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There are countless Minecraft house ideas, from cute cottages to medieval marvels and Japanese architecture, so settling on just one for your next base can be tough. Whether you're building your first home in a new world or planning an entire themed area in your long-term save, I've found the best house designs to inspire you.
I'm the first to admit I'm not the best builder in Minecraft, so most of these house designs included step-by-step tutorials for you to follow if you're anything like me. If you and a pro builder though, like the incredible Minecraft content creators and builders in this list, then they still provide some great inspiration to work from and make your own. Either way, here are the best Minecraft house ideas to build right now.
Easy Minecraft houses
- MythicalSausage's Mountainside base
- Marchiworx's Minecraft tent
- Otama The World's modern cobblestone house
- Sandy's 5x5 house
MythicalSausage's Mountainside base
![Minecraft Easy Mountain House Tutorial [How to build] - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mHFnWZiQ4y8/maxresdefault.jpg)
This is probably my most recommended Minecraft house idea for your first nights in the game, since it's easy to make it safe for your first night, and then you can keep expanding on it in the following days. In fact, all you really need for your first night is enough space to fit a bed. Your biggest challenge will be the glass front, but as long as there's some body of water nearby, it'll be easy enough to smelt the six blocks of sand you'll need here.
Chuck the glass and a door of your choice on a 3x3x2 or 3x3x3 space in the side of a cliff and voila!, you've got a secure space for night one. That's the bare minimum. From there, build the rest out following TheMythicalSausage's tutorial and your own wants and needs, and you've got an easy Minecraft house that'll serve you as long as you need it to.
Marchiworx's Minecraft tent
While Marchiworx's Minecraft tent is a little harder to build on day one than the mountainside base above, I just love the innovation here. The fact that this is a wooden tent is narratively perfect for you first night in Minecraft, and I think it would be even better nestled among forest trees.
Apart from things like the lanterns, everything here is very doable early on (so are the lanterns if you've found enough iron), and of course you can use whichever wood type you have nearby. You don't even need to add the bells and whistles, AKA fence posts, lanterns, and buttons, right away, nor do you have to build the farm or chimney. You can just start off with the basic tent structure.
Otama The World's modern cobblestone house
This truly unique Minecraft house design by Otama The World is made almost entirely of Cobblestone and doesn't have any difficult roof designs, and I know there are plenty of people out there who love that. These things combined make this the perfect day one build.
Admittedly, it is a little complex to build, especially with those cobblestone stair placements, but Otama's calming five-minute tutorial is super easy to follow, and the resources are so simple to find, you'll have plenty of time to spare for building. I think this would be a great build if you spawn in or near a jungle, especially if you replace some of that cobblestone with its mossy variant.
Sandy's 5x5 house
If you're looking for a more classic Minecraft house, this simple 5x5 build is the one, and the really great thing about this basic design is that you can interchange pretty much every block on the exterior to suit the resources at hand. If you're looking to build this in the early game, for example, you likely won't want to bother with bricks, so simple cobblestone will do the trick. Meanwhile, the walls can be done with any wood type.
Minecraft starter houses
As I've mentioned above, these Minecraft starter house require a little more work than those above, can be built in a few days, and include everything you need as you're starting out in your Minecraft world, including farms, crafting areas, enchanting rooms, and more.
- Sv Gravity's all-in-one survival house
- Foxel's starter house with a mine entrance
- FullySpaced's multiplayer survival house
Sv Gravity's all-in-one survival house
What I adore about this survival build is that everything is encapsulated within the walled area - even a mine entrance. Everything you ever need is kept perfectly safe from intruders, even though that unique house doesn't even have a door. Of course that wall is purpose-built to prevent mobs from entering, but if it's too high for you, you can always replace the top layer with slabs to achieve the same effect.
Foxel's starter house with a mine entrance
I clearly have a soft spot for Minecraft house designs that include a mine entrance, because I also can't get enough of this build by Voxel, thanks to its adorable mine entrance that comes complete with minecarts to get all those Minecraft diamonds in and out. It's the perfect balance between cute and functional, with a gorgeous cozy cottage to live in above, and an incredibly practical space downstairs for crafting, storage, brewing, and enchanting before you head down into the mines.
The only thing missing here are farms. While there is a small plant farm area inside, you're going to need potatoes or meat for more substantial meals. Personally, I'd pop some farms out the back in place of the smelting area, since you've got all of that inside anyway.
FullySpaced's multiplayer survival house
Minecraft is better with friends, so if you play with others on Minecraft Realms or a Minecraft server, then this two-player survival house is a super-cute way of living together while having your own space. I've seen a few Minecraft houses like this, and you could design your own using a symmetrical L or U-shaped structure as a base, but I love how warm and cozy FullySpaced's design is - especially with that comfy sofa on the communal landing, perfect for catching up after a long day.
Cute Minecraft houses
Once you've survived your first few days in an easy starter house, it's time to start thinking about something a little more aesthetically pleasing. Perhaps you want to build your Minecraft house in a specific biome or create an entire village or area dedicated to a theme.
These cute Minecraft houses may be small, but they're incredibly pretty, and perfectly suit specific biomes like Cherry Groves or Dark Forests. Whether you're looking for fairy core, pretty pastels, or cozy cottages, look no further.
- Zaypixel's Cherry Grove cottage
- Goldrobin's mushroom house
- Arichoo's strawberry house
- Croissant Cat's small cottagecore home
- Goldrobin's hobbit hole
Zaypixel's Cherry Grove cottage
Cherry blossom wood is one of the cutest block sets in Minecraft, and it perfectly suits a cute home. There are plenty of cherry wood house tutorials online, but we love this pretty asymmetrical design from Zaypixel as it really stands out from the usual house styles - especially with that adorable curved staircase.
If you're looking at it and thinking it looks difficult to build, though, you'll be pleasantly surprised. You can see my (WIP) version at the top of this page, and I can vouch for the fact that Zaypixel's soothing and simple tutorial is incredibly easy to follow. You can even tweak some things to your own style as well, like I've done with the hanging signs on the balcony and alternative trap door styles.
Goldrobin's mushroom house
If you like cute but you're not a fan of pink, then this teeny little mushroom house might be more your style. And, oddly enough, it doesn't even use any mushroom blocks, so you don't need a dark oak forest and a silk touch tool to build it. That said, I definitely think this little home would look best nestled in among the giant fungi of a dark forest.
Arichoo's strawberry house
For a house that does use mushroom blocks but isn't a mushroom (things are getting weird), here's Arichoo's Strawberry house, though I suppose you could also use this design as a mushroom as well - remove the stalk and add some sporadic white blocks to the roof.
What makes this house special is it's stunning gambrel roof design and the overhang on either side. It looks difficult to build, but with Arichoo's tutorial, you'll have no trouble at all learning how to build this special roofing style.
Unless you're in creative mode, this build does require a silk touch tool, as you'll need to harvest mushroom blocks from a dark oak forest. However, we think this cottage is so cute it's worth the effort, but it's definitely not an early-game build.
Croissant Cat's cottagecore home
![[Minecraft] 🌼🌿 Cottagecore Small House / Tutorial - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AJYvW3IUkto/maxresdefault.jpg)
I wanted to include a cute Minecraft house on this list that wasn't pink or specially-themed, and this sweet, aesthetic cottage is just that. It's also one of the few we found that wasn't purpose-built using a Minecraft texture pack, so this house will look just like this in the vanilla game (though you might want to add a cute Minecraft shader pack for that extra wow-factor).
That said, it does use wood from one of the rarest biomes, the Pale Garden, so you could swap those white planks out for birch planks or even logs. I do recommend going on the hunt for the rare biome though, as birch just doesn't pop like pale oak does. You could always take a look at my guide to the best Minecraft seeds, where you'll find a very good Pale Garden world.
Goldrobin's hobbit hole
Finally, for something entirely different, Goldrobin is back. This cute Minecraft house is perfect if you're not confident on your building skills even with a tutorial, as this Hobbit Hole can be built into the side of a mountain or hill, so minimal building work is actually required. The outcome, though, completely contradicts the lack of effort required.
Wooden Minecraft houses
Wood is probably the most varied and versatile family of blocks in Minecraft, and it's ever expanding. With almost every new biome comes a new type of wood block, including the likes of cherry blossom, pale oak, and bamboo (okay, not a wood, but still). There are even two brightly-colored Nether wood types.
With all this wood at your disposal, and all the different blocks it can become, you can build far more than a simple dirt hut. I've collated just a few of my favorite Minecraft houses that make the most out of these unique wood blocks.
- Reimiho's Log Cabin
- Marloe's Nether House designs
- Polar Cat's snowy Pale Oak house
- Polar Cat's Cherry Blossom treehouse
- Lex's Dark Oak cabin
Reimiho's Log Cabin
If we're talking houses made of wood we just have to include a log cabin, and this one by Reimiho is spectacular. The only problem you might spot with this stunning 'survival' build is that, um, there is no door. This isn't the best idea if you want to keep safe from Creepers and Zombies, but an easy fix would be to add a fence in front of the stairs. This doesn't impact the look of the build at all, but if it feels sacrilegious to you, you could even put a large fence around the whole area and fill it with gardens, ponds, and farms. I'd also run a nice little rustic, wobbly path from the house stairs to the exit gate on the perimeter fence.
Marloe's Nether house designs
This is a two-for-one, as ItsMarloe has created two houses, one from each of the two Nether wood variants. Both are a similar style and could be interchangable, but I think their shapes, particularly the top-heavy Warped wood design, really suit the creepy Nether surroundings. Plus, the fact that they are made entirely from the very limited, almost grotesque color palettes of their respective biomes also leans into their haunting look.
Polar Cat's snowy Pale Oak house
![[Minecraft] How to Build a Pale Oak Starter House / Tutorial - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xGEO8o3v94M/maxresdefault.jpg)
When it comes to Pale Oak house designs, there are plenty of buildings that use the wood variant as a statement feature or a finishing touch. Most often, they're accompanied by a lot of blackstone to offset the color palette. This frosty build by Polar Cat, though, is almost entirely made of the white wood, and while it could look a little off in most biomes, it somehow beautifully suits the snowy taiga setting in which Polar Cat has built it.
Polar Cat's Cherry Blossom treehouse
![[Minecraft] How to Build a Cute Cherry Blossom Tree House / Tutorial - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kk1WDluMsxc/maxresdefault.jpg)
Yep, more Polar Cat, but if this isn't the epitome of a Minecraft house inspired by a wood block then I don't know what is. The cute, twisting Cherry Blossom trees are one of the prettiest in Minecraft, not just for their pink leaves, but also their deep purple trunks.
Unlike most Minecraft treehouses I've seen, Polar Cat doesn't add a house to the trunk, they instead use the house as foliage, dotting some pink leaves around its edges to better blend it into its surroundings. This means this isn't a sizable house by far, but that makes it better in my opinion, and this unique design really works.
Lex's Dark Oak cabin
When looking for a Dark Oak Minecraft house, I knew I wanted something in a fantasy style. For some reason, I think the dark tone of the wood and a complimentary dark stone make for the perfect fantasy or medieval build. With its overhangs, gambrel roofs, cute turret detail, and asymmetrical design, this rustic house fits the bill.
Even better, this Minecraft house is hiding plenty of spacious areas for farming and crafting, making it the perfect survival house with everything you need.
Stone Minecraft houses
We've all heard the story of the three little pigs, and if it's to be believed, then brick is better for security than sticks (or wood). So, if you're something slightly more sturdy than the wooden Minecraft houses above, these stone houses have you covered - literally.
- Batcheen's rustic stone house
- BlueBits' medieval stone house
- Tanol Games' Brick house
- Marloe's cute stone cottage
- Elastico's Gothic house
- Classy Kiwi's stone castle
Batcheen's rustic stone house
![Minecraft: How to Build a Rustic Stone House 🏡 [Updated Tutorial] - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LmLehz7pbCw/maxresdefault.jpg)
This sweet, single-floor stone house by Batcheen is the perfect balance of classic Minecraft house and something a little out of the ordinary. With a unique shape and roof design, and a variety of materials at play, it's a little more complicated to build than your regular house, but it looks so much better for it.
BlueBits' medieval stone house
This stone Minecraft house might be pretty large, but it's also pretty spectacular, and so worth the time and effort if you're into the medieval style. Fortunately, BlueBits' tutorial is super easy to follow, despite only being ten minutes long. It certainly won't take you ten minutes to build, but you can pause as you go, following the simple steps at your own pace. The tutorial is only lacking a resource list, but you'll find one from a helpful viewer in the comments.
Tanol Games' Brick House
Considering it's literally the block many houses are made from in real life, it's somewhat surprising how few Minecraft house designs you see made from bricks. It may be partly because, in large areas, the bright orange block can look a little garish, so it takes a keen eye to use it in a good color palette and make it look... cute. But that's exactly what Tanol Games has done with this sweet brick house.
The smaller structure prevents there being too much brick, while the stone detailing offsets it further. Then, the cottagecore wood and greenery on the outside further ups the cute value here, resulting in one of the cutest little houses we've seen built from brick. So, while it might not technically be built from stone, I hope you'll let me off.
Marloe's cute stone cottage
Here's another little one that uses brick, though only for the roof, and it's not Marloe's only appearance on this list, so you know it's good. This cute cottage is somehow even smaller than the one above, so it won't be able to house everything you need, but if you're just looking for something super cute, it's perfect. In fact, dot a few of them around with slightly different dimensions, and you could even build yourself a sweet little village.
Elastico's Gothic house
I couldn't help but include this gorgeous gothic stone house by Elastico. They have a ton of amazing gothic builds on their channel, so if you like this, you should check them out, but I picked this one as it looks most like a house. I think this would look particularly great if you're wanting to build your home in a Pale Garden or Dark Oak Forest - or even the Nether, if you dare.
Classy Kiwi's stone castle
Surely anything you live in can be considered a house, and who doesn't want to live in a castle? Building a castle in Minecraft can seem pretty daunting, but luckily this small castle by Classy Kiwi is just big enough to look awesome and just small enough to be an easy build.
Cool Minecraft houses
Yeah, I'd say all of the Minecraft house designs on this list are cool, but these are specifically out of the ordinary or do something clever, which is what earns them a spot in the list of the coolest of cool Minecraft houses.
- Blondskunk's floating house
- Shovel's house on the moon
- BigTonyMC's tiny house
- SheepGG's Cherry Blossom treehouse
Blondskunk's floating house
If you can't decide which biome to build in, why not build one on the water? You're almost entirely safe from mobs here (just got to watch out for those Drowned), and you can a couple of boats and rafts ready to use to get to shore and back. With chest boats, you can even ferry materials to and from your home with ease.
Shovel's house on the moon
![How To Build a House on the Moon in Minecraft [Tutorial] - YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/B9Zbh2eI9NI/maxresdefault.jpg)
I'm honestly not sure I've ever seen a more spectacular house than this crescent moon build by Shovel241. It's definitely a little on the tricky side, especially if you want to build it in the air, but if you're up for a challenge, Shovel kindly breaks the tutorial up into handy sections, and it's super easy to follow. Well, relatively speaking,
BigTonyMC's tiny house
I always struggle to design an interior in my Minecraft houses, I often feel like there's too much space to fill due to my lack of creative eye. Plus there's clearing out space for a build, that job can take a lot of time. Well, I've found the perfect way to prevent both issues - this incredibly inventive 3x3 house built by BigTonyMC (ironically). And when I say 3x3, I mean including the walls (sort of). There are some trapdoors that go slightly outside of that perimeter, but it looks, for all intents and purposes, like a 3x3 building, leaving just one block for standing in. You literally can't get a smaller house than this, while being entirely productive to boot, with a bed, crafting table, storage, and more all built in.
SheepGG's Cherry Blossom treehouse
Treehouses are among the most popular and appropriate Minecraft houses, but they don't often literally put an entire house in a tree. While this calming longplay from SheepGG isn't a tutorial, I still couldn't not include this gorgeous-yet-gravity-defying treehouse in this list. I challenge you to have a go at replicating it, perhaps with a different tree type or house design.
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