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I Use Wood and Stone, but I wanted to hear what everyone else uses

Whatever I want.

If you're talking about a house for your first few nights, I tend to just dig a hole in the ground. Otherwise I like igloos and (usually stone) castles to make my home in.

I like using stone brick or nether brick once I get established.

Stone and wood.

Cobblestone, Oak Wood and Oak Wood planks at the start, then Stone Brick, Iron bars/Doors, and Stone slabs.

Lava blocks

Stone bricks for the main building. Also use wool and sand based stuff alot.

My temp buildings I make out of leaves when out on mining/exploration trips. That way, just tap it with flint and steel and walk away.

Wood is always a good building block to use, especially now since the update added all types of wood planks. Plus it's easy to get and looks good

Wood and a few other materials.

The few other materials I use depends on what is nearby and easy to obtain, as well what I want it to look like.

Usually though fences go into most my buildings.:D

Everything.. then i change my mind and go back to stone bricks/moss/cracked.

Current house is Spruce logs, planks, and glass.

I've used everything in the game with the exception of unobtainable blocks.
I have mushroom block houses, End homes, wood, stone, one designes like a Stronghold...heck, I even made a Furnace house!

Quote from trencheel303

Just about anything. I once built a very large house using snow blocks for the outside, and a mixture of dark wood and sandstone on the inside.



I've found you can use almost any block providing it has recognisable real world context.

That's nothing though, I also built a scale model of battersea power station almost entirely out of brick - but it's the closest block Minecraft has to its real world resemblance and so looks perfectly fine:

Those are awesome builds.

I find myself using cobblestone to get myself set up due to its abundance and durability while I amass resources. Then I'll start replacing my windows with glass panes, my cobblestone with stone brick, using oak wood stairs for a roof and Spruce wood logs at the corners.

7×5 oak planks, cobble corners, nether brick stair roof, glass pane windows, it makes a charming little house, usually with a secret wizard basement XD

Man you guys always put me to shame. I usually only play on survival so I just build out of wood and sometimes stone. I did build a legit obsidian castle. That really made me rise on the minecraft block mining leaderboards, lol!

I do believe I am going to make an actual creative world and then just go to town on it.

Mostly play survival so tend to build with whatever is conveniently to hand. I do like building with sandstone, and once made quite a nice house out of giant mushrooms grown next to each other and linked. Looked quite cute at night lit up. I don't like building with glass, especially big builds, I find it quite confusing and keep finding gaps where I missed a block.

Deviating slightly, wouldn't it be nice if we could have bigger doors, so for example putting a door on top of another door would make a door four blocks high. Would be ideal for grand castle entrances, etc.

In Survival I mostly use cobblestone and whatever kind of wood happens to be available. Eventually I upgrade to stone bricks, use different types of wood for accentuation. I find stone bricks + spruce, oak, and birch wood makes for a decent-looking home.

In Creative mode I'll use anything. My favourite stone blocks are mossy, so those tend to be used. I use wood planks for flooring; having 'carpet' (via wool) just looks wrong to me in Minecraft.

I use wood for my houses most of the time.