User:Simons Mith/Floors

Floors
Slab floors

Some furniture designs require a floor raised by half a block. Such a floor is called a slab floor. Using slab floors significantly limits your choices of flooring materials, so as a general guide you should only put in a slab floor when you know you will need it. Until you are familiar with enough furniture designs, building a house with slab floors throughout may cause more problems than it solves.

Just as for walls, the temptation with floors is to leave them made out of just one material, often smooth stone, cobblestone, dirt of grass. For walls the basic method of adding variety is to use horizontal or vertical stripes of two or three different materials. For floors, the common options are a border round the perimeter of the room, and/or a patterned floor texture.

Borders often look better in irregular-shaped rooms than they do in square or rectangular rooms. For this reason it may be a good idea to arrange for your building to have at least one room with a more unusual shape. L-shaped or T-shaped rooms often appear, and more rarely you may get an octagonal polygonal room -

When building a floor

furnances crafting bench pistons, sitcky piston, note blocks, glass over something

Borders

A good rule of thumb for floor borders is 'Plain border, fancy floor; fancy border, plain floor.'