Tips for HOW to BUILD BETTER in Minecraft Hardcore Survival

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[@thejonbmc]

Learning to texture in "blobs" was probably the biggest leap forward in my building skills thus far. Still got a lot to learn but that's a really huge evolution.

[@Nephelangelo]

I tend to like noise a lot when it’s a nice subtle variation in color and texture, but it really needs to be combined with larger patches and blobs to give the whole effect some form and definition, otherwise the noise you try to add will look just as flat as if you didn’t add any noise at all.

[@MapleNate]

Agreed

[@crumpetboi]

For the gravel beach, you could convert it into an old and now ruinous keep, as though the same waterway was once protected by another people. Maybe its now sunken into the water and overgrown with a grove.

[@dasha-minecraft]

Oh i LOVE this idea!!

[@watercolorandsarcasm]

I really appreciate your explanation about noise and patches. I’ve struggled with the “randomized” texturing strategy that most people suggest. My brain just doesn’t like it…how it looks or the process of doing it. What you explained with the granite as intentionally distressing based on the pipe made perfect sense to me and I can’t wait to try it on my next build.

[@fWhipTwo]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Nephelangelo]

I think of noise and blobs a lot like drawing in shadows and details. In the same way that every pixel in a 16x16 texture is creating a visual effect of form and texture, adding block sized noise and patches is like sketching in a much broader level of detail, which you can see best when you take a step back and look at a distance.

[@shawnholbrook7278]

For the gravel stone beach maybe you could make a little British flower garden thing complete with gazebo. So all the village and mudbrick castle people could go there for picnics when the weather was nice.

[@memedaddy793]

I remember in original Building w/ fWhip series you built nordic village up in the mountains and i loved is so much. I can't wait when you'll build that one in this world

[@jvm-XLIX]

You should put a bookshelf somewhere in a build where you put the comment books

[@xDDDDDable]

for the stoney beach i would love to see an shipyard, similar to the shipyard in your old survival city! love the series! thanks for another great year of minecraft with you

[@melissag5092]

Thanks for the tips!! I’m trying to improve on and find/create my own style of builds and your advice really helps! Happy holidays Fwip and enjoy your time off!

[@Nephelangelo]

fWhip: Catch you all on the fwhip side. Me: This man is a genius.

[@SpencerPowell]

I had three distinct suggestions that may fuel ideas for the gravel stone beach: - A shipwright, building or maintaining the transport ships that come up the river. - A training ground for the defenders of the castle. Long open spaces for archery practice. Maybe even places to drill for aquatic combat/rescue. - A religious site. A ritual circle, or alter, or temple to Skulk or something. If it's a large enough area, using multiple of these options together as the kind of "support buildings" that keep the Castle running, but with easy access for the residents to flee to the Keep in case of emergency.

[@user-bs1kg9qq5v]

Love you builds keep up the hard work man

[@danielcarter6894]

You could do some sort of stone ruins on the stone coast.

[@COTRPodcast]

In that stone beach area you could create a canoe/kayak rental place

[@thebushna]

Oh wow, you chose my question! 🎉 I feel honored to be included even a very small part of your hardcore world 🙏🏽 Thank you for the answer & In-depth thoughts. As a builder I'm always looking for insight on different aspects of the process. Love the series! 😊

[@TryingMrJames]

Old (very) ruined castle for the stony shore, like the remenant of the older settlers, that might also give an excuse for an eventual nordic village.

[@_GeneralRV_]

these video's are so much fun!

[@ianstewart5791]

Kind of riffing off of someone else’s idea, but you could build a library by the castle where you could store all of the comments of the day. Idk if you already have a sugarcane farm but you could even put one under the library and have a cow pasture nearby !

[@snoozby]

rocky Mud flats / marsh would look great where the stone shore is. 0:30 .Maybe with a trolls camp and dungeon :) fantastic world mate, I've definitely been loving it! Also Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!

[@user-un4yz2hl5n]

Love your vids! You should make that stoney shore biome you didn't like into a washed away fishing village that maybe didn't survive a flood or something like that.

[@emilybarner3440]

What about a trading post/dock across from the castle? Not a full village, but a small riverside settlement that makes the castle make strategic and geographic sense. :) Thanks so much, love your videos!

[@ToxicNeon]

What can be considered too much or too little in terms of building and texturing is totally subjective. I watch so many different minecraft youtubers, all with their own style. Waxfraud, for example, definitely has a style that would be "too much" for me. I really enjoy watching his videos though, cause he's so creative with all his little details. He has some really cool ideas on how to build and detail those builds. I especially like watching you, Fwhip, because i feel like your style is the perfect balance for my taste. I take a lot of inspiration from you and have learned a lot. Building and learning to detail has been so fun to experience.

[@OddlyEl13n]

Thank you for answering questions and letting us see behind the scenes Fwhip!

[@jordaannoble3567]

Your editor does a great job fwhip

[@nmgg6928]

Something ive heard bdubs and scar talk about that i also was doing is think about how build would exist in reality. If its a house with stone brick in the pallet where would rain water run off and collect that you might add mossy blocks and some cobble to indicate the weather wearing the bricks over time. If its a path through several buildings where would the foot traffic be what side of the path would likely be more used more worn down. Also on a build meant to look older are there places where repairs have been done that could introduce a complimentary block. I feel like this perspective really helps when the blobs dont look right. Sometimes it helps to give the blobs meaning or purpose

[@KatieTwinkle]

Great comments. I almost like these side videos better than the regular ones now. Thanks!

[@kyleatkin730]

Idea for a new build: there is lots of Forrests around however there is no loging companys harvesting trees and selling them to customers. So in the dead space you mentioned at the beginning of the video maybe you could build some sort of logging company.

[@cutloose7963]

Opposite the mud brick castle, you could add a ruined village. Hear me out... you have ruins on the road to the desert, but not so much anywhere else. Also, with the ruined, it could be cut off by a broken bridge, and that is why the village died. Anyway, thanks for answering my previous comment!

[@jhjets776-_-5]

When you are building off cam, do you play music or something else in the background or are you purely just Minecraft and nothing else. Love all of your work. I have been following this channel for a while now. Keep it up!

[@corbindoesthings1795]

you could put a water mill or a watchtower where that stone beach is 🤔

[@Stettafire]

0:46 A partially flooded forest? As if part of the river had burst its banks? A river bursting its banks isn't a negative thing, it's a natural part of a river and many forms of wildlife rely on semi-frequent flooding

[@thejoyboi153]

Build idea for the gravel shore (or anywhere else) ; a house made out of shipwrecks where a cooky witch lives. Maybe a exiled town doctor banished for their strange practices?

[@thedarkduchess7556]

Idk how much it would fit in with the area but maybe you could put a riverside fairground/circus where the stone beach is! I think a big ferris wheel or circus tent at the end of the waterway could look cool there and bring a lot of life into the area! If not that maybe a giant statue to impose the might and wealth of the kingdom!

[@thedarkduchess7556]

Also it could be a cool idea to build a zoo with all the mobs in the game somewhere in the world! You could theme it after victorian era zoos to make it fit in more with everything else too! Or maybe you could theme it like the Omaha zoo and build a bunch of glass domes with micro biomes! It'd be a pain to round all the mobs up but I think finding them all and building a bunch of small habitats for them could change things up and challenge you in ways you haven't really been before along with giving you a lot of new stuff to do!

[@Chromium-YT]

I think it would be really cool if you added a small trading stall, possibly with a wandering trader!

[@maelsito_was_taken]

Hey fWhip! I'm really enjoying your videos, especially the ones where you build villages! Are you planning on building some japanese structures/villages or is oriental architecture not your thing in minecraft?

[@_weyhxx]

I love minecraft for the freedom you have. As you said, there is no right or wrong. I personally love the random noise more than these patches, but that makes mc so cool, you can do one or both, or none of both and if you like it, you did everything right. :)

[@injectilio]

It'd be nice to make some medieval river job buildings there. A port, a tannery ect.

[@kinky1111111111]

I don’t have an idea for the end of the bridge, but if you build a big bridge again you could put houses on the bridge like London Bridge or the medieval Newcastle bridge uk 🇬🇧, thanks for the inspiration you give 😊

[@HP_Burrito]

Just a thought but a small mangrove swampy area would look good for a small terraforming project for that area by the mudbrick castle

[@vindactor5138]

3:17 Fwhipridge Farm remembers!

[@isabellefaguy7351]

you could add some medieval defensive stuff, like a catapult

[@smillingdeath7833]

i would love to see a statue in the water at the fishing village for it is very common to see such a thing at smaller fishing villages.

[@kabiedotjpg5683]

I love the idea of making a big campsite hidden in a custom forest :)

[@drewgarey9233]

Maybe you could add a little cabin or campsite

[@powerfulsounds4123]

A huge market with docks could be great in the gravel/stone beach!

[@sinisterkandy4040]

noise can definitely look good but you need 2 blocks with very similar textures, but it rlly only looks good on smaller scales

[@ShadoUrufu666]

I will say as a casual builder myself, sometimes, less or no details is better. You can build something impressive just by changing resource packs, or the scale. Of course, don't always use the same blocks [looking at you, cobblestone castles] but have a theme, have a pattern that similar builds follow. You don't need to, but it's better than building randomly and having to re-do the work 10 times. Oh, and after making many roofs and wall combos, be mindful of color pallets. EDIT: As a general idea, I usually build in 5x5 squares. Pillars on all corners, foundation block, and then 2-3 block high of a different block for the wall. This means I can scale up a build easily when I have to do a lot of walls. I can also do 7x7, but this is generally because I like 1 wide doorways, and 3 wide paths. Paths that usually have a square shape to them, because to me, the squareness is part of the game.

[@junitheking546]

Love ur videos sir! Can i please get know which armor trim are u using. I like it very much also i am a big fan of ur builds!

[@oojamaflip7192]

I think it'd be really cool for you to make your own version of a stoney beach

[@kairuwuu]

can i name my first-born after you

[@LunarSyndicate]

Do you have any water mills yet? I think that'd be interesting in that stony beach if you don't have many of those. With like one farm house and a field. A nearby provider of fresh flour for the castle bakers?

[@missgally9604]

For the gravel beach, it might be a bit sad but a boat cemetery maybe

[@saulbadman-ix3tz]

'm Gonna Be A Damn Good Lawyer, And People Are Gonna Know About It."

[@heathhines3804]

You can make a custom swamp area in that stone area by the mud castle. It would make more since that they got mud from a closer source and I bet you could make it look better

[@heathhines3804]

Something like a toned down version of the swamp area in avatar ( the last air bender )

[@Vanilla_Smoke_]

You should build a fWhipridge farms hq somewhere along the new road(little easter egg from early season 3 hardcore)

[@sooth15]

I like your tips about texturing. For me: not everything needs to be textured, and not everything needs to have a gradient.

[@burlapsnack2313]

You could do a waterwheel for power maybe on the stony beach?

[@user-il8cx6mu7i]

Honestly u should bring back building with fwip

[@KiShonRasmussen-wj3ie]

You could make a skyrim inspired town like the one you built in your building with fwhip would

[@kamosalarmohammed3892]

Can you please furnish the houses in the next episode. I mean all of them and start populating all of the villages, just use some bells so that the villagers don’t go away, just hide the bells if you don’t like them.❤

[@ramperiakaruppan]

Question: When I try to build structures that aren't places to live (like a place for a job) I have trouble knowing what it should look like and avoiding the homie look. What do you do?

[@maodebo3301]

question: what settings do you use and what mods/datapacks/resourcepacks are you running?

[@remrants]

I was wondering the SAME THING!

[@jc_illustrates_]

Noise maps in building reminds me of negative and positive space in art, its basically the same concept. Detail is cool but if you don't have "empty" or "plain" spaces, the overdetailing doesn't let the eye rest and doesn't give the viewer a place to focus on. But again art/building is subjective and can depend on style :) so mess around people!

[@EODRabbit]

What about a building a ruined castle by the water as if it had previously been attacked by ships making the mud brick castle a new one with a water gate to protect from future attacks.

[@MapleNate]

Question: for people like myself who builds are very inspired by yours and who use small details that we get from your videos. How do you like being credited?

[@eeveealbino4465]

hey fWhip! I have a question for u!, How do I make the early game of my worlds fun again? I know when I get to the late I have many ideas and it will be so fun, I can't get there tho, like mining is pretty boring.

[@cherf07]

What if you did like a trader camp or something like that? I mean you love wagons 😊

[@matthewdyet3618]

What do you plan on doing when the 1.21 Minecraft update comes out?

[@sowhyus]

@fWhip ... in reference to the 'too many villages' .. NO .. there is NO such thing as too many villages! Little villages scattered all over the place is more realistic than not, really. Think how many billions of people there are in the RL world. o.O Besides, you make the prettiest of villages!

[@ryanrichardson5992]

Maybe make it a custom stone/gravel beach.

[@spacefonz949]

Change the river into a grand canal

[@hinuy7510]

What is your usual schedule, when you record videos?

[@Piranha.5476]

Build idea build air ships just flying about

[@DukeLinen]

Hey fwip, how much does does your colour blindness effect your builds. Also it would be really cool if you did a bit of a world tour with a filter showing us how you see your world.

[@user-xv9wn8bl6k]

ship vreck on the stone spikes

[@SteFan089.]

anyone knows the clouds texture pack?

[@Sky-ym1zb]

A fort like they build in real life to protect the city for vikings salling up the river to raid the village/city

[@timmytime0925]

If you see this fwhip what are your thoughts on gradients

[@thebibus]

Always include gradients, it always helps. The only reason not to include gradients is if there aren’t any blocks that go with it, like some types of terracotta, or when you’re building a build style which doesnt go well with gradients Hope that helps

[@arda4576]

Everyone was so hyped for hanging signs but we don’t really see people using them why do you think nobody is using it

[@user-2rx61Eu7z]

Soo fu**in expansive

[@quinnmccoy3012]

10000 bees know where you are

[@najibamami1765]

7th