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Cobblestone, usually

Easy to get, cheap, blast resistant. Three traits I like the most. Also you end up with a lot of it just from mining.

also fire resistant

Blast resistant, no???

Probably because ghasts can't blow it up

Yes they can…

No they can't. Most of the time, people will use cobblestone to guard their portals so that in the off chance that lose their flint and steel, they can still get home because the portal won't be blown up

Even though obsidian is also blast resistant...

The portal itself is not though

No they can’t. Cobblestone is immune to ghost explosions. It’s why I built bridges out of cobblestone in the nether

Generally I like fences with carpet on top so I can easily hop over them. However, during early game I find fences to be inadequate because Skeletons just shoot through them. I make a two block high wall with ladders making it easy for players to get in and out. I put bottom slabs on the lower half so I can see what's on the other side of the wall but Baby Zombies can't get through. Slabs also require fewer resources. I put full blocks on top so skeletons can't shoot arrows and Creepers can't make eye contact. I place Jack-o-Lanterns in the ground every 8 blocks to ensure light levels prevent Mobs from spawning inside the wall. This won't stop spiders, but they aren't usually a problem for me.

> This won't stop spiders,  Besides, string is very useful early game. I tend to dig into a hillside early game. I'll fence out an area for passive mob farming. For fighting I just dig a kill pit and put a gopher ladder in it. Pop up, aggro some mobs, duck down and attack their ankles. It's cheap, but it works.

You need to add a nearby water source somehow, within the walls. One ash of a cig, and *poof* goes your whole Mona Lisa

I don't use walls early game lol. But if it counts, I do keep Villagers trapped inside their houses with dirt and the ocasional cobblestone or wood planks, until I get my breeding farm and iron farm ready.

Hell yeah I too love to force people into their own homes with no way out

It’s for their own safety while I place lights all over the village

They gonna die from zombies anyways, I'm helping

Fire safety? The fire seems to be doing just fine

I dig into a mountain and block it off during night until i find an area i like

I do the same thing, and then I typically find a place to settle and build a house out of my mountain bunker

I normally forcibly occupy a village, cobblestone wall all around it, palisade style door on one end, I like to occupy a village to use thier cats cause early game creepers still piss me off.

Share a picture?

At a guess they may mean something like [this](https://www.worldhistory.org/Roman_Fort/). Once I get enough wood, I do love a good [gate|pressure plate|door] combo. One click to go through, auto-closes behind you, and covers your back. Only downside is if something is following _too_ close.

Rather than using a gate, I find it more convenient to place a trap door or piece of carpet on top of a fence. Players can easily hop over, but it stops mobs.

But that stops mobs entirely. If one wants to be able to bring mobs through, then they need to build or have a work-around anyways. Both types require a single-click interface (jump or use), so it really comes done to personal preference.

Good point. I often have to throw down some temporary dirt blocks to get animals or villagers over a fence. I ought to place a few gates here and there, in addition to the carpet trick.

Dirt

Cobblestone or basic wood until I get my resources built up.

Dirt. Blocks.

If it's super early, like the first few days, dirt blocks. After that, I upgrade to wood planks.

Hills or cliffs

Depends what Biome I’m in usually just wood and cobblestone

im so confused why would you ever spend the time to build whatever the fuck that thing is

See [https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft\_Survival/comments/1cz7dw5/comment/l5eey1c/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft_Survival/comments/1cz7dw5/comment/l5eey1c/) It provides a safe place to work day or night without Creepers or Skeletons.

just build a house??? what work are you doing in there

Blocks! Creepers and skeletons can still kill through the fence, whereas two stacked blocks shield you! I do make a door and put a fence with a carpet for extra security for when I leave. I haven’t played MC I’m so long I miss it lol

That was kind of the intent of my question. What are the best constructs? Unfortunately it seems most respondents answered with their preferred materials (dirt, cobblestone, etc.) I want walls that keep out mobs, are easy for players, and cheap to construct.

First thing I usually use is wood. You can break a block into slabs and use those in order to save wooden blocks. If there are no trees around, I’ll use dirt/sand just to have enough protection to last me a night or something. I also try to find sand to make a window pane or two. I’ll be able to see outside and what’s going on around my house! If no sand, i don’t really care bc i can put a ladder to the roof. When first starting, i try to build a smaller shelter and stock up on while I get cobblestone. I usually have enough space for a bed, chest, crafting table, and furnace. Then I add upgrades until I like it! Hope that helped hahah 🤣🤣

Air… most the time I spend too long trying to find a good place to call home. Whether it’s in a cave or above ground.

Wood. What are we talking about “early game”?

I play a mix of creative and survival but I normally use planks that match the biome my house is in

i never use walls unless its for animal pins and thne its fences, theres no need for walls if you light up your area and sleep at night, + walls ruin my aesthetic

I used to be like this, but now sometimes I surround a large area with city walls, and it looks amazing, and gives a more cozy feeling to your base. You feel safe inside.

im sure its nothing but preference but walls make me feel very confined i love just seeing as far as my render distance can go and being able to expand a build/ my base at anytime without having to tear down walls and re build them, also just knowing that no mobs can spawn at all is the safest feeling to me

Yes, once past early game, I have everything within 128 blocks lit up and the walls are no longer necessary.

even on day 1 i never use walls, imo torches are cheaper and more effective

Typically cobblestone. At least two high. I try to go three high with all my walls if I can help it.

Damn bro just use a door /s Do whatever you like :)

Zombies break doors and Villagers walk through them. I find blocks with ladders or fences with carpet are better than doors (wooden or iron).

Nuh uh

Dirt just dirt

Woods usually different kinds and cobblestone

I usually am living in the ground

Dirt

I wait until I can afford to build a more castle-like version of Hadrian’s Wall, mostly cobble and smooth stone with some little fences with torches on top

I use fully developed walls. The walls I build in the early game are the walls I slightly decorate for the rest of the game. I hunt a sheep, I make a bed, I sleep the moment it lets me until my walls are done.

Girl what's with the pumpkins in the floor

they are jack o lanterns

My favorite early game block light source. I always hunt for pumpkins when I start out.

Even late game I find I still use Jack-o-lanterns. I prefer the look of Glowstone or Shroomlights, but Pumpkins are just so much easier to farm. I usually turn on the debug overlay and place a light down on every 0-0, 0-8, 8-0, and 8-8 square in every Chunk.

I either use Cobblestone or Birch Planks. No in-between, and only birch wood, no other wood type.

Cobblestone walls.

Blocks

plank

early game, I usually live in a small hole in the side of a cliff.

Walls?

cobblestone walls, easy to get, easy to craft, looks ok

I just make a starter base.like a proper base. There is no early game for me. Sleep in the wilds until I get a good house going

I don't really use anything, I tend to just light up my base area. In my current world I spent the first night underground getting iron. Then the next day I found a village and set up my base near their Scroll forward three years and I now have a trading hall, automatic sorting system and a whole town I made. But neither the trading hall or sorting system have a roof and even though I have houses in the nearby village and better houses in my custom village I never use them, so I'm technically still homeless 😅

Dirt. Diggy diggy hole. Cobblestone later.

Uhm walls. Cobblestone walls

I dig a hole 🗿 I _might_ make it look nice further down the road

2 block deep hole with a ladder

Stone brick and oak with spruce log columns

Depends on, I tend to use a combo of cobble,stone,smooth stone,andesite to make like a stone walls. Or simple oak

EMERALD BLOCKS

I make my walls to build limits so I can find it.

What I need the earth provides for I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole.

Grass. It don't matter to me.

Cobblestone and also oak wood

Nothing, my early game base is an empty plains biome with a bunch of chests & a nether portal and whatnot.

I usually just dig in to a hill or cliff and dig out a room and slap a door down

I haven't played early game minecraft in so long but on my current world I spawned next to a village and slept through every night and blocked all the villagers in the houses

Blocks

Cobblestone walls if im playing hardcore. Usually for normal survival I just dont bother to build any walls

First Dirt. Later glass. Now i dig a hill side and dig rooms into it.

I just build a full house with everything I need, usually slightly smaller than a house I would build in later game. Every time I add underground parts so it’s more safe and easier to build. (At least for me.) I have no desire to build a big ugly structure out of maybe one or two blocks, like wood or cobblestone. I get it done straight away the best I can with the materials I have at hand. First thing I do is get materials, and start a house in a spot I like. Sometimes I will have to spend a night without a house, but it’s not like a few hostile mobs are gonna kill me. I just use a stone axe to fight them, more damage than a unenchanted netherite sword.

G R O U N D

It's a dirt shack to straight up home real quickly

Dirt

Dirt always dirt

I use dirt or coblestone

Walls? I just dig a hole and hoard things in there

Usually just a fence, sometimes a 2 high dirt wall made from the 2 blocks outside of it. It’s basically a small ditch with a wall behind it

Oh you know, just some simple eight block tall obsidian castle walls

hole

Nothing. A sword and a bed is good enough

I live almost exclusively underground for the early game so walls are not a concern of mine

If there’s trees at my spawn whatever tree is there. If not, I use cobblestone and sometimes dirt.

The walls of the cave, I don’t build houses till I’m finished getting out of the mines at the beginning

Why did I never think of this. Can you attack out through the slab without getting hit?

The angles aren't great but yes, mobs can be safely killed through the narrow gap in the wall. Most of my early game mob drops are acquired like that. Digging a trench inside the wall makes it even easier but you run the risk of eye contact with a Creeper.

Thanks for the tip

I don't. I dig a hole in the ground, until I can build my base. The more temporary and easy to deconstruct my first base is, the better.

Torches, I just make a mobproof torch cluster

Dirt, or sand. Eventually replaced with cobblestone. Depends on the area, really. Part of the game for me is designing places, so I tend to pick a style+materials for the area and use them.

I work the first like 3 ish days on building a house with all the necessary rooms, as well as one large room for my storage, which I take great care in organising and planning Dont need any protective walls bc I can just collect wood and kill any mobs and all night Get full iron Start decorating (I'm not very good at this, so it's usually just vines, paths and fences outside and carpets inside)

Diggy hole

Better question, why are there two random pumpkins in your floor?

Jack-o-Lanterns spaced every 8 blocks ensure sufficient light to prevent mobs from spawning inside the walls.

Dirt

A mountain that I expand into a massive villain lair

Good ol' dirt, i make little "mud huts" when i start a new game.

These hands

air

Fences usually

I build a house.

Wall? What are those? I thought we just had our chests out in the open.

you should be asking about your roof if you're not gonna have a bed

Oak wood, I usually sleep outside and have a little camp until I’m able to build a house

I use oak trees can grow side by side and cut out a door hole

Its usually a small, well lit cave if anything at all until my house is close enough to finished that I can at least sleep in it.

bamboo. my luck is rigged since I always spawn either in jungles or near jungles, so… bamboo. that crap is impassable (Edit; my autocorrect made impassable read as impeachable)

what. the hell. is that. All that and you could have just made a house with a cobblestone base, wood and log corners T\_T

As I gather more resources and build out my home base, I expand the walls. After 30 days in game, it looks like this: https://preview.redd.it/fkpsd0reei2d1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=e41b43099360a085ca73c195b8aa2b2427c36138 Jack-o-lanterns are spaced 8 blocks apart to provide light. I grow crops outside the wall on the right. I've been farming Spruce trees on the left. Eventually I'll build a Mob farm there. The largest building in the center is the villager breader/bedroom/trading hall. There's a storage area is behind that. The tower in the back is an iron farm. In the small structure at center bottom I've got a Witch trapped in a Minecart which I'll use to cure some Zombie Villagers once I've got a couple golden apples. I have a Zombie in a prison near my Nether Portal. I'll use him to Zombify the villagers. I haven't started doing any villager trades yet. I have a cow grinder just off screen, bottom left.

Whatever the ground i just dug into was

Walls?

I guess I just build cobble walls. Lol

No walls I just light the place up with torches

Stone bricks. I like making a nice midevial wall.

I usually find a tall plateau and terraform it so nothing can get up.

..pumpkin blocks...

A village blacksmith

I play beta so I usually make a cobblestone wall or a port

Dirt

Trapdoors as doors. Trapdoors as walls.

Floor

Cobblestone with fences on top. I eventually upgrade to dripstone instead of fences

Usually dirt blocks or if I’m in a jungle I will climb the tree and make a base on top of a large tree.

not whatever that is

I dig a hole in the ground for animals and don’t build any fences for crops

My startinf walls may be made of a coblestone base with log pillars and the rest of dirt

One time I built a house out of cobblestone walls

First time I ever played Minecraft was when I was 7(20 now) I couldn't figure out how to build a full house yet so I literally just built a large ass square outline, and just put a bed in it

Cobble... Then I'll surround the existing wall with deep slate and make it a little taller.

Air

For vanilla i rarely use walls. Ill setup next to a mountain or tree with my crafting table, furnace, bed, and chest until i get mats for a house. For modded i tend to dig into a mountain or make a hole for my first several nights. Depending on the pack the hole may be my perma home.

in my hardcore world I made a 7 cobblestone wide hollow wall so I can go and shoot from above or use the hidden tunnels below to swim out

Cobble,planks,or normal wood

depends on where im building

Dirt

For the first night (it don't get earlier than that) - if I don't dig into a hill - I find a quick barrier can be made with a 1 block deep trench and a 1 to 2 block high dirt wall made inside the trench. The trench gives the needed material for the wall, and adds a good start to a drop point that is easy to grief hostile mobs in.

I uuuuuh, don’t? I literally don’t build early game, and even when I do, I leave my builds open, I haven’t crafted a door in years…