Basic dirt house with cobblestone floors and mushrooms growing everywhere. I also had a pack of wolves to keep me company.
What was your first Minecraft home like?
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I burrowed into a nearby stone cliff face, hollowed out a perfectly rectangular room, and started placing chests, furnaces, and torches to light the way and store the myriad bits of stuff I'd dredged up... then I burrowed another tunnel deeper into the face of the cliff, which eventually led to a cave system. A forest was outside, and I spent much of my time when I was in said abode with a bow, picking off the myriad animals that gathered in front of my door by day and playing sniper wars with the skeletons by night.
I liked to pretend I was playing single-player Dwarf Fortress.
I liked to pretend I was playing single-player Dwarf Fortress.
I actually don't remember. My first world, I seriously spent every last bit of my time mining. I never even built anything, I just dug in a mountain for hours. My second world was an experiment, so I guess my first real house in Minecraft was a giant castle in the sky. In multiplayer, however, my first house was a nice wooden house that was like three stories with a garden in the roof. I really put a lot of time into it and when I came back someone burned it down.
A small wooden box. Probably eight by ten, or something like that. Kind of cozy. Then i added another floor, and it was on a small penninsula which made attack almost impossible. Then I got bored, moved away, and built a fortress, complete with beacon, massive walls, watchtowers, and sculpted mine. Then 1.8 came along and I scrapped all of it.
I made a sand castle with no roof. I dug downward in a spiral to make a staircase so I could escape.
My first house was a 5x4x4 box of wood, with torches to light it up, originally.
Then I accidentally burned most of it down while trying to clear out the nearby trees quickly, (I did learn a lot about how FIRE works though so...)
I eventually got it rebuilt and it turned into a three story tower, with battlements up top and a detached smelting outbuilding.
Then I accidentally burned most of it down while trying to clear out the nearby trees quickly, (I did learn a lot about how FIRE works though so...)
I eventually got it rebuilt and it turned into a three story tower, with battlements up top and a detached smelting outbuilding.
A bagel-shaped cave. I don't know why it was a loop like that. No door, one torch. It was located next to an iced-over lake in one of the old worlds where snow was constant, and it was all rather dreary and depressing. I dubbed it Stupid Cave.
Then I managed a small castle on a hill, and a couple brick shithouses, but eventually graduated to these:
I wish I had a better screenshot of the castle, it's pretty impressive up close. The central hall is large enough that the eye-level torches still left the ceiling in pitch darkness, so for a while I actually had mobs dropping from the rafters onto my head, which was terrifying. Then I built a chandelier.
Then I managed a small castle on a hill, and a couple brick shithouses, but eventually graduated to these:
I wish I had a better screenshot of the castle, it's pretty impressive up close. The central hall is large enough that the eye-level torches still left the ceiling in pitch darkness, so for a while I actually had mobs dropping from the rafters onto my head, which was terrifying. Then I built a chandelier.
I tried a bunch of different tactics to keep those pesky monsters away. If I got killed while trying to enter or exit a structure, I abandoned it. It didn't count as "my house" to me yet, it was just some bullshit I'd tried to build. I never really built anything out of wood or stone. Why do that when you don't even understand how spiders work yet? I just dug my way into the sides of cliffs to throw down torches and chests and wait out the night. Then later I linked these hidey-holes by torchlit tunnels so I wouldn't need to go outside unless it was day.
I even built a floating island in the sky, but adding to it was too inconvenient.
Finally, I figured out that if I built a staircase going down in the middle of the bay, I could come all the way up to the top of the stairs and still see and hear the monsters long before they even got within range.
I was home.
Screw houses. I'mma dwarf this place up!
I even built a floating island in the sky, but adding to it was too inconvenient.
Finally, I figured out that if I built a staircase going down in the middle of the bay, I could come all the way up to the top of the stairs and still see and hear the monsters long before they even got within range.
I was home.
Screw houses. I'mma dwarf this place up!