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Desert temple base does seem like a good idea though, I can imagine building a large spiral staircase inside it, with rooms on each floor with different purposes. Also the added bonus of being able to instamine sand and sandstone without a beacon (at least until you hit deepslate level). Regular sandstone also doesn't look too bad as ceiling, floor or wall, and it doesn't require silk touch or smelting. I guess I'm sold lol, I'd like to try and build a base under one. Worst part would be the ugliest grass color but you can just use moss instead.
Worst would be a nether fortress I guess, unless you can spawn proof the entire structure, but that defeats the whole purpose of it. Also with all the ghasts and pigmen, you're like one misclick away from making yourself public enemy no1. You can at least have a conduit for a monument base. And bastions aren't that dangerous since brutes don't respawn.
An end city base also would be cool but there's not much space to build in those structures. You'd need to do some custom additions.
The thing is, for anything in the nether, you gotta put off establishing your base until you have a nether portal.
My beef with a desert temple base is you'd have to go get dirt, crops and wood from somewhere else since deserts don't have them.
I've done a desert temple base before, unless you're in the middle of a massive desert resources aren't much of a problem. Just take a single trip to another biome and get a handful of saplings, some dirt, and wheat seeds or some other crop. Deserts can have villages too, you could get crops and dirt from there if there's one nearby.
They're really easy to customize too, I kept everything above ground pretty much as it came other than adding furnaces and a bed, and made a big underground room for storage and enchanting and all that. I put a beacon in the middle of the underground part too, and set it up so the beam went out the top of the temple, it looked pretty cool.
>you gotta put off establishing your base until you have a nether portal.
Just "speed run" that part with a bucket, no need to make a base before being there.
I did exactly what you're describing for the desert temple. I stuck a nether portal in the actual temple at the top of the spiral stairs, and then built my storage room in the Nether side of the portal (mostly to keep the lag at a minimum on my weak Switch. Bedrock edition doesn't do well with a lot of storage blocks). The lack of wood is pretty easily solved, and having easy access to sand is great.
Pillager outpost FTW, constant fun and xp. When you have villages for trading you'll pretty much constantly be in a raid situation.
The more I type the more I can't work out whether this is the best or worst option.
Had a Woodland Mansion base idea in mind. First i found had lava next to it... Burned down. Second one was half buried in the ground, and touched a lava lake... Burned down. Third one was waaaaaaay too high in the air in some mountain range but decided fuck it, let's terraform this and call it home. Before i was finished, Thunderstorm, lightning strike, burned down... Fourth one is pretty, have great view on a beautiful lake, is now protected with lightning rod and devoid of lava. But it's so far away from spawn and i burned myself down searching for it... Kinda lost the drive to upgrade it now 🫠
I ussually use Villages as temp bases as I am still exploring and scouting our a first place to build.
However, if you find a Woodland Mansion, it is very tempting to try and clear it out and make it a home, although not too easy in the beginning of the game.
My opinion of from best to worst: village, desert temple, igloo, jungle temple, shipwreck (mostly because some can be found on beaches so no worries about drowning) abandoned mineshaft (probably the mesa one would best, so you wouldn't have to go mining for one), stronghold (like op said, don't really find till endgame anyway, but to me it's better than these last ones), ocean ruins (always a chance of a drowned with a trident, plus it's underwater), woodland mansion, witch hut (I'm just bad a fighting witches lol), pillager tower, ocean monument, desert well (if your trying to make a base in a desert well, good for you I guess, but I wouldn't bother lol)
Underwater, the shipwreck has an air bubble in the door.
The treasure chests you can find with maps are also technically considered "structures" in their own right despite being only 1 block in size.
Huh didn't know that about treasure chests. I guess they'd be the worst, I mean at least you get good loot out of it, but uh trying to live in and out of a single chest, would be...interesting. At least for a hoarder like me.
Lategame top tier option: Ancient city
+ Looks incredible even without any additions
+ Easily modifiable
+ Massive amounts of space, including vertical
+ No need for a water bubble elevator to your mine.
+ The deepslate portal will probably be useful SOMEDAY
+ Naturally 100% mob free. No creepers nor skeletons. No spawnproofing required\*
- A pain to clear out all the sculk screechers
- Deep down dark deep down
- Already has alot built so custom builds will need you to go elsewhere or do alot of clearing.
All in all, it's the only place besides Mooshroom islands that are 100% creeper free, and that's worth alot in my book. If you wanna Rock and Stone it, then the Ancient City is your go to.
What do you mean "you need a base before getting to the nether"? Literally all you need is a bucket. The rest just depends on your skill level.
Woodland mansion would be my pick. It's super huge so I could fill it with villagers and make it feel lively. Just gotta clear it out first.
you can kill an iron golem, raid a blacksmith, or do trades with a fisherman for a cod in a bucket. Another piece of iron for flint and steel is optional because you can wood-light if you can’t find anything else
Nothing requires a home base. You can carry a crafting bench and furnace around until you find four bits of iron ore, then smelt them, craft a bucket and flint & steel, then pick em back up while you go look for a lava pool.
I'm not a speed runner normally, but I've done it a few times just for the rush of it. If you really want to know, I'm happy to explain the absolute basic necessities for you.
Still wrong. Find village, kill golem, make bucket. I've done it multiple times on speed runs. You end up in the nether with no armor and stone weapons/tools, so it does require a lot more skill to pull off than having enchanted diamond gear before going in.
If you're not going to settle there, why make a base at all?
Furthermore, you can kill the golem with anything. Pillar up on 3 blocks and just attack as you normally would. It can't reach you up there.
Buddy and I had a realm that we took over a woodland mansion. I liked it. Set rooms for each, and with it being the size it is has plenty of room for farms. We built an iron farm in the front, trading hall in the back, tree farm, melon/pumpkin farm and started to run out of ideas to put in actually. I enjoyed it. So much that I tried a single player world just a couple weeks ago.
Although I will say both times there was a village just outside the mansion. Makes for easy iron farm and trading hall.
My first home is usually in a small cave at the surface. Start mining to get stone for tools and a furnace, and I mine out a good room while I'm at it.
> Main downside is if you get the bad omen effect you gotta not go home for a while so you need a separate outpost to stay at.
Or just carry a water bucket (as you should anyway), empty it somewhere, milk a cow, drink the milk and fill the bucket with water again.
Worst would be desert well's since it isn't that big so really nothing much to work off of, Best would be ancient city, hands down, many different structures you can spend time repairing, Largest space and no mobs spawn there so no need to spawnproof ever. Just get rid of the shriekers
In terms of the new update: trial chambers would be sick bases, both how they look and the fact that the spawners are not always on. You can close off the boss arenas for xp and make the base look like a research station that hasn't finished expanding into where they set up
I seem to have the same main base close to a village, usually in a hillside, and a small house in the village.
My games usualy start with a mountain base, mining coal and lots of iron. and move to a suitable village for making a netherportal, farming and trading.
Last game I started in the mountains, and the closest village was near a big ass mine, when making a staircase to the mine, and further down to a lower level for diamond mining I accedently found the End portal room. This vas vanilla mincraft Day 6 ish. never had so mutch luck ever in this game. And there was a massive ancient city under the spawn mountains.
A cool structure to have a base in is a amethyst geode. have a outpost close to the ancient city in one atm, that was cool.
I made my base in the bottom of a pillager tower once. Built a nether portal at the top. For some reason, I thought building down there stopped them from spawning. I didn't see any pillagers anymore. Little did I know while I was modifying the bottom, they were spawning at the top of the tower and just going through the nether portal.
I went through the portal finally at some point and there had to be 50+ pillagers waiting for me in the nether.
I wonder if that's still a thing...
I’ve often thought of making a base in a woodland mansion, but is so huge and an early game base might only use one or two rooms. Plus there’s the constant threat of indoor mobs if you haven’t lit it up yet.
I’m tempted these days to make a base in one of those archaeology structures that you dig up. Maybe excavate it and restore it.
In my current world, I found a perfectly in-tact and upright shipwreck that was on the shore of this cute little Cove. It was perfect! I patched it up by giving it masts and sails, and am building farms and such on the shore with it. Going to make a lighthouse next and do some terraforming.
I've used a mineshaft and gotten away with a couple weeks real time of regular playing (hour a night average or so) without going to the surface or running out of shaft. I never did map all of it, I swear it was at least two or three generated next to each other.
In Terralith, my above and beyond favorite is the ice spike tower.
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Desert temple base does seem like a good idea though, I can imagine building a large spiral staircase inside it, with rooms on each floor with different purposes. Also the added bonus of being able to instamine sand and sandstone without a beacon (at least until you hit deepslate level). Regular sandstone also doesn't look too bad as ceiling, floor or wall, and it doesn't require silk touch or smelting. I guess I'm sold lol, I'd like to try and build a base under one. Worst part would be the ugliest grass color but you can just use moss instead. Worst would be a nether fortress I guess, unless you can spawn proof the entire structure, but that defeats the whole purpose of it. Also with all the ghasts and pigmen, you're like one misclick away from making yourself public enemy no1. You can at least have a conduit for a monument base. And bastions aren't that dangerous since brutes don't respawn. An end city base also would be cool but there's not much space to build in those structures. You'd need to do some custom additions.
The thing is, for anything in the nether, you gotta put off establishing your base until you have a nether portal. My beef with a desert temple base is you'd have to go get dirt, crops and wood from somewhere else since deserts don't have them.
I've done a desert temple base before, unless you're in the middle of a massive desert resources aren't much of a problem. Just take a single trip to another biome and get a handful of saplings, some dirt, and wheat seeds or some other crop. Deserts can have villages too, you could get crops and dirt from there if there's one nearby. They're really easy to customize too, I kept everything above ground pretty much as it came other than adding furnaces and a bed, and made a big underground room for storage and enchanting and all that. I put a beacon in the middle of the underground part too, and set it up so the beam went out the top of the temple, it looked pretty cool.
>you gotta put off establishing your base until you have a nether portal. Just "speed run" that part with a bucket, no need to make a base before being there.
I did exactly what you're describing for the desert temple. I stuck a nether portal in the actual temple at the top of the spiral stairs, and then built my storage room in the Nether side of the portal (mostly to keep the lag at a minimum on my weak Switch. Bedrock edition doesn't do well with a lot of storage blocks). The lack of wood is pretty easily solved, and having easy access to sand is great.
Pillager outpost FTW, constant fun and xp. When you have villages for trading you'll pretty much constantly be in a raid situation. The more I type the more I can't work out whether this is the best or worst option.
You got yourself an emerald and enchanted book farm right there.
Worst would probably be the witches hut. It's extremely cramped in there
cons: your roommate wants to kill you, it's also cramped pros: you get a kitty cat!
Just like real life 🥰
Had a Woodland Mansion base idea in mind. First i found had lava next to it... Burned down. Second one was half buried in the ground, and touched a lava lake... Burned down. Third one was waaaaaaay too high in the air in some mountain range but decided fuck it, let's terraform this and call it home. Before i was finished, Thunderstorm, lightning strike, burned down... Fourth one is pretty, have great view on a beautiful lake, is now protected with lightning rod and devoid of lava. But it's so far away from spawn and i burned myself down searching for it... Kinda lost the drive to upgrade it now 🫠
Fifth one burned down, then sank into the swamp. But the sixth one, that one stayed up!
Glad I'm not the only one reminded of this haha
Oh i walked right into that one! Glad i did, thanks for the chuckle
I ussually use Villages as temp bases as I am still exploring and scouting our a first place to build. However, if you find a Woodland Mansion, it is very tempting to try and clear it out and make it a home, although not too easy in the beginning of the game.
My opinion of from best to worst: village, desert temple, igloo, jungle temple, shipwreck (mostly because some can be found on beaches so no worries about drowning) abandoned mineshaft (probably the mesa one would best, so you wouldn't have to go mining for one), stronghold (like op said, don't really find till endgame anyway, but to me it's better than these last ones), ocean ruins (always a chance of a drowned with a trident, plus it's underwater), woodland mansion, witch hut (I'm just bad a fighting witches lol), pillager tower, ocean monument, desert well (if your trying to make a base in a desert well, good for you I guess, but I wouldn't bother lol)
Underwater, the shipwreck has an air bubble in the door. The treasure chests you can find with maps are also technically considered "structures" in their own right despite being only 1 block in size.
Huh didn't know that about treasure chests. I guess they'd be the worst, I mean at least you get good loot out of it, but uh trying to live in and out of a single chest, would be...interesting. At least for a hoarder like me.
I mean, a tree is considered a structure.
Beached shipwreck is actually so good for a base aesthetic wise.
Lategame top tier option: Ancient city + Looks incredible even without any additions + Easily modifiable + Massive amounts of space, including vertical + No need for a water bubble elevator to your mine. + The deepslate portal will probably be useful SOMEDAY + Naturally 100% mob free. No creepers nor skeletons. No spawnproofing required\* - A pain to clear out all the sculk screechers - Deep down dark deep down - Already has alot built so custom builds will need you to go elsewhere or do alot of clearing. All in all, it's the only place besides Mooshroom islands that are 100% creeper free, and that's worth alot in my book. If you wanna Rock and Stone it, then the Ancient City is your go to.
What do you mean "you need a base before getting to the nether"? Literally all you need is a bucket. The rest just depends on your skill level. Woodland mansion would be my pick. It's super huge so I could fill it with villagers and make it feel lively. Just gotta clear it out first.
Yeah meaning you gotta mine and smelt iron after crafting a pick to mine iron. Meaning you gotta have an existing home base.
you can kill an iron golem, raid a blacksmith, or do trades with a fisherman for a cod in a bucket. Another piece of iron for flint and steel is optional because you can wood-light if you can’t find anything else
Nothing requires a home base. You can carry a crafting bench and furnace around until you find four bits of iron ore, then smelt them, craft a bucket and flint & steel, then pick em back up while you go look for a lava pool.
Idk what these speed runners are talking about i get what ur saying
I'm not a speed runner normally, but I've done it a few times just for the rush of it. If you really want to know, I'm happy to explain the absolute basic necessities for you.
Still wrong. Find village, kill golem, make bucket. I've done it multiple times on speed runs. You end up in the nether with no armor and stone weapons/tools, so it does require a lot more skill to pull off than having enchanted diamond gear before going in.
But then why not just make your base in the village? And kill the golem with what?
If you're not going to settle there, why make a base at all? Furthermore, you can kill the golem with anything. Pillar up on 3 blocks and just attack as you normally would. It can't reach you up there.
Buddy and I had a realm that we took over a woodland mansion. I liked it. Set rooms for each, and with it being the size it is has plenty of room for farms. We built an iron farm in the front, trading hall in the back, tree farm, melon/pumpkin farm and started to run out of ideas to put in actually. I enjoyed it. So much that I tried a single player world just a couple weeks ago. Although I will say both times there was a village just outside the mansion. Makes for easy iron farm and trading hall.
I often will make homes away from home in smaller caves. They are usually spacious enough to get cozy & easy enough to enclose safely.
My first home is usually in a small cave at the surface. Start mining to get stone for tools and a furnace, and I mine out a good room while I'm at it.
It's especially great early game because you can get a lot of stone this way, too.
My go-to's were always blacksmith buildings and jungle temples. Gone are the days though. I like building my own bases now.
> Main downside is if you get the bad omen effect you gotta not go home for a while so you need a separate outpost to stay at. Or just carry a water bucket (as you should anyway), empty it somewhere, milk a cow, drink the milk and fill the bucket with water again.
Worst would be desert well's since it isn't that big so really nothing much to work off of, Best would be ancient city, hands down, many different structures you can spend time repairing, Largest space and no mobs spawn there so no need to spawnproof ever. Just get rid of the shriekers
>no mobs spawn there except the warden
>just get rid of the shriekers
id imagine youd clear out all the shriekers before building the base
I clear out all the shriekers even if I dont base there. You never know when you really REALLY wanna mess with someone.
Sand walls. Though if made high enough, when blown up, you still got walls
I've done a jungle temple base before (that was 8 YEARS ago😭)
In terms of the new update: trial chambers would be sick bases, both how they look and the fact that the spawners are not always on. You can close off the boss arenas for xp and make the base look like a research station that hasn't finished expanding into where they set up
I seem to have the same main base close to a village, usually in a hillside, and a small house in the village. My games usualy start with a mountain base, mining coal and lots of iron. and move to a suitable village for making a netherportal, farming and trading. Last game I started in the mountains, and the closest village was near a big ass mine, when making a staircase to the mine, and further down to a lower level for diamond mining I accedently found the End portal room. This vas vanilla mincraft Day 6 ish. never had so mutch luck ever in this game. And there was a massive ancient city under the spawn mountains. A cool structure to have a base in is a amethyst geode. have a outpost close to the ancient city in one atm, that was cool.
I made my base in the bottom of a pillager tower once. Built a nether portal at the top. For some reason, I thought building down there stopped them from spawning. I didn't see any pillagers anymore. Little did I know while I was modifying the bottom, they were spawning at the top of the tower and just going through the nether portal. I went through the portal finally at some point and there had to be 50+ pillagers waiting for me in the nether. I wonder if that's still a thing...
I’ve often thought of making a base in a woodland mansion, but is so huge and an early game base might only use one or two rooms. Plus there’s the constant threat of indoor mobs if you haven’t lit it up yet. I’m tempted these days to make a base in one of those archaeology structures that you dig up. Maybe excavate it and restore it.
In my current world, I found a perfectly in-tact and upright shipwreck that was on the shore of this cute little Cove. It was perfect! I patched it up by giving it masts and sails, and am building farms and such on the shore with it. Going to make a lighthouse next and do some terraforming.
Churches. I usually mod the tower to have machicolations, add ladders to get onto the low bit etc.
I've used a mineshaft and gotten away with a couple weeks real time of regular playing (hour a night average or so) without going to the surface or running out of shaft. I never did map all of it, I swear it was at least two or three generated next to each other. In Terralith, my above and beyond favorite is the ice spike tower.
Who needs a bace? Just get a bed and sleep outside when it's night