The Ultimate Minecraft Creator The Unofficial Building Guide to Minecraft & Other Games

209 Pages·2014·25.4 MB·English

by  Triumph Books

The
ULTIMATE
MINECRAFT
CREATOR
The Unoffcial Building Guide to Minecraft & Other Games
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Copyright © 2014 by Triumph Books LLC
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any
form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission
of the publisher, Triumph Books LLC, 814 North Franklin Street; Chicago, Illinois 60610.
This book is available in quantity at special discounts for your group or organization.
For further information, contact:
Triumph Books LLC
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
Phone: [phone]
www.triumphbooks.com
Printed in U.S.A.
ISBN: 978-1-62937-042-2
Content packaged by Mojo Media, Inc.
Joe Funk: Editor
Jason Hinman: Creative Director
Trevor Talley: Writer
This book is not authorized, sponsored, endorsed or licensed by Mojang AB. The trademark
Minecraft is owned by Mojang AB; other company names and/or trademarks mentioned in this book are
the property of their respective companies and are used for identifcation purposes only.
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Contents
Introduction ........................................................................... 6
Houses & Homes ................................................................... 8
Cities & Towns ..................................................................... 28
Castles & Forts ....................................................................48
Caves, Mines & More .......................................................... 70
Underwater Builds ............................................................. 80
Sky Builds ............................................................................. 90
Landscapes & Natural Builds ........................................ 106
Creative Builds .................................................................... 116
Redstone Mechs & Machines ......................................... 132
Melee Maps, Skyblock & More ...................................... 148
Painting With Blocks ....................................................... 164
Best Minecraft Servers ..................................................... 172
Master Builder Spotlights ............................................... 184
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Minecraft is not like
other video games.
Editor’s note: About Most games come out, are played for a while and then
98% of these builds are are set aside by all except the most hardcore fans, or
available to download those looking to dabble a bit in the realm of nostalgia.
online so you can play
yourself. For the most part, Any new and exciting things that will happen with
you will fnd them at the most games are due to rare updates or, in some cases,
spectacular and venerable bugs being exploited. There are, of course, changes in
PlanetMinecraft.com. strategies, but those tend to simply be slight variations
Simply go to that site and on things people were already doing with the game.
type the name of the build
in, and you should fnd After being out for half a decade, it is now clear that
most of these (the rest can
be found through Google Minecraft is not on the same path as these other
pretty easily). games. Where almost all other games would now be
relegated to the discount bin, picked up by only a few
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new players here and there, Minecraft has only become more and more played with
each passing month. Instead of fading away, Minecraft has outright exploded as
it has aged, being released on almost every major gaming platform and gaining
millions of new players with each passing year.
There’s obviously something about this little blocky, pixelated, lighthearted game
that sets it apart from other games. But what is it exactly that makes Minecraft
so unique in the gaming world? What keeps players interested for years after frst
picking it up? Why is Minecraft different?
Minecraft is different because it is not a just a game, it is a medium. Like painting,
singing or dancing, Minecraft is a way for people to express themselves. To put out
into the world what is in our heads. It is an imagination facilitator like few that have
ever come before, and every single day, in fact every single hour of every single day,
there is something new being done in this odd little game. Every day, in some corner
of the world, someone is tucked away in a bedroom, using the tools of Minecraft to
create something entirely unique, entirely new and entirely brilliant.
This book is about sharing those brilliant, new and unique creations that the players of
the world have made inside this insanely and, we believe, appropriately popular game.
Inside this book you will fnd everything from dazzling medieval castles that soar
up to meet the sky, to sprawling underwater bases that are so high-tech they give
most sci-f flms a run for their money. You will fnd mind-blowingly enormous
structures, cities that will make even the best computers scream for mercy as they
try to render their awesomeness and tidy little homes that’ll have you envisioning
a master architect at work, placing each and every block with care and precision.
There will be boats, temples, towns, foating islands, sublime mountainscapes,
incredible inventions, addictive mini-games and not just a few dragons.
You will, to put it simply, fnd a whole lot of amazing creations in this book. These
are the builds of the Minecraft universe in all their glory, but we think that they’re
not just that. To us, and to many of the fans out their, these builds represent what
the human mind is capable of dreaming up. They are quite literally the imagination
of the world. And they’re really, really cool.
Let’s dive in.
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THE ULTIMATE MINECRAFT CREATOR
Where We Live:
Houses & Homes
The frst thing almost every Minecrafter builds is a home. Otherwise,
Minecraft can be pretty tough (those Creepers ain’t gonna stay away out of
politeness), and so there’s no more appropriate place to start our tour of the
Minecraft universe than the houses and homes that our virtual players live in.
Now, while little Dirt hovels and your basic Cobblestone castles are all
well and good, classic even, here we’ve collected some houses and homes
that will have your mind teeming with new possibilities for shelters. From
painstakingly crafted feudal huts to modern domiciles that look like they
belong on the cover of a real-life architecture magazine, here are some of
the best homes of Minecraft.
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Where We Live: Houses & Homes
All-in-One House
By MinecraftPG5: This house is truly unique; in fact we’ve never seen anything like
it before. The brilliant and prolifc creators at the MinecraftPG5 group have worked
their Redstone magic and created a home that features literally everything you
could need all in one room.
Meant to be buried or to have walls built
around its mechanisms (which feature
Rails, Pistons and much more), the room
looks entirely empty when you walk in.
However, push the labeled buttons on
the wall and the mechanisms in place
will draw back portions of the room
to reveal everything from a Bed and a
Furnace to a Brewing Stand, Glowstone
lighting and more.
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