The Weird Reason We Build Like This in Minecraft

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[@katrei1982]

He has the amazing ability of saying so much and nothing at the same time

[@Jaxan-dq2jy]

I know it's just an unfiltered stream of intuitive connections and ideas. He'll say one absurd claim, refuses to elaborate further, and then mutates it into another idea :) It's absolutely mind boggling and fills me with wonder

[@hughjass4736]

Like a politician

[@MetalGamely]

Yeah, i could seriously do without the long tangents he goes on. There's a time and place, i'm here for minecraft builds, not politics and philosophy

[@innacrisis6991]

Especially when he's just plain outright wrong

[@NoSuchStrings]

He has the heart of a true philosopher

[@Genospark_]

This man really made a political spectrum out of minecraft architectural norms

[@SGAFISHING]

Ik how tf does this even happen lol

[@MrJoosebawkz]

assigning political affiliations to architecture is an age old tradition unfortunately

[@ikanberapi2189]

@@SGAFISHING everything can occur Idk only god know

[@degenerateinthecloset]

he can turn anything into a lecture about existence, space, time, being, fate, mind and literally any concept imaginable.

[@degenerateinthecloset]

that’s his superpower bro

[@ducky-iu2pu]

i think the style is very interesting and actually very pleasant to look at, given the building is large enough. it's like looking at a really low res version of a real life building

[@ducky-iu2pu]

@peter no thanks bro

[@BigBrainGamer58]

Bot moment

[@houseking9211]

impractical af, space is very inefficent and the interiors look unnatural so I'd never do it in survival

[@thenelsonbruhs722]

@@houseking9211that’s my issue with it. I like doing really detailed interior design and that’s just not possible with builds like this

[@PanPanda384]

no way it's the real ducky from the queen discord server with yellow logo

[@lanchen0]

At this point, i am not sure if it is just Minecraft or pure philosophy.

[@z3ldon704]

Both.

[@shadowpanther298]

they the same thing tbh

[@Ewokpilot65]

Minecraft *is* pure philosophy

[@alexandersalter6686]

Whatever it is, it’s what we need…

[@abielgabriel7095]

@peter oh look, another copy paste bot!

[@Cottor_OwO]

I actually never was afraid to use shapes that don’t line up with Minecraft grid, so when I first saw BuildTheEarth’s buildings my only thought was something like “Wow, this is incredible”

[@Fusion05]

I’ve always enjoyed making round houses.

[@Letoa._TheGoat]

Fr

[@larry6904]

Wbc Builds: nervously sweating

[@jaywasd]

Yeah the problem is that to make something that looks good that is off the axis it needs to be relatively big. Anything small off the axis is gonna look jank af

[@Profeshinal]

Yeah, but some of the smaller builds like little houses on street corners aren't too janky if you don't look too hard at them. Can't wait till my house gets built. Hell, I might build it myself!

[@Banana_Fusion]

Lmao that last line of just internet speak completely juxtaposing the philosophical vocabulary of the video 😂

[@hyperfox0934]

Not really, actually. It's definitely a different art at small scale, but still definitely pretty. You have to embrace the twist more heavily, and change designs slightly to allow for cohesive texture, but it can and does look really fucking good when done right.

[@mrosskne]

it looks shit at any scale

[@TROLGUY999]

@@mrosskne lol it really doesnt

[@Sonamyfan875]

>Making a square building makes you right wing Alright Pippen you need to stop doing hard drugs.

[@Jackson-il1sn]

@Silverstein Cause money.

[@Jackson-il1sn]

@Silverstein Why make nice buildings and prevent your countries collapse when you can buy a gameboy covered in 14k gold.

[@Sonamyfan875]

@Silverstein Ah yes, famous RIGHT WING GOVERNMENT the USSR. I can tell you failed basic government.

[@shravan1005]

@@Jackson-il1sn WHAT

[@Jackson-il1sn]

@@shravan1005 gaming

[@boahneelassmal]

it's literally pixels on a monitor. yes, there is a 3rd dimension, but the principle is exactly the same. On monitors there or no round and smooth curves. there's only jagged pixel lines that you perceiev as smoothly curved

[@SynkGD]

Curved pixels

[@ElRicoVonQuelloIII]

That's the beauty of it, using minecraft's jagged/rigid base in such a layer'd fashion as to give a look almost entirely of its own. They are both jagged and curved, rigid and flowing, entirely surreal.

[@404fanfanboy]

naahhhh I thought it was portal to another dimension. Yeah no dip Sherlock.

[@aguyontheinternet8436]

But you are unable to see the green, red, and blue rectangles without special tools, even if you stuff your eye up against the screen (not recommended) It is very, very difficult to do that same thing with Minecraft blocks

[@Lightning_Lance]

@@aguyontheinternet8436 true. Another analogy could be Van Gogh paintings.

[@unicornhuntercg]

Pippen when the project is complete you should do a TED talk. You'll nail it.

[@unreachablesecretary]

By that time his communications skills would have ascended beyond what us mortals could even begin to comprehend

[@arsenhere7020]

it's projected to be finished by 2156. so I don't think he'll be doing any ted talks.

[@nobody-bt7mu]

@@arsenhere7020 I would like him to record himself and predict what will happen. "If you're watching this, I'm dead".

[@xenakisrah6872]

Agree!!!!

[@mrosskne]

not if it's anything like this trainwreck of a video

[@AndrewChumKaser]

You spent ten minutes explaining something that could have been said in like two sentences: "The blocks aren't aligned with the cardinal directions on the map because of our spherical projection distortion, as well as the fact that cities in and of themselves are also not aligned with them either."

[@frodobaggins941]

I think the point was to, yknow, actually entertain the viewer with a wacky train of thought

[@mrosskne]

if you don't hit ten minutes your monetization isn't as good

[@RaulRieraS]

This comment should be on top, and save us from several minutes of filler

[@xGOKOPx]

You don't even need to think about the projection; "cities aren't aligned with Minecraft's grid" should already lower all the raised eyebrows

[@-roy411]

You know when you have that one friend that just can't answer a yes or no question with yes or no?

[@tumultuousv]

Well you see, there is no just yes or no because-... I mean no

[@Jaxan-dq2jy]

If you are that friend I love you

[@HiIAmSpirit1]

That's me lol

[@JustACuteDoggo]

2:00 In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adjacent sides. It is the only regular polygon whose internal angle, central angle, and external angle are all equal (90°), and whose diagonals are all equal in length. A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ABCD. This was not taken from wikipedia.

[@johnny4560]

shit the dogs are learning, they'll take over soon

[@vorterplayzzz8447]

ummmm........I didn't understand a thing

[@Epic-ft2bg]

@@johnny4560 fuck get the guns bois they’re evolving

[@johnny4560]

@@Epic-ft2bg fuck that, I'm getting the dog treats

[@aliendrifts]

You just described a square in different words

[@YanntastischGER]

I actually find a beauty in this: There are no right angles in nature. So you needing to build the earth mostly WITHOUT right angles, because you can't put a ball on a square, in a game of blocks (which all have right angles) is just too funny.

[@radiyaebrahim7757]

Beauty*

[@tutin9930]

@@jeddllau booty*

[@NeuralSensei]

That sounds like a challenge for a mod where right angles don't exist in minecraft. Actually i want to see someone make rotatable blocks when manually placing them. I never player MC and don't have time to, but it would just be cool.

[@17thstellation]

It's not true that there are "no right angles in nature." Check out crystals of pyrite and bismuth (among others I had never even heard of, but found out about just now while researching), which are full of right angles. We don't just make up math arbitrarily; it describes things that really are fundamental. Right angles, spheres, the Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, self-similar fractals, symmetry... They're all over the place. Take a look at the Wikipedia article "Patterns in nature." It's super interesting.

[@olas16k]

@@jeddllau bootay*

[@dcincco]

A random guy just building the earth in Minecraft lecturing us on philosophy. Me: PURE CONTENT

[@shadowpanther298]

nobody: Pippen: see we build but we decide to have a stroke when we build.

[@soldofficialyt]

I was wondering how you were gonna turn the answer “diagonal buildings are weird when built with squares on a grid” into an 11 minute video

[@TehJimlad]

"it seems that Minecraft's playerbase predominantly leans to the right" Is that a joke?

[@MrCrystal09]

Right in what? Politics?

[@Memistical]

@@MrCrystal09 The political compass

[@ForeverNERVOUSZan]

my thoughts exactly haha

[@SmoltingWassie]

Nah man, a survey was conducted amongst all players Mojang considered good enough to have a valid opinion, and 99% said "let's go Brandon, Trump Train 2024 🚂🇺🇸", there was also a 1% margin of error allowed for the calculation.

[@TwitchCybul]

based and cubepilled

[@ANunes06]

In which Pippen transforms from "Construction Foreman" to "Architect". We are now thinking about thinking about thinking about buildings, and I'm here for it.

[@stevencurtis7157]

The first time I saw that you guys were making buildings on angles, I was far from unnerved, I was just impressed that you were actually doing it. Building off axis like that and reliably placing buildings in the the right position with the correct angle is impressive even with tools.

[@estoericaferret]

I'm lost, cause I thought off-axis building was like a fundamental precept of expert level building.

[@SutekiRedux]

am I the only one who never knew about Minecraft player base leaning mostly right?? All of the MC players I know are all not really involved in politics but have a more "liberal" or "libertarian" view. Like is there a study on this? or was that statement based more on his own perspective?

[@france_stoneshore2150]

I'm confused too, I don't know very main political minecraft players.

[@ChrisTheWeak]

I think it was a joke.

[@xdendordx]

Pippin bless ur vids but that statement is some anecdotal shit if I ever seen it

[@tumultuousv]

It's baseless. Probably a joke

[@spocite]

its called a joke

[@luk3to]

You can just say: "it's a big 3D pixel art, how you think we can make perfect diagonal or circles on this?"

[@shir7833]

This man talks in such a way I am somehow addicted to it, but makes my brain hurt.

[@degenerateinthecloset]

your videos are weirdly similar to a regular show episode, it goes from a concept to the explanation of how you and your crew are preparing to build everything and anything, including every city, town, home, restaurant, building, road, microorganism, cell, molecule, subatomic particles, moons, dwarf planets, planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters and the universe. before that you must ALWAYS explain society and all of it’s problems, people, ideologies, history and the concept of existence, space-time, fate and reality. if anyone actually reads this, have a good day 😄

[@HiIAmSpirit1]

I agree. Good way of explaining his videos. You have a good day too!

[@davidarvingumazon5024]

~

[@yunarad0ki]

have a good day too!

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

I envy this man's ability to stretch out what should be a 30 second video into over 10 minutes and still make it enterntaining and Interasting to watch

[@outlaw6620]

When pippen talking about all the builds from a stone box house to a city designed. Then there is me using litematica mod because I can't build to save my life and always making a hole to live in.

[@therandomcommenter1585]

you single handedly managed to melt my brain talking about a game about blocks, bravo !

[@HowToGuroo]

you are pulling on threads from far beyond our local reality to bring us something new, thanks

[@HeyDaki]

*Plays minecraft* , *becomes Benjamin Shaperone*

[@rachellopez92]

Omg this video gave me the chills. Very Inspiring!! Not only does this make me want to build a real place to scale, but the confidence to do so. You're awesome for sharing this perspective

[@totallynoteverything1.]

I turned my box into a small rustic house in my current beta 1.7.3, and added a small poem about where the house started as, above the front door, and a divider made of stone slabs to show where the original wall was before I added an addition and just kept on doing that.

[@truemori6700]

I love the jagged structure of these houses.

[@Onkruid]

I was thinking of another way to upset people by using the word "juicy"' again, but tbh, this video is just too beautiful to soil with memes. Love the contect Pippen, keep it up!

[@anonymity1101]

When I first saw the thumbnail it had a similar shape to what I was thinking of making buildings and cities in Minecraft that looks actually cool and realistic. When I saw the thumbnail and the title, it got me completely interested. This style of building especially the thumbnail completely shocked me. And honestly, it's so cool. It kinda adds realism to it and for me it's so much better.

[@gnampfff3469]

Depends on viewpoint. For large scale buildings that are made for photos and videos, using lines more true to real world buildings looks awesome. But ingame this is a nono to look at when walking by and looking close.

[@Norsilca]

This guy's got a PhD in BS

[@frodobaggins941]

Elaborate?

[@Norsilca]

@@frodobaggins941 He spent a lot of time saying insightful-sounding things that don't really mean much, or are debatable at best.

[@frodobaggins941]

@@Norsilca Ive been watching his videos for a while. His videos are in a similar style to Vsauce, in that they go on tangents. The entertainment comes from watching his train of thought go off the rails

[@Norsilca]

@@frodobaggins941 Yeah me too. I think Pippen vamps a lot longer without any actual facts and makes much shakier connections between dots. But it's been a while since I've watched Vsauce so maybe they're more similar than I remember.

[@TomPerson4980]

when you write an essay and need to meet the word count

[@patriciobatumanjr.4151]

I got Goosebumps from that universe intro lol very well done.

[@rynow1992]

Who is this man's acid connect!? Must know!!

[@Awesomeness-iz3dh]

Halfway through the video, still hasn't addressed the question in the title, talking like a philosopher, asking the most ridiculous and unprecedented question possible.

[@toastmaster421]

Hexagon is the bestagon

[@AshleyBunnys]

this is why i highly recommend learning the fundamentals of pixel art if you like to build in minecraft.

[@JamesTDG]

Your workaround is neat, it's basically a form of sub blocking, kinda like subpixeling, but more idle

[@PixelSham]

lmao at the baseless assertion that minecrafts audience leans right. Minecrafts main audience is literally children

[@tumultuousv]

I think it was a joke.. I hope

[@frodobaggins941]

I think the claim was a bit wacky but i have to disagree with you on the part about children

[@PixelSham]

@@frodobaggins941 You disagree that minecrafts main audience is children? Their stated target audience is 5-15 year olds for christ sake. There is no doubt a large community of older teens and adults who play, but it is dwarfed by the truly massive size of the games child audience.

[@frodobaggins941]

@@PixelSham This would have been true in 2015, but a lot of players have grown up by now. And the game's "stated target audience" has always been all ages.

[@macmcleod1188]

@@frodobaggins941 I'm 61.. most people I play with are 55+ except my grandsons. And we are about 85% democratic. Which is right wing by world standards but left wing/ center in the u.s.

[@tip1441]

This video is like if you tried to mimic how Vsauce connected really interesting ideas and concepts to a seemingly unrelated question but you didn't do any of the things that makes those videos coherent. Instead, he waxes poetic and goes on pretentious philosophical rants and never really ties it back to the original point. I'm not sure why any that had to be included in a video addressing something that has a really simple and straightforward answer.

[@Fixti0n]

Making that jagged skyscraper straight feels like taking a belt sander to a sculpture and taking all the curves out.

[@soabac0835]

the thing is pippen, i like how these buildings look, but playing in them would be an absolute nightmare

[@sno7599]

alright boys he has truly gone insane nwo

[@itzelramirez4801]

Haha I think that’s what I’ve taken halfway in

[@morezacsteele5564]

Your content and creations have influenced and enhanced my city building capabilities giving my confidence in off axis building , thank you @PippenFTS

[@strangeanimations2518]

3:05 ???

[@xGOKOPx]

I guess I'm a hard logic fan because when I've noticed the alignment of buildings on build the Earth I've just thought "well yeah it's based on real world coordinates that don't really align with Minecraft's block grid" instead of having a philosophical rant about squares

[@lunaria3542]

This guy just given us speech about how building quare building is outdated

[@DamiemBlorp]

Ah yes minecraft, the game primarily played by 10 - 16yo is definitely primarily right

[@HiIAmSpirit1]

Lmao, more like 6-16. Imagine what those little kids would think of this

[@alkatron768]

Flat-Earthers ripping out their hair watching this.

[@trucid2]

They're rejoicing. It's flat in Minecraft.

[@Donut-im9lk]

*Super-Flatters

[@faabulous511]

Thank you for your views, and putting into words things I’ve been wondering a lot the last few months. I appreciate how you’ve taken something you’re passionate about, and expressed bigger ideas and theories alongside it. It doesn’t make sense to a lot of us, and it makes perfect sense to others.

[@Magnymbus]

I may not be able to do aliased building very well, but ive always admired it. I've really only ever been able to do circles and squiggles, but non orthogonal straight lines restricted to Pythagorean coordinates have always been hard for me unless the resolution is high enough. If Minecraft was made of decimeter cubes rather than meter ones, it would be a lot easier, but you'd completely loose the intuitive simplicity and quasi-retro feel of the game. I've always wanted a game with buildings you draw out of nodes, rather than descretized tiles or blocks, but I've yet to find one.

[@Nicklefritz]

So... Build The Earth: Be there or be square.

[@redseagaming7832]

I like everything being consistent with my builds I don't like odd numbers with my builds in Minecraft

[@fox4dayz278]

Never before have I been more inspired to build at an angle!..

[@perialis2970]

at one point im so sure like 100% sure that there will be this one situation where they miscalculated and they need to move an entire city by one block so they can make a missing house

[@YanntastischGER]

I can't believe how you just keep shooting out these super phylosphical videos of 10 minute length only to say something like "Yeah we build houses like this cuz it is easier to put into the enviorenment".

[@blakdeth]

As much as this way of thinking is cool, I have to ask. How close is the empire state building to the grid? Is it close enough to tweak to be on the grid? If any building deserves to be in the minecraft rigid style it's the world's most iconic example of art deco.

[@violenceisfun991]

Big Ben > The Empire State Building

[@blakdeth]

@@violenceisfun991 the reason I suggested the Empire State Building is because the entire goal and philosophy of art deco is geometrical perfection, so it would be better if it were on the grid. That being said, the Palace of Westminster is a beautiful example of Neo-Gothic, another style that emphasizes geometry, but not as much as art deco. Either way i don't think the build the earth people will make any exceptions.

[@neirenoir]

[laughs in catalan modernism]

[@Razzael1]

Not sure if this was the best video to watch while wake and baking, but that was a hell of a ride lol

[@spiderninja804]

At first, I thought he did these kinds of intros ironically. Then that "intro" turned into the whole video. This is impressive

[@nicholasrosella2952]

i love his silly speeches that he goes on

[@gimlet7]

lmao this guy is such a cheeseball

[@chrisreilly1290]

I found a nice place to put a Hatoyama style pagoda but it was along a diagonal road I had between two towns. I put it on a 45° angle and it actually came out awesome

[@_haru_na]

Sometimes, I don't even know if I'm watching a minecraft video, or a video that gives me an explanation on how life is, what life is, and what life could be if people decided to always break the norm and do things differently

[@juicy-minecraft4059]

Bro it's made of cubes...

[@Only.D.G.]

This is like a poem or short tale of Borges: "On Exactitude in Science"

[@Elfking94]

Iv never known how to word these thoughts, so beautiful like true art my friend. Thank you

[@kphoenix137]

What we really need is a minecraft mod that makes the minecraft world round (instead of having map edges that warp to the other side which would be a torus) I believe this would require using any quadrilateral rather than just a default square shape, however the shape would end up nearly indistinguishable from the default square shape with a very large would. The most distortion in individual blocks would appear if you were working with a tiny planet

[@TheBester7]

i still haven't done all of this (1:32) even after i started playing minecraft for years. maybe it's because i don't play minecraft that much

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Brave of you to assume that I wouldn't destroy my square box. Because I built more over there.

[@NoPantsBaby]

I actually decided to angle my cathedral 45 degrees all those years back when minecraft was hot and new. This was because diagonal building allowed for sharp edges whilst still maintaining straight facades that could be decorated.

[@vatablous]

bro needed 10,000 words for an essay and will do anything to get them

[@Arterexius]

As a builder, I've oddly enough never found this serrated build style odd. I just saw it, found it cool and highly useful, and then adopted it into my palette. I've even themed an entire build project around it, which is still a work in progress and unreleased... Mostly because I've jammed it full of entities and even with a 2060 card and 16 GB of DDR4, 3200 MHz RAM, I still don't get more than 10 fps. The struggle, is real.

[@hitnrun66]

Maybe a ram upgrade will help with that because big worlds take up ALOT of ram

[@Arterexius]

@@hitnrun66 I did try a RAM upgrade and it did nothing. Not even with 24 GB allocated. Still only 10 fps max. By now, setting up a server seems like the best option, as you can also add too much RAM to Minecraft

[@hitnrun66]

@@Arterexius true, it can cause memory leaks, and that might not be a bad idea, you could try server hosting or hamatchi!

[@Arterexius]

@@hitnrun66 Thanks for your suggestions 😊 I tried Hamatchi several years ago and was quite disappointed in how bad it really operates, compared to how hyped it is. I got better performance out of a virtual machine, than hamatchi, so I've been avoiding it ever since. Unfortunately I can't afford a powerful enough server host, but I have a couple space computers and laptops lying around, so I'm considering to link some of them up, place a bungee on the weakest and put my different builds on the others, so I can seamlessly navigate between them. And then upgrade to better hardware over time

[@borgor620]

Came here for Minecraft, stayed for the philosophy

[@maxifire32]

You can actually break everything except for bedrock, barriers, command blocks and other creative only stuff with your bare hands, most blocks won't become items when broken with your bare hands but it's possible

[@stephenlittle332]

water and lava source blocks - checkmate 😎

[@Naeidea]

This is one of my favourite videos on KZbin, and I have never even played Minecraft.

[@jamez6398]

How do you do structures that are offset from one another by something other than 45, 90 or 180 drgrees? Especially here in Europe, our buildings are placed way more higgeldy piggeldy than in USA and Canada...

[@nibbletrinnal2289]

Instead of making walls by placing a block, placing to the left, placing up, placing up, etc., you can place a block, place, say, *two* to the left, then place up one, and repeat. For example: .........##..............### ......##............### ...##..........### ##........### notice how the left line is 45 degrees, while the one to the right is ~30 degrees(assuming its formatted properly on your device). This doesn't give you *perfect* precision, but its definitely better than exclusively angles that are multiples of 45 degrees

[@antthegord9411]

i couldn't help but laugh when the rage-y wojak head cut in half, bobbing up and down in a leafy-esque manner told me to try and take its views seriously on how minecraft influences peoples political leanings. somehow i feel that's a little.... what's the word? out of place, in a kids block game.

[@chenguangli4385]

Heres a weird idea: use the immersive portal mod and connect the stuff together

[@MCMassok]

The fact that your first example of a city with non-cardinal alignment was Richmond, VA and passed literally right over my apartment in the fan 🤯

[@mr.villager7661]

Stockholm City is bigger than and more populated than Seattle. And I live in San Blockcisico and there s nothing u can do bout it

[@TijsVsN]

Can you check out the server GeoCraft? It is similar to BTE but it is just the Netherlands (also its fully dutch)

[@redroodolf123]

i swear when ever i watch pippens i feel like im having a fever dream

[@syrenity64]

“It is impossible to accurately go north in minecraft” The sun: And I took that personally

[@PixelSham]

the only way minecaft leans politcally conservative is it's built in exploitation of villagers lol

[@tumultuousv]

Well that's more than the contrary so.. it leans more towards conservative

[@tumultuousv]

Also slaughtering animals . Self gain. Ect

[@kek.758]

2 views 8 likes amazing

[@fuzzysparkle9152]

KZbin gives a view after 30 seconds of watching, so people probably clicked like as soon as they got on the video

[@nolimitscoasterguy4813]

The content: we’re building the earth in Minecraft! The voiceover: what is the point of existence

[@Minecraftgod1200]

Funny this popped up I just took on my biggest project yet that forces me to do this and I agree honestly after awhile you get used to it. Earth in minecraft is insane btw

[@johnny4560]

3:06 lol what?

[@muhammadusama5329]

Bro using chat gpt to write his script.😂

[@webe3228]

I have no idea what this video is talking about and I love it

[@dontdoitanyway]

I feel like I'm on a trip just watching this

[@Braaage-]

I like your videos man, but you took a few too many hits before you pressed record this time....

[@scp--km3ii]

summary: build like this because in real life buildings can be diagonal. Now go watch another video of this guy.

[@MrSmaugXD]

lmao real as hell hes just saying a ton of words fr

[@spitalhelles3380]

this reads like a high school essay. bonus points for it being about minecraft

[@DonkeyFilms]

I stopped my Minecraft Pompeii map cause of these diagonal building. Got the thing almost 1:1 however when I started more of the roads, inaccuracies started showing with the scale and I put it on hold since last year.