What was your first Minecraft home like?

[Rayne870]

a hole in the sand, i spent that night scared shitless. now i have some crazy huge castle carved out of a mountain with a skyway bridge that extended for the distance of about a 5 minute walk from spawn to the castle. the day after i finished that bridge the bed/spawn set feature came out.

 

[Avaholic03]

One block of dirt... then I never played it again.

Sorry to be the hater here, but the game just didn't grip me although I CAN in fact understand and appreciate what it brings to the table.

Though to be fair I haven't liked a whole lot of games since about 2003 and I sadden myself with that fact.

This is just a suggestion, but maybe it's because you don't give them enough of a chance. Minecraft grew very slowly on me. At first I was like "this is dumb, what's all the fuss". But I decided to at least get into it, build a few things, mind/craft a few higher tier items, etc. And before I knew it, I was blissfully mining away in the sub-basement of my death fortress. Also, it's one of the few games where cranking up the difficulty actually makes it more enjoyable rather than just more frustrating.

Anyway, back on topic. My first minecraft home was a hole in the dirt. But the first one I actually "made" with a purpose was hollowing out a small mountain. After days of pounding through stone, breaking about a million pickaxes and ending up with more cobblestone than I knew what to do with, I decided the way to go was actually building up rather than digging. Just one of the hundreds of lessons learned.

 

[Sixcess]

A couple of rooms hollowed out of a small cliff, later expanded to include an upper floor balcony with a great view of the coastline... and the forest I accidentally set on fire whilst experimenting with leaf clearing techniques (back when they didn't automatically disapear once the tree trunk itself was gone.)

 

[omicron1]

A cave fort in a cliff. This was back before the seeeecret Friday updates, so it wasn't very fancy - just enough to get by, no grandeur or aught. I later built a tower nearby stretching from bedrock to ~48 blocks above sea level; also two cities and a pyramid.

 

[Joe Soso]

I had a guide (and was fairly late to the minecraft party) so I was able to 'craft' a small wooden box. I remember the excitement of being able to make a door, just as it was getting dark.

 

[AngryMongoose]

Nice little stone cottage, on some cliffs by the sea, with a roof garden, a stone fireplace, stone steps the the enterance, chimney ect. Hung some pictures on the wall. Later expanded with extra rooms with a rooftop pool, glass front conservatry (at the back... and which burned down 3 times. Glad the main building was stone tbh), and an express train to my various attempts at building a castle. Nice place.

On my most recent playthrough (first survival playthrough too), I've gone for a wooden treehouse. Should have gone fireproof tbh. Nothing yet, but it's just a matter of time...

Actually, that was my first after buying the game. My VERY first, before I realised the game was being sold, was a sad attempt at a glass sky castle. It didn't go well, and I accidentally filled it with NPCs I didn't know how to remove, so it was filled with the sound of footsteps. After that I tried, repeatedly, to build a giant underground glass tree. Still working on that last one. Might just replace the leaves in a regular tree one by one with glass.

 

[Stall]

It was situated in a tunnel where I did all my mining. I eventually moved on a square house, but haven't managed to get past that yet

 

[YaAyala]

First actual house that I built (Excluding all the small holes and barely lit caves) was a nice little place made entirely of wooden planks with a glasshouse farm on top and a large mining shaft below...

Which was followed by me burning it to the ground while trying to add a lava disposal area...

It made me very sad to lose it.

 

[GaltarDude1138]

My first "home" was a small below-ground field of flowers where I prayed Creepers wouldn't get me. And I survived the night, surprisingly, but I soon learned the hard way that Creepers didn't burn when the sun came up...

My first home was a house made of wood planks on a small peninsula, which after awhile I decided wood was too much of a fire hazard so it became cobblestone, and then I eventually got enough cobblestone to say, "I wanna make a lighthouse!", so the house, in the end, went as high as I could make it, and, deciding I didn't need stairs I decided to go with ladders, adding floors for no reason, and eventually I put glass at the top and got some lava and filled the glass floor with lava, in an attempt to make it look like a lighthouse.

Needless to say, once I got really far away, it didn't work. And now I can't load that world without Minecraft becoming non-responive, then it loads, then I can move for .2 seconds and then it freezes, becomes unresponive, I move, freezes, becomes unresponsive etc. etc. *cries*

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

A 3 by 1 hole in the ground.

Yup.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Some pretty bad hole in a small hill that was right next to water. I kept flooding it, it was full of gravel and sand instead of precious stone, and I made at least seven doorways out of it as a just in case.

Later I built a stone wall around my main entrance, then half a dozen creepers just kept standing on the bottom, so I just deleted that world and made a new one.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

My first ever shelter was this box of dirt up on an tiny floating island.....I didn't find coal on my first night, see?

But my first "home" (as in my my first main base) was this:

As soon as I found that waterfall, I knew that this was going to be home for a while. And it was really close to my original spawn point too!

I called it Dragon's Roost. A base built into the waterfall cliff, so that I could use the waterfall as a natural defense. I had a small working area on the bottom floor, with windows so I could see out the waterfall.

And on the upper floor, a nice wooden floor, a Simon Belmon themed bookcase, a nice comfy pack of wool cubes for a bed (this base was WAAAAY before actual beds were made), some more windows to see the sun rise in the morning (and keep an eye on any mobs out there), a small balcony, and later I made myself a bathroom with a hot tub.

That was a fun little base. ^_^

 

[New Frontiersman]

I hollowed out part of a mountain to make my first home, it was quite cosy. After I expanded a little, and added a few extra rooms it turned into quite a nice little dwelling I had.

I had a nice beachfront view, and I even managed to build a lighthouse and some docks near the beach a few days before I moved to a new mountain a few miles away.

 

[Febel]

Ah, nostalgia. A modest little wooden cottage on an island surrounded by a 2 high fence. It was basically all of 5 squares away from my spawn point. I also dug out massive amounts of space underneath it (seriously, you could fit a mountain under my base) because this was before I knew caverns were the best way to go for mining.

 

[greatman32]

My first home was a small hole in a cave where I sat terrified of the moaning outside. I exited it in the morning to be blown up instantly by a creeper. Oh mine-craft how I love thee.

 

[Matt-the-twat]

Made of wood and glass... never again. We properly pimped that bad-boy out before I accidentally burnt it down too.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Quite literally, a hole in the dirt.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

I expanded caves in a mountain. it worked until I got my regular castle built.

 

[DannyJBeckett]

It was literally a ditch that I'd carved a little shelter into, but I rapidly changed and morphed it into the behemoth of mob-resistance it is today.

 

[elbrandino]

An indentation in a mountain. It was almost nightfall and I had nothing but some dirt and unprocessed wood so I jumped in and closed it off. Luckily there was some coal in there (which I had been looking for all day) so I made myself a torch for some light and then waited out the night. Later scrapped that file. Can't remember why. Probably because my branch mines hit lava. Like they always do.

EDIT: Actually, that was my first real house. My first house ever was a hole, two blocks into the ground, closed off overhead.