What was your first Minecraft home like?
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I made a sand castle with no roof. I dug downward in a spiral to make a staircase so I could escape.
My first house was a 5x4x4 box of wood, with torches to light it up, originally.
Then I accidentally burned most of it down while trying to clear out the nearby trees quickly, (I did learn a lot about how FIRE works though so...)
I eventually got it rebuilt and it turned into a three story tower, with battlements up top and a detached smelting outbuilding.
Then I accidentally burned most of it down while trying to clear out the nearby trees quickly, (I did learn a lot about how FIRE works though so...)
I eventually got it rebuilt and it turned into a three story tower, with battlements up top and a detached smelting outbuilding.
A bagel-shaped cave. I don't know why it was a loop like that. No door, one torch. It was located next to an iced-over lake in one of the old worlds where snow was constant, and it was all rather dreary and depressing. I dubbed it Stupid Cave.
Then I managed a small castle on a hill, and a couple brick shithouses, but eventually graduated to these:
I wish I had a better screenshot of the castle, it's pretty impressive up close. The central hall is large enough that the eye-level torches still left the ceiling in pitch darkness, so for a while I actually had mobs dropping from the rafters onto my head, which was terrifying. Then I built a chandelier.
Then I managed a small castle on a hill, and a couple brick shithouses, but eventually graduated to these:
I wish I had a better screenshot of the castle, it's pretty impressive up close. The central hall is large enough that the eye-level torches still left the ceiling in pitch darkness, so for a while I actually had mobs dropping from the rafters onto my head, which was terrifying. Then I built a chandelier.
I tried a bunch of different tactics to keep those pesky monsters away. If I got killed while trying to enter or exit a structure, I abandoned it. It didn't count as "my house" to me yet, it was just some bullshit I'd tried to build. I never really built anything out of wood or stone. Why do that when you don't even understand how spiders work yet? I just dug my way into the sides of cliffs to throw down torches and chests and wait out the night. Then later I linked these hidey-holes by torchlit tunnels so I wouldn't need to go outside unless it was day.
I even built a floating island in the sky, but adding to it was too inconvenient.
Finally, I figured out that if I built a staircase going down in the middle of the bay, I could come all the way up to the top of the stairs and still see and hear the monsters long before they even got within range.
I was home.
Screw houses. I'mma dwarf this place up!
I even built a floating island in the sky, but adding to it was too inconvenient.
Finally, I figured out that if I built a staircase going down in the middle of the bay, I could come all the way up to the top of the stairs and still see and hear the monsters long before they even got within range.
I was home.
Screw houses. I'mma dwarf this place up!
My first minecraft house was the prebuilt wooden box you got when you started a new game in Indev. Those days were fun.
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my first house was a large wooden castle until it burned down by a random forest fire then i created the secret volcano lair
A hole in the side of a dirt cliff. I'd looked up a video on YouTube just before though, to get me started, so I knew how to make a pickaxe and torch.
Alright, found it. Finally. Here's a save file. Explore Rapture and the airship, find my home (now one of many mines) if you can, take a look at the lighthouse and mountain carving, then explore the dungeon, if you like. The dungeon is complete with monsters, traps and puzzles, as well as a story. You start next to it with your back to most of the other stuff, if memory serves.aegix drakan said:
Link here [http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0A7A6XIO] (or rather, link to the second version where I ironed out many, but not all of the dungeon's issues). Rules for the dungeon in the following spoiler. These are important if you want said dungeon to work at all.
Rule one: Don't break anything unless you have the appropriate tools. You may only break stone/metal (but not stuff made of it) if you have a pick, earth/sand/gravel with a shovel and logs/planks/bookcases/workbenches/something I may have missed with an axe. Anything else, even glass? No breaking it.
Exception: You may always break redstone, clay and signs, even with your bare hands.
Rule two: Try not to hack anything in.
Rule three: Ignore the above rules if it's more fun to break them.
Rule four: Yes, you may place blocks you have.
Rule five: There are riddles. They come in two kinds. Some are hints. Some, which you see over a chest, have to be answered before you can take the contents. Just guess and check against the answers here.
Rule six: Almost forgot to add this, but it's kinda important. Whenever you reach a room with an eye, you may back up your save. If you die, restart from there.
Rule seven: Don't bring anything into the dungeon. Anything at all. Though I suppose some food would be fine given that you need that stuff these days.
Exception: You may always break redstone, clay and signs, even with your bare hands.
Rule two: Try not to hack anything in.
Rule three: Ignore the above rules if it's more fun to break them.
Rule four: Yes, you may place blocks you have.
Rule five: There are riddles. They come in two kinds. Some are hints. Some, which you see over a chest, have to be answered before you can take the contents. Just guess and check against the answers here.
Rule six: Almost forgot to add this, but it's kinda important. Whenever you reach a room with an eye, you may back up your save. If you die, restart from there.
Rule seven: Don't bring anything into the dungeon. Anything at all. Though I suppose some food would be fine given that you need that stuff these days.
First chest: Achilles
Second chest: Hercules
Second chest: Hercules
Warnings for the dungeon:
1: The boss fight DOES NOT WORK as originally intended. Just do whatever. Or even take the exit out, I guess. You can seriously just run if you want.
2: My attempts to be creepy are going to fail catastrophically.
3: Oh wow Endermen are going to make a huge mess of this place aren't they.
4: This was made ages ago and will therefore seem terribly crude these days.
5: It won't look anything like what I intended unless you use the texture pack included.
That's it, I guess. All my projects are fairly terrible, but I'd certainly like to hear your thoughts on it.
I dug a hole in the ground/slight hill, made a bedroom, a crafting room, farm, and a library (just for looks). Then I built a giant fortress around my hole in the ground house with lookouts, a portcullis, and a glass observatory. Then I made a mine shaft and an underwater lake in the courtyard of my hole in the ground fortress house.
Then I got bored and stopped playing.
Then I got bored and stopped playing.
Half this.L3m0n_L1m3 said:
I only got the walls two blocks high, didn't get a roof. I had taken too long and skeletons were shooting at me when I was trying to build it. Then I got blown up by a creeper because I forgot about the one block range for setting them off.
Then I vowed to only play peaceful mode. I'm not for survival games anyway, I just came to build.
My first home in peaceful land was small two story cabin by the sea, with a balcony on the second floor front. Then I created a small mine castle like building on the beach and then tunneled in and got down almost halfway to the bottom and built my great dwarf hall, with pillars and fountains and a golden throne. I then started construction on a castle across from my cabin. It was going to be slightly out in the ocean(uber moat), a stone bridge connecting it to the beach. I only got about 5% done as I also created a brick and glass green house, and then I stopped playing because I lost interest.
By the way, are there any mods to the game so that I can control the time of day? Like it starts to get dark out, and then I press a button and it is day again. Because daytime is preferable for building.