What was your first Minecraft home like?

[repeating integers]

It was a box.

It was made of glass, and surrounded by deadly water traps.

Fortunately I never encountered any Spider-Jockeys (which can apparently shoot through glass).

 

[M0rp43vs]

My first shelter when starting the game was a wooden bunker(1 block deep, 2 blocks high, Very roomy and spacious) by the sea near where I started.

Then I set the wood on fire, flooded it with water and converted it into a ever-flaming farmland when I moved into my first house just a stones throw away.

A 3 story, 7 room wooden house on a plain, with a watchtower on the roof surrounded by 3 block high(dirt,wood,stone) gate. In the yard is a mine shaft and several water fountains. It's located in between a man cultivated flatland with a lake with another farmland and a mountain that I am mining.

And just a trek away is a,I don't know what to call it, gigantic crater with a bunch of waterfalls to travel down, a lot of animals, lots of trees and being deep enough that you can dig 3 blocks down and reach adminium and dig up red stone from the sides of the crater.

Wish I didn't delete the world :'(

 

[Spaghetti]

My first "house", as some may choose to describe it, was a wooden shack built into the side of a mountain on a tiny island with some tunnels underneath. It was so very, very simple and straightforward and looking back, it's a concept I've kinda stuck with since, just getting increasingly ambitious as I've gone on.

 

[Awsomeotaku]

I didn't know anything at first (not even how to put it on peaceful) except how to make picks so I made my house completely out cobble. Then I had a cobble "tunnel to my mine

 

[MattyDienhoff]

First shelter, or first home?

My first shelter would've been some unremarkable hovel which is why I don't remember it, but my first home was a series of natural caverns around a waterfall that I stumbled across while exploring and promptly claimed. It was sort of like a cave system, but above-ground. It was half-way up a very steep mountain. The caverns opened up into a natural courtyard sort of layout with a waterfall in the middle. It was beautiful. I turned it into a home while preserving its materials and general layout, and carved a few new rooms. It looks kind of like Falling Water inside now.

 

[Magicduck]

Initially I planned to make a small wooden shack except night hit faster then I expected and I filled up the rest of it with dirt,gravel and sand. I knew the basics but I still was terrified of the sounds coming from outside so I dug into the ground and sat there until day.

 

[DestinyCall]

I spent my first night wandering around aimlessly, until a zombie ate my face. For my second night, I ran through the woods until I found a small island in the middle of a lake connected to the main land by a thin strip of land. I killed the two skeletons I found there with my bare hands, almost dying in the attempt. Then I spent the rest of the night on the island, watching the zombies and spiders spawning in the distance along the lake shore. The island seemed like a safe place so I decided to make it my home.

I still didn't know how to make torches, since I decided to play the game for a while before looking on-line for assistance, so my only source of light was the moon or sun and my crafting options were limited to the few things I figured out by trial and error. The next day, I built a small open-air fort out of stone I mined from the side of a mountain using shallow shafts ... again, I couldn't go too deep because I had no coal and didn't know how to make torches.

My island fort was surprisingly safe, considering the lack of lighting and my general lack of knowledge, since monsters will not spawn close to the player or on water. For the first week, I didn't even have doors, so if a mob made it to the island, I would fight and kill it in my fort with a pickaxe, one of the few tools I'd figured out how to make on my own.

 

[Da pyro man 999]

Well, have you everseen the type of house the little people live in in that game from dust, kinda like that, kept the spiders out.

 

[Broken Blade]

A hole in the sand, and then I started hollowing out a hill to make the giant cave house I've always wanted.

 

[Elsarild]

a 2x1 hole in the ground.

Nope, I did not look up a tutorial before I did that, I was just scared.

 

[superstringz]

A hole in the side of a mountain. I remember I was so excited to see iron, and confused as to why my wooden pick wouldn't break it. Eventually, it turned into a castle sited at the top of the mountain, with the walls following the contours of the slope. It even had its own garden, and I wound up making stupid amounts of bread. I then tunneled down to y=20 and built a 2 km long railroad, where I found my first cave system. I died, and promptly deleted my save, cause thats just how I roll.

 

[GrimGrimoire]

A hole in the side of a mountain where I found coal, from there on I eventually built a greenhouse, 2 LARGE mines down to bedrock, a gigantic nether base, four small forts and one large, all connected to each other by bridges with railways and walkways, an one large palace.
But I still had all my stuff in that starting hole (well later it became more of a hub where all my bridges, mines and roads met).

 

[Ghostkai]

A cave in the side of a mountain... Walled it up, made a door and windows. 1 month later it was a giant fortress of awesome and served as the base of my massive mining complex.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I found an island and dug up enough dirt to make a wall. This was before I knew where to find coal so I died a few times. Eventually I made a wall that was about 12 blocks high all around the small island. When morning come I figured out how to make torches and lit up the place. I then made a small wooden house in the middle. I continually improved upon this dirt fort until I replaced the dirt with Cobblestone walls and then added lava walls. I even made a walkway and an extension that jutted out into my mine shaft. It was a nice castle and I'm sorry that when my comp crashed it killed off the world V.V

 

[Jnat]

The first one I built was a brick house on some wom server in creative. In survival my first home was a 7x7 wooden house with 2 torches and a smoothstone floor. It took a long time for me to dare expand as I didn't know you could make torches.

 

[Lonely Swordsman]

First I tried making a sandcastle but that didn't go well. So I dug myself into the side of a cliff and walled myself in with cobblestone.

 

[Scipio1770]

5*5*5 wood box.

 

[TikiShades]

I dug a hole into an almost flat hill. It was just a little ditch at first, but I started to make a little more room, and then I remember thinking "This is it... this shall be my first base... *o*" I added two wooden doors; a wooden pressure plate to open the first to lead outside. The second one led to a long hallway I made until I hit a cave. I added the door because skeletons came from the cave sometimes.

I also had a bridge from the doorway, because a creeper blew up the front. I kind of liked the small dirt bridge, though. The roof was only one block thick, which led to problems with creepers sitting on top of my base, then blowing me up when I left. To combat this, I replaced the roof with glass, so I knew what was above me.

Eventually, as I found other caves which lead to the surface, I connected them together and made signs so I knew where a path led. I had a backdoor on the other end of the long hallway, and a cave that could only be reached by waterfall, and other interconnecting bases that were much more unique than my first. I just never wanted to ditch my first base...

Except when I started my second world. Haven't been back to the first since then.