31 Essential Minecraft Build Hacks 

The minecraft way: Step 1: Build a 'temporary' box house or cave home Step 2: After playing for awhile and gathering materials, prepare to build your new house Step 3: Look up some builds people have done for their houses for inspiration Step 4: Realize that to accomplish any of those, you'll need to get 10x the resources you already have and spend like 10 hours of dedicated building time Step 5: Stop playing for 8 months Step 6: Start playing again, but feel completely lost and confused as to wtf you were doing Step 7: Decide to start a new world so you can just start from the start instead of trying to remember everything from your current world Step 8: Return to step 1

Also for the wall facade tip, most logs color match the next darkest plank, oak log=spruce plank, spruce log=dark oak plank, but dark oak log also matches itself

As a underground miner, it's been difficult to branch out into building. But this really helped. Thank you.

wow what a nice house! wish i had the patience to build it!

Step at beginning of the video: "Just extend the room with basic shapes." Step at end of the video: "Now build an entire warehouse."

A building tip for nether portals: You could use some nether blocks while your making your portal look good in overworld. It looks like nether is taking over the world just like mojang did with the ruined nether portals.

Just wanna real quick say that if you plan on being really good at building, this is NOT the only tutorial you need, not even remotely. Being an expert at building requires near perfect understanding of the basics, ie what they are and how to execute them. You need to understand most if not all of the simple concepts there are, have a huge amount of tricks and ideas saved up for detailing and really anything for that matter, often times even understand things like color theory. There is way too much to becoming a good builder to fit into a single video, especially an 8 minute one. But as far as guidelines for people who just want a nice house this video is great, pretty much everything is spot on and will make things look good almost every time you build it. Also if you want to get really into building, I would recommend watching all of Grians tutorials, and once you've gotten to a decently advanced level, watching tutorials from another, far smaller youtuber who goes by Horace - Minecraft. he is an amazing content creator and is incredibly talented in his craft, in my opinion, even better than grian is, though they do build in vastly different ways so there isn't much comparison that works there.

If there’s anything I’ve learned over the years of building in Minecraft, is that you shouldn’t be afraid to try new things and find inspiration for builds on the internet! Practice makes perfect after all

3:05 Tip for the trees: Use Spruce Planks with Oak Logs, because they have the same color. Also works with Dark Oak Planks on Spruce Logs.

This is the reason why your name is “Skip the tutorial”

7:26 Ah yes, soul lanterns before you build the nether portal. Makes perfect sense.

Just spent 5 hours using these tips to build a great survival base and boy does it look nice

Here’s an extra tip: Place Netherrack in different spots in the ground of the nether portal to make it look like it’s spreading into the world.

Holy gosh. I’d consider myself to be a pretty good builder, but this man’s base puts all my years of building to shame. Amazing job Skip.

I already forgot the things in the video as soon as I went to try to build a house

what I like to do with indoor ways (paths that are supposed to be near the sleeping room and somewhere where I'd usually walk in socks) is to make a 5 blocks wide path, as I always wood, the middle three blocks are carpet, and the blocks on the edges are whatever floor block I'm using. I really like it when things look regular, sort of.

Thank you for these tips. I’m gonna apply these to my dirt house.

This was surprisingly helpful I had currently been struggling with my builds thanks man

skip the tutorial: makes a tutorial me: skips the tutorial

The House From The Beginning Still Looks Cool!

I will 100% be doing some of these :D Also, farm tip: You can make a sort of vineyard using two-block tall fences, berry bushes (so it's functional), leaves, and vines ;)

Never in 1 million years would've thought of using diorite walls for trees

6:56 rip bedrock players 😔

can you do more of these please? i love watching you transform everything rather than just giving us ideas verbally!!

This was great! Can you do another similar one for bases that aren’t houses?

For the farm you could also mix in different crops or place a few flowers in the field tall flowers look the best

Such a great video!! This really helps my 7 year old and I to build together in game. I'm fairly new to mine craft and she's showing me the ropes. Thank you!!

One of the main reasons why I love his channel: His thumbnails are SYMMETRICAL AS HECK And he just makes good content

SKIP THE TUTORIAL: Good at explaining Good at editing Good at building Good at everything

Tip: if you want to build a tree that’s half under water use dark oak it’s makes it look like it’s wet

This is great most people I watch do build make it look hard. It is nice to have someone that can show there is a more easy way to do cool build.

I'm a really good Minecraft builder, but i'm actually impressed! It would probably look even better with shaders, but it would probably make all the new minecrafters confused to how to do that.

I love these so much, but the majority aren’t even possible for me seeing as I’m on mobile and can’t do things like get pushed into a sliding position from trapdoors. Still fun to watch, though!

You never falter in teaching us new things about minecraft while keeping the humor at a appropriate level that everyone can enjoy. We appreciate you Skip!

This is great! I often get confused as to how to make a nice build or make my area look nice. I was looking around for tips on how to build a nice area. I like that this is very simple and very direct. Gives some good tips for people who aren't builders as to how the heck builders make nice things as well as some good upgrades to basic features lots of players will have in their area!

Please make a full tutorial for this

Thanks for putting this together, Skip. I don't think I'm a great builder, but this video has given me some inspiration to make small improvements around my base and hopefully grow from there! :)

Skip is has the balance of quality and quantity

He’s called skip the tutorial but he is the tutorial

after watching this makes me wanna be more creative and have a bigger imagination and more confidence on building thank you as always

Something else I usually tend to throw in with the nether portal idea is adding some glass panes to the side of another portal that you're not going to be entering or exiting from and then on the opposite side of the glass build a copy of what's on the other side of the portal so just before you walk through it's like you can see what's on the other side

I was literally searching up ways to improve my builds! Absolute perfect timing 😂

I think this is the most useful and amazing video you've posted yet, thank you so much!

this video was really good i clicked on it to accually improve my build but instead i just watched it without realizing it was a tutorial, The call backs kept me intrested and the tips were vauge enough to be useful in more than just one build. 10/10

i learnt more in this 8m.37s video than i learnt in a 40 minute video, i appreciate all the help and i feel like now is the right time to give a sub...

I don’t know why but skip always makes me want to play Minecraft

This is the best tutorial I have seen yet

The house is absolutely beautiful , you did an incredible job + the people you got reference photos are outstanding 10 / 10 vid - Thanks For The Help !!❤

A tip that came in mind to me is making a dragon mouth with fangs for the nether portal and the warden's guts for the end, i feel like endstone and sculk stuff ar like man and woman its just so cool to me! btw great helping hand skip!

I've learnt from this Video that's even less than 10 minutes more than i learnt from other videos, that's why I like Skip the Tutorial, keep it up man.

I love these ideas. Im definately gonna use them

I love how he builds all this stuff just for his fans

Step 1:add a crafting table and a furnace Step 2:add a bed and door That’s all you need

Skip the tutorial: The RU-vid judge bets me that you can’t subscribe to the channel with your eyes closed Blind RU-vidrs: Hold my beer

Wow transitions are smooth and perfect and I also love the ideas!

Thank You for Uploading this, I will revisit this incase i need a refresher, and i made a house in creative mode with some of your aspects.

The thing is, most of these tips are already well-known, using them wisely, while neither over-detailing nor under-detailing- that's the biggest struggle. Still though, I was very happy when I built my starter house and my library, the builds which were done solely by myself without any tutorials, except for some mild inspirations. They may be not as good as Grian or GoodTimesWithScar or any other professional builder would make, but it's my own creation, and it's an honest work.

Your videos are helpful and awesome. Please keep up the good work :)

Actually tried this and it turned out freaking amazing. Definitely recommend trying this.

House before: a boring cube House now: super amazing and makes me want to build a better house

Finally, a use for diorite!!

Cool houses 😎Great video Skip!

Breathtaking.

Thank you so much! I wanted to try and get better at building, but I never really found anything I liked. Now I have a video I like from a RU-vidr that I like!

I love the fact that you took us through building the house rather than individual tips and tricks

Thanks! This will make my builds look Grain approved.

These ideas are so amazing but it nearly impossible to build a house like yours in a survival world

Most efficent house: Dirt/wood box random mine 1 blck bridges random farm not housed or surronded random chests and barrels everywhere perfect

I have access to all building knowledge thank you Skip

I still love how this cube became a house better than my dirt shack.

Dude, my creativity is so low that this almost gives me a spark of inspiration, gotta love using modded block palettes and decorations

We really need a part 2!

This guy really made it seems so easy and fast... (It's not hard but it'll take hours to get the resources AND to build all of that)

Very useful, Skip The Tutorial, thanks!

the vid title: the only minecraft building TUTORIAL you need the channel: skipthetutorial

This was really helpful I’ve always struggled with my mines,farms and roofs

looks really cool but, as a survival player, i need a stone and creeperproof version of that.

if you are making an oak tree, you can use spruce fences and slabs. they blend in better.

Thanks for the tips! I will use them on my Hardcore World

thank you so much for these build hacks skip

Great vid the tips are really helpful for building!

epic video keep up the great work!! Thanks for the tips skip

Hey! This Video is amazing. I love youre way how design you’re buildings. I’d learned so much new. Thank you so, so much 😀🙂☺️.

These videos really make me happy when I’m staying up late and I’m bored. This makes me really un bored!

These video always make my day also how do you find out about such great build hacks

Thanks man these are very helpful tips

this is one of your best videos by far! I really enjoyed it!

I was just following these tips in creative for fun and it’s genuinely the best house I’ve ever built

hi im a huge fan of your videos me and my sister watch u every day and thanks for keeping us intrested with good content keep it up

I love all the advice you give!

Ngl you won me over with this video alone. I am 100% going to use these tips on a server with one of my buddies.

This is so helpful thanks for the tips!!:)

i was about to make a nice little house for my survival world this will help for sure!

Great work, as always

I am speechless this is too perfectly built

5:23 I got an idea! You could use item frames as holders for your tools. You can make it face any way you want. You can even decorate it if you want!

This guy is so good at the game I’m surprised he hasn’t done a let’s play yet

This is honestly one of the best videos you've made... Definitely gives a purpose to some of those really bored minecraft players!

This guy is speedier and bounces around more than a main character in the rings of power series. I feel like I have adhd now from 5 seconds of this

I love how this turned out