What are the best Minecraft house ideas? Here, you’ll find some of the best Minecraft houses to inspire your next creation. There are so many themes and materials at your disposal in 1.21, so we’ve dug deep into the Minecraft house designs available to set you on your way to creating your dream home.
As you play one of the best PC games of the decade, whether you’re an adventurer, builder, or redstone engineer, you still want a nice, cozy home to go back to at the end of a busy day. While constructing your perfect Minecraft house is a time-consuming venture, nothing beats that feeling of returning to the safety of your home in the survival game, pockets full of treasures from a day of exploring. Whether or not you boost the look of your builds with Minecraft shaders or texture packs, these Minecraft house designs will look stylish in any world.
Here are the best Minecraft house ideas in 1.21, split into categories:
Pale Garden Minecraft house ideas
Pale oak Minecraft house
Pale oak is a Minecraft block arriving in the Pale Garden Winter drop. Both Java and Bedrock edition players can currently play with the new mechanics in the latest Minecraft snapshot, which means you can already find Pale Oak builds. Our favorite so far, especially given the proximity to spooky season is this haunting black and white mansion by Linard. Like the Pale Forest it’s sourced from, this build doesn’t look quite so creepy in daylight, but let the sun set and this Minecraft base would make a perfect haunted house.
Resin house
Unlike the Pale Oak house, this resin build is currently only available to those on Bedrock edition, though we think that could change in the coming days. In the latest preview build on Bedrock, Resin appears in the trees of the Pale Garden when you’ve defeated a few Creakings, so it’ll take a while – unless you’re in Creative mode, of course.
There are still not many resin builds out there yet, but we love this original Mojang creation anyway, shared on their X account. The combination of the resin blocks with the pal oak logs and Deepslate works beautifully, and that little porch area is adorable. To be honest, this is a house that could be build with any block palette, which also suggests that you could use this palette on most any house build, too.
Easy Minecraft starter houses
Easy survival house
A great Minecraft survival house is compact, easy to build, safe, practical… And nonetheless stylish. Not only does this wooden structure offer just enough room for the necessary survival utilities and storage, but it also incorporates a small space for farming, thereby using a highly efficient irrigation system. None of the features in this simple Minecraft house are very difficult or time-consuming to create, leaving you with plenty of time to explore.
Easy Minecraft house
Sometimes all you need is an easy Minecraft base. No complex designs, no rare materials, and just enough room to fulfill its purpose. As this easy house idea only requires wood, you can easily finish it on day one in a new Minecraft world. Despite its simplicity, the house still looks stylish, and you may use the creator’s easy decoration suggestions if you wish to add a little flair.
Easy day one survival house
Here’s another easy Minecraft house build to use on day one. This cave design is quite simple but very efficient, as you only need to remove some dirt and stones to create the main space. Note that this requires the use of a pickaxe, so it may be a bit harder to complete this house on day one if you’re a new player. Additionally, you may save the glass wall design for later.
Modular starter base
The main thing that makes a base a starter base is the ability to be able to build it quickly, preferably within a Minecraft day or two. We think this starter base from Smithers Boss on YouTube is the perfect starter base for that reason – it could be build with any wood type, and the simple shape means it’s easy to add to. It’s hard to make a simple box home look nice, but Smithers Bros does it. Add more rooms above or beside your home, and you can expand in time, as your needs grow greater. We also love the simple farm design and massive storage capacity.
Small starter cottage
If you’re new to Minecraft, you may be looking for a relatively simple starter house: small, made from basic resources, and easy to build. This cute wooden cottage design meets all of those requirements, and it looks amazing, too. Take special note of the interior design, as it will help you make efficient use of the limited space.
Large starter house
Try this handy beginner cabin if you want to build a large starter house instead of the more basic one above. The video includes every practical space you could possibly need, such as a library for enchantments, a bedroom with a magnificent view, a massive farm, and even a secret treasure chamber. It’s mostly made from wood, so you can start building right away.
Cute Minecraft houses
Minecraft cherry blossom house
Now 1.20 and the Minecraft Cherry Grove biome aren’t brand-new anymore, there are loads of cherry wood house ideas out there to learn from. We just had to put a couple of different ones on this list as they are all too cute, but this cherry blossom starter house from Polar Cat on Youtube might just be our favorite.
It’s worth noting that Polar Cat is using Complimentary shaders in the video above, making it look a little bit more beautiful, but it’s still a stunning design in vanilla Minecraft, too. What’s more, Polar Cat’s easy-to-follow tutorial makes this house super simple to build in your own world. If it’s not enough of a challenge for you, head to their Youtube channel for even more cherry wood designs.
Minecraft cottage
This Minecraft cottage design is similar to a larger house below but a bit smaller and easier to build. Much like a real-life woodland retreat, it offers just enough room for all the necessary utilities, so you don’t need an excessive amount of building materials. Don’t forget to add a flower garden once you’re done!
Cute house
We’ve searched for the cutest Minecraft house, and we’ve got a winner: this adorable bunny-shaped cabin. Doesn’t need much explaining, does it? It even comes with carrot-shaped decorations! As you might expect from a cute house, it’s very small so that you won’t need many resources. Furthermore, most of the materials consist of wood and wool, which shouldn’t be hard to find.
Mushroom house
When we say “Minecraft mushroom house”, we literally mean a house inside a giant mushroom. Creating a realistic-looking mushroom is very challenging, but luckily for us, YouTuber BlueNerd made an incredibly handy step-by-step tutorial. As mentioned in the video, you might want to swap the white terracotta blocks for white concrete if it looks too pink.
House with mine entrance
When building our own Minecraft houses, we’re always thinking about where our mine entrance should be and what it should look like. We’re always a little worried about mobs, so we’ve never considered incorporating it into our Minecraft house design, but seeing this build from Foxel, we think we might have missed a trick.
Cottagecore strawberry house
With the best shaders installed, Minecraft can look truly idyllic, especially when surrounded by mushrooms, meadows, or flowers. That’s why the cottage and fairycore themes are among the most popular to build in Minecraft, giving you a cute and cozy place to live. There are so many cottagecore builds we could have chosen, with some surrounded by flowers and others with mossy roofing like the one below, but we just can’t get enough of this strawberry cottage by Arichoo.
Fairy house
If fairies were to take up residence in your Minecraft world, they would surely want to live in a cute pink cottage with flowers growing on the rooftop, right? This pretty fairy house design made by sillyblocks is highly detailed yet very beginner-friendly thanks to its use of basic resources. Let’s plant some more flowers!
Fantasy house
A pointy tower, bright orange roof, balconies, red roses… Yes, this is definitely a fantasy house. While it doesn’t take magical powers to build it yourself, note that this Minecraft house uses a great variety of materials, which would require you to visit several biomes in survival mode. Gathering quartz may be especially time-consuming, but you can always swap it to a more standard material like diorite.
Japanese Minecraft houses
Japanese Cherry house
Images of Japan and Sakura – cherry blossom – go hand in hand, so it’s only natural that creative builders have been making some stunning Japanese-inspired Minecraft builds from the beautiful pink cherry wood. Just look how truly incredible this Japanese Cherry House from Stevler is. From the images, you’d think this building would be quite tough, especially for a beginner builder, but don’t be put off – Stevler’s easy-to-follow, step-by-step video makes this dream build doable for even those of us who don’t know their floors from their ceilings. OK, we’re not quite that bad.
Japanese house
If you’re after a tranquil home, intricately built using vibrant and traditional colors, this Minecraft Japanese house build by Zaypixel is a doddle to build. The main materials for crafting this are cobblestone, dark oak, spruce, Prismarine, and sandstone – and you can surround it with blossom trees using pink wool. Our favorite detail is the prismarine roof, which contrasts nicely against all the dark oak.
As long as you have the materials to hand, you can have a peaceful Japanese house up and running in Minecraft in no time. Plus, a lot of the extra details, not to mention the interior, can be designed to your preference. When you’ve finished constructing the Japanese house, maybe you can create a garden complete with ornate bridges running over a pond filled with fish (brought over with a bucket).
Modern Minecraft houses
Circular modern house
Minecraft might be all blocks and straight edges, but somehow that makes it more fun to try and build curved shapes. That’s why we love this cool circular house from Claire593 on Instagram, which is simple but oh so stylish – just don’t expect much privacy from prying zombies.
Small modern house
If the prospect of building the large modern mansion above is a little too intimidating, here’s a smaller Minecraft modern house for you to try first. If the cute combination of grey concrete and stone is still a little too rustic-looking for you, this super simple tutorial can be tweaked to your own personal preferences, like white or even colored concrete and other alternative materials and shapes.
Large modern house
If a rustic abode isn’t your style, there are plenty of modern Minecraft house designs to choose from. Materials needed are a little harder to come by. They include stone, slabs, and clay to mold your modern crib, complete with large glass windows and a balcony to soak up the views. As such, modern houses take more time to plan and build, so you will need to be dedicated and have everything prepared in advance. We love the modern house design in the video above, with its floor-to-ceiling glass walls and stunning landscaped garden, complete with grass hedges and a meandering lake.
Suburban Minecraft house
If you’re looking for something simple, practical, and perhaps familiar, this suburban Minecraft house might be to your liking. It’s got all the features of a typical suburban home: two stories, a garage, and a porch. Despite its humble nature, it’s still a good-looking build made up of concrete, stone, and quartz. You’re also free to make the rooms a little bigger if you so wish, but keep in mind that you’ll have to scale everything up in order to keep it looking homely.
Another suburban house
This suburban house is slightly bigger than the one above and perhaps even more suitable for your new residential area. It simply rocks the pastel-grey color, garage door, slick pavement, and well-trimmed hedges. As would be expected, you’ll find an equally contemporary interior design behind the front door.
Wooden Minecraft houses
Warped wood house
As we mention below, the two Nether wood types can seem pretty garish on first glance. However, pair them with the right color palette, like IT-TVGaming here, and you can make something beautiful. This dark Warped wood and Deepslate combo might not be for everyone, but we love the gothic look, especially on the ice-white backdrop you can see above. That said, we also think a house like this would look pretty awesome in a swamp, a taiga, or, of course, The Nether – just don’t put a bed in it there.
Crimson wood house
The Crimson and Warped wood of the Nether are some of the hardest blocks to build with given their bright coloring, but we can’t get enough of this Crimson house by Swordself on reddit. Okay, so maybe there isn’t actually that much crimson wood in the build, but the palette used is gorgeous, and the top-heavy, ancient tavern style of the build is perfect for any setting. In fact, we love this Minecraft house so much we might build it in every wood type.
Acacia wood house
In our opinion, Acacia is one of the most difficult wood types to build with, thanks to its bright orange tone. However, it does go very nicely with grey stone blocks, and Stevler on YouTube has put together this beautiful Savanna house using acacia planks, logs, and stone bricks. The natural, low design with its surrounding fences also gives this Minecraft house the perfect style for the surrounding savanna biome.
Mangrove starter house
Mangrove wood might at first appear a difficult color to build with, but its beetroot red hue actually fits into a range of Minecraft block palettes. You can find an array of Mangrove wood house tutorials with a quick search, but we’ve chosen to highlight this cute one from Dio Rods not just because the tutorial itself is pretty cool, but because the house build is small and simple – a great place to start with this wood and biome. This also gives us an idea to try out out more houses from this guide, why not place a simple starter base in each biome?
Bamboo wood house
Okay, so bamboo planks might not be the best-looking wood variant Minecraft has ever seen, but it’s pretty unique – and bamboo rafts are awesome. If you’re struggling to work bamboo into your next build, take some inspiration from Linard, who has a few YouTube shorts making use of the unique wood set.
Since these are shorts, they aren’t as easy to follow as tutorials, which is why we’ve chosen to showcase the simpler small house above, but whether you follow it block-for-block, or use it as inspiration, you’ll hopefully wind up with a pretty cute bamboo Minecraft house.
Build your bamboo house in a jungle full of the stuff and against the coast so you can place some bamboo rafts around your jetty and sail off at will.
Dark oak starter house
Depending on which biome you spawn or decide to build your starter base, you might have to build with different wood, and the Dark Forest is a great pick thanks to its gorgeous Dark Oak wood type and giant fairycore toadstools.
This gorgeous and simple little starter base blends in perfectly with both, as YouTuber Dio Rods even helps to make the outside of your new home look perfect, by placing little red mushrooms around to match the biome around it.
Cherry wood house
As soon as the pink cherry wood variant was announced as part of Minecraft 1.20, it was obvious that the best Minecraft builders would create some stunning houses with cherry logs. Cute Minecraft builds and cottagecore styles are among the most popular Minecraft houses, so what better than a pink wood family to build your pastel dream house with?
Of an ever-increasing selection of pink houses following the Trails and Tales update, the above build by Marloe is just one great pick of an incredibly fruitful selection. We particularly love how surprisingly well that deepslate base matches the pink tones.
Spruce Taiga House
Spruce is objectively one of the best-looking wood types in Minecraft, so if you find yourself in a Taiga biome, it’s only natural to want to build your house from the dark wood. The hard part is deciding on the rest of the color palette – i.e. the best blocks to pair with your planks.
This cute Taiga starter house is absolutely perfect, and solves the block palette problem by incorporating cobblestone and mossy cobblestone into the build, perfectly matching with the mossy cobblestone patches found naturally in Old Growth Taigas. Even if you don’t find the larger Taiga variant and thus haven’t got a building plot surrounded with podzol and cobblestone, this house still looks gorgeous in any biome, taiga or otherwise, has everything you need in a starter base, and is easy to build.
Birch house
The rather handy Buildit app has a range of great Minecraft builds and step-by-step picture tutorials to help you build them, and we’ve gone through them for you to find the best. One of those is this birch wood house, which, unlike many other birch houses online, capitalizes on that unique color and pattern of birch logs.
Combining birch logs with oak logs and spruce planks provides this perfect palette, and the unique shape of this house also caught our eye, as well as the use of campfires over the door. All together, these interesting style ideas provide a cute and simple birch cottage that’s quick to build as your boot up your next survival world.
Wooden Starter House
While you can get fancy with a lot of the options on this list, if you’re looking for something straight forward and practical to build in surival mode, this Wooden Starter House by Base Tutorials will get you ready. Wood is by far the easiest material to acquire in survival mode, and you’re going to be stuck with a lot of it if you end up clearing a forest. This is the perfect opportunity to build something that is both cozy and simple enough that you won’t have to spend hours dedicating your life to constructing.
Minecraft wooden house
Your wooden house in Minecraft can be as big or small as you like, from wood-paneled palatial mansions to cozy log cabins positioned on the outskirts of a Minecraft village, you can let your imagination run riot as long as you have the supplies. Wooden houses are extremely versatile, easy to gather materials for, and can be created to suit your Minecraft needs.
If you fancy extending it later on to create more rooms, then the relative ease at which you can gather materials makes a wooden house an attractive proposition. Also, this sweet wooden cabin comes with a porch, so you can relax and take it easy before setting off on an adventure. If you feel like changing it up, you can replace wooden house designs with any of the ten Minecraft wood types, including Tales and Trails bamboo planks.
Minecraft copper house
Natural copper house
Unless you’re super creative, Minecraft copper blocks are one of the hardest materials to build with. Thankfully, there are plenty of people out there who are great at building with this palette. Most often, you’ll see the orange and green blocks paired with others, like stone or wood blocks, to make it a little less garish, and this build from Folli on YouTube is the perfect example of that, somehow making these industrial blocks look stunning in a natural build.
Japenese copper house
Since the Minecraft 1.21 update added more blocks to the copper family, and it’s a fairly easy ore to come by in large quantities, building a house from the material is a great way to use it up while practicing your craft. Unlike the house above, this Japanese style Minecraft house from Linard uses more of the blocks that were added with Trial Chambers, such as grates and copper doors.
Round copper house
Also using some of the copper blocks from the Minecraft 1.21 update, as well as chains, iron gates, and more, this spectacular round Minecraft house from IT-TCGaming is quite the marvel. The good thing about this build is we think it would look equally good in nature, as the creator themselves have built it, as it would in a more built up or industrial area in your Minecraft world.
Underground Minecraft houses
Underground base
A more recent trend for Minecraft houses is to construct a basement property, with stairs leading to the entrance to your underground base. To make these unique living quarters, you’ll need to hollow out the area in which you want to construct your base. Then, when you’ve built up the walls, stairs, and everything else your property needs, you can stick some glass on the roof to allow some sunlight to shine through. If you’re particularly keen on keeping plants indoors, this is a great option.
This can be tough to keep efficiently lit at night, but that’s nothing a few torches or glowstone blocks can’t fix. Do you want to know the best part? Because this is in Minecraft, you won’t ever need to worry about mold forming on the walls. Just be sure to have sufficient fencing surrounding your house, otherwise, you could have a rather rude knock at your door at night.
Cave house
The great benefit of a Minecraft cave house is that you can build it anywhere as long as there’s solid ground. That said, turning a cave into a good-looking home can be tricky due to the uneven floors and walls. This handy cave house tutorial by TheMythicalSausage offers some great tips on how to create a practical layout and make it look natural at the same time. Try using slabs and upside-down stairs, and you’ll have an amazing underground base in no time.
Ravine base
You might not technically be able to call this a “house”, but it’s certainly still a home – and a pretty awesome one at that. In the video above, watch SmallishBeans turn an entire ravine into a beautiful base, complete with its own villager trade market. The beauty of this base is that you can start off small with somewhere safe to spend the night and expand on it as much or as little as you want, adding more and more rooms and environments as you see fit.
Underwater house
While it’s arguably easier to go for a half-submerged house, let’s go for the real deal and build ourselves a fully submerged underwater base. This glass igloo design by Random Steve Guy offers an amazing view of Minecraft’s underwater world, and it doesn’t even require any rare building materials. As mobs aren’t fond of swimming, this underwater house is well-suited for survival mode. The main difficulty is finding some sponges, as you’ll need them to drain the water.
Minecraft treehouses
Jungle tree house
A proper Minecraft jungle house should always involve a tree in its design, right? This little jungle base created by MegRae uses a rather simple wooden structure that fits around any large jungle tree, making it very easy to recreate in your own Minecraft world. You don’t need more than a few stacks of jungle wood, jungle leaves, and torches, leaving you more than enough time to explore this dense biome.
Minecraft treehouse
These Minecraft houses aren’t for vertigo sufferers, but Minecraft treehouses are a great way to escape the creepers that come out at night to save you time repairing your Minecraft shield. Treehouses are also a simple way to get a great view of the local area or a vantage point to shoot arrows at Minecraft mobs.
You can build your new home perched atop a tree or build a brand-new tree from scratch. Getting the base right is essential in the construction of your Minecraft treehouse, whether you want a tree that functions as a house or a house at the top of a tree. This concealed and peaceful home, adorned with rose bushes and featuring a nifty trapdoor, is a great place to start. Just make sure to include a ladder, or you won’t be able to get back in.
Minecraft treehouse village
If neither of those are challenging enough for you, you’ve got time on your hands, or you want to house more than just yourself, we love the idea of building a village of small treehouses, and connecting them with bridges.
That’s just what Ansonat3r on reddit has done in their survival world, building a series of small, round homes around jungle tree trunks, and linking them all together with starcases and bridges. There’s even a central wooden platform for villagers to meet, chat, and trade wares.
Medieval Minecraft houses
Small medieval Minecraft house
Medieval houses in Minecraft come in all shapes and sizes. You may want a sturdy Minecraft castle built of stone, host to gothic cobblestone features, eerie fireplaces, and a hidden lair – especially stunning since the addition of Cobbled Darkstone. Maybe you’re looking for a simple rustic village dwelling fashioned from oak, encompassed by a canopy of trees, or placed in a rural green hideaway. Our favorite of the bunch has to be this combination of the two, with all the grand stonework of a castle paired with barn-like features. This cozy, simple build means you won’t get too bogged down in the design aspect, saving you time to explore.
On the other hand, if complex constructions are in your wheelhouse, check out our rundown of the very best Minecraft builds if you’re thinking of turning your house into a palace.
Large medieval Minecraft house
If the previous Minecraft medieval house idea is not quite up to your standard, try this epic medieval mansion. True, it will take a lot of time to build it (see 0:14 for an overview of the resources needed), but every noble lord in the neighborhood shall be green with envy.
Cool Minecraft houses
Floating Minecraft house
You might say the house below this one is floating too, just in a different way, but we also can’t help but think a little house raft would be a peaceful and refreshing way to live. More importantly, it’s a great way to keep those pesky creepers at bay.
This simple house is just like any other you might find on land, but its little floating base, small deck, and boat transportation turn a regular Minecraft home into something truly unique. For an even better effect, just add some pretty Minecraft shaders and watch the sun rise and set on the horizon or just look at the rippling reflection of your home in the water as you’re chilling – in safety – outside your front door.
Multiplayer house
We love this incredible “ultimate” survival house by Bradmall almost as much as we love his easy-to-follow tutorial on how to build it. Bradmall has a smooth talking style, great editing, and even shows you how to add depth to your builds in a way you can take to future designs.
However, the main thing we love about this build is the symmetrical L-shape, and while Brad’s interior is fantastic, this build actually gave us inspiration for an easy two-player build perfect for teaming up with a friend on a server. Put anything you want to share in the middle their, then take a wing each for your living quarters!!
Minecraft Up house
Is there a more iconic house than Carl’s colorful floating house from the Disney Pixar movie Up? We don’t think so. And just look how magnificent it looks built from bricks. We love a floating house in Minecraft and have built a few of our own, but this Up house by Smithers Boss on YouTube is definitely our favorite. Thanks to their simple-to-follow block-by-block tutorial, it’s easy to get your own Up house in your Minecraft world… You’ve just got to work out how to get in and out of it.
Floating island house
Okay, we promise this is the last ‘floating’ house here, but we just can’t decide which of these three we love most. This one has a modest base atop a floating island. Like the Up house above, it’s neither the easiest home to build nor particularly easy to get in and out of, but this one is arguably better for the latter if you want to stay on brand. Simply create either a ladder of vines or a water elevator and drop from this island to get up and down.
Building the floating island itself in survival mode is not easy, we’ve done it ourselves on our multiplayer Minecraft server, but it is doable – and made easier with some scaffolding, crafted from string and bamboo.
Tiny Minecraft house
You really don’t need more than two square meters of living space in your Minecraft house. No, really, we’re not exaggerating; this tiny house is only three by four meters, but it has everything you need, including a bed, workbench, furnaces, and storage space. Oh, and let’s not forget about the tiny rooftop farm. Yup, the creator of this small Minecraft house truly thought of everything.
Teeny Minecraft house
Let’s take that a bit further, shall we? Who needs two square meters if you can live on one? This teeny, tiny, ridiculously small Minecraft house created by BigTonyMC is only three by three meters, including the walls. It’s just as efficient and adorable as the previous design, but it looks completely different. If you prefer sturdy, stone walls, this piece of bite-sized brilliance may be the best small house for you.
Beach house
Perhaps your starting location is somewhere close to the coast, and you want something a little more fitting for the local area. Whether your idea of a beach house is a ramshackle hut nestled on the water’s edge or a serene three-tiered mansion complete with a swimming pool, there are tonnes to choose from. Our favorite is the unassuming, easy-to-build villa above. It has a clever use of trap doors as decorations but takes quite a lot of quartz blocks to construct. It has a small pool to tip your tootsies in, fitting for a relaxing end to a hard day’s adventuring.
Minecraft villa
If you want to relax by the pool with a cool drink in hand, you’ll need your very own Minecraft villa. Luckily, with the help of this video tutorial from BlueBits, it should be relatively easy to create something beautiful. With three floors and an adjoining tower, this design is certainly intricate, so we suggest adapting the main structures and patterns to fit your specifications.
You’ll need a lot of terracotta, smooth sandstone, bricks, and concrete to get the foundations laid, but once you get the bare bones built, you can fill it with these luxury Minecraft kitchen ideas. You can also make it into a rustic villa by adding some of our Minecraft farm designs.
Hobbit hole house
The Minecraft hobbit hole house is quite a popular build, but this interpretation absolutely nails the original Bag End look. As seen in the Lord of the Rings movies, the hobbit house is situated inside a small green hill behind a round, green door opening with adjacent round windows. It has a similar wooden interior complete with more round entryways, plus a lovely little flower garden and chimney outside. The secret greenhouse at the end is optional.
Log cabin house
Most wood cabins in Minecraft are made from processed wood, or as we usually call those; planks. Nothing beats the cosiness of a true log cabin though, especially when it’s placed in a snowy winter wonderland. This little log cabin design predominantly uses oak logs, spruce logs, and stripped spruce logs as building materials to recreate that authentic look. Top that off with some decorative cookies, cakes, and snowberries, and your perfect winter cabin is finished. Is it Christmas yet?
Country farm house
This Minecraft farmhouse is one of the most beautiful and accurate designs out there, complete with farmland, storage buildings, and a barn for your animals. The farmhouse itself has a large porch and tons of decorative details. It’ll undoubtedly take some time to recreate this farm, but that’s mostly because of its size. The important resources, wood, and brick (clay), aren’t too hard to come by.
Desert house
With its use of sandstone, wooden details, and layered style, this Minecraft desert house will be a true eyecatcher in an otherwise barren landscape. The most important building material is smooth sandstone, which is made by smelting normal sandstone, so it shouldn’t be hard to get. Despite the modest size of this desert house, the end result looks like a tiny palace that wouldn’t be out of place in a thousand-and-one-night fairytale.
Viking house
A typical Viking house is made of wood, has a triangular shape, and uses crossed wooden beams at the top of its roof. We understand that time is short in between raids, so here’s a relatively simple Minecraft Viking house tutorial from TheWalkingWhale that looks awesome, is 100% historically accurate (sort of), and explains exactly how to create those typical Viking features. Skal!
Brick house
This small brick house by Tanol Games uses classic red brick blocks combined with grey stone bricks, which creates a nice color pattern. It comes with several classic details, such as a small porch, roof windows, and a chimney. Most importantly, however, it doesn’t require an enormous stack of bricks to build this house, saving the survival mode players a lot of time.
Lake house
You can build a Minecraft house near a lake, a Minecraft house in the middle of a lake, or, and that’s the one we prefer, a Minecraft house on a lake yet still connected to the land. This particular lake house design uses only wood and glass, making it fairly easy to build. It starts with a wooden pier leading onto a larger wooden platform, then details the structure of the house. Make sure you don’t miss the handy layout at 01:36.
Cliff house
Minecraft cliff houses that defy the laws of gravity always look super impressive, so naturally, we want one, too. This cliff house, which is made from wood and stone, rocks the ‘overhanging’ front design, complete with decorative support beams. What’s especially handy though, is that the creator is actually walking and climbing instead of flying, showing us how to recreate this cliff house in survival mode without falling to our deaths.
Victorian house
This Victorian house design by WBC Builds nails the tall, pointy, gothic look of the nineteenth century’s architecture. Even more impressively, it’s based on a real-life Victorian gatehouse. The archways, high windows, and brick walls are exceptionally accurate, and not too difficult to recreate. If you’re a survival player, however, you might want to use wood instead of bricks as it’s much easier to collect.
Witch house
This Minecraft witch house in the shape of a witch’s hat is by far the spookiest place to live. As you might expect, it’s full of odd decorations such as candles, pumpkins, mushrooms, and amethyst, so be prepared to do a ton of material gathering if you wish to create it in survival mode. If you do, however, we’re pretty sure that even the zombies will give your house a wide berth.
Haunted house
This haunted mansion won’t be easy to replicate, but its creepiness and spooky details make it worth the time investment. After all, you can’t have a Minecraft haunted house without a multitude of mysterious rooms to haunt. If you’re attempting a similar haunted house build in survival mode, you might want to swap the blackstone for another type of stone or dark oak wood, as blackstone will be hard to gather. Another tip: don’t hold back on the lanterns and cobwebs once you’re done with the main structure.
Nether house
This Minecraft nether house tutorial by Reimiho is complex yet easy to understand, all thanks to the creator’s top-down layouts and use of overworld examples. As you might expect from a true nether house design, it’s predominantly built from resources found in Minecraft’s nether underworld, such as blackstone and warped stems. This may seem intimidating if you’re not playing in creative mode, but once you’ve gone through that Minecraft Nether Portal, they actually aren’t that difficult to find. Watch out for dangerous nether mobs though!
Minecraft house blueprints
If you need a hand building your house from scratch, blueprints for your Minecraft house are a great place to start. There are a ton of Minecraft blueprints available online that’ll take you through the step-by-step layers to building up a Minecraft house, including the materials you’ll need to build your dream home. Grabcraft is a great source of blueprints for a variety of homes such as cozy cabins, medieval castles, and quaint fishing huts.
These Minecraft house ideas are the ideal starting point if you’re looking for some inspiration on your next build. If you want somewhere to call home when you return from fighting enemies or a place to brew potions in Minecraft, creating a house is both satisfying and rewarding. If you want to experiment a little further with some Minecraft mods, here’s how to install Minecraft Forge to keep them all in one place. Searching for even more inspiration? Check out our guide to the best Minecraft seeds to find the perfect place to build your new house.
Additional contributions by Marloes Valentina Stella and Gina Lees.
