How to Start a Minecraft City, from a Self-Declared Pro

Let's build a Minecraft City! This video follows my steps to build a city from scratch.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 About the Project
2:08 Theme & Vision
3:02 Island Climate
3:54 Walkability of Monstera
4:15 Terrain Tips
6:55 WorldPainter Elevation Map
10:28 WorldPainter Slope Map
11:42 Neighbourhoods
12:02 Centretown, Monstera
13:00 Introduction to Templates
13:18 Road Templates
15:25 Filler Building Templates
16:56 Travelling 3500 km to Build a Minecraft City
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Hi! I'm an Architectural Engineering undergrad student that enjoys building cities in Minecraft. My degree concentrates on structural engineering, heritage conservation, sustainable building design, and architectural technology.
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Disclaimer: I do not hold a P. Eng. designation, I am in my fifth year of an Architectural Engineering undergraduate degree. Discussion topics on this channel are subject to errors.

[@Alpine1]

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[@alyaxly339]

is this based on montreal?

[@bluefrootloop2867]

You mean “my friend and l”

[@thunderbolttdmplayz6750]

Time-lapse? Ok please be time-lapse

[@AngilJohnson]

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[@AngilJohnson]

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[@mc666gamingchannel3]

1 step to building a city Step 1:**Never lose motivation**

[@sentinel2102]

I feel attacked by this

[@purpql]

@@sentinel2102 same

[@radioactivepenguin34official]

Bro imagine they started building New York City and then they were just like "eh, forget it."

[@gunja6275]

Oh crap

[@HMT_main]

shit

[@jackboy317]

Give 👏 this 👏 man👏 more 👏 recognition👏

[@kevekiss6652]

Dam chillout with the donations brotha

[@rain028]

no 👏

[@sebseb4472]

@@rain028 why👏

[@Fred026]

@@rain028 yes

[@Tma.is.a.podcat]

@@rain028 dude why

[@mrshibe8321]

Great timing! Me and a friend of mine are trying to start a city and we've just cleared a gigantic space for building! Thanks Alpine! :D

[@EnolabYT]

Good luck, keep motivated!

[@Alpine1]

Great to hear, I hope it helps!

[@sgoma]

literally i started building my city yesterday so im really happy

[@berlinsticks9708]

Can I play with y’all I want to make a city but none of my friends want to

[@mrshibe8321]

@@EnolabYT Thanks! I'll try to post some updates here once in a while! :D

[@StalenStefan]

When people that build cities in a videogame think more about their city planning than average American city planners

[@orgith54]

It’s sad really

[@bsherman8236]

Probably because there is no money involved that to be embezzled

[@VisonsofFalseTruths]

@@bsherman8236 This. it’s not that the city planners can’t plan, it’s that the people holding the purse strings ignore them.

[@OMEGA_Hydroponics_777]

It's called politiks

[@IceCarno]

I'm currently making multiple small towns based on Oklahoma, so it's gonna be on a flat world, so it simulates the great plains Thanks for the tips

[@droson8712]

6 months late but try a buffet type world thats only a Plains biome if you're on Java so you still have some variety

[@IceCarno]

@droson8712 ah thanks dude is it in 1.12.2?

[@tehangrybird345]

Super underrated, this guy designs his cities like actual real life cities

[@BlackiichanBuilds]

4:57 - When importing a Minecraft map back into World Painter, you generally shouldn't import maps that already has buildings or trees. World Painter exports the blocks shown in the default top down view, so any houses/trees that has overhanging blocks will all be exported as the block shown in the top down view. It's hard to explain how it works, but generally you should avoid importing terrain that already has been built on. One way to get around this issue, is to use tools like World Edit. When you've exported your updated terrain, you can copy your already built city/houses into your new terrain. Edit: But please, before you do anything, please make sure to always backup your world, just in case anything goes wrong.

[@MCGamer-tj9nr]

It’s because world painter hasn’t updated past 1.8 . so when you export it back all new blocks would disappear

[@WhatnotArt]

This was so perfectly timed, I have been planning on building a city in Minecraft recently, and this was exactly what I needed

[@TJTuffyJack]

What do you play on

[@louie1432]

@@TJTuffyJackI play on a car battery

[@user-mf3jh4yh7u]

I live in Korea, so sometimes I use Google Earth to look around North America, such as the US and Canada. This Minecraft piece is so realistic and cool!!

[@mossvalley8449]

I’m from Vancouver island so its really awesome to see a local content creator… I’ll be following to watch the progress of this city :)

[@DOUGL4S1]

I must admit the filler buildings idea is really great! I'm currently planning on renovating a town in World od Keralis, and it has a ton of unfinished builds. I might take those and repurpose them for that.

[@prod.drizly5801]

Hey I know this is a super late reply, but is world of keralis still An active server ? I used to be a builder on there years ago so I’m curious

[@matjocs4453]

I am building my own Minecraft City right now. I have already made things like roads, football stadium, arena, congress hall, alot of parking spaces, bridges, rivers, terminals for cargo ships/cruise ships and even a central train station. Now with this video it makes me rethink what I have made and I have made it more "green looking" and it looked alot better now! Thank you for the help!

[@jsph6443]

I love how much you have helped me to become such a much better builder !

[@Alpine1]

Happy to help! :)

[@VeimosArcht]

I just wanna say this first thank you for making these videos, they have helped me be more creative, and have added a whole new layer to my Minecraft experience. Secondly, I started a new city a couple of days ago and I intend it to be my best one yet after binge-watching your videos. The other “Cities” I've made before this were just tiny roads with random buildings, but I guess we all start from somewhere right.

[@lucasvanrens8914]

Thank you so much for all the inspiration you've given me and the rest of your fans, keep up the great work!

[@Phizix]

Alpine this is why we love you

[@neworox3215]

I’ve got a huge creative world with tons of styles and custom biomes and now I can get a good start on the city portion Thanks m8

[@herpsenderpsen]

can't believe worldpainter is still the go-to terrain tool... It really is that great. I used to make maps with worldpainter back in 2011-2012 or so i think.

[@NotDaJayC]

This was extremely helpful! I just recently started working on my new city, the fictional Joyce, Texas. This video really helped me start, thanks!!

[@Slantt]

Thank you for this, I’ve been wanting to start another city for a while but wasn’t sure what to do, this helped a lot, thank you!

[@Nick_Opel]

I've never created a actual city from real life. This now gives me inspiration from your team on Andea city. I hope to see more videos on this to give me more inspiration for myself. Thank you so much for the tips and tricks!!!

[@Dingyfried]

Thanks for the shoutout! Can't wait to watch this new city come together :D

[@sockoast]

I love city planning and helping people pay rent!

[@horsegirlb7120]

Mortgage would be better

[@venus4909]

Common Alpine W

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

5:30 that bridge shaking would make anyone nervous who doesn't know that large structures needs to give a litter way.

[@cookieguy896]

yes lol

[@integre23]

9:35 In worldpainter, if you make a 1.18+ world, you can set the height of the world to 320, 512, 1024, 1536 or even 2048 blocks. I used 1024 blocks in my world.

[@athosworld]

Great video! Im making a city based on those in Myanmar, China, Korea. Im using Google Earth for building references. Also, my city will not have too many tall buildings as it is based on smaller cities.

[@teddyrutherford2078]

I’m not a big Minecraft city builder. I watch the videos mainly to learn about city planning and architecture. It works.

[@sauronikov9254]

the world painter advice is so much more important than people think it is, most people just build on super flat, which is fine if you're a beginner. but world painter is by far the best way to make realistic terrain!

[@Lehfdknsjs]

never thought the day when you reach 100k would be coming so fast! congrats on 100k! ive been watching you since 1k-3k

[@Alpine1]

Thanks for watching all the way!

[@Lehfdknsjs]

BTW it was on another account so don't question the fact this account was create in 2023

[@Phizix]

I love alpine no cap

[@Darkwolfsbane]

Great rules of thumb. Since I'm watching this for ideas for my pixelmon world, now I'm thinking of how pokemon taking place of cars throughout history would change the context of most cities. Probably the same way as if we never traded horses for cars, yeah?

[@TheDiamondBladeHD]

Being a builder in the BTE project really helped me understand how to build a city in Minecraft. You may have reference images/3D view, but terraforming and the buildings itself are still a challenge

[@daffaadrian899]

Why it looks sooo much better than triple a games depiction of a city? Absolute fantastic build you've made this

[@Wortelemes]

awesome

[@1cyy365]

I LOVE THE CANADA TALK I feel like i can connect so well as a fellow east cost canadian

[@darracqboy]

I see lots of potential here, can’t wait to see your channel grow!

[@comicman3173]

Man I remember when this guy had like 2,000 subs. He has come a long way :)

[@thcdelirious1235]

I've started a city starting with a beautiful big house with a wraparound porch and driveway, with a nice fountain in the front with a road leading out away from it, which is where the rest of my city will be built. I'm gonna take architecture from real life(from Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello, Washington's home Mount Vernon, Andrew Jackson's the Hermitage, and James Madison's Montpelier. I'll add skyscrapers eventually. This video helped out as far as planning where my road goes and how it connects everything on the map!

[@Shvetsario]

That architecture style is called Neoclassical, it's also prominent in a few states, like the city halls of Sacramento, CA, Colorado. You can find it in Europe as well.

[@thcdelirious1235]

@@Shvetsario I absolutely love the neoclassical look!

[@Laggyfied]

A little bit! Found your channel 5 minutes ago and it was already worth it.

[@Ecliptic-Troller]

2:20 there was a dunkin donuts in kamloops a few years back lol

[@dutch_steel8923]

I would seriously appreciate your skills being dedicated to making some rules of thumb more for actual Minecraft survival multiplayer cities itself instead of bringing real life to Minecraft. I think a city with roads designed for horses, walking paths and public transportation in the form of mine carts would be a super interesting topic and make a pretty unique video while still being in your realm of expertise. Otherwise, great video I enjoyed it.

[@Alpine1]

Hey! I actually have a friend that makes content like that, you should check him out! m.kzbin.info/door/l-AOIxDfkcL0kanB-j1OHw

[@tortrac958]

This helps, however i play on my friends realm server on bedrock so i won't be able to use world edit however i will be able to make templates use structure blocks

[@OldFalseDev]

o h, this is overwhelming because i usually get recommended begginer videos hahah, but great video!

[@Incommensurableme]

5:30 huh, never knew that bridges flex like that. I always thought they were 100% rigid and didn't move.

[@commander5640]

Thank you for making the video

[@Alpine1]

You’re very welcome

[@JackLeeTheFirst]

Was about to start a new city myself lol. This will help greatly!

[@tongis.]

Since 2011 when i start playing minecraft i have dreamed of building something like this.

[@SamOfTheSmokies76]

fr

[@GabrielGarcia-ku4tw]

Super detailed and well structure video and city!Have you ever thought of making a city that's liveable in Minecraft, where people could join a server with the world, and recreate real life in Minecraft?

[@erinburt4519]

im currently in the process of designing a city! thankyou your videos always help

[@evanfopma5083]

Thanks for this, im trying to build one in survival and this gave me a ton of inspiration

[@ItsZaaki]

Amazing video! Jam-packed with extremely useful info.

[@Oreo_Dog]

Thank you alpine. :) You’ve inspired me to build my own Minecraft city.

[@damntheman2]

This helped a ton! You lifesaver!

[@user-lc5bb7yx4l]

Hey man! I love your videos, and I’ve always found them really helpful, and so I hope this comment finds you well. Just a tip; I’ve sensed a pattern of you starting most videos by talking about your own cities for one or two minutes, and as great as I’m sure you are, it’s better to get to the point with the video. There aren’t many city videos on KZbin, and so when I click on the video I expect to get what I want to see immediately, but instead I usually see 3 minutes of you asking people to pay your rent and talking about your cities, and this often disengages viewers. If you get straight to the point you more likely to get subscribers, however the only reason I haven’t subbed is because of this. Again, I love your videos and on the whole find them very interesting as their aren’t many people who are as interested in Minecraft cities as me, and this is meant in a constructive way. Also, Alpine1 subscribers pls don’t hate on me for this.

[@themightyeagle21]

At first I thought this was cities skylines lol, great job!

[@Alpine1]

Thanks!

[@Justa_Guy_YT]

Thank you so much for this video! It’s really going to help me develop my own city a lot more efficiently! Again, thanks.

[@opal.starss]

“You will be pelted with tim bits” well said, in the UK we also have tim hortons

[@CallMeThyme]

Thanks! Ive needed this!

[@FinalThunder228]

I call dibs on working for the rail network!

[@user-db3uj3lr6s]

Bro this looks like a real city and this should be a world record

[@budgers]

i've been helping for a long time in that server

[@fogartyfox592]

This is a great video, I’m excited for episode 2!

[@sapphire6010]

2:31 bro why did i find this clip so funny💀 "You will be pelted with timbits" bro i cant😭

[@lengewenethegreenman6389]

I always love these videos

[@UnknownPerson27411]

Nice video bro 👍

[@lylemcrae257]

I like the idea

[@joshuapeterson-bd7sx]

When my brother grows up an City would be made in an long time 🤠!

[@TrainspottingSEQ]

underrated channel

[@jesp8329]

THANKS MAN I LOVE YOU

[@LinhNguyen-dz2pq]

5:30 I have never seen a bridge that "moves" before even tho we talked about supports a lot in engineering :o

[@jpb620]

took me a minute to find this comment

[@mikewhitaker2880]

one point you kinda glossed over is scale... lets be honest, many buildings are not gonna be 1 meter thick on their walls, but due to limits of Minecraft blocks, the choices are few without mods.. even with mods walls tend to be thicker than needed....

[@hamgelato8143]

your background 'music' sounds like ambulance siren, after 20 minutes of repetitive bomb blast it gives me migraine, gotta say thats a good way to repel new subscriber

[@Alpine1]

Fair enough, I get mixed reviews about it. Some people want it on repeat but others really don’t like it. I think from now on, I’ll only use it for small segments. Thanks for the honest feedback!

[@CallMeThyme]

This city is so cool!

[@Omega_o7]

great video! verry helpful

[@loginiman]

Don’t do what I did and build a city in a superflat world on bedrock… having to find commands to jerryrig my own world edit tool kit… using several commands and redstone which has a limited range I copied the deigns using structure blocks so I can at least have some mobility when building a mountain or digging out an ocean… This video has atleast giving me some motivation to continue expanding my city using these methods and my own

[@zaccorpseman7366]

Very helpful, thanks. Currently building two cities in Minecraft, one on Java Pc and the other on mobile. Due to hardware limits I tend to create buildings with only ingame materials, so that even the addons all fail it wouldn't do that much harm... I find that for PC, keeping an older copy of minecraft helps a lot since nothing really changes on it. I can use my addons forever. Now with Android soft locking data folders I couldn't really import any of my worlds if I am to get a newer phone, my solution to that would be finishing up everything on my IOS and eventually porting them into an older version of MCPE on my Android 9, quite a journey but gotta keep the bloodline running :)

[@bambuchzehne]

I have already started to build a city.... It was a destroyed village, but my first idea was to rebuild it, but then i started to build more and more buildings, but there are no roads...i didn't do them, because it was not a plan to build a city....anyway, i have built 3 lines of metro, 3 lines of trams and many train lines and there are also boats or elytra landing places( of course the trains, metro and trams are only minecarts)

[@Pigzel]

Nice video!

[@bingbongmcgee]

For a second I thought the thumbnail was cities skylines, so that's more than enough convincing for me Edit: Modded cities skylines but that just means it looked even better😂 here's your sub 👍ALSO YOU SHOULD PLAY CITIES SKYLINES 2 when it comes out!

[@mjopa]

so inspiring! excited to see more :D

[@Adolf_kitler19459]

I like your videos so wonderful to watch and peacefull

[@SpringySpring04]

Ah this is interesting, I use minecraft with at least 100 to 140 mods most of the time, mostly engineering, tech, and decoration mods. This gives me an idea to make my own small cities with mods like Immersive Engineering/Railroading, Nuclearcraft, and more, haha.

[@tangomango2353]

Yay alpine video!

[@flameskull_]

I’m making a city on bedrock so I’m terrain by hand, sounds fun

[@tomnovy3476]

i genuinely cannot tell the difference between real world footage and the ingame footage sometimes

[@heyitskad]

Just wait for Mr. Beast to become a "Pay off my student loan debt" tier patreon

[@Alpine1]

Hahah that would make my year

[@Tardists]

Salute to those Minecraft Bedrock Soldiers who's using non world editor cause it's harder to use world editor in Bedrock than in Java

[@Not.TravisScott]

something not usually mentioned is how american style cities are commonly easier to build due to their layout compared to european style cities for example

[@jdd564]

This looks so dope

[@kingbeangaming]

How he's so good!! I cant wait to get my laptop so i can build

[@somerandompersonalt]

this is very useful even for cities skylines. Nice!

[@boomspoon4004]

i wish i lived in sutch a fun place i could base my builds of of it all i can base my builds of is no mans land or just flat fields

[@TheCrazyBuilder314]

Hi Alpine, i really like your vids, hope you will reach 100k subs soon. Also can you do a vid that shows us how to plan a building's interior. Thanks so much

[@omegabyte3541]

Subscribed and liked 👍

[@Competent-rides]

pls get merch u have helped me make my citys so much better

[@generaldelasmontanas2699]

by using mods this city could be even cooler and more realistic. my small opinion

[@lightningtelly9644]

insane vid! keep it up

[@samtobin35]

great video!!