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caves all day!

I usually play survival on hard, so I enjoy building my own islands, and I usually just want it on the edge of 2 biomes. Just for the resource difference.

wow nobody prefers middle of the map? i always build a big home base within about 40 blocks of the center of the map and 90% of the time on some type of waterway so i can have a dock and use boats to reach other areas of the map easily. any biome in the middle with water access.

You folks must live in warm climates. It's snowing here. It's not pretty, it's annoying after the 150th inch for the season falls and it ain't even the end of February yet.

I like Swamp or Forest, with Plains as a 3rd choice.

Desert, lived in Vegas I'm over that. Taiga, I live in Montana kinda over that too.

I miss actual rain, and I get to see that in my game

Extreme hills.

I love mountains with a body a water nearby.
I'm into terraforming by hand so I enjoy making waterfalls and terraces along the mountain side.

One biome I absolutely hate is the desert... It's so plain and boring. I also don't like that when you try to transfer grass over sand it turns ash-green... Same with swamps but at least the environment it not so plain.

Either in a taiga, tundra, or on top of a mountain.

I do consider myself to be quite a dwarf when it comes to Minecraft though. I rarely build much on the surface other than a small house or something. The rest of my buildings go deep underground.

I build next to the spawn but ONLY if its a forest. I don't care about the rain. I want the first thing to show people is my house.

I almost always just find a nice hill, dig into it, and transform it into a home.

Either that or find a village, take over the largest house, and expand it... usually by taking down the small huts in the village.

LOL! A lot of hate for rain! I personally love the rain in Minecraft and in real life! Especially the thunder and lightning! The area I like to set up home is around TREES! I gotta have trees. Need a plentiful amount of wood and sticks. My secondary home probably is in a snow biome.

I love the new look of swamps. The water and the grass can make almost anything look instantly awesome. So that's my biome of choice.

In the side of a small hill.
Then I keep building down.
Although I'd like to build pretty buildings I just never seem to get around to it.

Mostly swamps, I like to take down all of the trees and line up the ground afterward.
And its weird cause you said "home base" thats exactly what i call it xD.

Swamps for me too, very easy to control early in game, island can easily be flattened and expanded. I look for one with a good size island that's not to difficult for me to sink the surroundings of around 128 blocks for each corner of my island. I'm all about high efficiency farms, and for that I 'MUST' have control over my surroundings. Swamps make this so much more easier then any other biome save a ocean biome with few islands scattered about.

With a island in hand and at least 128 blocks from next land I have secured and can build happily without fear of crap being blown up. Next goal is to level the sea bed to 1 block deep and hollow out 128 x 128 blocks to make sure all caves are gone in the area, this makes my mob (both passive and aggressive) farms work to peek efficiency.

i like the swamp biome. plenty to build with/ eat, always have mobs to fight when it gets to the point where sleeping is less fun than staying up all IG night patrolling your perimeter for mobs.

that and my current mansion is parked a ways from a nearby body of water.

i just enjoy it.

maybe one day the green biomes iwll get crickets. ~gasp~ maybe the swamp biome can get ribbits! :DD

Personally, I prefer snow biomes. For one purpose. Getting rid of that annoying rain sound. I hate it with a passion. The bad thing is, I didn't know I hated it until one of those miraculous (<_<) biome shifts turned the biome my entire house is in into a snow biome. No clue if it's a taiga or tundra, because I haven't checked the new version of the seed. My second favourite is a forest, right on the edge of a river, or a mountain high in the sky.

If none of the above are, for some odd reason, unavailable, I build "Midgar" (Final Fantasy fans will know what I mean) in the sky.

I like the swamp.

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When the Jungles come to the Xbox edition I plan on building a village on top of the tree tops, something I've always been wanting to do.

Yup me too. I want to make an entire village up in the tree tops connected by wooden bridges with vines dangling from them. I fell in love with the idea after playing Knights of the Old Republic and visiting Kashyyyk.

I tend to build my base near a large village, preferably one with either a river or the ocean nearby. I like to wall off the villages and build myself a nice house within the perimeter nearest the water. I don't mind having to travel a bit for my first pieces of wood as I stick around to gather saplings and try to get a tree farm started by the end of the first day.
I tend to avoid mountains as they are hard to build the kinds of sprawling structures i like, and i hardly ever build in any snowy biome as that layer of snow that gathers annoys me. I like to to town squares with fancy patterns in the walkway, which you can't see after a good snow or two.

i prefer dessert. i usually build in a dessert near a village. its a good land mark when u have no map. also i try to locate a nearby forest. grab some trees and dirt and make a tree farm. also make room for a wheat farm. and sugarcane if i can find it.