What does your Minecraft base say about you?

[Sprinal]

My first world has a wooden house on the top of a mountain. Then it burnt down. So I rebuilt it with the same design as glass and my containers didn't burn. Only now it is stone.

Next world I have a mine entrance secured with cobblestone on all sides on the side of a rockface. Then it has a 45 degree slope with tracks for my minecarts to go up and down to the mine.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Usually a messy pile of cobblestone, which I guess means I'm not creative and also lazy.

 

[DarkShadow144]

It means I can't play Minecraft lol. I've tried before but my mind just can't handle that kind of freedom to create just about anything you want. But when I did it was a hole in a mountain...before a creeper blew it up.

 

[Feralcentaur]

I prefer to live in large caves and caverns with passage ways to large towers for the most part.

 

[Drakmorg]

My bases are always ugly little things.
Usually just giant unsightly boxes built from cobblestone, dirt, or wood.
Generally with only one or two windows.
I can never think ahead of what I want it to look like. So whenever I need to increase the size because I didn't think ahead, I just knock out a wall. The new room never looks right, like it's some sort of tumor.

I'm not sure what it says about me that I find my own creations disgusting. Can't be good.

 

[Jason Danger Keyes]

I showed a friend a couple of my bases and he commented that on the interiors they look more like ant colonys / insect hives than buildings. I guess because of using a lot of split level rooms and over/under tunnels and oddball architecture... he said they looked like very uncomfortable places to live.

Then again, he's probably the sort of guy who'd play minecraft and build himself a traditional wooden cottage, so maybe he's not the best judge.

I usually start by swimming to the deepest part of the nearest body of water and tunneling down then horizontally to make a pocket of air, hollow that out a bit, then head back to the surface and gather enough wood to last me the night. After I have some torches and a sword I tunnel down and take over the first cavern system I find and then make that into my base, over time filling it out into comfortable rooms with cobblestone walls and arches and wooden floors.

What made me reply to yours is that I usually have at least one room consisting of a colossal open space with a small stone bridge leading to a suspended platform in the very center, where I usually put either my bed or a portal to the nether (kind of like the cerebro room from X-men.) Thought it was a cool idea to tie into your wacky architecture.

 

[Aethren]

I find the tallest mountain I can see from spawn and climb to the very top of it. I then look around from there and see if there are any mountains higher up, and if so, I move to the highest. I keep doing that until I've reached a point where there are no higher points within view, and build a pyramid on that point. Upside-down so the point of the pyramid is facing down. Then I put a huge sphere on the square platform that creates, and build floors inside of that for living purposes. After I do all that, I hollow out the mountain I'm living on, leaving only a shell, and channel a chasm all the way to the bedrock that is as large around as the mountain. I put lava springs into the walls of this chasm for lighting, and create a little safe area at the very bottom for a tree farm. I get up and down it by a single pillar of ladders in the middle.

 

[Deminobody]

None of my bases ever get fleshed out beyond being the initial staging area for my mining adventures. I always find myself spending more time exploring caverns then I do mining resources and building.

I think this fits my natural sense of inquisitiveness about the world around me. It also highlights my inability to focus on one thing long enough to complete it to its full potential.

"How can I be expected to build the perfect base if I don't know what ALL of my options are?"

 

[Xannieros]

Overprotective.

Lots of torches. Walls 4 tiles high with one block off to the side like a upside down L. So spiders can't crawl up it. A staircase up a hill leading to a minecart that takes you far away.
But my "house" is inside a cave with lava.

 

[TehRandom1]

I'm currently building a 1km railway track above ground (hit 600m, woo!) with a flatmate. I think the base with the underground mine can be summed up by this totally honest quote during a conversation: "Hey, you should check out this long straight shaft, it seems to be incredibly productive"

Maybe Freud was right?

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

I've got a sand castle. I guess that says that I'm playful?

 

[The Grim Ace]

Giant castle with so many torches on the outside so the entire island my castle is on (and like three other islands near it) cannot spawn enemy mobs. Then there is the giant fortress under that castle. Then there is the overly lit roads all over the place connected to all of it with huge gates along certain parts.

Umm, in love with useless excess? Seriously, overly fortified castle where no enemies ever appear, almost boringly useless excess.

 

[2733]

the only thing I've built was a ten story tower in the free version. so I like tall things?

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

My houses are usually small but fancy, with little moats or rivers flowing through them.

But that's mainly because I like to spend my time and resources building giant structures. My current project is a cathedral in Pisa

Spoiler: The original building

Spoiler: A miniature version

I worked it out that the dimensions of it would be about 79x121 I'm still not sure about the height yet though.

I guess this says that I don't really care about the exterior of where I live, but the interior is where it counts.

 

[Cazza]

An apartment building made out of brick. Me and my friends have a place each in it.

I like doing projects with people. If your not working togther you might as well play singleplayer.

 

[rhyno435]

I haven't actually played Minecraft, but if I did, I would build a sprawling underground base, with a large portion above ground, but the above ground part is basically the inside of a mountain, and the only entrance is through the underground, a fair distance away. That is my dream.

It sounds more awesome than it does practical...

 

[mooncalf]

I never begin with a flat surface, I find a pre-existing feature of the landscape and incorporate my structures into it. Like shoring up hollow-overhang mountains with massive walls of glass.

 

[omicron1]

Mine tend to be walled cities. My most expansive/best was a pair of walled cities, established on a pair of nearby, similarly-sized mountain bluffs, with a bridge between them. Then I build a system to release lava from murder-holes around the edges, built a city on top, and voila: Probably the safest citadel in all of Minecraft (at least until floodgates are added!)