Minecraft house: how to get started and build ideas
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The wonderful world ofMinecrafthouses might be a lot less confusing than our world’s real estate, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be an expert craftsperson overnight.
While you won’t have to pay for lumber or negotiate building codes and zoning laws, your Minecraft house does have to protect you against the hordes of zombies, skeletons, creepers, and other nasties that show up when the sun dips below the horizon. But effective protection is only one part of the equation – showing off your personal style accounts for the rest. Putting your creativity on display can be hard work though, and utilizing Minecraft’s palette to express yourself is no exception, whether it’s withMinecraft skinsor a new house.
Sometimes the wheels of invention get stuck, and the only acceptable grease to get them moving again is to seek out new inspirations for your next Minecraft build. For some people, inspiration can strike from nature, from experimentation, or from real-life architecture and art – but if you’re like me, sometimes you need the extra helping hand of other Minecraft creators to jump-start you. Thankfully, there are options aplenty out there, with countless examples.
Minecraft houses
Minecraft house: how to build a starter house
Before you can jump into building a palace of your own, you’ll have to focus on surviving your first nights in Minecraft’s cubic landscape. Wandering the trees and fields of night without shelter is a surefire way to end up dead, so what’s the fastest way to get yourself protected? The answer really depends on how much time you have, so let’s take a look at the options:
Help, it’s already dark!
But what about if there’s a bit more daylight left?
It’s still daytime, how do I prepare better?
I’ve survived my first night, but what do I build to upgrade my house?
Once you’ve made it through that critical first night, there are a number of upgrades you can do to your house to make it function – and look – a whole lot better:
Minecraft houses: cool build ideas
Once you’ve got your basic survival taken care of, you can really get creative with things in Minecraft. These are a few of our favorite inspirations for building a Minecraft house:
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A stunning japanese-inspired house
A house with a view is all about location, so why not go with a house that is the view instead? With their beautiful color palette picks, gently sloping roof, and gorgeous pond to reflect at, Zaypixel nails the look and feel of a quiet and contemplative open-plan.Check out Zaypixel here
The coziest hobbit hole you can imagine
As part ofPixlRiffs ‘One Chunk’ seriesit’s hard to believe that so much detail can be packed into just one Minecraft chunk. If you’ve ever wanted to live the cozy hobbit life inside a gorgeously appointed and lushly decorated hole in the ground, this is the inspiration for you.Check out PixlRiffs here.
An idyllic lifted lakehouse
Coexisting with nature sometimes means conquering it, and with this majestically soaring lakehouse, Folli shows off how something simple can really elevate your build. With perfectly detailed support buttresses and window framing, this Minecraft house is perfect to fish from after a long day mining.Check out Folli here.
Sarah (She/Her) is a contributor and former Senior Writer for TechRadar Gaming. With six years of experience writing freelance for publications like PC Gamer, she’s covered every genre imaginable and probably a few she made up. She has a passion for diversity and the way different genres can be sandboxes for creativity and emergent storytelling, and loves worldbuilding. With thousands of hours in League of Legends, Overwatch, Minecraft, and countless survival, strategy, roguelike, and RPG entries, she still finds time for offline hobbies like tabletop RPGs, wargaming, miniatures painting, and hockey.
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