Benefits:

  • No exterior to build
  • easy
  • fast
  • it can look like shit and still be “good enough”
  • So much stone you’ll never need a cobble farm
  • easy
  • Dearth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The modern minecraft mountain generation is so good. I love finding a nice mountain and start hollowing it out. My latest word i found an island with a trial chamber underneath it. A decent sized cave system and a natural cove for me to build farms around.

  • LoreSoong@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Making a complex underground bunker inside of a mountain with a big automatic redstone door. is always the “go to” base for me. Makes me feel like a super villan on modded id always look for volcanos for the same reason.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Exactly this, but I’m modded Minecraft you can usually also just camouflage a door. The only tricky part is if you need a garden; some mods support camouflage glass but I usually just have a subtle hole in an inconspicuous place.

        • taiyang@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          In vanilla, and many mods yeah. I’m thinking about some stuff that requires direct access to the sky. Although now off the top of my head wouldn’t be a garden so much as an observatory for Astral Sorcery.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Dirt hut that gets half-assed upgraded to wood, then stone if I’m feeling fancy.

    I’ve never been great at design :’)

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Underground/Cave/Mountain bases are goated. On top of all of this, they’re easy to expand without having to redesign or move, and in modded you can make room for glorp inside the walls almost unnoticeably

  • HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Go ahead bomb my 2×2×5 cell with a bed, furnace, workbench, and double layer chest. It will take me all of 5 minutes to replace

  • depletedDefenses@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Any house that is carved into like a hill already got 5/6 walls and thus by default the best ROI(you don’t spend any building material and get some back). Heck, you might even have a 2 block gap and have all 6 walls already in place.

    Although I find that building one in the ground(like a hole) also works.

  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    In any survival style game I play, it’s the bare minimum for me. Hell, in Palworld, I only made a 3 wall house with a roof because that counts as an enclosure.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Solo, or multiplayer with friends - has to be the biggest gnarliest thing you can possibly make.

    Online, or multiplayer with “friends” - dig a hole, cover roof, go for a nice cup of tea and wait for morning.

  • simulacra_procession@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    griefers cant blow up my base if I already blew it up myself with a nuclear reactor, making the surrounding area an irradiated hellscape

  • Demdaru@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A small wooden hut with slightly stylised roof, a bed, a firmace and crafting table.

    Oh and trap door.

    Now, tunnels below may reach multiple hundreds of blocks each way like tendrils…and be more stylised inside tha n the hut…

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Man, makes me remember the days of building TnT cannons and playing Mafia online. Good ole days XD

  • neidu4@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Started a Minecraft server recently for the household+friends, and I did what I’ve done for 15 years: Small shack on the surface, huge tunnel base underground