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I always play survival mode. I mostly use dirt and cobblestone.

Snow. I love the look of a Snow house.

I really like that barn pic; that is a nice barn. Mine end up smaller, but with a touch of fancy.


I don't remember, but think I mentioned in this very thread that I usually build with the land. Build as I go. I get inspiration from what I see, as I attempt each time to make a kingdom. I mainly use spruce as the accent/support of buildings when it suits them. Otherwise I use another color tone for such depending on where I build.

If I were to make a town from scratch I can guarantee each building with look different, even if a slight variation of another. They will not be row housing, as that is not how I build. Building in the moment is the reason for this.

I start with spruce usually marking where I want the corners of the rooms and walls to meet, then have a stone type for the bottom layer at least. Next I build up the walls with what ever planks would be fitting or match in contrast. After that I either work on the roof of the house (usually spruce roof, but that depends on where I built it), or the interior house, which I usually use jungle stairs/slabs to make the crown of the interior walls. Oak usually is the ceiling, but I would use what ever seems fitting.

I will use a combo of punpkins and trap doors embeded in the roof to shine light down into the rooms where possible (Not so much on a 2+ story building, as the only one I would be able to do that with is the top floor. The rest is a filler block as I make the roof. I make that in a few different styles, usually an asian looking one or two.

I finish off with fence, as I build in an asian like style into the build. This usually on the outside over the wall draping down in a curvy fashion, or what ever looks good for that particular building. Each building has its' own way to do the roof and the fence mesh I put on it. There is even more final touches I do to the base of the building, usually stone brick or stone stairs to accent the base outward, sometimes I even have a combo of spruce slabs, stone brick stairs, & jungle stairs in case the underside of the building is slightly in view.

That last bit is something I been doing with my newest village, as I am doing that one from scratch, working with the land. Most cases though I have function or purpose for each building I do build; otherwise it is meant as a visual decor to add to the area in order to make it look nice or even seemingly function for the populous.

I will not ever run out of ideas as it being the land that gives me quite a few ideas. That and I have an overactive imagination combined with being easily entertained.

the only thing I have pics of are some earlier work that I go back to every so often....Arcavia and my other map...

In creative I made an old abandonded castle out of Mossy brick. I made a dungeon with just stairs and some of the walk ways up top were not complete( because it was old, it was supposed to be decayed). I also grew a TON of trees around it so that it looks over grown.
Another nice feature was an iron door that couldn't open, again due to age. You had to climb vines to get up top to get in. Really liked how it came out.. although the inside is kind of bland for now.

Clay bricks definitely. Hard to get though. I've already cleared out my swamp of clay and it's getting harder to find.

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Clay bricks definitely. Hard to get though. I've already cleared out my swamp of clay and it's getting harder to find.

The swamp stuff is easy to spot, with all the shallow water. But do you have ocean biomes? I needed a ton of bricks for a building and went deep sea clay fishing. Wore a helmet with Respiration III and Aqua Affinity and used a Silk Touch shovel to keep the clay in blocks to conserve space, and also avoid losing little clay bits here and there. Came back loaded with clay and squid ink. Tons of XP in clay smelting, too.

Do you/anyone know if clay reappears in the world over time?

Don't think it does. Once they're gone they're gone. I have one ocean biome and I didn't think to look there. That's an impressive gear list that you use. I just use a potion of night vision and take an empty bucket with me. The potion lets you see really clearly underwater and I can use the bucket as SCUBA gear to stay underwater.

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I always play survival mode. I mostly use dirt and cobblestone.

That doesn't mean you can't expand. I guess if you're new to the game, thats okay. But try looking into some other materials. Even wooden planks would make it look better.

Another unique look is having your floor made up of crafting tables. Looks pretty cool.

I found that light can go through carpet. I use either glowstone or redstone lanterns on the floor with carpet on top of them to give a cool lighted look with out seeing all those torches everywhere.

I don't recall what I did when I first played MC, but since returning to it:

When I started playing again, I would start out building a ground floor, usually out of stone walls and wood floors and roofs, then with a basement, or two. I was really into stone for my walls for a while there. In my basements I liked to carve out squares in the stone two spaces deep and then place dyed wool one space deep for create colored patterns in the stone walls.

In creative mode I try to use everything, just to make myself be more creative and so I don't feel like I'm building the same thing over and over. I'm particularly proud of the suburban style ranch house I built in my superflat world out of pink wool and netherbrick (I felt I needed to build a pink house at least once) and a 2-story wood and glass house that's built completely inside a surrounding cyan wool pool and has a snow roof (the only time I've used snow for building anythng beside an emergency igloo). My latest house in my superflat world uses the reddish clay in the city texture pack with the light grey wool for a twist on the usual MC modern house design.

But in survival I've gotten tired of trying to collect less common materials and so I mainly just use wood and try to be as aesthetic and creative as I can. I like using fence in place of glass as most hostile mobs can't see you through them. In one game I have a very open, airy tree house that's all jungle wood planks, ladders and fence, with a couple of rooms that have glass block skylights in the ceiling. In my lastest survival game I have a wooden fishing hut and dock based off Keralis' fishing hut, and next to it I have a wooden bridge crossing the river made of birch wood planks, slabs and fence. Then I built a 4-room farmhouse nearby with oak wood, birch wood planks and fence with a 3-block wall around it (2 blocks of sandstone and 1 bock of fence on top) to help keep mobs away.

In survival: Start of with a small noob shack made of cobble and whatever kind of wood I find on the first night. As time passes I usually expand the house and replace the walls with nicer looking materials.

In Creative: Whatever feels right.

I like to use underground spaces combined with surface areas to create my homes. I do this usually using stone and sometimes wood. I use wood mostly for sticks though, so I usually always use cobblestone. I will mine inside a cave which is connected to my home instead of separating the two because it's more convenient and safe.

I start of with wood in the beginning since it's the easiest obtainable block in the beginning, then I eventually upgrade to a cobblestone house with glass, and then I focus on minor things, like decorating and making more floors.

Whatever the most abundant material is. Usually wood or cobble stone.

I use oak planks for the frame, walls, and ceiling of my houses, and then use birch planks for the floors and spruce planks for the roofing. Gives it a nice color variation without looking tacky.