Minecraft:Starting House

The starting house<ref>Template:Citation</ref> was a Minecraft:structure that acted as the starting place when first spawned in a Minecraft:Java Edition Indev world. It could be considered the first "Minecraft:structure" added to the game (though it could also be considered a Minecraft:feature).

Generation

When creating a new world, the Minecraft:player spawned inside the starting house located in the center of the world.

Structure

Template:Main The structure consisted of a single 7 block wide × 7 block long × 4 block tall room, with a 1×2 hole for players to exit and two Minecraft:torches on the interior. When starting houses were added, they were made of mossy cobblestone (which was unavailable naturally on the map anywhere else) and 4 Minecraft:chests, one filled with Minecraft:TNT, one with a full stack (99 at the time) of every type of Minecraft:block, another with every type of Minecraft:item and one filled with every color of Minecraft:cloth. As Indev progressed from testing items and blocks to testing the actual survival aspect, these chests were removed. Later, the design of the house was changed. The floor was changed to Minecraft:stone and the walls and roof were changed to Minecraft:planks.

Chest contents

The contents of the chests changed between versions.

Indev 0.31 20100124-2119

The original layout in Indev 0.31 20100124-2119 contained Block and Item chests;

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Template:Container
Items	Template:Container

Indev 0.31 20100124-2310

A dedicated TNT chest was added in Indev 0.31 20100124-2310, but the stack of TNT in the Blocks chest remained;

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Template:Container
Items	Template:Container
TNT	Template:Container

Indev 0.31 20100125

Cloth was then moved to its own chest in Indev 0.31 20100125, and removed from the Blocks chest;

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Template:Container
Items	Template:Container
TNT	Template:Container
Cloth	Template:Container

Indev 0.31 20100128-2200

New tools and items were added, and all stacks went from 99 to 100 items;

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Template:Container
Items	Template:Container
TNT	Template:Container
Cloth	Template:Container

Gallery

Screenshots

• The outside of the starting house
  The outside of the starting house
• A view of the early starting house
  A view of the early starting house
• A view of the starting house
  A view of the starting house
• The inside of the starting house
  The inside of the starting house
• Contents of the cloth chest
  Contents of the cloth chest
• First version of the blocks chest
  First version of the blocks chest
• A starting house that leads to the void.
  A starting house that leads to the void.