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I've been playing Minecraft for about 6 months now and I feel pretty
"pro" because I have finally figured out this whole building thing. I
had been pretty content with living in 1x1 dirt holes with walls high
enough to keep spiders out, but with the addition of rain I felt I
should try to build a fancy new shelter to keep my myself nice and dry  . After conferring with my cat we decided to DIY a new Minecraft house!!  Above: My old house I had tried building stuff before in Minecraft, and while I was made a certified Legonaut in 1992, I had never attempted something of this scale.  Above: Redstone circuit comprising the entirety of my electrical experience.  Above: Shed comprising the entirety of my advanced building experience. The first consideration was location. In the real estate "biz," they like to repeat that word several times, up to thrice consecutively. Now, I'm no realtor, but I know what I like. And I like my land like I like my women: flat and swampy.  Above: Leveled swampland I started work by opening Microsoft's premier rendering software and sketching up a floorplan and basic idea of the "look" of the property.  Above: Technical sceematic. Finding building materials was hard. No matter where I dug, within two to four blocks I was reaching nearly-impenetrable stone! What's worse, even if I kept punching the stone all day I could never get a stone block to drop.   Above: The stony menace Fortunately, thanks to the Games thread, I found a kindly goon who was willing to supply me with all the building materials I needed for just $1000. Before you ask questions, let me say that I initially insisted I pay more - wholesale building materials weren't that cheap, even in this economy - but after his initial thrill of the sale he seemed oddly remorseful as I offered him a more reasonable figure. I'm wondering now if they were stolen?? If so finders keepers construction yards!! He threw in some tools too. Above: it fell off a truck XD So with my tools ready, I broke ground!! (I'm not sure what that term actually means, because I didn't actually break any ground at any point. Seems like an extra hassle when building on swamp works just as well.) Instead, I started out by sketching out the floor plan on the ground with blocks.  Above: My first block. And then, just a few short weeks later, I was done! I went a little off my original schematic but I think the spirit was there.  Above: Half-finished house. However, after conferring with my girl, we realized that my new home had no bedrooms, bathrooms, heat, water, or electricity, we resolved to add an addition onto the house. I don't mind telling you that that night we made sweet love, the kind of love you can only make if you're a man and a cat looking over a swamp.  Making an addition meant taking out another loan for new tools and building materials. Fortunately, the good people at Countrywide were more than happy to extend a line of credit for a home addition.
I didn't mind it, because while that ten grand will take some time to
pay off, from checking Zillow, houses of this size in my area are
retailing for AT LEAST $200k. Figured I'd take some of my windfall and
use it to add stuff like kitchen appliances, cabinets, insulation and
stairs to my new house, but the guys on a lot of home improvement forums
were very rude when I asked for help. Fortunately, I managed to do it
myself ("D.I.Y.").  Above: Kitchen.  Above: Insulated stairs for extra toastiness . I won't bore you with the details, but after a few more weeks and fires stemming from attempts to use lava as roofing material, my house's add-on was complete!!  Above: Front of whole house  Above: Back of whole house with cool pool   Above, upstairs in original house: Primary TV room  Above, addition: Secondary TV room (if primary TV is stuck on MSNBC again.)  Above: Bedroom (where the "magic happens"  ) All in all, I have to say that I am very happy with my house. Plumbing still isn't working yet and I think that it's settled a few blocks into the swamp, but that's natural with any new house. If I had only one complaint it's that I've been seeing a lot of urban types wandering around at night, and I'm afraid that they're going to be affecting my property values.  Going to go to the Home Owner's Association about this, let me assure you.  To download my cool house, go here.
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May 21, 2011 22:47
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What a wonderful and "pro" first update. I can't wait to see more 
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May 21, 2011 22:49
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Ground floor for the action.
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May 21, 2011 22:52
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Well, this should be fun. Bookmarked. (This was terrible. You should feel bad.)
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May 21, 2011 22:55
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I laughed when you made that joke. It was pretty funny.
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May 21, 2011 22:56
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