A wooden door may be added if you have enough wood and time. 1. Dig semi-circular (5-block) pits around the blocks of sand that will form the lower half of the two 'doors'. A "balcony" protruding from higher up the side of the cliff, which you can use to snipe mobs. Make sure a mechanism to stop the player at a floor of their choice is installed. If you want to protect the villagers, but do not have enough materials to build a wall around the village and light up the whole area, simply do the following: A example of a house in a plains Village church. You then build the smaller interior rims just like you did with the first hallway. Next, build a layer of outer walls. You can put in many floors and have tons of stuff. At the end of the hallway, build an 8×1×8 rim on the blocks in front of where the hallway ended. Simple underground bases are easy to build, and making them more complex isn't hard at all. Redstone trap to teach griefers a lesson. Steve / AlexThe main playable character, who wakes up in an unknown land and does whatever they want. Another way to conceal a sky base is to make it out of chests and trapped chests and place blocks temporarily because chestlike blocks don't render far away from players. Step 1: Build a 4x4 perimeter with 2 blocks of height using the. Red mushrooms are best used as a visible landmark, but can be expanded using dirt or cobblestone to use as a waystation as well. Build a second Floor (which some of the houses already come with), Add furniture (which some of the buildings come with), Occupy the whole village! Please read and respect our rules below before contributing. Make your own world into one big city. Emergency kit - Need to leave quickly? Build walls around the entire temple and light up the exterior to fortify it further. Emergency bunker - Creeper invading your house? Found a group of zombies in your basement? It's a simple shelter and works best for emergencies, since it doesn't have much expansion possibilities in a short time. The villagers will not be able to come out (and get into trouble) and zombies will not be able to get in (and kill the villagers). Safest, because you build it safely away from ghasts and you are surrounded by walls. Make the base outline of a square and fill in all gaps with bedrock. Ta-da! And plenty of torches. If you clear the top of the mountain and make it flat, it will be easier and you can just build a simple house. Protects greatly, as mobs can't get in and spiders have nothing to climb on. First lay out an 11x11 square by digging a 13x13 trench, 2 blocks deep. However, they offer perfect protection. First, make a sculpture out of ice (the design is your choice) that is about 3×5×9 blocks. Building is another problem, as you would either have to pillar upwards to excavate the home or enter from the top and use water to build on the underside of the overhang. Plenty of rations and tools in case you drop into another tunnel and find yourself trapped. With the walls being at least two blocks thick, the player can safely sleep in a bed at night without having to worry about being awoken by hostile mobs. Next, hollow out the area you want to use. Once you get the horses, you can virtually ride wherever you want! Somewhere flat (it is recommended to practice this shelter on super-flat on creative mode). Then, do whatever you want with the inside. For the remaining entrances, build a 6×2×1 floor one block lower than the original floor. Basically the same as freestanding and many obsidian. An emergency armory in case your station has some unknown flaw and you don't or can't carry around arms and armor. Now in the center of your 11x11 square, build a 5x5 house. For extra security and visibility, why not make your mushroom into a tower? For this shelter to work properly, you should stay at least 42 blocks away from the beaches at night to prevent any hostile mobs from spotting you. 1). Wood Planks or stone for the inside wall (optional). Expand the lower chamber to accommodate farms, mines, an enchanting room, a smelting and/or anvil room, or whatever else you wish. If needed use map editors, unless playing survival (legit). Choose an elevation. Unfortunately, suitable overhangs and ones located in scenic or easy-to-defend places can be difficult to find. Stone buttons or levers can be used to control the doors both inside and out. One common practice is to remove a layer of leaves and then, build the base. Add 2×2 holes in the center of each wall for the windows, but leave the front open with a 2×2 hole for the 2 doors. Depending on how complex the house is, it's entirely possible to get lost and need the assistance of an emergency exit. For added ease build your house underwater out of wood then cover it with any non-flammable material. The same process as a freestanding shelter, but with the walls formed in a circle instead of a square. Also, when playing multiplayer, cover the outside of the floor with white wool or possibly quartz. After you have collected enough, place them in a 2×2 square in the crafting grid. This gives you stress-free space to hide if mobs get close, or from ranged attacks. These tutorials shed light on some of the core fixtures of Minecraft gameplay. These are generally 2×2 squares that can be dug into land or built into the water, and usually, have a double door at the front to stop boats from drifting out to sea. A bed is a must. This roof should block out most of the light - look in the "Extras" section for ways to counter this. This method is only safe when you have plenty of torches. Next, make a path to whatever destination. These will take a varied amount of time to build, so you may not be ready to do these unless you have a large amount of time. Zombified piglin won't be an issue unless you attack them first. Then, you can make a wooden floor, or you can just keep the ground as your floor. Best if treehouse is built in a forest. Easily spotted. The cobblestone generator should push cobblestone onto the pistons. You can get on top of the tree removing the logs and pillar jumping all the way up. Make sure walls match the rim as well. If you like, dig your floor and replace it with any block you like. Place the ladders under the hole and then, on the roof of the house make some battlements. Add a chest to store valuable ores and ingots. Getting to know the game better. Make it at least 2 blocks wide and light it! Any area with an NPC Village. Building a mine from an underground home doesn't take nearly as much digging as it would if you were building one from the surface; you may not even need a mine, as you collect minerals while digging out the rooms of a base. It is suggested that you get 200 saplings and plant them around your base as well as in it. Adds some happiness to the bleak surroundings. The area under the pit should ideally have some sort of fall-breaker in case misjudgment of the jump occurs. When all this is done it will look amazing and easy to protect from mobs because they fall off the edge of the mountain and plummet to their death, but it will take time to build, it takes a lot longer to build than a lava fort, but there is an easy way. Then, clear out a 6 block long section for a primary entrance. Mining down does not usually make a good shelter. Find any regular tree (or grow one by planting a sapling and using bonemeal on it, for larger trees, use 4 saplings in a 2x2 grid), and surround the area around the tree so that the leaves become a roof. Add a workbench, furnaces, torches, and a bed to complete your new home. It should preferably not be used longer than 1-3 Minecraft days (unless you like being nomadic). While not full structures themselves, they are worth mentioning since they can be used to augment existing shelters. The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft. This is the system that so secures the structure. (The one the author built was a dome) Then, raise the walls with obsidian at least 30 blocks. This will lead to the grand entrance. About ⅓ as much obsidian to line the walls. No, not a Tree House. Add the spikes. As difficult as this setup may be, one can use this type of base as a stealthy reconnaissance outpost, by dropping lava, arrows or even TNT on unsuspecting players or just for viewing epic scenery. Allowing yourself to be inside the home safely and have a good view of the Nether. Desert Temples are not only good shelters, but also contain worthwhile loot such as emeralds, diamonds, gold, iron, and bones, but do look out for the secret chamber with a pressure plate and the 3×3 grid of TNT! If the repeaters have the right delay, they should build your house. A good idea would be to put guards on a bunch of these outside your PvP base, with TNT in the tunnels if someone breaks through. Just because a Nomadic shelter is crude, primitive and simple in design doesn't mean it cannot serve as the base and foundation for a more advanced shelter if the player, for example, decides to end their nomadic travel, settle down and adopt a more sedentary lifestyle. Leave the one sand block in the center of the house in place so you can pillar-jump up through your skylight to take a quick, careful look around. The ceiling copies the floor, just 6 blocks higher. A large, flat area, with room for expansions, underground or to the side. No animals will come, no fences are needed. A couple of slabs - same material as the building material, Watchtower (used for sniping and looking for resources), Skylight (extra light and mobs can't spawn on it. No need to put a crafting table or furnace in your house! Be sure to clearly mark your designated "home" area, or spread your furniture around the entire building. If you have enough time and materials, complete the 4 corners as 4-high sand pillars (sticking up one block above roof level) and put cacti on the corners. Build this mobile fortress that takes 5 minutes to build and 5 minutes to destroy! The ceiling will also be one block lower than the top layer of the rim as well. The entrances to this shelter can be anywhere, but in multiplayer, care should be taken to avoid making your location obvious to griefers or thieves. 4. Towers can be included on the sides to make it look better and give a better point to attack from. During construction, it might start snowing. Now, dig one block under your house and burn it which will remove all the water. Find a cliff that meets the above specifications. An underwater base for total protection from creepers and other mobs, along with looking good. The pits are one deep. Flowers, tallgrass and trees for a hint of realism. After this, you can hollow out the cave to your liking. Dig a 1×1×6 shaft inside the center of the tower. First, get some snow, you'll need a lot. Extremely simple. Start the walls, and put in the items you want in the rooms (bedroom, craft room, furnace room, storeroom, minecart room). Light this area with torches, and your rudimentary shelter is complete. Making a Nether cave home can prove much easier than building a similar home in the Overworld because you won't be attacked by mobs.