The starting house[1] was a structure which acted as the starting place when first spawned in a Java Edition Indev world. This was also, technically, the first "structure" added to Minecraft. (Even though it might as well be considered as a Feature)
Generation[]
When creating a new world, the player spawned inside the starting house located in the center of the world.
Structure[]
One of the many chests inside the house.
It was a 7 block wide × 7 block long × 4 block tall structure, with a 1×2 hole for players to exit and two torches on the interior. When starting houses were added, they were made of mossy cobblestone (which was unavailable naturally on the map anywhere else) and 4 chests, one filled with TNT, one with a full stack (99 at the time) of every type of block, another with every type of item and one filled with every color of wool. As Indev progressed from testing items and blocks to testing the actual survival aspect, these chests were removed. Later, the design of the house was changed. The floor was changed to stone and the walls and roof were changed to planks.
History[]
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 20100124 |  Added starting house.
| |||
 The starting house is made of mossy cobblestone with two torches and three chests. | |||||
| Contained 99 of every block in the game except for dirt, water, lava, fire, and double slabs. | |||||
| A smaller chest contained a shovel, pickaxe, axe, flint and steel, 99 apples, a bow and 99 arrows. | |||||
| 20100125-1 |  Added chest with 54 stacks of TNT to the starting house.
| ||||
| 20100125-2 |  Wool has been separated from the main chest of blocks to its own chest.
| ||||
| 20100128 | 100 of Coal, Diamond, Iron Ingot, Gold Ingot added to the items chest. Iron, wood, stone and diamond shovels, pickaxes, axes and swords added. | ||||
| Blocks and items are now found in stacks of 100. | |||||
| 20100129 | Removed TNT and wool chests.
| ||||
| Removed all items from the blocks and items chests. | |||||
| 20100130 |  Removed the remaining chests.
| ||||
| 20100214-1 |   The starting house is now made of planks and stone. | ||||
| 20100214-2 | Due to a bug, if there is no suitable place to spawn a starting house it simply will not spawn. | ||||
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||
| 20100227-1 | The starting house has now been removed. | ||||
Gallery[]
The outside of the starting house.
A view of the early starting house.
A view of the starting house.
The inside of the starting house.
Contents of the wool chest.
