I myself am in no way promote myself as a master builder, I however have been taught by some very talented guys from Pwegoserver. I am here to share their wisdom with you all today.

1.) Don't be over ambitious with your project. Single-person projects are often over amibitioius which leads to the player giving up on his/her works. This has happened to me many times. Planning ahead as to much how much you'll work on the project usually results in a much more determined and reasonable mindset, as the player knows exactly what he/she will do and when they'll do it.

2.) Building styles work for different people. Don't ever try and stick to one style of building right off the back. It's a common mistake to think that modern style building is the most simple. This is in fact not true at all. I myself have found modern builds to be very difficult and tedious to arrange. Different strokes for different folks.

3.) Be open to ideas. A stubborn builder will inevtiably develop a repetition of dull and similair builds, in contrast to a flexible builder whom will have colourful and uniquely different builds, because two ideas is better than one.

4.) So far, I've listed characteristics that present a builder as talented, but now it's time for how to improve your actual builds. The LARGEST two issues I've seen with new builders is block variety and shape. Builds are supposed to be versatile, capitivating, and made unique under the builder's talent. Diamond block houses cannot acheive this. I've recently just figured out how to make a great shaped houes: Make the foundation first. It can be absolutely random and made out of any blocks. After a foundation is laid out, build in and around it so you have a basis for your build, and it won't be all over the place. Foundations at any time can be altered, as I usually change mine as I go along to maximize the the aethistecs of my builds.

(an example of a before and after on a foundation. Notice the significant changes added to the original foundation)