What does your average base look like?

My average base consists of walls. Lot's and lots of walls covering my main territory and then some traps on the second layer. That's basically how things go in my buildings, just layer upon layer of something concrete.

 

My bases tend to look like something that a crazy farmer who's preparing for the end of the world would build. The most 'advantaged' base I built had a great wall type of build, a moat and torches everywhere.

 

Not very nice, I'm horrible at designing so all my creations usually look ugly with bad colour scheme, wrong types of blocks and chests all over the place for me, as long as I have a shelter I’m fine even if it is cluttered and messy

 

Kill a few animals so you have enough food to last a couple of days. Build a small log cabin: 6x10 blocks or something. Make the corners of stems and the rest of planks. If you see sheeps, kill them and make a bed. Get a workbench, 2 ovens and a lot of wood. If you have torches you can place them. Make a few chests and a shitload of torches and ladders. Start digging inside your cabin, go further until you find iron. If you've got iron make one or two buckets and some iron tools. Fill 2 buckets with water to make a well (infinite source of water). From here on you are practically set.

 

A cave. I build out from there. Function over form.

 

My average base is just cobblestones galore. Every wall is made of cobblestones and most of the time it's sitting on top of the highest tree I can find.

 

Mine is just an underground home with a bunch of passages to various parts like a farm, mining striplines, etc.

 

I have a house connected to a rock, with farmland all around.

 

I ALWAYS build a house with massive storage underneath it, like a basement. I just like building houses. I usually build a garden outside too. Recently I've been trying it out with castles but it's not the same and I don't like my resources being separated by so much distance. The only separation in my houses is food is in the kitchen, and potions and enchanting stuff are in the library.

I did build an evil lair once, under the water with lava lights but I just didn't know what to do with it so I "sunk" it ha ha.

 

Normally my bases are mined into the side of a mountain with just a single door and doorway exposed to the surface. I'd then normally start to hollow out the entire insides of the mountain, placing rooms where I can fit them. On most servers though I'd probably start out with a little shack so I'm safe for the night before moving on to build some sort of underground obsidian base. I'm really paranoid.

 

As I generally play on faction servers, the drama and wars between certain groups can get pretty intense. That is why I generally gather as many supplies as I possibly can and swim out into the ocean. Then, I tunnel into the ground and make a faction home underneath the ocean floor. Then my fellow members and I make an enormous underground lair with farms, forge rooms, etc.

 

Sounds like a plan, the only thing I don't like about it though is having to carry all the initial (crucial) supplies with you when you burrow into the ocean. Knowing me I'd either drown and lose the items to Clearlag (or the server's local item clearing plugin) or I'd be sniped mid-journey.

 

I generally start off all my bases underground. I find it helps me focus more on the interior than the exterior so that my base looks good quicker than it would otherwise. I usually work with smooth stone and woods, usually pine or birch because they look best against the stone. Sometimes both. Most important rooms are farm rooms for materials you are going to need often. I'm personally a fan of an early chicken farm and tree room. You're always going to need wood and chicken farms are easy to increase in size and output without taking up too much room. After I've met my basic survival needs I try to handle more advanced needs. Finding a nearby spawner to connect to your base is always nice. Miniature auto-farms are always fun as well. On one server I took a particular pride in making an iron farm at the bare minimum size. Even with the tiny spawn rates it was more than enough for me as I was the only one using it. A crazy concept is an overworld gold farm using the pigmen who spawn from portals. It's a relatively easy build and it usually makes it into all my builds for fun. I usually start replacing blocks with gold as it slowly builds up to taunt the pigmen. If you get really crazy (like me), you can taunt creepers into glass cases and tag 'em so they won't despawn. Boom, pet creepers. (Also an easy way to vandalize your base, so don't put them near important things.)

 

Usually, I just add a lot of walls to cover my main territory, followed by some traps and another layer of walls!

 

A main house for aesthetics, then storage/crafting sheds.

 

Generally some sort of castle/dungeon like structure, it can be made pretty depending on how much you care about aesthetics, with at least a few escape routes. I use redstone switches to make hidden passages so that i can escape if i need to, sometimes i save the world, plant a bunch of tnt and then see if i can get out in time.