Nope. And more nope. First house is almost invariably a hole in the side of cliff or hillside. If I find a village on the first day, then first house will be one of the village houses. If I spawn near Badlands biome then first house will be a walled off section of mineshaft. But never do I bother to make a bunker style house like you've illustrated. I make do with very makeshift abodes until I'm ready to build something much more significant than a 5x5x3 box. In other words, it be different.
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Close enough, anyway - I usually build out a bit bigger, and generally have a mix of materials and at least a fencepost-window. But before my first sunset I generally have a quick-and-dirty box tossed up; i then spend my first few minecraft days alternately digging down to my mining level(s) and popping back up to the surface for above-ground resources (wood, food). Once I've started digging out my mine and have at least some iron (and maybe even diamond) tools and armor, and have started filling chests with stacks of potential building materials, I build a bigger (and nicer-looking) house around the original (which I tear down as soon as the ground floor of the new house is done) - even if I plan to build a bigger/better house in a different/better location, I always upgrade my original first-night-shelter long before I start really exploring my world.
I never made starter houses as such, after deciding what a main base would be and a suitable location, I would usually erect a platform as per the screenshot below, and operate from there whilst I gathered resources and designed my build ... I think the last time i did this was before Phantoms were added, so if I did it now would probably need to be less open ...
Its very similar to my every starter house that i build when i load a new world, except mine is a little bigger than in the 1st image. Also mine has pillars in the corners made out of oak logs.
Yup, I used to live in a cobblestone house on some of my older worlds.
These days I build wooden huts as starter houses, which are much better looking
and make use of fence posts for windows, which look great in savannas.
Savannas are dry and fire spreads easily. I would only use wood in very damp biomes like swamps, unless it's a side material and not the main formation. This is why I have no problem with stealing swamp huts from witches.
I never made starter houses as such, after deciding what a main base would be and a suitable location, I would usually erect a platform as per the screenshot below, and operate from there whilst I gathered resources and designed my build ... I think the last time i did this was before Phantoms were added, so if I did it now would probably need to be less open ...
Perhaps you are claustrophobic. I would prefer to greatly shrink this home so it has a walls and roof early on, and just put the furnaces, crafting table, and half the chests outside, maybe as part of the wall or accessible through windows. You can always expand later, but mobs are unforgiving, spawning in their higher numbers in recent versions.
Its very similar to my every starter house that i build when i load a new world, except mine is a little bigger than in the 1st image. Also mine has pillars in the corners made out of oak logs.
Corners give style. Still, do you really get that much wood on day one? I spend more time mining stone to get early access to coal or iron, or at least stone tools.
Perhaps you are claustrophobic. I would prefer to greatly shrink this home so it has a walls and roof early on, and just put the furnaces, crafting table, and half the chests outside, maybe as part of the wall or accessible through windows. You can always expand later, but mobs are unforgiving, spawning in their higher numbers in recent versions.
I can't say for versions beyond 1.13, but my design gives you a good view of the surrounding area at all times, to see what is about. As the access is a one block column in the middle with a ladder, it prevents spiders reaching me and i can see thru the hole to the ground to arrow any near mobs or the pesky spiders themselves. I never intend it to be anykind of permanant construction (although the one in the screenshot is the very first one i built in my world and still stands as a momento), and they usually get demolished once the main base is habitable.
I would feel unsafe having a base there but a mining repo would be fine (e.g. an extra bed to sleep).
Savannas are dry and fire spreads easily. I would only use wood in very damp biomes like swamps, unless it's a side material and not the main formation. This is why I have no problem with stealing swamp huts from witches.
Perhaps you are claustrophobic. I would prefer to greatly shrink this home so it has a walls and roof early on, and just put the furnaces, crafting table, and half the chests outside, maybe as part of the wall or accessible through windows. You can always expand later, but mobs are unforgiving, spawning in their higher numbers in recent versions.
Corners give style. Still, do you really get that much wood on day one? I spend more time mining stone to get early access to coal or iron, or at least stone tools.
To be honest with you, now that I've had experience playing bedrock edition for an extended amount of time I haven't noticed any lightning strikes in savannas, I could be wrong and it may only occur in Shattered Savanna Plateaus which rain does in fact happen in those areas.
I am not in a Shattered Plateau on my Shockbyte server though, my friend is but I am somewhere distant from him, a few hundred blocks away.
This isn't the only cause of fires in the Overworld I understand, but with regards to natural fires they're usually either triggered by lava pools or lightning striking at just the right moment or angle. It is rarely caused by anything else non player.
I have no need for cheap wooden huts now regardless, which consisted of wooden fences for barred windows but otherwise didn't look much different from a villager house, it's best to start off with a temporary home from my experience, and I have built a much better and more advanced base that has a netherbrick rooftop, along with some fire resistant materials on the inside such as granite and concrete. And because of the 1.17 update, lightning rods are now an option to protect wooden structures from lightning.
My first ever. was more of an elongated hut (With cobble floor), windows and a roof. (Admitedly in 2010 had a dirt roof with occasional glass blocks added later on for skylights.) Even in 1.17. I'll dig into the ground/side of a mountain/live in a village for a while or such. Currently in my latest world it's temporarily embedded under a small hill until I get the border of my base campment set up just above ground.
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I build my starter house usually on days 10-20 of the world. This can obviously vary depending on what my spawn looks like, but for the most part, that’s my strategy.
Only my first shelter in my first world looked like that, except it was made out of dirt, then later cobblestone (it still exists as part of my main base, which is basically just a bigger version of the first room); what I do now is dig out a series of rooms just below the surface, or sometimes in a hillside (if there is one), along the same staircase down to my branch-mine; an example can be seen in the first post in this thread. My secondary bases are closer to what a starter "house" would look like if I built them above ground (example); most of them are built out of cobblestone with wood planks for the floors, mainly because cobblestone is easy to obtain in large quantities (I have no worries at all about lightning; none of the many villages I've found have ever been damaged, including the ones I build at the top of my main bases; they did nerf rain putting out fires in a newer version though).
Too real, honestly, too real. I wonder how many of us learned how fire mechanics work the hard way.
Mmhmm. Put in a wood floor down in my mine-level workroom; went upstairs to get some more wood, came back down and half of it was gone. >.< (at least the border/walls/stairs were made of non-flammable material, kept the fire from being *too* destructive; and i got a nice bit of obsidian when i cleared that lava lake)
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Nope. And more nope. First house is almost invariably a hole in the side of cliff or hillside. If I find a village on the first day, then first house will be one of the village houses. If I spawn near Badlands biome then first house will be a walled off section of mineshaft. But never do I bother to make a bunker style house like you've illustrated. I make do with very makeshift abodes until I'm ready to build something much more significant than a 5x5x3 box. In other words, it be different.
Close enough, anyway - I usually build out a bit bigger, and generally have a mix of materials and at least a fencepost-window. But before my first sunset I generally have a quick-and-dirty box tossed up; i then spend my first few minecraft days alternately digging down to my mining level(s) and popping back up to the surface for above-ground resources (wood, food). Once I've started digging out my mine and have at least some iron (and maybe even diamond) tools and armor, and have started filling chests with stacks of potential building materials, I build a bigger (and nicer-looking) house around the original (which I tear down as soon as the ground floor of the new house is done) - even if I plan to build a bigger/better house in a different/better location, I always upgrade my original first-night-shelter long before I start really exploring my world.
I started with a hidey-hole.
My first main home was built all of cobble, not planks. I don't collect much wood so it counts to me, cobble cheap
Maybe Not ALL People had a plank house But i did and also ths thread was made for Sharing Not opinions so...yeah
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Yup, I used to live in a cobblestone house on some of my older worlds.
These days I build wooden huts as starter houses, which are much better looking
and make use of fence posts for windows, which look great in savannas.
I never made starter houses as such, after deciding what a main base would be and a suitable location, I would usually erect a platform as per the screenshot below, and operate from there whilst I gathered resources and designed my build ... I think the last time i did this was before Phantoms were added, so if I did it now would probably need to be less open ...
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Its very similar to my every starter house that i build when i load a new world, except mine is a little bigger than in the 1st image. Also mine has pillars in the corners made out of oak logs.
The way you worded this, it's a meme thread.
I would feel unsafe having a base there but a mining repo would be fine (e.g. an extra bed to sleep).
Savannas are dry and fire spreads easily. I would only use wood in very damp biomes like swamps, unless it's a side material and not the main formation. This is why I have no problem with stealing swamp huts from witches.
Perhaps you are claustrophobic. I would prefer to greatly shrink this home so it has a walls and roof early on, and just put the furnaces, crafting table, and half the chests outside, maybe as part of the wall or accessible through windows. You can always expand later, but mobs are unforgiving, spawning in their higher numbers in recent versions.
Corners give style. Still, do you really get that much wood on day one? I spend more time mining stone to get early access to coal or iron, or at least stone tools.
I can't say for versions beyond 1.13, but my design gives you a good view of the surrounding area at all times, to see what is about. As the access is a one block column in the middle with a ladder, it prevents spiders reaching me and i can see thru the hole to the ground to arrow any near mobs or the pesky spiders themselves. I never intend it to be anykind of permanant construction (although the one in the screenshot is the very first one i built in my world and still stands as a momento), and they usually get demolished once the main base is habitable.
Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!
To be honest with you, now that I've had experience playing bedrock edition for an extended amount of time I haven't noticed any lightning strikes in savannas, I could be wrong and it may only occur in Shattered Savanna Plateaus which rain does in fact happen in those areas.
I am not in a Shattered Plateau on my Shockbyte server though, my friend is but I am somewhere distant from him, a few hundred blocks away.
This isn't the only cause of fires in the Overworld I understand, but with regards to natural fires they're usually either triggered by lava pools or lightning striking at just the right moment or angle. It is rarely caused by anything else non player.
I have no need for cheap wooden huts now regardless, which consisted of wooden fences for barred windows but otherwise didn't look much different from a villager house, it's best to start off with a temporary home from my experience, and I have built a much better and more advanced base that has a netherbrick rooftop, along with some fire resistant materials on the inside such as granite and concrete. And because of the 1.17 update, lightning rods are now an option to protect wooden structures from lightning.
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/survival-mode/3094806-close-up-pictures-of-my-house-1-in-minecraft#c4
Not me either.
My first ever. was more of an elongated hut (With cobble floor), windows and a roof. (Admitedly in 2010 had a dirt roof with occasional glass blocks added later on for skylights.) Even in 1.17. I'll dig into the ground/side of a mountain/live in a village for a while or such. Currently in my latest world it's temporarily embedded under a small hill until I get the border of my base campment set up just above ground.
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I build my starter house usually on days 10-20 of the world. This can obviously vary depending on what my spawn looks like, but for the most part, that’s my strategy.
Only my first shelter in my first world looked like that, except it was made out of dirt, then later cobblestone (it still exists as part of my main base, which is basically just a bigger version of the first room); what I do now is dig out a series of rooms just below the surface, or sometimes in a hillside (if there is one), along the same staircase down to my branch-mine; an example can be seen in the first post in this thread. My secondary bases are closer to what a starter "house" would look like if I built them above ground (example); most of them are built out of cobblestone with wood planks for the floors, mainly because cobblestone is easy to obtain in large quantities (I have no worries at all about lightning; none of the many villages I've found have ever been damaged, including the ones I build at the top of my main bases; they did nerf rain putting out fires in a newer version though).
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Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
I used to watch a lot of tutorials before playing minecraft so my first house was kind of decent.
My first house was made out of dirt because I wasn't good at Minecraft but now I'm a pro
My first non dirthouse was made of oakplanks. It burned down bc i thought it would look cool to have a glass floor with lava underneath it.
So i basically discovered minecrafts fire mechanics while i was returning with my second lava bucket.
Unfortunatly i did not keep my first world. I realy regret that.
My projects:
-are abandoned for now. I might pick 'em up in the future.
For now i'm working on a private modpack that suit's my own playstyle.
I am gonna stay in modded 1.12.2 untill my potato dies. No mercy! :Q
Too real, honestly, too real. I wonder how many of us learned how fire mechanics work the hard way.
Mmhmm. Put in a wood floor down in my mine-level workroom; went upstairs to get some more wood, came back down and half of it was gone. >.< (at least the border/walls/stairs were made of non-flammable material, kept the fire from being *too* destructive; and i got a nice bit of obsidian when i cleared that lava lake)