The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 continues in Minecraft 1.20.2!
In this tutorial, we take on the personal challenge of building with blocks you don’t like.
First, having returned from the Ancient City with Swift Sneak books, we take some time to enchant our leggings with Swift Sneak III and demonstrate how it changes player movement while crouching.
Then it’s build theory time! I discuss why I’m not the biggest fan of blocks like Bricks and Granite, and how we can still incorporate them into builds by finding the right theme, using them as structural elements, and combining them with other blocks in a colour gradient.
We put this to work in a Minecraft factory build to house our mud converter, leaving room for future expansion into a clay making facility, and include cool details like dangling anvils and a rolling shutter door.
Along the way I explain how to collect vines quickly, the role of string in supporting gravity-affected blocks and blocking vine growth, and how to improve on the mud factory design we were already using!
Survival Guide Season 3 world seed: 787419271612053211
Music:
Minecraft soundtrack by C418, Lena Raine, Kumi Tanioka, Aaron Cherof
Season 3 of the Minecraft Survival Guide will teach you how to master Survival Mode in Minecraft 1.20 and beyond!
Follow the Season 3 playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfpHTJsn9I4&list=PLgENJ0iY3XBjmydGuzYTtDwfxuR6lN8KC&pp=gAQBiAQB
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20 Comments
I really like how your build turned out and fully agree with you on how you did the roof. Looks amazing!
Anyone else see the face on the side of the building?
What's wrong with bricks being nice and clean? I don't get why you have this intense dislike of any and all nice looking blocks in the game and why you are so averse to making nice buildings that aren't scrappy or ugly or just generally undamaged and pleasant to look at. Your building philosophy is always how to ruin things that would look nice. Like throwing ugly granite to ruin what should be a nice and smooth brick wall…the irony is you think you're making it look better when in reality you're making it look horrible.
Pixl would be even more unstoppable as a builder if he had all the new copper blocks available already
Always love to see you building, Pix. Great gradients and colour palette. Techniques really well explained. I also love using glow lichen on walks to smooth gradient transitions and give a patina of age.
Footnote: Can you please build some nicer homes for those poor villagers?
Day 1 : Asking Pixlriffs to make Hardcore series for 1.22 update, before it goes live
Not sure about the anvils, but Bdubs, Scar, and you are the only people I’ve seen make granite look good!
Reminds me a lot of fWhip’s more recent builds with this block palette! I like it!
Very well done, again. I love your buildings!
Tbf it'd be really cool if we had weathering for all items (as an option, maybe) for more than just the copper block. Plus, depending on Minecraft environment, so diff areas like a sandy desert would weather blocks differently from a wetter environment where maybe you'd get a mossy look on blocks. Also my fave building block is Diorite to build with, especially polished version for landmark buildings. It's the perfect block for deep caves stairs and the nether
5:39 I actually have a Teal & Orange shulker box for some buildings and details (mainly copper variants, warped fungi logs, dark prismarine, concrete powder, acacia logs). This palette is used in some cinematography compositions to create interesting contrasts. I use it sometimes in industrial buildings, or for some fantasy themed landscape.
Granite and packed mud is a very underrated combo
You can right click with shears to stop vines from growing, works with all varieties of vines, and also kelp.
There used to be a show on in the UK called "changing rooms" where the cast and crew used to re design rooms in people's houses while the owners went out for a coffee or to the job centre. Riffs should do a new series where he pimps people's crappy starter houses.
Can't you break vines with an axe, or is that only on Bedrock?
I love using Granote and Diorite for Roof and Floorings respectively❤❤❤
Just don't wear your swift sneak pants with boots that have soul speed if you are building innthr neather I nearly shot myself off of a cliff into a lava lake.
whyd you feel the need to use every ugly block in the game to make the ultra ugly castle?
Bricks and granite actually form one of my favorite block combinations, and were one of the first pairs of blocks I used when starting to combine blocks in walls rather than sticking to single monotone materials.
A little detail that could work with the bricks is using nether bricks to indicate a damp/moldy spot on a wall (where water has pooled for a while), or as a smoked patch over the top of say an open air furnace. The darker brownish slightly red colour of nether bricks works well for this since it keeps the general brick pattern and wet bricks tend to have a darker colour than dry bricks due to absorbing moisture.