Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress: An Official Mojang Book

by Mojang AB, The Official Minecraft Team

Have you ever wanted to create your own legendary medieval kingdom to rule over? Well, now you can, with Minecraft Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress .
 
Learn how to design, build, and customize every part of your castle and the surrounding area, from sturdy walls and deadly traps to dank, dark dungeons and sprawling villages. Each build has an exploded view to show you exactly which blocks to use, plus extra ideas to make every part of your kingdom unique.
 
Packed with interesting facts about medieval life, full-color illustrations, and a foldout depicting the epic scale of the kingdom, this official Mojang book has dozens of building ideas to ignite the imaginations of Minecrafters of all ages.

Note: This book has been designed to mimic job-site engineering plans. The marks and scuffs on the pages are an intentional design element.

Collect all of the official Minecraft books:
Minecraft: The Island
Minecraft: The Crash
Minecraft: The Lost Journals
Minecraft: The Survivors’ Book of Secrets
Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress
Minecraft: Guide to Exploration
Minecraft: Guide to Creative
Minecraft: Guide to the Nether & the End
Minecraft: Guide to Redstone
Minecraft: Mobestiary
Minecraft: Guide to Enchantments & Potions
Minecraft: Guide to PVP Minigames
Minecraft: Guide to Farming
Minecraft: Let’s Build! Theme Park Adventure
Minecraft for Beginners

Genres: Nonfiction, Gaming, Games, Self Help, High School, Video Games

80 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2016

Reviews

[Hero · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this! I turned Minecraft on, put this book in my lap and proceeded build an amazing fortress. And then a beautiful tavern and cottages for the village. The exploded visual instructions are so much easier to follow than any text or YouTube tutorials. The book is nicely organized by beginner through expert builds, including Builder and Redstone focused projects. Also you don't have to make it historically accurate. There's plenty of suggestions on how make your castles your own; from Germanic roofing to PvP defensible structures. Happy building!

[Jay Gesin · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best guides for castle and fantasy world building. The ideas were easy to implement, yet well detailed and easy to customize for players. This is a much higher quality production than 99% of the "guidebooks" out there.

[Wafflekip · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book's theme is really interesting, and the fact that each of the builds have a difficulty for beginners to experts is a great feature. The 'Exploded' factor of the book is very unique for an instruction book, (compared to other Minecraft construction books)Minecraft: Construction Handbook this helps to understand the book more, the ideas in the book are very creative and they are great inspiration for other builds! The variation from redstone, construction and combat defense is a great feature for a book for such a vast game. The medieval feel to the builds is fantastic, the way the builds and construction is set out in a way that it is so fluent to build things that look complicated, but when you have this book it's easy! But, this book isn't quite perfect, some of the mechanical, more confusing builds aren't really suited for the set out, the main factors of them are separated and spread out in the page, which leads to a somewhat confusing experience when it comes to a more larger and complicated build, if I could give this book 4.5 stars, I would, but I can't give it a 5, so It gets a 4 from me due to not being able to rate it 4.5 stars on Goodreads. I HIGHLY recommend this to minecraft players that are looking for something different to build, don't let the size of the build intimidate you, this book has got your back!

[Geoff Battle · Rating 5 out of 5]

You might think that Mojang have produced this Minecraft book as a hardcover for the prestige, however I think they are aware that this book is required to be hard-wearing, that this book will become a part of your home's Minicraft world. It's going to see a lot of action. That also explains why the pages are so thick - tear and rip resistant. This book provides not just the opportunity to build an epic fortress, but also includes a village (in less detail) and a dungeon. You also get to fill it with redstone traps - ideal for evil lords everywhere!

The exploded diagrams are a great approach, for they make it clear on how to build what is a complex structure. My nine year old Micecraft addict built the initial turret then found it a little to tough to proceed. The ability of builders will vary and if this is a present for children be prepared to pitch in and give a little help (or have someone who can) - it's times like these that local multiplayer can really help. However you get the fortress built, it's going to be the envy of other players in your world.

The overall quality is excellent. I've mentioned the page quality above, however the binding is also very good and the pages are full of information and very clear text and illustrations. Despite the amount of information presented, it is always clear to see, well spaced with a very easy to read font.

Overall, this is a great book, which needs a little patience but delivers an awesome result.

[Sannro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trevlig bok att låna hem för att få inspiration för att bygga i Minecraft. Stora bra sprängskisser. Vi kommer förmodligen låna hem den igen.

Fästning
Vakttorn
Yttermur
Fällgaller
Huvudborg
Tronsal
Kasern
Förtrollningsrum
Fängelsehola

Samhälle
Bostad
Marknadstorg
Värdshus för resande
Katedral
Finslipning

Fällor
Rum med lavafälla
Gömd fallgrop
Pilgatlopp
Pilkatapult

[B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the blueprints are great - like the turrets. It gives you the exact dimensions in those cases. Others it's just like "here's a building" but there's no cutaway to see dimensions etc. It could be better - it looks like parts of it are really half assed, but the parts that are done right are excellent.

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is perfect. It is a only hard copy with tear and rip resistant sheets. In this book you can truly know what to do when building your fort of Awesomeness!

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is actually a great guide for anyone looking to make a Minecraft fortress. It has a lot of good ideas, and gave me some ideas for the mansion I am building as well.

[Steven Sutler · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a blueprint book that was thrown together.

[Landen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for advanced builders

I love this book, it's a good book for Minecraft builders that are very advanced.
It's a good thing for building big castles and villages.

[Gdog1918 · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book

[Richard Sheppard · Rating 3 out of 5]

I could not get the portcullis to work on my castle. I ended up using a variation that I'd found on YouTube.

I did enjoy building all the structures though.

[Leo · Rating 5 out of 5]

possibly my favourite minecraft book
the one issue is that i feel required to build everything in this except that would take too long and the sun would probably explode before i finish

[PottWab Regional Library]

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[2.4G Virus ( tigerstar amped up ) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book it is very useful in you Minecraft
Experience.

( Love the Redstone bits )

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some interesting designs and build ideas. I originally gave this 5 stars but dropped it one after trying to work some of the designs into a game. Their ideas are good but their presentation of their "blueprints" could use some work. Still did inspire us to do some new builds in our world.

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully detailed and well organized. My one complaint with this book is that it is only 72 pages long. It was a bit sparse on parts that could have used additional explanation, and it would have been nice to see another 20-30 pages of ideas.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the seacrets and it was fun to read with my brother

[AyeeDatBoi · Rating 5 out of 5]

ummmmmmmm big castle/fortress

[Taarna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun castle ideas. Would have liked a bit more instructions/labels of what materials were used, but overall it was useful.

[Josh Thies · Rating 4 out of 5]

explosive

[Colt Deger · Rating 5 out of 5]

GREAT BOOK

I have never encountered a book that tells me everything I need to know about making a castle. Amazing!Spectacular!Super!Best book ever!