Poll: Minecraft: Building prefrences?

[Angel Molina]

I was just wondering, whenever I play Minecraft Multiplayer, it seems like a majority of the players build houses (or other structures) right on top of the land. Which I find odd since I usually spend most of my time building underground, but I guess that's just me... Once I built under a lake (in Multi.) so that any passing griefers wouldn't notice it. And if they were paying careful attention and so happen to find it, then they might find them selfs in trouble since the enternce was booby-traped.

But enough about me... I want to know how my fellow Escapists prefer to build in Minecraft.

Edit: Btw, caves and caverns count as underground...

 

[Sarynroth]

I usually build underground as there is less effort required to obtain materials, although on my main world I built in to the side of a mountain dwarf style.

 

[teqrevisited]

Mixed.

I usually start by finding a natural cave or digging a hole somewhere. I build that into a storage area / basement and then build upwards from there. Then I go down to just above bedrock and start tunneling. The lower levels are locked and the higher floors above ground are just for show.

 

[SinisterGehe]

I usually start from bedrock and then I just dig one major hall and build on the sides of it and dig up all the time. I also use controlled TNT mining A LOT.

 

[kebab4you]

Everyone wish to be a dwarf, just admit it

Spoiler: I like ma didding

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Eh, anymore I rarely get to actual building. Just digging.

 

[Pandaman1911]

At first, it's in the side of a cliff with a stone shovel as night starts to fall, hewn into the rock and dirt, usually 7x7x3 or 8x8x3. Then I dig two tunnels, one for my chests which keep everything, and then one for my furnaces which smelt everything. Once I've chopped down four stone axes' worth of trees (well, two now, what with the durability increase), I use the wood for tools and mine my ass off. And then, with the stone I gathered from my mining... I find a suitable plateau, and make my stone castle...
Then, I turn my eyes hellward...

 

[Dr Jones]

Usually begin with some house at the beginning, then when night has come i start digging down, eventually making a cavern instead of a house. Y'gotta do something at night, y'know.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Assuming I have just spawned into a new world...

First, I will build a large hole in the ground, and then make a roof out of glass, so there is a large glass hole in the ground, with a single ladder in a separate room with a door to get in. after that is done, I'll craft a bed and furnace and table and so on and do everything I can from their, and then just expand.

 

[Samechiel]

Mostly, I like to build with friends over Xbox Live.
No, wait. That's Fortresscraft.

Well, then I like to build bunkers and lob grenades into foxholes to take our sniper nests.
No, wait. That's Ace of Spades.

I really like to build hydroelectric dams with complex pump systems to drain rivers and make huge lakes.
No, that's Liquid Cubed.

I'll just build some anti-air cannons to fend off the incoming UFO invasion and hope my shield generator holds up through the mass bombing.
Damn, that's Block Engine.

Minecraft, Minecraft... oh yeah! I build cities and pray to merciful Allah that the next weak update doesn't break all of my mods.

 

[VanQ]

This is my place from the front. Not very intimidating is it?

Spoiler

Now this is my place from the back, suddenly it looks a bit more devious.

Spoiler

Then there is the network of tunnels beneath it with a dungeon full of creepers, spiders and skeletons and a mining network that goes miles undergound. I'm going to work on getting a lava flow to flow down the left side of the main building. And I need to go hunting for sugar cane to try and stock my library. My evil library, that is.

So the answer to your question is, mixed, I build up, then down.

 

[lolsacopter]

i ussually build like this and make a large mine shaft

 

[TundraWolf]

I am so very mixed in my building style. Really, I base my ideas off of the terrain I find and the order that I find it.

For instance, in one of my single-player maps, I built a big house on a natural island just off the coast of the mainland. The island stretches up from water level to be at least thirty blocks high, and that's where I built a house. I then proceeded to hollow out the island and furnish the interior with all manner of things. I also built a single mineshaft that has served me well - diamond without much searching at all.

Conversely, in the multiplayer server I have with my friend, I built an expansive castle system built into the side of a cliff. I built a large system of walls around a space, filled the interior courtyard with buildings and even built a gigantic keep. I still have room to build more things, as well!

Shortly after I finished most of the buildings within, though, my buddy suggested we make a tram system between our bases of operation (he built an island in the middle of some water and then built a fortress on top of that). I agreed, and we thought it would be cool if we did it entirely underground. So we did. Of course, seeing as his base is on an island, this involved having to make a stretch of track underwater. So we did that, and I helped him build an underwater room attached to his base for the tram to exit out into. (By "help" I mean "did it for him".)

So yeah. I guess, to be fair, most of my construction is above water level, but it does involve excavating and hollowing mountains out. I have tried my hand at underground building too, though, and am presently fiddling with a massive underground construction project. So yeah.

Mixed.

 

[lolsacopter]

I usualy carve my house into mountain so i dont have to gather alot of resources