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I like having the water lit up for this cave build, but cant find a good way to hide the light sources. Any ideas?

ive been trying for a while but cannot get it symmetrical

I’m building a large room and I need some help deciding what blocks and designs to use for the walls, floor and ceiling.
I’d like the walls and floor to match the current style of the room, but I’m not sure what would look best. I’m also not sure whether I should make the floor with a foggy glass effect or use something else. For the ceiling, I want something a little more fancy and elegant, rather than just a flat ceiling. I was thinking about adding a large vintage/old-fashioned chandelier something that would fit the medieval style of the room. I also need some ideas for the floor near the entrance. I’m not sure whether I should make it out of some blocks with a pattern or keep it similar to the rest of the floor and use glass.
In the centre I would do big map.
Thanks in advance

Was thinking of wanting it to be a cliff or something along those lines but no clue how I’d go about that any advice or tutorials would be great thank you!

Hey r/BuildAdvice! Just wanted to pop my head in, as I've been trying to get back into Minecraft after working til burnout. I wanted to start small and build a small home base so I could feel accomplished and have the motivation to pursue my bigger idea, which was a desert trading village. The theme for this area is supposed to be magical overgrown ruins, so I plan on adding large custom flowers, and tons of foliage (including half-barren crop fields).

All that being said, does anyone have any ideas on how to blend this hobbit hole in better with the surrounding land? Namely the third circle (top right), which sits 1-2 blocks behind the main archway. Also, any advice for more punchy contrast? It would look better if I made the main structure dark oak, the interior walls spruce, and didn't mix three wood types.

Thanks in advance!

I tried reading all the comments i got yesterday and there were many. i ended up with something like this. i want feedback if i overdid it with the magma patches and if i should add anything. ill probably play around with campfires some more but thank you guys so much

EDIT:

i ended up changing the trees to basalt and i foudn that biomes oh plenty has dead trees so i planted a bunch of them around and used axiom to remove some of the leaves.

I had this forest that i burned down for lore, but apart from the trees it doesnt look burned down. im using terralith, biomes oh plenty, wilder wild, ecologics, and some more biome mods. i would love any suggestions on how to make this place look like it really burned down

edit: after reading everything i did some building here is the work in progress.

Hey guys im working on a large tower and id like to add arches to the side, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make diagonal arches that look decent in most angles.

So I took some advice from my old post and tried to make a house (ignore the other things behind) and im kinda happy with the exterior but not the interior any tips ?

Well I come here to my fellow builders to ask a simple question how can get better at building ? I don’t a want a very thoughtful answer nor a very supportive one I just want the cold hard truth I just started building and my builds look flat and have no detail please tell me I can do to get better at it and please be very honest and I am very happy with any criticism (image is just a piece of my wallpaper 🥀🥀🥀)

I'm not sure about what i want to do, but i want to make a cohesive build using these. If anyone has concrete advice on what to do next, it would be much appreciated!

This is a top view sketch of the plan i have in mind so far, the top of the image in the back and the bottom is the front of the castle/factory. The circle on the top is going to be a massive observatory which is going to be on top of a snowy mountain. So my struggle is the block pallete. I wanted to go for a sculk based roof so cyan and deepslate basically. Kinda like falsesymetrys base from s11 but I do not want to go for the grey walls. Sanstone colors would go really well with that roof but grey walls work better in snowy mountains. So do I go with the grey pallate just for the observatory and do a different pallete for the castle? If so what?

Hi! I’ve been playing Minecraft for 12 years but never really learned how to build well. Now I want to give it a try, so I started a Creative world and began building based on the vibe of the moment, but something feels off, can you help me? Thank you

can be anything except mega builds

Im going to make these small villager apartments in my survival world and im just looking for suggestions to improve them