SuperSimpleMinecraft

for beginning builders of all ages

[neil-gaiman]

Read this Twitter thread... (partly because Microsoft doesn't want you to.)

[nvara-of-mortains-own]

link x2:

screenshots of the tweet below 'read more'; twitter is going down at some point

[acidloe]

I wrote a story for a friend

In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you.

The substack link if anyone wanted it

[minecraft-inspo]

Garden through seasons

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

My gosh you can spend your entire life down here in this cave update ::BUT IF YOU DO:: make sure you bring saplings and dirt blocks bc you WILL need to replenish your wood supplies 😂

*Also bring coal as it is now super rare to find it way, way below, and you will need so many torches! Both for mining and to surround saplings so they will grow.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

SIMPLE BUT TIME CONSUMING: old/abandoned roads.

First zip ahead to place logs and lanterns so you remember generally where you're going. Then tap like crazy with a shovel to leave the traditional path marks scattered about. Choose two or three types of bricks, and replace some of the dirt blocks with each kind.

This is a long-term project for me that will connect several maps, but you can make smaller roads and paths around gardens or ponds that lead to your house etc.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

When you don't want to use up all of your wood making ladders, use shears to collect and use vines instead:) They make your mining adventures a little different and colorful.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

Igloo takeover! Regular light sources will melt your shelter--it's fun and easy to replace sections of the igloo with glass. I also slapped some logs on the outside to make it look more like a shelter and less like a snow-and-glass spaceship lol

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

There are a lot of of cool and complex designs out there, but this is a super simple building blog as that is my favorite way to build. THAT SAID, I thought I'd make a little post about simple ways to make builds look more complex.

Here's what I'm starting with. In my toolbar you'll see a mix of objects made of different types of wood. The simplest ways to make things look complex?

1) Cover every face of the block with something and 2) mix up the types of wood

Try these outside of a dirt or tree house for a cool effect. Maybe there's a cave wall you can cover with things. Mix them up and don't worry about it.

SO FANCY. Just cover all parts of the block.

For me, a whole house done in this way feels too busy. But I'll use things like this around the entrances, or when I'm making smaller camps.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

I mean it's one way to do it

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

NOT super simple, just showing my largest mapped world (I have another large one where I just explore and wander mapless). I've had it so long, you can see the darker blue patches from the aquatic updates haha: the far right is more recently explored (dark blue water), while you can see a dark blue path on the center and left sections where I went along older mapped areas from base to base.

It cracks me up. Love it.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

The easiest way to make a little garden patch look wild and pretty is to just not plant in ordered rows! Crops will grow as long as they're within a few blocks of a water source, so if you have a couple of those you can spread your garden out a bit. I like to start at the corners of the water source and then fill in/out based on the number of seeds I have. Colorful, simple.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

This is 100% a super simple idea I promise!

Obviously I switched to creative mode here but you don't have to; I have a very small island as my main base and wanted to do something visually striking on each end, so: floating trees and lanterns!

Below you can see I built out a line of dirt blocks from the main land and just went in different directions with it; then planted a sapling, surrounded its block w torches, and then destroyed the connecting blocks. I did the same with stone bricks for the hanging lanterns.

Simple to do, very cool effect.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

CAN you get an enchanted book by fishing in your own garden? Yes. Yes you can. Ridiculous but true lol

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

Dark oak treetop base! Still adding details here and there but the best decision was definitely to add a small potato garden. If you don't want to go to groud level any time soon, or if you're in a biome that has few animals, potatoes are the best things to plant. Baked potatoes are the best if there's no meat around.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

Another view!

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

Dark oak treetop base! Still adding details here and there but the best decision was definitely to add a small potato garden. If you don't want to go to groud level any time soon, or if you're in a biome that has few animals, potatoes are the best things to plant. Baked potatoes are the best if there's no meat around.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

Started a new world, made a little dirt/stone/spruce base near my spawn point. This world is for exploring only so I'm trying to carry just what I need to keep going, but in case I DIE die (my closest bed/respawn point is destroyed and I end up back here), this base has a bed and some of the basics: wood, coal, iron.

For this base I used dirt, cobblestone, stairs, and slabs. No plan to it, I just built until I ran out of stairs, then put slabs down to give it a more harried and slapped-together look.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

Recently I've been watching various build tutorials, and even crafted a massive shipwreck-styled base from scratch that I'm pretty proud of...but...super simple is definitely my build style lol!

To that end, here is one of my favorite walls to build around a camp: wood and leaves.

I like them for the wide open expanses like desert and plains, where mobs can easily spot me and make their way over. I can still see movement through the leaves though! And leaving it broken up makes it easier to come and go, while still providing protection.

[supersimpleminecraftideas]

Dirt house camp near good mining. Little things like the wood and stone bricks go a long way towards making this feel like it has multiple rooms, and just make it look more interesting.