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Minecraft Building Ideas: 52
Cool Ways to Get Inspired!
Dane N
February 28, 2023
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1 1) A Minecraft House
2 2) Garden
3 3) Farm
4 4) Minecraft City
5 5) Underground / Secret Base
6 6) A Base in the Nether
7 7) Arena
8 8) Squid Game Glass Bridge
9 9) Spaceship
10 10) Factory
11 11) Tunnels
12 12) Mines
13 13) Pirate Ship
14 14) Docks
15 15) Shops
16 16) Restaurant
17 17) Kitchen
18 18) Workshop
19 19) Smithing Room
20 20) Wizard’s Room
21 21) Library
22 22) Pixel Art
23 23) Minecraft Castle Build
24 24) Dungeons
25 25) Minecraft Museum Build
26 26) Minecraft Aquarium Build
27 27) Tree Houses
28 28) Famous Landmarks
29 29) Bridge
30 30) Minecraft Statue Build
31 31) Beach House
32 32) Underwater House
33 33) Cool Nether Portal Builds
34 34) Sky Factory
35 35) Gas Station
36 36) Horse Stables
37 37) Storage room
38 38) Brewery
39 39) Floating Sky Base / Blimp
40 40) A Roller Coaster with
Minecarts
41 41) Graveyard and Cathedral
42 42) Theme Park
43 43) Hotel
44 44) Recreate Your Favorite Song
With Music Blocks
45 45) Swimming pool
46 46) Diving board
47 47) Skyscraper
48 48) Parkour maps
49 49) Experimental laboratory
50 50) Observatory
51 51) Maze
52 52) Fishing Outpost on a Desert
Island
53 Closing Thoughts
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If you need Minecraft building ideas,
this is the ultimate guide!
Out of all the video games ever made,
few come close to offering the amount
of creative freedom as Minecraft.
Minecraft is the kind of game where
you can literally build anything – the
only limit is your imagination.
If you’re struggling to come up with
new Minecraft concepts this guide
gives you a bunch of cool ideas to get
your creative juices flowing!
1) A Minecraft House
Is there any more classic building than
a Minecraft house? Probably not.
Whether you are just building a basic
cobblestone shelter, a regular house, a
modern house, or a luxurious mansion
with every type of room imaginable,
building houses is a staple of
Minecraft and a cool idea for anyone
to try.
If you learn a good strategy for building
houses you’ll be able to stand out in
multiplayer servers and impress your
friends with a sweet house.
You could even try to rebuild your IRL
house in Minecraft – that’s a fun
project if you have the time! You could
recreate the layout of each room in
your house in detail. Or base it on other
cool cribs from around the world.
You can find hundreds of Minecraft
building tutorials on youtube, here are
a couple of our favorites:
Minecraft House Tutorial: Large
Wooden Survival House
Minecraft | How to Build a Starter
House with Mine Entrance |
Tutorial
50+ Minecraft House Ideas for
your Survival World!
2) Garden
After building a house, the next logical
step is building a garden. Minecraft is
full of cool flowers, trees, and other
greenery.
There are a bunch of different garden
styles you can take inspiration from in
real life. You could build a classical
walled garden or even something like a
Japanese zen garden.
We recommend doing a google image
search and finding inspirational
gardens to base your build off.
If you’re in survival mode, building
gardens is a bit harder because you
need to collect all the resources and
seeds manually. This process will be
rewarding though when you can relax
in your stunning Minecraft garden.
Check out these tutorial videos:
Minecraft: Garden Base | Tutorial
Minecraft: 30+ Garden Build
Hacks!
Minecraft: 5 Beautiful Gardens
Designs To Show Off Your World
3) Farm
Farms are a fun thing to build in
Minecraft. There are many mechanics
which revolve around farming too –
whether that’s growing crops, breeding
animals, or milking cows – you can
make farms that work almost as
realistically as farms in real life.
You can build many types of farms in
Minecraft, and of course, no farm is
complete without a barn and
farmhouse.
You can build fully functional farms
which are actually useful in survival,
beyond just looking cool. Farms are a
great way of generating a lot of food
and other resources.
You should also check out techniques
for automating them: 10 Minecraft
Farms In 10 Minutes
4) Minecraft City
After you’ve got the hang of creating
buildings, you should consider making
a Minecraft city.
Cities are ambitious builds, but if you
want a mega creative project to sink
hours into then a big city is a great
place to start. These are obviously
going to be a lot easier to make in
creative mode rather than survival, but
it is still possible in survival mode.
You could base your city build on a
real-life location, perhaps the one you
live in. Or even take inspiration from
cities out of other video games like
World of Warcraft or the Elder Scrolls.
You canx build a modern city, or an old-
fashioned fantasy city – it’s entirely up
to you!
Alternatively, you could make up a
completely new big city with the power
of your imagination. Just be prepared
to need a lot of stone blocks and stone
bricks!
How to Plan a City | Minecraft
Architecture
5) Underground / Secret
Base
Minecraft is a game all about digging
and going underground. So why not
build yourself a cool underground
base?
You might even consider making it a
hidden or secret base. Hiding buildings
and creating secret entrances in
Minecraft can be a lot of fun, and there
are actually quite a few methods of
pulling it off.
One of our favorites is hiding an
underground lair under a trapdoor with
ladders in a bush or under a
tree. Because it’s underground you
should be able to make an
underground base with enough space
for all your rooms.
Don’t forget that you can also do the
painting trick! You can walk through
paintings, although you can’t see
through them. This makes them the
perfect device for hiding an entrance
to an underground base.
Watch this video to learn how to make
secret doors! 5 EASY Secret Doors To
Build in Minecraft
6) A Base in the Nether
The Nether is definitely the most
dangerous dimension in Minecraft,
however, it’s also the only place you
can find the ingredients for making the
best gear. If you want to beat the game,
then you have to conquer the nether at
some point.
Building a safe outpost in the Nether
can make your hellish adventures
much safer. Building a safe stronghold
can help you to survive the dangers of
this fiery wasteland while you grind
away for those sweet netherite ingots…
Minecraft: 10 Nether Base Designs
That Will Keep You Safe
7) Arena
Arenas are the best place to test out
your combat skills against
competitors. You can build either
player vs player areas or arenas where
you have to fight against mobs.
Building a mob-based arena can be a
fun challenge and help you to learn
some of Minecraft’s mechanics and
commands in more depth. You can
use mob spawners or command
blocks to create automatic waves of
enemies that spawn every so many
seconds.
Alternatively, make a PvP arena to
compete with your friends or other
people on the server. You can add a
