What was your first Minecraft home like?

[Tesral]

I still have my save from Alpha with my first house. I wandered around for a night or so (technically I spent the first night in a cave, but I don't think that counts.) This was back when fire could sometimes indefinitely burn, and a large forest fire had left a few dozen burning tree stumps. I used these for defence, and went outside in the morning to collect the pork from the special pigs who wandered into the fire.

Spoiler: The house

Not exactly pretty but it has fences and a small lava moat.

Spoiler: The inside

Complete with emergency dousing pool, mineshaft entrance and shading errors.

Spoiler: The skybridge

Goes on for quite a way, to another house on a frozen lake. I never finished building that though.

Now if you'll excuse me, this nostalgia has made me decide to make a new world.

 

[Nyaliva]

My first home was a glass box against the side of the island I spawned on, underwater, so you can basically see out underwater, and squid spawn near me. I used to have a fireplace but since the update which made fire burn for a limited time, it's just a stone hole behind glass. The torches I replaced it with give a better ambience though. With the bed against the glass it's a rather nice place.

 

[MrPop]

My first home was a tower of gravel in the middle of a lake with a small wooden platform on top. This developed into a small house with a fireplace and rooftop garden and later still I grew crops on an overhanging platform and added waterfalls down my house.

I then added a shaft leading to an underwater house and a mine.

It was quite a tumorous, monstosity but I was pleased with it.

 

[StormShaun]

My first home was a hole in a mountain with a door and crafting table.

My next house was a great improvement, it was an underwater/above water base.

Im lovin' it.

 

[wooty]

After I got bored about halfway into building my house, it suddenly got.....very warm in there.

 

[Ramare]

My first day's shelter? While I was playing it over the phone with my friend, because he wasn't actually home yet so we could play SMP, all he told me was "Gather resources.", and that I did. When night started falling a lot quicker than I expected it would (Yeah, like I actually thought a Minecraft day'd be a single freakin' half hour...), I built a roughly five-high, six-around, not-quite cube out of what I had. That is, some dirt, some wool, some wood planks, and some sand. This is when I found out it is very scary on your first night being stuck in a crypt with a bunch of stuff that you don't even know what is clawing at your door...wondering if you can hear the Creepers...and raising your voice because of the loud rain that started during the night muffling your voice. I spent over forty minutes stuck in that bloody deathtrap because of the rain... Also, it's when I found out that sand actually has physics. That was a terrible, terrible time and way to find out. I had to destroy the wool I used for the highest point, because sand was my last resource, plant the sand as the wall, and plant the wool as my roof. By that time it was already night and I was panicking because I was a meek, clueless, and simple Minecraft guy, rather than the zombie-killin' creeper-burnin' skeleton-shootin' hooah I am now.

That was a fun time.
I remember it fondly when I'm building enormous castles out of sandstone reinforced with cobblestone, then proceeding to build a 20-high, three-thick wall around a large perimeter of my castle, made of a cobblestone layer sandwiched inside two sandstone layers, and then building a couple of small cottages, guard towers on perfect points along the wall, castle-like stuff on the top outside edge of the wall (A block every other block, and a block on top of that. Spider-proofs it, gives you a shield when you're taking and returning arrow fire, and looks awesome as well.), and a gigantic wheat farm with an extra raised area to plant melons.

Good times.

 

[Eveylon]

Hole in the ground with dirt top. With no way to figure out if it was morning yet!

 

[LeKiller]

I converted a hill into a small shack with a skytower, and then made a system that led to other biomes and a mine...yup :|

 

[The Last Nomad]

I dug a hole in the side of a hill and used that as my first temporary home, I then went on to find a little bay-like feature and built a large cobblestone castle in it, with wooden bridges out to it. I still use that home when I play, but I'm currently building a city around it.

 

[NoeL]

Like so many others, a small hole dug into the mountainside. Then I spotted a giant cliff face with a waterfall and a cave right up near the top, so I climbed my way up there and that cave became my new home.

 

[azukar]

The skybridge]

Heh, and here I thought I was naively thinking I was the first person to come up with a "skybridge". Admittedly, mine was mostly made of unsupported glass (the better to admire the view as you travel) with Glowstone blocks at random intervals for light. I was going for a sort-of "bizarre structure left by precursors" look, I think.

 

[Hyperrhombus]

Nice question!

I think my first base started out as a glorified hole, but after mining some, it wasnt very fitting, so I built a cobblestone tower on top of it, all the way to the skyline. After that came the railway station to other bases, and a Test room, and a portal room, and...

...yeah. It's a nice base.