Building a home

Intro

You may have noticed, there is a page on the wiki How_to_build_your_first_house,
but it doesn't actually show how to do it.

I was going to fix that page, but...

First we should consider

• What is our situation (as in, creative-mode, or first day in a survival game) ? Also:
  • What landscape is around us (as in, forest, mountains, or desert) ?
  • What server, what game/subgame, what mobs, is pvp enabled ?
• What do we need (as in, urgently need now) ?
• What do we have (as in, tools, materials, food) ?
• What can we do (as in, right here, right now, until sundown) ?

In creative-mode, we can just skip to House-Building, and build something nice.
Same if you already have enough tools, building materials etc.

Otherwise, we might just need a home / shelter for the night, and maybe the next few days.

Resources

• Tools

Axe - to cut trees

Pickaxe - mining stone

Shovel - mining sand, gravel etc.

Torch - light, for working at night

• Building materials

Dirt - the most basic building material

Wood - basic, almost everything has some component that is made of wood

Stone

Other

Coal - for making torches, and as fuel for the furnace

Iron - for making steel tools

Wool - for making a bed

Dye - for making a bed

Extras / non-essentials

Sand - for making glass for windows

Clay - for making bricks

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Furniture

Torch - light

Door - to keep critters out

Chest - to store stuff

Furnace - for smelting ore, and other recipes

Bed - for setting the spawn-position

• Building ground - Location, Location, Location: some things to consider

terrain suitable for a house (i.e. big enough, flat)

immediate surroundings (i.e. no place hide for to mobs)

distance to 'workplace' (i.e. for mining/harvesting etc.)

• Time, Food

Collecting stuff

Finding stuff also needs time, and travelling.

After playing a few games, it is still amazing to find situations were some basic stuff is not available.

E.g. a desert with no dirt and no trees.

Blocks of sand fall down,

so you cannot make a roof out of sand.

Also, finding coal (for torches) near the surface is often a problem.

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Building a home

We will consider the option in order of required resources, starting with no/low requirements.

• Podest / Column
• Cave-home / Bunker
• Dirt-Igloo
• Hut
• House / Castle

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