Hi! I've only been playing minecraft for a month and building things is now my favourite thing to do but i am still incredibly new at this.
Do you have any suggestions at all abot how to improve?
Should i buy texture packs?
Should i just build more?
Is it okay to use references?
Do you have any suggestions about YouTube channels to watch?
Do you build in creative or in survival mode? Do you ever use commands?
Thank you for taking the time to read my ask! If the questions are too many feel free to answer only partially :)
Hello! In all honesty I've only really been building in minecraft for about a year and a half and before that I was literally living in cobblestone boxes and spending 80% of my time in the mines aha, but I've learnt a lot in the time I've been doing this!
Texture packs are an optional thing, you don't have to use them and you defo shouldn't just buy any of the bedrock ones just because. Its completely up to you if thats something youd like to do!
But a lot of building is about practice! Figure out your shapes, your blocks you want to use, just wing it, go wild! A couple tips I do have are:
1. don't limit yourself on what a block IS. wood just doesn't have to be wood and stone just doesn't have to be stone. I've made walls from mushroom blocks, mixed sponge into a gradiant, heck my most recent build for buildtober (the pumpkin spice cafe i made) has walls made from snow blocks and powdered snow!
2. Depth is everything in minecraft! Use panes for your windows instead of full glass blocks, it just gives it a little bit of a 3d look! The only way I learn't how to use depth in my builds was experimenting
3. I don't remember who said it (probably bdubs) but when working with a big wall and using different blocks for texture and detail try to make every 3 x 3 section of it a little different to avoid it looking all flat and meh
4. when working on bigger builds defo try to do a little planning! even if it's just the over all shape or what blocks youd like to use where. I know I've said i wing a lot of my builds, which I do, but I also know what blocks I'll be using before I jump in. OF COURSE, that can change over the course of the building project but Thats Just How It Be Sometimes.
It's 100% okay to use references, from irl or others builds! There's plenty of build tutorials hanging around on tumblr and youtube. I can only reccomend youtube channels I've watched but there's loads and everyone has a different building style! I personally really like GeminiTay, fWhip, bdoubleO100 (bdubs) and you might've heard of Grian. And before anyone says "Scott Clovercrafted Darling those are just your blorbos". And you're right, they are my blorbos but they're all insanely good builders.
I build in both creative and survival! The Rosendale Megaproject I've been working on is a creative project while my current world, Duskwood, is pure survival! I try to do a little bit of everything except redstone. Well. I can make basic redstone farms but that's about it. My ability only extends to being the dude who gets excited if he can get a piston to move. I'm not even going to touch commands or command blocks, thats a whole other level of wizardry.
And it's not a problem to send questions! Feel free to ask me anything any time! I hope this helped and happy crafting :D
