The Building Tips Thread

[Klocko²]

Post helpful building tips here!

Add undulo to a tree and cover the stump to make the tree's leaves shake!

[Ad Bot]

[Katadeus]

try making trees out of ramps for the trunk and branches, and 4x4 and 8x8 cubes for the leaves

[TheKid]

4x4 and 8x8 cubes for the leaves

2x2 plate rounds*

[Port]

4x4 and 8x8 cubes for the leaves

wow those are gonna be some huge leaves

[Dillpickle]

If you're gonna make a tips thread, try and collect people's tips and organize them in the OP.

[Conan]

or actually write something up more than what you have there now.

i've given my fair share of building tips but here's one, along the line of

try making trees out of ramps for the trunk and branches, and 4x4 and 8x8 cubes for the leaves

what he means is to make cube-style trees, using standard default cubes and modter, zone-like cubes, and overlap cubes to get a neat tree foliage shape, on top of a standard-built trunk. It can really cut down on brickcount; a tree once needing 100-200 bricks can suddenly now be 30-60 bricks.

[Tonkka²]

try making trees out of ramps for the trunk and branches, and 4x4 and 8x8 cubes for the leaves

Filthy Robloxian.

[Setro]

-Be creative.
-Don't make a house thats 100% gray. In fact, try not to use grey.
-Use 1x16 bricks on the bottom of the walls, and recolor them to be a darker color (ex: walls are blue, lines are dark blue)
-Use as many special bricks as you can.
-Under any circumstances, do not make flat roofs. Those are just ugly.
-Make sure to put 2 layers in the walls so it's a different color inside.

Sometimes I forget one or two of these, but I hope you find these helpful.

[Reinforcements]

Use as many 1x1 plates as possible

Study other people's builds in order to learn specials techniques to enhance your own builds.

[Brickitect]

practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice!!!

thats how i got to my current skill level.

building tip- be efficient, use larger bricks (ex: the x5 height bricks instead of the 1x heights, smaller brick count, and it looks better because there are less lines)

[Ben Grapevine]

Save builds you like, load them on your own server, and completely copy it to learn new ways of building things. Obviously you wouldn't release anything. 

[Night Fox]

if you wanna make things look good, you're gonna need to sacrifice some efficiency

[ravencroft]

In fact, try not to use grey.

Ignore this tip. Gray is the most valuable color you have when building. Especially treunos specials grays.