Tutorials/Shelters

there are several things every minecraft shelter should have. This is the single most important room and should be the first one built. a Kitchen should include a crafting table, at least one furnace, and at least one chests containing key crafting materials
 * A Kitchen

A room full of chest for storing all of the dirt, cobblestone and other materials that accumulates in your inventory while mining
 * A Storeroom

It's generally a good idea to put the entrance to you mine inside you shelter, so that if after a long mining expedition you return at night you don't have to make a mad dash to your house.
 * The entrance to your mine

A room with a lava pit in it for disposing of unwanted materials
 * An Incinerator

There is any number of things to add to your shelter and here are just a few of them (ideas needed, don't feel shy to add stuff!):

1. Add Underground floors to your shelter

Using this gives you a chance to find resources and in case of invasion of mobs it will always provide a safe spot of a form,

2. Add Aboveground floors to your shelter

It is advised to normally do this after building underground floors if you have a lack of resources and this could even give you a chance to "snipe" some creepers and spiders in the morning

3. Build a mob pit

Basically a 3 wide and 2 down pit around your houses preventing mobs getting too close for comfort and can be expanded into a mob killer (requires lots of ladders)

4. Build a moat

Don't they just look so cool in lava (and water :P)

5. Make a Farm extension

Look at the farming tutorial for more on this :)

6. Remake it out of a different material

So much potential here!

7. Make a panic room

Put tnt throughout your base and have redstone leading to your panic room.

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