Top 10 BEST and WORST blocks in Minecraft for Building Houses

all right so we know that some of the blocks in Minecraft just suck the building some of them have bad color schemes some are texture nightmares but there are also some blocks that are great for building that I use consistently and I wanted to highlight 10 of each category but before you get your fingers in a twist writing a comment like but sponge is the both debreu and it's my favorite book this is my opinion of course and I'm sure a lot of people will agree I let's do this ok so here are my 10 least favorite blocks for building houses with and I'm pretty sure it will become very clear why the first one is a bit of a weird one because yes wool is a very very useful block but I really don't like it when it's used in houses I don't think it's appropriate because I see will as a very cloth like texture exactly like its intended I really don't see it fitting as a house because you wouldn't make a house out of fabric unless it was a tent and if it was a tent I would completely say it use wool or on top of a market stall use wool because it's more appropriate but when wool is used in this way and I do see this quite frequently I just don't think it works very well next up is emerald there are tons of people out there that think I'm rich I'm going to make my house out of emerald a diamond iron and gold the textures really don't work for building a house I actually like iron for sort of space-age stuff but gold and diamond and emerald really only work as sort of piles of diamond emerald and gold next up is netherrack netherrack is one of my least favorite blocks because it just looks kind of gross it used to be called bloodstone and it is literally cobblestone but bleeding in a nether situation it kind of works because everything's covered in this rather nasty looking block in a horror situation I would say yeah it works and all of these blocks that I'm going through have a use outside of it I'm just in the context of a house they don't really work and next up is one of the ones it probably triggers me quite a lot it's the use of glowstone in a house like this it should be used to light stuff up however there is a better alternative which we'll come to later next up is the one that everyone was expecting sponge I really don't have much to say unless you're making cheese sponge isn't a very good choice for a house polish DRI is a little bit of a controversial one I've seen lots of people use this and it can be used correctly however in the everyday house it looks like static on a TV and the texture that it makes with that grid pattern is not something that looks good with a wall however it does have a pretty good use as a floor block the one we've got now is the magma block now this one is also a little controversial I'm definitely using it out of context on this build but I just wanted to make the point that it does look like a honeycomb it doesn't really have a suitable use outside of a lava area and that's fine but I like to analyze every single block in every use possible next up is the purple house I like purpo as a block it's got some nice textures however because of the color of it it doesn't synergize very well in a house environment and of course there are gonna be tons of blocks which are not suitable for it but if you were to use this in a bathroom or a kitchen I'm sure it would fit in really nicely and of course in the end would do as well it's not only the texture that puts me off but mainly the color that just has a not a lot of synergy with other blocks when you were going to make a building out of it prismarine bricks now this is actually one of my least favorite blocks because it doesn't even synergize with itself the pattern that it creates is really bizarre I love dark prismarine but the prisoner in blocks it just it looks really weird whenever you have these diagonal textures that much like the emerald block they just don't seem to fit together very well lots of people have said in the past that it looks great as an underwater house and I would say that that's probably because the water is obscuring it a bit but as a house like that it's not very attractive lapis lazuli definitely one of the worst blocks for building in the color is great and that frustrates me because I'd love to use it but the grid pattern that you get really limits you when you're using it for a wall block but this is much like D alright where you could use it on the floor so all of these blocks have a use I'm not saying that they are completely useless for building altogether just in these house examples and using them for making walls and stuff I just wanted to point out that many people do this and then they may even think I really regret that but I can't be bothered to fix it and I just seen lots of houses where they use blocks for walls which I just totally disagree with so I thought I wanted to highlight that these have better alternatives when you're making a house and let's get into those now the first one is stained clay this block is brilliant it covers all of the colors that wool has although there's slightly more painful to acquire you can't farm them like you can with wool but it really does look a lot better the texture is smoother it doesn't remind me of fabric so when you look for some sort of colored build you want something solid like that and you could use it for terrain and all sorts you wouldn't exactly make a terrain out of wool unless perhaps you're making like candy or stuff it's all very situational next up is stone brick stone brick is a very very versatile block not only is it part of what I like to call the gray category of the cobble stone family and any other block that's gray it has two variations which are pretty unique the mossy stone brick and the crapped stone brick now these open a whole plethora of opportunities for dungeons for castles any like that the textures are amazing next up is spruce wood planks for anyone that's been watching my channel you will know that this is my go-to block for building houses and structures and that kind of thing there's a couple of reasons for this number one is it's my favorite color in real life Brown and the second reason is it's accessible and it synergizes so well with other blocks such as log you will see me use this blog time and time again you probably when I don't even have to I love the color and the texture that this has even though it's just a plank block the sea lantern is my alternative to closed stone now you wouldn't make the wall of a house out of either of these blocks the point I want to make on this particular one is that they both give off light and the sea lantern is the best option to use if you took this for example and made the light glow stone it would look so unsightly whenever I use glowstone a house I try and hide it whenever I have sea lanterns I try and proudly presented when I use glass in my builds I tend to favor the colored stained glass panes over any other glass block and the examples can be seen throughout the video but the reason is that the original glass texture just sort of stands out a lot more and it doesn't seem to synergize as well that's not to say that the normal glass pane goes into the worst block category but I just wanted to say that the stained glasses are definitely one of my favorites and one of my top building blocks now this one's probably gonna cause a little bit of controversy snow I always used to use snow because as a veteran player of Minecraft there was not really a good white block this is before quartz even existed however the texture of snow still to this day remains the best white block in my opinion the quartz block creates that grid pattern which is mainly suitable for floors so as a wall block I think snow works really well because of the color and the texture next up is log now you slob all the time it's that go-to block for framing and I have to include it because it's just used so much it's a very very versatile block next up is nether brick now some people will say I'm not using this correctly but the reason it's in my top best blocks is because of the color there are very few dark colors of this shade of red and it's just unique in that sense so any block that has the staircase and the slab available is going to be very very useful and that brings me onto cobblestone and why this one is in my top list as well not only is it everywhere and I mean everywhere it has a unique block the cobblestone wall this has its own shape it's slightly thicker than your average fence and it just allows you to do so much more detailing now you probably wouldn't expect leaves to be in my top blocks for building houses but honestly the contrasts of leaves or in fact grass blocks anything green gives a really nice contrast and I do try to put that forward in my tutorials but for example here where we have a run-down house we can make it so much better by making it overgrown with these leaves as vines but you can also use them in a multitude of different situations lastly is an odd one it's the bone block this is much like a log block but the color is very very different and Bop box actually said to me this should be in your top block list and I was like why and he's like I will make a killer example and he definitely delivered so thank you for that bot box I have to eat my words I'm not too sure about the texture on the top but the sides definitely make for an excellent framing block especially if you're going to be using sandstone and birch like bot box did here it's a perfect alternative apart from snow to the quartz block because it's that little bit more darker and dirty than the quartz it's not quite as pristine and it doesn't have that tile texture okay so that was my top 10 best and worst blocks for building in Minecraft but I do need to say the way that we use blocks when we build is pretty much everything the way we make pallets the way we put them together and structure our builds it's a very complex process and I don't want to tell you how to build because of course there's no right or wrong way but there are builds that look better or worse than others I'm just trying to help push you in the direction of looking better and making sure you use the right blocks in the right situation is paramount the worst blocks for building in the housing section is going to vary of course because some of those blocks work in other situations like I said many of the blocks I said would be bad for walls would work perfectly well as a floor block but I find that the top blocks for building have many more uses than the ones that I highlighted in the worst section so I just wanted to make that disclaimer I actually ended up reloading this video because I didn't get the message I wanted across and that means everything to me if I give out bad information I can't sit there and take it I have to be proud of every video I put out so hopefully the message has changed and anyone that managed to watch both videos even though it was only up for a few hours let me know if this was a bit better anyway thank you so much for watching everyone I really really appreciate it the support on my channel has been absolutely mind-boggling I have a few announcements to make in the coming weeks and I will probably do that in the form of a vlog again thank you very much watching goodbye

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Length: 12min 47sec (767 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 24 2016