If you haven't built anything better than that you’re not trying to make good builds. Edit: Most people complaining that they can’t build don’t spend time practicing or looking for building tips. Anyone can be a good builder if they spend the time to practice and learn.
Ivr yried building so much in Minecraft but after hiyting mulyioke small road blocks and hust being bad at patience and trial and error, I give up and make other stuff in minecraft. I eish I vould make sonething as hood as this build but I'm hapoy with my no details weird vonjoined boxes houses for noe
I know that everything on social media is photoshopped but then I somehow forget that Minecraft can be photoshopped too. So I'm literally comparing my builds to photoshopped ones and I end up thinking mine look plain and need more detail.
Remember that e v e r y t h i n g is edited somehow. And that's not a bad thing!! Just as music is fine tuned (Just listen to a demo) so are other forms of art. People put filters over digital art, over their own bodies (which can be considered art), and, well, Minecraft builds. So don't compare yourself to them before you *really* have the final, edited product.
you can use complimentary shaders + adjust settings a little bit and your builds will look like insta as you build them, it really is just about how you're rendering your light The FOV and grey background really only matter for focusing on the blocks in the picture, but if its in your real world you can just walk towards it
If you aint in bedrock, getting shaders is practically half the fight of buildings, makes EVERYTHING look better, I have to play on bedrock because of a server im in and it hurts me, I just cant, its too plain 😭. So remember that mostly, you can think about lighting as much as you want, but without shaders it wont matter much.
@@rhinoinahat With a good enough angle, good shaders and either a filter and/or a little Photoshop knowledge, even the ugliest 10x10x10 hollow dirt cube with a door will look gorgeous...
I needed this video. Just built my first starter house without following a tutorial and was feeling bad about how it turned out. This cheered me up a lot.
The best you can do is do one thing then improve on it over time, like my first starter house was made of wooden planks and other random blocks that I found like dirt then after that i started using one block type for each house and eventually i started adding roofs and stuff, eventually you might be able to do your own builds without needing any tutorials
Next step, build without tutorials. Best way to learn how to build is experiment on your own. Only building off of tutorials is limiting. And it also helps to “love the process, as much as the product” when building.
Yeah, if your build doesn't look as good as the others' it's sometimes not because you are a worse overall builder, but it's because you have a worse overall glory shot of your creation. I like how you addressed this particular thing, also a very wholesome thing to tell to your audience.
Trying to learn building, seeing something cool trying to recreate it only to realize they’re just using mods and texture packs. The pain of anyone learning to build.
What makes me smile the most is the moment he mentions on changing both background and floor with grey concrete.... because I know a lot of minecraft pinterest accounts posts like that😂
This is why I don’t look at build tutorials or tour videos with an abundance of shaders and camera angles you never see during actual gameplay. Feels like a crutch when you can build things that are actually nice within Minecraft’s aesthetic.
this literally just happened to me today and this made me feel way better, literally followed the tutorial exactly so i was like damn :/ but this makes total sense!
I've not watched a lot of Joel's stuff, but from what I have seen I expected this to be a joke or some sort of backhanded compliment. But that was like, actually really nice and helpful. Love the positivity. Thanks man.
In all honesty- I needed this. Ive built so many pretty decent builds in survival singleplayer but i always felt that they were pretty much trash. But knowing that some people use photoshop and texture packs i feel a decent amount better with my builds ^w^
Okay but like, this *genuinely* did make me feel better about my building skills. There's been so many times where I've done replication as a method for learning building styles and techniques, and there's been *so many times* where I've replicated something block-for-block, and something about it just looked *wrong* , and it genuinely got to a point where I felt like my self-esteem had hit such a critically low point that I genuinely couldn't perceive anything I built as on par with my source material or inspiration (like, I've never considered myself a bad builder, but I never considered myself a particular amazing builder either). Seeing this video has genuinely made me see, metaphorically and literally, why nothing I built ever seems as good as the sort of things I can find on google or in a youtube thumbnail. A sincere thank you, SmallishBeans. I think this might be the first time a video has actually made me feel better about myself.
I feel like apart from photoshop, this also highlights the importance of surroundings when it comes to framing your builds. Building at least a little bit of foliage around your build or changing the ground to fit the vibe of the build etc. Cna make a huge impact on how it looks
Really REALLY pro tips i learned from Donfuer 1 - volume: what most builds miss is depth in texture, usually being flat. Overhang your roofs, add slabs into the walls under support beams, make struts sticking out from beams that hold lamps, add shrubbery, replace cobble with mossy cobble, etc. Decorate and change to add detail while maintain a mostly cohesive idea. 2 - shaders: always judge your final builds with shaders or build with shaders enabled to make sure your build looks great in proper lighting. 3 - copy others: nobodys going to hate on you for copying a design or building something mimicking a design, and the experience will NEVER be detrimental. Always learn, minecraft gives you that opportunity.
I have been playing Minecraft casually for a while and was beginning to think I just suck at building. Thank you so much for this! I'm going to finally finish my dream home.❤
This is such an important message. So important. It’s not you, it’s the shaders and the photoshop. Get better texture packs (I love StayTrue), get good shaders, and your builds … still won’t look as good as Instagram, but they’ll be a lot closer!
This is why ive learned to take inspiration from real life/fantastical buildings and just innovate as I go along cant wait for my base to be finished lol😂
I had the opposite issue for a bit, I got too good at building that it made me miss and appreciate those very basic unique Minecraft houses from old Minecraft. Rn I’m playing 1.7.3 Beta and it’s making me relive how it felt to not taking building too seriously yk
Thanks all these years. i always buil upside down T and said to myself that does not look good, and then i build the most realistic upside down T and now it looks good
Late to the party, but I just caught the short. Thank you, Joel. Just a few hours ago I was free-styling a big gate in survival, and being hard on myself about how it was coming along. It was good to hear that. It's like the beauty standard. We're fed souped-up, photoshopped versions of reality, so we start feeling that we're just not doing enough, or maybe just don't have "it". But it's all based on a lie.
“And no, I didn’t build the back”
*Breaking news: Joel is Grian in disguise!*
My whole world is a lie
😂
NOOOOOOO
I'm telling you, he's just preparing for Hermitcraft lol
He already takes on their habits
@@noatmealcookie02 Bad Boys canon event
a ‘quick house’
proceeds to build a house better than anything i’ve ever built in minecraft
Career Minecrafters, amiright?
If you haven't built anything better than that you’re not trying to make good builds.
Edit: Most people complaining that they can’t build don’t spend time practicing or looking for building tips. Anyone can be a good builder if they spend the time to practice and learn.
Ivr yried building so much in Minecraft but after hiyting mulyioke small road blocks and hust being bad at patience and trial and error, I give up and make other stuff in minecraft. I eish I vould make sonething as hood as this build but I'm hapoy with my no details weird vonjoined boxes houses for noe
@@callmeaspen3868 I think a few of the keys on your keyboard are switched around
@@hyxlo_ my brother in Christ I try my best but the best thing that I can make is an upscaled version of my skin, I have no artistic talent whatsoever
instructions unclear, my wooden box still looks like a wooden box
I felt this video was like "youre not a bad builder" you're just a bad photographer 😂
FACTS
id disagree. a good photographer doesn't need digital editing tricks to produce a good photo. That makes them a bad photographer, but a good editor.
No not really even the best photographer edit their photos because your crazy if you think that the world actaully looks that vibarant
@@lykun_ This is just objectively false, the very best picture ever will still look better enhanced with tools
@@lykun_ As someone who does a lot of photography, I can assure you, even the best digital photographers will still use lightroom
I know that everything on social media is photoshopped but then I somehow forget that Minecraft can be photoshopped too. So I'm literally comparing my builds to photoshopped ones and I end up thinking mine look plain and need more detail.
Remember that e v e r y t h i n g is edited somehow. And that's not a bad thing!! Just as music is fine tuned (Just listen to a demo) so are other forms of art. People put filters over digital art, over their own bodies (which can be considered art), and, well, Minecraft builds. So don't compare yourself to them before you *really* have the final, edited product.
Same trick bodybuilders use to look good on the gram is the shadows and lighting, the background, and photoshop!
you can use complimentary shaders + adjust settings a little bit and your builds will look like insta as you build them, it really is just about how you're rendering your light
The FOV and grey background really only matter for focusing on the blocks in the picture, but if its in your real world you can just walk towards it
If you aint in bedrock, getting shaders is practically half the fight of buildings, makes EVERYTHING look better, I have to play on bedrock because of a server im in and it hurts me, I just cant, its too plain 😭.
So remember that mostly, you can think about lighting as much as you want, but without shaders it wont matter much.
@@rhinoinahat With a good enough angle, good shaders and either a filter and/or a little Photoshop knowledge, even the ugliest 10x10x10 hollow dirt cube with a door will look gorgeous...
I needed this video. Just built my first starter house without following a tutorial and was feeling bad about how it turned out. This cheered me up a lot.
your feelings were irrational
The best you can do is do one thing then improve on it over time, like my first starter house was made of wooden planks and other random blocks that I found like dirt then after that i started using one block type for each house and eventually i started adding roofs and stuff, eventually you might be able to do your own builds without needing any tutorials
Next step, build without tutorials. Best way to learn how to build is experiment on your own. Only building off of tutorials is limiting. And it also helps to “love the process, as much as the product” when building.
Good! ^-^
@@NameorsomethingIdunnothey said without following a tutorial
It looks lovely..... But of course the back isnt done😂😂😂
i agree with your comment
Grian is a bad influence
When he said 10 minutes, I thought "Wow." But typical Joel.
I’ve always built the back but never the roof. It’s such a pain to design roofs so I put it off for months or a year in my case.
Grian ah comment
SmallishBeans: you’re not a bad builder.
Me: My dirt hut says otherwise.
dirt huts are an absolute classic
Does it accomplish what you need it to accomplish? Congrats! It's a great build!
With a furnace and a crafting table, it’s a house
my shoebox says otherwise
Where'd you build it?
Yeah, if your build doesn't look as good as the others' it's sometimes not because you are a worse overall builder, but it's because you have a worse overall glory shot of your creation. I like how you addressed this particular thing, also a very wholesome thing to tell to your audience.
HE WENT GRIAN WITH THE BACK ...
What if the house was made of dirt and cobble ? No? To bad? Aw man
163 likes and no comment?
Lemme fix that
232 likes and 1 comment? Lemme fix that
389 likes and 2 comments? Lemme fix that
407 likes and 3 comments? Lemme fix that
601 likes and 4 comments? Lemme fix that
“Dirt house selling for $1,000,000, seller’s sanity questioned”
Remember guys, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING looks good with shaders
literal dirt shacks look better with shaders unironically
shaders made my creepy crypt thing under my castle too bright and it actually looks better and creepier without, so i htink there are few exceptions
@@J685C you just werent using the right shaders
my penis statues looks majestic with shaders
even upside down T’s look delicious with shaders.
ngl this is probably one of the best "how to add shaders in minecraft" tutorial
"You're not a bad builder" you don't know me, I can make literally any build bad through sheer stupidity
Joel (grian in disguise) is now giving me the confidence boost I didn't know I needed but definitely appreciate.
the quick house is a work of art joel
I have been struggling with this feel in particular so I appreciate this a lot
Bro casually builds a better build than I have ever built
Trying to learn building, seeing something cool trying to recreate it only to realize they’re just using mods and texture packs. The pain of anyone learning to build.
another thing is that some of us literally can't build and their computer doesn't have storage for shaders 😭
If you have minecraft, you have enough storage for shaders, they're like 400kb
@@TrueOracleI think he means RAM
@@TrueOracle I don't know how to install them 😭😭😭😭
Or we don't even have computers and play on console instead
@@Theoretical360 You can't "run out" of RAM.
This is the building version of Instagram Filters
Grian is slowly taking over Joel with how he didn't build the back 😭
yes but what about when the best thing you've ever built in minecraft is a dirt shack?
just stone cube with pyramidal roof of oak blocks
"You're not a bad builder" *me building a plain cobblestone box as a house in survival*
ngl, that's kind of what i needed to hear lol
Plot twist: Joel made this short for himself so that he could feel happy everytime he thinks his build is not as good as his inspiration picture
What makes me smile the most is the moment he mentions on changing both background and floor with grey concrete.... because I know a lot of minecraft pinterest accounts posts like that😂
This is why I don’t look at build tutorials or tour videos with an abundance of shaders and camera angles you never see during actual gameplay. Feels like a crutch when you can build things that are actually nice within Minecraft’s aesthetic.
I like the positivity from Joel. ❤
idk man that house is still better than anything I've ever built
Thats why I think all my builds suck, I don't use shaders! You just solved all my problems.
I read the title and went "a compliment from Joel? no way, it must be impossible" but it wasnt, this was genuinely very nice joel thx.
this literally just happened to me today and this made me feel way better, literally followed the tutorial exactly so i was like damn :/ but this makes total sense!
I can’t tell you how awesome it was to open my notifications to see “Smallishbeans: You’re not a bad builder”. Thanks, man. I needed to hear that. 😂❤
Mood
I think this is the most wholesome I’ve ever seen Joel
“It’s all about the lighting” is a completely true statement.
I really thought he was going to say something about everyone having their own unique and special style of building😭
Thank you for this. Seriously.
I love and appreciate this short❤
I've not watched a lot of Joel's stuff, but from what I have seen I expected this to be a joke or some sort of backhanded compliment. But that was like, actually really nice and helpful. Love the positivity. Thanks man.
Bro just pulled a Grian…
this was actually a very sweet post lol thanks for the confidence boost
plot twist: joel just hires grian to make the fronts of every one of his bases, and then he finishes the back sides.
This is my childhood, so glad you finally came up in my feed:D
This man is turning into grian slowly but surely
Bro, i Never thought about that, but it makes sense
this is so encouraging actually
Joel didn't build the back...
And this is why he'd fit into Hermitcraft so well
I’m still stuck at the building house step 🤔
Rare footage of joel not insulting but giving reassurance to his audience 😯
"and no i didnt build the back"
joel has been griannified
Thanks joel this is exactly what happened with me just a few minutes ago i was scrolling yt irritatedly but then 😭
Bro pulled a grian with that house
It feels sorta like she’s singing it in a smooth jazz bar, it’s a lot calmer and more soothing than the original in a very nice way
In all honesty- I needed this. Ive built so many pretty decent builds in survival singleplayer but i always felt that they were pretty much trash. But knowing that some people use photoshop and texture packs i feel a decent amount better with my builds ^w^
I liked my own comment
I liked your comment as well :)
@@mauraccc6491and I like urs☺️
And I as well
(But please don't let this be the top comment)
@@DriestApollo(its not mine has 16k)
literally one of the most encouraging shorts ever. Thanks Joel
This is why I appreciate videos when they walk around the build or move around it So you know that its for real
joes ‘quick house’ is how i feel when an artist makes a ‘quick sketch’ and its better than anything i could ever do💀💀
Thank you. Was getting really frustrated with myself but this was really helpful.
“And no i didnt build the back”
What a genius.
Why was this so encouraging when I don't even struggle with this
❤❤❤❤❤ I needed to hear this Joel. Thank you.
What began as an encouraging video about minecraft became a lesson on how social media ruins your self-esteem
Joel must work in food adverts!
Hearing Joel tell me im not a bad builder has been the biggest serotonin boost of my day
You’re truly a multi faceted creator. You got the PVP, building, comedy, social, etc. I’m seriously looking forward to you in HC
Okay but like, this *genuinely* did make me feel better about my building skills. There's been so many times where I've done replication as a method for learning building styles and techniques, and there's been *so many times* where I've replicated something block-for-block, and something about it just looked *wrong* , and it genuinely got to a point where I felt like my self-esteem had hit such a critically low point that I genuinely couldn't perceive anything I built as on par with my source material or inspiration (like, I've never considered myself a bad builder, but I never considered myself a particular amazing builder either). Seeing this video has genuinely made me see, metaphorically and literally, why nothing I built ever seems as good as the sort of things I can find on google or in a youtube thumbnail. A sincere thank you, SmallishBeans. I think this might be the first time a video has actually made me feel better about myself.
This is some great advice for posting builds.
Oh, and Grian would be proud
I feel like apart from photoshop, this also highlights the importance of surroundings when it comes to framing your builds. Building at least a little bit of foliage around your build or changing the ground to fit the vibe of the build etc. Cna make a huge impact on how it looks
Rare sighting of Joel not roasting the viewer
The absolute confidence this has given me.
That was not the ending I was expecting. Thank you Joel
idk why but the "youre not a bad builder" made me emotional
That is so wholesome. I don't even recognize Joel like that.
I find subscribing to your channel makes all my builds amazing
Ok grian I didn’t know your Joel impression was this on point
Really REALLY pro tips i learned from Donfuer
1 - volume: what most builds miss is depth in texture, usually being flat. Overhang your roofs, add slabs into the walls under support beams, make struts sticking out from beams that hold lamps, add shrubbery, replace cobble with mossy cobble, etc. Decorate and change to add detail while maintain a mostly cohesive idea.
2 - shaders: always judge your final builds with shaders or build with shaders enabled to make sure your build looks great in proper lighting.
3 - copy others: nobodys going to hate on you for copying a design or building something mimicking a design, and the experience will NEVER be detrimental. Always learn, minecraft gives you that opportunity.
It’s like the fitness influencers only look great on social media but not the same in real life (no filters/modifications)
Bro why does bodybuilder dysmorphia work the exact same way as Minecraft building
JOEL JUST MADE THE CLASSIC GRIAN MOVE😮😮
"you are not a bad builder"
Me building a totally square house of wood planks or dirt
I have been playing Minecraft casually for a while and was beginning to think I just suck at building. Thank you so much for this! I'm going to finally finish my dream home.❤
This is such an important message. So important. It’s not you, it’s the shaders and the photoshop. Get better texture packs (I love StayTrue), get good shaders, and your builds … still won’t look as good as Instagram, but they’ll be a lot closer!
This is the wholesomeness we didnt know we needed
this helped me and so many other people, thank you
This is why ive learned to take inspiration from real life/fantastical buildings and just innovate as I go along cant wait for my base to be finished lol😂
I'm saving that entrance with stairs idea, looks neat!
Grian is infecting Joel with his lack of back building.
Ya know what? Thank you Joel. I actually truly needed that inspiration.
I had the opposite issue for a bit, I got too good at building that it made me miss and appreciate those very basic unique Minecraft houses from old Minecraft. Rn I’m playing 1.7.3 Beta and it’s making me relive how it felt to not taking building too seriously yk
Thanks all these years. i always buil upside down T and said to myself that does not look good, and then i build the most realistic upside down T and now it looks good
This is a joke
Always thought my stuff lacked sparkle, but then I realized I love building labyrinths so honestly there isn’t much to see from out outside 😅
Now I wanna see dolly zooms of minecraft builds
Yo this is a big confidence boost fr
Late to the party, but I just caught the short.
Thank you, Joel. Just a few hours ago I was free-styling a big gate in survival, and being hard on myself about how it was coming along. It was good to hear that.
It's like the beauty standard. We're fed souped-up, photoshopped versions of reality, so we start feeling that we're just not doing enough, or maybe just don't have "it". But it's all based on a lie.
That Minecraft house simulation looked straight outta AVM
This is really comforting :) thanks Joel
"No I didn't build the back" grain moment
Quick 10 minute house, bro