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How to build: Medieval. [Beginner]

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Welcome my good friends. Ironicly, I started this tutorial series with the Advanced tutorial, since it was just ready first. I now intend to follow a more logical order. Also, I want to put this out there. This blog is not designed to make you a better overal builder, nor teach you any other style besides medieval fantasy. This blog is to show you how I like to build medieval and medieval fantasy, the tricks I use, and the little differences I create. I like to teach people how I learn: I learn by example. Within each of these tutorials, I will "showcase" a design, where I will show you my thought process while building and also how to build that specific design.
The stuff in here is important, you ought to read it if you are a complete beginner.
      Now, seeing how everyone reading this is most likely getting a grasp on where to begin with medieval fantasy and medieval styled builds, I do need to talk quite a bit first. There are some basics you must know. First of all, I would love to go over two very different styles, modern and medieval. These two are almost the EXACT opposite of each other, yet every beginner tries to do a modern/medieval mix. Modern is based upon an idea of exiguity, meaning thin, sleek, and smooth. Medieval, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. It is based entirely upon how thick, heavy, and fortified it can be. Much like the style around 1200AD. 
    These two get their difficulty from the exact opposite: Modern gets its looks from the idea of placing the least amount of blocks in the most organized and unnatural way possible. Medieval designs gets their desirability from placing the most blocks, in an organized and structured way, to supply the most detail, roughness, and fortitude to a build. 
     It is common, in medieval styled builds, to use logs and woods of all types, glass, iron bars, fences, cobblestone walls, stones of all type, stairs and slabs of all types (Except for brick, that is a hard one to use but it is possible), buttons, hoppers, torches (Not so much glowstone nor redstone lamps, those are not as common.), and then of course you have your detailing blocks such as wool and stained clays. These are all extraordinarily common blocks to use. 
     Medieval builds are my favorite due to what I mentioned above. They are thick, and they use a lot of blocks. This means that it can have the most style, the most detail, and the most artistic volume than some styles. Of course this also means that as you get better (See my advanced tutorial), you will be able to add what I like to call depth. Depth allows for this detailed, heavy, fortified, weighty look medieval requires. Modern normally possesses very little depth. By depth I mean when blocks come out from the "base layer" where the main foundations are. Anyways, now we will start building.


    The depth within the design is extraordinarily minimal. Just about a block and a half at most, or two layers. I will thank my mentor and friend Bramboss1 for the design I am about to showcase, since I was having a difficult time bringing it down to something so simple. First, we start with the foundation. It was chosen to have a 6 block high, 3 block wide foundation. The foundation is the very first blocks you put down that will control the dimensions of the build. The foundation should be a strong looking matieral, it should be upright, and it should be pretty basic. Normally I just do log columns, as is seen:
 How to build: Medieval. [Beginner]
Ignore the stuff around the foundation. Its just the build broken up or other builds I am working on in the background. So, here is my foundation. Basic stuff. One thing I forgot to add above is that when we build medieval, in order to acquire that realistic feel and look, it helps (atleast for me) to build realisticly. Of course, we dont need to go out of our way such as adding scaffolds and such, due to the fact minecraft has no physics, but it will help us to vaguely follow a realistic path (Last I checked constructionists can not fly... so use that to your advantage ;) ). Next, now that we have our foundations there to support our wall, we will add a wall. I will inlay it a bit, one block, to allow for future detailing.
How to build: Medieval. [Beginner]
Now we have our wall. As you can see, blocks were not kept just one singular type throughout. This adds to detail, and lets us get away with a less complicated design. Now, we will add some smaller details that will help fortify the build and make it look better.
How to build: Medieval. [Beginner]
And thats it for the first floor. Lets continue on, add second floor with our roof. Again, start with just the foundations.

Now, we repeat, and add walls. As you will see we use wools and other decorative blocks, to support the not as strong nor as thick design we used.
Here we go:

Now the build itself is mostly done. We have all of our foundations, all of our walls, etc. Now we just need to finish it up with some detail. Windows, some stairs in places, some other blocks to make it look detailed, complex, fortified, and strong.

And now we are done. Sorry for the long introduction. I felt it was necessary in order for you to understand medieval before actually getting blocks onto a world. 

If you wish, you may use this design anywhere. Seeing how this build really is of no remarkable skill or really took any time, I do not care if you use it for either your personal nor public use. Servers, texture packs, mods, I dont know nor do I care.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, I hope it helped, and I wish you the best of luck. If you wish to build with me or see my builds, you can come find me on a creative server called Dawn Creative, at mc.dawn-creative.net

CreditThank you, Bramboss1, for the design showcased in this blog.
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06/16/2014 8:15 am
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medievalheroes
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Do you even build?
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06/16/2014 12:25 pm
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CGBrothers
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Yes, I have been actively building on a creative server for the past year or so. Hi friend ^.^
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06/16/2014 2:05 am
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Chetcat
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"I do need to talk quite a bit first."

...Don't you always...?
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06/16/2014 3:37 am
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CGBrothers
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I had a lot to say about basic concepts like the idae of depth, detail, and the block pallete. Lol.
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