Creating a magical environment inside Hogwarts in Minecraft requires special effects for those extraordinary outcomes. This involves adding various elements to the game that can make the world of Minecraft look and feel more like the iconic Harry Potter series. Some examples of elements that can be added to the game include magical creatures, spell casting abilities, enchanted objects, and mysterious organizations. Adding these elements will make the castle feel alive with magic from all around it. Preparing Enchantments And Spellcasting Abilities On Hogwarts In Minecraft Note: numbers are added to indicate possible classrooms but those rooms are not further identified. Events

I am completely new to the Minecraft Community, and I am aware this has been done COUNTLESS times already. But this save is the reason I got the game in the first place, so I figured I might upload it now that I am nearly done. I’ve spent years and several attempts on it, and now it is in a place where I’d consider it finished. There are still plenty of empty, ugly and unfinished hills around the map, because I was too lazy to polish these corners. I’ll round out today’s post with some untextured orthographic views of the entire Prisoner of Azkaban model as of this moment. Coming along! This drawing provides evidence for the quad cloisters still existing in POA. Presumably, they were still part of that version, and at the time this drawing was created, they simply hadn’t yet decided to raise the quad, add the new arch, remove the cloister and fountain, etc. This is also the only plan I have of the training grounds tower from the COS redesign, and of the adjacent pathway that would eventually change in HBP. So far, we can locate the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw common room very accurately based on Hogwarts blueprints and ingame images: Finally, the dungeons of Hogwarts contain the Potions classroom, the detention area, and the Chamber of Secrets. The Potions classroom is the place where students learn to brew potions and concoctions, while the detention area is where students are sent if they break the school rules. The Chamber of Secrets is a secret chamber located beneath the school and is home to an ancient and powerful creature.

Hogwarts Castle Build Part 1: The Great Hall

That film’s substantial changes are on full display here. The Fantastic Beasts castle is virtually identical; if they did create any drawings for that one, I haven’t seen them. The windows look funny without nothing but sky and water on the other side, but that will be resolved when I enclose the other sides of the building. For now, the south facade at least is complete. The towers are a particularly iconic part of the Hogwarts castle. In this video you’ll be giving the castle it’s unique look, adding the Headmaster’s Tower that houses Dumbledore’s office – a place Harry Potter visits on many occasions! My first interpretation of this basic shape reflected two simple goals: the placement of windows, and the creation of courtyards. My second interpretation was much more rectilinear. I was focused on making the castle appear historically accurate, and thus the second draft was born. I studied architecture, focusing on castles, fortresses, palaces, manor houses… anything that would be useful to me as I constructed Hogwarts. (I was very surprised to discover last summer that during my trip to Europe, I could tell the difference between 10th and 15th century cathedral windows at a glance!) Of course, it’ll look better once the far side is enclosed as well; I’m not working on that courtyard side yet.

Historical accuracy was almost as difficult to achieve as canonical accuracy. There’s a very simple explanation for this: Hogwarts in its entirety is a 13-story Scottish castle from the 11th century. There were no 13-story castles in Scotland in the 11th century! They simply did not exist. (Let me make it clear at this point that I’d already realized that Hogwarts didn’t exist. I had known it ever since the age of eleven, when I hadn’t received my letter. What further proof could there possibly be?) Here’s a view from overhead once I’d roughed in the main shape of the building. At this point, I wasn’t worried too much about cleaning up the intersections between walls and objects…I just wanted to make sure the layout made sense three-dimensionally: I shifted my way attention to the adjacent walls that correspond to the cathedral’s nave and north aisle, otherwise known at Hogwarts as the Long Gallery. I was surprised to notice that the windows and buttresses are not evenly spaced. In fact, the upper windows don’t even align with the lower windows. I fought this briefly, thinking I must be mistaken, but nope, I’m pretty positive none of this stuff lines up in the miniature – and not in ways that match the imperfections of Durham! If you assume that each house, gender, and year gets its own room, then you have to find places for a total of 56 different dormitories in which to put them. That would mean 14 rooms above the Gryffindor common room alone—and it’s already on the 7 th floor. In the interest of space, therefore, I’ve marked the places where I assume the dormitories to be, and have left it to magic to sort out. Perhaps there’s some kind of Expansion Charm involved. The training grounds tower doesn’t indicate the circle tower where it meets the Durham courtyard structures.

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Eventually I decided that, although the Second Draft was a reasonably convincing depiction of a castle, it hadn’t yet become Hogwarts. It was simply too planned out, too perfect. Rowling described Hogwarts as a mishmash of different styles. Being a thousand years old, Hogwarts would have had additions built into it, so it would display a wide variety of architectural fashions. I decided to forego the historically perfectionistic goal I had for the plans, replacing it with the kind of asymmetry that the castle’s quirky personality deserved.