Build Theory: Inspiration & Research! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.82]
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2024
- The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 continues in Minecraft 1.20.4!
In this tutorial, we look at where inspiration to build can come from, the importance of research, and how to turn reference material like concept art, urban photography, or illustrations into a Minecraft build!
My next Survival Guide build will be a floating island based on this illustration by Greg Fromenteau: www.inprnt.com/gallery/gregfr...
Having stumbled onto this image via instagram, I explore how inspiration can strike in a number of ways - and discuss whether AI art has a place in inspiring Minecraft builders. We also look at straightforward ways to search for art if you have a concept but have trouble visualising it yourself.
Then we go into a creative flatworld to begin the process of drafting the build - starting by choosing a block palette, a couple of small build tests, identifying the key elements of the build, and building the ship on top of the island.
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as a lover of floating ships myself its safe to say im so excited for this project!! excited to see you back pix!!
💯% "on board" for this build!
I hope someday we get to see a wattles build on the scale of some of the pixlriffs ones! Welcome back, Pix!
2 Minecraft goats 🐐 nothing better than seeing a upload from these 2
Welcome back. I have a personal rule about Minecraft: It's your game, your time, your fun. You do what you do. There is no cheating as long as you are honest about what you do to make your world. There are so many ways to play and alter the game play as needed or desired. Things change a bit if you are competing or playing with other people, but there is still a lot of room for personal choice when you are off the game and deciding how to make your build look the way you want.
I totally agree with this.
Thanks for this. I always use the teleport and keep inventory cheat in my survival world because I'm not the best at fighting hostile mobs and scare easily when I hear their sounds. Reading this has helped me overcome the lie that I'm not a real Minecraft player just because I can't play without those two cheats.
I mainly only use the locate structure command cuz finding ancient cities in my very old world is hard
Very well said.
Some inspiration on the subject of prismarine: even if one were not going to try replicating the rock hue used in the reference art, a few streaks/blobs of prismarine in the underside of the island could look nice as a visual reason the island is floating. That being, "this color-shifting mineral is doing weird gravity things".
But, as stated in the video, floating land masses are not uncommon in Minecraft natural world generation anyway, so not everyone will feel the need or want for such a detail.
I'm actually considering revisiting the prismarine idea for the rock formations on top of the island. Could be kinda cool to build with prismarine / diorite / calcite around the hull, as though the ship is breaching a rocky wave. Something else to test before I commit to it!
@@Pixlriffs What a novel concept, that's brilliant! Even if it doesn't make the cut, I'd love to see a community post of your attempt(s).
I completely agree with the core lesson of this episode's: if you dont see other people do it or look at what can be done, then you dont know what you dont know, and youre essentially forcing yourself to struggle into making something you'll maybe like
Yep! Sometimes you get lucky and it works out - but if you aren't enjoying the process, there's no reason to set such extreme boundaries. I also feel like the gatekeeping around Survival Minecraft is unreasonable - this is a sandbox game, you can take whatever approach you want as long as you're enjoying it.
@@PixlriffsSo pleased to see you say this. The flexibility of Minecraft and the variety of gameplay styles possible is, for me, one of the great joys of the game.
@Pixlriffs somehow this comment finally helped me to understand what is meant by the term sandbox game... at age 45, I love this game and having played with others of all ages I know the wide range of ways people enjoy playing. Minecraft is so cool and content creators like you have helped me explore new ways to enjoy it. Thanks Pix, welcome back 👋😄
@@Pixlriffs At 29:42 the horizontal part you are making is called "spritsail yard" and you should rotate it 90 degrees so its perpendicular to the rest of the ship.
Also if you want a middle solution for the ship's masts size you can add trapdoors instead of the "plus shape" you made.
In another note, the ropes you first added from oak fences in real ships are called "standing rigging" and they are covered by tar so they are protected from the salty environment. you should replace the oak fences either with dark oak or nether brick fences. in the other hand the ropes you added with the grindstone is called "running rigging" because its used from the crew to control the ship so the ropes were constantly sliding (running), you should make them from oak or birch.
One last thing, the mizzen mast should me the smallest of all, in the screen seems like its equal with the fore mast
The color shifting of prismarine always reminds me of the shadows of passing ☁️ clouds on a sunny, breezy day. I actually enjoy it.
Lichen would add a green tint to the rocks during the day, and enough light during night to stop mob spawns. Personally, I think a combination of both would give you a richer palette to work with.
Imagine glow lichen planks
Love it when this game makes you pop a vessel XD
A word on color, the illustration is keying the green/blue on the sky color. When you go to paint a picture, you integrate the color scheme "all over." What this means is to preserve the spirit of the inspiration piece it’s better to consider the color keys in the biome you are in. It’s kind of like transposing the key in music. The original may be written in a certain key, but you can preserve the original while altering it to suit your situation by transposing the key.
If you want to maintain the misty watercolor feel of the original, you would consider your biome color scheme and lighten the tone of the colors (hues.) Or if you are more interested in the structure, you can recreate the art in richer colors from the palette of your biome.
It’s always more satisfying to be inspired by the work of another person rather than copying. Copying can be frustrating and downright boring, whereas being inspired is uplifting and lets you grow. The word "inspire" means ‘to breathe in" and is a good place to begin… breathing in the image and internalizing it before you begin, then seeing the space you are actually in and how the breathe and the reality can come together to realize your own personal vision.
(Yeah, I’ve been an artist for 50+ years…)
this is a good breakdown! unfortunately, i don't think we have the vanilla biome colours OR the block colours needed to faithfully recreate the original art's colour palette, but in a heavily modded save it'd be fascinating to see the choices that could be made.
@@emryspaperart yes, but what I mean is (and probably didn’t say very well) is that, for example, the sky in the original matches the bare rocks. The sky in MC is very blue. The grass is greener, the rocks grayer. But they can complement each other in similar ways to the original. As if you recapture the original in black and white (and gray) then re-colorized it in MC colors. Integrating it into the whole of the world instead of creating a vignette.
I’m not criticizing Pixlriff’s work, it’s just something his tutorial inspired me to think and write about: how would I approach this project?
@@Yzyxdolorza honestly, to me, it seem as if that's exactly what Pix is doing.
So glad you're back! I was having withdrawal crisis already 😅
A ship populated by chickens sounds like Gonzo’s dream boat 😂
this was such a masterclass in not only the creative mode sketching process but also in fostering building up archives of artists you admire to help develop your own work, and in how to encourage people towards respectfully using other artists' work transformatively.
I need more episodes like this for some reason. You've covered a lot of this before and you're not the first/only one I follow giving these kinds of "tutorials", and yet I still really struggle to figure these things out. I started a HUGE build (at least for us) last year with my brother-in-law and while i have the inspiration and such, figuring out the actual block placement is VERY difficult for me. So thank you again for going through this in yet another way.
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I love that I can rewatch any survival guide episode a few months after it was published and always learn something new
People who say that you have to do things in survival-only are wrong on multiple levels. *They* may find it more fun/challenging, but to everyone else it's likely not a beneficial approach. I wouldn't even try doing any kind of decorative building at a larger scale, if it wasn't for tests in a creative copy of the world I play on. Figuring out the general shape and the overall material choices means I know what kind of farms I need or which manually-harvested resources I need to concentrate my efforts on.
Thanks to Creative mode I found a crater-like area in this world, where I decided to put the Nali castle from the old Unreal intro/menu sequence. I hope to eventually make a ReplayMod recreation of that flight sequence in Minecraft, but mostly that's where my storage lives. (And it took some tools to figure out scaling and alignment of all the parts.)
Agreed! I'm building a fairly huge world for some friends right now and if I had to do it in survival I'd have given up months ago. I've used nearly 2 million oak logs and leaves alone building the custom trees and it's taken me 10 months to finish the main build. When I decide to go play a survival world that'll be different, but I am firmly of the belief that creative mode is a blessing to people who are not good at freehanding.
Glad to have you back Pix! Hope you had a nice break. At the beginning of the video, you mentioned artists using references & just wanted to add another, perhaps even more relevant example. It's extremely common for Architects to us precedents when starting out on a new project.
I also wanted to say that the inspiration image is really cool & your build is looking great! One piece of constructive criticism though as you move from creative to survival - I would consider sharpening the taper at the bow of the boat. I understand that it is a conscious decision to remove a lot of the vertical angle as it isn't actually in water & to give the impression of bracing on the underside, but when combined with the relatively "dull" angle from the sides, the bow is looking quite stub-nosed. I would recommend starting the side-to-side taper one section earlier and (maybe two?) and keep it sharper at the very tip. Obviously, I'm just going off of the video and might be off base here as I don't have the benefit of flying around viewing it from multiple angles. Just my two cents. Either way, I'm excited to see the end result!
This video came in just the PERFECT moment, Pixl!!
I finished the early game part in my MC world and was struggling on what to do as my permanent base, but now I feel much more confident on trying some different stuff ❤❤❤
The reference image is so different from what I imagined it to be when it was mentioned on the Spawn Chunks. It looks like it could've come from a 19th century novel.
One note about AI images: I found a really cool image of a medieval street on Google, but when zoomed in everything was kinda vague and felt "off". Turned out to be AI. I'd say AI is good at capturing a "vibe" but when it comes to precision and detail it's nowhere near a human artist.
Edit: if you're on Windows 10 and only have 1 screen, the default gallery app can be locked so it's always on top, which is really useful if you want a reference image to be open without having to alt+f4
been encountering this topic of "nothing is ever truly original - we all are inspired by others" a lot nowadays.
And personally, i think that is what is beautiful about us humans and we get to learn a lot about where they come from and what they like by looking at the art they create and things they're inspired from.
Unfortunately, this also causes people to accuse an inspired artist for plagiarizing someone else's work.
On the other hand, there are also artists who legit plagiarize other works and calling it as an inspiration in order to escape public anger.
At least that's what I observed when the rumor about the artist behind the *_Jujutsu Kaisen_* anime was accused for plagiarism arised.
New survival guide episode yes!!!!!!!!!! Hi pix! I know this wasn't technically in survival but I absolutely loved this episode, a very chill vibe just sitting and watching you work through how you prepare for a new build. very good episode to sit and watch with a warm blanket and a cup of tea. Very excited to see the floating ship come together!
My favorite part of this ship? Well, the mast's a big plus.
Thanks for lecturing me on how to build a boat, Pixlriffs.
I'm currently on the process of turning a village into a city with lots of tall buildings and now I'm at the part of trying to create a harbour for said city where a boat is being docked.
And I'm planning to use that boat as a home for the Fisherman villager. I think boat is a fitting home for such profession.
Happy new year's pix, glad to have the series back. always makes my morning better when i see a survival guide video
You’ve done it again Pixlriffs. I find myself hooked on an episode I did not expect to like. I tend not to have the attention span for inspiration videos. But this one got hold of me and I ended up watching the whole thing. Great episode. Now I want to build a floating island in my server.
Love everything about this episode as an artist and avid minecraft builder!! I had no idea artstation had that feature, I'll definitely be browsing there more often now. This build is gonna turn out FANTASTIC I can already tell!!
I must say this might just be one your most impressive builds yet. (Waiting for this vedio for over a month has been well worth it.)
I was so excited to see you building a ship. I'm playing along on this seed and I've been planning to build a pirate ship inside the big cave on the backside of the mountain. This has given me a lot of helpful tips.
I love floating islands!
you are a true chap and admirable creative youtuber. love your content to bits!
Since caves and cliffs, I started to love floating isles. My whole base is a collection of floating isles above the ocean. For me there are three main advantages:
1. Having the lowest surface of the isle 128 blocks above the ground or sea, helps spawning rules.
2. Less surface to light, so easy to spawn proof. Other isles within 128 blocks can be used for spawning, because:
3. The inside of the isle can be hollow, slabbed off and also used to house about all the farms.
Oh that’s smart, I may make a village like that
This is great pix!, I would make a suggestion myself: making the bow of the ship a little bit curvier on the underside, in a manner that curves into the ship itself before being in contact with the floating island soil/ground. But looking forward to this project.
I'd agree, it looks a little more barge than galleon atm.
Dang, that's an excellent start!
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this video. You were able to show us the middle part of building that I always feel is missing from some "mega builds" within the Minecraft community. Usually we only get to see the beginning, maybe a little bit of the inspiration and some trial and error clips, but then there's a huge mental(?) gap between that and the finished product. It's refreshing and enjoyable to see your thought process and I wish more people went into details like the palette of blocks they will work with and how revelations (ex. you using grindstones between the rigging) come to be. Tootsie is one RUclipsr that I think of when I want to compare.
So so glad to have more survival guide
Great to have you back!
What a great episode! Nice to see behind the curtain a little bit. Thx!
He's back! Yay!
Yay! Welcome back!
Saying hi from Montreal myself. Keep up the strong work. Love watching your videos. < 3
I think one of the things people often forget with age of sail large ships is that the main body of the ship actually gets wider as it goes down from the top deck. Then after it reaches a certain chubbiness it pretty sharply cuts in and forms the keel. Also metal. The bottoms of boats features copper fairly prominently. AND folks back in the day likes pretty things so the wood was frequently painted too.
I love the process and how you talk us through it! I might just now try something like this! Feels like I can break down the individual components better.
Definitely appreciate the content regarding how to plan a build and its execution. I've been doing a lot of more experimental building and trying to get out of my comfort zone in regards to building, so seeing the thought process that goes in before even putting down the first block of the build is beyond helpful. Super excited to see the building process play out in survival!
love the video - as an architectural designer, I just want to emphasize that architects do this all the time. visual inspiration is a huge aspect of creative design. for those feeling overwhelmed or unmotivated bc it feels like you are copying someone else’s idea, just remember that even professionals utilize other’s work to inspire their process, that’s why we publish and share work, it’s a huge part of understanding how to design. I even have utilized ideas from minecraft when working on projects bc being creative goes a very long way. being creative doesn’t mean you have to always have original idea, it’s meant to be a process. recreating something can open up so many new ideas, and the best way to prevent creative blocks is to just start, even if it’s “copying”. you’ll generate your own ideas as you go through it. also remember to have fun and enjoy, it’s easy to get lost in the process.
also - artists constantly will sketch existing things to better understand what it is they are working on; objects, scenery, buildings, people, etc are great examples of things that inspire us. even in minecraft, building something that isn’t an original idea will go a long way to making you a better builder/designer!
Been missing survival guide :) Love seeing the process and the thoughts
This episode is amazing!! So many great building tips, I find myself really believing that fences are ropes sometimes lol, and it's so cool to see how a brilliant project like this comes together! I've heard some builders talk about their behind the scenes process before, but never in as much detail and in a truly tutorial format like this! Great way to start the new year! :D
So glad to see your videos again. This one was excellent timing as I have been doing research myself to expand my knowledge and building skills!! ❤❤
Everyone needs a holiday, & you deserve that as much as anyone else, Pix', but I've really missed your content for the past 4 weeks. It's really good to see you back m8 :)
Takes me back to when I built the HMS Victory in my Minecraft world with the help of two or three hour long tutorial which came out years ago.
I used so much wood that I have a spruce forest peninsula without any spruce trees. :D
Welcome back Pix! This ship reminds me of when I played Final Fantasy 7 and you get control of the airship. The main thing I remembered was the propeller on the back that looked like a windmill.
Glad to see you back. Really looking forward to this in the survival world!
I hope when you place it in the world, you also dig out the ground to show where the chunk of floating land came from.
Also, welcome back!
Thanks, Pix! Awesome work!
Pixl is back with a banger 🎉❤
I adore historic rigged ships so the thumbnail already has me very excited-
Glad to see another episode, Pix! I hope you had a nice holiday.
I LOVE Greg Fromenteau and am so so excited for this project!!
Captains cabin looks like a skull. I like it.
25:53 instead of the trapdoors I would use grindstones, that way it feels like the rigging is actually tied to something
Ooo that could look good
Wow... That's really great. I need to start looking for more fantasy art to incorporate.
This was awesome, thanks Pix!
I'm so excited for this build it looks so pretty!!
You don’t need to see anything while steering a ship. Most old Dutch ships have the rudder in the lower parts of the ship where you can’t see anything at all. This is why the flying Dutchman ship in potc is not actually a Dutchman 😅 but it looks a lot less cool if you have the helmsman below the ship, and not very dramatically steering on top of it 🙈
Hey Pix, not sure if anyone has commented on this already. For the horizontal logs on the masts, their ends show the red of the mangrove. May I suggest using the all-bark blocks there like you did with the front “nose” or spear of the ship? Hope you have a good one!
The Return of the King :D Happy New Year Pix! Hope you had a good time with your family!
On the topic of prismarine, I have a strange contrasting build palate I'm working with
Deepslate tiles and Prismarine as the base blocks with integrated water features, amethyst, and end crystals
I figured something mystical would fit the prismarine better for my style
That and I've been using the creative project to work on my freehand curves
Lovely as always ❤
That's gonna look so good when finished!
Wow pixell you're finally back ... i missed your videos... i was waiting and waiting
Really exicted for this project 🔥
thanks Pixlriffs, i was busy building a harbor on "our" world... and this ship is also comming to my version... I love how we started at the same place but how different it is becomming...
wake up babe new survival guide episode is here
I love this guy's art
I appreciate this.
just cool! I like it. You don't just make survival and kill mobs etc... You also show us how to build such things.
This has barely any relevance, but once my brother discovered a floating shipwreck in Minecraft on a shared survival world. But only half of it was floating a hundred blocks in the air- the other half generated normally in the sand. we should’ve made a cool build out of that…
One feature i think would be a cool feature Mojang could add would be the ability to add dye to Cut blocks using the stonecutter. I think that would add the right or at least close to the right shade to the blue in the build.
i liked this episode very much
The ship could also be a pirate ship from the end! Those are floating as well, it could’ve somehow made its way through a portal and into the over world!
Thanks for making another video.
This this was Great 👍
Finaly another episode 😊
To be honest, those who claim not to build off of inspiration but rather their own creativity are not truly reflecting on where that creativity stems from. While the sources of a person's creativity may not be apparent, potentially even to themselves, they are all built upon prior understandings and experiences and considerations.
Using creative mode allows for the refinement and visualisation of concepts, aiding in the expression of your imagination and creative process. You are no more or less imaginative, or creative, or "legit" by utilising the tools available to you: creative mode; in order to achieve the finished product - that claim is simply an attempt to place their means of creative expression above another. In truth these different approaches coexist without one being inherently superior to the other.
My favorite build I’ve made in Minecraft so far was ideated from a Zillow listing 😂
You could check out the Swedish ship "Vasa". It is the best preserved ship from that period.
Happy New Year Pix!
Yay! Your back!
Great video!!!
Honestly I play in peaceful. I dislike that creepers no longer have tip taps allowing you to move them away from your chest monster and after one too many times of having mine explodificating into bits, I started playing in peaceful. I get a lot of shade for it but I have expanded more in Minecraft because I don't fear losing progress to a ninja creeper. Everyone plays differently. Some break world records, some use world edit and some of us tackle insane projects in survival with 2 stone masons and a 10 plus stack of terracotta for the next step lol. Can't wait to see how this project goes as I catch up on the MCSG :D
To me some of my the best builds come from creative first.
Especially when it is as big as decked out. A lot of the red stone and mob testing were in creative. So yes creative is always apart of the process of building. Even in real life a lot of buildings are from blueprints and never freehand built and cities require blueprints to even get the permits.
I get a lot of inspiration from the cartoon One Piece, but the ideas seem to turn into mega-builds, haha
welcome back to youtube
But remember, it's just a theory. A BUILD THEORY!!!
In science, "theory" is the highest praise a claim/explanation attempt of a phenomenon can get. If you're proposing a new way to explain something, it starts out as "hypothesis".
You should do a giant barn project for your cows, horses, donkeys, mules and chickens
I'm commenting to boost engagement!
Thoughts: could the floating island be populated by villagers to make it a "trading island", putting fences on the ends so they don't fall off
Or lock them in the ship
Welcome back!
Hello pix! Remember me? U told me you were looking forward to my comment! I am soo glad to see you posting again! Much love❤
welcome backkkkkk
WAKE UP BABE PIX IS BACK!!!
i think it would be really cool if you had shaders on maybe
It's been a minute bro😭welcome back Pix🔥🤝🏾