Minecraft starter builds: 31 build ideas with step-by-step plans
Every build below has an interactive 3D model, a numbered plan for each layer, full-screen step-by-step instructions and a complete materials list. Pick one to start building.
- TARDISBeginner · 1,537 blocksThe Doctor's blue police box: panelled doors with white-framed windows, the black "POLICE BOX" sign band, a stepped roof and a glowing lamp on top…
- Snoopy's DoghouseBeginner · 1,730 blocksThe famous red doghouse with its white-trimmed peaked roof and arched doorway. Snoopy naps on his back along the ridge, ears flopped over the sides…
- Squidward's HouseBeginner · 1,110 blocksSquidward Tentacles' moai-head house: a tall slate-blue stone head with a heavy brow, a long nose, porthole eyes for windows and the front door in…
- Patrick's RockBeginner · 866 blocksPatrick Star lives under a rock, and here it is: a lumpy brown dome with a little weathervane on top, sitting on the sandy Bikini Bottom sea floor…
- Shrek's Swamp HouseBeginner · 1,137 blocksWhat are you doing in his swamp? Shrek's home is a giant hollow tree stump with a mossy top, a stone chimney and a round wooden door. Around it are…
- Mystery MachineBeginner · 1,943 blocksScooby-Doo's groovy van, parked on a dirt lane right outside a creepy old graveyard gate. It has a light-blue top, a lime-green lower body with…
- Breaking Bad RVBeginner · 1,979 blocksThe battered old Fleetwood Bounder from Breaking Bad, parked out in the New Mexico desert. A boxy white RV with tan and brown stripes, dusty panels…
- London Phone Box & BusBeginner · 1,389 blocksA tiny slice of London: a red K6 telephone box with its glowing TELEPHONE sign and gold crown, a red pillar box, a Victorian lamp post and a zebra…
- Japanese Torii ShrineBeginner · 1,485 blocksA peaceful little Shinto shrine. A vermilion torii gate with a black, upturned top beam stands in a shallow pond like the famous floating gate of…
- Leaning Tower of PisaBeginner · 2,756 blocksThe famous white bell tower of Pisa, leaning south on its green lawn. A blind-arched ground floor, six stacked rings of columns and arches, a railed…
- StonehengeBeginner · 2,748 blocksThe great prehistoric stone circle on grassy downland. A ring of grey sarsen uprights capped with lintels, five giant trilithons in a horseshoe…
- Dutch WindmillBeginner · 3,372 blocksA classic Dutch windmill: an octagonal brick base, a wooden gallery you can walk around, a tapered thatched body, a dark wooden cap and four tall…
- Floating Island StarterBeginner · 2,423 blocksA little world of your own hanging in the sky. A grassy island with a jagged dirt-and-stone underside carries a snug oak cabin, an apple-style oak…
- Wizard's HutBeginner · 889 blocksA crooked little wizard's cottage. A round spruce-and-cobblestone ground floor carries an upper storey that leans out to one side, topped by a tall…
- Cozy Log CabinBeginner · 1,647 blocksA rustic first home that looks great from day one. Oak log walls with dark spruce corner posts sit on a cobblestone footing under a steep spruce…
- Ruined Portal ShrineBeginner · 1,047 blocksAn ancient shrine half-swallowed by the Nether. A two-tier stone brick platform, cracked and mossy, holds a big portal frame glowing purple…
- Mini Castle KeepBeginner · 2,341 blocksA first fortified base that feels like a real castle. A square stone keep with a turret on every corner and crenellations along the top sits inside a…
- Stay Puft Marshmallow ManBeginner · 2,543 blocksHe tried to think of the most harmless thing. A 30-block marshmallow sailor stomps down a New York street with a huge happy grin, a blue sailor…
- Lard Lad DonutsBeginner · 3,221 blocksSpringfield's finest (and only) donut shop. A cheerful white shop with pink trim, a striped awning and a big LARD LAD sign, and on the roof the giant…
- Bob's BurgersBeginner · 3,655 blocksThe Belchers' tall, skinny restaurant: a green-trimmed diner with big windows and a white BOB'S sign, two floors of apartment above and a giant…
- Central PerkBeginner · 2,910 blocksThe coffee house where six friends spent ten years on one couch. A red-brick front with a dark green CENTRAL sign and PERK lettered in green across…
- Mutt Cutts Shaggin' WagonBeginner · 2,793 blocksThe most embarrassing van ever to make it to Aspen: a dog-grooming van covered head to tail in shaggy sheepdog fur. It has a grey rump and a white…
- Wilson's Desert IslandBeginner · 2,073 blocksA lonely little island in the middle of nowhere, straight out of Cast Away. A single palm tree leans over a leafy lean-to shelter, a campfire…
- Pizza Planet TruckBeginner · 2,376 blocksThe beat-up yellow Pizza Planet pickup that turns up in nearly every Pixar film. It has a little white rocket strapped to the cab roof, a few rust…
- Minion StatueBeginner · 1,525 blocksA giant one-eyed Minion, giggling like he just pressed a button he should not have. He has the yellow capsule body, a big silver goggle with a brown…
- Skibidi ToiletBeginner · 3,339 blocksThe internet's weirdest villain, built big: a giant white porcelain toilet with its seat up and a grinning head bursting out of the bowl, eyebrows…
- Grumpy Cat StatueBeginner · 2,755 blocksA monument to the internet's most unimpressed cat. Grumpy Cat sits on a stone plinth with her cream face, grey-brown tabby mask, piercing blue eyes…
- Giant Rubber DuckBeginner · 2,996 blocksBath time for someone very, very large. A sky-blue clawfoot bathtub on golden feet holds a pool of real water, and floating in it is a giant yellow…
- Garfield and the LasagnaBeginner · 3,007 blocksThe laziest cat in comics, doing what he does best. Garfield lies on his back on a red picnic blanket, head propped on a pillow, belly to the sky and…
- Bigfoot CampsiteBeginner · 1,689 blocksA cosy clearing with an orange tent, a crackling campfire, a red canoe pulled up on the pond and a big BELIEVE sign. Giant muddy footprints cross the…
- Lakeside Fishing DockBeginner · 1,957 blocksA quiet fishing spot on a little lake. A small log cabin with a front porch looks over the water, an L-shaped wooden dock runs out past the lily pads…