What was your first Minecraft home like?

[Harrowdown]

Same as everyone else, my very first "home" was a little dirt box. After that, it was a square room cut into a cliffside, with a staircase leading into a little hidden-away valley with a water fall and a river, all colsed off at the valley mouth by a great big wodden wall and with a tower rising up to the top of the hill opposite my home. There's a mine going under the house itself, and one digging down through the back wall of the valley, complete with minecart. To top it all off, the walls are absolutely *covered* in torches.

 

[Sarpedon]

My first home was a dirt house on top of a tree. Eventually, i made the house into stone. A little while later I replaced the tree trunk with a stone column and a ladder and enclosed all the space between the house and the ground, making a big stone tower. Then I added floors, lighting, windows, a foyer in the front, and crenelations on the roof.

The next house I built was underwater in the lake a short distance from my fort, and I dug a tunnel in my mine connecting the two.

 

[EHKOS]

My First Home:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPxz-lPnHk

 

[Bobbity]

First house was a massive treehouse; it was freakin' awesome. Well, at least until it caught fire and burned down...

 

[Yeager942]

For my first night, I lived in a whole and dug stone with my bare fists.

My first house was a rustic cabin in the snow, with stone floors. Loved that place until I got lost and never found it again.

 

[Kevak]

A 9x9x18 pillar of wood and dirt, I did not know there were skeletons, just creepers and zombies which I had heard were ground based. (also was early alpha so spiders couldn't climb) Needless to say, I died.

 

[KarlMonster]

For my first night, I lived in a whole and dug stone with my bare fists.

My first house was a rustic cabin in the snow, with stone floors. Loved that place until I got lost and never found it again.

Been there. Samey looking hilly islands in all directions from my spawn. Didn't have the SLIGHTEST idea which direction I'd wandered in to build the first place. That was a real letdown. Since that time I built many towers with at least 5 torches at the top to find my way around.

Edit: And its those kinds of innovations in MC that really make your day.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

First shelter? Just a box of dirt. First home? An awesome undergroudn base built into the prettiest cliff wall (the cliff encircled a small and hard to access resort of sorts) I've ever accidentally come across in the game. I don't have screenshots tho :/

 

[nicholaxxx]

a hole dug out in the side of a cliff, which I later found out was a misstep on my part because it started raining creepers...

 

[dave1004]

I dug a hole in a small hill, and ringed it with flowers so I could find it. I had a hole in the top for light...It didn't work so great when I had a zombie drop in there. This was back in the "Free Week" alpha, something like version 1.1 or so. A long time back. Shortly after my dirt hole, I learned how to make torches, and then I made a massive cobblestone castle. Well, okay. Not quite massive, but big. I then made a mass of pathways between treetops, and lived like an elf. It was all fine and dandy till I met my first spider jockey. *shudder*. I didn't last long...

Gods, I wish that I had my first world still. The nostalgia! Arrrgh...

 

[Giotto]

A hole in a mountain! During the session it expanded, and became a fortress!
Good times

 

[James Mann]

I dug down and built everything underground, i built a huge stairway to the surface but alas it was all in vein because i ended up finding a lot of water and finding somewhere to expand became fair difficult so i restarted and built something above ground.

 

[thePyro_13]

A box of dirt. No windows or doors or anything.

This, all power to the dirt cube.

This should seriously be a solution in real zombie movies, hide in a dirt cube, on top of a hill.

I'm currently living in the Ice Palace dungeon from Link to the Past.
Was hard to build, but so fun to live in.

 

[Romblen]

It was a room I made by digging out part of a hill. There was actually some iron there, and I didn't notice it for a long time. Once I did I left it alone since it was my first place. I later went on to expand the room, then I added tunnels that connected to my huge network of tunnels.

 

[Necrofudge]

built a hole in the mountainside with dirt blocks for a door to keep the monsters out. Awful first night. It was dark and I tried to expand the room to a 6x6 without any light.

Eventually built a stately villa on the water with a bridge leading up to it. Still visited my old cave home though on occasion. Oh the memories

 

[mGoLos]

I dug into a hillside, spent the nights making it larger and finding coal and iron. Later I moved, but didn't realize I would spawn way back at my first home. When I eventually died I couldn't find my way back and uh, that was the end of that world.

 

[untamedshade67]

I just ran around running from all the things that go bump in the night and collected cobblestone in random caves before more monsters found me and built a light house out on a small island in a big body of water.

 

[tehbeard]

A hole in the side of a mountain, it expanded and became a great home. But I was too greedy, and dug too deep, and got creepered in the mines .

The base is gone now, I'd setup a self Destruct mechanism, and stupidly ran a control wire next to my redstone lab. That was pretty fun, running for my life to the mineshaft.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

A cliff-side castle, taking over the summit of an entire mountain. The only entrance was a lake, quite a ways away, using an underwater entrance. The mountain was, eventually, honeycombed with hallways and rooms. A lava/water garden. I was, ambitious.

 

[veloper]

A small cave in a hill with a wooden door. Put your workbench, bed, furnace, etc in it.
It's all you'll ever need in the game.