Q&A for How to Build a City in Minecraft

Start with shops, hotels, and restaurants. Then add some residential and commercial buildings.

As big as you want! A city block should be unique in its own way. The only thing you should remember is to keep with your style.

It depends on the use of the road. For footpaths, alleys, and trails use 3x-5x. For larger foot-traffic or some horse/pig traffic use 5x-9x. Avenues running traffic in 2 directions are always good, in the center you can add decorations, perhaps a small canal for gondolas for full submersion into your city. Avenues work great in larger cities, 5-7 blocks each way with a 5-9 median work the best. Remember 1 block is about 3 feet cubed, a general traffic lane IRL is approx. 9 wide or 3 blocks.

Dependent on what platform you’re playing on, you should be able to turn off Mobs.

It doesn't really matter, except you will want to have more houses than shops, and do the house planning in neighborhoods, not just individual houses.

If you have no more space and are happy with it then you might just have to enjoy what you've built. You could tear down older buildings and build something else, or change the layout of your city entirely. Expanding further, if you can, is another idea.

It all depends on what kind of city you want. If you want a metropolitan style, the buildings should be pretty tall, around 17 stories or taller.

You can start with anything, but if you want your friends to visit daily, start with important stuff. Somewhere they can sleep and buy items. Make sure you're mega impressed with your creation before you invite someone who is known to be picky.

Iron or concrete usually look good for lighter, simple ones, or stone and/or colored concrete for the darker ones. Use lots of glass for windows.

Yes there is. You can use flint and steel to start fires or use the fire starters to remove the trees. However, make sure you put out any fire that made it to the ground. You can also use TNT to remove larger areas of terrain more quickly.

Concentrate. You don't have to finish a building in a day, but if you have no confidence in your buildings and think they're rubbish, look at building tutorials on YouTube to make better ones.

You can use mods - like WorldEdit - to copy and paste a room or building, or you can ask your friends to help you.

You can look online at pictures of real cities to help you, but don't be too confined to a picture. Try to make it your own too.

Try to only build one thing at a time. Don't start on Building #2 if you haven't completely finished Building #1.

If that is the case, then you can have a city of your own. However, you can invite friends to your house and play it with them at home in person.

Of course! You can build anything. I would start with the important structures first, then add the houses, restaurants, and other buildings next. It might be helpful to start in the middle and work your way outward. Also, look up pictures of Manhattan. You want the city to be accurate as well as impressive!

Make a big building with lots of chairs (stairs), then make a screen out of different-colored blocks.

Cars can be made of wool and I find that using stone wall and sea lanterns can make efficient lampposts

Use TNT to explode hills. If you don't like that, then just make your buildings in the sky or make them from very small to very big.

There is probably a mod out there that can help you, but there isn't a way to do that in vanilla Minecraft.

Yes, you can. There are city mods, mansion mods, etc. Your imagination is the limit!

You can't. It's only for PC and Pocket Edition.

Start out with the outline of your building, such as the frame of a skyscraper or base of a residential house. That way, you don't just build randomly and mess up. Look at photos of other Minecraft creations or a real life photo to keep it looking the way you want. Keep thinking that what you are building is the small detail that helps the big picture so as not to feel like you ruined the whole thing, and don't forget that if you feel something is not right, you can always fix it. A good city will take a long time, so be patient.

You can start by making four square walls and then build tables and seats inside. Choose any blocks you like. When it's finished you can make food and customers.

It depends on the building. For houses, wood or quartz will do. For tall buildings use iron, stone, or quartz. For other buildings, use bricks.

I don't think that there is a right or wrong way. You build four walls with a roof.

It's up to you. You can build them as big as you want.

Ask your friends to do it for you, but do some work, too, so they don't know you're slacking.

If your buildings are all together, then cut away the walls that connect both buildings until you have a space between them. If you want to you can add hoppers for trash cans in the alley. Be creative and add some cool features to it.

It depends how busy you intend it to be. Usually about 5 blocks tall, and the tracks themselves 5 wide. Using slabs and stairs to make it look like subway tracks, make two parallel lanes and a tunnel to get to each side of the tracks. The length should basically get you across town, and you could have several stations. Customize the station part where the people wait, but don't make it too large. Maybe go to a subway station for inspiration.