Minecraft is a highly addictive sandbox game that allows you to spend hours building fantastic structures and exploring dangerous worlds with the ultimate goal of defeating a dragon. This guide aims to help new players get accustomed to starting their first building. Even if you read this as a complete beginner, or are just stuck for ideas on creating nice looking housing, each chapter will give you helpful step by step goals and show you exactly what materials you need to find, how to gather them, and how to start building. At the end of this guide, if you follow all the tips you will have a great house that you can then customize further in any way you like by using the same techniques you learned during the first steps. Included in this guide is also a handy reference section for all the crafting recipes you will need to create the items and blocks used in building your first house. Let’s build!