Build With Blocks That Scare You! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.62]
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- 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!
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You should rename your sneaky leggings "pixelshifts"
Oh I love it I hope pix sees this so good
Yes!!
Brilliant!
Excellent⛏
If I could like it twice I would. That's gold
even glow lichen can be used instead of vines to blend the contrasting colors
Glow lichen are SO underrated. IMO it's the easiest way to add some texture to plain blocks.
@@andrecruz04 Yup. I remember in Empires Season 2, when Pix had placed Glow Lichen over I think it was Light Grey Glazed Terracotta. It gave a very mosaic type look on the floor.
Blocks that scare? Hmm. Now I'll build a house with shriekers. 😂
It's not scary, it's noisy 😂
Make sure to include naturally spawning shriekers too so you never know which ones will spawn the warden
Am I the only one who hears Shrieker noises and immediately goes "+1 Clank"?
@@LexLuxray 😂
Imagine hiding them under a carpet
To help break up bricks, I love using plain terracotta as the accent block to help break it up. It breaks up the busy texture and the colors match very nicely
The granite family of blocks also works well when mixed with bricks.
Pixlriffs - uses string as useful device to add structure detail.
Spider - "Do you need more string?"
So considerate!
Hey Pixlriffs, I just wanted to thank you for all the great videos you have made all these years. You are my most favorite Minecraft UA-camr till date. Your family friendly content and educational videos help me a lot. Cheers.
Regarding the character of bricks, it's worth considering that the bricks you see in historical buildings may have been baked differently, and it might not just be age.
Over time the process of firing bricks has been refined to be more consistent, producing bricks of increasingly more uniform shape and hardness, and with a more narrow range of color. This then affects how uniformly the brick wall will age.
I think what is missing, is those little patterns like archways and sills with vertical bricks, or extruded corners. Brick walls that don't do this in real life _do_ look bland.
Recently I've liked mixing bricks with normal and muddy mangrove roots. I'm not sure why having holes in the wall held together by roots is appealing, but it is. Feels like the wall is being packed with mud to cover the holes.
Didn't consider polished granite? I find it useful on large scale bricky builds as anchor stones - cornerstones, lintels, that kinda thing. I don't think there's many "bad" blocks in the game, some are much harder to use than others but I take that as a challenge! There's just some frustrating gaps in the colour palette - the only pale blues being ice for example, so many cyan shades, so many warm oranges, but pale green? Slime!
one of my favourite details in minecraft is that the sculk family are the only blocks in the game to have that strange dark teal green colour. it’s such an alien colour for minecraft. I think a lot of the blocks in the game work that way- pale blue is only prominent in ice so you always associate that colour with cold biomes
If you're not worried about in-game durability/flammability, just the looks, wool is useful for certain colors. Also dyed (but not glazed) terracotta.
This may be a extremely small detail (specially when the mud factory is decorated on the inside, but that horizontal part of the door I think looks kinda disconected from the vertical part. Maybe if adding a row of stairs and inverted stairs it would look more connected?
Another great block for blending brick and granite is stripped jungle log. The slightly pink and green hues of the log blend really well.
Granite and packed mud is a very underrated combo
Pix, I'm a huge fan.
On spawn chunks and on streams you often share the idea of storing your items and moving to a new spot when you get that itch for the early game. When discussing different build styles, maybe do a few refresher episodes on the early grind, show off new farm styles, and use that as the "reason" to also explore a new build style. I think that would be an awesome way to cover the topic of "burnout/boredom" and also get to introduce more technical build style discussion. I really like the bridge your content makes between game mechanics demos / farm tutorials and building / the technical side of building videos.
I like how the title directly reflects the date of upload lol 🤣Also hilarious how a spider appeared out of nowhere and crawled inside the building just as pix mentioned adding a gate to the entrance 🤣🤣
Small detail, similar to Pedro who noted uses stairs to ling the garage door corner. I feel like the top part looks a little short, would extending it to match how many blocks the door is off the ground make it look too long? I work with these doors a lot for my job and it just seemed slightly off. Beautiful build though for sure, great job! To be clear what I mean, if that door "closed" it only has 3 blocks worth of door that can move down, but it would need to fall 5 blocks to actually touch the ground. Hope that makes sense!
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.
I tend to combo it with brown on top
Love this. One of the hardest parts for me is figuring out the texturing. I’m still pretty new to Minecraft so this video was definitely a help! ❤
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?
Glow lichen could be nice idea as well, in place of vines, they got less color, would blend in more I think?
Honestly this is the best guide, I wanted to get back to playing Minecraft and my 5 year-old daughter has gotten into it and we watched this whole series together
Reminds me a lot of fWhip’s more recent builds with this block palette! I like it!
One comment on the 'less desirable' blocks...it always seemed to me that the polished versions of granite and diorite had milder and more blendable textures than the 'raw' versions of each. Though that may just may have been subjective.
I really like how your build turned out and fully agree with you on how you did the roof. Looks amazing!
Maybe instead of vines you can use lycken? Not sure if that's better for the gradient?
I use the granite/brick/packed mud gradient a lot in my builds and I've found that jungle wood is a very nice compliment to that pallet, especially if you're making a path or floor.
Stripped jungle wood or jungle planks, I mean. Unstripped jungle is a whole other thing.
Hi, hope I'm not bothering you but have you also tried adding plain terracotta into the mix? I love building with bricks, granite, terracotta and jungle wood together, and using birch with dirorite as accents.
Using terracotta I find works so well with bricks
Not sure about the anvils, but Bdubs, Scar, and you are the only people I’ve seen make granite look good!
Always a pleasure!
I love using Granote and Diorite for Roof and Floorings respectively❤❤❤
Thank for you making this. I’ve been struggling with color palettes, this helps a lot.
This might be coming from nowhere but Pix, you need to rebuild David. Resurrect him for the spooky season maybe? In a mad scientists lab maybe?
I’m nowhere near the amount of redstone I need to rebuild a full copper aging setup. I’d need a raid farm and it’d still take months to build! Plus I’m considering revising the design now we have copper bulbs and crafters arriving in the next update
@@Pixlriffs No problem Pix! Waiting for the next update would be cool, you could decorate with the new copper blocks and David would be alot more useful when you need to age copper for crafting the new blocks!
Thanks Pix, I just finished a build with diorite a block that I never build with, because I just couldn't make it fit in, but your video inspired me to try something different, so with quarz and calcite, lots of diorite stairs and walls, I managed to make a pretty decent outer wall. Thanks for all the great content, your calming and instructive videoes are almost always on when i play MC :D
A real Halloween build. Scary face, scary palette and pumpkin colours. Nice work.
Smooth granite slabs look really good as floors to dark oak buildings. Also, I am an ex Mason. Fireplaces and chimneys made with brick look realistic as well.
I love bridging with swift sneak. 😂
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.
I like building kitchens with polished diorite, it has a floor tile pattern I think fits.
Excellent explanation and demonstration. Good reminder for experienced builders, too!
Wow that looks so good! I'm definitely stealing that gradient!
That’s kinda interesting with what you said about the bricks and how in the UK you tend to see that more. In the area where I’m at we don’t see much of that texture which is probably why I kinda dig the style. But that idea of weathered bricks doesn’t seem that bad, maybe a weathered mechanic like copper but for bricks
Watching this right after listening to the Magnus archives and hearing “wear the eye can rest” sounds like he’s building a something for the ceaseless watcher or a Smirke build. If anyone gets this reference I will be amazed.
Man has a way with block transitions that I’m still figuring out. Also, I love how the chimneys ended up sort of resembling absolutely enormous lightning rods.
Wow, I didn’t think those blocks worked together but when you added the wood it really came together!
I really like this factory look.
I love the building tutorials. These are incredibly helpful.
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
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.
One of my favorite block combos is actually granite, bricks and terracotta! I didn't know that there are people who don't enjoy those blocks much. Anyways, this factory turned out so good, I love the gradient.
I was expecting a build with bright concrete, that's scary for me
I think taking a look at MythicalSausage's style might help you with that. He uses a lot of bright colors in good ways.
Maybe in the future, for advanced Minecraft players, you can feature your "David" 2.0 or whatever the latest version you could come up, after coming up with a copper farm.
You're a hell of a builder! 🎃
Even though I use many of the building principles you talked about in this video. I could never explain them this well. Amazing video and a great way to learn how to "get better" at building. ^-^
When you were talking about the overly clean texture of brick blocks it got me thinking, what if Mojang made them age in a similar fashion to copper blocks oxidizing? Like as they sit in the world they become more aged/weathered looking 🤓 they could probably do that with just about every block in the game though and that could be a lot of work for them 👀
It would be so cool if you made some kind of piston feed tape mechanism to make the big front door actually open and close 🤩
Not sure if something like that's actually possible but just thought I'd throw the idea out there 🤷♂ my initial thought was twin doors that slid sideways via slime/honey flying machines, but then you went with the garage style door and thought that would be even cooler to make functional 😎
For me it's definitely bright color blocks
chain and anvil would make sense inside next to the door to give the idea of the doors counterweights.
I do wish we had a 'petrified wood' that looks like acacia bark on the outside, but with a gray core rather than acacia's bright one. Would useful as a transition from stone, or places where 'weathered wood' is needed, like waterside structures. Acacia logs themselves work well enough now, but you have to work to hide the top texture.
Just use the wood blocks that have bark on all 6 sides
At this moment in the video I'm like that's my mud farm your talking about lol
Another build - I may add it like it's in a manufacturing area from the others. Keep on Pixl! I'd never have thought of the blocks you put together and they do look neat.
You can right click with shears to stop vines from growing, works with all varieties of vines, and also kelp.
Doesn't work with these vines.
15:53 What about *glow lichen* ? Does *glow lichen* mix better than *vine* with *greenish* texture of *mossy cobblestone* or with *grey* texture of *tuff* ?
'Back in the 1.14 update' making me feel old, pix, OLD 😂
Sandstone can work quite well with bricks as an accent block (not uncommon to see sandstone lintels on large brick houses and stately homes), on your factory build a horizontal line of sandstone on the brick tower (probably two or three rows from the top) might work. Some victorian factories (especially up north where I am from) used horizontal lines of contrasting stone - often sandstone-to add detail and break up the large expanse of brickwork.
Interesting mix of architectural styles @pixlriffs. The sides are very Lancashire cotton mill, nailed that. The front reminds me of the factory from the beginning of Jumanji, but with some New York Art Deco touches. Very cool stuff, love the creativity.
would be cool if bricks had a mechanic similar to copper blocks , where they have a chance to get more discoloured and chipped or cracked each day
Blocks that scare you - I'm building with TNT these days. Map art. TNT has a wonderful shade of red :D
A few years ago, I made a Library Building that utilized mostly brick blocks for the bottom floor with granite and plain terracotta for the building frame. The top floor, I continued the terracotta frame and "painted" the walls eggshell white using smooth sandstone. Personally I still think it looks good.
The point: as the factory is going to be making mud and clay, why not expand it to terracotta as well? And perhaps add a little terracotta to the building to express everything that can be made in there?
Remember, you can shear vines now to stop them from growing, same with the nether vines too
You can’t do that with climbing vines, only the cave vines that glow berries grow on.
super awesome building!
The garage door turned out really well! I love the build
I really love the build theory episodes. Cool episode!
About the growing vines: Since 1.18 you can use shears to stop them from growing, though I'm not sure if it works sideways. Same with kelp and other kinds of vines.
Doesn’t work with this kind of vines. Only the ones that grow in a column
Ah, I didn't know that. My bad.
I think its also possible to build a piston feedtape & create a working redstone door that literally folds
On the back side of the door the bamboo should be double thick to represent the the physical amount of rolled up shutter. If you look at doors in the style you built that youll see the leading edge is always thicker.
Hmm... blocks that scare me?? I think I will go with infested blocks then.
Loved this well done 😊
Pixl would be even more unstoppable as a builder if he had all the new copper blocks available already
I am so shocked !!!! That you can put enchantments on shears !!!!!!!! I tried enchanting shears for years and it never work so I thought it was a mod pack thing. I’ve literally been playing and interested in Minecraft for atleast 3 years. I’ve watch so many Minecraft SMP’s and and just now find out shears can have enchantment via enchanted books.
i would like to point out that builders seem to forget another kind of mindset with minecraft blocks which can limit what blocks people use in a build. that is those who seek to use the blocks based on their context. like those who use stone for their stone builds, and are not going to use wool or concrete in their stone because they're not stone, despite the fact that they can add some colors not found among the stone palette.
I try to build with this mindset except in pixel art because that requires colour matching as much as possible
@@killianobrien2007 right. i mention it because i fall victim to it as well. it really bothers my OCD when i see youtubers using like grey wool in a terraforming job
@@killianobrien2007 like i get their point of using it, but i have an urge that the blocks must be used within context of its design
It's totally fine to stick to the materials you feel make real-world sense, if that's what makes you happy.
I prefer to step outside of that, and treat materials more like paint. I'm no artist, but I think sometimes my build style feels closer to impressionist art than photorealism, if that makes sense?
@@Pixlriffs the thing is, it doesn't make me happy. like on the topic of block palettes people are afraid of using there's also the anxiety of being obsessively compulsive. i know my builds could be better if i just copy someone like bdubs or scar, but my brain says "no no no, that block is the wrong material. it can't go there". i have been playing the game for something around 14 years and i still can't switch over to that paint palette mentality.
Uselessrogue and Gingerthelily sent me from Twitch. Loving your style!
Has Chicago’s Pullman Building vibes
"Wake up babe, another Pixlriffs video came out".
I wish I had someone like that
I believe you should connect all the structures in the bace area with path ways
the two windows look like a face. I here by declare the window be called the mustache window! LOL 😂
Looks really good pix!
I'm not afraid of unstripped birch logs/wood, I just can't figure out how to heckin' use them! And I want to! It's such an interesting texture but it looks bad with just about everything.
I like to make custom trees of birch wood blocks
they should add moss brick /cracked brick etc to add variant options
we need some mossy brick blocks and maybe a variant with a morter splat
Perhaps you could add a stone/cobblestone generator into this building. With the lava it would fit an industrial look.
I would love to see a roof with a gradient from red nether wart to green terracotta (top to bottom), with specks of yellow flying in.
I think ye olde smooth stone slabs can look good with the brick used in sparing ways like as window sills.
Yesss I was missing some building videos! These are my favorites 😊
this looks cool, but no industrial district is better than the founder's forge.
Oh yess New episode finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always just used the bricks for my basement.
I looked up block vomit builds and this came up, just be simplistic! YOU DONT HAVE TO SPAM 30,000,000 TYPES OF BLOCKS TO MAKE IT LOOK GOOD
Minecraft is an art game you can do what you want :)
Purpur blocks scare me
Well this was scary.
This this is Great Keep it up 👍
What about birch logs? How would you use those? I spawned in a birch Forrest 😆
I feel the name is in the theme of Halloween
Thank heavens you're not an architect, because there would be hella buildup of water on those rooves 😅