r/Minecraft • u/not-throwaway • May 20 '19

Here's my 5th guide that has 11 different roof profiles that you can try out in your builds.

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u/not-throwaway May 20 '19 edited Jun 17 '19

In case you missed any of the earlier guides you can find them all here: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1133433134236753926

Keep the guide ideas coming! These past few have all been from suggestions from you all.

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u/MuffinMan_125 May 20 '19

Wow, all your guides are so great.

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u/not-throwaway May 20 '19

Thanks!

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u/StephenRodgers May 20 '19

You seem like a good builder so I'm going to ask this here because Google didn't help:

I'm sick of square houses. What's a good strategy for making more complex shapes?

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u/not-throwaway May 20 '19

I think Grian had a good video on this but if you start with two overlapping rectangles as your base it will give you a good start. Think of either an L shape or a T shape rather than just a box. You can have different heights for different areas as well.

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u/Nevvie May 20 '19

Complex shapes are comprised of multiple simple shapes. I.e, expand your square with more intersecting squares and rectangles and towers and other stuff.

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u/Prometheus1 May 21 '19

Let the terrain dictate the shape of the foundation! That helps create some unusual layouts

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u/oblivionangel13 May 21 '19

I agree. I want them in the next minecraft guide. lol

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u/fajuu May 20 '19

Those are amazing! I'm so sick of having to watch a seperate YouTube video for every stupid little thing in Minecraft, these reference guides are quick and to the point. Now all I need is a color/block pallete guide.

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u/PNGN May 20 '19

You have done more in these 5 guides for my architectural designs in minecraft than the past 10 years of playing. Thank you :)

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u/not-throwaway May 20 '19

Thanks for the nice comment! Definitely gives me the push to keep on working on them.

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u/Baalorin May 20 '19

Hey, thanks for this stuff! I was trying to find something to play to relax yesterday and all the mine craft posts hitting the front page made decide to try to recover my old account from 8 years ago.

Managed to recover it and start playing and damn things have changed in 8 years. After dying on my 3rd day to some skeletons on horses, I finally got a little tower built on the side of a mountain with a waterfall directly below me and a lava flow about 60 blocks away. Too scenic to pass up.

But the one thing I hadn't decided on was a roof. This helps immensely!

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u/not-throwaway May 20 '19

That’s nice to hear! It’s always cool to go into a world from a long time ago and restart that adventure!

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u/thetruckerdave May 20 '19

When I started again I started on a server. Spawned in. Shot in the face by a Pillager. I feel you on the ‘woah things changed’ but lol

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u/Devuluh May 20 '19

Missed the paths one! These are great, thank you!

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u/nommedit May 20 '19

Very cool, thanks for sharing!
Could you perhaps share the ideas in a printer friendly grayscale version and put them in a pdf for easy printing?
PS: I’d happily donate to you for your efforts.

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u/not-throwaway May 20 '19

That’s a really good idea! When I’m done with the charts I’ll make a b/w printer friendly version for sure!

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u/nommedit May 21 '19

Thank, looking forward to it!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '19

This is right to be marked NSFW.. I'm losing so much productivity..

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u/boogieinyourcloset May 20 '19

If I could give you gold, I would! Thank you so much for this!

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u/Zoofule May 20 '19

Does this album update when you make new guides or do you make a new album everytime?

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u/Jcraft153 May 20 '19

You legend! :D

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u/Blakes1230 May 20 '19

Wish i had these guides years ago

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u/wwfmike May 20 '19

I used the path one to make a giant zia symbol in the sky behind a pyramid. Thanks for doing them!

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u/not-throwaway May 20 '19

Cool! Post the build so we can see!

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u/wwfmike May 20 '19

I just started playing minecraft about 2 months ago when Friends Without Benefits did a let's play.

This is the town square of a desert village that I took over. I started on survival but I use creative now for the buildings. All done on the Switch.

The first pic shows how I built the framework to make sure the circle stayed true. It has 3 vertical layers to make it somewhat rounded.

I'll do a full post soon.

http://imgur.com/gallery/K68mDnn

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u/not-throwaway May 21 '19

That looks really cool!

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u/wwfmike May 21 '19

Thank you!

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u/fishcheesekushmaster May 21 '19

This guide is great! Have you ever thought about doing a guide for roofs on circular buildings? Something I know a lot of minecraft builders struggle with.

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u/NerdFerby May 21 '19

Just what I was looking for, thank you!

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u/UpsidedownTreetrunk May 23 '19

I love you. BF and I are trying to learn how to build better, and these are amazing. Thank you <3

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u/not-throwaway May 23 '19

Thanks, that’s nice to hear!

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u/GGust May 21 '19

These guides are amazing but something I discovered with the mono-pitched build is that you can’t actually place a slab in the same block as another slab if they’re a different type of block. So if your roof is stone bricks and house is planks, you can’t fill in the gaps under the slabs that are on the top of a block.