Minecraft Modern House Ideas and Builds
4 modern builds, each with a free 3D preview and the full materials list, from 1,019 to 1,715 blocks: 2 medium and 2 hard.
Clean builds of concrete, glass and wood: a house with a floor that hangs out over the terrace, a beach villa with a pool, a lighthouse and a walled survival base.
- Builds
- 4
- Blocks
- 1,019 to 1,715
- Build time
- 1 hour to 1.5 hours
- Layers
- 11 to 29
Modern houses
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Houses
Harlow Modern House
Medium About 1 hour 24 × 20 1,019 blocks
A modern house of two long boxes: a white ground floor with a wall of glass, and an upper floor of wood and glass in a white frame that hangs out over a paved place on slim columns, with a balcony along its whole length, a roof terrace behind glass, flat roofs, a long pool and clipped hedges.
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Houses
Saltwind Modern Beach Villa
Hard About 1.5 hours 31 × 30 1,369 blocks
A modern beach villa: a long low wing of white concrete and glass on a terrace with a pool, an upper bar of wood and glass that runs out towards the sea on slim columns, a roof terrace with a pergola, and steps down to a boardwalk and a jetty between the palms.
More modern builds
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Towers
Brightcape Modern Lighthouse
Medium About 1 hour 19 × 29 1,182 blocks
A modern lighthouse on a rocky shore: a round white tower with two red bands on a dark stepped base, a gallery with a railing, a lantern room of glass round the light under a dark cap, a low keeper's house of concrete, glass and wood, and a jetty into the sea.
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Survival Bases
Ironvale Modern Survival Base
Hard About 1.5 hours 34 × 30 1,715 blocks
A modern survival base: a walled compound with a house of concrete, wood and glass, a watchtower with a glass lookout over the gate, a greenhouse full of crops, an open workshop with furnaces and an anvil, an obsidian portal, a field and a mine with rails into the rocks.
How to build a modern house in Minecraft
What the modern builds here have in common. Follow these and your own build will look the part.
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STEP 1
Think in boxes
Build the house from a few plain boxes of white concrete on a dark base, each a different size.
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STEP 2
Let one box hang out
Push the upper box out over the terrace so it floats, and wrap it in wood with a white frame.
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STEP 3
Use walls of glass
Make whole walls of glass panes, floor to ceiling, facing the view.
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STEP 4
Keep the roofs flat
Flat roofs with a low edge, some of them used as a terrace with a ladder or stairs up.
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STEP 5
Light it with lines
End rods as slim lamps along walls and paths, and a pool or a strip of water in the garden.
The blocks these builds use most
Added up over all 4 modern builds. A good palette to stock up on before you start.
| Block | Blocks in total | Used in |
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| White Concrete | 1,387 | 4 of 4 builds |
| Spruce Planks | 893 | 4 of 4 builds |
| Light Gray Concrete | 795 | 4 of 4 builds |
| Gray Concrete | 759 | 4 of 4 builds |
| Glass Pane | 530 | 4 of 4 builds |
| Spruce Slab | 138 | 3 of 4 builds |
| Water Bucket | 98 | 3 of 4 builds |
| Glass | 41 | 2 of 4 builds |
Questions
How many blocks does a Minecraft modern build need?
The modern builds here take between 1,019 and 1,715 blocks. The smallest is Harlow Modern House with 1,019 blocks, the largest is Ironvale Modern Survival Base with 1,715.
How long does it take to make a modern build in Minecraft?
About 1 hour for Harlow Modern House, up to about 1.5 hours for Ironvale Modern Survival Base, once you have gathered the blocks.
Which modern build is the easiest?
Harlow Modern House. It is rated medium, takes 1,019 blocks and stands 24 by 20 blocks on the ground.
Can I build these in survival?
Yes. Every build lists each block you need with the number of stacks, so you can gather first and build after. All of them use blocks you can get in survival.
Do these modern builds come with a schematic?
Yes. Each build has a .schem file for Litematica, WorldEdit and Axiom, next to the layer-by-layer blueprints.
Are the blueprints free?
The 3D preview, the sizes and the full materials list of every build are free. The layer-by-layer blueprints and the schematic come with the build for €2.99, paid once, or with Pro for every build.
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