minecraft sideblog

EXCUSE ME? BUT THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

Is it weird that I think that certain Minecraft builds have a particular architectural style/design that is wholly unique to Minecraft? like it makes me think a lot about like other games that have their own signature architecture styles. like in Subnautica mostly everything is built underwater and has like smooth corners and tunnels and stuff and as far as I know there’s nothing like that actually on earth to the same degree as in Subnautica. and then in Rust you get these really amazing buildings that use a ton of complex geometry and honeycombing to make easy-to-defend towers but on like a much more geometrically complex level than even most actual fortress towers do. for Minecraft specifically it’s sort of like… bonsai in a way, there’s certain builds that emphasize being smaller but having structural supports as sort of a decorative motif, something that looks similar to something that in real life would be massive but in terms of Minecraft it’s actually miniature, having much thicker walls compared to building things in real life is part of it too. then there is sort of like a focus around emphasizing blockyness itself to be a style, its similar to modernist building but not quite, because instead of focusing on pure untextured colored forms it leans into its limitations and the cubic “grain” of the world rather than trying too hard to hide it.