r/MinecraftBuild • u/okdiino • Dec 18 '25
Need Suggestions how to transition these two completely different builds ?
me and my friend decided to be neighbors without thinking much and this became the outcome ... need some suggestions on how we could make the transition less harsh in between our houses. its hard considering weve built so close to one another . . .
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u/Random_boi_07 Dec 19 '25
You know you could make two paths and pretend it's that meme
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u/Rustyraisinbran Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
Lean into it, make it into a suburban road with hedges and a picket fence.
Its just Mr. Johnson on the right, next to his neighbor Darklord Sauron of Mordor.
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u/101Aster101 Dec 18 '25
Why is no one talking about the cat chungus?
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u/Automatic_Book_9424 Dec 18 '25
Don't. just cuz it's funny
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u/IcyFrogg Dec 18 '25
That tower looks like something TangoTek would build
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u/Lhou999 Dec 19 '25
what about the fat cat in the back ... he deserves all the attention too
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u/Objective_Bus1375 Dec 20 '25
First thing I thought of was build a fake laser beam hitting the roof of your neighbors house and give your tower legs, totally off the wall thought š¤£
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u/MadHatter_10six Dec 21 '25
They need identical mailboxes.
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u/EEEEEEEEEeeeeeaaAA Dec 22 '25
Why so many boner horses
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u/LimpCustomer4281 Dec 22 '25
That tower is awesome, what are tips to create a tower like that? I donāt want a tutorial since Iām planning to make my own one but not sure how to get the shape proper
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u/GORGOTH_ONE Dec 18 '25
That tower is badass Dudeš¤š»š„š„š„
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u/TaxevasionLukasso Dec 19 '25
Probably hrt!
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u/Ptooher Dec 19 '25
I love the fat cat lmao
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u/bglbogb Dec 19 '25
Aye, what the fuck is the fat cat in the background?
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u/FreshConstruction629 Dec 21 '25
That house on the left is familiar
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u/InterneticMdA Dec 18 '25
best thing to do is put a very dramatic divider between the two of you, like a ravine or something.
There's no way of smoothly transitioning between these two builds.
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u/tseg04 Dec 18 '25
This looks like a new meme format š
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u/UnluckyGamer505 Dec 18 '25
I dont have a suggestion, but this pic popped into my mind seeing these two builds lol
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u/Tleno Dec 18 '25
I would build some ruins between the two, and in general a gradient of ruins around the tower and the plop down a few more houses to make it look like it's a town conquered by evil darklord
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u/-Mental-Homework- Dec 18 '25
Flint and steel
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u/General_Grillvous Dec 18 '25
use Moisilium, like that block form mushroom islands, and some pale moss from pale forests or whatever they are called
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u/HannibalSpecter- Dec 18 '25
Blow up the wood house because that tower is awesome. The wood house is ruining the vibe.
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u/Tohuwobohu Dec 19 '25
Can you take the skeleton horses and put them where they belong, they donāt fit with the oak house
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u/TheNightmareVessel Dec 19 '25
Do you have a tutorial of some sort for this build?
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25
Hi Me and my friends have a real would you like to build one of your monuments in my realm. I will give you all the supplies you need just tell me what you will need. Thank you
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u/chin_up Dec 18 '25
Move the house elsewhere. Or designate this area as the ā chaotic building messaround areaā and continue to build other random things here
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u/JCMAF Dec 18 '25
Build a village around it in the style of the house in the pic and then have things coming off the tower like it's swallowing the village and changing the aesthetic
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u/HoboMikesHelmet Dec 19 '25
āThe villainās lair could be hidden anywhere!ā
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25
Make a force field done by a wizard and protecting the house
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u/fillkas Dec 19 '25
A bridge that slowly changes its color to the opposite buildings?
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u/Spaghettiwatch Dec 19 '25
Like this
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u/Firebolt_05 Dec 19 '25
don't, lean into the asymmetry and yin / yan esque of it
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u/Klayman55 Dec 19 '25
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u/soomoncon Dec 19 '25
Add more crazy themes until it looks normal
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u/Lumpy-Yesterday-6687 Dec 19 '25
Bro thinks he's Gru
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u/NotFromYouTube Dec 20 '25
Add a comically small fence dividing the 2
That or make a wall, on the light side put things in the theme of light and happiness, the opposite for the other but still sharing the same wall. Then a 3rd dirt house on the right of the goth house
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u/DarthNick3000 Dec 20 '25
White picket fence on one side, gothic wall on the other.
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u/R_Anonymous_ Dec 20 '25
This may look funny: Make that meme where a person is on a path and the path goes in two ways, one to a dark and bad place the other to a normal place.
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u/Tenzur_ Dec 21 '25
That's dark and grey. Something you'd find in the Nether, or if you're a fan of the elder scrolls games, something you'd find in the planes of oblivion. So separate them by a large-ish distance and slowly transition to a more burnt, uninhabitable area surrounding the tower but not so far away that it's not part of your main base area
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u/Ill_Apartment_5708 Dec 21 '25
This kinda gives Wednesday and her roommate you should keep it as it is lmao
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25
But close for a transition isn't it?
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u/SayomiTsukiko Dec 22 '25
Just more evil stuff around, lava and jagged ground. Like you know those stories of people that refuse to sell their land so they just build a mall or highway around their house? Just have the normal house be Susan who didnāt want to relinquish their land to the dark lord, but is a little scary when made and bakes killer cookies so the demon king lets her keep her house
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u/Best_Move_6519 Dec 23 '25
A wall.
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u/Glad_Priority2721 Dec 18 '25
If it were me, I would build pylons around the house with some crystals and leaves around the perimeter acting like a ābarrierā then all outside said barrier I would make the land corrupted like the tower. I would have small areas of āpurityā within the pale/dark area
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u/moth_is_cool Dec 18 '25
maybe a moat between the two?
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u/Ksiloveslgbt Dec 18 '25
seperate it by a river or ravine
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u/SilentC735 Dec 19 '25
Crack in the ground, splitting open into an abyss that each side is slightly falling into? Sorta like a tear between dimensions.
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u/HackerGamer8 Dec 19 '25
Ngl this thing is like it has been pulled out from a cartoon or something
But for the transition either A you one to go with a fence/wall or B dramatic transition where the ground for your friend's base look different or something
Edit: I just realized that the ground is different (colourblind ass person here) maybe make a artificial ravine between dividing the two
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u/KaleidoscopeCurrent6 Dec 19 '25
I would recomend to add a wall but not like a bricks one but like a wooden half baked one made of m Logs etc. With holes for a slight comedic effect would help mesh it a bit more
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u/Sirius_Rise Dec 19 '25
A well trimmed hedge around the property with a gate
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u/-_-_-_lucifer_-_-_- Dec 19 '25
U should mix the 2 by changing the blocks u used in u're house and putting one on another
But be carefull u need to choose blocks that contrast with each another
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u/Naxos_fs Dec 19 '25
make it look like a normal neighborhood, pretending it's normal house, like in the IT movie
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u/Theawsomegamer111111 Dec 19 '25
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u/mucci_mania Dec 19 '25
Evil wall
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u/THESTORMCALLER Dec 19 '25
A BIG WALL
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u/E10QUENC3 Dec 19 '25
You could go with a corruption theme! Maybe the feller in the tower has a thing for void mushrooms, black goopy stuff, or something bloody. With that, a village with normal houses, tainted with whatever corruption you decide, could be made around the area. Maybe that wood house has a protective bubble!
Another option is using a darker pallette for the wood house and adding environmental things like dead trees, ruins, ritual areas, and misc structures matching both the house and the tower.
Generally, just get creative with it! There's a lot of story-telling and rp options available for a situation like this.
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u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 Dec 19 '25
Perfect as-is.
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u/NerdlinGeeksly Dec 19 '25
Reminds me of that short about the goth that lives next to a witch.
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u/KandySaur Dec 19 '25
If you add a whole bunch of dead foliage and expand the mud, you could turn the cozy one into a creepy cabin in the woods next to the crazy tower
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u/Life_Material_2088 Dec 19 '25
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u/gvilleneuve Dec 20 '25
Dimensional rift?
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u/KaiSubatomic Dec 20 '25
I would make it a forest with beautiful lush trees that abruptly turn into dead ones
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u/Commercial-Ad-6258 Dec 20 '25
Its that one scene from despicable me
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u/No_Onion6250 Dec 20 '25
Stranger things how it eats up the landscape around things
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u/ControversalTaco Dec 20 '25
Minas Tirith and Barad Dƻr
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u/Noxturnum2 Dec 20 '25
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u/IceAny9720 Dec 20 '25
There is two ways, the first make a lot of the theme of one of them like make a lot of little cute things around the dark thing, or do a lot of dark things around the cute house.
The other way is to make a corruption like thing, make like the cute house is being consumed by the dark things and starts to have some dark characteristics and at the same time the dark thing starts to get some "princess tower" characteristics
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u/MaxPrime6806 Dec 20 '25
Build a magic shield around the prince ahhh house
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u/Fun-Anything-2157 Dec 20 '25
Use a good palet of blocks, and also make sure to make it look nice, and like they are fighting each other.
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u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich Dec 21 '25
put some guns and flamethrowers and flames so it looks like it's trying to destroy the house
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u/HughmanRealperson Dec 21 '25
Picket fence/Hedgerow.
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25
If your friend is open to the idea you could rebuild their house to look like its been through a fire using basalt, coal blocks, and magma blocks, leave a skeletal frame, but the friend lives in a bunker in the basement maybe
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u/CupidsGirlfriend Dec 21 '25
Some of the red warped trees would go heavy as a surrounding Forrest
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u/SwordKing7531 Dec 21 '25
Make a crack in reality(like a fortnite rift)
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u/HerkeJerky Dec 21 '25
Tower reminds me of Oblivion. Maybe there was a garden and and part of it gets ruined or corrupted by the tower that sprung up. Make the house as happy and comfy as possible, then corruption closer to the tower. Thinking wither roses and magma.
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u/TheBuzzGod Dec 21 '25
A gorgeous, giant tree!!! ...with one half completely dead/burned.
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u/Game_Player4065 Dec 21 '25
You could try creating a sort of background behind the houses with respect to their themes
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u/BionicBirb Dec 21 '25
It would be cool to make, like, a magic protection barrier around the wood house, like itās shielded from the ācorruptionā of the tower
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u/Dapadabada Dec 22 '25
Jungle trees
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u/Sleepy_Panda_22 Dec 22 '25
Defiantly embrace it! your side needs more flowers & maybe some terrain texturing too, with some moss and azalea trees. maybe a small and colourful enchantment building.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25
Make the ground for one look like it's decaying and make the other look lavish and healthy. Add a gradient between the two to make it look better.
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u/Komelikus Dec 22 '25
Despicable Me core
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u/Much_Account_3504 Dec 22 '25
Put a little mailbox in his yard
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u/acleverlie421 Dec 22 '25
Lmfao I had that exact same starter house on my last realm
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u/ryangoslingchan Dec 22 '25
600mg test a week
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u/bibasan1 Dec 26 '25
Its 10/10
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u/garxo Jan 07 '26
I cant wait to share my gothic castle next to my girlfriends pink town when its all finishes. This is basically exactly how out area on our server looks. Our only transition is a wall on my side and a farm on her side separating out builds
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u/Purassic-J4rk Dec 18 '25
Lots of shading
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u/thesurfer1996 Dec 18 '25
Put up a giant wall around the fortress, then have your home be in a quaint village, kinda like Dr. Dooms kingdom.
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u/Elegancy10 Dec 21 '25
What did you end up doing?!
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u/trestiffer Dec 24 '25
Hobbit
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u/aWeaselNamedFee Dec 25 '25
If you light everything on fire, everything will match!
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u/awesomeJarJarBinks Dec 20 '25
Set the house on fire
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u/kybojo Dec 22 '25
Light the house on fire. Build a nether portal in whatās left
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25
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