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(sandstone nether brick).... (red wool sandstone/smooth stone) for floors....... (spruce planks, spruce wood, and stone; either smooth or stone brick)....(cobblestone and smooth stone.) to frame windows. or places of architectural interest. i like to mix in stairs too for architectural interest.

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Sandstone as flooring, block of quartz for walls, birch wooden planks for ceiling, pane windows, glowstone bedding for miniature indoor pools of water, bushes (oak wood; oak leaves) on the inside and outside, iron doors with stone buttons, fence posts with torches on them right next to the front door on the outside. Wherever there is a workbench, have a trapdoor right next to it, and level it with the workbench to use it like a table or a shelf, and then place a bush (1 oak wood, 1 or more oak leaves on top) to support the other side of the trapdoor. So, there is a bush on one side and a crafting table on another. This looks REALLY cool, in my opinion! And then, of course, you may want to use some quartz/sandstone stairs and slabs to eliminate that feeling of a giant box for a house. And, obsidian flooring is my favorite when it comes to enchanting rooms.

we dont have quartz homes

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I really like the look of lapis blocks. I like to checkerboard stone slabs and lapis blocks for the flooring.

iron and lapis is an amazing combo. one of my first large builds was a large diamond made of glass iron and lapis. just recently tore it down. i miss it now. lol

Spruce planks birch planks and solid oak wood with Stone Bricks almost a midevil type.

Stone Slab/Birch Wood Planks/Glass Block/Glowstone, Stone Bricks/Iron Bars/Iron Doors/Glowstone

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Mmm yes I was using stone bricks and wooden planks for my castle, looks very nice.
Should I change some bricks to cracked and mossy?

yeah you should. randomization is really nice on big structures.
anyway, i think spruce wood, oak wood planks/ oak stairs/ white whool likes nice.

"Diamond and Gold. Looks awesome!"

Average Minecraft answer.

But in my opinion, Stone with any color wool looks nice. Birch with Wood or Dark Oak Wooden Planks.

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Hardened Clay and Planks with some cobblestone.

Haybales and fence

Blue wool and Orange Wool

Blue and White wool (Scotland XD)

All the ore and gem blocks together

xbox forum bro. no heybales. or the hardened clay they have on pc. we just have the clay blocks like you find in the wild.

Quartz Blocks/Spruce planks/Stained clay

For the exterior, I mainly use stone/stone brick with half-slabs of both in parts. Interior walls I use spruce wood with some small detailing in oak wood. Carpeting, I use an original zigzag design with black, grey, and white wool. Ceiling are mostly done with sandstone, and if I have enough room and if my build needs some fancy enhancement, I like to add a ceiling border with sandstone stair. Windows are a personal favourite in my builds, and I use a pattern consisting of chiseled stone and glass block. I recently completed a jungle resort on the Xbox 360 version. Some of the designs can be really nicely used in a home as well. If you like, check out my video tour and feel free to use my designs/ideas in your town. Best of luck on your builds!

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Seeing that I've been using the City texture pack for most of my Xbox worlds, I like the light grey wool with the grey wool for exteriors, or some contrasting combination of wood planks/slabs/stairs. Pink wook with netherbrick make for an interesting combination too. Or just lots and lots of glass.

My last Xbox build using the City texture was a modern buld with light grey wool with the clay (which is a reddish orange in this texture pack), using a lot of glass and for flooring I used iron blocks. Actually turned out pretty spiffy.

In my survival world I most recently built a wooden house with a stone roof--this isn't my most favorite combo, but I based it off of Keralis' start house builds so I put more effort into the roof than I usually do with my survival builds (I usually just fill in the ceiling with planks and maybe put an exterior rim of slabs or fences to not make it totally boring because in survival I got other things I gotta do, y'know?) and it turned out pretty nice. I built it on a hill and put a cobblestone wall around it, and although it's not a big house, it looks pretty darn fancy. Must be why every morning there are endermen hanging out in the meadows around it--they be coveting my digs!

For me , it depends on the biome.
For plains, Oak with Cobblestone
For forest, Birch with Brick
For snow, Spruce with stone brick.

In jungles, I use oak with jungle logs. I just don't really like those reddish planks.


When I get the resources, I'm gonna try obsidian with Nether Quartz.

My number one is oak wood, oak wood planks and stone brick.

For building any house i'd say

dark oak logs for pillars and door/window frames

stone bricks for walls or floors

wool for walls or basement flooring

oak planks for frames if not dark oak logs

stone slabs for roofing