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While in the early game of Minecraft, building a suitable place to live can be tricky with limited resources. New players will likely resort to hastily building a wooden box as their first night approaches, but more experienced players can prepare something a little nicer to build on their first day.
However, even experienced players have a limited amount of time before the sun sets, so building a giant castle isn't going to be practical. Instead, there are plenty of stylish designs out there that take up almost no space in the world, making them a perfect base to start with.
8 Converted Villager Hut
Created By: Rizzial
If players are lucky enough to have an NPC Village near their spawn location, using one of their homes is the obvious solution for the first night. The problem is, the designs of these buildings are usually pretty basic, even after they were overhauled a few years ago.
Creative players will want to spice up their design a bit, and even the tiny 5x5 hovels can be converted into something nice-looking. Expanding the roof gives more interior space upwards, and pairs with the use of logs to give the structure some depth. It uses some of the most basic building techniques, but it makes a huge difference.
7 Rasing Houses, Raising Horses
Created By: Zaypixel
Perhaps slightly pushing the limits of what can be considered "tiny", this house has a bit more space than most, but all of the resources are very easily gatherable on the player's first day. The best feature of this house is that it gets more space out of a smaller radius by using verticality.
A second floor is a fairly simple feature to add once players have built their first, and it doubles the useful space. As the image shows, players can easily build attachments onto the side as they need more features as well. Be it a stable for horses, pens for farm animals, or a place to grow crops.
6 A Few Extra Touches
Created By: Rizzial
This house is a great example of how small touches can transform the overall look of a house. At its most basic, this house doesn't have much special about it. The shape is just one step away from a square, and it only uses two different types of wood.
However, adding a stone porch to the front increases its appeal tenfold. Gathering the materials will barely take 2 minutes of digging underground, and it adds variety in terms of both color and depth to the design. The sides and back can be spruced up a bit with the use of plants & grass around it.
5 Bare Essentials
Created By: TheMadSheep
Sometimes players just want a very basic structure on their first night. Something they can easily tear down once they're ready to build something grander. For those people, a base like this would be ideal, playing entirely to function over form.
The different tiers give a little bit of organization for the crops that go above, making farming very easy. Inside, there is a little bit of space to move about, but most of it will likely be used for storage, Crafting Tables, and sleeping. The simplicity of this design means it can be nicely scaled up if players decide they want a bit more room.
4 A Tent In The Woods
Created By: LordSaumya
These tiny homes will likely be temporary housing for most players. Cozy though they may be, players will quickly find they need more space than what these designs can offer. This can be seen as a creative opportunity, though, and this design plays into the idea of a temporary home.
Wool can admittedly be hard to come by on the first day, but if players are lucky enough to have some Sheep on hand, this could be a great way to put them to use. Tents are, by their very nature, small homes that are designed to be put up and taken down very quickly. It's a nice & stylish way to begin an adventure.
3 A Humble Farmer
Created By: Eiro-gg
While shelter is undoubtedly the problem most players will focus on for their first day in Minecraft, finding food is quickly going to become a problem as well. If animals are nearby, then players can get to work producing meat, but if animals are a bit scarcer in the spawn zone, crops will need somewhere to grow.
This design gives a quick & simple way to incorporate a modest crop garden into the design of the home. Extending the roof into a bit of a canopy connects it up to the main building, and the wall of glass on that side of the house means players can check the status of their crops without having to leave the house.
2 Compact & Cozy
Created By: A1MostAddicted Minecraft
Another house that incorporated verticality into its design, this house is impressive for the sheer amount of detail it crams into a tiny space. In just a 10x10 space, this house fits just about everything a player will need during the early game.
The top section of the house is a living space & bedroom, while the bottom section is slightly bigger, fitting storage & crafting needs. Rather than wasting interior space on a staircase, it's put on the exterior, and the space under those stairs isn't wasted, creating a spot for some farming.
1 Future-Proofed
Created By: Noob Force
While most tiny houses end up being torn down once the player can build something bigger, this design does just enough to potentially be a long-term home for players. It's a bit bigger than most "tiny" designs, but expert players can still reasonably be expected to build this before the sun sets for the first time.
Putting in that little extra effort means that players will have significantly more space, and can fit in all the essentials while still having room for more. It allows players to have relative comfort in a stylish home. A design like this can continue to be used throughout the entire game. Even if the player eventually builds much more impressive structures, this will always be fit for the purpose as a base.
Minecraft is available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, PC, Android, and iOS.
