First Night Cave House

This will show you how to make a cheap and efficient house for your first night.

Materials

Before you even think about building anything, you will need to obtain a few building materials.

• 44 wooden planks (or 11 wooden logs)
• 30 cobblestone
• 3 wool
• 1 coal

Building the house

A good location for the cave.

Standing in a 1X2 doorway, looking into the 3X3X2 cave

Find a sutible location for your cave, it should be a small hill or a large mountain. Big enough for a 3X3X2 (3 length, 3 width and 2 height) box inside it.

Dig out 1X2 (1 length, 2 hight) blocks infront of you for a doorway.

Dig a 3X2 box inside the hill, making sure that the doorway is not a part of it but is the only way to access the box.

Roof and walls replaced

How they should be placed

Replace the roof and floor with wood (18 planks)

Replace the walls with cobblestone (22 cobble)

How I decorate

Craft a crafting table (4 planks), a furnace (8 cobble), a chest (8 planks) and a 

bed (3 wood and 3 wool).

Place them as shown in the picture (optional)

Then craft some sticks (2 planks), a door (6 planks), 4 torches (1 stick, 1 coal) and place them inside the cave with the door in the 1X2 space.

If you have excess materials. Decorate. Also if you want to expand your base to make it a full time one then here are a few things to build that will get you started: 

1. Build a cooking/furnace room 
2. Build a crafting room 
3. Build a forgery room (needs an anvil(3 iron blocks, 4 iron ingots)) 
4. Build an enchantment room 
5. Build storage room