Me2005's Minecraft Builders Blog

Tutorial: How to build a Warcraft 1-style Barracks

2011-09-20T07:49:00.000-07:00

Yay, new content! It's been a longish summer, but I'm back! And I've got work to do on my textures with all this 1.8 non-sense. Perhaps I'll make some of the structures in 1.8 once I get a chance to find them and post them as Sketchup models...

But anyway, this is the barracks from Warcraft 1; it's incredibly easy to build (compared to my other buildings), use your favorite stone, half-stone, and color of wool (or contrasting stone/dirt). This makes a great early base or Nether base, since it's entirely enclosed. You figure out what needs to go inside, but I've fit a good cobble generator, a mushroom farm (under the floor), storage, and a well with room to spare. Then I planted trees on the roof and had a tree farm too.

Enjoy!

Tutorial: How to Build Walls

2011-07-28T18:57:00.000-07:00

For all of your castle-building needs! These walls aren't strictly from any Warcraft- like many of my other builds, but they should go well with the Warcraft 2-style towers. And I should mention; this isn't really about building multiple sorts of walls, but rather, building every wall connection you could want with a fairly complex wall (i.e.: A straight wall and its matching 90* turn).

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Tutorial: Warcraft 2 Mage Tower

2011-07-14T16:56:00.000-07:00

I've just finished designing (using my sketchup components ) a Warcraft 2 Mage Tower. It's 33 high (slightly higher than the top of the flag on the Scout Tower), and fits into a 27x27 block area. I drew it using smooth stone, half-stone blocks, lava, and blue wool; you can substitute any color you choose (though I'd recommend using something that has a fire-proof equivalent - the lava coming from the sphere up top might ignite the whole thing otherwise) to match your scout/cannon towers as well.

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Tutorial: How to build a Warcraft 2-style Cannon Tower

2011-07-11T07:50:00.000-07:00

Here is the quick pixel-plan for how to build a cannon-tower. You'll notice it's pretty similar to the Scout tower - in fact, the image used for the scout tower is a cannon tower. There are some bits missing or unclear in the pixel plan, and so I recommend looking at one of the other files available so you can get a better idea of what's going on. You can still build the shell with the plan though.

The plan for it actually works (it shoots!); an omni-cannon fits inside. If you look at the sketchup plan, you will see the parts and pieces.

Alternatively, you can download the schematic file.

Tutorial: How to Use Sketchup to Design Buildings in Minecraft

2011-06-28T10:31:00.000-07:00

Go to the Google 3D Warehouse and download the pack and get started!

So, you've heard that you can use Google Sketchup for designing buildings in Minecraft using my Block Pack, but have no idea how to do any of that? Well, get downloading, because you've come to the right place.

Sketchup Components for Minecraft Models!

2011-06-22T09:01:00.000-07:00

So one of the more important parts of designing anything is having a viable way to do it and easily make changes. With that in mind, I've created a Sketchup component - uploaded to the 3d warehouse. It's using my textures because I'll be using it too and don't like the default. You'll need an understanding of Sketchup, which is pretty easy to obtain. I'll be posting some tutorials specific to this application, but for now, those should tide you over. Download!

Tutorial: How to build a Warcraft 2-style Tower

2011-06-14T12:29:00.000-07:00

I promised last week I'd have plans, and I've got the first part of them ready. I'll post with more plans later (and possibly 3d models, schematics, and other goodies), but for now, here is the plan for how to build a Warcraft II - style Scout tower - In Minecraft!

This plan will look slightly different than these pictures, as these are of the Cannon tower (that works!), which I'll explain later

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Tutorial (Part 3): How to Make Your Own Texture Pack

2011-06-09T07:28:00.000-07:00

In Part 1 , I showed you how to extract files from your copy of Minecraft and talked a little bit about what they do and getting set up.
In Part 2, I explained how to use some of the features of GIMP to do anything.
This is Part 3, and in it we're going to actually start making textures (or at least, try to make A texture).

As a disclaimer, this takes some artistic capability as well as functional knowledge of the tools. I can only give you knowledge, not ability.

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Tutorial (Part 2): How to Make Your Own Texture Pack

2011-06-08T12:17:00.000-07:00

In Part 1, I showed you how to get the texture files you'll need out of Minecraft, and instructed you to go and get GIMP. If you haven't gotten GIMP yet, go do so, or use your copy of Photoshop or equivalent texture-editing software. If you've already got GIMP or Photoshop and are familiar with them, you can probably skip this part of the tutorial.

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Tutorial (Part 1): How to Make Your Own Texture Pack

2011-06-07T13:10:00.000-07:00

Making texture packs isn't actually that difficult. Really, all it takes is a good idea, and a knowledge of the tools you'll need to use to make it. This tutorial will attempt to teach you to use an open-source image editing program to make your own texture pack, from getting the files you need to using the available tools to make changes.

Me2005's Texture Pack!

2011-06-07T07:43:00.000-07:00

I made this texture pack - which changes the terrain.png,
and terrain folder items(sun and moon) - to better suit
my MC playing and graphic tastes.