I've been curious as to what everyones best secret bases are. YOu see for me it's an addiction. I love making hidden places, form underocean bases, to pond-hidden bases. To making GIANT empty useless structures with one hidden entrance somewhere around the entrance. Most bases I hold one rule... I implant a TNT killswitch, my philosophy, if it's secret and someone else can find it, it shouldn't be allowed to exist. So I even let people repeatedly go to the base and then when I'm sure they've found it, I'll put a redstone torch on the wall that will start the detination... and then leave. Other bases I have fake pitfall traps that lead to the secret base itself, the only way out being a nether portal. Others they have legitimate traps galor, ie iron door with pitfall button or a piston collapsing room/hallway that gradually gets smaller until suffocation or the fear is put in and a 1x2 hallway is left leaving them filled with the worry or excitement of whats next.
How about you guys?
My best one has to be this one hidden in a giant tree, where you find the entrance via redstone powered piston with a wood block. You take a ladder down but there is about 16 different rooms all linked. many with jack o lanterns. Then some with knee-high arrow traps. BUt hidden beneath some pillars and even the walls are routes to three different hidden areas, that are basically bases themselves. the grandest having jack o lanterns lighting the path. 6 picture entrances, hidden rooms within hidden rooms, an enchantment room with a secret base beneath the enchantment table. A giant swimming pool with two secret rooms in the pool. then a literally fake puzzle to make people think they'd open something. But the only fear is someday I will have to blow this base up... which might actually crash my world O-O.
I don't make secret bases because they are useless
Edit: If you're wondering why I think that is because there isn't any point in Single Player, and people will find your base no matter what you do in Multi-Player (X-rayers, chunk errors, accidentally mining into it, etc.)
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That'd be an interesting base for an adventure mode map.
Most of my fortresses/homes/bases are rather obvious and aren't hidden, but I recently created an underwater fortress that is almost completely hidden. I built it into an underwater mountain that was only a few blocks below the surface to start. Cut down and into the middle of it, closed off the top and proceeded to hollow it out. Broke through to an underwater dungeon and just incorporated it into the build. Seven or eight rooms, lots of fountains running through the place, things like that.
Haven't put much in it yet, but I'm still in the design and build phase.
I have a secret base on my private server, and it takes a while to get there (the route I took). At the end there is a stash of Golden Apples (pre-dual-apples) I put in for no reason. The secret path (no longer secret!):
The huge castle I built, mostly without WorldEdit, but the base wasn't WorldEdited, so it shouldn't count as made with mods.
I don't usually make hidden bases, but I tend to keep my redstone labs hidden by secret doors and such to keep people from derping into my experiments.
For server I'm currently on, though, I plan to have trials (puzzle/trap/parkour dungeons) of various difficulties hidden throughout the complex. The final one, which I plan to be the hardest, will be hidden in a dark cathedral hidden somewhere in the Nether. ^^
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"I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like,
'What is beauty?', because that would fall within the purview of your
conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems."
A base in the middle of the ocean is probably the closest thing to a secret base I've made. I don't light it up or anything. Just remember the coordinates and sink to the bottom.
or a piston collapsing room/hallway that gradually gets smaller until suffocation or the fear is put in and a 1x2 hallway is left leaving them filled with the worry or excitement of whats next.
This sounds incredibly interesting. How did you get that to work? I'm an absolute rookie when it comes to pistons.
I don't make secret bases because they are useless
It's like a game for me. It's way too easy to build a regular old base, so I like to throw in this little added challenge: would I be safe from the Puppetmaster here? I don't do it all the time of course, but it adds a little extra fun when I do. It's no different from building only with "authentic" materials, or forgoing convenient tricks of the game like blocking water off with signs, it's just an extra difficulty to surmount.
My preferred location is generally in a ravine at the bottom of a very distant ocean, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to open the door. I use piston doors made with unassuming blocks so the place is invisible when sealed, but that leaves a major problem: you can't actually close the door from outside the base. Or if you do, you can only get back in by tunnelling. I suspect there might be a way to activate redstone on the other side of a wall without anything obvious like a button, lever, or pressure plate, but heck if I know what it is...
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the base I plan to make is a sky base way up near the height limit so people can barely see it, and then duplicate the ground as my roof so that mini-mappers cant see my base up in the sky and they'll just think they're seeing the ground lol
the base I plan to make is a sky base way up near the height limit so people can barely see it, and then duplicate the ground as my roof so that mini-mappers cant see my base up in the sky and they'll just think they're seeing the ground lol
This wont work with me because i have Optifinewhich allows greater render distance to 4x the amount of far. I can run it so your gona be sorry!
A base in the middle of the ocean is probably the closest thing to a secret base I've made. I don't light it up or anything. Just remember the coordinates and sink to the bottom.
This sounds incredibly interesting. How did you get that to work? I'm an absolute rookie when it comes to pistons.
Pistons, redstone repeaters, pressure plates, and gravel.
Thats actually an awesome base XD. I have yet toeven start farsm outside of mushroom, tree, cobblestone, and animal XD
How about you guys?
My best one has to be this one hidden in a giant tree, where you find the entrance via redstone powered piston with a wood block. You take a ladder down but there is about 16 different rooms all linked. many with jack o lanterns. Then some with knee-high arrow traps. BUt hidden beneath some pillars and even the walls are routes to three different hidden areas, that are basically bases themselves. the grandest having jack o lanterns lighting the path. 6 picture entrances, hidden rooms within hidden rooms, an enchantment room with a secret base beneath the enchantment table. A giant swimming pool with two secret rooms in the pool. then a literally fake puzzle to make people think they'd open something. But the only fear is someday I will have to blow this base up... which might actually crash my world O-O.
Edit: If you're wondering why I think that is because there isn't any point in Single Player, and people will find your base no matter what you do in Multi-Player (X-rayers, chunk errors, accidentally mining into it, etc.)
I am ninja'd far too often.
That'd be an interesting base for an adventure mode map.
Most of my fortresses/homes/bases are rather obvious and aren't hidden, but I recently created an underwater fortress that is almost completely hidden. I built it into an underwater mountain that was only a few blocks below the surface to start. Cut down and into the middle of it, closed off the top and proceeded to hollow it out. Broke through to an underwater dungeon and just incorporated it into the build. Seven or eight rooms, lots of fountains running through the place, things like that.
Haven't put much in it yet, but I'm still in the design and build phase.
Which will be flooded with insanity!
But yeah good point I should make an adventure map with my hidden base XD
For server I'm currently on, though, I plan to have trials (puzzle/trap/parkour dungeons) of various difficulties hidden throughout the complex. The final one, which I plan to be the hardest, will be hidden in a dark cathedral hidden somewhere in the Nether. ^^
"I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like,
'What is beauty?', because that would fall within the purview of your
conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems."
But I also hide redstone labs XD, I have alibrary lined with redstone. You hit the wrong button... it'll b e a cold day in hell.
This sounds incredibly interesting. How did you get that to work? I'm an absolute rookie when it comes to pistons.
A nice little feature you can add for your hidden bases.
It's like a game for me. It's way too easy to build a regular old base, so I like to throw in this little added challenge: would I be safe from the Puppetmaster here? I don't do it all the time of course, but it adds a little extra fun when I do. It's no different from building only with "authentic" materials, or forgoing convenient tricks of the game like blocking water off with signs, it's just an extra difficulty to surmount.
My preferred location is generally in a ravine at the bottom of a very distant ocean, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to open the door. I use piston doors made with unassuming blocks so the place is invisible when sealed, but that leaves a major problem: you can't actually close the door from outside the base. Or if you do, you can only get back in by tunnelling. I suspect there might be a way to activate redstone on the other side of a wall without anything obvious like a button, lever, or pressure plate, but heck if I know what it is...
This wont work with me because i have Optifinewhich allows greater render distance to 4x the amount of far. I can run it so your gona be sorry!
Pistons, redstone repeaters, pressure plates, and gravel.
Thats actually an awesome base XD. I have yet toeven start farsm outside of mushroom, tree, cobblestone, and animal XD