How to Turn a Cave Into a House on Minecraft

Last Updated: March 14, 2023

An easy first house can be made by turning a cave into your home. They are already empty, and with a little bit of lighting, and basic furniture, caves can be a welcoming home. Read this article to find out how to turn a cave in Minecraft into a house.

Steps

1
Start a new Minecraft world and survive the first night.
2
On the second day, search for a cave. Caves can be found in the sides of mountains and on the seashore. They can also be found underground by digging down low.

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3
Bring equipment. There will be mobs in the cave that you will need to kill. This usually means two stacks of torches, armour, a sword, food and wood blocks.
4
Go about one hundred blocks into the cave and light everything up with torches. This will prevent mobs from spawning inside your house at night.
5
Seal off everything after a hundred blocks so mobs won't come into your house at night.
6
Seal off the front of the cave and put in a door, as well as some windows.
7
Decorate your cave home. This can be things such as smoothing some of the walls, adding paintings and furniture, or just flattening the floor and adding stairs.
8
As you conquer the first hundred, begin to explore the sealed off portion of the cave. You can expand your house like this.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I turn a mountain into a house?

Community Answer

The easiest way is to find a little cave and expand into the mountain off that, but if there are no caves on the side of a mountain, you can build a staircase until you reach a place you want to make your front entrance and expand from there.
Question

How do i get a good startup base for the first few nights?

GiveMeALemur

Community Answer

You could dig into the ground and make that your home. If you want it to be protected, add a farm or farm animals so that you can live off that.
Question

Even with the torches, monsters still spawn. What do I do?

Seasalt25

Top Answerer

Try adding more torches or using other light sources like glowstone, sea lanterns, or redstone lamps. Additionally, check to make sure there are no entrances mobs could use to enter your base.

Warnings

Don't live anywhere near lava or water.

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If you find a dungeon, make sure you put a torch on top of the mob spawner, as well as all around the dungeon.

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