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Anyone use graph/grid paper or similar to map out builds before placing blocks?

I don't use grid paper to measure out and plan my builds, I simply decide on the size and take measurements by placing dirt blocks where the corners will be. This way I get an idea of the size and can visualize first hand what I am planning on building in the actual space.

Also once you get deeper into a project, you will find out that your plans wont necessarily work and you will have to adjust things. I am having the exact same thing with my large survival build. I can't furnish the interior quite like I originally envisioned, but I simply compromised on things and it works great.

I placed hunk of wood down with a sign that says, "This is a Trapped Chest."

I build before I can. Otherwise I usually wing it (no pun intended).

I don't, but I probably should, to save time and for better planning... generally, I just build and make it up as I go for the most part. The only thing I really bother with planning out is the more complex redstone mechanics...and that gets hard to do on paper since in a lot of cases it is 3-dimensional logic.

I use this! my daughter also haha

I use grid paper a lot. Never have an issue where I need to adjust once I start building. The only things that that chance is if i end up not liking the flow once in use. And as for 3D well, all of my builds are 3D... But i have mapped out redstone and done each row as a layer. Granted, I don't map every single time I play, and I usually have grid paper with me when I'm not home because I'm obsessed and always thinking of things to build.

I haven't really used graph paper when thinking of builds. In a way I already do that in my head well enough to know how to go about something. It is how partial of my mine works. I image it in mind, and then put the blocks down in game.

The thing graph paper will not do for me is material use. As that I will have to place test each time, just to see if that is what I was looking for in aesthetics. I am pretty good at imaging things in 3D in mind, at least where minecraft is concerned.:)

At least in what I build...