The Explorer's Guide: Settling In

Once you've found a suitable place to call home, don't rush the building. Make the home as nice as you want and when night rolls around, dig a hole three blocks deep and cover the top. Wait until night is over and come out of the hole, get materials for your home, and get to building. Once the walls are done, make a roof. Once the roof is done, make a door. Once you have a furnace and a crafting table, you can get to decorating. It's neat to have a kitchen, living room, and an outside porch.

Here are some ideas for decorating your home:

That dirt, sand, or rock underneath your home isn't the most decorative flooring. Destroy any existing floor and put a more a more decorative flooring.

Decorating your home is an art and can require lots of materials. For instance, to make a chair with arm rests, make a wooden step and two signs. Place the two signs on both sides of the chair and, BOOM!, you have a chair.

Put three wooden steps in a row and put signs on both sides and you have an extra long chair. Put a pressure plate on top of a single fence post and you have yourself a table.

Bookshelves are a great decoration, too. Next to the long chairs they look great.

Make a little corner for your kitchen and replace four of your floor with marble and place two blocks of marble outward so that you have a counter for your kitchen.

A porch is a cool edition to any home. Why not make one in Minecraft? Dig out the desired space for your porch and then fill it in its your favorite block. Next fence in your porch since there are no monsters welcomed near your home. Make sure to have a fence gate so you can get in and out. If you're going for a cozy cabin feel, make a chair or two and put it on your porch. If you're into gardening, get some flowers and plant them.

Those enchantment tables, cauldrons, brewing stations, and crafting tables look absolutely awful in the main room of your home. Make a side room for them.

Furnaces, believe it or not, actually do look good for some home's decoration. Put some (two blocks high) in the middle of one of your walls and they look great. Don't just put one column, though. Make at least two two block high columns. Though make sure there's an even number of wall blocks on both sides of your wall.

Paintings look great over furnaces or chairs.

Windows allow you to see the world outside your home. But don't use glass blocks. Use the window blocks made by glass blocks. You'll have some left over unless you're making a house made of glass. Windows look best when there is an even number of blocks on both sides of them.

-Nick