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Hello everyone. With much success in my latest mansion. I have started a tutorial series for another huge building that you can decorate and change on the inside. This means you can make the building what ever you want! This will be a step by step process to have a huge build. Check out the video below and let me know any feedback you guys have! Thanks

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Hello again everyone! We have got great feedback for the tutorial so I have just released episode 2! I will continue posting the tutorials on this thread to avoid spam! Let me know how your builds are going!

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actually, Gothic style has a lot of arches. not towers, the towers in European architecture are just that. European. and don’t take from the Gothic style at all.

i really gotta say though. a tutorial on how to build a building? arent people supposed to use their own imagination and build their own creations. id be kinda dull if everyone just copied your structures. now a tutorial with tips on building large structures noting key types of architecture and showing people how to design proper towers, circles, domes and arches. that’s more like it.

im not downing your builds. just saying that most people like to build there own structures and wont really want to copy something someone else built.

34 Cool Things to Build in Minecraft Survival for 2022

Posted on Last updated: July 28, 2022

Minecraft has been out for ages now and lots of players are looking for some cool things to build. Luckily, as a veteran player I have you covered with my handy list of 34 awesome Minecraft Survival building ideas!

There are so many different things to build, like a really cool Minecraft house, castle, storage room, or even a bridge. To make sure you don’t get bored or give up on your build, pick a Minecraft building idea that you will have fun with and one that’s not too difficult.

Keep in mind that you will probably need to get all the building supplies yourself if you’re on survival Minecraft. For really big builds like a Minecraft castle, there could be lots of work to get all the blocks you need! But if you’re playing in creative mode, you don’t have to worry about this and can build as big as you want.

Let’s dive straight into it with our list of 34 cool things to build in Minecraft!

Things to Build in Minecraft Survival

1. Castle

Castles are of the most popular things to build in Minecraft. Why? Who wouldn’t want to live in their very own castle!

There is a lot you can add: a wooden gate, a lava moat with a stone bridge, fountains, statues, gardens, and so on. Bonus: the walls and moat will keep mobs out of your base! Any mobs that get close, you can shoot using a bow from the top of your walls.

I recommend starting small and adding on as you need more space, otherwise you could end up giving up on your Minecraft castle idea. There have been so many times where I started building a massive castle which ended up being too much work (and then I gave up). Personally, I start with the outer castle walls first, then add one tower, then more towers, then rooms connecting those towers, and so on.

Don’t forget that castles can range from a small fortress with a few connected towers to a giant walled city with amazing Minecraft fountains. If you’re finding that building a castle is too hard in Minecraft Survival, definitely try making it smaller.

2. House

Building a house for yourself can be a great Minecraft building idea for survival. Design your own bedroom, storage areas, hallways, grand staircases, and more. You can go one step further and build a fancy fence around your property or even build an indoor garden right inside your house!

This Minecraft house in the picture is pretty modern, but if you want other Minecraft house ideas we’ve got you covered.

3. Town

If you are looking for new ideas for things to build in Minecraft, a town can definitely keep you busy since there are so many buildings you can add. Often times, the Minecraft building style used is medieval, but you really could use just about any style like Asian, Viking, and so on!

How do you build a town in Minecraft? It’s as simple as creating a collection of buildings in a similar style and connecting them with roads. It’s a good idea to place torches or other lighting to stop mobs from spawning and attacking town members.

For even more added protection (and an extra Minecraft building idea), you can consider building walls to keep out pesky exploding creepers!

Here are some extra things to build for your town in Minecraft:

4. Farm

Everyone needs a farm to grow Minecraft food for cooking and eating. You could make a simple farm with the essentials like trees and wheat, expanding later into more crops like pumpkins, carrots, cocoa beans, and so on.

A cool farm-related thing to build is your own Minecraft greenhouse with glass and use natural light to grow your crops. The greenhouse would keep out animals and mobs, but you should still light it up a bit so mobs don’t spawn at night.

Another option is to make an indoor or underground farm, but this will be more work. Crops need light to grow, so you would have to make sure there is enough light from torches, lanterns, or lamps. It’s often easier with indoor and underground farms to set them up as automatic farms for this reason.

5. Underground Base

To build an underground base in Minecraft, look for a large underground ravine or carve out a huge hole with TnT. Put windows in the walls, hang vines, and have columns of water or lava (if you want). This one can be a lot of work, especially if you want to dig out larger areas for farms or growing trees.

On a Minecraft server I played on a long time ago, there was a very cool underground “vault” city that was dug out by the players. There were lots of hallways with doors to rooms and a massive atrium with trees and a garden. It is possible to make secret Minecraft rooms and hallways as well.

If you like the combination of digging underground and Minecraft modding, they’ve got Minecraft modpacks for that! The modpack Stoneblock 2 is one of my personal favorites for sure!

6. Treehouse

Find a jungle biome and build a base in the trees, or build your own giant tree with wood and build inside the tree. Watch out if fire spread is on though. It would only take one fireplace or mean player to burn down your entire build.

If you are building up in the trees, it is also a cool idea to build wooden bridges linking different tree houses together. However, this may make your house less private and more obvious if you are on a server with other players.

7. Garden

Gardens in Minecraft go well with almost anything, such as a town, a house, or even just by itself. Try using flowers, trees, gravel pathways, benches, and water to decorate your garden.

Fountains and lakes are a very nice centerpiece for gardens, but can sometimes be tricky to get the water flowing the way you want. If there’s a lot of water in your garden, it can be a relaxing place to go fishing in Minecraft.

To get flowers for your garden, you can use bonemeal on grass to grow them or find them naturally throughout the world. Some biomes in Minecraft will have much more flowers than others.

8. Big City

A big city with skyscrapers, paved roads, lamp posts, parks, and sidewalks is usually a supercharged Survival Minecraft challenge, but can be really rewarding if you have a lot of time or building helpers!

Keep that in mind there’s a lot of repetitive building with cities (for example, adding lots of floors to the same skyscraper). If you don’t mind “cheating” a little, downloading one of the best Minecraft server plugins, WorldEdit, will be a huge help.

With these kinds of plugins, you can copy and paste the same blocks over and over for free.

9. Fountain

Fountains can be simple or large and complicated. They make a good decoration for gardens, castle courtyards, or even indoors.

With the changes Mojang made to water flowing, fountains are a bit more tricky to make now and may need some experimenting to get the water flowing perfectly. Try using ‘steps’ for water to flow down and glowstone or glass within the water.

A cool minecraft fountain idea could be lighting up your fountain so it is more visible at night. This can be done with blocks like glowstone or redstone lamps.

If you are using lamps, you could even link it to a daylight sensor so the fountain light only turns on at night! Pretty awesome, huh?

10. Library

Building a library in Minecraft can be super simple or super tricky.

A bigger library is usually decorated with bookcases, wood, carpets, and stained glass, or even just a side-room in your base and make that your enchanting area. For extra fun, use pistons to make some hidden passages behind the bookcases.

Libraries are the perfect place to put your enchanting tables (with all the books and all). Even if you don’t want to build a large library, you can still build a small one close to your storage room for keeping up with the best minecraft enchantments.

Another thing in Minecraft that’s a little more mystical and ties in with libraries is potion brewing. Try building a little basement, secret room behind a bookcase, or just an office where you will brew all your potions.

10. Storage Room

Since you usually need to access your storage a lot, it’s good to get some Minecraft storage room ideas first! Some ideas could be to build your storage underground or to use rows of chests.

Storage rooms are an important part of any Minecraft house in survival. They can be large, very organized, and decorated (if you want!). If you have the materials, use expensive blocks in your storage room to show off your wealth like gold, diamond, and emerald.

11. Famous Landmark

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Look on google for a photo of a famous landmark and use it as a reference for building something amazing in Minecraft. For example, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Statue of Liberty, and so on. Hint: if you travel a lot, pick the favorite thing you saw on your travels.

If you are playing on survival Minecraft, maybe try to pick something a little less detailed or build a more miniature version of the landmark. Without the flying and infinite blocks on creative, it may be a challenging thing to build on survival.

12. Pyramid

Pyramids are usually built in desert biomes using sandstone or sand. They are a nice place for putting your Minecraft beacon (think of Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, it’s the pyramid with the light beam coming out of it) and can be built in other biomes too using various materials.

If you want to keep an Egyptian theme, decorate the outside with pools, columns, and sphinxes.

Building a pyramid is really easy thing to build in Minecraft for most players, even in survival. You just have to make a really large square and then keep building smaller squares vertically until you reach the tip of the pyramid.

13. Arch

Arches are often used as a grand entrance to a town, base, or other build. They are a fun thing to build in Minecraft and can be made of simple materials like stone or even diamonds found while mining.

It’s a popular idea to add Minecraft statues on each side of the arch. Some examples are statues of horses, players, or mermaids!

14. Cathedral

There are so many impressive churches and cathedrals in the world and building one in Minecraft can be quite difficult, especially in survival mode. However, they can make for a busy and satisfying Minecraft building idea.

For inspiration, find an image of a famous cathedral online for your reference as you build. Don’t forget the stained glass!

15. Cool Nether Portal Build

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There are so many ways to build a nether portal in Minecraft and there are endless design possibilities. Try making a room just for your nether portal or make an even larger nether portal and decorate it (nether portals can be much larger than the standard small size).

As an added bonus, keeping your nether portal in a separate room will keep away any Minecraft mobs that walk through it. For building materials, I recommend using materials found in the nether such as quartz, netherrack, nether brick, or lava. This will make sure your portal still has a nether theme to it.

16. Floating Base

Floating bases are not just for Skyblock, they can be one of the coolest things to build in Minecraft Survival! Build a large platform for yourself up in the clouds, bring up some construction materials, and start building a base up there. The original builder has a time lapse on YouTube which shows you how to build this particular floating base in Minecraft.

Be aware that building a floating base in Minecraft can be difficult, especially at the beginning! Building a floating base is part of our collection of Minecraft survival challenges.

Make sure you have a safe way to get down, such as a jump to a pool of water, a ladder, or slime blocks to fall on.

As an added bonus, if you are playing on a pvp server, a floating base high up in the sky can keep yourself hidden from other players. It is a good way to maintain privacy, as long as the base is not too big!

Sky Factory (included in our list of the best Minecraft modpacks to play in 2022) is a fun way to start a floating build.

17. Docks

Try building a village right on the water with wooden sidewalks connecting the buildings to create a Minecraft dock. Some anchored boats can easily be built out of wood as decoration for your Minecraft dock.

Since there’s always water nearby, it’s so easy to go Minecraft fishing from a dock. Great place to store your fishing supplies!

19. Sewers

Dig underground tunnels near your base and fill them with a little bit of water. Add iron fence gates or plants such as vines and lily pads for decoration and you’ve got yourself a sewer system. If you want, you could also put minecart tracks in here for transportation. A sewer system can be a cool way to link different parts of an underground base in Minecraft, as well.

For an added sense of adventure, add secret hallways with treasure for visitors. These hallways could be hidden with pressure plates, levers, pistons, and so on.

You could even keep the sewers dark, allowing mobs to spawn. Make sure to bring the best Minecraft weapon you can get a hold of before going in!

20. Subway

A minecart subway system is a really unique and practical Minecraft building idea. After building a subway, imagine how easy it would be to transport yourself around your city or between builds.

It can be as simple as digging out a long hallway underground and adding ‘stops’ or ‘stations’ along the way with exits to the world above.

If you want to go more fancy, you can decorate the stations like in the picture! To get a really awesome looking subway, you might want to grab one of the best minecraft texture packs.

21. Maze

Mazes can easily be built out of leaves/hedges and placed into a Minecraft garden. They can also be made underground or inside buildings.

For more fun, consider adding traps and surprises using pistons like drops, changing walls, and dispensers shooting arrows. Don’t forget the reward chest at the end of the maze.

If you are playing on survival Minecraft, you’ll definitely want the Silk Touch Enchantment to gather leaf blocks from trees!

22. Statue

If you have an empty hallway inside your build, building Minecraft statues is a fantastic idea to make use of that space. You could build statues dedicated to your favorite items, mobs, animals, or players.

Statues as shown in the photo are commonly used to decorate grand entrances like arches.

23. Bridge

Is there a river by your base? Or even a deep canyon? Building a bridge is a fantastic Minecraft building idea for getting across! Decorate the edges and supports for the bridge and add some lighting as well.

Use materials like copper, stone, brick, or wood instead of just dirt and cobblestone. Your bridge can be as simple as a walkway or as grand as the Golden Gate bridge.

24. Lighthouse

A lighthouse in the distance glowing in the night is a cool decoration if your base is by an ocean. A lighthouse does not look very nice in a field or by a river, so make sure you build it on a beach by the ocean! For a unique look, build your lighthouse out of white material and with some touches of red (like concrete, wool, or glazed terracotta patterns).

If you’re good with redstone, you can even make a piston-based system to build a revolving Minecraft lighthouse.

25. Boat

You can’t sail a manually built boat from blocks in Minecraft. Regardless, it does make for a cool thing to build! Manually built boats are usually made of wood blocks with the sails made from wool. Your boat build can be as simple as a sailboat, or as large as a cruise liner with sleeping and dining cabins.

26. Penthouse Suite

If you are building a city and have skycrapers, a cool Minecraft house idea is to build a penthouse suite! You would be able to easily watch over your whole Minecraft base from the top of a skyscraper. This one might be a bit more work if you don’t already have a skyscraper.

For an authentic look, keep a modern design and draw inspiration from those New York TV shows with penthouses. Try adding rooms like a real penthouse suite would have, like designing a cool Minecraft kitchen for your penthouse.

27. Clock Tower

Clock towers are a cool thing to build in Minecraft Survival for any town or even a modern city (think of Big Ben in London). They are usually very simple to build and can be made from a variety of different building materials like logs, stone, or even the newer copper blocks.

Unfortunately, it won’t be able to tell you the time (unless you are a redstone wizard), but it’s a great decoration anyways.

28. Bank and Vault Minecraft Build

The vaults of a bank are a unique way to store your items in Minecraft. Build up a bank, and in the back, have an entrance to an underground vault area with your items. What better place to store your gold and diamonds than locked up in an underground Minecraft base?

To make your vault more realistic, secure it with a very strong material. I like to build my bank vaults out of obsidian and have different rooms for different items. If you want to be even more creative, each floor can be locked and only opened from a lever in a secure office.

29. Restaurant or Tavern

You will need a place to cook your Minecraft food with easy access. Sure, you could put it in your storage chests, but what fun is that? Try building a restaurant or tavern with a seating area and a place to order and obtain food. Your friends and visitors will love it as well, if you play on a server with other people.

For more fun, you can try building a fast-food restaurant like Subway or McDonalds and design a cool Minecraft kitchen to go with it!

30. Hospital

Another thing to build in Minecraft survival is a large urban hospital for yourself and your visitors. Organize an emergency room, waiting area, and wards on the upper floors. If you want a smaller building idea, try making a small clinic building for your town.

I recommend building with whiter materials such as white wool or quartz to really make that red “H” or cross stand-out. You could craft Minecraft concrete from powder as an alternative to wool.

To make the hospital more realistic, add some beacons which automatically “heal” any player that enters the building.

31. Courthouse

Building a courthouse to deal with rule-breaking players on your server is yet another Minecraft building idea! The inside should contain an area for people to watch the proceedings, and a front-area for the judge and the accused. Don’t forget to build a jail underground or attached to the courthouse.

Most courthouses today are traditional with wooden interiors (wall, ceiling, floor, benches), even if the exterior is made of something else like stone.

On YouTube you can find some great videos for building a Minecraft courthouse.

32. Prison

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A prison can have so many things, as it needs to be mostly self-sustaining. You’ll need cell blocks, a cafeteria, security rooms, and anything else you can think of. You should definitely make use of redstone to create a full security system with lever-activated doors.

Minecraft prison servers are getting pretty popular, so why not build your own? Don’t forget the fence around the prison with the watch towers.

33. Minecraft Pixel Art

2-Dimensional art can be made in Minecraft just by using colored wool or other colored blocks like concrete. Pixel art may look easy, but trust me, once you try it you may find it to be pretty challenging while still fun.

For pixel art ideas, people often make flags, slogans, minecraft items (like a diamond pickaxe statue), or other players.

34. Cottage

A cottage on lake or river is a nice and cozy place to call home. You could make one just as a vacation house and connect it to your base with a road or minecart rail system. If it’s on the water or at least has a lake, you’ll have a cool Minecraft fishing spot!

And there you have it, 34 things to build in Minecraft Survival! Do you have more suggestions to add? Leave a comment below.

Minecraft Houses | The Ultimate Guide, Tutorials, & Build Ideas

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Minecraft is known as an incredible open-world platform that supports creativity and out-of-the-box thinking as it allows players to interact freely with anything and everything they might find. From sourcing rare items to crafting useful items (or sometimes useless junk), there’s no denying how much this game encourages manic hands-on, do-it-yourself energy.

There are no prerequisites, no set boundaries, and virtually no limits (short of the game’s actual programmed physics). If you want to build your house on the very top of a mountain, you can. If you want to build it under the ground, you can.

That’s the magic of Minecraft, and that’s what we’re going to explore in this article today; Minecraft houses, and just how creatively versatile they can get!

But before that, let’s start with some building basics.

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Basic House Building Tutorial

The trick to building Minecraft houses is to start simple. You can upgrade as you gather more resources, but the whole point of a house – at least at first – is to have a safe spot you can retreat to when things start spawning.

But yes; we’re going to give you some lavish/clever/creative house concepts that you can build in Minecraft later on in this article, so stay tuned!

For now, let’s start with a quick tutorial on how to build a house in Minecraft. Just the basics!

Step 1: Build Your Walls

Step 2: Make a Roof

Once your walls are finished, you can create a roof by placing blocks on top of them. Make sure to lay them side-by-side!

As with walls, you can use almost any material. However, you cannot use sand or gravel for the roof. They’ll collapse.

Step 3: Add the Doors

Doors can be made through crafting. You’ll need six (6) planks of any building material. Arrange them in the first two columns of the crafting table, in a 2-by-3 formation. You can make as many as needed and as many as your resources will allow.

Step 4: Don’t Forget Light

Arrange the components in the crafting table grid as shown below.

Make sure the stick is in the middle square and the coal or charcoal is in the square above it.

Step 5: Furnish Your House

You can craft a bed using three (3) wool blocks and three (3) planks (any wood).

As you advance, you’ll want to look into tools and items like enchanting tables and grindstones. But seeing as this is a basic home-building tutorial, a bed, a furnace, and some chests will do for now.

Step 6: Decorations & Finishing Touches

Now that you’ve got the basics for building a Minecraft house down, how about some really cool housing concepts? You’ll be surprised just how lavish, complicated, and downright sprawling some builds can get! As long as you’ve got the time, the creativity, and – most importantly – the resources to craft everything you need, you can definitely create some incredible housing projects, too.

8 Ideas for Cool Minecraft Houses:

Minecraft Starter Treehouse

If you’re smack-dab in the middle of creeper spawns and night is swiftly approaching, get to high ground – in style! Minecraft Treehouses are as nostalgic (think sunny summer afternoons in the park or hiding from your pesky older siblings in your own backyard) as they are tactical. The high vantage point gives you a significant advantage against any enemies and mobs that come a-calling. The altitude will keep you safe from most ground-based swarms.

And if you decide to build the house in an existing tree – instead of from scratch – surrounded by other trees, you’ve got plenty of sources for your building materials already.

This Minecraft house is also pretty beginner-friendly, all things considered. All you really need is wood, wood, and more wood. As long as your base is solid, your house will be, too. But we’ll let YouTube user TheMythicalSausage show you how it’s done:

Minecraft Farmhouse

If you’re worried less about mobs and more about self-sufficiency, consider building your very own farmhouse. You’ll need a lot of materials, initially, but it’ll be so worth it in the long run. You’ll be able to grow as much food as you like, harvest plenty of raw materials for future crafting projects, and maybe even raise a couple of animals.

And the actual living quarters can be as simple or as over-the-top as you’d like it to be.

Check out this beautiful farmhouse designed by JUNS MAB Architecture:

Its raised, modular design gives it such a unique aesthetic. Plus, the foundation is roomy enough for later expansions.

Don’t let the 362 pieces of Oak Log and 733 pieces of Oak Planks intimidate you. As we said earlier, the long-term results will be totally worth it.

Peaceful Minecraft Japanese House

Up for a little challenge? Why not try designing a Japanese-style Minecraft house?

Not a Japanese-themed one, okay? That one’s a little different.

We also recommend checking out this tutorial by JermsyBoy:

Intimidating All-Wood Mansion

Just check out TheMythicalSausage’s stunning mansion – made entirely out of wood!

Urban Contemporary House

Think a white-walled, crisp-edged, contemporary high-rise condo doesn’t belong in the world of Minecraft?

JUNS MAB Architecture wows us once again with this striking modern Minecraft build:

This four-story open build looks like it belongs in a current Home or Interior Design magazine as blueprint inspiration. Bright lights, unique shell, frosted spine, and floor-to-ceiling windows. This may not fit Minecraft’s common aesthetic, but there’s no denying that it is such a treat to look at!

Blue Suburban Build

If you want a modern build without going full contemporary or full urban, why not hit the best compromise? A suburban home in Minecraft is completely doable – white trim, sunny blue walls, street-facing garage door, and all! Just check out Rizzial’s comprehensive tutorial on it:

The tall stone foundation and raised porch are absolutely perfect, but it’s really just the highly-saturated blue walls that get us. They’re almost unnervingly accurate! If you want three floors of spacious, well-lit interiors and all the modern comforts a Minecraft player could want, try your hand at building a modern Minecraft suburban.

VII. Underground Minecraft Home

ItsMarloe’s build is incredibly roomy and strikes all the items on the Ultimate Underground Bunker checklist. If put in the context of a zombie (crawler?) apocalypse, this could be the safest place to be. And if you follow their tutorial to the letter, you’ll notice that the modular design gives you plenty of room for future expansions.

VIII. The Odd Diagonal Minecraft Home

With enough time, experience, and resources, anyone can build a mansion, a cottage, a cabin, and even a red-brick townhouse.

Reddit User and Minecraft Architect Swordself_MC apparently can. He challenged himself to literally think outside the box for some fresh Minecraft house ideas. This is what he came up with: a home with a diagonally-built side right next to the front-facing entrance. The overall result gives the home incredible depth, dimension, and definitely character.

Minecraft Houses Conclusion

Wow, that was a long guide! We covered the basics as well as some great examples of Minecraft houses!

Let’s go over what we covered!

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What were some of your favorite styles? Which Minecraft house design do you feel like tackling? Don’t be too hard on yourself if your first build doesn’t go exactly as you envision. Given enough practice – and a lot of sourcing, mining, crafting – you too can build some creative and breathtaking builds!

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How to Build a Large Minecraft House

Introduction: How to Build a Large Minecraft House

In my first instructable I will show you how to build a large survival house in minecraft house.

Step 1: Frame

You will first of all find a large, flat area.
Then you will want to make a frame as shown

Step 2: Frame and Walls

Following that, you will want to fill each gap between the wood logs with cobblestone

Step 3: Building It Up

Now, on top of the logs, go up by three.
Once you’ve done that, join all the logs up at the top with more logs.You will also want to fill the walls in as shown

Step 4: 2nd Floor

Just like you did with the first floor,build the wood logs up by 4 and join them up at the top but fill the walls in with wood.Make sure you leave the section on the left as one layer.This will be a balcony.

Step 5: Adding a Li’l Hight

On the far right of your, soon to be, house do just like you did with the past 2 floors and go up by 3 and join them up at the top.Do so twice.Then fill in those sections.

Step 6: Floors, Floors AND MORE FLOORS.

Fill in the floors and ceilings as the images show.

Step 7: Roof

For the roof, as it is hard to explain, just look at the picture and notice how it basically just pyramids up.

Step 8: Windows

With the gaps that you have left, place glass planes.

Step 9: Doors and Inside Walls

Add the doors similar to the ones in the picture.

Step 10: Stairs ‘n’ Ladders

Breaking a spot for your stairs to lead, add your stairway.The ladder, on the other hand,will be placed on that tower.

Step 11: Make It Look Pretty

Add torches to light it up and fill it with all of your survival needs.

Step 12: And Yore Done!

If there is any else you would like me to build then just leave them in the comments.As I said this is my first instructable so tell me what you think. Bye!!

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How To Build A Castle Tutorial [UPDATED]

Let’s face it. Minecraft’s greatest joys lie in its Creative mode.

Open maps where no one can interrupt your artistic flows, where you can be as freeform or prescriptive as you like; what’s not to love?

So, you plop yourself into your own gigantic canvas but suddenly find yourself blocked, strapped for ideas on what to build.

It’s a common thread amongst budding Minecraft creatives. But have no fear. All you need is a bit of a nudge to get those builder’s juices flowing.

With this guide, we will show you how to build a basic castle in Minecraft. We’ll take you through the steps to put together a base skeleton for your own personal stronghold.

After that, you’ll be free to decorate and experiment until you’ve made it your own.

1. Laying The Blueprint For Your Minecraft Castle

For this build, you need 3 types of slabs and blocks:

The castle is laid out in a jagged 15 x 15 block square. Follow the pattern in the above image, paying attention to the types of stone we use for each. This will be the foundation upon which your creation will be built.

2. Building The First Set Of Walls

Now that we have a solid blueprint, we can start working on erecting your fortress’s walls and battlements. We’ll begin with the ones beside the main structure. Start by raising pillars of 5 Stone Brick blocks. After that, raise shorter 3-block cobblestone pillars. Once that’s done, you can add Stone Brick blocks horizontally at the 4th block height. Now you’ve got a robust corner.

3. Raising The Main Structure

This part is going to be as complex as it gets. Begin with the Stone Brick pillars and raise them to a height of 12 blocks each. After that, add Stone Bricks horizontally every 3 blocks. The next step is to fill in all of the Stone portions at 12 blocks height but leave the middle ones black to form the windows.

4. Building Your Basic Minecraft Castle Walls

These walls only need to be a touch shorter than the main structure’s. With the above image as your guide, build the taller portions to a 10-block height. For the shorter side, alternate between 9 and 8-block heights. Your Stone portions should go up to a height of 6 blocks.

5. Making The Windows And Other Touches

Back to the main structure, use your Stone Brick blocks to raise the middle portions of the exterior and Stone for the interior. You can use Iron Bars to fill in the windows for that extra bit of protection and aesthetic.

To round things off, use your Stone Slabs to fill in your roofs. The slabs are used in order to create a bit of depth for that extra bit of detail and finesse.

And there you have it! A solidly built basic Minecraft castle to call home. It may not look like much at the moment but you can fish around for ideas on how you can add a bit more detail. Stone Brick Stairs, for instance, can be placed upside down at the edges of your roofs to serve as battlements. Now that you’ve had a go at building in Minecraft, you’re ready to start messing around with your own ideas. Happy creating!