Why You Need a House in Minecraft
If you’re playing in survival mode, Minecraft is a dangerous place. Zombies, skeletons, and exploding Creepers come out as soon as it gets dark, so your very first task in the game is to create a place where you can survive the night. Once you’ve built your initial house, you’ll also want to place a bed to set your spawn point, add chests to store things, and install valuable tools like a Crafting Table, Brewing Stand, Anvil, and Enchanting Table.
Materials for Your First House
Here are the materials you’ll need to make your first house:
Material to build the house from (dirt, stone, or wood) Torches to light your home (crafted from sticks and charcoal or coal) A door (crafted from six wood planks) Glass for windows (made from sand in a Furnace)
The door and glass are optional for your initial house. If you’re running out of time, and it’s almost night, all you need is a hole dug in the ground or a simple dirt shack and some torches to light up the interior. If you have a door and glass for windows, you’ll have an easier time seeing when it’s safe to go back outside.
How to Build a House in Minecraft
Here’s how to build a basic house in Minecraft:
How to Improve Your House in Minecraft
While a basic dirt shack lit with torches is good enough to get you by, you’ll need to add things like a bed and crafting table to make that house a home. You can also use materials like stone or wood to make your house look better, and add advanced tools such as a brewers stand, anvil, and enchanting table to make helpful gear for your adventures. If you want, you can even build an entrance to your mine right into your house. To complete your house, you’ll need these materials:
Stone or wood to replace the dirt.Bed (crafted from three wool and three wood planks)Crafting table (crafted from four wood planks)Furnace (crafted from eight cobblestones)Stairs (crafted from planks)A door (crafted from planks)Glass panes (crafted from glass, which is made from sand)
The exact process you take to improve your house will depend on your imagination and preferences, but here’s a general process you can follow:
How to Add More Usefulness to Your Minecraft House
At this point, your house is functional, and it even looks pretty nice from the outside. However, there are a lot of other things you can add to make it even more helpful. You’ll need to build a bigger house to fit everything in, though, or dig down and make yourself a basement. If you have stairs left over from building your roof, they make it easy to traverse between floors in your house and also look great. Other valuable things for your house:
Chest (crafted from wood planks) Anvil (crafted from three iron blocks and four iron ingots) Brewers Stand (crafted from one blaze rod and three cobblestones) Enchanting Table (crafted from one book, two diamonds, and four obsidian) Bookshelves (crafted from books and wood planks)
Once you’ve accumulated the materials to finish up your house, here’s how to do it:
