Minecraft Survival Base Tutorial

1. Use a circle template, like this one, and build the outline of your base. I used a little over a stack of cobblestone for the one I used for my base, #19.
2. Smelt a ton of sand into glass. I used almost three stacks of glass panes for the next step.
3. Glass panes are cheaper, but are harder to build with. I placed two layers of glass panes on the cobblestone outline. Your home is now animal-free, so you can move in if you're playing on peaceful. Don't turn all of your glass into panes, because you'll need some glass blocks later.
4. On the parts of the circle outline that have two blocks diagonally next to each other, you'll need to use an extra glass pane for it to look good from the outside. See diagram below:

5. Continue placing layers of cobblestone on the circle outline. You can add windows now if you want, but the way I do the lighting in my base, you don't need windows on the walls.

6. It's up to you how high you want the ceilings on each floor in your base (or if you want ceilings at all.) I built a pretty small circle, so no ceilings wouldn't have looked very good. If you build a bigger circle, you can just have no ceiling. It feels open and looks really cool. Here's an example. I personally hate the feeling of two-block-high ceilings, and if you have a bed inside your house, two-block-high-ceilings won't work. I always have three or four-block-high ceilings. Fill in the ceilings on a few floors, depending on how high you want your ceilings to be, how high you built the cobblestone wall in step five, and how many floors you want.

7. Decide if you want just a central ladder going through your base, or stairs in between each floor. In my base, I have a central ladder and stairs going between areas that I use a lot.

8. Make sure you have the ceiling of the top floor done. Now it's time for the lighting. You can use torches if you want, but I personally think glowstone looks really good. Get a stack to a stack and a half of glass blocks. Not panes, those look horrible when you use them in ceilings and you keep falling through them if you're not careful.

9. You can choose exactly how you want to do this step. On the roof, make rings of glass around the place where the ladder comes out, and have a regular patter of glowstone. You can use anywhere between 4 and 24 glowstone on each floor. depending on how big your base is and how much glowstone you have. Check out my other Minecraft PE Base post for more pictures. Here's one:

My Minecraft PE Survival Base

        My main survival world is a peaceful mode world. The seed I used is 0.69.0, which is the BEST SEED EVER. I got it from this video. You spawn at the bottom of a hill, and there's lots of goodies under spawn (iron, diamond, gold, AND coal!!). Since it's a peaceful world, I didn't really need a house and my base was a bunch of chests, furnaces, a crafting table, and a bed in front of the spawn hill. However, I'm preparing to turn off peaceful mode forever, so I decided to get a bunch of resources and build an awesome base. Here's how to get to the site of my house: Walkover to the right edge of the hill and climb over it. There's a tundra on top of the hill. Walk across it, and go down the hill. You'll see a big, grassy plain with tons of animals.
        My base is a big cobblestone cylinder with windows. Here's a picture:

My Base

        My base currently has two floors and a ceiling. There's a ladder going up through the center. The bottom floor is sort of boring. There's just the usual stuff: furnace, crafting table, stonecutter, bed, etc. There's also the entrance to my mine and the entrance to the sheep maze. I'll explain later. The second floor is my utility room. There's a crafting center with a chest full of fuel, another bed, and my chest area.

Second Floor Chest Storage Area

        My base is a torch-free zone. I hate the old-fashioned look of torches and Mojang's failed attempt to make them look like they're flickering. Glowstone is just SO much better. I built rings of glass in the exact same position on each floor, with some glowstone. During the day, the natural sunlight goes all the way to the bottom floor. It's awesome. Here's some pictures: 

My roof

View from the second floor

View from the bottom floor

        Also, I have an over-the-top wool farm. It's not really a farm, though. It's more like an awesome habitat for the sheep. It's almost a maze, with several rooms and flowers in each one. There's also little decorative pools of water.

The sheep maze

       This screenshot was taken last Thursday, when Springtime the green sheep was still happily enjoying his beautiful home. He came into my life when he accidentally wandered too close to my house and was pushed into the sheep pit. He was tragically lost in an accident on Sunday in which he was annoying me by trying to escape. I tried to poke him with my fists, but I forgot to put away my diamond sword.  Let's all have a moment of silence to mourn the loss of Springtime, the green sheep. 

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        Finally, there's my failed beacon. I learned a trick to build beacons without having to fall off and die: build a two-block-wide tower as you're going up, and dig your way down on one side when you're done. My beacon, however, failed for two reasons: One, I didn't start out with enough materials. At first I used dirt, then stone, then sand. My second mistake was falling off not once, but twice. This means the beacon is about half as tall as it could be. You can see my base before you see the beacon, which defeats the purpose of a beacon. Sad Face.

Beacon Fail

        Sorry for the really late post, imaginary readers. My posts are always too long.