What are the best Minecraft house ideas? Here, you'll find some cool Minecraft houses to inspire your next creation. There are so many themes and materials at your disposal in 1.21, so we've dug deep into the Minecraft house designs available to set you on your way to creating your dream home.As you play one of the best PC games of the decade, whether you're an adventurer, builder, or redstone engineer, you still want a nice, cozy home to go back to at the end of a busy day. While constructing your perfect Minecraft house is a time-consuming venture, nothing beats that feeling of returning to the safety of your home in the survival game, pockets full of treasures from a day of exploring. Whether or not you boost the look of your builds with Minecraft shaders or texture packs, these Minecraft house ideas will look stylish in any world. Continue reading 58 cool Minecraft house ideas for 1.21 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Minecraft seeds, Minecraft skins, Minecraft mods
Best Minecraft House Ideas
What are the best Minecraft house ideas? Here, you'll find some cool Minecraft houses to inspire your next creation. There are so many themes and materials at your disposal in 1.21, so we've dug deep into the Minecraft house designs available to set you on your way to creating your dream home. As you play one of the best PC games of the decade, whether you're an adventurer, builder, or redstone engineer, you still want a nice, cozy home to go back to at the end of a busy day. While constructing your perfect Minecraft house is a time-consuming venture, nothing beats that feeling of returning to the safety of your home in the survival game, pockets full of treasures from a day of exploring. Whether or not you boost the look of your builds with Minecraft shaders or texture packs, these Minecraft house ideas will look stylish in any world.
Here are the best Minecraft house ideas in 1.21, split into categories:
- Easy Minecraft houses
- Cute Minecraft houses
- Japanese Minecraft houses
- Modern Minecraft houses
- Wooden Minecraft houses
- Copper Minecraft houses
- Underground Minecraft houses
- Minecraft treehouse
- Medieval Minecraft houses
- Cool Minecraft houses
Easy Minecraft starter houses
- Easy survival house - A compact, easy-to-build house with survival utilities and a small farming space.
- Easy Minecraft house - Simple base requiring only wood, easy to build on day one.
- Easy no-build Minecraft house - A cave design requiring minimal effort, suitable for day one.
- Modular starter base - A quick-to-build base that can be expanded over time.
- Small starter house - A small, efficient wooden house for beginners.
- Large starter house - A larger starter cabin with practical spaces like a library and secret chamber.
Cute Minecraft houses
- Minecraft cherry blossom house - A charming house made from cherry wood with an easy-to-follow tutorial.
- Minecraft cottage - A cozy, small cottage with room for essentials and a flower garden.
- Cute house - An adorable bunny-shaped cabin with carrot-shaped decorations.
- Mushroom house - A house inside a giant mushroom with a step-by-step tutorial.
- Cottagecore house - A cozy, cottagecore build with an innovative mine entrance.
- Fairy house - A cute pink cottage with flowers on the rooftop.
- Fantasy house - A pointy, colorful house with a variety of materials and details.
Japanese Minecraft houses
- Japanese Cherry house - A beautiful cherry wood house with a step-by-step guide.
- Japanese house - A tranquil home using traditional materials like cobblestone and prismarine.
Modern Minecraft houses
- Small modern house - A smaller, simpler modern house that can be customized.
- Large modern house - A spacious modern house with large glass windows and a landscaped garden.
- Suburban Minecraft house - A typical two-story suburban home with a garage and porch.
- Another suburban house - A slightly bigger suburban house with pastel-grey color and well-trimmed hedges.
Wooden Minecraft houses
- Warped wood house - A gothic-style house using dark warped wood and deepslate.
- Crimson wood house - An ancient tavern-style build using crimson wood.
Minecraft House Ideas
In fact, we love this Minecraft house so much we might build it in every wood type.
Acacia wood house
In our opinion, Acacia is one of the most difficult wood types to build with, thanks to its bright orange tone. However, it does go very nicely with grey stone blocks, and Stevler on YouTube has put together this beautiful Savanna house using acacia planks, logs, and stone bricks. The natural, low design with its surrounding fences also gives this Minecraft house the perfect style for the surrounding savanna biome.
Mangrove starter house
Mangrove wood might at first appear a difficult color to build with, but its beetroot red hue actually fits into a range of Minecraft block palettes. You can find an array of Mangrove wood house tutorials with a quick search, but we've chosen to highlight this cute one from Dio Rods not just because the tutorial itself is pretty cool, but because the house build is small and simple. A great place to start with this wood - and this biome. And gives you a chance to try out more houses from this guide, so why not place a simple starter base in each biome?
Bamboo wood house
Okay, so bamboo planks might not be the best-looking wood variant Minecraft has ever seen, but it's pretty unique - and bamboo rafts are awesome. If you're struggling to work bamboo into your next build, take some inspiration from Linard, who has a few YouTube shorts making use of the unique wood set. Since these are shorts, they aren't as easy to follow as tutorials, which is why we've chosen to showcase the simpler small house above, but whether you follow it block-for-block, or use it as inspiration, you'll hopefully wind up with a pretty cute bamboo Minecraft house. Build your bamboo house in a jungle full of the stuff and against the coast so you can place some bamboo rafts around your jetty and sail off at will.
Dark oak starter house
Depending on which biome you spawn or decide to build your starter base, you might have to build with different wood, and the Dark Forest is a great pick thanks to its gorgeous Dark Oak wood type and giant fairycore toadstools. This gorgeous and simple little starter base blends in perfectly with both, as YouTuber Dio Rods even helps to make the outside of your new home look perfect, by placing little red mushrooms around to match the biome around it.
Cherry wood house
As soon as the pink cherry wood variant was announced as part of Minecraft 1.20, it was obvious that the best Minecraft builders would create some stunning houses with cherry logs. Cute Minecraft builds and cottagecore styles are among the most popular Minecraft houses, so what better than a pink wood family to build your pastel dream house with? Of an ever-increasing selection of pink houses following the Trails and Tales update, the above build by Marloe is just one great pick of an incredibly fruitful selection. We particularly love how surprisingly well that deepslate base matches the pink tones.
Spruce Taiga House
Spruce is objectively one of the best-looking wood types in Minecraft, so if you find yourself in a Taiga biome, it's only natural to want to build your house from the dark wood. The hard part is deciding on the rest of the color palette - i.e. the best blocks to pair with your planks. This cute Taiga starter house is absolutely perfect, and solves the block palette problem by incorporating cobblestone and mossy cobblestone into the build, perfectly matching with the mossy cobblestone patches found naturally in Old Growth Taigas. Even if you don't find the larger Taiga variant and thus haven't got a building plot surrounded with podzol and cobblestone, this house still looks gorgeous in any biome, taiga or otherwise, has everything you need in a starter base, and is easy to build.
Wooden Starter House
While you can get fancy with a lot of the options on this list, if you're looking for something straightforward and practical to build in survival mode, this Wooden Starter House by Base Tutorials will get you ready. Wood is by far the easiest material to acquire in survival mode, and you're going to be stuck with a lot of it if you end up clearing a forest. This is the perfect opportunity to build something that is both cozy and simple enough that you won't have to spend hours dedicating your life to constructing.
Minecraft wooden house
Your wooden house in Minecraft can be as big or small as you like, from wood-paneled palatial mansions to cozy log cabins positioned on the outskirts of a Minecraft village, you can let your imagination run riot as long as you have the supplies. Wooden houses are extremely versatile, easy to gather materials for, and can be created to suit your Minecraft needs. If you fancy extending it later on to create more rooms, then the relative ease at which you can gather materials makes a wooden house an attractive proposition. Also, this sweet wooden cabin comes with a porch, so you can relax and take it easy before setting off on an adventure. If you feel like changing it up, you can replace wooden house designs with any of the ten Minecraft wood types, including Tales and Trails bamboo planks.
Natural copper house
Unless you're super creative, Minecraft copper blocks are one of the hardest materials to build with. Thankfully, there are plenty of people out there who are great at building with this palette. Most often, you'll see the orange and green blocks paired with others, like stone or wood blocks, to make it a little less garish, and this build from Folli on YouTube is the perfect example of that, somehow making these industrial blocks look stunning in a natural build.
Japanese copper house
Since the Minecraft 1.21 update added more blocks to the copper family, and it's a fairly easy ore to come by in large quantities, building a house from the material is a great way to use it up while practicing your craft. Unlike the house above, this Japanese style Minecraft house from Linard uses more of the blocks that were added with Trial Chambers, such as grates and copper doors.
Round copper house
Also using some of the copper blocks from the Minecraft 1.21 update, as well as chains, iron gates, and more, this spectacular round Minecraft house from IT-TCGaming is quite the marvel. The good thing about this build is we think it would look equally good in nature, as the creator themselves have built it, as it would in a more built up or industrial area in your Minecraft world.
Underground Minecraft houses
Underground base
A more recent trend for Minecraft houses is to construct a basement property, with stairs leading to the entrance to your underground base. To make these unique living quarters, you'll need to hollow out the area in which you want to construct your base. Then, when you've built up the walls, stairs, and everything else your property needs, you can stick some glass on the roof to provide a light source. In this example, the one-and-only Minecraft YouTuber Grian has a particularly cool build to help you get started with this underground house.
Underground village
If you're feeling ambitious, try digging out an entire underground village. Not only is this a fun challenge to undertake, but you'll also have plenty of space to fill up with all your favorite villagers and design the homes of your dreams. Make sure you take your time to dig out a good-sized area and maybe add some glass panes or skylights for lighting.
Mountain Minecraft houses
Cliffside castle
If you want to make the most of a mountain biome, a cliffside castle is a great option. You can use the natural landscape to your advantage, building your castle directly into the side of a mountain and creating a fortress that overlooks the surrounding area. For a more dramatic effect, add battlements and towers to your castle.
Mountain hideout
If you prefer something more subtle, a mountain hideout can blend seamlessly into the environment. Carve out a cozy little nook in the side of the mountain and use natural materials like stone and wood to build a rustic hideout. Add some decorative elements like torches and plants to make it feel more like home.
author Danielle Rose