How to Upgrade your Wooden Box! | Build Tips | Terraria 1.4 

I don’t know Khaios, it’s hard to improve on something that’s already perfect 🤷‍♀️

"Why else would you be here?" I don't even play terraria anymore, I just enjoy your videos dude

A wooden box in Terraria is like a stealth archer build in Skyrim. No matter how hard you try to avoid doing it, you always end up doing it anyway

“Adjust your wooden boxes” Im sorry, Khaios. Its too late. Its already a wooden box hotel.

This even helps someone who acctually knows how to build

Maybe the real wooden box house was the friends we made along the way

25:15 is a good spot for a summary But in conclusion: • Foundation / false foundation • 2 thick wall and roof (at least) • Bigger rooms (6/7 high and longer) • A bit more realistic (support beams) • Make rooms not blocky • VARIETY in blocks, walls and rooms • Choose a theme and test out some blocks (trial and error is the way to go) • Use accents and contrasts

This tutorial in a nutshell: Step 1 build a box house Step 2 destroy it and build a house

Khaios: how to upgrade your wooden box My brain: Stone house take it or leave it

Personal comment for leaving notes to myself, but feel free to take a look: 1:42 - Adjust room size for a rectangular look. Consider having the roof lower than max build height more often in my case. 2:19 - False foundation for greater detail under house. 5:20 - Increase wall and roof thickness for bigger houses. Can add more detail this way. 6:50 - Vanity rooms that serve no purpose other than to improve the build. 7:14 - Vary roof heights for floors and rooms. 10:12 - Vary block surfaces beyond just floor/wall and ceiling. Have a different block for different walls that serve as passages that lead to the next room versus walls that see the outside of the building, or ceilings versus the roof or second story floor. Vary walls per room rather than the whole building being two or three types of walls. 14:20 - Large bamboo and brown paint makes great wood alternative for walls and tiles. Used as supports here, but later used as a ceiling tile at 27:41. 19:13 - Adjust roof thickness based on the type of roof you desire. Thatched roof example included. 21:00 - Use walls to create the illusion of accessible rooms. Not mentioned in video, but can use invisible teleporter trick here to make the pseudo room accessible. 21:53 - Use fence for 1 tile walls that don't bleed out from where the structure should end. 26:58 - Use thrice hammered platforms to add to roof detail, or leave it as normal along a ceiling for a nice rim detail pictured at 41:40. 28:30 - Modern supports example. Also a reminder to give actuators a try. 30:20 - White paint and titanstone looks like concrete. 30:40 - Allow indoors to be more boxy for modern designs by not having corner accents. 31:10 - Consider alternative methods for defined rooms outside of placing a clear doorway. 34:08 - White painted snow wall for plaster. 34:49 - Beams and pillars to accent walls. Also features, asymmetrical symmetry for modern builds. More clearly said, you want things to align well with each other but not be entirely symmetrical. 37:20 - Accent walls aligned with gaps between pillars/beams work well together. 38:03 - Consider breaking walls for detail. Cracks can serve to be more than what's supposed to be broken and instead look like window framing or gaps where things can slide in and out. 39:32 - Builders hate him! This advanced trick invalidates broken wall gaps by using the invisible "echo" block. Click the timestamp to learn more! 40:00 - Sometimes accent wall tops and bottoms instead of floor and sides like I normally do. 40:20 - Use platforms and furniture to hide the broken wall gaps that leave ugly overhang.

Easy summary of Khaios pro tips on building houses 1. Create a larger space 2:18 2. Creating a foundation 3:23 -adds blocks underground as it adds texture and details rather than placing your house on top of the soil. -false foundation. Creating a gap between your floor and the ground 3. Basic Exterior tips 4:59 -add a block at the both sides of the floor -add thickness on to your house atleast on the sides and ceiling. -don't make your floor longer than your ceiling 4. Orientation 6:19 -Plan your house -make sure only 2-3 NPC are the only people living there for their happiness will be affected. -it is okay if your floor don't have the same height. Word of Khaios: 7:47 If you are not happy to what it looks, change it until you are happy with it. 5. Make it semi-realistic 7:55 -there should be a balance between too much and too little realism -add more foundation like pillars and beam to hold floating or attached structures -add foundation inside your house too! Like in the corner of the ceiling, which you put classy 3 blocks hammered into an art making your house more realistic and having more details! 6. Add some variety of blocks! 9:39 -add different blocks to each of the part of your house like roof, floor, wall, etc rathee than having one plain boring block. -add more contrast becausw it's important for more diverse texture. -paints count as a different variety of block. It is great as well, and it also widen the possiblity of more creative structures and stuff. It also adds or blend in the theme of the room where the unpainted blocks and related blocks can't do. Another word of Khaois: 12:18 The sky is the limit, your imagination is the only limitation to a big extent 7. Rooms can be different depend on what you want 13:32 the primary material in it's room can be different -blending other wall as a wall support is great too, acts like a foundation and realism. -adding more details to the specific room makes it standout to other one, it's great for telling which room is the main one -windows, and fence is highly recommended, adding like a glass or wooden fences variety fitting to the theme of the house makes it more realistic. -your roof varied depending on your style and the theme of the house. 16:25 Khaios style on roofs 16:55 medieval theme -add stone related block accent -add slit (hammered miscellaneous added stone) as it adds details -medieval roof can be made by adding slabs and other varieties that don't blend together. Forming them into a medieval castle. -have a medieval theme for sides depends on your choice. -having a thin roof is great preceeded that the upper object on top of it will sustain the thickness. Khaios puts a brown leaf as an added roof details -adding layers to the outside pillars as shows in no. 5 (pillars, beam and supports). Adding walls behind looks like there's a room unable to be access which makes it weird but feels 3d. -filling the remaining unwall gaps on the door by fence makes it complete. Walls can be added too but some may prefer beams instead or fence for they allign to the structure more. 22:29 and that's it. i gave up.

I can't explain how much more engaging this video is compared to all others where they just talk about the advice rather than applying it. Really well done!

Khaios: why would you be watching the video unless you want to build better terraria houses. Me: I don't know supporting you

"im running out of time" proceeds to build another house

"your only limit is your creativity" my creativity: 3 shoe boxes. take it or leave it

This video also made me realize how paint isn’t just colors and custom biomes, it also allows you to change colors to certain textures and I love how it works like that 🎨 🖌

"variety, don't use just wood" *paints wood gray* there we go

"How to upgrade your wooden box" Me, look at a row of chest and crafting stations lying around in open air: *Sweat nervously*

I know you said this wasn't intended to be a beginner's guide but this helped me more with the basics than any other beginner's build video I've seen yet! And now I can make my builds look nice too.

Step one: Deal with wooden/dirt/stone shoe box houses at the beginning until you get at least your respective evil's gear, and maybe the mining set for efficiencies sake. Step 2: Go on a resource gathering rampage, and compile every block you can. Step 3: Lay the blocks that interest you most in a 3x3 cube suspended in the air next to each other to compare, mix and match them to find ones that blend well. Step 4: look at your shoebox, no matter how high, or wide you've stacked it to put the NPCs in, and make it work. Take the external walls, and branch them out in all kinds of wacky shapes, and tie them all together with a decent roof, then, once the shape is acceptably unique, put the blocks you've chosen into the build by replacing the wooden walls, outer blocks, etcetera. Step 5: Understand that you're not making the Mona Lisa. Perfection is for nerds. Don't fall into the pit of "it's not good enough" because it'll make you stop building altogether. Step 6: Hit that grind, gamers. Do this process over and over in Journey mode so you have infinite resources to work with. Every step is a step forward towards your improvement. Step 7: You look very nice today, did you do something different with your look? It looks good on you. Have a good one, and go for broke!

"here's your standard shoebox" I feel so called out

Using fences for the outer door gaps so that there isn't overhang, is GENIUS.

It amaze me how you turn a simple box into a beautiful build while giving out tips, definately coming back again to this channel.

I love it, I've been trying to build biome themed houses ever since 1.4, I really enjoy watching your building tutorials!

When your problem is that you don't have imagination

I've seen very few with your building skills. This far, I consider you the master Terrarian architect. Every time someone asks for building tips or inspiration, I direct them to you. You've inspired me so much and I thank you for the awesome videos.

Thanks! Ive had the same wooden boxes that were in the beggining of the video and now my friends are amazed of my builds!

I havent been able to stay so engaged with a 40 min video in so long. Ill definitely be using some of these tips for my builds!

A 40 minute video on improving my box houses? Count me in.

I know that only playing one game can become monotonous. But for some reason I can watch you for hours and hours and hours and never get bored or tired of your content. Thank you for sharing you passion and talent. (Also, I’m not going to claim that I’m a veteran of your channel but I’ve been around for a while and it’s an honor to watch you grow. Oh and your a wonderful streamer) thank you for your time. -Jack

Thank you for this, I was very stuck on how to improve a build idea that I just wasn't happy with and this was the creative spark I needed.

I love the customisability of paint! It allows you to use any texture with any texture!

"Why else would you be here?" Don't judge me. I just like green spiders/trees

Forget a wooden house, my terraria house is a dirt hole

Great video Khaios! Thanks for the advice!

Wow. This is giving me lots of inspiration! Great job. Now I realize that just 1 different kind of block can change the entire house!

i love it when he said "the important part of building a house is.... *eats fruit* orientation"

"it's your build, do what you want" Okay, I'll upgrade my wooden NPC tower to dirt :)

I like putting flower planters under windows as a window seal, i think it helps add contrast and detail

This video has single handedly improved my building in Terraria. I've been able to create my own builds with stunning visual appeal and mixing and matching different materials to create truly unique structures. It's comforting and just feels better when you log in and see well furnished and built homes for all your NPCs in their preferred environments, and friends who visit don't want to leave.

Hi Khaios, I'm late to the Terraria party, just started playing a few months ago. (Yes, I was basically living under a rock for the last decade.) I just wanted to say that I deeply appreciate your skill, your demeanor, and that you share so much with your community. I hope you are not insulted by this, but I think of you as the Bob Ross of Terraria and I sometimes watch or rewatch videos just to relax. Thanks for being you.

"So, here we have a standard shoebox" Lmao

Holy crap, I love this. Your medieval-style build looked insane!!

Very insightful, thanks for taking your time to make this.

This showed up in my recommended and I do not regret clicking in the slightest. Listening to you talk about how to do art in terraria for about 43 minutes is the comfiest I've found myself in a long time.

The excitement I felt when I saw it was uploaded 37 seconds ago...

Dayum! You're the man! Auto sub from me! I'ma go through alot of your vids now. Just recently got into Terraria so I'm trying to learn how to build cool stuff. I made a newbie level castle on one of my worlds after watching a tip video. However, after seeing even just half of this video I've got new knowledge and ideas to make some super cool stuff. I paused the vid like 1/3rd the way through and added those 3 blocks to the corners of the rooms and used the hammer on em and it instantly made my rooms 2x nicer looking. The tips you give in this video are top notch man! Kudos to you! You're the man! I don't see the need to look to anybody else for terraria-related content. Keep it up! 👍

this looks SO GOOD! Thank you for the tips, much appreciation :)

Next up: how to turn wooden box into giant terra toilet

5:43 There's actually an added bonus to doing this; most humanoid enemies will walk away from a door instead of trying to bust it down if there is an overhang. (Might be something to do with path-finding I think)

this is so inspiring!

I really like to use wrought iron fences as windows in medieval builds, and also as a spike to top a curved roof. Another favorite is using rich mahogany/ ebonwood fence painted brown as support beams, but I think that large bamboo walls are a new favorite. Rich mahogany walls painted brown are also a great horizontal wood beam, and I really like using blue and green tiled walls painted brown. I use these interspersed randomly as a stone backwall, and they look great

2:10 I'm here because I have a friend who wants to die whenever he sees my box houses, and forced me to make them better.

Wicked tutorial man! Definitely opened my mind; I made an all glass “art gallery” to display every painting I find in the game. Thanks for the inspirational push!

I love how calm this video is

This was great. Watched it all. Really helpful

me with my 4 story shoebox that is made out of both wood and stone: *Nah, I'm good.*

23:30 actually, putting the dryad in a graveyard biome lets her sell seeds for the opposite world evil to yours. I love getting the worm scarf early in the game and then setting up an underground crimson later in the game for ichor in a corruption world

I've really been wanting some build tips, thanks.

My friends and I continuously make new worlds to cooperate on, and we've completed the game many times. I am the worst builder of the bunch by far, but I've started trying to improve. Making houses on top of lakes, built into hills and such, little town decor, I'm always trying to make new things. This video really helped me get better, even though I might've started improving before watching this, it'll still help in the long run. Thank you!

This is a perfect video, i have finally built my medieval town, each NPC has their own house and it is themed accordingly for them, thanks Khaios very cool.

I’ve been going back to terraria after playing for a few hundred hours. but this time on my play through i’m trying to add buildings to the world.. and man your videos are helpful. Thanks for making me get into building and thanks for helping me with it! Keep up work! Cuz i subed :)

Thanks Khaios this helps out a lot!

41:45 as soon as you added that white trim, it made the room look 3D. The floor looks like grey carpet, and the white trim looks like drywall ceiling, so it looks like you could walk "up" across the floor towards the glass doors, like whatever the Maniac Mansion perspective is called. Really cool technique.

Thanks, this helps alot, and its hilarious how the box was the outline of your build, your building tips and builds have helped me so much, thank you!! You are amazing💚💚💚

Needs more guide killing systems installed

This video saved me man, incredible work, will definitely be subscribing

I’ve gotten so much better at building by watching your videos and some other you tubers thank you!

You always manage to make me smile, my builds often start off as a great imagination, however as i slowly delve deeper into the build i start to lose passion, however when i watch you you really help me to push myself toward my goal, and you helped me to finish my NPC pylon network which took a few months to construct, i have been playing for years but im having the most fun since i discovered you

Yes, another build tips video! Awesome! Love it!

dude thank you so much khaios I built a build largely based off of the first build but instead of using leaves, I used hay. it worked pretty well but I had added alot more housing in the build. just wanted say that you are such a big help and your builds can't be compared to mine. your build are the best I've probably ever seen, from the simplest builds to the hardest builds. keep of the good work ❤❤❤❤

Thanks for the fantastic video! Just found ya and looking forward to checking out all your content.

40 minutes of wonderful content! Great job, keep it up!

Thanks khaios These series are so helpful!

What a nice video, thank you for uploading!

Great work man🔥

Just a little tip: You can use fences as beams, just stack a fence on another and it'll pass through the block and look like a beam! Except it'll be thinner. Edit: Also, because it's a background item, you can place a beam over it, and it'll look like an extra layer, for more detail, you can place a full-beam over it, break a few, and it'll look like support for the beams!

Thank you, Khaios, for inspiring me to build. I have put over 1000+ hours in Terreria, and most of the time, I cannot be arsed to do more than make a wooden condominium for all of my NPCs at the start of the game. Now that the "happiness" mechanic has been introduced, I find myself actually having fun with my builds, inspired by watching your videos.

I am learning so much from this one video very clear explainatory, tysm!

Khaios Thanks for this video i looked it while building and my build got nice the first time really thanks :D

You have definitely shown me the potential of what builders in this game can do, and watching your videos help me unlock that potential. Keep up the good work and videos, you are helping a lot of people with these.

This is such a fantastic guide. For a pretty long time I was very unhappy with my Terraria builds because I felt like they were incredibly basic and boring. I eventually got better but after watching this video I never realized that I'm still lackluster in building homes. I would definitely like to see you making a build tips video for furniture and possibly one for natural (or unnatural) terrain.

So I finally finished watching this video and started building more better looking houses in Terraria. I've seen some others build houses, but nothing I could really keep up with. Your advice has helped a lot, I am still learning and want to keep improving. I play on the Switch version. Thank you.

This is great! I really appreciate it!

Hey man really loving the uploads lately, leaving a comment for youtube and cuz i just wanna say that you are one of my favourite youtubers! Keep it up!

I only realized how long the video was 18 minutes in. It didn't even feel that long.

Dude this is the first video of your I’ve watch and I love them your teaching skills are so good

Thank you, Khaios!

FINALLY! been wanting a build video for so long

This was an amazing video! I am so exited to start upgrading my world

I just returned on terraria after like a 7 month break, It is sad to see that even Khaios isn't uploading anymore. It was nice to have you around, buddy. You are my inspiration on building on terraria.

holy these are amazing tips! thx so much

I don't care if it's 40+ mins HAHAHAHAHA. Building tips is really helpful. I been watching all the build tips of yours and really good. It improves my building alot. Thank you so much for that. I hope this channel grows more and more to the future. Can't wait for the next building tips. I actually watched the WHOLE video without SKIPPING. HAHAHAHAH

I am so bad at building and it helped me so much make a very functional house! You got a subscriber today.

Thx from France for the tips !

Khaios is Terraria’s architect... soon he’ll make a much better golem temple or dungeon or even floating islands... imagine the possibilities... also love these types of videos... keep up the great work ☺️

I have watched all of his previous build tip videos many times and came VERY far with building. Those build tip videos were from before khaios even had 50k subs now he got 200k, I have a feeling that next new build tip videos to come are going to change the Terraria community and many more good builders are to come of this! (:

“Why else would you be here?” I got tired of waiting for 1.4 on console so I just purchased the PC version and now I’m getting back into terraria

Thank you SO MUCH for this video! I've just recently started playing Terraria and I'm just horrible of building on my own. I didn't even knew that you could dye your building materials D: Feeling really inspired right now!

good job this really helped me!!