Author: Jim Stephenson

Who would’ve ever thought that it would be possible for a video game to give player a chance to design a modern house outside of SIMS? Well, Minecraft is one of the most popular world-building and sandbox video games in the industry right now, and it’s heavily played by both children and adults.

For the uninformed, Minecraft is a world-building video game where you get to harvest resources and refine them for building or crafting materials. You could literally make a simple wooden house in a few minutes or a fancy barn for your animals.

But you could always go for something bigger. And that’s what we’ll be discussing today. For builders who want to take building houses to the next level, here’s a short list of the best and most modern Minecraft house ideas to inspire you.

And yes, all credit for the modern house ideas you see here will go toward their creators.

The Best Modern Minecraft House Ideas

You’re probably thinking that the modern houses you see here are inspired by professional architects, and you’re right to think that. Some of the house ideas you’re about to see are beautiful and amazing to look at.

Unfortunately, these designs may not be feasible when you’re playing other games that play a lot like Minecraft.

SheepGG’s Clean Modern House

SheepGG is one of the most popular YouTube content creators for Minecraft, and he probably has one of the best Minecraft house ideas in the game.

Breaking tradition from cottage-core builds, SheepGG takes us back to when things were simpler. The modern house design he has on his channel is as simple as it can be, but it can be a grind if you decide to follow the entire list of materials.

To build such a house, you’ll need wooden blocks and normal and dark Quartz block to augment the textures. It’s completely up to you on whether or not you do follow the list.

This is a two-story house with enough space on the bottom floor for living quarters and storage, and the upper floor for personal rooms. There’s even a small garden attached to it, which you could turn into a farm for some small crops.

Halny’s Modern Mansion with Swimming Pool

Minecraft house ideas on this will either be large, grand, might contain a pool, sculpted into a mountain, or buried underground, or a combination of all of them.

But we thought we might keep things simple first with this modern mansion designed by Halny. The exterior facade reminds me a lot about honeycombs, which creatively highlights the three home’s compartments. This is a three story modern house design, but you have enough room to be creative here.

The yard is simple enough as it is. There’s enough room for a walkway, a garden to the right side, and then of course, your very own pool.

Juns Mab’s 5×5 Modern House

Taking things one step further is Juns Mab’s 5×5 Modern Mansion, adequately named as such because the house measures 5 blocks long and 5 blocks wide. If you’re running low on space on the island, this large modern house build might be enough.

Juns Mab goes over the design of this mansion through his large modern house tutorial on YouTube. Each compartment serves its own function, such as the bottom floor being the kitchen and storage room, the middle room being the living quarters, and the top floor for being an enchantment area.

SheepGG’s Aquarium House

You read that title right, and SheepGG takes all the credit for this fancy modern house design.

This super creative design takes you with a one-story modern Minecraft house but with a large glass aquarium attached to the side. You can fill up this aquarium with fish and sea plants as you can see in the image.

SheepGG utilizes a combination of black, white, and grey color scheme, which makes it one of the most minimalistic Minecraft modern house in terms of aesthetics. But the exterior aquarium takes the cake.

6tenstudio’s Modern Treehouse

Did you unfortunately spawn in the middle of the jungle? Take advantage of the elements with this literal wooden house design by 6tenstudio.

This is a modern take on the classic treehouse, and as you can see from the video, the house is literally carved into the tree. The trunk houses the elevator showcased at the start of the video, which will take you to the main part of the house.

The house itself has two floors and gives you enough room for living quarters, storage, and then some.

Juns Mab’s Full Wooden House

Nothing says modern like a full on wooden house, or shall we say, a modern take on the classic log cabin.

Juns Mab once again decides to show us how to fully maximize the use of wooden blocks, and this is probably one of the most impressive yet practical wooden houses we’ve seen.

The modern house design has two floors, with the stairs built outside and leading to the second floor. You’ll have a lot of room on the bottom floor for furniture pieces and double chests. The second floor features glass panes for the windows so you have a view of the sunset or sunrise.

Halny’s Squid Game House

Halny’s second take on a Minecraft modern house is this Squid Game-inspired creative house. And yes, the home’s facade is based on the red hoodie and mask combination that the guards were wearing in the Netflix series.

The house only has one story and is broken into three compartments, which you can easily access through the side doors.

Random Steve Guy’s Smallest Modern House

Modern doesn’t necessarily mean grand. And the next modern Minecraft house we have is the smallest house we’ll see on this list.

Designed and built by Random Steve Guy, you can think of this as the modern version of a tiny hut. The house features a beautiful combination of white, grey, and black color scheme and is built mostly out of concrete with wood finishings.

The house is slightly elevated off the ground, which is evident of the stairs leading to the front doors from the side.

If you just want a modern Minecraft house to build in survival mode or in PvP, this is the design.

Zaypixel’s Modern Beach House

Spawning in a tropical zone might seem like a deal breaker, but there’s no better place for the next Minecraft modern house we have than the beach.

Zaypixel has designed this amazing beach house right by the shore. The house has two floors, with the second floor serving as the main floor of the house. The bottom floor houses the stairwell and other materials.

Juns Mab’s Extreme Mountain House

Juns Mab has outdone himself with one of the most impressive modern Minecraft house ideas on this list. We’ve seen houses built on top of mountains, but what if we told you Juns Mab built a house inside the mountain?

This mountain house is built a lot similar to an underground house since it requires you to do a lot of digging, except you’re not digging underneath but on the side of the mountain.

This modern house has two floors dug deep into the side of the mountain, so house building will be a bigger challenge than the mountain itself. The house follows the same patterns as his other Minecraft house designs where the rooms are in compartments.

You have windows big enough to see the outside, and with the house being built into the mountain, it’s also one of the best survival house ideas too.

JINTUBE’s Gracium Modern House

This is one of the most beautiful Minecraft house designs we’ve ever seen, and the best thing about this is that you can have different builds while still achieving the same results.

JINTUBE, the brains behind this amazing Minecraft house design, showcases a beautiful white mansion with a building-like facade, an infinity pool, and carved strategically on the side of the cliff.

And from the video, you’ll see similar Minecraft houses bearing the same aesthetics but have different modern builds. Some houses are just built with one floor but sprawled across a wide area, and there are houses with an indoor pool instead of an outdoor one.

The Wrap Up

It’d be close to impossible to condense all of the modern Minecraft house ideas from YouTube and Twitch into one piece of content. Modern houses are becoming thematic for a lot of people who want to build their dream houses in Minecraft.

But with these builds, you’ll need a lot materials, ranging from wooden materials to different kinds of stone materials. If you don’t want a similar house, you can always go with materials different from that of the modern houses on here.

Minecraft is one of the most popular video games right now amongst children and adults alike. During the first year of the pandemic, Mojang has seen an immense increase in Minecraft players, with new players joining in every single day.

But what exactly is the appeal here? Is it the endless sandboxed universe that allows players to just gather resources and build anything on a whim? Or is it being able to get together with your friends and just do anything and everything?

If you’re a new player and you want to get started with playing the game right, you’ll want to learn about two important concepts: your starter houses and your starter barns.

Minecraft houses are pretty explanatory. This is your shelter that protects you, and maybe your tamed mobs and villagers, from other players and hostile enemies.

Minecraft barns will house your food and animals, which is important for food production. On top of building Minecraft farms, you’ll want someplace to store your harvests. And that’s what we’ll be talking about in this article.

Best Minecraft Barn Ideas

Listed below are some of the best Minecraft barn ideas we sourced from various Minecraft players. Some of the builds here are perfect for new players, while others are a bit more complicated. There are a few that may require another player or two due to the size of the project.

Ultimate Minecraft Barn

For The Ultimate Minecraft Designer and Builder

Creator: MythicalSausage

First on the list we have the Ultimate Barn from YouTuber MythicalSausage. Featuring a rounded roof and side towers, this barn has everything you’d ever want and need in a barn.

The materials are a good combination of dark oak wood and bone blocks, which will require you to visit the Nether if you want to follow this tutorial down to the T. If not, any type of wood and stone will suffice.

The foundation is made of stone blocks while the upper half is made from wooden materials. You’ll need stone bricks for the wall if you want to add more texture. Spruce wood is necessary for the roof and cobblestone for the walls. If you’re a solo player, this might take you a few days at the very least, but it’s all worth it.

Free Range Circular Barn and Animal Pens

An Aesthetic Animal Barn

Creator: ItsMarloe

Are you currently located in an open field or a wide area? If so, this free range animal barn by ItsMarloe should have you covered.

This is an elegant barn when it boils right down to it. The main barn is a small barn but it does have enough room to separate all your animals and enough space for crops and plants.

If you’re going to work off ItsMarloe’s design, this classic barn should have you building four separate animal pens for your baby animals. You’ll have an outdoor pen for your adult animals too.

Just like the Ultimate Barn by MythicalSausage, this animal barn is a good combination of wood and stone materials. If you want to match the texture, you’ll need a lot of spruce wood, brick, oak, granite, and brown concrete powder.

Minecraft Barn Idea With Chicken Farm

A Classic Barn For Housing Animals And Raising Chickens

Creator: Gorillo

This is another one of the most popular barn ideas that’s meant to keep your animals separate while raising them at the same time. For Gorillo’s design, this isn’t an ordinary barn in Minecraft.

This is a functional barn that comes with a functional chicken farm and egg farm. Following this tutorial, you’ll need 18 bricks and hoppers. Both are difficult to acquire, but like all the other barn ideas, they’re worth it.

If you want to get started with eggs and feathers, then this is the perfect barn for you. The ground floor of this animal barn holds three animal pens and two chicken farms, though you’re free to adjust as you see fit. The animal pens are designed to hold larger animals such as cattle, horses, and llamas.

The main blocks are stone and cobblestone, while stairs are made of deepslate, and brick blocks for the walls. For an aesthetic animal barn, you’ll want chains, lanterns, and grindstone. You can make use of other aesthetics such as oak fences or a bench made out of spruce logs. On his YouTube video for this barn, Gorillo will show you how to design everything.

Rustic Barn

A Simple Animal Barn Design

Creator: Cryptozoology

If you’re looking for a rustic barn design, then get a load of this design by Cryptozoology. Unlike some of the other barn ideas on this article, this barn only has one floor and is spread out across the area.

Cryptozoology’s design covers six animal pens, workspace for smokers and furnace, and enough storage space for double chests.

At a glance, it looks like a simple barn design. You have your usual ingredients such as brick, spruce logs, and dark oak wood. If you’re going to follow the tutorial, you’ll need to farm for Spruce blocks. Thankfully, Cryptozoology will give you alternatives if grinding isn’t your forte.

A Llama Barn With Stables

House Your Llamas And Other Animals In Style

Creator: Reimiho

This American styled barn is one of the best barn ideas that involves raising horses and llamas. And Reimiho’s building skills took this idea to the next level, as you can plainly see from the image above.

This is a two-story barn that offers enough rooms for llama stables and horse stables. There’s also an outdoor enclosure and some room for double chests. Depending on your building skills, you could easily build an adjacent starter house.

Although it looks like a simple barn, the design is a lot more complicated. You’ll need a combination of different wooden materials for their texture and shading.

Medieval Barn With Stables

A Barn Idea From The Past

Creator: Mr Mirror

Up next we have this medieval barn created by Mr Mirror. And the aesthetics alone will take you on a journey through time.

Mr Mirror did an excellent job designing this medieval barn, and it has everything you could ever ask for. The barn has enough room for double chests and crops, but the main features are the horse stables reminiscent to that of what you’d normally find during the medieval area. Each horse stable has enough space for running around, food, and other items.

As for the materials needed, you’ll need a hefty amount of cobblestone and stone, and a decent combination of oak, spruce, and other wooden blocks. How you’ll decorate the medieval barn is completely up to you.

Classic American Styled Red Barn

You Can Never Go Wrong With The Classics

Creator: Goldrobin

Even though we’re nearing the end of this list of amazing Minecraft barn designs, we can’t skip this American-styled red barn. And yes, it even has the colors to match.

This classic barn was designed by Goldrobin and follows the typical red and white color palette with a large enough doorway. It’s not a giant barn, but still a solid barn design for the average Minecraft player.

The barn’s roof uses deepslate while the structure requires a lot of mangrove wood, which is mostly mangrove planks and logs. You’ll need a lot of spruce splanks, stairs, and slabs too. Alternatively, you could use oak logs if you want a darker palette for the barn building.

The barn offers enough room for four animals inside and enough room for two outdoor stables. There’s even enough room to store hay for when it’s the time to breed cows. You could use these rooms to store double chests too.

This isn’t one of those ultimate barns you’ll see on Twitch or YouTube, but this is one of those classic rustic barns that will get you noticed.

The Wrap Up

When you’re playing in a PvP world or in Survival mode, resources matter. You need shelter to protect yourself, your animals, and your items.

Barns can help you protect your animals and crops. You can safely raise and breed animals, which will give you access to materials such as feathers and leather.

Depending on the size, a large barn can also serve as your house. It doesn’t need to be fancy since you can easily take any of these Minecraft barn designs on here and just use standard wood blocks.

Minecraft is one of the biggest video games right now, and the statistics show it. Whether you’re a teenager or an adult, Minecraft has a certain appeal that draws in users from different demographics.

A lot of players are drawn to doing PvP, and if you’re one of them, then you’ll know just how nasty the game mode is. Limited resources can be hindering to your ability to build starter houses, let alone survival houses.

And one of the best tricks to surviving on limited resources is trying to set up your own farm. If you’re new to PvP, you’re in luck. We have some of the best Minecraft farm ideas that will come in handy for survival or for PvP.

The Best Minecraft Farm Ideas For New Players and Veterans

Sculk Farm

Late June 2022, Minecraft released a new 1.19 version that allowed players to farm Sculk blocks. But what was even more fascinating is that mining for Sculk also drops experience orbs.

By using a Sculk catalyst, you can spawn Sculk blocks in your area. Then start mining them. You only need an open area that’s at least 9 blocks in radius to place the Sculk catalyst. Then put a block that’s 8 blocks away from the center block in all four horizontal directions. These will mark the range at which the Sculk will generate.

But you probably won’t believe what we have as the next Minecraft farm idea.

Creeper Farm Ideas

Minecraft players will know just how terrible creepers can be, especially when they get close to players. They can be dangerous for you, your animals, your villagers, and even other players. But if you know how to farm creepers, then you can easily have access to gunpowder, which is essential for killing other mobs and mining for diamonds.

A creeper farm is one of the best Minecraft farm ideas when it comes to PvP, and the build isn’t as complicated. You just place a spawning platform in an ocean or body of water to maximize their spawn rates.

From that platform, make a 2-block wall with trapdoors for its roof. Have boats with cats loaded in them to scare creepers away and instead direct them towards the other end. This other end will have a water stream that will guide the creepers to a kill mechanism, which can be equipped with magma blocks or campfires.

Think of it as having one of those automatic farms for gunpowder.

Dripstone and Lava Farm

One of the most unusual Minecraft farm ideas involves dripstone and lava. Introduced back in 17.0, players have been mining for dripstones, which allowed them to turn lava into a renewable resource.

And establishing a dripstone/lava farm is easy. You just need to find some of these things in the world, and farm just enough of them to give you an automatic farm for dripstone.

Enderman Farm

Ender pearls are necessary if you want to beat the game, or if you want to be able to teleport around the world.

But to get Ender pearls, you need to kill Enderman. And what if we told you you can set up automatic farms for endless spawns of Enderman? Well, this process takes a lot of time and travelling. But the end result is going to be worth it.

You’ll need an Enderman trap, which will allow you to easily access and kill these mobs. The spawnable blocks are usually located near The End or Warped Forests, and this is where you’ll build these traps.

The Enderman walks into these traps, which is basically a pit with certain mechanisms. Once an Enderman is trapped, players will activate the switch, which will raise up the platform repeatedly. As a result, the Enderman’s head is smashed into the ceiling until it’s weakened and players can kill it with one blow. Some players are also smart enough to use pressure-sensitive traps so they don’t need to use the switch. As soon as an Enderman falls, the trap closes and the platform does its job.

And then just do this repeatedly for every Enderman that spawns and you’ll have an automatic Minecraft farm for Ender pearls.

Cow Farm or Chicken Farm

All right, maybe some Minecraft farm ideas that involve treasures aren’t exactly what you need. Maybe you just need a resource farm, like cows for example.

And just like any other Minecraft farm, you just need to find where they’re spawning and then build a wall with fence gates around them. Several barn designs also include an enclosure for chicken and other livestock.

Chickens and cows can be found all over the map, and if you’re lucky, you’ll probably find a spawn point near you. Once the wall and fence gates are all set tup, you’ll have more chickens and cows to deal with every day.

Pumpkin and Melon Farm

Livestock isn’t the only thing you can farm on Minecraft. Crops like Pumpkin and Melon are just as popular as chickens and cows. But unlike your usual crops, pumpkins and melons aren’t exactly meant to be placed near other crops because their growth mechanisms can other crops nearby.

What you should do is have a separate automatic farm for crops such as melons and pumpkins. Having them separate not only makes them easily accessible, but also protect your other crops.

Sugar Cane Farm

Sugar cane is an essential material for making enchanted items such as banners, maps, and books. And the reason why is that these items need paper before you can craft them. And guess where you can get paper?

That’s right. Sugar cane. Just like crop farming, having automatic farms of sugar cane will come in handy. Otherwise, you’d spend hours roaming the entire map looking for spawns of sugar canes.

Tree Farm

Having a tree farm is handy in Minecraft, and it’s one of the best Minecraft farm ideas for PvP and survival mode. However, the tree farm is the most complicated farm to make. But don’t worry, there are several videos on YouTube that will show you how to do that.

Since trees provide you with the necessary materials needed for building houses, traps, and other items, it’s worth noting that this is one farm you can’t do without. You can probably make do without a crop farm or any of the other farms, but a tree farm is crucial.

AFK Fish Farm

Fishing can get boring easily in Minecraft and even though a lot of materials rely on fish, some players just can’t be bothered to go do it.

An AFK fish farm is one of the best Minecraft farm ideas because you have easy access to fishes without going into the open world. Some AFK fish farms are comprised of glass panes and a good combination of different stone bricks.

Villager Breeding Farm

Yes, you can actually make a farm for villager breeding. And as dark and as morbid as it may sound out of context, villagers are part and parcel of being in a Minecraft world.

Villagers are NPCs or non-playing or non-playable characters. If you’re a new player, villagers look have the features of Spongebob’s Squidward.

A villager breeding farm idea involves creating beds, water buckets, a composter, and some carrots. And of course, some walls. All you have to do is lure them into the farm, and they’ll automatically start breeding.

If other players are destroying your villager breeding farm, you can easily re-do the process.

AFK Food Farm

An AFK food farm is a crucial farming method for players who go deep into survival modes. Survival players actually build a food farm during the early game. A YouTube video by JC Plays goes over different AFK food farms such as beetroot farm, carrot farm, potatoes, and more.

Iron Farm

Iron is a crucial material for crafting, and having iron provides you with more options for tools, weapons, and armor.

Just like food farms, a Minecraft iron farm is one of those farms that players would gun for so they could easily harvest or mine iron.

There are several variations for iron farms, but videos by Takodachis and Ninomae Ina’nis’s are great references.

Sheep Wool Farm

Another animal-friendly farm on the list involves having sheep. Sheep wool drops from sheep, and having a sheep farm gets you access to this material.

For sheep, you don’t have to kill them. You just shear the wool off of them and deposit it into your storage or chest. You can also use dyes to give your wool a different color or shade.

The Wrap Up

Setting up Minecraft farms is as easy as building starter houses or survival houses. It’s tedious work still, but having a Minecraft farm in a PvP world or survival mode can make a huge difference.

There are still a plethora of Minecraft farm ideas out there and it’d take more than one article to fully illustrate them all.

Minecraft is one of those games that both young and old gamers enjoy. For young gamers, there’s the appeal of doing things with their friends and just having the time of their lives in a sandbox environment. For adults, there’s the interaction between Minecraft players and then being able to build something out of nothing.

But the biggest appeal that draws in both young and old players alike is the game’s ability to stay exactly the same. Leave Minecraft untouched for a few years and you come back into the game like nothing’s changed.

It’s also one of those games where there’s no pressure to do anything at all, even when you’re playing Survival mode. Yes, we know how rough that game mode can be but it’s still fun so as long as you have a robust and decent enough Minecraft base.

The Best Minecraft Base Ideas

And speaking of Minecraft bases, that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about in this article. We’re going to go over the best Minecraft base ideas to inspire you to build a new one or improve your current Minecraft base.

And in Minecraft, the terms “base” and “house” are somewhat interchangeable. A Minecraft player would probably just use the term “house” if he or she is the only one using it. Other Minecraft players use the term “base” if they’re housing other people in them.

Minecraft Base Idea#1 Wooden Castle Keep

If you’re playing Survival mode with friends, then your base should be focused on two things: protection for you and the team, and protection for your resources.

Both of these needs are met when you’re building this Wooden Castle Keep, one of the most popular Minecraft base ideas in the game right now for two reasons.

First, the materials are simple. You just wood and stone, albeit by the numbers, and some of its variants if you want to add more details.

Second, you can freely adjust the size without unnecessarily redoing the entire thing.

Its aesthetic appeal is irresistible. A rustic theme, or a medieval theme, would fit in quite nicely if we’re talking about beautifying the interior space. If you also build it high enough, you should be able to get a great vantage point where you’ll see a whole lot of terrain.

Minecraft Base Idea #2 A Stone Keep For Survival

Similar to the Wooden Keep, there’s a variation that takes up a lot more stone than wood. Players who are familiar with how the game works should find this relatively easy to make, given that all the resources are available immediately.

What most people do here is make the ground floor the widest part of the base. The upper floors will be narrower compared to the ground floor so you don’t take up too much space as you head on up. You’ll also give other players the impression that you’re building a tower.

Minecraft Base Idea #3 Underground Base

One of the best Minecraft base ideas is this underground base and its many variants. An underground Minecraft base has more than enough room for creativity, and you don’t need expert building skills to build this base. However, you do need tenacity and persistence.

Similar to the wooden and stone keeps mentioned above, you can keep the interior design to a minimum but where’s the fun in that?

Minecraft Base Idea #4 A Slightly Modern Underground Base

If you want to spice things up with your underground base, you could a modern flair into it. We’re talking about using glass panels, oak logs (or other variants), hanging lights, and maybe even a secret entrance somewhere.

For this one, you’ll need something more complicated like stone, concrete, and deepslate. How you’ll design the interiors is completely up to you. It’s also one of the best Minecraft starter houses you’ll see on YouTube channels.

Minecraft Base Idea #5 Scary Nether Base

Accessed via the Nether Portal, the Nether is home to a lot of valuable building resources and hostile mobs. A lot of veteran players would often build their own Nether bases to protect themselves from these mobs and possible griefers.

Be prepared to grind it out though if you are planning to stay in the Nether world. A Nether Portal is tricky to craft, so you’ll have to make sure that the trips to the Nether are worth it.

This is definitely not a starter base for the newer players.

Minecraft Base Idea #6 A Medieval Castle

Probably the grandest and largest base idea in this article, the Castle is a challenge undertaken by a lot of veteran players. The amount of grinding, designing, and decorating these massive Minecraft structures is overwhelming.

This takes up a lot of real estate in game, so if you’re playing survival mode, you’re probably going to have enemies gunning for you if you want to pursue this project.

Minecraft Base Idea #7 Spruce Mansion Tutorial

If a castle is too ancient for you, then you might be interested in something more modern. The Spruce Mansion is an interesting design because you could think of it as a modern-day castle.

Hardcore creative mode players would often find a real-life mansion to work with and hopefully try to replicate it in Minecraft.

Tips On How To Make Your Minecraft Bases Better

Real Life Structures For Inspiration? YES PLEASE!

One of the best things about Minecraft is that you could any building in real life and turn it into a base or a house. If you’re unable to come up with a design of your own, there’s no harm in getting inspiration from the real world.

We’ve already seen the glories of Hogwarts Castle and Minas Tirith fully replicated in Minecraft, down to the last detail.

Bigger Doesn’t Mean Better

The temptation to go big or go home in Minecraft is huge, but there’s actually no point to go for a bigger structure if there’s no need to.

In most cases, your surrounding area might not even be feasible for one of the bases above, except maybe for the underground base.

Play With Different Wood Types

There are different wood types to choose from in Minecraft, and each of them with different shades, durability, and texture.

A lot of players go for different wood types because of their coloring. If you want to give your interior or exterior a fresh shade, then experiment with the many types of wood.

Use The Environment To Your Advantage

Sometimes, a raised platform isn’t enough to get you the base that you need. Sometimes, you’ll need to use the mountain, the cliff, the ravine, or better yet, the lake.

The varied terrain of Minecraft allows you to make environment-inspired bases like a cave base, underwater base, or even mountain base.

What is it about Minecraft that draws both young and adult gamers into the game? Is it the idea of being able to create anything in the world? Is it about being able to just wander aimlessly into a vast space? Regardless, Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world right now and we have the Minecraft statistics to prove it.

Whatever your goals are, one of the most important things to remember is that you need to build a decent house. You’ll need one so you have a safe space to log off from.

In this article, we’re going to go over some impressive Minecraft house ideas that will put your creativity to the test. So if you’re a Minecraft player who’s:

• Got no idea on what kind of modern house to build
• Got no inspiration on how to approach an underground house
• Always wanted to make the biggest Minecraft House

Then you’re in luck! Any one of these best Minecraft house ideas could turn into your dream house. From a modern Minecraft house to an underground house, we got you covered for this bit.

What Are Some Of The Best Minecraft Survival Houses?

If you’re playing with other players or if you’re running a server with friends, then you’re going to want to stay for this part.

Minecraft players who play survival mode know just how important it is to have a house. Survival mode is one of the most popular game modes in the game where you’ll need to protect yourself from the elements, even when you’re AFK or offline.

And yes, part of the enjoyment of running survival mode is being able to create a survival house that protects you from Creepers, Griefers, and more.

Little House on the Prairie

A Simple Starter House For The Solo Survivalist

Whether it’s your first time to ever setting foot in Minecraft, or if you’re a solo Survival player, then you’ll probably want this simple modern house idea.

The premise of the Prairie House is simple. It has at least one room, a door, and some windows. Depending on the complexity of the design, you only need wood to build this Prairie House.

While it may not protect you from a lot of griefers, it does a good enough job in making sure that you have a safe space when you AFK or log off. The Prairie House is one of the easiest survival house ideas that you can easily recreate, regardless of play mode and server.

Stone House

An Uncomplicated Starter House With Size

A survival house doesn’t need to be complicated. In fact, it’s a decent enough starter house where you don’t need a lot of materials, to begin with.

A lot of new players, myself included, have found this combination to be a staple when it comes to building a survival house. At least for the first couple of hours, or days even. With some glass windows, you could literally make it look like a modern house.

YouTubers such as TheMythicalSausage goes over the process of building this house in great detail on his YouTube channels.

Co-op House

A Big Enough House For More Than Three Players

If you’re gunning for a large wooden survival house, or a good mix of wood, stone, and other material, then you might want to run with the Co-op House.

A Co-op house was first designed by Heyimrobby, and has become a popular Minecraft house for groups of friends. As the name implies, you need more than two or three players to help you build something as grand as what Heyimrobby has made.

What makes this one of the best Minecraft survival houses is that you don’t get pressured into building it as grand and as large right off the bat. You can easily start with just a couple of rooms and work your way up in terms of size and complexity.

Tower House

Build It Like How Sauron Would

A Tower House is one of the best Minecraft survival houses for players who want to make sure that no one will ever set foot inside their house, both the griefers and the mobs.

The concept is fairly simple. Imagine Saruman’s tower from the Lord of the Rings and turn that into a modern house, you’ll get the Tower House.

This is a tedious build since you’ll probably need two or three kinds of materials, but you’ll need a whole lot of them. How high you want to build the Tower House is completely up to you.

What most Tower House builders usually do is just take the Prairie House design above and add a couple of stories to elevate the entire house. Remember, the fewer rooms you have, the taller the house will be.

Co-op Ravine House (Or Waterfall House)

Complicated, Majestic, and Impressive Survival House

This modern house idea is only doable if you’ve stumbled across a ravine. And as veteran players know, ravines are those massive openings on the ground that grant access to resources such as diamonds and emeralds.

Now, going down the ravine can be tedious since you’ll have to dig everything out, take it back home, and then go back in. But what if you could just build a house on top of it?

Well, you can. The house placement is simply right alongside the edge of the ravines, or if you’re creative enough, you can build on top of the ravine. This way, not only are you soloing the entire ravine but you now have a place to easily store your materials.

Modern Underground Or Subterranean House

A Cool And Hip Minecraft House Idea

We’ve talked about how you can build your house wide and high, but what if we told you that you could actually go deeper too? An underground house is one of the most popular survival house ideas mostly because you’re the only one who knows where it actually is.

An underground Minecraft house takes a lot of work to begin with as you’ll need to dig a big enough hole to build your house. To push your creativity further, you can place the entrance somewhere inconspicuous so griefers wouldn’t stumble upon it.

It’s a bunker when it comes right down to it. The materials required will depend on what you’re planning to build. To keep it modern, you can use a good combination of stone, wood, and bricks.

The Nether Hell House

Every Minecraft player knows how The Nether is an important part of the game, as it’s one of the few locations for gathering some of the rarest resources. On top of getting high quality building materials, you’re also getting aesthetically pleasing blocks to incorporate into your build.

With that said, what if you have a modern house right smack in the Nether? Accessed via the Nether Portal, one could easily hide their home from other people. But there’s a risk to be made here. The Nether has a lot of mobs that are going to be challenging to take down, but if you’re tenacious enough, the rewards are far greater than the risk itself.

A Nether Hell House is a survival house that lets players know you’re not to be messed with, especially if you’re camped out in the Nether.

Mega XL Base

Large and In Charge Survival House Idea

This survival house idea was inspired by Zaypixel, and you’ll see this house design in his YouTube videos. The premise of this survival house is simple. Make it a self-sustaining house that lets you plant crops, raise livestock, and more. There’s no limit on how large the house is, if you’d categorize it as still a house.

As seen in the image, you can have up to five to eight stories, a plateau containing crops and livestock, and what looks like a series of underground houses. This is one of the best Minecraft house ideas that are perfect for large groups of players who won’t mind putting in the hours into building this mega base.

To say that this is a Minecraft survival house would be an understatement.

Japanese-Inspired Survival House

Lots of Wood And Stones With Class

We first saw this Minecraft survival house from SheepGG, though there have been several iterations way back.

This Japanese house is a bit complicated since you’ll need materials such as Deepslate and its many variants for the exterior, then a good mix of wood and stone bricks for the interiors. The blueprint that you see above is what SheepGG has in one of his many videos, and the details are just amazing.

Skull Mountain Base

A House Idea Fit For A King

This survival house, or base, was created by Ayvocado and can be seen in one of his YouTube videos. And as awesome as it looks, you’ll need to be creative enough to carve this out of the mountain and structure the 3D skull as it is.

From what it looks, the Minecraft house is built into the mountain, though you could also have this as an entrance to your underground house.

This is not a suitable starter house if you’re just getting used to house building or trying to get your feet wet in a survival world.

How Do You Improve Your Minecraft Survival House Ideas?

We’ve seen some of the best Minecraft house ideas, and they’re as unique as they can be. But the sky’s the limit for Minecraft.

Even if you do fancy one of the survival house ideas on this list, it boils down to your ability to create, destroy, and recreate.

Having said that, how do you improve your Minecraft house ideas? How do you get to a level similar to that of Ayvocado and SheepGG?

Experiment With Themes!

You shouldn’t be limiting your Minecraft survival house ideas to what you see on this list. Rather, you should expand your horizon by sticking to a theme. Any modern Minecraft you see on the Internet takes inspiration from real life houses, fictional buildings, and more.

We’ve seen Hogwarts recreated beautifully in the world of Minecraft, and we’ve also seen Minas Tirith. You have no excuse here when it comes to what you can come up with for themes with your Minecraft survival house ideas.

Build Paths Between Builds

Pathing is an underrated part of Minecraft, and it’s just as crucial as house building. When you’re playing with a small group and you already have houses set up, creating paths in between the houses can turn any island into a quaint village.

Work on the Interiors Too!

A Minecraft house should be as beautiful indoors as it is outdoors. A lot of people make the mistake of just working on the exteriors so much that they forget to work on the interiors.

And believe me, your interiors are crucial for whatever theme you’re trying to incorporate into your modern Minecraft house.

Set aside enough materials to beautify your interiors. You can even look at pictures on the web for inspiration on how to decorate the insides of your house.

It’s the Finer Details!

Do you want to know why the best Minecraft house ideas thrive over the others? It’s because they work on the finer details of the houses. And it’s not just the paths we’re talking about either. We’re talking about campfires, bushes, and other items that accentuate the looks and theme of the Minecraft survival house.

If you want an example, you could raise an actual bridge over the river if you’re thinking of building a ravine house. Small details like that are what make Minecraft house ideas worth looking into, and worth building.

Mob Proofing Is No Joke!

Mob proofing your Minecraft survival house is just as important as making it look good. And we’ve seen several videos about how Creepers can easily get into certain houses. And yes, torches are important for making sure that your house is mob proof, but there are also creative ways to go about this.

For example, you could dig a fire pit, place the torch inside it, and cover it with glass. This will light up the entire room while making your interiors look beautiful.

If you’ve had a gaming laptop, you’ll know that it runs two types of graphics cards: integrated graphics cards and dedicated graphics card. An integrated graphics card is powered by the CPU while a dedicated graphics card is an independent hardware that provides graphics processing power.

Gaming laptops aren’t the only ones with integrated graphics. Most modern CPUs have integrated graphics capabilities. Your desktop computer will also run on integrated graphics cards if you don’t have a dedicated card.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with running on integrated graphics cards. But if you have a dedicated graphics card and your PC is still running on integrated graphics card for some unknown reason, then you have a slight problem.

In this article, we’ll be talking about how to disable integrated graphics cards so you can maximize your dedicated GPU when needed.

Some caveats to consider:

• Your gaming laptop will always run on integrated graphics if it’s running in battery mode. Gaming while unplugged will reduce your battery life by almost 50%. If you’re averaging 3 hours on battery mode, then playing games might have you running 1 hour and 30 minutes or so, depending on the demand.
• Depending on your computer hardware, running on integrated graphics isn’t all that bad. For this article, we’ll be running on the assumption that you have both a dedicated graphics card and integrated graphics card.

How Do You Know Which GPU is Currently in Use?

Our monitors are connected to the motherboard if integrated graphics card is available. But when we have a dedicated graphics card, you’ll need to connect your cables to this card instead.

If you have a dedicated GPU, you can determine what card is in use by doing these steps:

• Press Windows + I to access Settings
• Go to System then Display then Advanced Display
• Under Display Information, you’ll see which GPU that monitor is using, as seen below:

From this example, my first monitor is connected to the dedicated GPU which is the GeForce GTX 1050Ti. My second monitor can be accessed through that dropdown menu and it will show the same thing.

How Do You Know Which One’s Being Used?

Through Task Manager, you’ll find out more about your GPU’s details, both for integrated and dedicated graphics.

• Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE simultaneously
• Select Task Manager
• Click on More Details on the bottom side of the Task Manager if you’re only seeing a small window
• Go to Performance Tab
• You’ll see GPU o and GPU 1 on this section, which will show you usage for either.

Using my system as an example, you’ll see that GPU 0 is currently in use while GPU 1 is currently unavailable. This means that I have disabled integrated graphics.

And even if integrated graphics is enabled, it will show that dedicated graphics card will have a higher usage percentage.

How Do You Disable Integrated Graphics?

There are two ways on how to disable integrated graphics: through the Device Manager or through BIOS.

How To Disable Integrated Graphics Card Through Device Manager

Disabling your integrated graphics via the Device Manager is the easiest thing to do.

• Press Windows + X simultaneously
• Go to Device Manager and click Display Adapters to expand it
• Right click on the Integrated Graphics Driver then click Disable Device

However, you should know that if your dedicated graphics card malfunctions for some reason and your integrated graphics card is disabled, then your system won’t be able to display anything. But for laptops, the OS will automatically turn on the default Integrated Graphics driver on again if the dedicated GPU fails.

You can do the same steps for enabling your Integrated GPU via the Device Manager.

How To Disable Integrated Graphics Through BIOS Settings

For this section, you’ll need to make sure that your dedicated GPU is set as the primary graphics adapter.

1. Access the BIOS Settings by pressing either Delete or F2 key as soon as you boot the PC. This depends on the brand of your motherboard.
2. Once you access the BIOS settings, go to Advanced and then look for “Primary Graphics Adapter”. Other motherboards might have a different name for it.
3. Then set the Primary Graphics Adapter to PCI/PCIe instead of Auto or IGFX and VGA. This will allow the system to prioritize the dedicated GPU when it comes to running graphics-intensive apps.

Should You Really Disable Your Integrated Graphics Card?

Whether on a desktop or PC, the question to disable integrated graphics cards is a legitimate one. You see, a dedicated video card will always be prioritized by the system when it comes to playing video games or any graphically-intensive apps. It’s rare for integrated graphics to take up the bulk of the graphics processing unless the dedicated GPU malfunctions.

Practically speaking, you really shouldn’t disable your integrated graphics. The main reason is that the integrated GPU will act as your backup if your dedicated video card is broken or malfunctions at some point. When your dedicated GPU breaks down all of a sudden, the integrated GPU takes over immediately thanks to the operating system.

For laptops, it will automatically switch between the integrated video card and a dedicated card. If the laptop is unplugged, the laptop will use the integrated video card for all its graphics processing. This will allow the laptop to run on battery mode and efficiently save up energy at the same time.

Running on an integrated GPU with an unplugged laptop will allow you to do basic web browsing, run Discord, and other office tasks. It’s not recommended and ideal to play video games with an integrated GPU and on battery mode.

How To Prioritize The Dedicated GPU For Apps On A Laptop

If you’re a laptop user and you’re reading this, you’re probably wondering how to make sure that your laptop uses the dedicated video card for all graphically-intensive apps and tasks even when it’s plugged in.

Laptops are built to use both integrated graphics and dedicated graphics when it’s plugged in. If you’re using an old laptop with an old GPU, then it will probably use the integrated GPU to pick up the bulk of the graphics workload.

For example, let’s say I’m using a laptop with a GeForce GTX video card and I’m doing some video editing. The laptop should remain plugged in if I want to make sure that the dedicated GPU will be used for the entirety of the editing session.

At any time during the video rendering process or even during the editing process, my laptop may use up the integrated GPU so it has more graphics processing power. You should be able to see the usage percentage in your Task Manager window.

If you really want to make sure that a certain app or video game will always run on the dedicated GPU, then you’ll need to follow these steps:

• Press Windows + I to open Settings.
• Go to System then Display and then Graphics.
• On the dropdown menu, select the application or video game that you want to run at high performance always.
• Then select Options and select High Performance.
• Click Save.

You may repeat these steps for the rest of your apps. This will allow your laptop to continuously enable the dedicated GPU whenever these apps are being used and provided that the laptop is plugged in.

The Wrap Up

Now we know how to disable the integrated graphics cards. It’s fairly easy to do and also undo. Take note that you should only disable integrated graphics card when needed. This allows your system to have a backup display adapter in case the dedicated graphics card malfunctions.