My First base was a three store house in a snowy biome with a ton of spruce trees, it was made out of oak and Birch, since that was avaible asspruce just turned into oak. I had the view of the ocean, since I build my house on the border of the biome. And I had my bed on the top floor, because the view there was amazing. Sadly I build this on a school computer, so I lost everything. It was build between 2011-13.
My first true survival base was on a server. This would have been late 2014. (I started playing mid-to-late 2013, but I had only played exclusively in creative). It was a thin birch tower, with the top level being made out of leaves (believe it had around 4 stories); about 50 blocks away was an abandoned, unfinished structure which made for a bit of an eyesore (I couldn't remove it because there was grief protection). It was walking distance from spawn. I lived there with my sister for a while, before she got sick of me leaving doors open (she was deathly afraid of mobs) and moved about 70 blocks away, building what we now call "The Noob Cage", because it was quite literally a 5x5 cage made from oak fences.
I had a guy move in with me and the base expanded greatly; it gained a basement, an indoor farm, and an entirely new structure (which required demolishing a hill) wedged between the birch tower and the Noob Cage. However, he stopped coming around after a while, and he also left claims behind on parts of the base; claims that I couldn't remove, give other people permission to use, or even build on if I recall correctly. So I moved way from that spot... I think I was kinda just a nomad for while, before the server reset...
Incredibly detailed map of the base's general area:
I unfortunately didn't know how to take screenshots at the time, so no pictures
This is pretty much the same as it was back in 2013, with the only real changes since then being to the underground storage room, which currently contains the equivalent of more than 3 million resources collected while caving, with new corridors added as needed. The large area with a glass roof was also originally used as a tree farm, now it is basically just decorative, with half of it being a pen for passive mobs, just a few of each type. Otherwise, I've never felt the need to "improve" it (for example, this is the most recent main base I made, most of which have had the same general structure; still not exactly that fancy, like the detailed houses and stuff other players make, but I play the game as an exploration/adventure game, not a building game).
My first Xbox 360 save was a Oak Wood (not planks) cabin on the side of a beach (earliest Xbox 360 version of the game here) and it having a few rooms to mimic a house. Don't have image of it on me though.
For Java Edition my first two worlds are this:
World 1:
Just a whole in the wall/doorway in front of a cave. Trapdoors to block off strip mines to a ravine or outside on the left side of the base/another cave. 1.4.5 early modding consideration too with Industrial Craft 2 ores also. The naming of my chests/order of storing my stuff being different makes me laugh since I have a straightforward format for each of them now. XD
Don't have images I can upload because I struggle to do that but either way it's a pretty simple out of a cave entrance, in a Taiga, stone walls and chests, with glass base. Very basic, not dirt but still basic. I don't have any videos of them either but I might do that in the future for a 'comparison of what players do when they start the game and how they build now'.
World 2:
A Desert Temple I 'improved' with underground storage under the main floor and around the outside of the treasure room. With a village I created out front, with obsidian walls surrounding the temple.
Videos of my second world base I made 2 years ago.
In my first saved world I had this idea (From another world I didn't keep or lost) about building sky-bridges from mountain top to mountain top with a little home on each. After about 3 mountains I gave up. After spawning on the beach I went up to the nearest mountain and built a first temporary home - a little fort. No landscaping, just building on the land as it was:
The next morning I built that bridge across, only two wide - no fences for safely and fell off multiple times. Only after I got the second home built did I do ,my first "Renovation" and made the bridge two wider and add the fences, still not thinking about how I would actually light the bridge. The second home was an awful oddly shaped wooden hut with a cobble floor and nothing inside and a dirt roof which I eventually put glass blocks in here and there as skylights:
To the next mountain top I built a sky-bridge 3x as long I wanted it to be glass originally but I new torches wouldn't stick to it so I just went with cobble. Why I didn't just do glass and add columns of other blocks (I envisioned it like a tube) I don't know.
Third home:
In retrospect the third home, bad choices were made, it was very narrow inside as it had an "Inner section" as well. After 3 - 4 months or more I decided to go back to it and ended up converting the huge crater like cave entrance between Mountains #1 & #2.
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t saved world I had this idea (From another world I didn't keep or lost) about building sky-bridges from mountain top to mountain top with a little home on each. After about 3 mountains I gave up. After spawning on the beach I went up to the nearest mountain and built a first temporary home - a little fort. No landscaping, just building on the land as it was:
The next morning I built that bridge across, only two wide - no fences for safely and fell off multiple times. Only after I got the second home built did I do ,my first "Renovation" and made the bridge two wider and add the fences, still not thinking about how I would actually light the bridge. The second home was an awful oddly shaped wooden hut with a cobble floor and nothing inside and a dirt roof which I eventually put glass blocks in here and there as skylights:
To the next mountain top I built a sky-bridge 3x as long I wanted it to be glass originally but I new torches wouldn't stick to it so I just went with cobble. Why I didn't just do glass and add columns of other blocks (I envisioned it like a tube) I don't know.
Third home:
In retrospect the third home, bad choices were made, it was very narrow inside as it had an "Inner section" as well. After 3 - 4 months or more I decided to go back to it and ended up converting the huge crater like cave entrance between Mountains #1 & #2.
Well, my first attempt at landscaping was giantic 3 wide trench between my first base and the rest of taiga biome with open trap doors(!) on one spot so I could jump both ways if needed. At least your sky brigde had style.
Those are all ambitious first bases. My first ever base in my first ever game was a carved out hole in the side of a cliff in Extreme Hills terrain. It had a door and eventually a single window. My >second< base after that was a two story mid-century modern style structure that I was quite fond of and has served as the basic style for most of the buildings I construct.
I started playing Minecraft a few weeks after the Halloween update which added the Nether to the game, around Alpha 1.22. My first base was a cave in the side of a hill:
The iron door and the chests were added later.
I later built a house in front of the base, which was south before the map's compass directions got changed.
I spawned SE of here (old compass directions) and found this area perfect for building in. One feature I liked was a floating island:
A single water source block at the top of the island empties into a pool which goes under a bridge and then into a larger pool, around which I grew sugar canes:
The pool with the sugar canes at the upper left corner goes through a 1 block hole in my wall and then runs down the hill and into the ocean (which in Alpha was not that deep or large as those in the current version).
I remember my first ever survival base! I've actually re-created my beta world, which was where my first ever base was.
It was simply a brick square with oak stairs on top, haha. At the time i thought it was cool to make a huge hole underneath my base and act like it was my secret lair or something! I look back at it today and I miss when I was new to Minecraft, i remember making stupid mistakes and everything, sounds dumb but i miss it, haha #nostalgia
I can't get an image unfortunately because my mac's being glitchy!
My very first survival base, like my many others, is a cave dug into a rock wall. It was built in 1.11.2. It has a single oak door entrance, a bad, furnace, disorganised chests everywhere, and pretty much it. I was a scary cat so I was always on peaceful difficulty. I later decided to cheat on that world, and I really regret doing it. It’s now littered on my old school laptop.
I only created my FIRST true survival 100% no cheating world last year, in 1.13.2. I will stick loyally to it no matter what. I still live inside a hole, but it’s dug into a small cliff face in a snowy tundra, with white concrete doomsday entrance, double double doors, and a constantly expanding interior complex, that goes deep into the ground. The main room, the first room you enter, contains my bed, chests and workstations. Going deeper down a cobble staircase, there is the work-space as I call it, it splits into 4 smaller rooms: underground-chicken-and-cows-farm, enchantment room, nether portal, and emergency-low-production-underground-wheat-and-pumpkin farm. On the surface, there is a manual-high-production-sugarcane-farm, high production wheat, beetroot, carrots and potatoes farm. There is an inefficient mob repeller (snow golem on a 5 blocks tall tower), and nearby in a mountain, there is a functional but incomplete lighthouse.
I count this world as my first base, because it’s true survival.
Of course the basic dirt house with the occasional wood scattered around it.. Though i can't remember if that was my first or second base. It was either in the side of a mountain or the dirt house.
Took me a few years to finish it, but I started this baby in 2012 and it's been pretty much done since 16'. I think it's still the best house/structure I've built, I like a lot of my builds but this one seems to be the right size and it still stores all my stuff. I've done a lot under the water line, the conduit and the glass around it were another failed building that turned out pretty well after I gave up and demolished the top half. I just recently added a underwater bedroom that used to be a mound of dirt, I think it really helped but I can't fit enough screenshots to show you what I mean. It's on planetminecraft if you're curious, the map is called "Bawsnia"
When I first started playing, I never actually built a real "base". My first base was some crappy all-wood plank house I made in bedrock edition in early 2016. Keep in mind, I did first play Minecraft back in 2009, but didn't actually start playing more frequently until Xbox 360 edition when that came out, and even more frequently when I got pocket edition, so that was really one of the few chances I actually had to make a house. Also, my stupid eight yo self didn't realize that my house would still burn down if I placed a netherrack block and lit that instead of directly on the wood. So the place didn't last long, but still. I was 8.
I first started playing in mid 2016, and decided to take on survival, due to me thinking it would be more interesting.
My first base was built near a small lake on singleplayer. It was enclosed with wooden fences. It had a lodge made with spruce, I spent the most time there out of all the structures. Next to it, there were two seperate pumpkin farms. One extending into the lake, One right in front of the lodge. In the enclosure, there was the cave where I first found diamonds and did all my mining. There was a path connecting into the two pumpkin farms and a large cobblestone tower where i did enchanting and brewing. It's all I remember, I deleted the world once I beat the Wither and the Ender Dragon because I did not know anything outside of how to beat the Ender Dragon and Wither, and decided to start a new creative world where I would learn that i was wrong. I then got inspired to build better survival worlds.
In my early days, I'd either find or dig out a small cave. I would create a work space with 6 double chests in a U around my crafting table and anvil. One end of the U had the stairs down to my mine and up to my living and enchanting spaces. The other end of the U has my furnaces.
Soul Sand and the ability to stack chests changed all that. now I use a 1x3 "watervator" to access my mines. On the back side I have a materials lift using droppers with observers as the timer. My workshop is on level 42 with watervator stops at 30, 18, and 6. Each stop accesses 4 levels of 1x2 tunnels.
My First base was a three store house in a snowy biome with a ton of spruce trees, it was made out of oak and Birch, since that was avaible asspruce just turned into oak. I had the view of the ocean, since I build my house on the border of the biome. And I had my bed on the top floor, because the view there was amazing. Sadly I build this on a school computer, so I lost everything. It was build between 2011-13.
What was yours?
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My first true survival base was on a server. This would have been late 2014. (I started playing mid-to-late 2013, but I had only played exclusively in creative). It was a thin birch tower, with the top level being made out of leaves (believe it had around 4 stories); about 50 blocks away was an abandoned, unfinished structure which made for a bit of an eyesore (I couldn't remove it because there was grief protection). It was walking distance from spawn. I lived there with my sister for a while, before she got sick of me leaving doors open (she was deathly afraid of mobs) and moved about 70 blocks away, building what we now call "The Noob Cage", because it was quite literally a 5x5 cage made from oak fences.
I had a guy move in with me and the base expanded greatly; it gained a basement, an indoor farm, and an entirely new structure (which required demolishing a hill) wedged between the birch tower and the Noob Cage. However, he stopped coming around after a while, and he also left claims behind on parts of the base; claims that I couldn't remove, give other people permission to use, or even build on if I recall correctly. So I moved way from that spot... I think I was kinda just a nomad for while, before the server reset...
Incredibly detailed map of the base's general area:
I unfortunately didn't know how to take screenshots at the time, so no pictures
I post pretty rarely nowadays. Gosh, I wish this place weren't so... empty...
This is my first base, from my first world:
This is pretty much the same as it was back in 2013, with the only real changes since then being to the underground storage room, which currently contains the equivalent of more than 3 million resources collected while caving, with new corridors added as needed. The large area with a glass roof was also originally used as a tree farm, now it is basically just decorative, with half of it being a pen for passive mobs, just a few of each type. Otherwise, I've never felt the need to "improve" it (for example, this is the most recent main base I made, most of which have had the same general structure; still not exactly that fancy, like the detailed houses and stuff other players make, but I play the game as an exploration/adventure game, not a building game).
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My first Xbox 360 save was a Oak Wood (not planks) cabin on the side of a beach (earliest Xbox 360 version of the game here) and it having a few rooms to mimic a house. Don't have image of it on me though.
For Java Edition my first two worlds are this:
World 1:
Just a whole in the wall/doorway in front of a cave. Trapdoors to block off strip mines to a ravine or outside on the left side of the base/another cave. 1.4.5 early modding consideration too with Industrial Craft 2 ores also. The naming of my chests/order of storing my stuff being different makes me laugh since I have a straightforward format for each of them now. XD
Don't have images I can upload because I struggle to do that but either way it's a pretty simple out of a cave entrance, in a Taiga, stone walls and chests, with glass base. Very basic, not dirt but still basic. I don't have any videos of them either but I might do that in the future for a 'comparison of what players do when they start the game and how they build now'.
World 2:
A Desert Temple I 'improved' with underground storage under the main floor and around the outside of the treasure room. With a village I created out front, with obsidian walls surrounding the temple.
Videos of my second world base I made 2 years ago.
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In my first saved world I had this idea (From another world I didn't keep or lost) about building sky-bridges from mountain top to mountain top with a little home on each. After about 3 mountains I gave up. After spawning on the beach I went up to the nearest mountain and built a first temporary home - a little fort. No landscaping, just building on the land as it was:
The next morning I built that bridge across, only two wide - no fences for safely and fell off multiple times. Only after I got the second home built did I do ,my first "Renovation" and made the bridge two wider and add the fences, still not thinking about how I would actually light the bridge. The second home was an awful oddly shaped wooden hut with a cobble floor and nothing inside and a dirt roof which I eventually put glass blocks in here and there as skylights:
To the next mountain top I built a sky-bridge 3x as long I wanted it to be glass originally but I new torches wouldn't stick to it so I just went with cobble. Why I didn't just do glass and add columns of other blocks (I envisioned it like a tube) I don't know.
Third home:
In retrospect the third home, bad choices were made, it was very narrow inside as it had an "Inner section" as well. After 3 - 4 months or more I decided to go back to it and ended up converting the huge crater like cave entrance between Mountains #1 & #2.
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Those are all ambitious first bases. My first ever base in my first ever game was a carved out hole in the side of a cliff in Extreme Hills terrain. It had a door and eventually a single window. My >second< base after that was a two story mid-century modern style structure that I was quite fond of and has served as the basic style for most of the buildings I construct.
I started playing Minecraft a few weeks after the Halloween update which added the Nether to the game, around Alpha 1.22. My first base was a cave in the side of a hill:
The iron door and the chests were added later.
I later built a house in front of the base, which was south before the map's compass directions got changed.
I spawned SE of here (old compass directions) and found this area perfect for building in. One feature I liked was a floating island:
A single water source block at the top of the island empties into a pool which goes under a bridge and then into a larger pool, around which I grew sugar canes:
The pool with the sugar canes at the upper left corner goes through a 1 block hole in my wall and then runs down the hill and into the ocean (which in Alpha was not that deep or large as those in the current version).
The world is at 1.2.5; I play it offline.
I remember my first ever survival base! I've actually re-created my beta world, which was where my first ever base was.
It was simply a brick square with oak stairs on top, haha. At the time i thought it was cool to make a huge hole underneath my base and act like it was my secret lair or something! I look back at it today and I miss when I was new to Minecraft, i remember making stupid mistakes and everything, sounds dumb but i miss it, haha #nostalgia
I can't get an image unfortunately because my mac's being glitchy!
Have a good day, all!
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Make lemonadeNah you squeeze them in someone else's eye!Removed
Mine was just a hole in a mountain. I hate spiders, which seemed to always find me.
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My very first survival base, like my many others, is a cave dug into a rock wall. It was built in 1.11.2. It has a single oak door entrance, a bad, furnace, disorganised chests everywhere, and pretty much it. I was a scary cat so I was always on peaceful difficulty. I later decided to cheat on that world, and I really regret doing it. It’s now littered on my old school laptop.
I only created my FIRST true survival 100% no cheating world last year, in 1.13.2. I will stick loyally to it no matter what. I still live inside a hole, but it’s dug into a small cliff face in a snowy tundra, with white concrete doomsday entrance, double double doors, and a constantly expanding interior complex, that goes deep into the ground. The main room, the first room you enter, contains my bed, chests and workstations. Going deeper down a cobble staircase, there is the work-space as I call it, it splits into 4 smaller rooms: underground-chicken-and-cows-farm, enchantment room, nether portal, and emergency-low-production-underground-wheat-and-pumpkin farm. On the surface, there is a manual-high-production-sugarcane-farm, high production wheat, beetroot, carrots and potatoes farm. There is an inefficient mob repeller (snow golem on a 5 blocks tall tower), and nearby in a mountain, there is a functional but incomplete lighthouse.
I count this world as my first base, because it’s true survival.
Of course the basic dirt house with the occasional wood scattered around it.. Though i can't remember if that was my first or second base. It was either in the side of a mountain or the dirt house.
Took me a few years to finish it, but I started this baby in 2012 and it's been pretty much done since 16'. I think it's still the best house/structure I've built, I like a lot of my builds but this one seems to be the right size and it still stores all my stuff. I've done a lot under the water line, the conduit and the glass around it were another failed building that turned out pretty well after I gave up and demolished the top half. I just recently added a underwater bedroom that used to be a mound of dirt, I think it really helped but I can't fit enough screenshots to show you what I mean. It's on planetminecraft if you're curious, the map is called "Bawsnia"
When I first started playing, I never actually built a real "base". My first base was some crappy all-wood plank house I made in bedrock edition in early 2016. Keep in mind, I did first play Minecraft back in 2009, but didn't actually start playing more frequently until Xbox 360 edition when that came out, and even more frequently when I got pocket edition, so that was really one of the few chances I actually had to make a house. Also, my stupid eight yo self didn't realize that my house would still burn down if I placed a netherrack block and lit that instead of directly on the wood. So the place didn't last long, but still. I was 8.
Ok, I'll provide a detailed description.
I first started playing in mid 2016, and decided to take on survival, due to me thinking it would be more interesting.
My first base was built near a small lake on singleplayer. It was enclosed with wooden fences. It had a lodge made with spruce, I spent the most time there out of all the structures. Next to it, there were two seperate pumpkin farms. One extending into the lake, One right in front of the lodge. In the enclosure, there was the cave where I first found diamonds and did all my mining. There was a path connecting into the two pumpkin farms and a large cobblestone tower where i did enchanting and brewing. It's all I remember, I deleted the world once I beat the Wither and the Ender Dragon because I did not know anything outside of how to beat the Ender Dragon and Wither, and decided to start a new creative world where I would learn that i was wrong. I then got inspired to build better survival worlds.
In my early days, I'd either find or dig out a small cave. I would create a work space with 6 double chests in a U around my crafting table and anvil. One end of the U had the stairs down to my mine and up to my living and enchanting spaces. The other end of the U has my furnaces.
Soul Sand and the ability to stack chests changed all that. now I use a 1x3 "watervator" to access my mines. On the back side I have a materials lift using droppers with observers as the timer. My workshop is on level 42 with watervator stops at 30, 18, and 6. Each stop accesses 4 levels of 1x2 tunnels.