How to Build an Underground Base in Minecraft

Last Updated: May 10, 2021

Diving into Minecraft successfully can be hard. This is a guide to how to build an awesome underground Fortress in Minecraft, starting on your first day.

Steps

1
Gather wood to craft tools and weapons. Just punch down trees; it'll be slow at first, but punch down 5-10 trees. Don't bother with the leaves unless you want to replant.
2
Turn wood into wooden planks. Place wood blocks directly into your crafting area in your inventory (Press "E" to access inventory) and turn all of the wood except for five pieces into wood planks.

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3
Make your workbench. Make a workbench by filling each of the four crafting slots with wood planks. Note that while they can be any kind of wood, it will have to be the same kind of wood. It is not necessary to craft more than one workbench.
4
Make your tools. Create a few sticks by placing two wood planks, one on top of another, in the crafting window. Place two sticks, one on top of the other, in the bottom middle and center. Then, across the top row, place 3 wooden planks.
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Mine! Mine some stone. It's best to mine about 30 stone, as it will be useful to have a little bit of extra stone later on.
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Make a furnace. Fill every crafting slot except for the middle, at a workbench, to create a furnace.
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Make charcoal. Use the furnace. Place some wood (not planks) in the top left of the furnace, and place some wood planks in the lower left of the furnace. This will burn the wood on the top, giving you charcoal.
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Make torches. Once you have five charcoal, make five more sticks if you don't have them already. Then, place all of your charcoal into one space on the crafting area, then as many sticks as you have charcoal underneath the charcoal. This will make torches. Make as many as you want/need.
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Stay safe at night. For the first night, dig down three blocks, seal the top of the hole off, and place a torch. After you have done that, and you are safe, you can dig.
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Dig your underground base. After you have dug a hole, you can expand. Feel free to make your base as big as you want, and as cool as you want.
- Do not forget to light up your base with torches, or zombies, skeletons, and other bad stuff will start to inhabit your base.
- It is recommended to put down a few furnaces, a crafting table, and a large chest if you are going to go mining.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I make it secret?

Community Answer

You can put traps and put some trees around it, or some blocks that look the same.
Question

How do I make it more like a spy office?

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Community Answer

You can use blocks of iron or quartz as the walls. Just find things that are dark (obsidian) or white (blocks of iron and quartz). Also, make your base really large with a lot of rooms and offices.
Question

How do I make my Minecraft base a farm for watermelons and animals?

Community Answer

Add grass and crops, so it is a farm. Then, just mine grass for seeds and add animals or animals in a 3 by 3 hole.

Warnings

Do not look at Endermen (tall, creepy, solid black people with purple eyes). They will become mad at you, and they are entirely capable of teleporting and sneaking up on you, and they do a lot of damage.

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If it turns to night before you are done gathering materials, etc., you can just dig a very tiny hidey-hole and wait out the night. If you keep it as wide as "Steve?" (or "Alex?") then monsters will not spawn next to you.

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Do not tempt the creepers.

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