With the semester finishing up, winter break is the perfect time to have your next Minecraft phase. With no classes or homework occupying your attention, you can wind down and boot up Minecraft to relax over the holiday break.
You can play alone, or you can play online, which is a great way to still hang out with your friends over break, even if you all live in different places. There are many websites online, such as Aternos, where you can create Minecraft servers for free.
If you want to get the most out of your next Minecraft phase, here are my recommendations for cute and useful builds for your world. Happy building!
- Christmas Tree
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Building a Christmas tree in your Minecraft world is a great way to get into the holiday spirit if you celebrate Christmas. All it takes is spruce logs, wool or other colored blocks for the ornaments, and some sort of lighting (glowstone or lamps) for the star.
Also, if you’re playing on a server with your friends, you can leave presents for each other under the Christmas tree. Or, you can all build the Christmas tree together, which makes it easier to gather materials and build it.
There are lots of tutorials online on how to build a Christmas tree in your world, but my favorite one I’ve found is by user Paterkid on YouTube. This one is a little bit more complicated because it uses redstone to make flashing lights, but you can also just use glowstone or skip the lights entirely.
- Gingerbread House
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One of the first things most players do in Minecraft is build a house, so why not make it festive for the holidays? A gingerbread house is a cute way to make a house while staying within the festive holiday theme.
For this build, you’ll mostly need a brown wood, either spruce or dark oak wood, and colored wool for the roof and candy details. If you want to go all out, you could even make a forest or path around your house out of candy canes.
You can also festively decorate the inside of your house with a fireplace, a mini Christmas tree, and more! If you’re playing on Java, you can also add mods to your game for even more decorations like wreaths, lights, presents, sleds, and more.
- Cozy Cabin
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If you want a holiday-themed home but don’t want to build a gingerbread house, you can also make a wooden cabin. You can make one entirely out of wood, or if you want accents on your home, you could add a layer of cobblestone or stone bricks to amp up the rustic, holiday vibe.
Similar to the gingerbread house, you can also decorate the inside with a fireplace, Christmas tree, and more. There are plenty of tutorials online for Minecraft cabins, but my favorite one I’ve found is by user Reimiho on YouTube.
I like how this build combines several different kinds of wood with tall glass windows, and the use of fences, buttons, and trapdoors gives the outside of the build more texture, making it visually interesting.
- Holiday Village
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What’s better than one house? Multiple! If you’re playing on a server with your friends, you can all make a holiday-themed village together. You can make your houses out of any material you want, and build a path to connect all of your homes, which makes it easier to travel between them.
You can also add extra buildings to your village, such as a bakery, a town hall, or, if you’re feeling festive, Santa’s workshop!
Building a village together with your friends is a perfect way to spend time together in-game. You could also put your Christmas tree in the middle of your village to make it more festive, and put presents under it for each other.
- Snowman Tower
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This build is perfect for your holiday world because it’s festive and practical. In the last update, the Minecraft developers added happy ghasts, which are ghasts you can fly around on in the overworld.
Users online have gotten really creative with how to house these creatures, and this snowman tower is a cute, practical build that you can use as a docking station for your own ghast.
However, if you don’t have a ghast for this build, you can also build the snowman head yourself. You could even hollow out the inside of the build and use it as a storage area to store your materials, tools, blocks, and more.
- Miscellaneous Decorations
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A small way to make your world more festive is to add small, easy decorations around your world. For example, if you have paths, line them with candy canes made out of red and white wool! You can also build giant presents, make a tiny Santa Claus sculpture, or even an ice-skating rink.
These small, festive builds are a great way to celebrate the holidays while keeping it simple. Try making a cute gingerbread man for your world, or make animals like reindeer or penguins out of blocks.
If you plan to use any of these builds in your next world, try finding a snowy biome to make them in! The snow is the perfect environment for these builds, and it’ll make your world even more festive, just in time for the holidays!
Minecraft is such an amazing game because it lets you express your creativity, and it’s also a way to hang out with your friends, even over break.
Having a Minecraft phase is the perfect way to recover after a busy semester, so if you need a way to de-stress and relax, try booting up the game and using some of these ideas as inspiration for your world!
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