How to build Battle Bus Drop in Minecraft

Thank the bus driver! The bright blue Battle Bus hangs from its striped hot-air balloon over a tiny tropical island, side door wide open and caged propellers on both flanks. Below, a Victory Royale umbrella is planted in the sand, a supply drop has just landed, and one very proud player is doing the Default Dance.

• DifficultyIntermediate
• Size35 × 35, 51 layers tall
• Blocks3,308
• Build time2–3 hours
• CategoryPop Culture Builds

Open the interactive 3D plan above to build it one layer at a time: every layer has a numbered top-down plan, a block list and full-screen step-by-step instructions you can tick off as you go. You can also download it for Litematica, WorldEdit or Minecraft Bedrock, or view it in your room in AR.

Materials list

Building tips

1. Build the island and the dancer first, then put up four temporary dirt pillars to stand on while you build the floating bus. Break them when the bus is done.
2. The balloon is a hollow egg 17 blocks across. Build it one ring at a time from the bottom, and swap colours every two or three blocks around the ring to get the stripes.
3. Leave the bottom of the balloon open like a real hot-air balloon. The burner is just an iron block with fire on top, hung on a line of iron bars.
4. The ropes are spruce fences. They only connect straight up and down, so line them up with the corners of the bus roof.
5. Light blue concrete gives the classic Battle Bus blue; save the darker blue concrete for the skirt and wheel arches so the body has some depth.
6. For the Default Dance, give the player one arm up, one arm across and a knee kicked out to the side. It reads from a long way off.

Step-by-step: all 51 layers

1. Layer 1 Sand ×489, Water ×484
2. Layer 2 Grass Block ×231, Sand ×123, Moss Block ×24, White Concrete ×20, Smooth Quartz Block ×9, Magenta Concrete ×8, Light Blue Concrete ×7
3. Layer 3 Grass Block ×68, Smooth Quartz Block ×9, Light Blue Concrete ×5, Dandelion ×4, White Concrete ×4, Poppy ×3, Brown Concrete ×1, Iron Bars ×1, Jungle Log ×1
4. Layer 4 Grass Block ×21, Blue Concrete ×6, Yellow Concrete ×4, Block of Gold ×3, Brown Concrete ×1, Iron Bars ×1, Jungle Log ×1
5. Layer 5 Block of Gold ×6, Light Blue Concrete ×5, White Concrete ×4, Blue Concrete ×2, Jungle Log ×2, Iron Bars ×1
6. Layer 6 White Concrete ×9, Blue Concrete ×8, Block of Gold ×3, Jungle Log ×2, Iron Bars ×1, White Terracotta ×1
7. Layer 7 Green Concrete ×8, Jungle Leaves ×8, Block of Gold ×7, Jungle Log ×2, Iron Bars ×1, Spruce Fence ×1, White Terracotta ×1
8. Layer 8 Jungle Leaves ×13, Green Concrete ×8, Block of Gold ×3, Lime Concrete ×2, Iron Bars ×1, Jungle Log ×1, Spruce Fence ×1, White Terracotta ×1
9. Layer 9 Green Concrete ×10, Iron Bars ×1, Jungle Log ×1, Spruce Fence ×1
10. Layer 10 White Terracotta ×11, Blue Wool ×5, Brown Concrete ×4, White Concrete ×2, Jungle Log ×1
11. Layer 11 Blue Concrete ×16, Blue Wool ×13, White Terracotta ×13, Yellow Concrete ×12, Jungle Leaves ×8, Brown Concrete ×4, Jungle Log ×1
12. Layer 12 Blue Wool ×21, Blue Concrete ×16, Yellow Concrete ×16, Jungle Leaves ×13, White Terracotta ×11, Brown Concrete ×4, Black Concrete ×2
13. Layer 13 White Wool ×21, Blue Concrete ×16, Brown Concrete ×16, Yellow Concrete ×12
14. Layer 14 Blue Wool ×21, Blue Concrete ×5, Yellow Concrete ×4, Brown Concrete ×2
15. Layer 15 Blue Wool ×13, Block of Gold ×1
16. Layer 16 Blue Wool ×5
17. Layer 17 nothing to place
18. Layer 18 Black Concrete ×12
19. Layer 19 Black Concrete ×12, Light Gray Concrete ×4
20. Layer 20 Blue Concrete ×119, Light Gray Concrete ×14, Smooth Stone Slab ×2
21. Layer 21 Gray Carpet ×63, Light Blue Concrete ×36, Red Wool ×11, Iron Bars ×3, Red Stained Glass ×2, Sea Lantern ×2, Ladder ×1, Spruce Stairs ×1
22. Layer 22 White Concrete ×39, Block of Iron ×6, Red Wool ×6, Iron Bars ×3, Ladder ×1, Light Blue Stained Glass Pane ×1
23. Layer 23 Light Blue Stained Glass ×19, Light Blue Concrete ×18, Glass ×5, Block of Iron ×4, Light Gray Concrete ×2, Ladder ×1, Light Blue Stained Glass Pane ×1
24. Layer 24 Light Blue Stained Glass ×19, Light Blue Concrete ×18, Block of Iron ×6, Glass ×5, Iron Bars ×4, Light Gray Concrete ×4, Black Concrete ×2, Ladder ×1, Light Blue Stained Glass Pane ×1
25. Layer 25 Light Blue Concrete ×41, Block of Iron ×4, Yellow Concrete ×3, Light Gray Concrete ×2, Ladder ×1
26. Layer 26 White Concrete ×75, Smooth Quartz Slab ×44, Block of Iron ×6
27. Layer 27 Yellow Concrete ×4
28. Layer 28 Spruce Fence ×4
29. Layer 29 Spruce Fence ×4
30. Layer 30 Spruce Fence ×4
31. Layer 31 Spruce Fence ×4
32. Layer 32 Spruce Fence ×4
33. Layer 33 Iron Bars ×11, Blue Concrete ×10, Spruce Fence ×4
34. Layer 34 Blue Concrete ×24, Block of Iron ×1
35. Layer 35 Blue Wool ×16, Light Blue Wool ×16, Fire ×1
36. Layer 36 Blue Wool ×18, Light Blue Wool ×18
37. Layer 37 Blue Wool ×20, Light Blue Wool ×20
38. Layer 38 Blue Wool ×20, Light Blue Wool ×20
39. Layer 39 Blue Wool ×22, Light Blue Wool ×22
40. Layer 40 Blue Wool ×22, Light Blue Wool ×22
41. Layer 41 White Wool ×44
42. Layer 42 White Wool ×48
43. Layer 43 White Wool ×44
44. Layer 44 Blue Wool ×22, Light Blue Wool ×22
45. Layer 45 Blue Wool ×22, Light Blue Wool ×22
46. Layer 46 Blue Wool ×20, Light Blue Wool ×20
47. Layer 47 Blue Wool ×20, Light Blue Wool ×20
48. Layer 48 Blue Wool ×18, Light Blue Wool ×18
49. Layer 49 Blue Wool ×16, Light Blue Wool ×16
50. Layer 50 Yellow Wool ×48
51. Layer 51 Yellow Wool ×21

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