What do you keep finding yourself building in Minecraft?
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I always get to the highest point on the map near my spawn and build a house with roof access. ALWAYS. I guess I Really like a house with a view...
I often find my self burrowing a whole straight down to the adminium layer, and then erecting a huge tower from the bottom up into the topmost layer.
And don't go all freud on my now...
And don't go all freud on my now...
An 8x8x4 cobblestone/sandstone/sand house. Whichever material I harvest enough of in the first day is what I use, then I slowly upgrade it.
Firstly, I go wander around until I find a huge cavern system/giant natural formation to build my house on. During these nights I'll just dig in slightly to the cliffs and build makeshift hidy-holes with a crafting bench and one or two furnaces.
Next, I usually build a large wooden house with a glass bio-garden on the roof, with plenty of room for trees, reeds, cacti and wheat, and a basement full of furnaces that also leads to the mines
I hate building castles in minecraft, they just look cumbersome and ugly as hell, even if they are more secure.
Watch towers made of stone - nothing big, just a floating platform with a few netherrack blocks that burn permanently, that can be accessed only via a ladder on a pillar of more stone. I usually use these to light the way between the spawn point and my main project - it's saved my life many a time.
For the most part though, I just stomp around cave systems lighting up and mining everything, and battling all foes.
Next, I usually build a large wooden house with a glass bio-garden on the roof, with plenty of room for trees, reeds, cacti and wheat, and a basement full of furnaces that also leads to the mines
I hate building castles in minecraft, they just look cumbersome and ugly as hell, even if they are more secure.Watch towers made of stone - nothing big, just a floating platform with a few netherrack blocks that burn permanently, that can be accessed only via a ladder on a pillar of more stone. I usually use these to light the way between the spawn point and my main project - it's saved my life many a time.
For the most part though, I just stomp around cave systems lighting up and mining everything, and battling all foes.
I'm building a 10-story tall death fortress. So far, I've set the bottom row of blocks for the outside wall.
I just might be done in a few years.
I just might be done in a few years.
Self-sustaining bunkers. My favorite style is building one deep inside, or directly connected to a mine, with secret nearly invisible entrances that pop up at the bottom of lakes, for example.
Still working on an underground tree park so that I always have charcoal, but the one I have currently is connected to no less than 3 mines, has a reed-door at the bottom of a shaft in the middle of a lake, has an indoor fishing pond, a working farm, a workshop, and tunnels connecting it to a glass-dome setup at the bottom of the sea.
Still working on an underground tree park so that I always have charcoal, but the one I have currently is connected to no less than 3 mines, has a reed-door at the bottom of a shaft in the middle of a lake, has an indoor fishing pond, a working farm, a workshop, and tunnels connecting it to a glass-dome setup at the bottom of the sea.
Towers with circular bases.
I tell myself I'm going to stop with the cylindrical structures, and then I find myself unconsciously plotting out a circle, instead of a square/rectangle. They're a headache to do correctly, and if I muck them up in the slightest way, it bothers me to no end.
Though I haven't stopped myself making those circular bases, I did teach myself that it can be a million times worse. My most recent tower has a sphere built into it. Ugh. Don't try it. First, you have to make a circle in the vertical plane, which is itself more time-consuming and difficult than making one in the horizontal plane. At each level of your soon-to-be-sphere, you now have two points defined. The line between these two points is the diameter of the circle you'll have to build in the horizontal plane of that level. Unlike a cylinder, where you just have to get the circular base right once and then copy it over and over, each level of a sphere has a different radius, so you can't copy the previous level. That headache you have thinking about it is the headache I had for days building it.
Pics or it didn't happen, I suppose....
[http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/MinecraftShots/SphereTower.png]
Oh, yeah.... Then I put another substructure on top of the sphere, and capped that off with a hemisphere of glass. It's like I think of something frustrating to build, build it, and then I need to come up with something more frustrating to build.
But, yeah.... Structures with circular footprints seem to be my Minecraft compulsion.
I tell myself I'm going to stop with the cylindrical structures, and then I find myself unconsciously plotting out a circle, instead of a square/rectangle. They're a headache to do correctly, and if I muck them up in the slightest way, it bothers me to no end.
Though I haven't stopped myself making those circular bases, I did teach myself that it can be a million times worse. My most recent tower has a sphere built into it. Ugh. Don't try it. First, you have to make a circle in the vertical plane, which is itself more time-consuming and difficult than making one in the horizontal plane. At each level of your soon-to-be-sphere, you now have two points defined. The line between these two points is the diameter of the circle you'll have to build in the horizontal plane of that level. Unlike a cylinder, where you just have to get the circular base right once and then copy it over and over, each level of a sphere has a different radius, so you can't copy the previous level. That headache you have thinking about it is the headache I had for days building it.
Pics or it didn't happen, I suppose....
Oh, yeah.... Then I put another substructure on top of the sphere, and capped that off with a hemisphere of glass. It's like I think of something frustrating to build, build it, and then I need to come up with something more frustrating to build.
But, yeah.... Structures with circular footprints seem to be my Minecraft compulsion.
Holes in mountains.
My saves don't last long before I decide to start anew, so I don't spend much time building.
My saves don't last long before I decide to start anew, so I don't spend much time building.
I keep building towers and ships and such. I have made a giant fortress with tons of towers and buildings inside with transportation to the nearest oceans and lakes where my ships are. AWESOME. Currently I am building an underwater dome home
Flying islands. Thats right I create gravity defying land masses to be safe from all them horrible beasties down below. Takes a while to but when its finished I'm untouchable! As long as I remember to light the whole thing... that was not my best day...