark off building layouts. The smart pistons in my array are slightly misaligned so i incidentally discovered they will both work regardless of both whether and where they overlap.

So yeah! Obvs let me know what these thigns are actually called and what the generally agreed upon best design is. For context about its speed, Im using a simple hopper clock to set the sand blocks because I have trouble remembering how to set up 0-tick pistons so Im unsure if it will work with one of them.

[arachneviii]

This has been my sacred scripture since I was a small child 🙂‍↕️🙏

[amethystblocks]

This is what the Herbalist Cottage is looking like so far 🌿

[diorods]

Minecraft Small Oak House! A complete survival house made out of easy-ish blocks to get!

I wanted to make a house with mainly oak blocks, cause I feel like that's a block that I always find (almost) everywhere, so why not, right? And cobblestone, cause I always have loads of that. The whole interior of the build is quite cozy, imo, and it has always the features u might need on your base, from your personal mineshaft to an enchantment setup. Anyway, this was the result!! I hope this serves as inspiration 🙌 If u want u can find the tutorial on my channel here!

✨ Shaders: BSL Shaders 🕹 Game version: 1.21 🌹 Resource Packs: Jerm's Better Leaves

[sculkapologist]

I finally finished a NEW CUSTOM MAP ART!!! "Visitor," a portrait of an enderman, is extra exciting because it's my first full-palette map painting, meaning I used block height to access all the highlight and shadow colours available!! More on the full process under the cut, but the short version of what this means is:

ITS A VERY COMPLICATED CONSTRUCTION. I created the art, then planned and built this manually, without any mods or schematics for construction. Huge props again to everyone else in the server for helping me gather all the materials to make this absurd thing possible!!!

This was the original art I made for it! I'm a huge fan of the "compressed" look of the vanilla paintings, so I've been starting with a large image and shrinking it down, though there were a lot of pixel tweaks to get it to read well. After shrinking it to 16x32 (for an art made of two maps), I convert it to a limited palette that I've set up to match the colours minecraft actually has available:

The map palette is actually tremendously limited, so figuring out a painting that will still look good with that constraint is a challenge in and of itself!

Anyway, the way minecraft maps work, a block that is Taller than the block to the north of it shows up with a slightly lighter colour, and a block that is Lower than the block north of it shows up on the map with a slightly darker colour. So when making a key for this one, I marked all the squares with a little arrow if it's the lighter or darker version:

Each "pixel" here is a full stack of blocks on the mapped area: 64 blocks, 8 rows of 8. In order to achieve the affect of every block in a given pixel being taller or shorter than the block to the north of it, dark and light shades need to staircase either up or down. Because staircasing downwards in survival sounds even worse than this madness, I did some planning to make sure each of the "downwards" staircases would touch the ground, so I could simply staircase up from south to north instead. This involved figuring out how many up and down movements were in each individual column and planning out 32 little layouts:

It's worth noting that if you look up minecraft map art on Youtube, most of what you'll find is either, the simple realisation that placing blocks allows you to make custom map art, or an explanation of how to use a generator that will let you plug in any picture and then produce a schematic for you. It's very cool that these exist, but I wanted to do full palette art myself, without an auto-generated schematic, and at the time THERE JUST WEREN'T ANY TUTORIALS FOR HOW TO DO ALL THIS?? Now, having the experience of finagling all this, i think perhaps the reason is that this is a mad undertaking.

ANYWAY: PROGRESS SHOTS!!

I actually love how the staircases look..... its like some kind of modern sculpture

Fewer shots of the second half since I did it on call with friends; the last screenshot is one Thren took of me activating the new locked map to use for the gallery.

Once these paintings are done, I lock the finished maps, make copies, and stock them in the art gallery so other friends on our server can also put these paintings in their homes! It's a lot of work, but really rewarding to see my art decorating various buildings around the server. ;u;

I have one more custom full-palette painting I've done the art for and gathered all materials for; I still need to do the full key and plan staircasing for it before I can start, but HOPEFULLY if my resolve doesn't waver there'll be at least one more of these!!

[sperobuilds]

Hiya first post - Here's a way i found to make Minecraft roofs easier :)

[starburst-selfship]

Saddest thing about being a self shipper is that you’ll never be able to play your favorite video games with them 😞

[exnoh]

mm cherry atrium. I'll reblog soon with the blueprints for the tree

[thegimmicky]

Minecraft custom trees

[supernovaa-remnant]

honestly the fact that the dsmp wasn't professional and was just a bunch of friends having fun creating was so much of the charm. it made it so human. the scuffed aspects of it made it real in a way that high scale productions just often aren't, y'know? it wasn't perfect, but it was genuine, and that's part of the reason it's so loved (at least, it's part of the reason I love it so much). anytime people look back on it and ask why it isn't like xyz professional production I'm just like... obviously because it wasn't a professional production and was just a bunch of teens and young adults fucking around and having fun. yet people are always looking back and wondering why it doesn't live up to their professional standards. and I'm always a bit baffled at how other fans fall into that mindset because... was that not part of the charm for them, too?

[definitelynotshouting]

girls (gender neutral) when they decide to get a little sillay with texturing

[jaydraws-blog]

OH WHAT CAN THAT BE???

SOOOOOO guess who put out a new dinosaur building tutorial??? ALSO please note that I will be putting out a ton of artfight posts next month so my page will be flooded!!!

[fikiandbiki]

Modern Log Cabin & Interior | Minecraft

Tutorial is on our YouTube channel: Fiki & Biki 🐔

[amethystblocks]

Welcome to Copper-Quartz Greenhouse 🌿🐝

Finishing off the details and interior before filming the tutorial. Love how this build is coming together!

[diorods]

Minecraft Starter House! A Cozy Cherry Blossom Cottage Base!

A simple and yet complete starter house / base for any survival game in the new Cherry Grove Biome! I hope this serves as inspiration for the start of your own base in Minecraft! I had a ton of fun trying the new blocks! Hope you like it 🙌 Tutorial here :))

✨ Shaders: Bsl Shaders 🕹 Game version: 1.20.1 🌹 Resource Packs: Jerm's Better Leaves ps: I freaking looove the vibes, ahhhhh 🌸

[lelianaslefthand]

my survival desert island base :D