We have explored progression in Minecraft in many articles, but at its core, the game is still a sandbox with a focus on building. Therefore, today we want to take a closer look at how you can improve your skills in Minecraft and which tips can help you with building! After all, there are now many wonderful blocks available to you, but with all the farms, you’ll certainly want to know how to use these blocks directly. Let’s take a closer look at some advanced and essential ideas that will significantly enhance your structures.
Structures with Depth and Form
Minecraft is inherently a game with many edges and corners. However, you can still implement many great ideas that don’t all look like a box. There are now so many shapes for blocks that can be perfectly integrated and utilised.
Your biggest enemy when building in Minecraft is a flat surface without indentations or structure. This results in your buildings looking boring and not appearing organic. Try to incorporate more depth into your ideas using slabs, stairs, or walls.
Effective Use of Paths Between Buildings
You may have already constructed several amazing buildings in your world, but you’re always flying from A to B with the Elytra or using the Nether for fast travel. While practical, it’s not particularly pleasing to the eye. Many players forget to create natural footpaths between individual structures.
Yes, it takes a lot of time, but it makes your world look much more lively! Additionally, paths are incredibly useful for implementing many of the design ideas mentioned here. Since Minecraft offers many brown or grey blocks, you can lay truly creative paths or roads.
Colour Palettes for Harmonious Transitions
The number of blocks has increased immensely over the years, offering you, as a creative person, many exciting possibilities to give your buildings more structure. Currently, using multiple blocks of one colour tone to create a smooth transition is popular.
Since Minecraft doesn’t have real shadows without a shader mod, you can incorporate a sort of “pseudo-shadow” this way. Work simultaneously with different textures that fit well together and blend into one another. You can create your own block palettes or generate them on websites like Block Palettes.
Using Materials in Harmony with the Environment
You can also use a completely different method to determine your building materials and get the best out of your ideas. It’s important to already have a good idea of what and especially where you want to build. Just like in real life, the location determines which materials are used.
So, if you want to build in a new biome, limit your blocks to what is available in that biome. While this gives you fewer materials, it can spark your creativity. Often, the immense selection of Minecraft blocks leads to Analysis Paralysis, meaning you feel overwhelmed and end up doing nothing. Your mind keeps thinking there must be a better solution … and then the building project stalls. So, restrict yourself a bit to implement your ideas better.
Tell the Story of Your Minecraft World
Many players who have been working on a world for a long time surely have thought about its purpose. By creating a story for it, finding new ideas and staying motivated to follow through becomes much easier.
Choose a specific theme to focus on. It could be Medieval, Science Fiction, or Asian. Then consider which civilizations could live in your Minecraft world, what buildings are needed, or how the environment could influence life.
Collaborative Building with Other Players
Of course, you don’t have to build alone, as sometimes it’s simply more fun to be in a group. This not only helps creativity but also the building progress. Everyone can focus on the aspects they enjoy. While one person gathers building materials, others can work on the layout. Another player might give the whole thing the final touch and take care of the details. A shared server is a great opportunity to implement your ideas together.
Use Creative Mode Without Hesitation
As a survival player, you might want to gather all materials yourself to have a great sense of achievement in the end. However, for some, this is where they fail, and they never get around to putting their ideas into action.
Don’t forget about Creative Mode, which offers you endless possibilities to express your creative side – without always focusing solely on the survival aspect. It’s not about cheating, rather it’s just another option that the game provides. Perhaps that’s the motivation you need!
Small Building Projects for Great Satisfaction
Large mega-builds by YouTubers are certainly impressive, but they shouldn’t be your only goal. In Minecraft, it’s often the small details that can make a difference. For large building projects, you need a lot of perseverance, and many players give up after a short time.
You must:
a) first gather all necessary materials.
b) plan the whole thing AND follow through to the end.
c) know what to do with all that space in the end.
And that can be quite exhausting! Focus on small and manageable projects that give you a good feeling when you place the last block. This way, you can progress gradually and still share cool pictures with others, instead of always being stuck at a huge construction site.
Conclusion
Anyone can build in Minecraft, but truly engaging with it and creating large, vibrant worlds is something that perhaps only a few can achieve. There are many small approaches that make it much easier for you and help establish a clear line for your structures. Rent your own Minecraft server and build a world together with friends where everyone can find and live out their own role. Discover what you enjoy and put some of our tips into practice!
