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Most buildings in Minecraft are done to the same (or at least, similar) style, which is largely based on Western-style buildings. Japanese-style buildings can provide a challenge, a different feel to your world, and if you're playing on a server, something to stand out against what other Minecrafters are building.
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1Start by building a foundation for your house.
- Place a 3x4 rectangle of oak logs. There should be a three-block gap between each log.
- Fill in the rectangle with oak wood planks.
- Place a ring of oak wood planks around the outside of the rectangle.
- Place a ring of oak wood slabs around the outside. Replace the corners with full blocks.
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2Place 3 oak wood logs on top of each log in the foundation. These pillars will form the basics of the walls.Advertisement
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3Place three oak fence posts on the corners. These will act as roof supports.
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4Use wool to create an outline of where your roof will go. The roof is one of the hardest parts, and can make or break a build. Once you've practiced a bit, you can do this without the outline.
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5Create a plan of how your roof will be formed. Try to curve it towards the top. The red lines are at one-block gaps, so you can see how to place the blocks.
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6Extend the bottom layer of the roof plan into a rectangle. Swap the four corner slabs for full blocks.
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7Build the next layer of the plan into a rectangle. Make sure that it is nested inside the first layer.
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8Extend the third layer into a rectangle.
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9Add the fourth layer. For this layer, just build the long sides of the rectangle, and not the short sides. Note that they extend out onto the third layer.
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10Extend the remaining layers out into strips, like the fourth layer.
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11Fill in the space in between the top layers of the roof, to create an alcove. Repeat at the opposite end of the roof.
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12Add a couple of oak wood steps to each end of the top of the roof. This improves the appearance.
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13Go underneath the roof, and fill in the gap between the roof and the pillars with oak wood planks.
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14Fill in the inside ridge of the roof. This creates a flatter ceiling inside your building.
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15Use glowstone to light it up. Don't want mobs spawning inside!
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16Fill in the spaces between the pillars with white stained glass panes. Remember to leave a gap in one of them for the door.
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17Use white stained glass panes to partition the inside of the building, if desired.
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1Create the framework of the foundation. Place a six by six square of oak wood logs, with a 3 block gap in between each one.
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2Place an oak wood log in the center of the square. this will form the central pillar of the building.
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3Fill in the space between the logs with oak wood planks. Also, place a ring of oak wood planks, then a ring of oak wood slabs, around the outside of the square of logs.
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4Place three oak wood logs on top of each log in the foundation.
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5Place a ring of oak wood planks around the top of the pillars.
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6Place white stained glass panes between the logs. Leave a hole in one for the doorway.
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7Place a ring of oak wood slabs around the ring on top of the pillars.
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8Place a second ring of oak wood slabs around the one you just made. Swap out the corners for full blocks.
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9Create a guide as to where the next layers of the roof will go.
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10Expand each of the blocks in the guide to a full square. Each square should be nested inside the others.
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11Build up the central pillar so that it is level with the roof.
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12Fill in the roof with oak wood planks. This will form the floor of the next layer.
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13Place a ring of pillars of oak wood logs on the floor that you just filled in.
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14Build up the central pillar.
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15Place a ring of oak wood planks around the tops of the pillars.
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16Fill in the spaces between the pillars with white stained glass panes.
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17Create a guide for where the next roof will go.
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18Expand each layer of the guide into a square. Swap out the corners for full blocks.
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19Build up the central pillar.
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20Fill in the floor.
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21Build a three-block high pillar of oak wood logs at each corner of the new layer.
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22Create a circle of planks around the top.
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23Fill in the sides with white stained glass panes.
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24Build a guide for where the roof will go. This is the final roof, so it is a bit steeper than the others.
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25Turn the guide into a full roof. You know the drill by now...
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26Use oak wood fence posts to create a finial on the top.
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27Light up the inside with glowstone.
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28Build a ladder up the central pillar to reach the other floors.
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29Done!
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1Use wool to build a guide to where each layer will go.
- The bottom layer should be five blocks high, and the other five layers should be four high.
- Each layer should shrink inwards by one block on the long side, and one or two blocks on the short side.
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2Fill in the bottom layer with cobblestone. This forms the foundation of your castle.
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3Build a guide as to where the foundation will be extended outwards. The inner layer should be 3.5 blocks high, and the outer should be 1.5 blocks.
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4Extend the guide outwards to increase the width of the foundation.
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5Build the roof and walls for each layer. The floor will be made of the roof of the layer below.
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6Go to the top of the building, and create a guide as to where the roof will go.
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7Build the guide out into a roof.
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8Build a ring around the base of the top level.
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9Add two lines of blocks to the top of the long sides of the next level down.
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10Add two rings of slabs to finish the roof of the second level.
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11Add a small rooflet to each side of the second level. This step is optional and purely cosmetic, but it does enhance how your building looks.
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12Place two slabs on the third level. These will be a guide to where the roof will be built.
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13Build two rings of slabs around the third level.
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14Build a rooflet on the short sides of the third level roof, if desired.
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15Build two rooflets if desired. Add them on the long sides of the third level, beneath and to the side of the rooflet on the second level.
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16Remove a row of blocks at the top of each of the short sides on the fourth level.
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17Place a row of blocks just below the cut-out on the long sides of the fourth level.
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18Build two rings of slabs to finish off the roof of the fourth level.
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19Build two rings of slabs around the bottom level to complete the roofing of the castle.
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20Go to the top of the roof and build a row of fence posts, if desired.
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21Add an optional edging. Replace the edges of the roof with a different-coloured block, such as spruce or dark oak. This helps the features of the building to stand out.
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22Make a hole in the front as a door, and build a staircase leading up to it.
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23Light up the inside of the building.
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24Build a staircase between every level. Make sure that you replace any lights that the staircase covers up, to prevent mobs from spawning.
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25Place holes in the walls as windows and arrow slits.
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26Finished!
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1Build gravel paths between your buildings. A simple step, but it does help.
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2Build a stone pagoda. Stone pagodas are much more compact than wooden pagodas. Building one with five layers looks good, but in real life they can have as many as sixteen layers. A stone pagoda works well as a focal point, for example at a crossroads.
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3Build a torii gate. In real life, these are usually found at the entrances to Shinto shrines. They can serve to draw your attention towards a particular path or building.
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4Build toro lanterns along the pathways. Like torii, toro are usually found in Shinto shrines. They serve to illuminate the pathways, and in Minecraft, keep the mobs away.
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5Plant oak trees around your buildings. Swap the leaves for white or pink wool to create cherry trees, and for yellow/orange terracotta and red/brown wool to create autumn trees.
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QuestionI am very impressed by your work and I want to recreate it; however, I'm stuck at the point where you first lay out wool. Any ideas?TomPNTop AnswererThe wool just serves as a guide for where the building will go. For the castle, the wool just forms a series of boxes. The bottom box is five blocks high, and the others are four blocks high, and each one is a bit shorter than the one below it. For the house, the wool forms a line to plan out where the roof goes.
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QuestionHow do I make the inside look good?TomPNTop AnswererDepends on what style you want! Try looking up some Japanese interior architecture and basing it on that.
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QuestionHow does the guide for the roof work?TomPNTop AnswererIt's just some wool blocks to provide an outline to give you an idea of how to build things.
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Warnings
- On a server, your building can get griefed, so be prepared.Thanks
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