Building a Sunflower Druid Grove

Building a Sunflower Druid Grove

Hey guys what’s up Ellie Shad here and today I want to build a fantasy Druid Grove here in my Minecraft world I’ve been inspired by the Druid Groves from Games like World of Warcraft and Boulder’s Gate but I want to build one with my own little twist so this Druid

Grove is themed around sunflowers and the Sun but of course first we must build the classic giant tree Tre that sits at the heart of any Druid Grove so I found this nice Sunny Spot On A Hillside and I started building the most ancient and wise looking oak tree there

Ever was I know it looks like a mess right now but once we add the leaves it will be fine trust the process because you can fix everything with leaves now I’m just going to time-lapse the rest of my leaf placing Endeavors because I went a bit insane and for some reason I

Launched into this rather inspiring Ted talk to myself on I’m not very good at this that’s not going to stop me from trying and that’s why you shouldn’t let your fail being bad stop you from trying anything but finally it’s done and it’s time to show my life’s work to the

Master of tree building himself smallish beans yeah what’s up do you like my tree oh funky what do you mean funky okay that’s funky well you heard it here first folks it’s a funky tree what can I say now since we also used aelia leaves I think

We could try using some of the glow Berry Vines minus the glowberries if I plant some of these here and we cut them before they get too long and here is the tree in its final form now we just need to add some sunflowers but instead of adding these pathetic normal sunflowers

I want to add giant sunflowers so let’s build our first prototype sunflower I just need to make sure to make it nice and Tall oh and they also have giant leaves all the way up the stem kind of like this and we also need to make sure all

Of the sunflowers actually face the Sun that is extremely important and I know it looks a little bit tragic right now but look what happens when I add all the sunflower petals using three different shades of yellow suddenly it looks like a real sunflower I love it it actually makes

The tree look small somehow is the tree small let’s copy this and see how big it is next to the tree T I may have made a terrible mistake here that is far too big okay new plan we build a smaller sunflower up here and we use the power

Of perspective Ive to make sure the tree still looks big if Disney World can do it so can I now that looks kind of tiny next to the tree but with the perspective of this sunflower I think we can make this look good but we definitely need more

Sunflowers oh my gosh this is looking so cute but before I add more flowers I need to add something that’s going to pollinate all of these giant flowers lots of bees so let’s summon in plenty of bees and then I’m going to give these bees a special job to do this Army of

Bees will help The Druids defend their Grove against enemies and The Druids of the Sun have just one Arch Enemy darkness and in Minecraft that comes from the deep dark and as such any skulk items are forbidden in this Grove and anyone that enters the Grove carrying

Skulky items will feel the wrath of my be Army so all I have to do is figure out how to make make bees hostile towards players if they’re carrying skull this one tests if the player has any skull items in their inventory and if they do this makes the bees angry and

They will attack the player until the skull blocks are removed and instead of testing this out on myself I’m going to invite Joel to this world and sacrifice him to the bees instead so here’s a chest with some skull and it’s showtime o okay why don’t you open the chest and

Grab the skull grab the skull yeah grabbed it oh good ow what the heck the heck why did the bees not like me ow ow stupid bees ow what the heck how many bees are there Lizzy is this all you invit me on fire I want some help oh no that worked

Perfectly thank you that’s cool I like that what the that’s sick how’d you do that command blocks the next thing I want to add to my druid GR is some buildings so let’s get some wool and start to plan out where the buildings can go this is just a rough plan but it

Should end up looking something like this so I’m going to start with this one back here and I have decided this will be a communal Food Hall where all the Druids will gather to eat together so the very first step of Lizzy’s chaotic guide to building is to plan out the

Size and shape of the build then I stared at it for a while wondering what to do and then it came to me dark oak for the framing mud and mud bricks for the walls some dark oak planks here some dark oak planks over there and for the

Roof a combination of moss and grass and voila the first build is complete so now all we have to do is start decorating the inside because it looks a little bit empty first glowberries oh my gosh okay that is a little too much I’m going to strip all the

Glowberries away and give these Vines a haircut I just want some really short Vines just to add some texture to the ceilings and the ceiling is complete now we just need to decorate this place to look like a food haul so first we need somewhere to store all of the food over

Here so I will place a few barrels around like this also we can put them up here to look like they’re on shelves if you use your imagination and because they have so many bees I think it makes sense that they would have loads of Honey starred in here so

Let’s make these beehives full of honey and it looks like an overflowing honey storage chest kind of a health and safety issue but it looks cool so I’m going to let it slide what else can we use to look like storage ooh how about the loom

But from the side that kind of looks like empty shelves if we line these up here like so I’ll just cover up the Telltale Loom side and nobody would ever know you know unless they click it and realize it’s a loom so that is the food storage area now we just need somewhere

For all of them to sit and eat and I think that they would all sit together on a long table like so and let’s build a few more of these there plenty of places to sit and eat alas there is no food in here but that is what we’re

Going to build next the centerpiece for this food Hall is going to be a stew pot in the middle of the room here so at first I thought maybe we could just put down a campfire and a cauldron but it looks a little bit weird so I had a

Crazy idea using command blocks to make a giant campfire taada how how much more impressive does that look this is just a block display of a campfire but bigger and better than your average campfire and now that we have this rather impressive cooking set up I thought it would be fun to turn

This into a bit of a cooking mini game to throw different food items into the stew to trigger different events am I crazy yes 3 days later I’m not even joking it’s actually been 3 days and I’ve run out of brain cells but it’s working please look away if you are

Sensitive to poly optimized command blocks I have a very chaotic process okay just pretend you didn’t see any of this chaos and you never have to look at it again because the cooking mini game is complete and depending on what you throw into it you will receive various

Different effects maybe a little bit of poison or even ooh Some weakness but that’s only if you add the wrong ingredients if for example you add one of the correct ingredients to the stew cooked rabbit you will see the stew starts to change and if you add all 12

Correct ingredients without making any mistakes you’ll make a good stew which is extremely potent just look at all these potion effects I added absorption gives you these extra Golden Hearts resistance will protect you from damage saturation means you basically won’t have to eat for an hour after eating

This stew and Fire Resistance makes this stew way more powerful than even an enchanted golden apple so what are the ingredients for this magical stew you may be asking well that is a secret and to discover the recipe players will have to do some experimenting and some

Sleuthing as I’ll hide some Clues to some of the ingredients throughout the drid Grove speaking of the Grove it needs a few more buildings so let’s start over here with a few little little houses for The Druids to live in so first I’m just going to build the basic

Shape and now we can add the grass to the roof and a little patch of dandel and there it is a little mini version of the food Hall and now I just need to build several more of these in a few different shapes to turn this into a village so let’s get Building taada the houses are complete that one has a hole in the roof hang on now they’re complete but this blue path is ruining everything so let’s test out some different blocks let’s try various shades of brown this is the color we want and using the power of world edit

We will have this path done in no time look at the difference that this path has made to the village now everything actually looks connected connected but I bet if I spawn in some Villages they will just completely ignore all the paths I’ve made for them oh yeah off he

Goes no respect for the paths now I still think it looks a little bit empty so we definitely need some decorations I was thinking right here it would be kind of cute to build a honey cart so let’s build a little wagon very cute and let’s put some honey

On top ooh it would be cute if the honey dripped down and made a puddle and let’s also put a few beehives around you know for good marketing and now all we need is a honey vendor so I’m going to use a command to summon in a villager that

Only trades honey taada now we have a beekeeper and I made him hold a little sunflower because he sells some very special honey in exchange for rare exotic plants you will receive sunflower honey collected by the bees of the sunflower Grove and in case you didn’t

Guess this special honey is in fact one of the ingredients in the mystery stew so let’s delete that command block and make a trade for some of this special honey and now I can test it in the stew taada now I do want to add a lot more sunflowers

To the sunflower Grove because I think that you can never have too many sunflowers taada how magical does this look now the only problem is that they all have to face the same way because sunflowers do face the sun which is that way so I

Won’t lie to you it does not look as impressive from the back but that’s not my fault that’s nature now the next detail I want to add is some patches of Wheat and I’ve added some beehives to these as well I think this contrasts with the yellow of the sunflowers quite

Nicely and over here this is quite a nice little spot for a garden so let’s have a beehive and some of these pink petals cuz I just love these so much and I came up with a fun idea flowering zelas but on top of them we add pink

Petals oh my gosh that looks adorable and as you can see the bees love it too oh and of course that is another one of the clues for the Stew one of the ingredients is pink petals ta and let’s also add in a clue for the next ingredient which is frog spawn for

This I think we’re going to need a frog pond and this would be the perfect place to build it so let’s turn all of this into stone first and then fill this in with water now this still looks a bit boring so let’s add some details like these

Rocks on the edge of the pond some mud lily pads and drip leaves Tada and now all we need are some frogs let’s see what color orange because this is a sunflower plains biome they’re perfect so there we have some clues for a few of the ingredients the rest will require some

Experimentation next I’m going to add another little mini game to this area that I call the bee hunt and I got this idea from World of Warcraft where there’s a quest to search for all these crystals that are hidden throughout the world and if you find all of them you

Get a reward so I’m going to make my own version right here in the Druid Grove and I have the perfect idea when I was decorating all of the houses in one of them I actually added this little bee figurine and now that I think about it

This would be the perfect item to hide for the players to look for so this one’s pretty obvious this this should definitely be the first one but right now nothing happens when you click it so we need some command blocks to make the magic happen and I will do it behind

Here where nobody will look this command summons in a new interaction and if the player clicks on it the bee disappears to nowhere because we still have some work to do let’s add it back for now and add another Finishing Touch because I think it would be a good idea

For some text to pop up on the screen telling the player that something is going on so let’s add some more command blocks and now when you click on the B taada the bee hunt begins so now the player will have to search for the next location where the bee has appeared and

I think the perfect location is over here up here I built an overflowing beehive with lots of Honey dripping down so let’s put our little hidden be up here and I’ve set up all the command blocks so when you click on this be the hunt will continue to the next location

And I thought it’ be kind of cute to hide one over here on the honey cart if they look around the corner at the back of the cart they’ll find another bee and the hunt continues this time they’ll have to get all the way up here to tag

This bee which will require some drip Leaf parkour but don’t worry it’s perfect perfectly easy I’m sure I can do it myself like so very easy no well luckily I have creative mode so I can fly and the hunt continues next I hid a bee over here on this shelf

And another one tucked away in a house and that leads us to the final bee I thought the perfect place for this would be to hide it on the big tree somewhere and I discovered that it is actually Hollow on the inside so now naturally bees would probably form a hive in there

And this would be a cute place to hide the final bee so let’s put some honeycomb now I’ve basically made a parkour staircase out of honeycomb but we definitely need more honey dripping down and covering the floor taada now this looks like a real Hive it’s just missing some bees and now

All we need to do is hide our little bee figurine I think over here would be perfect and this time instead of Disappearing when the player clicks it let’s add some commands so that when they find the final be they will be rewarded with a B figurine of their very own

Taada now they can take this home and use it to decorate and that completes my sunflower Druid Grove so let me know in the comments what you think of the build and the interactive elements and don’t forget to subscribe for more bye

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