Summary
Minecrafthas drawn in an ever-growing fanbase for years with every new update that’s released, and its gameplay has kept players coming back. For some, the challenge ofsurviving as long as possiblekeeps them going, or the goal of beating the Ender Dragon. For others, the simple task of building and maintaining a home in the woods is a dream come true.
When it comes to building inMinecraft, the player’s only limit is their imagination. However, it can be difficult to know exactly how to decorate the inside to their liking, especially if someone is playing in survival and is working with limited resources. Thankfully, there are several tricks that can keep a house as pretty as it is practical.
Updated on June 28th, 2024, by Ben Painter: Minecraft’s latest update, 1.21Tricky Trails,has now been released, and gamers can finally experiment with all the new features added. These include a ton of new copper blocks, tuff blocks, 20 new paintings, and various other new inclusions to explore. With the new update released, there is more reason to fire back up the game and update the old base using some of these interior design tips, and a few new tips have been added in this update to help spark returning players' creativity.
20Quartz
How To Create: Mine In The Nether, Barter With Pigmen
Quartzis one of the nicest-looking blocks in the game, but it is hard to acquire in large quantities. Gamers will need to mine in the Nether.It is fairly common, but to earn enough for a structure will take some effort.
However, it is worth it, as Quartz is the optimal block for creating modern-looking builds. There are several variants: Block of Quartz, Quartz Pillar, Chiseled Quartz Block, Smooth Quartz Block, and Quartz Brick, and they come in slab and stair variants to create different textures and structures. If gamers are looking to build a modern mansion or home, then Quartz is the way to go. Stairs and slabs are useful for creating shelving, furniture, and even a toilet. Every home needs one of those.
19Paintings
How To Create: 8 Sticks, 1 Wool
Paintingshave been around inMinecraftfrom the very beginning, and they are a quick and easy way to add decoration to a build. There are a lot of different designs in the game. With the latest update, Tricky Trials, 20 new paintings have been added, taking the total number up to 31. There are various designs which will meet the needs of different builds.
There are other things that gamers can do with paintings besides decorating to make bland walls look more appealing. An art gallery can be created to make the paintings the focal piece of a room. Players can also use a painting to create a secret passage into a hidden room. Then there is the option to mod the game slightly, creating custom painting packs which can be used to add textures to the game that aren’t in vanillaMinecraft. Examples of this are air vents, notice boards, and computer screens.
18Allow Natural Light
How To Create: Windows
There is nothing worse than a dark room inMinecraft.Other than not being able to see anything,it spawns monstersthat will look to hurt and damage the player’s house. A tip to prevent this without spamming the house with ugly-looking torches is to allow lots of natural light in.
Gamers can do this by using plenty of windows in modern builds. With a lot of colors of glass available, the look and feel of the light coming inside will allow for a different atmosphere depending on the color of window used. With medieval builds, iron bars or fence posts can be used to create gaps in structures instead of windows, which will also allow light in. Having natural light in a build is important to create a realistic setting inside the blocky world.
17Match To The Biome
How To Create: Varies
A useful tip for creating a realistic structure is touse the resources around the player, and the items available in the biome that the player is building their base in. For example, building things out of snow and ice inside an igloo will make for a more realistic and better-looking interior.
Not only will this be a fantastic use of resources, as the things around the player are what is most readily available, but it just looks better, as it fits into the environment more seamlessly.
16Create Realistic Looking Furniture
InMinecraft, there is no use for furniture, as there is no way for Steve (or whichever skin is being used) to sit down. The only piece of furniture that is required is a bed, which players can make a lot nicer by creating a bed frame, bedside cabinet, or even turning it into bunk beds.
Items like fences, carpets, doors, slabs and stairs can be turned into glorious pieces of furniture, which have no real use, but they turn a barren-lookingMinecraftroom into a home. If players are open to using mods in their world,there are several modpackswhich add working furniture into the game.
15Experiment With Maps & Banners
How To Create: Maps Require A Cartography Table, Banners Are Created In A Loom
On the face of it,a map has one use, to be a map and display the location of where the gamer is, but if players have the resources, thenmapscan become a much more handy thing to help decorate an interior. One map is one chunk so if players completely cover a chunk in one block, snow or white wool for example, then they have a blank canvas to decorate whatever the home requires. Although this takes a lot of blocks to do this, it can be used to create things like computer screens or wallpaper, displayed on an item frame.
The same can be done withbanners, crafting a banner in a certain way to create something that represents another thing. For example, creating letters on a banner to act as a sign. There are countless ways maps and banners can be used for an interior.
14Create A Separate Room For Every Interactive Block
How To Create: Varies, But Every Block Requires Wood Or Stone
Interactive blocksare things like looms, furnaces, cartography tables, and smithing tables. In order to have an interior less crowded and add use to each room in a giant house, players should create a uniquely designed room for each of the blocks.
Using the loom as an example, a loom is used to create banners, so gamers can create a decorated room with banners displayed, armor on armor stands, and tools displayed to bring the room to life. Each block has a different use in the game; anvils, blast furnaces, and grindstones will look well-placed in a blacksmith, and composters will look the part in a greenhouse along with some other crops and shelving for tools. The possibilities are endless.
13Create A Map Room
How To Create: Lots Of Paper, Item Frames
A fantastic way to decorate a room or base is tocreate a map room.Maps can be placed on item frames, and they will show the player the area that they created. When making a massive village or city, it could be a good idea to display it in the open and create a specialized room for this.
Maps can also be locked, so they won’t update when new blocks are placed. This can be useful to showcase progress made throughout the world. It would be awesome to see a before and after before starting a massive project. To make the maps stand out, a glow item frame can be used,using glow squid ink, to really make the map room pop.
12Display Rare Or Important Items
How To Create: Item Frames, Item Of Choice
There are hundreds ofrare itemsin the game: notch apples, smithing templates, and goat horns to name a few. A good idea is todisplay these itemsas part of decoration, as opposed to sitting in a chest. Using an item frame is an easy way to do this, it can be worked into shelving with rare blocks that can be placed, such as mob heads or the conduit surrounding them, to help break up the layers.
Using pistons and armor stands, gamers can make a realistic-looking glass display case for one item, give the item to an armor stand and place it one block under the floor, use a piston to push a block over the item frame and then use a piston to push a glass block over where the item is being held and it will look like it is being displayed in a glass case.
11Glazed Terracotta Is An Easy Wallpaper
How To Create: Smelt Colored Terracotta In A Furnace
Glazed Terracottais a very unique block in the game, it is brightly colored and each color of the block comes with a different style, that can be used as a simple way to add detailed wallpaper.
Some colors, like orange, can be combined to make a flowing pattern that would look amazing as part of a wall in a base. Like the red displayed in the image, some variations can be subtle and just add a bit of texture to a wall, as opposed toa solid block of color. Gamers should experiment with a wide variety of different designs in their home.
