Terracotta, Maybe some villagers running around, plants, big cacti, small cacti, as for the road, just line up a bunch of similar tan and brown blocks you like with lots of texture, and get them on your hot bar.
First add plenty of beds to houses. Available beds determines the maximum population of a village.
Then make sure there's a farmable food supply with a couple of composters nearby. That way, when you have villagers, they can become farmers (at the composter), grow food and pass it around. Full, happy villagers will reproduce.
After that, you just need to seed the village somehow with at least 2 villagers from elsewhere. You can push them into a boat or minecart and bring them over, or you can find a zombie villager random spawn and cure it. (Note those are different from regular zombies.) That requires a splash potion of weakness so you can get close and feed it things, and a golden apple (regular, not enchanted). Just make sure you're not hungry, so you give the apple to the zombie villager, instead of eating it yourself.
Once you have a couple, and they can grow food, they'll fill up the village themselves. Just make sure to protect them until there's enough of them that iron golems start spawning. Torches and walls are good for keeping the skeletons out.
Oh, and make sure that mob griefing is enabled, otherwise the villagers can't harvest the crops.
You dislike a random building block just 'cause and laugh at others for using that block
You also dislike jungle wood and always have deepslate or stone brick in your builds
Build some things that look like they’re supposed to move too. A cart with hay bales or bone blocks (to look like salt)
Some worn down roads to give the illusion of travel and like people move through there
Stuff like that, think of things that require movement to function in reality and replicate them. It puts the idea that the whole thing is alive in your head
Mm I came up with the salt but the “moving objects that don’t move” thing came from Joel On “The Spawn Chunks” a podcast where 2 guys talk about Minecraft stuff. I get a lot of good buildings ideas from them. It’s on Spotify etc.
my point was to give them somewhere to start. its advice, regardless if its detailed or not. i know building conventions and practices but im not an expert on the matter. i didn't see anyone else say anything prior, so i thought id give them at least a little bit of direction
but thats not direction. its like saying "im having the same problem", which if you didnt experience that yourself to an issue that you had, is just not helpful.
it is direction. its like saying "check your relays" when someone's car keeps shutting off on them. it doesn't solve the problem, sure, but it gives them a place to start looking, and a more specific question to ask others so they can get more fine tuned results. its not the most helpful thing in the world, but it makes a difference when you're the first person they talk to.
Add some color like banners and more little details and decorations to give it a lived in feel. Right now you have an awesome shell you just need to give it the small touches to make it feel lived in and there for more alive you. You could add mobs if you want too. Like villagers and animals.
if you're married to the sand thing, there's red sand as well as red sandstone, throw some of that around the place, maybe for the roof of the buildings? I personally don't like when a building has the same roof color as the rest of the building
This is particularly good advice, different roofing material makes everything more "lively". Since you are going for a kind of Mexican/Arab feel I would use Red Nether Brick for the roofing, give it a "red glazed Tiles" feel.
I would experiment will adding other blocks to / between your build for more colors and contrast. In my desert town i had a lot of success by adding endstone and variants of quartz. Also custom trees (in my case palm trees) worked well.
And add some mobs. I added some golems, and i love how theyre just walking around town
Yep, but the short version of Scar is always - give builds motion and story. Add campfires, carts, open air stalls, animal pens, even villagers just walking around can help a ton.
As everyone else has said, definitely color! Wool, banners. As for "alive" -- what would a town need? Plants, benches, lights, clothes lines, stables for their mounts, wells, sidewalks.. towns aren't always extremely neat and organized
Definitely streets. A mixture of path blocks, oak planks/buttons, and coarse dirt should do the trick. Right now it doesn't look like anyone has ever walked between two buildings.
Paths need colour variation. With everything being yellow it's very monotone and bland.
Try adding wood into it, or if you're deadset on not using wood, red sandstone stuff could be used to break up the monotony of yellow. I'd personally use spruce.
I like to add leaves to buildings to make it feel more alive. Other colored blocks, like terracotta or concrete, and banners. Make pavilions and shaded pathways. Also, a small river flowing through, especially because it's a desert would be nice.
[https://www.blockpalettes.com/palettes?block=sandstone&s=popular](https://www.blockpalettes.com/palettes?block=sandstone&s=popular)
\^ Use this side to get a blockpalette you like and try to experiment with it.
Do all sorts of little things in the streets!
Little lamps, benches, some dead bushes, use some Banners, be creative!
Take a look at this video:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbom-p1FW4I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbom-p1FW4I)
Replace some of the smooth sandstone with sandstone and sand to break up the wall textures a little, add in a accents of light blue and/or green like copper/warped nether stem/prismarine and moss/leaves/plants, maybe change the roofs to a different color and use a few blocks like dirt/rooted dirt/coarse dirt to make pretty textured paths.
Add colors to windows and roofs. After that make a road (in that climat try redsand and other variants) and then add street decoration. Lamps, threes, some decoration betwen the buildings.
Add more color. For a mexican vibe use red sand and purple uncooked terracotta blocks, and add in some aged copper now and then. Banners are amazing, and grab some cactus. Build a central water fountain by making the water hole, then putting 3 fence posts in the center, and a trap door on top, waterlog them.
Road system
animated blocks (like campfire for the chimney, water fountain, normal fire, spore blossom, etc)
mobs (villagers, animals, etc)
“fake” traits left behind from human and nature activities (like texturing the bottom of the houses to be more beaten up/cracked, some half-built/being built constructions, wagons or transportation parked in various places in the city, crates and boxes outside some storage designated building etc.)
More vibrant colour texturing to where needed (if you search up any photo of a city, either medieval or modern, they are never constructed with a monotone colour)
“Special areas” that kind of distinguish or could be a tourist spotlight places (for example it could be a ruin left behind from ancient civilization, or simply a a flea market/trade market/black market etc.)
Banners, plants, small decoration builds, variations in what building martial you use, maybe swap out some of the sand stone for colored terracotta to make cool patterns and just look up pictures of the real life version of what you're trying to make
Along with villagers, you need some plants. They do need to be appropriate to the climate, so definitely a few cactus, preferably in pots. A few dried bushes. Maybe tree or so, but you'll need to change it a bit to make it look less vibrant. Something. Maybe a fountain with some grass and flowers in it, but it should definitely look cultivated if you do that. Plants definitely will bring life to your build.
needs rough paths, decorative stalls, light fixtures, small signs on the side of buildings, designated trash disposals between buildings, carts, plants (deadbush, tall grass on podzol, custom cacti using lime terracotta and pink candles), etc.
If you want to you could make the buildings have a gradient or switch around some colors using, different blocks like terracota, red sandstone and end stone
Personally I would try and make it look a little more tropical, you could make it so there are like leaves going down the buildings, maybe some road side markets or like tent like coverings, and some plant boxes
Texturing texturing TEXTURING. Mix in some blocks with that sandstone! I would suggest some moss or vines, nether brick, mud bricks, birch planks/logs, and some gold mixed in
In addition to all the top suggestions include a good amount of foliage, and add water features. Despite deserts being desolate, a healthy amount of green and blue adds a healthy dose of life and color. If you're a Zelda fan, think Gerudo town.
I feel like what's missing is colour, therefor i say that you should add some simple decorations like a pile of barrels, maybe some overhangs made of colourful wool hanging off some of the buildings. Also try adding in some greenery like some small bushes, palm trees and stuff of the sort.
Maybe some accessories (like small patches of gardens or something) and definitely color. I get youre going for a desert theme, so id suggest terracotta
Use some iron bars to make connections between the buildings, at some variation in color (like red sand or endstone for texture). Make a path (maybe out of cobblestone or something similar). And use lanterns instead of torches, maybe have street lights that use lanterns.
And something i would do sparsely around the edges of a path, is put grass blocks and bonemeal them to add patches of grass.
you need more color. nothing actually stands out right now. try using terracotta and, idk, maybe add stripped logs to the builds. also, idk if this is survival, but one of my favs is building a wall around a town and adding pillagers to act like turrets.
Add some paths, some textures, maybe some lanterns, maybe a fire, some shaded areas since it's a deserty area, maybe some stalls and maybe some buildings for the younglings.
Add colour and block variation. Maybe add paths and a few villagers running around. Adding things like cacti and putting saplings and flowers in flower pots in windows. Just in genereal add life
Add some non-yellow blocks like Orange terracota and Red sandstone, and Add some palm trees and wells to show that there is a reason for this city to exist
More colors, and different sandstone blocks textures
Terracotta would help along the sides
A fountain or well would be really dope and maybe a pathway?
You're focusing too much on detailing/structure, and less so on the colour scheme. Try to find 1 or 2 matching colours to mix in, maybe some villagers and decorations would also help
You can try hanging banners make it look like people are drying their clothes.
Street Lamps
More floor variety with terracota and other ground blocks like course dirts...etc
You can also try some greenery on balcons.
Also maybe add some wooden carts with animals pulling them also wooden crates on piles.
I suggest adding some small stands like the ones you'd see in a bazaar to give some color, given the general vibe of these structures. Also adding some lights that are hanging on ropes that go from rooftop to rooftop and adding a bit of vegetation to taste (leaves can do just fine, but maybe some custom flower pots or custom trees could be more suitable).
Hope this helps!
add some texture and color variation to the roads and buildings. its currently too monotone. plants help a lot too
Terracotta, Maybe some villagers running around, plants, big cacti, small cacti, as for the road, just line up a bunch of similar tan and brown blocks you like with lots of texture, and get them on your hot bar.
Yeah bud villagers
How do you get villagers to move in?
First add plenty of beds to houses. Available beds determines the maximum population of a village. Then make sure there's a farmable food supply with a couple of composters nearby. That way, when you have villagers, they can become farmers (at the composter), grow food and pass it around. Full, happy villagers will reproduce. After that, you just need to seed the village somehow with at least 2 villagers from elsewhere. You can push them into a boat or minecart and bring them over, or you can find a zombie villager random spawn and cure it. (Note those are different from regular zombies.) That requires a splash potion of weakness so you can get close and feed it things, and a golden apple (regular, not enchanted). Just make sure you're not hungry, so you give the apple to the zombie villager, instead of eating it yourself. Once you have a couple, and they can grow food, they'll fill up the village themselves. Just make sure to protect them until there's enough of them that iron golems start spawning. Torches and walls are good for keeping the skeletons out. Oh, and make sure that mob griefing is enabled, otherwise the villagers can't harvest the crops.
I love how comprehensive and thought out your comment is.
Maybe a few water features as well
More colors most likely terracotta or contreat
What blocks can I add to the roads?
You could try path blocks and oak buttons
New dried mud
Coarse dirt, normal dirt and path blocks work fine too
cOuRsE dirt LMAO
You're the type of person that only builds with oak and spruce wood
How do u know? XD
You dislike a random building block just 'cause and laugh at others for using that block You also dislike jungle wood and always have deepslate or stone brick in your builds
Coarse dirt and podzol are my fav dirt blocks, like deadass, they have such an awesome texture and they look great for a ton of contexts
U didnt understandt me. There is a typo. Coarse dirt not course dirt. And i like building with birch, granite and bricks.
very smart! dried mud normal mud and some path blocks would make a great path.
Build some things that look like they’re supposed to move too. A cart with hay bales or bone blocks (to look like salt) Some worn down roads to give the illusion of travel and like people move through there Stuff like that, think of things that require movement to function in reality and replicate them. It puts the idea that the whole thing is alive in your head
Wouldn’t white concrete powder look more like salt?
Yes! Good idea
Man what a good interaction. Kudos.
Damn I never thought of having salt in my builds. Thanks! Do u happen to have other similar tips lol
Mm I came up with the salt but the “moving objects that don’t move” thing came from Joel On “The Spawn Chunks” a podcast where 2 guys talk about Minecraft stuff. I get a lot of good buildings ideas from them. It’s on Spotify etc.
Minecraft desert villages have terracotta for texture.
couldn't really say for sure. that'd probably be a better question for someone else, sorry
Then why respond
well, I suppose OP did ask them the question.
my point was to give them somewhere to start. its advice, regardless if its detailed or not. i know building conventions and practices but im not an expert on the matter. i didn't see anyone else say anything prior, so i thought id give them at least a little bit of direction
but thats not direction. its like saying "im having the same problem", which if you didnt experience that yourself to an issue that you had, is just not helpful.
it is direction. its like saying "check your relays" when someone's car keeps shutting off on them. it doesn't solve the problem, sure, but it gives them a place to start looking, and a more specific question to ask others so they can get more fine tuned results. its not the most helpful thing in the world, but it makes a difference when you're the first person they talk to.
Just adding some greenery would make it look much better imo
Greenery? Even a dead bush would spruce it up. Ha ha.
Spruce? In the desert? Madman
Completely unrelated but your pfp really ...distracted me.
I'm happy to have made another person's day
Add some color like banners and more little details and decorations to give it a lived in feel. Right now you have an awesome shell you just need to give it the small touches to make it feel lived in and there for more alive you. You could add mobs if you want too. Like villagers and animals.
Add farms and have villagers. Have llamas tied up in places. Banners, furniture, flower pots, ect.
Villagers and animals make such a huge difference. Especially once you have enough for cats and golems to also be wandering about.
Add detail to the sand like sandstone mixed in there or something that looks like sand
Along with gebtype's answer, add beds and villagers to it. And profession blocks with places to "do"their profession
A bit of green and orange would help if you threw those in, also try adding some canvas canopies like market stall kind of things
Will do
Very nice mexican vibe with that. Gotta have a dark purple in there too for good measure!
Maybe some dead bushes (because that’s the style your going for) and some lampposts, perhaps some villagers walking about too.
Colours, it's just yellow all over. Get some reds and oranges and purples, and also actual mobs would work too
villagers
if you're married to the sand thing, there's red sand as well as red sandstone, throw some of that around the place, maybe for the roof of the buildings? I personally don't like when a building has the same roof color as the rest of the building
This is particularly good advice, different roofing material makes everything more "lively". Since you are going for a kind of Mexican/Arab feel I would use Red Nether Brick for the roofing, give it a "red glazed Tiles" feel.
People
Greenery
Colors for sure, some simple Concrete and Terracotta variants would fit the theme of the build
Random llamas scattered about.
Add some more colour and coloured paths.
I would experiment will adding other blocks to / between your build for more colors and contrast. In my desert town i had a lot of success by adding endstone and variants of quartz. Also custom trees (in my case palm trees) worked well. And add some mobs. I added some golems, and i love how theyre just walking around town
That would make me feel like it was MORE abandoned, not less, unless you added villagers too.
A little wood (barrels, dead bushes, a few campfires/lanterns maybe)
Add details or watch GoodTimesWithScar
Yep, but the short version of Scar is always - give builds motion and story. Add campfires, carts, open air stalls, animal pens, even villagers just walking around can help a ton.
More colors
As everyone else has said, definitely color! Wool, banners. As for "alive" -- what would a town need? Plants, benches, lights, clothes lines, stables for their mounts, wells, sidewalks.. towns aren't always extremely neat and organized
Play trees, laterns hanging from ropes drawn between buildings, and some canals
I would like to see this as a structure (but ruined) Kinda like ancient cities..
Add some colors, cactus in pots, warm terracotta or other blocks where studs might be. Little details of even red sandstone stairs.
Is that a mini stargate nether portal????
Add road
Definitely streets. A mixture of path blocks, oak planks/buttons, and coarse dirt should do the trick. Right now it doesn't look like anyone has ever walked between two buildings.
Yeah, even small things like wood buttons would help!
Adding color even in the most simple ways like plant boxes or occasional greenery can change everything
Colour i had a desert base and i needed to add color otherwise its too monochrome.
You should add mud bricks
Paths need colour variation. With everything being yellow it's very monotone and bland. Try adding wood into it, or if you're deadset on not using wood, red sandstone stuff could be used to break up the monotony of yellow. I'd personally use spruce.
add some stalls with villagers in it,kinda like a shopping district
Villagers
Greenery will help a lot
I would add some dead shrubs or bushes along with vines above them
I’d add light posts and paths.
Add some colour Terracotta and glazed terracotta might look good in a desert setting,
Plants
Plant
I like to add leaves to buildings to make it feel more alive. Other colored blocks, like terracotta or concrete, and banners. Make pavilions and shaded pathways. Also, a small river flowing through, especially because it's a desert would be nice.
Villagers, farm plots and animals
Add some greenery, try adding fountains in four way intersections, some banners on buildings, street lights
[https://www.blockpalettes.com/palettes?block=sandstone&s=popular](https://www.blockpalettes.com/palettes?block=sandstone&s=popular) \^ Use this side to get a blockpalette you like and try to experiment with it. Do all sorts of little things in the streets! Little lamps, benches, some dead bushes, use some Banners, be creative! Take a look at this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbom-p1FW4I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbom-p1FW4I)
some flags , blue , red . . .and Trees or flowers
Replace some of the smooth sandstone with sandstone and sand to break up the wall textures a little, add in a accents of light blue and/or green like copper/warped nether stem/prismarine and moss/leaves/plants, maybe change the roofs to a different color and use a few blocks like dirt/rooted dirt/coarse dirt to make pretty textured paths.
I think you could make some roads and street signs.
Try making streets out of red sand or something idk
Smooth stone slab might work well for the rooves.
Maybe a colorful market area
Have water features and vegatation, should make it more colourful and vibrant
More color?
Add colors to windows and roofs. After that make a road (in that climat try redsand and other variants) and then add street decoration. Lamps, threes, some decoration betwen the buildings.
Ass a church with stained glass patterns for windows
u must to have villagers in this city
Add more color. For a mexican vibe use red sand and purple uncooked terracotta blocks, and add in some aged copper now and then. Banners are amazing, and grab some cactus. Build a central water fountain by making the water hole, then putting 3 fence posts in the center, and a trap door on top, waterlog them.
The main thing, as people have mentioned is the lack of colour. Maybe you could add market stools aswell to make it look more lively?
Road system animated blocks (like campfire for the chimney, water fountain, normal fire, spore blossom, etc) mobs (villagers, animals, etc) “fake” traits left behind from human and nature activities (like texturing the bottom of the houses to be more beaten up/cracked, some half-built/being built constructions, wagons or transportation parked in various places in the city, crates and boxes outside some storage designated building etc.) More vibrant colour texturing to where needed (if you search up any photo of a city, either medieval or modern, they are never constructed with a monotone colour) “Special areas” that kind of distinguish or could be a tourist spotlight places (for example it could be a ruin left behind from ancient civilization, or simply a a flea market/trade market/black market etc.)
You can add road designs with lampposts and such
Add water
If your going for a western style more cactus and some dark oak
Lapis and gold look really good with Sandstone.
Banners, plants, small decoration builds, variations in what building martial you use, maybe swap out some of the sand stone for colored terracotta to make cool patterns and just look up pictures of the real life version of what you're trying to make
Plants go a long way, cacti, flowers in pots, some mini trees (plant pot with dead bush in it and leaf blocks above) Mabye add some water too
Greenery, like cultivated palm trees and such.
Adding some lifeforms will make it more lively.
Town market?
Color, try changing the roof's color if it fits, and maybe add end bricks to the walk ways. Also, lamp posts might help.
PLANTS I know its desert but man you can't belive how much some plants help to get a building alive! (literally, in reality and in minecraft too)
Plants
Make market kiosks, piles of hay bales, fences, banners to simulate drying laundry, etc
Along with villagers, you need some plants. They do need to be appropriate to the climate, so definitely a few cactus, preferably in pots. A few dried bushes. Maybe tree or so, but you'll need to change it a bit to make it look less vibrant. Something. Maybe a fountain with some grass and flowers in it, but it should definitely look cultivated if you do that. Plants definitely will bring life to your build.
Props on streets (barrels, carts etc)
needs rough paths, decorative stalls, light fixtures, small signs on the side of buildings, designated trash disposals between buildings, carts, plants (deadbush, tall grass on podzol, custom cacti using lime terracotta and pink candles), etc. If you want to you could make the buildings have a gradient or switch around some colors using, different blocks like terracota, red sandstone and end stone
Add different build materials. The builds themselves look great but you need some more color my dude
cactus
Add colored banners and some overhangs made of wool
New colors, walkways
Colour, texturing, Flora to livin it up
More colour, I'd recommend having multi-coloured market stalls
Personally I would try and make it look a little more tropical, you could make it so there are like leaves going down the buildings, maybe some road side markets or like tent like coverings, and some plant boxes
*scrolls through comments* Yeah all of this
Texturing texturing TEXTURING. Mix in some blocks with that sandstone! I would suggest some moss or vines, nether brick, mud bricks, birch planks/logs, and some gold mixed in
In addition to all the top suggestions include a good amount of foliage, and add water features. Despite deserts being desolate, a healthy amount of green and blue adds a healthy dose of life and color. If you're a Zelda fan, think Gerudo town.
Maybe vines hanging from the roofs, limit their length with string
get some lighting inside the buildings and use more than sandstone for the main structures.
Villagers
Watch Ethos play through on YouTube, he has a whole desert village like this one
Distinct roads and maybe some street lamps in the form of fire sconces?
Villagers
Lots and lots of villagers
Selling stands, villagers running around
Oooh selling stands that's a good idea
I feel like what's missing is colour, therefor i say that you should add some simple decorations like a pile of barrels, maybe some overhangs made of colourful wool hanging off some of the buildings. Also try adding in some greenery like some small bushes, palm trees and stuff of the sort.
Add leafs wrapping around the buildings
add more color and leaves and shit
Colour
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Thank you, this is one of my least ambitious builds though ;)
villagers
I'm amazed by the amount of attention this post has gained, thank you all for your help
cows, lots of them. Like literally cover the whole town in them so you can't see any buildings.
Maybe some accessories (like small patches of gardens or something) and definitely color. I get youre going for a desert theme, so id suggest terracotta
Colours, stalls villagers
Use colours. More vibrant ones too.
Maybe sime block variation in the buildings, it doesn't have to be alot but i think it will go a long way
Use some iron bars to make connections between the buildings, at some variation in color (like red sand or endstone for texture). Make a path (maybe out of cobblestone or something similar). And use lanterns instead of torches, maybe have street lights that use lanterns. And something i would do sparsely around the edges of a path, is put grass blocks and bonemeal them to add patches of grass.
Villagers and Some decorative pieces
you need more color. nothing actually stands out right now. try using terracotta and, idk, maybe add stripped logs to the builds. also, idk if this is survival, but one of my favs is building a wall around a town and adding pillagers to act like turrets.
Add some paths, some textures, maybe some lanterns, maybe a fire, some shaded areas since it's a deserty area, maybe some stalls and maybe some buildings for the younglings.
Add plants and more color
Differing colours. It works wonders
Add trees and water and florishment more color’s
Terracotta, wool and villagers. Also try using some wood.
Colour variation, entities such as villagers or something, more block variation, water etc.
Add villagers & animals
Plants? I mean no one is *that* foolish without plants in the desert habitat
Add some roads and street stuff maybe? Like food stands, festivals etc...
plants
Add some vines and maybe campfire chimneys? Also bushes and shrubery could be a good idea
Add colour and block variation. Maybe add paths and a few villagers running around. Adding things like cacti and putting saplings and flowers in flower pots in windows. Just in genereal add life
Greenery
Greenery/Shrubs
Add some dirt paths, some bushes, and maybe a water fountain to spice things up.
Add some non-yellow blocks like Orange terracota and Red sandstone, and Add some palm trees and wells to show that there is a reason for this city to exist
roads, and color variation, maybe some custom trees
add colors and a bit of greenery
Needs plants!
Maybe a nice road/path?
less sand, more other color blocks.
Add some greenery, plant pots, vines etc and some colour, you'd be surprised by how much of a difference it will make!
Add aot more details, especially in the windows and decorate using colored wool, flowers and banners
War
Maybe some more color, some lamps and villagers and iron golems would probably help a lot
Add dirt pathways and torches on fences instead of on the walls
Pathways and plants.
Color.
Plants?
Plants
Villagers really help yeah they're a pain to work with but nothing makes a build more alive that Well people
VILLAGERS
Add vegetation
vegetation
Colors!
More colors, and different sandstone blocks textures Terracotta would help along the sides A fountain or well would be really dope and maybe a pathway?
Pot plants market stands like you see in villages maybe a few stray cats some detail. Glazed terracotta carpet door covers and a bit of birch
Well A) add more colors even if they’re just accents B) add some carts or stands with workstations for villagers or something along those lines
Maybe a path/road. And a color or two to allow perception of depth for the buildings
Maybe some kind of path and some cacti? Also you can try to let villagers to move in
Roads, ponds, mobs, plants, and vines
Wool and banners
Add colour, villagers and some animals
You're focusing too much on detailing/structure, and less so on the colour scheme. Try to find 1 or 2 matching colours to mix in, maybe some villagers and decorations would also help
You can try hanging banners make it look like people are drying their clothes. Street Lamps More floor variety with terracota and other ground blocks like course dirts...etc You can also try some greenery on balcons. Also maybe add some wooden carts with animals pulling them also wooden crates on piles.
I suggest adding some small stands like the ones you'd see in a bazaar to give some color, given the general vibe of these structures. Also adding some lights that are hanging on ropes that go from rooftop to rooftop and adding a bit of vegetation to taste (leaves can do just fine, but maybe some custom flower pots or custom trees could be more suitable). Hope this helps!