What was your first Minecraft home like?

[acer840]

First I had a 2x2x2 hole in the ground, then I upgraded to a 2x2x8 hole in the wall of a cliff. Next was a 10x10x6 wooden house in the middle of the field i had my first home in. Then I upgraded to an open roof 20x20 tree top house, then got woken up by a spider in the night, ran out the door, into a skeleton, the a creeper. Now I'm back in my 2x2x2 hole until I can find my treehouse.

 

[lumenadducere]

There was sort of a natural cave on the side of a cliff overlooking my spawn point. I climbed up there and spent the first few nights safe there. I had no idea what I was doing so I wound up expanding the inside of the cave to be a nice large room, but I used my fists the whole time. It took forever.

Eventually I got a handle on things and wound up making a stairway to the top of the cliff, where I built a castle. From there I expanded across the tops of the mountains to have a greenhouse, animal farm, and a storage area. And then I built a computer and had to start a new world...but I'll always have fond memories of punching away at my little cave.

 

[LordZ]

My first one was a small cobblestone fort. I eventually rebuilt it and expanded it to a full size stone fort with glass ceilings and large fortified walls complete with small square guard towers. How I wish I could build a true spiral tower though.

 

[Josdeb]

My first world had an open lava-pit that set the world on fire (a little bit).

So naturally I made a house entirely of glass built over the top of it.

My house glows!

 

[azukar]

A fairly uninspired cuboid made of dirt and cobblestone on the shore of a small lake. That said, I also dug out a moat around it and connected it to the rest of the mainland with a bridge, then developed it with rooms and a tunnel down to bedrock.

...Then my computer died and took the whole level with it. Hooray me.

 

[Marmalade]

I don't remember my first home but one of my earliest was a cave I found that had sort of a natural window. It was really cool. I didn't know how to make torches at the time so I used furnaces for lighting.

 

[azurine]

in the 90 minute demo, I constructed a small wooded shelter. not much, but it had a bed, a crafting table, a furnace, and a book shelf barely crafted in time before the demo ended.

then I got the game, and now I'm working on my new base, which is a castle. not sure how tall I'm gonna make it, but the base of the castle is 200 blocks by 200 blocks, all made of stone brick.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

I just dug a hole in the side of a mountain where I could find coal...
The second one was dug into a mountain as well, and the third one was a tower on top of a different mountain.
And that's where epicness began.
Until Minecraft crashed while I was building a double layered skybridge with mincart tracks on the top one (bottom was meant for redstone to control the tracks) between my third and fourth house (location of my quarry) and my map got corrupted.

 

[Tesral]

I still have my save from Alpha with my first house. I wandered around for a night or so (technically I spent the first night in a cave, but I don't think that counts.) This was back when fire could sometimes indefinitely burn, and a large forest fire had left a few dozen burning tree stumps. I used these for defence, and went outside in the morning to collect the pork from the special pigs who wandered into the fire.

Spoiler: The house

Not exactly pretty but it has fences and a small lava moat.

Spoiler: The inside

Complete with emergency dousing pool, mineshaft entrance and shading errors.

Spoiler: The skybridge

Goes on for quite a way, to another house on a frozen lake. I never finished building that though.

Now if you'll excuse me, this nostalgia has made me decide to make a new world.

 

[Nyaliva]

My first home was a glass box against the side of the island I spawned on, underwater, so you can basically see out underwater, and squid spawn near me. I used to have a fireplace but since the update which made fire burn for a limited time, it's just a stone hole behind glass. The torches I replaced it with give a better ambience though. With the bed against the glass it's a rather nice place.

 

[MrPop]

My first home was a tower of gravel in the middle of a lake with a small wooden platform on top. This developed into a small house with a fireplace and rooftop garden and later still I grew crops on an overhanging platform and added waterfalls down my house.

I then added a shaft leading to an underwater house and a mine.

It was quite a tumorous, monstosity but I was pleased with it.

 

[StormShaun]

My first home was a hole in a mountain with a door and crafting table.

My next house was a great improvement, it was an underwater/above water base.

Im lovin' it.

 

[wooty]

After I got bored about halfway into building my house, it suddenly got.....very warm in there.

 

[Ramare]

My first day's shelter? While I was playing it over the phone with my friend, because he wasn't actually home yet so we could play SMP, all he told me was "Gather resources.", and that I did. When night started falling a lot quicker than I expected it would (Yeah, like I actually thought a Minecraft day'd be a single freakin' half hour...), I built a roughly five-high, six-around, not-quite cube out of what I had. That is, some dirt, some wool, some wood planks, and some sand. This is when I found out it is very scary on your first night being stuck in a crypt with a bunch of stuff that you don't even know what is clawing at your door...wondering if you can hear the Creepers...and raising your voice because of the loud rain that started during the night muffling your voice. I spent over forty minutes stuck in that bloody deathtrap because of the rain... Also, it's when I found out that sand actually has physics. That was a terrible, terrible time and way to find out. I had to destroy the wool I used for the highest point, because sand was my last resource, plant the sand as the wall, and plant the wool as my roof. By that time it was already night and I was panicking because I was a meek, clueless, and simple Minecraft guy, rather than the zombie-killin' creeper-burnin' skeleton-shootin' hooah I am now.

That was a fun time.
I remember it fondly when I'm building enormous castles out of sandstone reinforced with cobblestone, then proceeding to build a 20-high, three-thick wall around a large perimeter of my castle, made of a cobblestone layer sandwiched inside two sandstone layers, and then building a couple of small cottages, guard towers on perfect points along the wall, castle-like stuff on the top outside edge of the wall (A block every other block, and a block on top of that. Spider-proofs it, gives you a shield when you're taking and returning arrow fire, and looks awesome as well.), and a gigantic wheat farm with an extra raised area to plant melons.

Good times.

 

[Eveylon]

Hole in the ground with dirt top. With no way to figure out if it was morning yet!

 

[LeKiller]

I converted a hill into a small shack with a skytower, and then made a system that led to other biomes and a mine...yup :|

 

[The Last Nomad]

I dug a hole in the side of a hill and used that as my first temporary home, I then went on to find a little bay-like feature and built a large cobblestone castle in it, with wooden bridges out to it. I still use that home when I play, but I'm currently building a city around it.

 

[NoeL]

Like so many others, a small hole dug into the mountainside. Then I spotted a giant cliff face with a waterfall and a cave right up near the top, so I climbed my way up there and that cave became my new home.

 

[azukar]

The skybridge]

Heh, and here I thought I was naively thinking I was the first person to come up with a "skybridge". Admittedly, mine was mostly made of unsupported glass (the better to admire the view as you travel) with Glowstone blocks at random intervals for light. I was going for a sort-of "bizarre structure left by precursors" look, I think.

 

[Hyperrhombus]

Nice question!

I think my first base started out as a glorified hole, but after mining some, it wasnt very fitting, so I built a cobblestone tower on top of it, all the way to the skyline. After that came the railway station to other bases, and a Test room, and a portal room, and...

...yeah. It's a nice base.