Minecraft: How to Build a Wooden Starter House (Easy, Simple, and Perfect for Survival)

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Learn how to build an easy and simple wooden starter house for your survival world. This house has a cozy, aesthetic interior equipped with a blast furnace, smoker, crafting table, armor stand, bed, storage, wheat farm, and a small animal farm. Perfect for Dark Forest and Taiga biome.

Before we get into the tutorial, please make sure you download our Material Checklist right above so that you can have it on hand to help keep track of the materials while you collect resources.

Minecraft: How to Build a Wooden Starter House (Step-by-Step) Tutorial

STEP 1. Layout Dimensions

STEP 2. Flooring

Fill the interior of the layout with spruce planks.

STEP 4. Build the Walls

In the front and back of the house (from left to right), build 4 blocks up, then 5 blocks up, then 6 blocks up, then 5 blocks up, then 4 blocks up with stripped spruce log.

On the left and right side, build 4 blocks up in front of the stripped spruce log with spruce log. Do the same thing for the back of the house.

STEP 5. Build the roof

In the photo above, you’re going to create the roof line with spruce stairs by copying the pattern above.

This is what the start of your roof should look like so far.

Add 3 glass blocks in between the stripped spruce logs.

Complete the roof by filling the remaining spots with spruce planks and 2 spruce slabs, one in the front and one in the back of the house (shown below).

If you want to stay organized and keep track of all of your materials, download my free material checklist for this build by clicking the image above.