- [Skip the Tutorial] This is my house now and this is my house at
the end of the video. And these are 31 ways to
make your house look good. And hey, the YouTube Judge bets me that you can't subscribe to the channel with your eyes closed. So to prove them wrong, take a blind guess at that sub button down below. It's free and it upset a ton. Now the first step in taking
this wooden cube up a notch is gonna be you'd add
in some pillars like so. That way they look more supportive when we start to get to the roof and such. And as any builder will tell you, that's not the only kind of depth that we can add to our walls. Because next we gotta
talk about a wall facade, which is really just a fancy way of saying that we're adding in stairs
and slabs so that the walls start to pop a little bit
more from the supports. Even now that we've got these
new pillars and wall facade, it's still just a cube. So to fix that, the easiest
way to make your house into a complex shape is to add on more simple shapes like so. Even if we're just mixing
together more rectangles and squares as the base, when
you combine them all together that'll make the house look a
lot more like a unique shape, without making it any
more difficult to build. Now that we're adding in more
walls and parts to the house, we wanna avoid using the same blocks for each one of the walls. Because if you zoom out it really starts to look
samey from out here. So instead, let's take this idea of using a linear pattern like
so to break up the texture. Let's take our attention
from the walls of the house, down to the floor. Because while we could
use a standard carpet, I think that by adding in other blocks that are the same color
as the carpet blocks, we start to get a new texture to it. You could even use a mix
of carpet and wool blocks to add in different height
levels to the carpet. Now that we've cleaned up level one, let's take it up a level. Or that is, to level two of the house. But to even get there, we're
gonna need a new set of stairs. And while a standard two
wide staircase is iconic, I think this user's design
looks a lot nicer than that and it's the same cost. Because by just placing
these stairs on the outside facing inward we get a
natural railing to the stairs, which lets us get up to the second floor so that we can start on our roof. We're gonna wanna do something
a little bit more unique than just the standard staircase design. And the easiest way to avoid your building looking like a triangle is to
mix in a use of whole blocks and slabs instead of
just regular stairsteps. And speaking of which, now
that we've got the roof done, this house is really
starting to come together. But a house isn't all that good if you're not able to sleep in it. So let's deal with that next. And as you could probably guess, I'm not a fan of just placing
your bed out in the open. So instead let's take our standard bed and add some function to it. By using this user's design,
we can place our bed up here, have it look like a bunk bed, but then still have all
the space consolidated for a crafting table, barrel storage, and even a lectern if you want. Oh, and don't worry, this
lantern that we're adding here isn't the only light
source that we plan to add. And luckily, if we craft
a few more lanterns we can use these as a unique
way to light up the base. By just using a mix of
levers, item frames and chains we can make it look like the lanterns are held up by the wall
instead of hanging in midair. And once we place in the last lantern, our base is really starting
to look like something from the inside. But there's still work
to be done on the outside of the base. The best way to do that will
be adding in vegetation blocks. And we could do this with a mix
of vines, leaves or flowers. But let's not make these
with bone meal and saplings, but rather let's break
down those bone meal trees and use the materials to make
a few custom ones of our own. By using oak wood instead of oak logs, we can keep the bark texture on all sides and have our tree look
a lot more realistic when we make unique trunk like so. And then if we add in
different slabs and fences like this user does we can mix in plenty of
variety to our branches, which lets us make a
nice looking custom tree at basically any size that you want. And for an extra bonus tip,
you can go even further and use your custom
trees with walls instead. No joke, from a distance Diorite
walls look like birch logs and that'll let us create
these extra thin trees to line out the base. And I think the last bit of vegetation that we should add to our
house is a pretty lawn outside of the base. We can break up this
monotony by using moss blocks and grass blocks in tandem. Since with a mix of these we can make it look as if we
mowed the lawn in nice stripes. This is what our house looked like at the beginning of the video. And this is what it looks like now. But the other parts of our
base are severely lacking. So let's head over to our mine
first and get that fixed up. And to even get over
there in the first place, let's start to build
out a nice looking path that'll take us right from our lawn over to what's gonna be our quarry. We gotta make this look
as good as our house does. And first, to do that, we're gonna need to
clean up the staircase. So as we widen the staircase
to dig down into the mines, we can choose the mix
up the staircase blocks with extra details that
line the actual stairs, such as slabs, candles or even
upside down stairs like this for an alternating pattern. And once we've made that staircase down to the bottom of the branch mine, let's start to clean up this tunnel. Because with just a few
support beams like this, we can make it look as if the
roof isn't about to cave in anytime soon. And now that we've completely
changed the underground, let's head up to the surface. 'Cause there's still one
change left that I wanna make. Because while our stairs look great we do still need to
house them in something. Otherwise they're just
gonna look outta place. And the best way to do that is by adding in a biome
specific entrance to the mine. That way we're not just leaving
an open tunnel or quarry, but instead it looks like
we dug into the ground with a purpose. And after digging all those
blocks down in the mine we can put those materials to use and start to upgrade our farm as well. But by this point, I think we deserve a better way across the water
than just swimming over there. So let's give ourselves a simple
bridge to connect the path. And for that I think this design
using extinguished campfire should do the trick. We could even turn them around and add some different
orientation to the wood planks. Which definitely looks nicer than having the one wide spruce
plank bridge over the water. Even though our new bridge looks great, it doesn't lead to that pretty of a farm. (indistinct) It looks
awkward of our farmland out and about like this, if we add in trap doors around the plots then we can make it look
like planter's boxes. And that even gives us a
way to compartmentalize our different crops, which is functional, but it's still too clean for the farm. So to add in some extra realism, let's plant our crops in a row like this. That way we use the dirt on either end of the farming rows to
look like the walking lanes that you use to tend to the crops. We still need a place to hold
our farming tools and seeds. And for that I think I'll
add in a little storage shed like this will make it look a lot nicer than just having our chest
and barrels out in the open. And personally, I like
this idea of using signs for an extra depth off the back and all the while having
it look like wooden planks are holding together
the back of the barrel. And now for the centerpiece
of this whole farm, let's build ourselves a nice big windmill, which will not only
give us a place to sleep for some safety out there, but it can also give us a proper spot to house the different animals
that we'll need in the farm. And after adding our cows
into a farm of their own, let's go one step further
and place down this design for an industrial sized milk tank, which will not only fit in with the different kinda Redstone
farms that we might build, but it also gives us a
use for any of the copper that we might have grabbed while we were digging out the mine. But with all of that built we're still gonna need a
place to store our stuff. So let's build out a
new warehouse building to keep all of the items
that we've been collecting. And then once we've got our
exterior done, we can go inside and add in this new
expandable storage system. Now, what we've got here
uses Redstone comparators to give an indication
of the chest capacity. So, whether we're storing
a bunch of cobblestone from our mining trip or a load
of wheat from the new farm, this will give us an indicator of how many of the chest
that we've filled up. And to make it even more
clear what we've got inside, let's sneak a couple of these in. By mixing an item frame with a sign we can choose to label
our chest with both text and a visual indicator
of the block inside, almost giving ourselves
a pop-up book effect. And make sure to save a few
more of those item frames. Because if we choose to put those in between the chest like this, it'll look as if they're glued together and when you've got a big
row chest, like we got here that'll make those tiny
gaps in between them a lot less noticeable. And while that all helps to make our bulk storage look the best, what about our valuables? Let's step outside and I'll
show you this new trap door, which if we flip like so, can grant us access into
a new secret basement. That way we can still
keep all of our goods within the storage building, but we don't have to be
too obvious about it. And that'll give us the perfect place to keep all this Netherite
that were crafting up. Or rather the Netherite
that we would craft if we had a Nether portal. So let's fix that problem. And to do that, we're gonna
need two things to show off. A supersized Nether portal
and a supersized hallway to get us to that Nether portal. And as we dig out the tunnel
to build this new Nether portal we can line the walls of the cave with all the different tips
that we learned from earlier. Pillars for support, hanging
lanterns, the whole nine yards. And once we reach the end, it's finally time to build
out our new centerpiece, the Nether portal. Now personally, I like the idea of blending in the
Nether portal with facade and once we've blended it in, our Nether portal really
looks like something to see. But we can't just have it look
good on the Overworld side. So let's head through and teleport over to the Nether as well. And if we're gonna pretty
up the other dimension, I love this idea of having the Nether side mirror what we build in the Overworld, almost as if we're walking
into a parallel dimension. And while it is gonna
double the amount of blocks that we're using here, the
results are clearly worth it. And once we've done that, we can head out of our new Nether portal, grab ourselves the ancient debris and then finally craft
it for the Netherite that we needed in the valuables room. Oh, and maybe save a few extra ingots for your Netherite tools. Because this next step is
gonna be our biggest yet. Because we're gonna take what we learned and make this house even bigger. As any worthwhile builder will tell you, having an impressive
spectacle is just as important as the little details. So that's why we can take these new skills and start to supersize our base, which is not only gonna be
useful for wowing your friends, but it also makes for a
better before and after on your building tutorial. Here's how our base looked at the start. And here's how it looks today. And with that folks, YouTube thinks that you
might like this video. So see if they're right and
have a good one, all right?
