Minecraft Building is Changing

I build on the fly. Dirty, janky and plain silly sometimes but I love them. I'll never use lightmatica or creative to plan, just build and have fun.

I feel like I see the term "block vomit" used as much as a critique of this modern style done poorly as it is a critique of the style as a whole.

It's hard to do it well and some people just spam in random stuff without the full consideration of the colour and hue stuff, and it ends up looking bad from a distance compared to the proper artistic shading effects.

While "painting" a build with a focus on the block color and not much regard for what the game presents as material types can allow for more detailed gradients, shading, and such… I think there's something to be said for building using a collection of blocks that make enough sense to be used together material-wise in order to maintain some sense of "immersion" in a vanilla Minecraft survival world. Something like "cohesion" with how the materials are presented in the setting, perhaps…? Looking at the materials you use together in your builds, it seems to me that you probably tend to lean in this direction and do so quite nicely. I personally tend to build in what might be a sort of "Vanilla+" style and that's usually where my personal preference leans as well. ^_^

P.S.
Despite my preference, Bdubs is a delightful minecrafter whose ideas for his artworkful builds have helped inspire me with some ideas that I want to eventually work on building in my own long-term survival world.

I started out on xbox, And been following Hermitcraft since gennyB. One thing as someone who watches them and many others now is you gota remind yourself, " This is their Job. " they do this for 8…10 hours a day. It comes with time and nothing tell you to build a certain way, just your imagination and dedication. I try and take inspiration from everyone i see and build what I can the way I want to. Mc has definitely changed with more options comes with way more creativity.

I like this style of building but it is very much made to be screenshotted from a specific angle and distance which is why I will still stick to creating realistic worlds with blocks that make sense for the theme because those styles are great to actually explore and can still look amazing from specific angles and distances. I think the best way to describe it is making clay models vs painting. The clay models are 3d and are meant to be explored from thousands of different angles but the painting is meant to be seen from one angle. I still think both styles are great just like how I think painting and modeling are great.

I personally like using some of the newer shading styles and techniques as they come around, but I pick and choose what I like. I play bedrock myself so I don't use axiom or anything like that, that doesn't mean I have an issue with people that do.

I like watching bdubs builds, but in my world, i like walking to travel and this style doesn't look good up close.

WAIT YOU USED A STAIR IN A WATER WHEEL THATS BLOCK VOMIT

@adventureswithblue101 is a good builder and youtuber

People need to stop comparing their builds and start finding what they actually like. LuvstarKei’s channel is an amazing example of a style unique to her, which combines old alpha builds and “girly” color palettes. Personally, I would never build like her, but I have a huge respect for having her own vision and not being “meta”

all the new builds are just block vomit slop. 90% of the new-gen building channels like wombaat and others just build the ugliest builds and think theyre art

Some thoughts;
– Block vomit exists, it's this new style done so messily that regardless how close or far away you look at the build, it's so incoherent you can't identify what it is you're looking at.
– Even with good builds, sometimes it's indistinguishable from the "magic pictures" where you have to squint your eyes, move the picture backwards and forwards until it becomes a coherent image.
– The logic behind how this building style makes sense, but isn't fully developed. We've gone from big pixel art pictures of mario, to appling the same pixel art idea to buildings and landscapes. But the scale is wrong and cannot be fixed within vanilla minecraft.
– There's a fundamental mismatch between the scale of the player, the scale of textures that accommodate the players POV, and the intended look of a build using block textures. In other words, blocks are too big for the player point of view. "I added some texture to this path" becomes a nonsensical statement when you have random blocks that don't make the path coherent. You're never going to look at this path from a bird's eye view unless you're flying everywhere, and if you're flying everywhere, it kind of defeats the purpose of some of the builds if you've made them with functionality in mind.

It's pretty obvious I don't like this new building style, but it's for these reasons I don't like it. I don't think it does builders any favours. It's like wanting to make something despite it actively inconveniencing you and actively disrupting your vision.

The solution to this building style is to 1) chisel blocks so that you can more naturally mesh textures together. Combined in a block, it loses its original identity and is no longer a block of moss inside your house. 2) A new texture pack is the ultimate solution for this. A texture pack that takes vanilla textures and accommodates the player POV so that you can both make the builds you want but also not work with blocks on textures way too big for the scale of the player. 3) Give blocks in the texture pack block-agnostic names, so that the colours and textures are the only thing relevant, after all the idea is basically painting at this point (and that's great)

It's not that I don't like the building style necessarily, I just think that if some changes are made to actually help players build what they want, we'll see builds orders of magnitude better than what we're currently seeing.
This style has potential, but the game is holding people back.

i like watching LegendB too!!

Isabox is an amazing story teller. I loved the signal series and can't wait to see what else is in store.

Your video showed up while I was logged out, so I decided to comment here.
Building is actually something that I'd prefer than touching the redstone,
but honestly, I'm a bad builder so I should practice. Good video

Every builder now tries their hardest to hide the pixel art style of minecraft

Your style is what I'd call rustic fantasy. Reminds me of Elder Scrolls (at least Oblivion and Skyrim)