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Tips for Building the Millennium Falcon in Minecraft

Tips for Building the Millennium Falcon in Minecraft

The Solo: A Star Wars Story Skin Pack is here, and you can make a beautiful bucket of bolts for your new crew.

StarWars.com Team
StarWars.com Team
August 28, 2018

The Solo: A Star Wars Story Skin Pack is here, and you can make a beautiful bucket of bolts for your new crew.

Solo: A Star Wars Story skins arrive today in Minecraft, and there are enough to fill Lando's closet. (Which is saying something!) We're talking Han, Calrissian himself, Chewie (with goggles!), Enfys Nest, Dryden Vos, the Cloud-Riders, stormtroopers, L3-37, and more new droids and characters from the film -- for a total of 30 new skins. So if you're putting together a crew, you'll have a lot to choose from. Check out a preview in the gallery below:

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Tips for Building the Millennium Falcon in Minecraft - Gallery 1

But there's a bonus to this deal: In celebration of the release of the Solo: A Star Wars Story Skin Pack -- available now in the Minecraft Marketplace -- we asked Microsoft/4J Studios for some tips on how to build the Millennium Falcon. So get your blocks ready and prepare to make the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

Spoiler warning: This version is an approximation of how the ship appears at the end of the film.

The Millennium Falcon recreated in Minecraft with blocks.

The general aim of this Millennium Falcon build is to hint that there is more detail than there really is. The Falcon itself is covered in large flat areas with lots of little bits of detail that are smaller than the blocks available, so the idea is to use the texture of the blocks to convey the overall look of the ship.

Materials:

Stone Slabs

With the predominant color being gray, use Minecraft's stone and cobble blocks as the main building blocks. Stone slabs have a flat gray color with an edge to give the Falcon a paneling effect; the half-slab also helps to convey the gradual slope of the Falcon body without needing full blocks and making the ship even larger overall.

Stone Steps

Stacked on top of each other with the top step inverted, stone steps can help give the impression of the strong paneling rim and additional detail around the edge of the Falcon.

Build Process:

The frame for building a Millennium Falcon in Minecraft.

A partially built block Millennium Falcon in Minecraft.

Start by measuring out the shape of the Falcon with a circular wireframe and add additional shapes, such as the side indents and nose section.

Lando underneath a Millennium Falcon built in Minecraft.

Position the landing legs underneath and begin filling in the bottom of the ship's hull.

The top of a Millennium Falcon built in Minecraft.

Add depth to the ship, leaving the interior hollow for future decoration. Using a variety of materials to match the Falcon, begin refining the side details of the ship and nose section.

A Minecraft character runs on top of a Millennium Falcon built in Minecraft.

Build the cockpit on the side of the ship, as well as the access corridor to reach it.

Glass is added to the back of a Minecraft Millennium Falcon to give the appearance of afterburners.

As an extra addition, light up the back of the ship with the classic blue afterburn. The afterburner effect is first created by building the engines out of sea lanterns and then layering flat colored glass panels on top. The flat glass panels are affected by nearby light sources differently than glass blocks or any other block, in that they glow brighter when close to light blocks. If you place different colored stained glass planes atop each other, you can build up a softer gradient effect, such as the blue and the white used on the Falcon.

Punch it!

Check out this week's episode of The Star Wars Show to see a timelapse of this build!


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