Tutorials/Making nice floors

If you want to make a fancy or detailed floor, read through the different designs in this tutorial.

Floor textures
NOTE: The requirements listed below are calculated for a 5x5 floor, and are raw materials.

With Wood and Wood Planks
Wood is one of the most common materials used for floors in Minecraft, as well as floors in real life. Different combinations of wood logs and wood planks can give houses different styles. The advantage of wood is that trees are both very common and fully renewable.

Horizontal Wood Logs
Requirements: 17 wood (logs) This design has a fancy and polished look. It is somewhat spareful, but not as spareful as if it were made with solely wood planks. The wood logs are hard to orient, but this can be solved by placing the wood logs first and then the wood planks.

Vertical Wood Logs
Requirements: 17 wood This design requires the exact same materials as the previous. It is not as fancy as it would be if using horizontal wood logs, but it's easier to orient.

Differently Oriented Wood Logs
Requirements: 25 wood This design has a detailed and polished feel to it. However, it requires lots of wood, and it is hard to orient the logs. The easiest way to orient the logs is to place all of the horizontal ones first and then the vertical.

With Granite, Andesite, or Diorite
Granite, andesite, and diorite, were added in 1.8 for building. The three types of stone plain can give a floor an old, eroding feel to it, while using combinations of the polished versions of granite, andesite, and diorite, can result in a tile-like floor.

Tile-like Floor
Requirements: 13 polished andesite, 12 polished granite This design with alternating polished andesite and granite is great for a tiled floor, like for a kitchen.

Eroding Floor
Requirements: 16 diorite, 9 andesite This type of floor is great for an old floor that looks like its eroding away. It is basically a floor of diorite with andesite placed randomly throughout. Note that this grid is for a 5 x 5 floor, unlike the others, which were for a 6 x 6.

With Wool or Concrete
Wool and concrete can be used to brighten up floors a bit, and make them colorful. Most colors of wool are fully renewable, and the ingredients to craft concrete are fairly common. Use wool for a more detailed-looking floor, and concrete for a more polished floor.

Blue, Yellow, and Lime Wool
Requirements: 12 blue wool, 9 lime wool, 4 yellow wool This floor pattern is nice and colorful. It can also be substituted for concrete blocks instead of wool, for a more polished feel. There are 2 grids below. The first one shows how a 5 x 5 floor would use this pattern, and the second one shows how a 6 x 6 floor would use this pattern.

You can also switch up the different colors of wool. For example, you can change the yellow wool to lime, the lime to blue, and the blue to yellow if desired.

With Glazed Terracotta
Glazed terracotta is great when used to highlight certain parts of a floor, specifically in a castle or royal house. What makes glazed terracotta unique from other blocks, is that different textures and colors are shown throughout the block, unlike most blocks, which are one color throughout. Lime glazed terracotta is great for a royal-looking floor, while red glazed terracotta is great for a fancy carpet. Orange-glazed terracotta is great for a beach-hut floor, or the floor for a party place.

Glazed terracotta looks best when multiple glazed terracotta blocks are used in a pattern. For more information on glazed terracotta patterns, see Tutorials/Glazed terracotta patterns.