So, I recently started a new survival world and after playing for about 2 hours I realized that my simple square wood plank house is a bit... Lame.
So does anyone have any good (cheap) ways to make my house look great without many resources?
I've got practically unlimited Wood, Cobble, Dirt, Stone, and Sand.
And I'm starting a farm with Sugar Cane, so I'll be able to have plenty bookshelves soon.
Also feel free to share your cool survival houses!
There are quite a few nice tutorials in the Screenshots section, I recommend taking a look.
For starters, try to break up the monotony using different colors. If you're not into design, simple straight lines vertically and horizontally can do the job well for a small house.
The bottom layer of the house gets a ring of cobblestone all round, then each corner and around the door we put in logs to signify support beams. This effectively break up the surface into distinct areas.
Then build a roof using half-steps or full steps. Try to avoid letting the roof merge flush with your wall, so in this case we start the roofing with full steps on top-most row of the wall.
The side would have been a straight wall flush to the top of the roof, but nobody said it has to stay that way.
The two thin lines in the roof is created by an inverted full-stair. To invert a full stair, it must first have another block above so you can "stick" the stair to the bottom of the block above.
The back of the house looks like this:
First note how the windows is higher and to the side. You don't always have to have a perfectly symmetrical house. This placement of the window is good to signify the air vents of a working area, like a kitchen. So you would put down the furnace and brewing stand in this corner under the window panes. The middle column of log could very well have not been there, I was just experimenting.
Then I thought since the roof was tall enough to have space inside, we might as well make use of it as a storeroom for extra chests, so I took out part of the roof, added stairs up and a door, then use the fences to avoid having stairs hanging in mid-air.
The attic looks like this:
I put in a bed for my friend Creeper who likes to visit now and then. I can't let her sleep over in the house because she gets excited when she sees me and boy that was a mess I had to clean up the last time.
PS: By leaving this attic unlit, monsters will spawn inside and you end up really having visitors. It was fun.
I really like lining the trim/border of the house with logs. This will be even better when the rotating logs come out with 1.3, every house going forward will be a log house initially, with the standard extensions added on as my dwelling grows.
Edit - Another thing I've been doing lately is using stairs, both upside down and rightside up, as roofing/accents on the houses. It really adds a cool dimension to the house, making it look less.. cubey
An example of the stairs as an accent, my Super Tropical Adventure series:
So, I recently started a new survival world and after playing for about 2 hours I realized that my simple square wood plank house is a bit... Lame.
So does anyone have any good (cheap) ways to make my house look great without many resources?
I've got practically unlimited Wood, Cobble, Dirt, Stone, and Sand.
And I'm starting a farm with Sugar Cane, so I'll be able to have plenty bookshelves soon.
Also feel free to share your cool survival houses!
For starters, try to break up the monotony using different colors. If you're not into design, simple straight lines vertically and horizontally can do the job well for a small house.
The bottom layer of the house gets a ring of cobblestone all round, then each corner and around the door we put in logs to signify support beams. This effectively break up the surface into distinct areas.
Then build a roof using half-steps or full steps. Try to avoid letting the roof merge flush with your wall, so in this case we start the roofing with full steps on top-most row of the wall.
The side would have been a straight wall flush to the top of the roof, but nobody said it has to stay that way.
The two thin lines in the roof is created by an inverted full-stair. To invert a full stair, it must first have another block above so you can "stick" the stair to the bottom of the block above.
The back of the house looks like this:
First note how the windows is higher and to the side. You don't always have to have a perfectly symmetrical house. This placement of the window is good to signify the air vents of a working area, like a kitchen. So you would put down the furnace and brewing stand in this corner under the window panes. The middle column of log could very well have not been there, I was just experimenting.
Then I thought since the roof was tall enough to have space inside, we might as well make use of it as a storeroom for extra chests, so I took out part of the roof, added stairs up and a door, then use the fences to avoid having stairs hanging in mid-air.
The attic looks like this:
I put in a bed for my friend Creeper who likes to visit now and then. I can't let her sleep over in the house because she gets excited when she sees me and boy that was a mess I had to clean up the last time.
PS: By leaving this attic unlit, monsters will spawn inside and you end up really having visitors. It was fun.
You should make a house out of concrete with windows without glass if you want but to make i more interesting make it like a church but not a church
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Thank you so much for the detailed and quick response! I am totally going to do this tomorrow when I get the chance!!
But I think I'll add a sign saying "Honoring zfz" ;P
Edit - Another thing I've been doing lately is using stairs, both upside down and rightside up, as roofing/accents on the houses. It really adds a cool dimension to the house, making it look less.. cubey
An example of the stairs as an accent, my Super Tropical Adventure series: