I've been looking for a good house material. I would have done bricks but when I went to get the clay, the deposit was gone. So, anybody know a good house material?
My current house is pretty terrible. Made out of cobblestone. Ugh it's bad.
You should make your house out of various materials like logs, wood planks, stone, and cobblestone. Those are the most common. Wool would also make a good carpet.
I've been looking for a good house material. I would have done bricks but when I went to get the clay, the deposit was gone. So, anybody know a good house material?
My current house is pretty terrible. Made out of cobblestone. Ugh it's bad.
It sort of depends on what your primary concerns are. I think combinations of different materials produce the most attractive results visually.
If creeper blasts are what is concerning you, then cobblestone and smooth stone (smelted cobblestone) are among the strongest blocks to use, along with the manufactured blocks of ores generally made from 9 ingots each (e.g. iron blocks) and the bricks you were intending to use. Sand, dirt and clay blocks are among the weakest, with sandstone and wool being only slightly stronger, and wood falling somewhere in between, and wooden planks being slightly stronger than the raw wood. Glass is weaker still.
I like the look of sandstone, so my current house is built of a combination of sandstone and wood. To compensate for it's blast weakness, I built a well lit cobblestone basement that I use for storage (and also made very sure that I have no shallow caves or holes for several layers under the house). In addition, I have a cobblestone wall with my yard raised such that, from the house, it looks like a 1-block high garden wall. From the outside though, it looks more like a 4-block high castle wall with a lip on it so that spiders can't climb it. It doesn't actually look that bad from a distance since the house appears to tower above the wall.
I do also keep the area between the house and garden wall all extremely well lit so that hostile mobs don't spawn there. Since I've left some patches of lawn, pigs and other passive mobs do spawn inside my yard quite frequently.
i have a nice layout i made up based on other designs with stone slabs as floors and coble or wood as small part of wall but mostly glass as walls looks awesome and unfoutrently my only good looking design
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I've been looking for a good house material. I would have done bricks but when I went to get the clay, the deposit was gone. So, anybody know a good house material?
My current house is pretty terrible. Made out of cobblestone. Ugh it's bad.
well frankly cobble is frankly a really good thing cause u know it cant be burned and **** yea it doesnt alway look the greatest but you know
Thanks. I ended up making it out of wood planks with wooden stairs and normal wood as the roof, and the inside has some red wool as carpet. It ended up looking pretty good.
IMO, the best among the building materials are stone slabs, wood planks, and cobble/ smooth stone. Don't just stick with one, but add them all together in appropriate places. I use the slabs for pillars, exterior detail, roofing, and countertops. The wood plank can look good in conjunction with cobble or stone, especially for outlining or striping around the house or around windows. I'd use stairs for the roof, if necessary. You can also use cobble slabs for a more-detailed texture on the exterior.
I'm particularly fond of using cobble stone for a foundation with white wool walls and raw wood supports. The roof is wooden planks and the chimney is cobble. It's reminiscent of some of the older home I saw while in Germany. I'll usually put the bed in the loft space and dig a basement lines in cobble or stone, depending on what's already down there. I, also, like mining out houses slightly under the surface and putting a nice "face" on them. Whenever I want more space, I just mine out another room. Sandstone and smooth stone are an attractive pairing and so is sandstone and stone half slabs. It really depends on what you're after in your home. Defensive structures are different than a nice house to look at.
BTW, I like cobble and don't see anything wrong with using it if you like it too. There are a lot of interesting things you can do with it, especially if you're after a quick, safe build.
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My current house is pretty terrible. Made out of cobblestone. Ugh it's bad.
It sort of depends on what your primary concerns are. I think combinations of different materials produce the most attractive results visually.
If creeper blasts are what is concerning you, then cobblestone and smooth stone (smelted cobblestone) are among the strongest blocks to use, along with the manufactured blocks of ores generally made from 9 ingots each (e.g. iron blocks) and the bricks you were intending to use. Sand, dirt and clay blocks are among the weakest, with sandstone and wool being only slightly stronger, and wood falling somewhere in between, and wooden planks being slightly stronger than the raw wood. Glass is weaker still.
I like the look of sandstone, so my current house is built of a combination of sandstone and wood. To compensate for it's blast weakness, I built a well lit cobblestone basement that I use for storage (and also made very sure that I have no shallow caves or holes for several layers under the house). In addition, I have a cobblestone wall with my yard raised such that, from the house, it looks like a 1-block high garden wall. From the outside though, it looks more like a 4-block high castle wall with a lip on it so that spiders can't climb it. It doesn't actually look that bad from a distance since the house appears to tower above the wall.
I do also keep the area between the house and garden wall all extremely well lit so that hostile mobs don't spawn there. Since I've left some patches of lawn, pigs and other passive mobs do spawn inside my yard quite frequently.
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I also have a TV, sofa and chair, as well as wall-mounted TV upstairs in the bedroom. LOL!
-Make a pattern EX: Wooden Plank x2 Cobblestone x1
BTW, I like cobble and don't see anything wrong with using it if you like it too. There are a lot of interesting things you can do with it, especially if you're after a quick, safe build.
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