I personally have a hard time making a house so when I start a world I usually just mine to get coal and chop wood for charcoal so I can light an area up. I am a bad builder in my opinion so I have a question for others that might be bad builders. What do you have for a base? If I do have a house it's usually just a storage area with a mine. What do you guys do? I would love to hear to give me some ideas for survival.
Just a small wood house to start off is great. From there as time goes on and you get better stuff, build a better house. look up houses on Google Images and build those
Thx. I get good stuff really quick since I spend a lot of time mining and farming. I'm thinking of making a large wooden house with oak planks and spruce logs and have piston doors with pressure plates.
Found an small cave with two ends. Build my darkwood house inside, making walls and floor wood, yet roughly following the caves shape.
Some additional floors, some windows and housefronts where the cave exit with nice balcony and fenced in front area.
Quite comfortable.
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"Really though, it shows the mindset of a Dwarf Fortress player that when running for you life from a 30-foot tall animate bronze colossus, your first reaction to a horde of fluffy bunnies is to grab some and throw them at it." - DF player
Found an small cave with two ends. Build my darkwood house inside, making walls and floor wood, yet roughly following the caves shape.
Some additional floors, some windows and housefronts where the cave exit with nice balcony and fenced in front area.
Quite comfortable.
I hide in a hole until I have the resources to build a permanet base- my favorite ones are the underwater ones. I also like to build simple wooden houses.
I personally have a bad habit of making a decent little house saying "I'll make a bigger one later" Then when I need more storage I make these massive basements that just keep expanding and I never make a bigger house. Thats a habit more of an idea, but living under ground can sometimes be fun!
I personally have a hard time making a house so when I start a world I usually just mine to get coal and chop wood for charcoal so I can light an area up. I am a bad builder in my opinion so I have a question for others that might be bad builders. What do you have for a base? If I do have a house it's usually just a storage area with a mine. What do you guys do? I would love to hear to give me some ideas for survival.
Well, if your spending time on coal, it stands to reason the house will suffer! If you want to have a better base, you need to spend the time on building a better base. It takes time, and materials, no way around it.
To start out quick and cheap on materials, use dirt or sand by hand at first, which requires only time to mine. You can mine sand and dirt fairly fast by hand, so if you are really concerned about house damage, then make the walls real thick, though I've found that isn't needed, as all my structures have been one block thick, usually cobble, and not a single hole blown open in a house yet. But the real defense I think though is to light the place up, and get to sleep as soon as the sun sets as you can all but eliminate mobs spawning around your house.
Did I mention to light the place up? Inside and out. I try to make the immediate outside of the structure as bright as inside with no darker areas in the light that is projected on the floors.
Starting to use tools for mining is a back and forth process, requiring multiple materials. It takes time to get to the point of having enough materials to mine cobble, etc.
The quicker method I think of getting a base up and running is to do like some have mentioned, use a cave, which needs only one wall basically. Makes for a great "chokepoint" too. Just find something that has decent space for outfitting it with stuff for a longer stay. Gives you time to decide if that's the spot you want, or to find a better location, all the while your saving every block you can get you hands on, which means chests, lots of chests to store all that wood and cooble you'll need.
Depends on my how I feel. My one base was a stone brick castle, my current is a farm with a mixed wood and cobble stone fence. I always build above ground and in plains mostly. Since I don't play online I never have griefer problems.
i dig a hole in the ground, smooth out the sides, keep digging until everything is level, light up with torches, find a cave and connect it. make an underground farm. make a jack o lantern ceiling, remove torches , turn cave into giant wheat farm. make opening book shelf wall (did it before book recipe change). true story.
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If the cake is a lie........ does that mean if i build a house out of cake my house isn't real?
Your sense of style is pathetic , I always look to java programers for style , because where ever they are , they always have .class.
I hear ya! My ventures underground tend to get...uh...distrcted, and next thing I know, I got a massive room with tunnels all over. So I started enlarging caverns and putting floors at set hights, so that I now have 10 levels, some are massive, straight down below my main base, reaching diamond level where I started mining at levels 10-13 shooting four tunnels in the cardnal directions (got over 50 diamonds and bunches of iron and coal doing that in a pretty short time). which has mine cart tracks to other parts of the map. Three directions so far, connecting my main house with villages and one of the strongholds. I also have small houses set up at the other 2 strongholds, ready to get to work on cleaning those things.
By the way, make SURE if you manage to get your horse in a cart, that when he stops, the roof is at least 3 blocks high and two wide! I managed to get my horse in a cart by accident, jumped off to get him out and accidently moved the cart to a powered section and off he went to the nearrest cart station that had not been modified yet for horses, having a 2 block high ceiling. He died a tragic death.
I personally have a bad habit of making a decent little house saying "I'll make a bigger one later" Then when I need more storage I make these massive basements that just keep expanding and I never make a bigger house. Thats a habit more of an idea, but living under ground can sometimes be fun!
I always do that. I basically live underground too. It's awesome if you have farms because you can stay there forever.
Well, if your spending time on coal, it stands to reason the house will suffer! If you want to have a better base, you need to spend the time on building a better base. It takes time, and materials, no way around it.
To start out quick and cheap on materials, use dirt or sand by hand at first, which requires only time to mine. You can mine sand and dirt fairly fast by hand, so if you are really concerned about house damage, then make the walls real thick, though I've found that isn't needed, as all my structures have been one block thick, usually cobble, and not a single hole blown open in a house yet. But the real defense I think though is to light the place up, and get to sleep as soon as the sun sets as you can all but eliminate mobs spawning around your house.
Did I mention to light the place up? Inside and out. I try to make the immediate outside of the structure as bright as inside with no darker areas in the light that is projected on the floors.
Starting to use tools for mining is a back and forth process, requiring multiple materials. It takes time to get to the point of having enough materials to mine cobble, etc.
The quicker method I think of getting a base up and running is to do like some have mentioned, use a cave, which needs only one wall basically. Makes for a great "chokepoint" too. Just find something that has decent space for outfitting it with stuff for a longer stay. Gives you time to decide if that's the spot you want, or to find a better location, all the while your saving every block you can get you hands on, which means chests, lots of chests to store all that wood and cooble you'll need.
I only take about a few seconds on coal just because I like to find diamonds on the first time I play on the world. So I use coal/charcoal on torches.
I usually start with a medium-sized wooden house, about 20x10 with two storeys. Later I move on to more complex things, and ultimately create an awesome little town
I personally don't have patience or skills to do a town (depending on how many houses your talking about) but resources are no problem.
Some additional floors, some windows and housefronts where the cave exit with nice balcony and fenced in front area.
Quite comfortable.
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Well, if your spending time on coal, it stands to reason the house will suffer! If you want to have a better base, you need to spend the time on building a better base. It takes time, and materials, no way around it.
To start out quick and cheap on materials, use dirt or sand by hand at first, which requires only time to mine. You can mine sand and dirt fairly fast by hand, so if you are really concerned about house damage, then make the walls real thick, though I've found that isn't needed, as all my structures have been one block thick, usually cobble, and not a single hole blown open in a house yet. But the real defense I think though is to light the place up, and get to sleep as soon as the sun sets as you can all but eliminate mobs spawning around your house.
Did I mention to light the place up? Inside and out. I try to make the immediate outside of the structure as bright as inside with no darker areas in the light that is projected on the floors.
Starting to use tools for mining is a back and forth process, requiring multiple materials. It takes time to get to the point of having enough materials to mine cobble, etc.
The quicker method I think of getting a base up and running is to do like some have mentioned, use a cave, which needs only one wall basically. Makes for a great "chokepoint" too. Just find something that has decent space for outfitting it with stuff for a longer stay. Gives you time to decide if that's the spot you want, or to find a better location, all the while your saving every block you can get you hands on, which means chests, lots of chests to store all that wood and cooble you'll need.
Your sense of style is pathetic , I always look to java programers for style , because where ever they are , they always have .class.
By the way, make SURE if you manage to get your horse in a cart, that when he stops, the roof is at least 3 blocks high and two wide! I managed to get my horse in a cart by accident, jumped off to get him out and accidently moved the cart to a powered section and off he went to the nearrest cart station that had not been modified yet for horses, having a 2 block high ceiling. He died a tragic death.