Once you have collected the materials and selected a location, you can follow these steps to start the building process for your Minecraft house.
Step 1: Build Walls
Much like a real-world house, you first need to build walls that your Minecraft house stands upon. Other than the main four walls, you can construct as many rooms as you want. But don’t forget to leave openings for doors or windows. You simply need to place the blocks and stack them as high as you want the ceiling of your house to be.
Step 2: Add Doors & Windows
Once you have constructed the walls, you can use wood to make doors and glass panes as windows. Using a single door or a double door is your choice. Hostile mobs can’t open either of them. As for the windows, some players leave them open without any glass. But it is an open invitation to mobs like skeletons that can attack you from a distance.
Step 3: Expand the House
After creating the basic structure, it’s time for you to add more practical elements and areas like rooms, roofs, and more to the house in Minecraft. Many players opt for multiple rooms but going for separate floors adds a certain aesthetic to your house. Just don’t forget to add a ladder or stairs to climb onto that floor. Alternatively, you can use this stage to customize your house with personal design elements and unique shapes.
Step 4: Light It Up
It is true that a house in Minecraft stops hostile mobs from reaching you, but that doesn’t stop these hostile mobs from spawning inside the house. To safeguard your casa against them, you need to add various light sources inside your house. Torches are the most popular option, but you can also go for glowstone, lanterns, and other light sources. Some players even place light sources around and on top of the house for extra protection.
Step 5: Add Basic Amenities
After your house structure is ready, it’s time to furnish it. You can have a variety of items in the Minecraft house you build. However, here are some must-haves:
- Bed to set spawn point
- At least one chest
- A source of food, preferably a basic farm that you can use to plant seeds and grow crops
- Crafting Table
Farm - Auto
Automated farms require extensive knowledge of not just farming, but other complex items such as hoppers, comparators, powered rails, and redstone. Automated wheat farms are among the most common, but you can apply the technique to most other crops.
There are dozens of different ways to build an automated farm in Minecraft, but here's a quick overview of how it works (using wheat as an example):
- You'll first need to craft your automated collection system. This is typically the size of a standard farm (that is, a 9x9 grid) and consists of a hopper minecart and a powered rail system that's run using redstone. At the beginning of the rail, position a chest so any wheat it picks up will be deposited when it returns.
- Move up a layer and build your actual farm above the collection system. For our example, this will be a 9x9 grid with a single tile of water at the center - which is itself on top of a bottom half slab. Till the soil with a hoe and plant your wheat.
- Build a wall around three sides of your farm.
- Bring a villager to your farm, then build the fourth wall – effectively trapping them in place. Give them wheat seeds to fill their pockets.
- Put a composter on top of the tile of water.
- Add a few torches to the walls of your automated farm, and your basic setup is complete!