Housing Ideas.

Wood or Cobblestone houses seem to be the easiest to build, but brick houses look far better in my oppinion. As for housing options, I prefer to have a simple squar design of a house, and build upwards for floors. The upper floors could be accessed by using ladders(which i prefer) or manmade staircase systems.

After building upwards(or instead of building upwards) building out through the sides is another option. In one of my previous worlds I made a house that was simple, and put a poolhouse on the right side, and a greenhouse on the left side of it.

Fill your house with the necessities: Work bench, furnace, and chests. For a fair ammount of each, I prefer to have 1 or two workbenches per floor, 1, 2, 4, or 8 furnaces total, and double chests that are specifically used for various things. I use one double chest as a food storage and material storage. Another chest I have is a tool shed, and then a possible other could be a general chest for the mismatched items you come across.

You could make a house, where the entrance to it is an Oblivion gate.

One word....."Fortress"

Seriously, you'd like a buffer between you and the enemies. After all, if a gorram creeper is hissing behind you, you don't want it to destroy the main part of the building, but rather the walls at most.

This is an incomplete version of my house (well, I never really completed it, per-se, but I did flesh out the steps down, making them actual steps and much wider and whatnot.


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It was the first I actually built, actually. So I think, considering, it turned out alright.

Well, what I like to do is to make a moat of lava, maybe 10 blocks across, Then, I craft a decoy house, with obsidian inner walls, and a staircase leading underground to a maze, with 19 paths, all of them incorrect, then, I build my house in midair.

I usasually just make a underground home, so I don't have to worry about outside looks.

because I am very parninoid, I usually build an elalborate system of mazes to hide my chests and such

Sometimes, I cover the top of my house with grass and trees, so it doesn't show up on the map.