Tutorials/Building a metropolis

A metropolis is a large city with many tall buildings and people. To build one, you probably want to use creative mode. If you can create a metropolis using all the ideas listed here in survival, you are doing very well, so continue testing building.

-Note-

1. When done, you should upload your world to a server, as many ideas are meant for multiplayer.

2. The wiki can only help you, not build it for you. Come up with your own ideas along with those on the page to create a truly epic city.

Getting started
Before you can start building your metropolis, you'll need to find a spot to build it! You'll need lots of flat land and wood, so the best place to build one (in survival) is in a plains biome next to a forest/taiga/jungle biome. In creative, you can instead build your city in a superflat world. Once you have a place to build, the first thing to do is build a single house. Build it just like you normally would. It should contain at least 2 rooms, a bed, a door, and a window.

Interior design
Nobody wants to live in a house without furniture! In every house you build (you should end up building a lot of them) add special furniture. Use pistons or fences with pressure plates for tables, stairs and signs for chairs, and bookshelves to decorate your houses. Try making a computer with an iron block and a painting, plus redstone and a lever to be a mouse.

Becoming a city
At first, you just had a house. Following these steps, one house will become an entire city.

1. Build a new house (don't add furniture)

2. Add a counter made of wood and slabs with a trapdoor to get inside.

3. Spawn/move a Villager behid it.

4. Check his trade. Depending on what it is, put a sign outside of the shop related to his trade. If in creative, you may continue killing the villager until you find a trade you want.

5. Build a gravel/cobblestone road between the two houses. For a more expensive solution, use smooth stone or even obsidian.

6. Build more shops.

7. Make a large, special building. This can be anything from an academy of magic to a zoo.

8. Continue building roads until they all connect.

Stepping it up
Now you have a nice city, but you're nowhere near finished. You should build three special buildings, you can get nice inspiration from the ideas at the bottom of the page.

1. Build a special building

2. Build another special building

3. Build yet another special building.

4. OPTIONAL: Build a fountain in the center of your town.

5. Build a city hall with many rooms and fill it with Villagers (in creative)

6. Connect all of your buildings with a new road

On your own
From this point, we can only give suggestions. A long list of them. Basically, from here, its up to you what to do. You won't get any advice.

City Types

 * Underwater: Build your city in a giant underwater glass dome.


 * Venice: Make your city have canals of water (or lava) for roads. Add bridges as well. Boats will be used for transportation, but don't use boats in lava, or else they will burn up!


 * Sky: Build you city in the sky. Use snow or wool for roads and buildings, make floating islands, and use glass for the street.


 * Underground: Should be obvious. Build your city an a cave and hang glowstone from the roof for lights.


 * Jungle Tree: Build your city in houses that wrap around the trunks of the tall trees. Use wooden bridges with wooden fences to get from building to building, or use minecarts on wooden bridges to get around the city if you want a more modern look.


 * Nether City: Build your city in the Nether, and make it out of Nether Brick.


 * Ender City: Build your city in the End, and make it out of End Stone and Obsidian.


 * Mushroom: Build your city like treetop, except use huge mushrooms instead of jungle trees. Difficult to build, but worth it.


 * Castle: Build a castle in your town and surround the whole city with a big stone wall.


 * Crafty: Make your city out of different colored wool, iron blocks, diamond blocks, huge mushrooms, and other creative materials. Make the city hall of your city out of the most creative materials you can think of. If you want, you could make a Nether Portal a door for the city hall, and you can make your city hall in the Nether.


 * Atlantis: Make a city on the ocean floor with nothing seperating your city from the water! However, you and all of your inhabitants will have to be on creative mode, as if they are on survival, hardcore, or adventure mode, they will drown. Make buildings out of sponges, diamond blocks, gold blocks, and/or glass blocks, and use iron doors to get in the buildings!


 * Invisible City: Make everything in your city made of glass blocks, glass panes, and/or ice, with no doors for your buildings. However, leave the ground grass, snow, or whatever block it already is. Building an invisible city is pretty risky though, as you can't use any lights, so zombies, skeletons, creepers, etc. can spawn in your city.


 * The Great Pumpkin: Make roads, buildings, and "stairs" out of pumpkins, use jack 'o' lanterns for lighting, and wear pumpkins for helmets. The only farms you can have in a pumpkin city are (obviously) pumpkin farms. Have iron golems and snow golems scattered throughout your city.


 * City of Green: Make roads out of green wool, buildings out of emerald blocks, melon, cactus, and sugar cane farms, and make your whole population creepers.


 * Magic City: Make every building in your city have at least 1 brewing stand, 1 cauldron, and 1 enchantment table, and make stores in magic cities only sell potions, potion ingredients, enchantment tables, brewing stands, cauldrons, enchanted armor, bottles o' enchanting, and ender chests. Also, place ender chests instead of regular chests.

Buildings

 * Airport Build an airport and add a runway for planes use a plane mod or build planes out of wool or iron.


 * Arcade Build a building and make the walls out of colored wool. Wrap the outside of the wool with obsidian and put iron doors on the front. Inside, build arcade games using iron blocks and paintings


 * Auditorium A place for people to gather and watch something, like a concert, speech, etc. It should be able to seat a lot of people. Can be placed in the Town Hall.


 * Apartments/Hotel Build a tall building out of bricks and fill it up with rooms with a single bed and small chest in each. People rent the rooms for whatever you are using as currency and can store their stuff there and sleep.


 * Bakery Have a building dedicated to selling bread, cookies, and cake! Build a giant model of the Minecraft Cake out of colored wool and have the inside be hollow. Fill it up with "shelves" (wooden planks) with signs on them listing what is on them. At the counter, costumers can order cakes, cookies, and bread. Ship cake in from the cake factory.


 * Bank People go here to store their money. Have a trusted person work there and have vaults deep underground to store their gold and diamonds. Only let the trusted person and the owner of the vault into it. Use piston doors on the vaults that need a special "key" (Lever)


 * Bookstore/Library Fill a shop with bookshelves. Have a librarian villager work there and have authors write in books and quills to buy/borrow. If the building is a library, fine players for not returning a book on time, or damaging it.


 * Cake Factory Build a factory that makes cakes. You could connect it to the bakery. Have a chicken, cow, sugar, and wheat farm under it, with automated egg, sugarcane, and wheat harvesting.


 * Casino Have a big fancy building with minecart slot machines (minecart in, random items out) or pig slot machines (using random pig movements.) Make it out of gold and diamonds.


 * Cemetery Build a cemetery bulding. Make a fence of iron bars, and an iron door to enter. Then add graves inside. Make tombstones out of stone bricks and dig 3 block holes under them. If you have access to a world editing tool, you can place zombie or skeleton spawners under them.


 * Church Have a big building to worship the gods. Build an altar to a god from Cubeaism Minecraft religion.


 * Department Store/Mall Make a huge building with many floors that sell different items. Have a floor for blocks, food, and mob drops for different prices. In a mall, add each store in a separate room.

Some stores to add would be:


 * Potions shop – A place where you can buy all kinds of potions.


 * Enchantments shop - A place where you pay someone to enchant your tools/weapons/armor.


 * Food market – A place where you can buy any kind of food.


 * Local shop – Sells everything but junk food (cake or cookies). May also sell tools and armor but probably nothing past iron. (may also have a higher price).


 * Clothes shop – This shop only sells armor in it.


 * Garden shop – this shop will sell flowers, saplings, bone meal, water buckets, dirt/grass blocks, sand, cactus, nether wart, seeds (all), melon, pumpkin, red and brown mushrooms, lily pad, vines, sugarcane etc.


 * Exotic shop – This shop sells items that are a little more difficult to find such like glowstone, lapis lazuli, blaze rods, ender pearls, gold nuggets, apples, golden apples and eyes of ender.


 * Forge – Charge people to craft a tool or smelt a block.


 * Building shop – This shop sells common and exotic building materials such as stone, cobblestone, brick blocks, glass, glass panes, netherbrick blocks, obsidian, wood, wood planks and bookshelves.
 * Redstone outlet - A shop which sells all things redstony. Have some examples of redstone going underground like a piston lift, a piston clock or an automatic farm/cobblestone generator.


 * Pharmacy - A shop with potions (but only good ones) and all foods except cake.


 * Scrap shop - Where players trade in beaten armor, damaged tools and blocks they have no use for, then the owner sells them to people who can't afford full grade armor.


 * Music shop- Sell rare music discs and jukeboxes for a high price.


 * Dog Pound Fill a building with wild wolves in cages and sell them to people. Give them bones until the dog is tamed. Smacking wolves is forbidden and anybody who does will be sent to jail.


 * Embassy Make other peoples' voices heard! Build offices that represents another server, a nearby city, or even mobs like testificates, creepers (build walls out of obsidian or they will blow up the rest of your city), or endermen! Also remember to build them next to your city hall.


 * Enderman Art Show Put endermen in a room of blocks they can pickup. After a set amount of days, see how they changed it! Players can bet on certain blocks being moved.


 * Farm Have wheat, melons, pumpkins, and sugar cane growing. Raise and breed cows, chickens, pigs, and sheep. Sell the food and wool you get from the farm for iron and gold. Sell animals for gold.


 * Fire Station When fire appears in the city, the fire fighters must put it out with their water buckets and fire resistance potions. Destroy block 51.


 * Garden Make a big grassy area in the center of the town full of trees, flowers, and tall grass. Use street lights along a sand road to keep hostiles from spawning.


 * Harbor Can only be built if your town is near the ocean. It will be useful if your town is spread across several islands. Craft boats and build ships


 * Hospital A place to care for injured players. Free beds and healing potions for everybody!


 * Ice Rink Only possible in creative mode, unless you are willing to spend lots of levels trying to get silk touch on a pickaxe. Place ice on the ground inside of a building and skate around on it. Have contests to see who can skate the fastest or spin the longest.


 * Jail When people break the rules, send them to jail! Build lots of cells inside of a big building and lock people inside. Make sure an admin changes them to Adventure Mode!


 * Mine Not really a building, but a quarry which goes down to layer 12 then branch mines of into different directions, allow people to mine for ores in a first come first serve policy, and have a smelting room and a chest full of pickaxes.


 * Movie Theater Have a big building that with rooms underground with white screens on the wall. Have players "act" in movies in front of the screen


 * Museum Make a huge museum that shows every block in the game (including the different paintings!) Very difficult to do in survival.


 * Police Station Make a building for admins and iron golems to work in. When a griefer or monster appears in town, send the admin or iron golem to bring them to jail.


 * Restaurant Have a building where players can sit down and pay for food. Give milk and good potions to players too. Use pistons to make a table.


 * School Have a school to teach players about building, mining, crafting, brewing, enchanting, fighting, and redstone.


 * Skyscraper Build an incredibly tall building out of iron blocks and have lots of windows. Add a piston elevator that allows players to choose which floor to visit.


 * Stadium Have a big stadium where players can compete in sports such as spleef and paintball. Add lots of seating for people can sit and watch.


 * Theme Park Have a fun place with minecart roller coasters, a haunted house, and a maze.


 * Zoo Try to get one of each mob in a chamber where players can look at them. Be careful with the hostiles.