Amazingly I have finally reached a point to make a quick video of my Minecraft House. I worked a ton of time today on it, and just felt I needed to make a video to totally capture how amazing it is. I have been working on fixing my old house project now for less than three days of real time. I have near 25 hours invested into the project of actual time logged in building, and digging in these last few days.
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Friday
My First Night Back In Minecraft
I realized after logging back into Minecraft how huge of a project it is going to be to rebuild my house. I lost track of time. and I am going to be operating on about three-four hours sleep for work tomorrow. I kept telling myself I was going to log off right after I finish this part.
Unfortunately I must have said that about twenty times to myself. I made pretty good progress, but when you look at the whole picture it is only a small fraction of the work needed to rebuild this Minecraft project. As I worked tonight I started picturing in my head all the changes I am making to the house.
It is going to be a thousand times better than the original house. I can't wait to work on it some more tomorrow after work. Here is a sneak peak of my accomplishments tonight.
Unfortunately I must have said that about twenty times to myself. I made pretty good progress, but when you look at the whole picture it is only a small fraction of the work needed to rebuild this Minecraft project. As I worked tonight I started picturing in my head all the changes I am making to the house.
It is going to be a thousand times better than the original house. I can't wait to work on it some more tomorrow after work. Here is a sneak peak of my accomplishments tonight.
My Minecraft Mountaintop House
After a few days I have completed My Minecraft Mountaintop House. It spans a total of over 900 blocks on top of a mountain. The view of the house from the ground is breathtaking. You see it nestled on top of the mountain, as most of it is built on an overhang.
I started off by roaming across my map until I saw something that inspired me. I saw this area, and immediately knew it was my next project. I began my climb up the mountainside until I reached the top. Once on top I lit all the trees on fire to clear the area for some excavation.
I had to dig away about three or four uneven layers of grass to make a level area to build on the whole mountaintop. It took quite a while to accomplish it even with a diamond shovel. Eventually I had it leveled out, and it was time to move to the next step.
I layed my outer foundation for my house using the edge of the mountain as a guide all the way around. It took over 300 blocks just to make it. I than added a second layer before adding the floor. I decided to go with a light blue wool for the carpet inside. After it was done I didn't really care for it too much. It looked too much like water, but after laying 900 blocks for the floor there was no way I was going to do it with a new color.
I continued building the outer walls, and adding huge scenic windows throughout. Once I finally finished I started laying my blocks for my floorplan. The house is huge, and it took some time to get all the room walls up.
After that I started on the decorating by adding beds, chests, fireplaces, a shower, a hot tub, and so on. I am starting to feel like all my houses inside are starting to look the same. I have run out of ideas of things to make.
The final part of the house was adding the roof. The house is such an odd shape I couldn't decide on how to do it. I just ended up making the roof pretty generic, with a few little touches to make it stand out a little.
I started off by roaming across my map until I saw something that inspired me. I saw this area, and immediately knew it was my next project. I began my climb up the mountainside until I reached the top. Once on top I lit all the trees on fire to clear the area for some excavation.
I had to dig away about three or four uneven layers of grass to make a level area to build on the whole mountaintop. It took quite a while to accomplish it even with a diamond shovel. Eventually I had it leveled out, and it was time to move to the next step.
I layed my outer foundation for my house using the edge of the mountain as a guide all the way around. It took over 300 blocks just to make it. I than added a second layer before adding the floor. I decided to go with a light blue wool for the carpet inside. After it was done I didn't really care for it too much. It looked too much like water, but after laying 900 blocks for the floor there was no way I was going to do it with a new color.
I continued building the outer walls, and adding huge scenic windows throughout. Once I finally finished I started laying my blocks for my floorplan. The house is huge, and it took some time to get all the room walls up.
After that I started on the decorating by adding beds, chests, fireplaces, a shower, a hot tub, and so on. I am starting to feel like all my houses inside are starting to look the same. I have run out of ideas of things to make.
The final part of the house was adding the roof. The house is such an odd shape I couldn't decide on how to do it. I just ended up making the roof pretty generic, with a few little touches to make it stand out a little.
Tuesday
My Minecraft Hilltop Church
Why did I build a church in Minecraft? I actually got some inspiration from a Google image I saw from a church in Iceland. I decided to build something similar since it was very cool looking. I think My Minecraft Hilltop Church turned out pretty good.
I built most of the church, and stairs out of white wool. I used black wool for the roof. I made church pews out of redstone, stone slabs, and signs. It seemed to work pretty well for the look I was trying to get.
For the most part this was a pretty quick build, and nothing real fancy about it. I think it looks pretty sweet at night though. I thought about adding something below the church out of the hillside, but for now I am just going to leave it how it is, and move onto something new.
Some of my other Minecraft builds:
I built most of the church, and stairs out of white wool. I used black wool for the roof. I made church pews out of redstone, stone slabs, and signs. It seemed to work pretty well for the look I was trying to get.
For the most part this was a pretty quick build, and nothing real fancy about it. I think it looks pretty sweet at night though. I thought about adding something below the church out of the hillside, but for now I am just going to leave it how it is, and move onto something new.
Some of my other Minecraft builds:
Monday
My Minecraft Vegas Style Hotel
My newest Minecraft creation is looking pretty sweet. You can view my latest video My Minecraft Vegas Style Hotel, and give it a thumbs up on Youtube. I am not sure if I am done with it or not. I have a few ideas, but I am not sure if I should just move on to something completely new.
I had a ragequit moment while building my vegas style hotel. I was experimenting with some fountains out front, and it just didn't look like I wanted. I was trying to go for the Bellagio hotel look, but the fountains just looked dumb. I decided it was time to try out tnt for the first time. I piled it up, and it barely even made a dent in destroying the stone fountains. Eventually I finally blew them up completely.
After feeling pretty good about how tnt worked I decided it was much easier to use tnt to remove all the sand in front of the hotel. I layed quite a few tnt in the area, and lit the wood plank fuse. I ran for my life, and when I turned around I just wanted to cry. I guess the power of tnt in sand, and stone are way different. I blew up half of my hotel. It literally looked like a bomb went off in front of the building.
I spent the next several hours rebuilding everything. Did I say how much it sucks to rebuild something? Anyways I finally finished it again for the second time, and filled in the 25x50 crater left from the tnt blast with water.
It isn't the way I planned for this hotel to look on the outside, but nothing seemed to look good. I am thinking about building a casino behind it, or a golf course. I may just make it a whole new project. I haven't decided exactly what to do yet.
I had a ragequit moment while building my vegas style hotel. I was experimenting with some fountains out front, and it just didn't look like I wanted. I was trying to go for the Bellagio hotel look, but the fountains just looked dumb. I decided it was time to try out tnt for the first time. I piled it up, and it barely even made a dent in destroying the stone fountains. Eventually I finally blew them up completely.
After feeling pretty good about how tnt worked I decided it was much easier to use tnt to remove all the sand in front of the hotel. I layed quite a few tnt in the area, and lit the wood plank fuse. I ran for my life, and when I turned around I just wanted to cry. I guess the power of tnt in sand, and stone are way different. I blew up half of my hotel. It literally looked like a bomb went off in front of the building.
I spent the next several hours rebuilding everything. Did I say how much it sucks to rebuild something? Anyways I finally finished it again for the second time, and filled in the 25x50 crater left from the tnt blast with water.
It isn't the way I planned for this hotel to look on the outside, but nothing seemed to look good. I am thinking about building a casino behind it, or a golf course. I may just make it a whole new project. I haven't decided exactly what to do yet.
Thursday
My Minecraft Little Town
I have spent quite a bit of time working on this little town in Minecraft. It is a pretty massive area, and completes the area around My Minecraft Apartment High Rise. I will be moving onto another new area starting tomorrow. I have to go exploring once again, and find some area that sparks my creativity.
It took me many, many hours to level the area around the whole circumference of My Minecraft Apartment High Rise. It felt like a huge accomplishment just completing it. I meant to look at my stats, and see how many blocks I actually removed. I bet it was thousands, and thousands.
I built about fifteen separate buildings this time around, and experimented with using colored wool for the carpet, and roof. It looked great until the trees I planted near the lava grew, and caught fire. It was a horrible feeling working on my current glass house seeing everything go up in flames. I just wanted to ragequit. All my work erased in a matter of about a minute. The only thing left standing was the glass. Everything else burned up. The roof, floor, and all the chests etc were gone.
Luckily I kept going despite the fire. I made some pretty amazing stuff this time. I created this huge waterfall that cascades over a whole mountainside. It is breathtaking. I finally figured out a cool way to make a fireplace using a mob spawner. It looks pretty sweet. I also used the mob spawner to create a flame grill in one of my restaurant buildings.
I think this is my best project yet, and hope you enjoy watching the video.
It took me many, many hours to level the area around the whole circumference of My Minecraft Apartment High Rise. It felt like a huge accomplishment just completing it. I meant to look at my stats, and see how many blocks I actually removed. I bet it was thousands, and thousands.
I built about fifteen separate buildings this time around, and experimented with using colored wool for the carpet, and roof. It looked great until the trees I planted near the lava grew, and caught fire. It was a horrible feeling working on my current glass house seeing everything go up in flames. I just wanted to ragequit. All my work erased in a matter of about a minute. The only thing left standing was the glass. Everything else burned up. The roof, floor, and all the chests etc were gone.
Luckily I kept going despite the fire. I made some pretty amazing stuff this time. I created this huge waterfall that cascades over a whole mountainside. It is breathtaking. I finally figured out a cool way to make a fireplace using a mob spawner. It looks pretty sweet. I also used the mob spawner to create a flame grill in one of my restaurant buildings.
I think this is my best project yet, and hope you enjoy watching the video.
Wednesday
Minecraft Apartment High Rise: The Making Of The Middle Floor
I am still building My Minecraft Apartment High Rise, and finished my middle floor today. After about eight hours of removing blocks, adding the glass frame, gutting the second floor, laying a new wooden floor, creating the new floor plan, decorating each apartment, and any other finishing touches it is done.
I made my video The Making of the Middle Floor a little different than all my previous videos. I decided to eliminate the music, and actually narrate it. I think it worked out really well because I was able to explain things easier instead of just watching a video.
My next episode will be adding the bottom floor. I can't wait to finish it so I can work on the landscaping around the building before moving on to my next project.
I made my video The Making of the Middle Floor a little different than all my previous videos. I decided to eliminate the music, and actually narrate it. I think it worked out really well because I was able to explain things easier instead of just watching a video.
My next episode will be adding the bottom floor. I can't wait to finish it so I can work on the landscaping around the building before moving on to my next project.
Tuesday
I Had To Do It
Grinding away in Minecraft can become very tedious. After so much building, and gathering materials one block at a time it starts to get old. It seems every time you turn around you have to go grind out some materials. I am sick of cutting down trees, digging deep for a few iron ore, and maybe 2-3 diamonds. It slows your building down to a crawl.
I wasted so much time the other day just making glass. Eventually I ran out of coal, but needed about twenty more glass to finish what I was working on. Unfortunately the only way to find coal is to dig. The problem is digging requires pickaxes, and they require wood. It is a never ending cycle that eventually wears you down.
I had to break the cycle. I decided to download Invedit. Yes, I have been a huge advocate of building everything the right way, but I now see how it lets you build much quicker. You can also spend more time decorating the buildings, and making them nicer.
Currently I tackled a pretty big project, and it is taking much longer to do than I anticipated. I am building a huge apartment highrise. It should go much quicker now by using Invedit. I hope to have a new video update out in the next few days.
I wasted so much time the other day just making glass. Eventually I ran out of coal, but needed about twenty more glass to finish what I was working on. Unfortunately the only way to find coal is to dig. The problem is digging requires pickaxes, and they require wood. It is a never ending cycle that eventually wears you down.
I had to break the cycle. I decided to download Invedit. Yes, I have been a huge advocate of building everything the right way, but I now see how it lets you build much quicker. You can also spend more time decorating the buildings, and making them nicer.
Currently I tackled a pretty big project, and it is taking much longer to do than I anticipated. I am building a huge apartment highrise. It should go much quicker now by using Invedit. I hope to have a new video update out in the next few days.
Wednesday
Getting Lost In Minecraft
Today I was going to try to finish up my little sand village, but I am an idiot. I decided to go looking for a good spot to mine some sand. It seemed easy enough. I go over a hill here, and a hill there, and across the water to grandmothers house I go.
Guess what? I obviously go over one too many hills, and lose my sense of bearing. I go back over a hill or two, and I can't find my sand village, or the first house I built. I have the worst sense of direction ever so once again I have spent about an hour looking. I give up again.
I guess the cool part of getting lost is I discover new areas. I actually found this really cool area so for now I am going to be starting a whole new project again. This area is filled with massive mountains of sand that will be perfect for building a huge castle. There is also tons of sand in surrounding areas so I won't have to venture out, and risk getting lost again.
I think I am nowhere near either of my last two builds since my save file went from 16mb to 25mb which means I found lots of new areas. One of these days I may actually craft a compass, but I have to get some redstone since all my stacks are in chests in my other two houses.
Guess what? I obviously go over one too many hills, and lose my sense of bearing. I go back over a hill or two, and I can't find my sand village, or the first house I built. I have the worst sense of direction ever so once again I have spent about an hour looking. I give up again.
I guess the cool part of getting lost is I discover new areas. I actually found this really cool area so for now I am going to be starting a whole new project again. This area is filled with massive mountains of sand that will be perfect for building a huge castle. There is also tons of sand in surrounding areas so I won't have to venture out, and risk getting lost again.
I think I am nowhere near either of my last two builds since my save file went from 16mb to 25mb which means I found lots of new areas. One of these days I may actually craft a compass, but I have to get some redstone since all my stacks are in chests in my other two houses.
Monday
Running Out Of Ideas For Building In Minecraft
I have almost completed my whole project area now. I seem to be running out of ideas on what to build. Everything seems to end up being the same. I wonder what everyone else out there builds.
Basically my last area I had no idea on what to do. I ended up shaping the last area like a building, and built a few stairs going up to the top. Once at the top I decided to dig deep again. The problem is it feels the same way as my other mining tunnel. I am thinking about trying to connect the two underground, or try to think of something really cool to build in my underground bunker.
I finished up my other mining tunnel for the most part. I created a circular lava pit, and in the center I placed alot of torches, and some trees. I haven't been back down to see if the trees actually grew or not, but my creativity seems to be all dried up right now. I also connected the waterfall with the lava which is now a great source of obsidian, but I am not sure what to even use it for.
Since I play on peaceful the new wolf pets are useless to me. I have no bones so I can either trap them for a later day, or just kill them. They seem to love to spawn near my house since I have torches everywhere.
Should I just keep building the same cobblestone castles, or should I build something fun, and exciting? I need some ideas.
Basically my last area I had no idea on what to do. I ended up shaping the last area like a building, and built a few stairs going up to the top. Once at the top I decided to dig deep again. The problem is it feels the same way as my other mining tunnel. I am thinking about trying to connect the two underground, or try to think of something really cool to build in my underground bunker.
I finished up my other mining tunnel for the most part. I created a circular lava pit, and in the center I placed alot of torches, and some trees. I haven't been back down to see if the trees actually grew or not, but my creativity seems to be all dried up right now. I also connected the waterfall with the lava which is now a great source of obsidian, but I am not sure what to even use it for.
Since I play on peaceful the new wolf pets are useless to me. I have no bones so I can either trap them for a later day, or just kill them. They seem to love to spawn near my house since I have torches everywhere.
Should I just keep building the same cobblestone castles, or should I build something fun, and exciting? I need some ideas.
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