Anyone can get bored in Minecraft and not know what to build next. Luckily, we’ve got a list of 34 cool things you can build in Minecraft to give you some inspiration.
There is so much you can build in Minecraft, like houses, castles, fancy Nether portals, bridges, or even statues. To make sure you don’t get bored or give up on your idea, choose a project that you like to build. It is also important to choose a building idea that is a little difficult, but not too difficult.
If a building idea is too ambitious or difficult, you might give up after a few hours and get bored of the game. It is best to divide construction projects into several smaller projects in order to have a sense of accomplishment after completing each part. For example, if you are building a castle in Minecraft, it would be good to start by building the walls, then a tower, then other towers, then pieces connecting those towers, and so on.
Keep in mind that if you are looking for things to build in Minecraft Survival, you will need to get all the materials yourself. For large scale projects, like a skyscraper, you will have to put in a lot of effort to get all the blocks you need. But if you are playing in creative mode, you don’t have to worry about that and you can build as big as you want!
What is Minecraft?
Created in 2009, Minecraft has become a cult game. A phenomenon now owned by the giant Microsoft, which in 2014 bought the studio behind its development, Mojang, for just under two billion euros. Since its creation, the success has not been denied. Many videographers on YouTube or elsewhere offer videos devoted to Minecraft which are extremely popular, especially with the youngest fans of the game.
Minecraft is a sandbox type game, that is to say that it integrates “tools” to shape its own game world. Thus, the player can build pretty much anything he wants. There are different game modes in which the adventure part and the creative part are more or less developed. Minecraft is not a realistic game, and its cube-based graphics are reminiscent of Lego toys.
The worlds the player travels through are generated randomly. There is therefore an infinity of them. In addition, it is possible to modify each of these universes at will by adding or removing blocks. Certain game specialists have thus reproduced famous monuments or even recreated the universe of the Game of Thrones series. The only limit of Minecraft is the imagination. Likewise, there are worlds inspired by Toy Story, Pirates of the Caribbean or The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Fun things to do in Minecraft
Minecraft offers endless play possibilities. However, there will be a time when you’ve built everything in Creative mode and you might have gotten through the hard difficulty. Have no fear, here is a great list of things to do. Perhaps you will have already accomplished a few? If you don’t know what to do this weekend start to play Minecraft and you will see how time will fly by.
Create a new base
Often, we create a first base in survival mode, without thinking too much. We start with a 4 × 4 cave with 2 chests and a craft table, then we enlarge it, we decorate it, we create additional rooms, possibly we bring it to the surface once its material is ready.
But we do not necessarily envision a base on a larger scale, a sort of small village, which will allow us to have everything at hand in a thoughtful and harmonious way.
To achieve this kind of objectives, the best is often to move, to a place more suited to your dream base.Perhaps also closer to the different things you have discovered: biomes, spawners, dungeons, mansions, etc. Do not set a limit on the location of your base, if a base on the beach, on an island, underwater or in the sky makes you dream, why not?
Automate your harvests
In the same way, we tend to build ridiculous fields, of 4 × 5 at best, which allow to provide a minimum of resources. You can very well expand your fields , so when you need it or want it, have everything you need straight away, without waiting for 50 growing cycles. You can also automate most of the harvests thanks to the villagers, or at least semi-automate them with just water.
Kill the dragon
This may sound like a classic to some, as this is actually the only official ending of the game. But, maybe others didn’t know there was a dragon yet. To come back to the subject, there is a dragon to be found in the game, and by killing it you will have access to the end of the game credits. If you haven’t done this in your game yet, it can be a good challenge to keep you busy for a few hours. Access to the world in which the dragon is located is via a portal hidden in the basement, in a fort that mostly looks like a labyrinth.
Install a new texture pack
Minecraft is not very beautiful with the default style, or in any case we get tired of these simplistic pixels quite quickly.
Fortunately, there are hundreds of different textures you can use to give your game a new style! Whether you are more minimalist, realistic or medieval, you will inevitably find the texture pack that will be the most suited to your tastes, and also to your constructions.
Build a pixel art
Another possibility is to build new things in your base, I thought, for example, of pixel art. This can give your base a unique style, give it an identity, it will look more like you. And after all the building of necessities, it feels good to sit down and build just for fun. Choose an icon or a hero to which you are particularly attached and try to reproduce it in the game.
Expand your fields
Rather than having a line of 8 blocks of warts in a corner, why not make a 20 × 20 field out of it, pick it up once, and be quiet for a week? It already seems more optimized to me than waiting every time you want to make more than 3 potions. Think the same for all the resources you are missing even once. Not enough melon, potatoes or bones? Multiply your installations by 10, it will keep you occupied, and you will be quiet for the rest of your game.
Improve the architecture and decoration
Here too we are in a classic case, but in a different style. If this is your first Minecraft game, you have probably done the minimum. Walls like the original, small rooms, and we’re not talking about your cubic house. Would you like to live in your base in real life? Maybe your house deserves a new, more realistic version, maybe you could use materials like quartz, wood or sandstone for your walls, ceilings and floors.
Build a modular enchantment table
You probably have an enchantment table, and maybe an enchantment table with all the libraries. Already if you don’t have that, at work, it will keep you busy. It is possible to create a redstone system which will automatically have the number of libraries for a desired level. If you didn’t know, for some enchantments it’s harder to get them at level 30 than at level 20.
Automate some recipes
In much the same way, redstone can make your life easier on much simpler things, or even without redstone it must be possible to do something with dispensers. More than searching for food everywhere in your chests, why not fill a dispenser filled with a button to distribute the food to you? A free McDrive is pretty cool. Still a little further, I seem to have seen some armor or potion dispensers somewhere. For the potions it was enough to press the button in question and it would give you the necessary 3 or 4 ingredients in the right quantity. It should also work for equipment or whatever else you are looking for often.
Farm the slimes
If you start making automated systems, you could quickly run out of slimeballs to craft the famous sticky pistons. It will therefore be necessary to find a way to optimize this, either with a simple cellar where they appear, or with a swamp nearby, or to arrange slime chunks to easily harvest them. If you haven’t done your research on slimes yet, be aware that they only appear below layer 40 in some “chunks” or 16 × 16 chunks.
Test new mods
If this word is unknown to you, a “mod” is a modification of a game to add or modify certain features. And there are plenty of free ones for Minecraft! Most of the time you will need a modified launcher allowing you to manage these mods, and quite often “Forge” is used for this. To give you an idea all the same there are mods of all kinds, everything is possible: bigger chests, a thirst management system, new animals, etc.
Explore the Nether
The Nether is a parallel world with different blocks and creatures. It’s worth going for a ride once you are properly equipped. In addition to the discovery phase, some essentials cannot be found elsewhere (quartz, blaze sticks, ghast tears, etc.).
Make it all explode
And yes, sometimes it feels good to decompress. So as not to blow up an NPC village or even your old base once the new one is completely finalized? With a few TNT stacks you can literally explode everything, it will create a chain reaction that may crash the game, but it’s fun.
Get inspired by YouTubers
It is arguably the greatest reliable or at least proven source of inspiration on the Internet. Even through funny videos to follow, you will learn things, see things that he did and that you did not know etc. For example you can watch the youtuber PewDiePie who started his career by playing Minecraft.
Or become a youtuber yourself
Likewise, why not film your games and share them on YouTube? Film yourself unpretentious, don’t watch what other people are doing when they have 10 years of experience, just indulge yourself. You might like it and give you ideas for a future career you never know, experiences are all good to take. If you create your channel, do not hesitate to send the link in comment to make yourself a little more public.
Complete the game
Be careful, everyone has their definition of finishing the game. If yours was to have a diamond armor, GG you finished the game in 2 hours. But you leave 95% of the game’s content behind. I’m not talking about killing the dragon either, which will only be a step. I’m talking about completing all the achievements that can be found in the game menu. It will be much more complicated than you can imagine. You will have to do them in a certain order for them to be validated, so remember to plan your adventure according to that. You can either stay in the same adventure and continue (even if you only have two validated successes at the moment when you have already done 80% of the tree it won’t be very motivating).
Start over with other goals
This might be a bit drastic for some, but if you’ve already made the first 15 points on this list, you might just be at the end of your game’s possibilities. But this time, set yourself clear objectives, do not play without knowing why, otherwise you will either get bored or arrive at the same result as in the first part. It may be to follow several tips in this article, but in a new setting, to achieve a perfect village both architecturally and in terms of harvest optimization.
Download cool maps
Just like there are mods, there are pre-built maps for you to download. It can just be a map with a few constructions to shelter you on the first night and have a style to follow for new buildings. Or completely different game mods to have fun in a completely different style of survival.
Increase the difficulty level
The default game must be in “Normal” it seems to me. One idea may already be to switch it to “Difficult” and see if the adventure gets a little harder. If you are already sufficiently equipped, this probably won’t change much, so you may have to start over to see the real difference. You also have the possibility of locking the difficulty in hard so as not to let you adapt the level of difficulty when it suits you. You can also try a game in “Hardcore” mode if you feel ready, no death will be tolerated, otherwise it’s the end of the game simply.
Test a pack of mods
The concept is the same, except it goes much further, it allows you to play with 20 to 30 mods in harmony without having to do anything special, the dedicated launcher takes care of everything. An example of an industrialized vault room with Feed The Beast.
Full of unknown blocks? This is normal, this is the goal! I recommend, for example, the launcher “Feed The Beast” which includes several mod packs oriented industrialization of your games.
Switch to multiplayer
Finally, this may sound a bit simplistic as a tip, but it may apply to you Single player mode is simply limited. Its lifespan may be a hundred hours, but once you spend them doing different things, you’ll still feel like you’re going in circles. Before switching games, take a look at the online world. It might take you a little while to find the right community with the right playstyle for you, but once you find the right server it will keep you busy for months, if not years if you can weave it together links with other players. This could be a fun game to play with friends and having a good time together.