10 Tips for Immersive Minecraft Worlds

Here are 10 of my tips to improve your immersion in your Minecraft worlds. Have any other tips? Leave them down below and maybe I'll make a part 2!
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00:00 Intro
00:25 Have a build for everything.
01:12 Make them a part of your world.
02:04 Give them room to breathe.
02:50 Connect them with paths.
03:20 Create different areas for different themes.
04:01 Add lore to your story.
04:48 Refurbish old builds.
05:44 Leave some builds as they are.
06:21 Hold sentiment.
06:48 Find inspiration.
07:15 Play with friends.
#minecraft #survival #tips

[@grutarg2938]

One tip that works for me is to think about how the weather would affect the plant growth - is there a sunny side of the slope where the flowers grow, a windy mountaintop creating twisted, stunted trees and a sheltered valley with a riverbank where the trees grow tall?

[@KotasCorner]

I love this idea! I’ve played around with weathered texture and shadows, but never considered using it for organic at scale

[@grutarg2938]

@@KotasCorner Try it out - it works really well because it's how plants grow in real life and your brain will recognize it as more real.

[@Gilsworth]

Although I implicitly knew all the tips here, the presentation, examples, and delivery inspires me to play again. When taken together and summarized like how you have done it brings everything together in a satisfying way. I really appreciate that, cheers!

[@KotasCorner]

I love that I was able to help inspire you 😊

[@grutarg2938]

Yes, I'm getting ideas for my next base!

[@EpikBerm]

Real glad to see somebody making a note for actually retaining the history of your world. On this town/nation server I've been hosting for like 9 years, we have a Historic Society that has kept, moved, or slightly modified most of the initial or older builds, usually with history inbuilt somewhere and whatnot; every so often something gets demolished or mostly rebuilt, and we keep a piece of it somewhere to still remember what once was, leaving behind some fun archaeological sites every so often. Good stuff to recommend!

[@KotasCorner]

That’s so many incredible stories. Thank you for sharing that here!

[@EpikBerm]

@@KotasCorner Why thank you kindly, I'm quite glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's incredible! :) (in contrast to some opinions held by my more speedrunny friends just doing everything they can to farm in our rp, lol..)

[@KotasCorner]

It’s fun to play that way sometimes, but it’s never as fun and never has as many personal attachments that really make worlds fun to play

[@EpikBerm]

@@KotasCorner I'll tell ya another funny one, if you don't mind me your time: we had two brothers once that would majestically grow netherite armor on their bodies if you left them to their vices for an hour, and they were trying enough to get involved, and happened to be homeless and out of work. A local farm needed some hands to help with that year's harvest and storing the crop, so they went over and worked, helped maintain the property, so on, with great success and reward for their time. Being left alone there in trust for a while to keep up the good work, I came back to the server a day later to find that, in their speedyrun nature of play, they had transformed the natural farm into a floating auto-farming terrace, with all the farmers (villagers) imprisoned beneath it for trade. It was a silly incident, especially with the ensuing villager protest and police bust we had after that, but even when things went awry like that, I'm glad to say we made the best of it. (The farm was peacefully restored with the brothers at large...) I hope you enjoy this story too! Keep it up with the great content you make!😄

[@user-ml8ud5pu4s]

i keep a journal now in game as a way to keep track of what ive accomplished and to help build lore which is something that ive been trying to do recently whenever i play

[@KotasCorner]

That’s a good way to do things! I forget what all I’ve done, maybe I should start that too 🤔

[@SsAaFfWwAaNn]

I'm actually thinking of writing down Random Histories and Infos of my world, which I would later build a Library and keep them all at one place.

[@twomur_]

i randomly got recommended this video but as a builder myself a lot of the tips you gave were spot on and things i try and do everyday without even realizing it lol! i especially really like making king paths throughout my worlds that branch out hundreds or even thousands of blocks cause i don’t like using the elytra which really helps “immerse” me with the world lol!

[@KotasCorner]

That's one thing I'm most excited to develop in my world as it gets older. I feel like walking along paths is the best way to reflect on the journey.

[@Ciurk]

yeah paths as well as minecarts are far more fun than elytras

[@SsAaFfWwAaNn]

For me, I use Railways Stretching across the world that connects all the islands, areas , important builds , farms and towns

[@MCTalentMC]

This is seriously thoughful and well presented, thank you! I hate the term Negative Space, but as a builder you absolutely need to be aware of it or everything will just jumble together. HC7 is also what brought me to this game, never been the same since!

[@KotasCorner]

I feel like people take negative space for granted and don't realize how beneficial it can be. Season 7 out here changing lives 😅

[@Madamoizillion]

There's a different KZbinr that does what would be beautiful complex Hardcore builds but all of them are so visually BUSY that it ends up looking like a jumble of stuff on the screen. If everything in a build is detail, then nothing is, and it all washes together into a mass of incomprehensible clutter. I've gotten good ideas from them but watching the videos is honestly kind of visually exhausting.

[@jaketaylor9685]

why doesn't this guy have more subs. seriously. so good!

[@Sunny.Jay22]

He really deserves way more

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you 😊💜

[@MrTheStephReal]

I always kinda had a feeling that I was supposed to make a build for everything, ig I just needed to hear it. I usually end up building one base that I expand uncreatively whenever I'm building a farm or need a place for my enchanter and then wonder why the world immediatly stops being fun. I've also always been into worldbuilding, though I suck at it because I don't know enough about this world to go off of. I think, when I get a pc that can play Minecraft again, I'll give the worldbuilding a go. Thank you for all the other tips, as well. Great watch overall!

[@KotasCorner]

Happy to help out!

[@Metricate]

All these tips are actually very good. I was surprised at how simple you made it considering I've overthought the concept of lore and storytelling within my own world. You made that concept much more simplier for me. One thing that keeps me from progressing in my own world, is I feel stuck when it comes to building. I hate the thought of going into creative, testing for hours what works and what doesn't to then just rebuild the same thing in survival. That gets boring to me (sometimes!) I much prefer building on the fly. Only issue is: I think I'm really bad at that. I feel like I have to plan in creative for my builds to be as good as they can be, because if I don't I am never satisfied with the result. This leads to me finding other things in my world to do besides building. This is annoying because I want to build!! I'm stuck in the: I have 0 confidence to do anything on the fly because I know the result, and 0 motivation to preplan in creative because it gets boring. Unfortunately for me this leads to only a negative outcome. A vicious cycle of doing nothing. Would be cool to hear your take on this. You already made something I used to think was hard sound much easier once (this video) let's see if you can do it again! haha. Great video btw. Dropped a sub!

[@KotasCorner]

I’ve been working on a build guide, but I paused it as I’m not super experienced. As I get more building under my belt I’ll try and tackle it again and hopefully make it easy to understand. I’m glad this video was able to help and I appreciate your thoughts and your comment!

[@ains7563]

Hi! Have you thought about drawing your ideas? I don’t mean anything crazy - I usually just do a footprint and a small sketch. It helps with getting the shape without having to go block by block in creative. I find it to be awesome for idea development and as a reference when building

[@Metricate]

@@ains7563 I haven't tried that yet, however I have been recommended to do that and to also 'sketch' in Minecraft, I.E sketch the shape for a better 3D visualisation. I've tried that and already working wonders!

[@dawnhaughtey5332]

Omg I do the exact same thing. Creative gets boring and on tbe fly builds look rubbish. I end up just terraforming gor hours on end but there's no buildings in the world. Sooo frustrating when you WANT to build things. Makes me too scared to even try.

[@arenaduty]

@@ains7563 for me i just make paths and then outlines with wool in creative, and then do the rest in survival

[@1bingo123]

Dam bro please do a “how to get good at building” guide or series! You are amazing with it!

[@KotasCorner]

Gonna start working on one!

[@colebot]

This video is so inspiring! It makes me want to perfect every detail of my world and grow myself as a builder.

[@KotasCorner]

Come along for the ride, we’ll do it together!

[@mullemeck5015]

Minecraft is truly art when u take these things into consideration

[@joelrosales4287]

great vid! On my own, I've recently started to see Minecraft stuff similarly and it's been super rewarding. In fact, I'm taking everything I've learned building through these lenses of like, lore and immersion etc, and starting a new world...the intent behind it being to help me build the back story and world/lore for a story I want to write. Cheers

[@KotasCorner]

That's wonderful! Cheers!

[@BenOnAir]

Great video! I'm really curious about the mod responsible for the pets animation (horse running and dog laying down), it looks great!

[@KotasCorner]

It’s ‘Better Animations’ and you need optifine or another mod to get it to work, but I believe all the info is on the curseforge page

[@Dregora.]

Video's such as these are always so wonderful, throughout the years since 12 years ago I've learned a lot, got a job in level-design and even have my original Minecraft passion project called Dregora still going strong and the idea of others as well as myself still learning from these kind of video's is something I cherish. Thanks for making this kind of content!

[@Dregora.]

You've earned a sub from me, keep doing the great work! 👍💯

[@Howzieky]

Dang, the quality of this video is amazing, would never have guessed it came from a "small" channel. Awesome work!

[@grutarg2938]

Yeah, just the editing alone is top tier.

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you!!

[@Quizzoli]

My survival Minecraft base had an eyesore of a creeper farm and now it’s turned into a multistage mountain with a story and own custom biome that’s been my passion project since 2018

[@redsynister4836]

You absolutely earned my sub. This is an amazing video.

[@talapantedtoad6461]

I wish I made my town look more realistic, as of right now it’s all connected with 3 wide pathways which are all straight across and the build are so compact together that it leaves little opportunity to stylize the area around it.

[@kall6201]

Nice video. Lore in my mc world runs deep.

[@dudieboy]

Great thoughts on worldbuilding!

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you!

[@tylerdyer9121]

Great videos and narration voice! Keep it up and Im sure you'll catch a good following!

[@KotasCorner]

Appreciate the love!

[@tjb3171]

Super interesting vid, good job!!

[@legendcraftb_]

Great video, really well made! The points on negative space and story both got me thinking

[@KotasCorner]

Glad it got you thinking, I hope it helps!

[@cosse7987]

This is so inspiring mate, carry on, you deserve much more visibility

[@vinniefiume73]

Thanks for inspiring a 74yr old to continue on a journey of creativity. Good suggestions that I will put in my arsenal of things to do.

[@KotasCorner]

I’m so glad this was able to help you become inspired!

[@_mtrswaggy4666]

thanks, this is what I need, I've been boring to minecraft recently.

[@kingknight5947]

Dallasmed65 has the most immersive minecraft world I have ever seen!

[@redwolf9238]

very well made and goes very in depth, amazing tutorial!

[@KotasCorner]

Appreciate it!

[@nyrayegermangenson8160]

Custom trees and waterfalls, or tiered waterfalls are aome of my favorites but i play with alot of mountain builds and nature builds. And for inside my mointain houses one of my favorite details to add is to dig more into the rock and create caves/ small ravines with lush blocks and putting in windows for spaces that are pretty blan or flat spaces in your mountain house 🤷‍♂️

[@WackoMcGoose]

I'm not really a minecrafter (haven't played for a while), but a lot of these ideas are similar to what I've been doing in my Satisfactory world. I try to have different factory areas be different themes, like a 20GW oil power plant being built as a massive oil rig out at sea, or all my mini-factories in the rocky desert being modular blueprints in an eastern bloc brutalism style, or my current Ficsmas factory being a "build right on the terrain, don't destroy the existing trees, let the forest shape where things go, and no foundations at all" thing in the northern forest, which looks like hot garbo spaghetti but it's _meant_ to look that way.

[@KotasCorner]

I love that you can carry these concepts cross-game, really they can apply to any kind of sandbox game you want them to. One thing I want to work on is different areas and developing diverse themes like what you seem to have done

[@bemusedHorseman]

@@KotasCorner Figured I should reply from my actual letsplaying channel. And yeah, totally. Satisfactory is both less limited (don't have to build on a grid, most things aren't cuboids) and more limited (less variety of objects) than Minecraft, and it definitely trends toward, well, _industry_ obviously. But within that general category, you can make some pretty spectacular stuff... go glance at /r/SatisfactoryGame some time and look at the feats of architecture that almost rival GoodTimesWithScar in amount of time it had to have taken to make them happen.

[@Dodgerrrific]

Those are some wonderful suggestions that I am going to take to heart! Thani you!

[@Ratboycure]

Good video agree with everything. I play in a server built around the owners old 360 world with all the old builds still there as historical preservation sites. They a cobbly blocky awkward and amazing.

[@egeardasenturk]

I was shocked when I saw your sub count. Great job man, very inspiring video!

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you kindly!

[@ParrotNoname]

This video is very helpful! Thank you for sharing this!

[@KotasCorner]

Of course!

[@captain0106]

Why wasn't I recommended with this video before! As I am starting out with KZbin with only one thing in mind is to create world that are immersive enough to get you feel lost in it, but I am really unable to find that anywhere! I mean I have watched many videos for reference, but still haven't found anything. Thank you for explaining that! Now atleast I know what and where to look for.

[@KotasCorner]

I’m with you there! My goal is to create an entire world that is wholly my own that others can get lost exploring in

[@captain0106]

@@KotasCorner 🥹🥹That is exactly what I am looking for and doing. I am in the planning phase right now. I hope we can collab someday. 😁😁

[@ninjaoyourbro1891]

This is a fantastic video. Although I am disappointed to see that you don’t have more in this style, I’ll still check out the rest of your content! I subbed!

[@KotasCorner]

I’ll be working on these types of videos more frequently in the future, so stay tuned!

[@ninjaoyourbro1891]

@@KotasCorner will do!

[@rewsct]

Hey, nice video, neat editing! Good job there.

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you!

[@ViniciusNegrao_]

You make it sound so obvious... But it's so true!! Thank you for this :)

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you for this comment :)

[@DragonG]

really solid video my friend

[@will.d.16.]

You deserve a sub, my guy

[@tochanenko]

Great and very well-made video! It gave me so much willpower to go and keep playing on my current world. No world is perfect, there are seeds that have really amazing features. But it's only our job to make a world feel like a home. So, it's best to keep playing no matter what. Thanks for the video! I am off to playing some Minecraft now XD

[@KotasCorner]

Glad you found it helpful :D

[@arcane9618]

my favorite season is summer because of the warm weather and the memories ive made in that season. also thanks for the tips!

[@KotasCorner]

🫶🏽 you’re the only person that’s seen that so far

[@jerriheinitz7690]

Awesome advice!! 😊

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you Jerri!

[@TheeSlickShady]

Liked and subbed ❤

[@RLPCYARN]

I treat my old minecraft world as my virtual diary :) I've been playing with that world for four years and according to statistics I have already placed 1000+ signs. It's just fun reading them after taking a break from minecraft and returning again. (Day 2600+)

[@KotasCorner]

I love that. I need more signs and “journal entries” around my world so when I eventually drop a world download, people can see the same journey I see when walking around

[@zaynnxenonn2334]

Thank you

[@trheros7503]

You mentioned taking inspiration from hermitcraft. But i felt bdoubleo's presence the entire video. The horse pen and building style gave it away. Anyways cool vid man!

[@KotasCorner]

Is it that obvious 😅

[@ProjectMirai64]

Nice video!

[@slayermcrx7519]

i cannot understate how much lore and story does matter when it comes to building an immersive area in minecraft. me and a bunch of friends played on our own smp like server we called Tauland which the land also was named, and we put lore into virtually everything that was built. Mostly every main area had some amount of lore that gave newer players hints to the past of the server, and helped add to the future lore. straight up i mightve copied wilburs camaravan from l'manburg, but it held lore significance due to the fact that i accidentally started one of the losgest conflicts over a dispute at my camaravan. lore tells a story that can hint to the past, present, or future. or even all three, and is in my opinion, essential to making something immersive in minecraft and just makes for a better experience. especially if youre me and have played on roleplay/lore centered smps before and like to write stories for your own worlds and server in free time

[@KotasCorner]

Lore is the easiest and most fun way I’ve found for giving purpose to a build. Lots of people think it’s complicated but once you understand, it’s near impossible to not include in every build

[@EBProductions]

Great video. may not agree with all points but very interesting

[@1998joop]

I am playing for almost three years now with two friends, transforming an mooshroom island. It is like playing on peaceful mode, which makes it really nice to build with dark and light spots

[@averageTaxiDriver]

Altough I knew about 8 of these tips hearing you say it makes it more believable

[@Randomuseryouhate]

it will blow up congrats

[@andreasorphanou5469]

honestly i just totally agree with you. For the first time ever instead of blasting through a grindy mod pack and going ham in a cave i hollowed out, i did have a build for everything i needed and it's by far my favourite minecraft world in the 10 years i'm playing. Maybe excluding the first one just for the nostalgia factor

[@KotasCorner]

Sometimes slowing down lets us enjoy the game again and the reasons we started playing in the first place

[@supalive3335]

The bad side of game is addicted. But the good side is if always if men just have fun with and ignore the war and violence, the world will be better. Everything have it own brightness and darkness

[@snoozby]

Great video mate!

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you!

[@Azzaros]

Good Video. You have great potential ;)

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you! That means a lot!

[@TheeSlickShady]

Excellent video Thank you Good Sir 🎩

[@KotasCorner]

And you to you 🎩

[@crook8427]

I love just to put random signs in my world, with jokes or threats, makes me emotianal when I go back to the save. And that vid give me a good reason to redo the thing ! Thanks

[@KotasCorner]

It’s like leaving notes to your future self

[@masonking7943]

very thoughtful video

[@KotasCorner]

Thank you!

[@El_Presidente_5337]

Some of these tips remind me of my own world that I play with friends every now and then. I have the world since the Nether update came out and there's still the beginner builds in our world with a little open slaughter house type of building. There once was a cow there called "The old Betsy" and she stuck around for a pretty long time tied to a fence. Ever since she dissapeared long long ago I still think of her. :)

[@KotasCorner]

We love emotional support cow

[@philip9485]

You can also get immersed by how the tones flux up and down. But also still.

[@Twothreeone231]

You have a good day too!

[@nuolis]

good way to make things look better is to find hill or mountain what allow player to make place in different elevations what makes builds more interesting and maybe gives place to build examble some small hidden locations around your place

[@KotasCorner]

Elevation is a great easy tip people don't usually think about when detailing!

[@Masked_One_1316]

Styles of medieval and victorian architecture • Embellishment. • Manifest piety. • Perpendicular churches crucifix shape from above. • The rise of Gothic. Walls: buttresses, and spires (ogival arch) vertical proportions, pointed arches, external buttressing. Roof: vaulted roofs steeply pitched. Windows: large windows, extensive use of stained glass, and a revival of the medieval rose window. Other: asymmetry. • Decorated style. Gothic style but with elaborate decorative stone carvings. • Romanesque style. Walls: massive quality, thick walls, round arches, sturdy piers, groin vaults, large towers, and decorative arcades. semicircular arches for doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them; a large tower over the crossing. Roof: Roofs were made of wood and tiles fired clay marble bronze. Truss roofs. Windows: semicircular arches for windows, few windows, Small glass windows but for important buildings big stained glass windows. • Cottage Style Walls: brick, stone, stucco & natural materials. Roof: steep overhang, cross gables. Windows: casement windows, window box's small panes & shutters. • Wattle and daub timber framing. • Tudor. Walls: Brick laid in an elaborate pattern on the ground floor, stucco or wood with decorative trim on the first story. Weatherboard or shingled walls with stucco. Roof: steep roof. and half-timbered gables. Stone. Prominent cross gables. Windows: casement windows, grouped in rows of three or more. Other: decorative half timbering. • Gothic revival (victorian) Walls: Middle-class homes Wood Wealthy homes Stone or brick. Roof: steep A-frame, + shape from above. Elaborate verge board trim along roof edges. Windows: high dormers. Arched or lancet windows. • Italianate (Victorian) Walls: Middle-class homes Wood Wealthy homes Stone or brick. Roof: flay and/or hipped roof, corniced eaves. Windows: Fanciful bay windows with inset wooden panels, Two over two double-hung windows, Curved or moulded window caps. • Second Empire (victorian) Walls: wooden clapboard. Roof: Mansard narrow eaves with brackets below, round cornices at the top and base. Windows: Tall, narrow windows Dormer windows that project from the roof, (eyebrow dormers) Bay windows. Other: Tower Wrought-iron, galleries or "crests' above the upper cornice Balconies Small entry porch. • Queen Anne (victorian) Walls: stone, brick, wood. Decorative trim, carvings wood/stone or terracotta. Roof: steep roof, wrought iron finials. Windows: bay and narrow windows that open vertically, stained. Other: Cantilevered, upper stories, Elaborate exterior, decoration, Turrets. towers or cupolas, Wrap-around porch, Balconies, Cresting, Detached gazebos. • Georgian. Walls: Wood with clapboard or shingle cladding. Occasionally decorated with wooden quoins. Stone, stucco, or brick Roof: Hip roof, dormers with small windows. Windows: double-hung sash small panes. Other: Symmetrical Entrances are often fitted with pediments. Broken pediments, arched tops, or ogee caps.

[@tomdekler9280]

Step 2 is funny to me because it implies the best way to have this world be immersive is to take the natural terrain of your base and make it look nothing like the procedurally generated nature outside of your base.

[@KotasCorner]

It’s making immersion out of the world you create, not the one you discover

[@cryptilli]

this is a really great video. not to rag on myself, but man, it gets so hard to execute great advice when you never seem to be able to build, even with practice and years of attempts! i wonder if it just doesn't stick in my brain right. maybe i should stop using build tutorials to get out of difficult roofs or struggling to see my builds. im sure someone else feels similar

[@KotasCorner]

Building is hard for everyone, I can absolutely understand it just not sticking in your head. My advice is to practice and not be too hard on yourself, the only way you can learn is by trying :)

[@UnderTheRated]

You know the video is good if the tips are still applicable to an eleven and a half year old version of the game (1.2.5 w/ Authentic Adventure is peak gaming)

[@KotasCorner]

Glad you were able to get use out of them as well!

[@yumimigaming]

Great tips and a great video! 💕As I started to play Minecraft more seriously I also learned that with sandbox games lore is key to pretty much keeping you going. Otherwise, it WILL get boring. From my experience, I'd add one more point to it which is to keep the rules in mind but to also break them. Not recklessly but with an intention. For example, in my world, I wanted to make my house a focal point, but then I also kept a lot of negative space around my barn and farms. It looked great from every point but in the end, to create a more immersive and realistic experience I decided to cover it with trees. It added more depth, more mystery and separation, more cozy, at-home feel rather than having this large raw space. And also, as you start walking down the path the big reveal of the barn is even more impressive than having it out in the open to begin with. Also, it was very different, at least for me, cause I was used to building on creative, taking screenshots for Instagram, and calling it a day. The thing is with screenshots, you're always looking for that one, maybe two perfect angles and that's it, you don't have to think that much in "3D" if you know what I mean. Most of the time I didn't even finish the back of a build, cause it was just extra work, while no one would ever see it. I feel like that made me kinda forget that in survival the main perspective is from the ground and it also changed the way I build and plan out my landscapes. I'm sure it will change again once I get my hands on an Elytra haha 🐝 I hope you'll make more tips kinds of videos in the future it was very helpful! ❤😁

[@KotasCorner]

Glad you found it useful! I think story and lore should come before everything else, so sacrificing a view or two for the sake of the feeling of a build I completely understand. I built a haunted mansion inside a cave and ran into a similar issue. Getting screenshots or pictures of it was really difficult, so in the end I sacrificed looks for an immersive story and 9/10 I'd do it again.

[@pelledavill2093]

well done well fucking done..as a expert builder the most important thing i can say is i wish people would stop focusing on just how there build looks and focus on the practicality and functionality of it. you can still make it look nice it will just take a bit longer.. why not make the castle a armory/barracks? or make your base in a village with a wall around it so you can fend of waves of mobs!

[@KotasCorner]

Yes! It's an open sandbox game so the extent of the creativity of the build boils down to it's imaginary purpose. The more you define the purpose, the more it feeds the creativity of the build!

[@mad-zr8wy]

I approve of this message.

[@KotasCorner]

🫡

[@shard640]

i think another good thing is to design your own farms it can be nice to use tutorials, but opening creative and figuring it out urself is fun too

[@KotasCorner]

I would love to design my own farms, but most the time I don’t have enough time or experience and I end up caving in and watching a tutorial 😕

[@shard640]

@KotasCorner lol, yeah i watch tutorials so i know the mechanics, but then i set it up on my own like i just made a custom moss farm for my world, now i needa come up with a build

[@KotasCorner]

I feel like that's a great way to teach yourself redstone too

[@Hundo_Mo]

7:14 I literally can’t play Minecraft unless I am playing with other people. I build all these big things and I want other people to interact and see it. I wish I could find a lively server again :(

[@KotasCorner]

That doesn't mean you can't show them off still! We have a channel in the Discord for sharing our builds 😃

[@cheeesypringle]

Thanks a lot! But how/where do i know abt the building styles and themes?

[@KotasCorner]

There’s lots of different ones. Some main styles/themes are Tudor, Tori, modern, or city. They just define the real world styles we mirror as they are some of the easiest to translate into the game. The way I’ve learnt them is by looking at real examples of them and trying my best to bring it into the game. Once you learn more and more about a theme, you start to put your own twist on it and it becomes more of a style.

[@sparklesfourtwenty]

dantdm was the reason i started playing minecraft

[@bentibbly437]

11th tip, be good at building

[@fifa12gol]

fax

[@KotasCorner]

no printer.

[@doogles.]

bold tip to assume i have friends

[@KotasCorner]

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[@Nico1107gamer]

you remind me of fwhip in a good way

[@KotasCorner]

I'll take it as a compliment!

[@alixinitalics]

u ate

[@KotasCorner]

💅💅

[@dontcaredidntask404]

OMG YOU STARTED PLAYING MINECRAFT BECAUSE OF HERMITCRAFT SEASON 7 ME TOO BESTIE 🥰

[@grondhero]

"Don't throw all your farms into one cave and shut them off for the rest of eternity." *Me:* __ Heh, me? Nooo. All my Overworld farms are in a 4x4 chunk build. Heh. __ 😓

[@KotasCorner]

😳

[@joshuaklopp68]

“Make your world immersive” *nametags horse with a number*

[@KotasCorner]

Dw, it’s for the *lore*

[@playbabethebookshelf6249]

i got problems, i’ll just get bored after building for FIVE minutes. 😢 my world go stagnating for whole year with one or two small buildings done

[@KotasCorner]

Hopefully some of these tips help that a bit. I might have to make a video on boredom in Minecraft as well 🤔

[@vapor404]

one of my oldest most memorable builds was a big diagonal quartz staircase with glass pane walls i called it the backslash god i miss that thing despite how ugly it was

[@KotasCorner]

Love that name

[@QuarkOfficial]

This man's brain must be incredible large

[@KotasCorner]

Not as big as a geese's

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

Nonse se i watch you guy bc i need background otherwise tinnitus bites my ass

[@nickomastro6]

seed?

[@KotasCorner]

Both seed and base coordinates are in the description of my world tour video

[@freyasworn2600]

hi Kota

[@KotasCorner]

Hello!

[@freyasworn2600]

@@KotasCorner hows life going? what you up to ?

[@KotasCorner]

Life’s good. Working on some bigger projects atm

[@freyasworn2600]

@@KotasCorner in real life?

[@KotasCorner]

No, they're for the Survival Series

[@Halo_Legend]

Your pressumption that immersion comes from there being a story is interesting, but is it true? You need a narrative for there to be a story. We can say you get immersed in music because your imagination costructs a story for you or that melody itself is a narrative. We can also say that playing minecraft without a thought, machinically isn't immersive, but when you allow yourself to "feel" the world, even vanilla new generated world, you can be immersed, because all the information you gain specifies the setting and your narrirative might emerge as being just a human trying to survive in such world. But do we need to be so nuanced about it? Most people don't think narratologicaly about what a story is, so their answer would be that no, it's not story that is immersive about minecraft, but the world and setting. Idk, you made me think. At first I thought you were false out of lazy scripting, but now I can see there being something to ponder about. Inb4 comments like "bro wrote a whole essay 🤓👆": you are the problem. Stop disappointing your mom, raise the bar above living by the lowest instincts.

[@KotasCorner]

I'd say as humans, it becomes near impossible to approach anything without undertones of story narrative being present. Even in basic actions like punching a tree there emerges a linear progression akin to narrative structure. We don't realize it, but everything we do can be taken from the perspective of telling a story. The very act of existing means there is something to narrate. With this video, I was trying to present ways for people to better understand their feelings of immersion toward things they watch on KZbin, and realize there's a story being told in everything. When we view our worlds as 'just the setting,' we completely eliminate any deeper connections that we could form with them. What is Star Wars without the galaxy far far away? Harry Potter without Hogwarts? Great writers always develop setting as another character in the narrative, and when it's just you and your world, the only characters are you and the world you create. I argue you cannot become immersed in a world you do not add any deeper meaning or development to.

[@Emma_14]

this is 100x harder when you're NOT a builder. And you struggle with building

[@KotasCorner]

How do you think it should be approached from a non-builder stance?

[@kailerrX]

im not a good builder :(

[@Beardavidson1]

Anti elytra club unite

[@user-oz2hk3ii6c]

i dont have friends

[@KotasCorner]

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