Use Different Materials

~  Before and After ~
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One of things I see a lot of players do is to use the same material (typically cobble) for the walls, ceiling, floor, roof, and ground platform that their build is on.

Texture packs change the overall image of a build, but texture packs won't improve the quality of the build.

If you want to improve the quality of your builds, one of the simplest things you can do is to use different materials for the different parts of the the build.

For example, a cobble shack can be improved by simply adding a wood floor and roof, and leaving the grass around the outside instead of paving it over with cobble.

Exterior - Before

~  Typical Shack ~
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The typical, all-cobble, ugly, little shack sitting on a cobble pad that is all too common on Minetest servers. Visual monotony is being created by using the same material for almost every aspect of this build.

Exterior - After

~  Typical Shack - Improved! ~
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Here is the same shack, greatly improved just by using different materials and adding some simple design changes. With the exception of the smoking chimney top, all the materials used in the visual upgrade are default materials found on most Minetest servers.

Interior - Before

~ Typical Shack Interior  ~
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The typical, boring, interior of cobble walls, cobble floor, and cobble ceiling. Even if this were an old-time jail cell, it could be improved by adding a stone floor. But,... this is intended to be a cozy little bungalow, not a jail cell.

Interior - After

~ Typical Shack Interior - Improved!  ~
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Still cobble walls but now there is a floor made of default wood, the corner support posts are made from default tree trunks, there is a default furnace backed against a chimney of default red-brick, housed under a roof made of default wood with an attic space filled with twenty-one! default chests.

By using a variety of default materials, which are not rare or exotic by any means, this typical, junk-build, cobble shack was transformed into a pleasant looking little bungalow.

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