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Minecraft Furniture Guide: Better your Builds

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Hooray! The exterior of your build is finished, and now you need some furniture to fill the inside. Of course, Minecraft doesn’t come with prebuilt furniture (unless you’re using a furniture mod). Don’t worry though. There is a wide variety of Minecraft furniture that you can create.

While building, the most important thing to remember is that you can play around with the furniture to find the best fit for your build. Don’t be afraid to change the size, block type, or location of your furniture if it doesn’t look right to you!

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Kingdom of Hyrule: Empire Minecraft Outpost Tour

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The Empire Minecraft Outpost Tour series is written by me, JDHallows, a staff member on Empire Minecraft. I travel out to different outposts throughout the frontier on EMC. While there, I take notes and pictures of these players outposts and create an informative tour of each one. This tour is based on the outpost kingdom of Hyrule, as founded and built by lauwenmark.

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Outpost Tours on Empire Minecraft: Pilz-Reich

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The Empire Minecraft Outpost Tour series is written by me, JDHallows, a staff member on Empire Minecraft. I travel out to different outposts throughout the Frontier on EMC. While there, I take notes and pictures of these players outposts and create an informative tour of each one. This tour is based on Pilz-Reich, a Mooshroom island outpost created by the player SoulPunisher in the Fall of 2012.

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Gold Farm Building Guide – Pigmentus

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We built a public gold farm recently that we call Pigmentus, and I’ve been getting asked how to make it. You asked; I answer.

I recommend going 96 blocks up in the air. Why? Simple. You won’t have to deal with slabbing, lighting or flooding the surrounding area for 96 blocks in every direction from the farm’s edges to control the entity count. You should also build this farm 1024 overworld blocks away from any other portal. Unless you understand the mechanics of making a perfect portal match/link. That is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Google it. Point being, don’t build this farm next to your base’s main nether portal. The next time you come through it from the nether, you might wind up inside your gold farm with an army of angry piggies.

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Minecraft Pixel Art

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Hello once again, it’s been a while! Nothing crazy for this first post in a long time, I’ll just be covering some aspects of pixel art in Minecraft and a few programs that make building said pixel art easier. Along with most of my posts on here, this isn’t likely to be full of hidden trade secrets only available RIGHT HERE, but there’s probably at least a few things to learn from skimming the article!

If you’re looking for a way to make art without filling up your residence in one build, check out ItsMeMatheus’ map art blog post here for another interesting method of Minecraft art!

Just a quick note however, while I’m sure most people are quite aware of what pixel art is, there’s still probably a few different types that might be confusing (fancy 3D stuff as an example.) For the purposes of this article, I’ll be talking about straight up 2D 1 block=1 pixel type art!

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