BY BRIA KOEPKE
STAFF WRITER
Finding the perfect spot to build your house in Minecraft can be difficult for some people. When deciding where to build, you have to make some tradeoffs. First, you have to consider if you want a lot of land for your base or to be near a lot of resources. If you choose to have access to resources, decide what resources are most important. For example, if you like spruce wood, you would probably want to build your house near a spruce forest. Finally, consider what biome would be the most fun for you. Whether it’s because of aesthetics or because it’s fun to spend time in that biome, make sure you’re happy with wherever you choose to set up your base.
Now to get into which biomes are best for what. Every player knows that The Plains is a very flat land piece that’s great for building large structures and usually has villages spawning in it, too. There is also an abundance of passive mobs in this biome to use for food. It also has lava and water ponds that spawn all over this biome, which can be very useful when needed; however, be careful not to fall into a lava pit. Overall, this is an almost perfect place to build your house. However, it does have some downfalls. For example, at night, many hostile mobs spawn in The Plains because of how open it is, and there’s no cover unless you’re near your house. Finally, unless you’re on the edge of the biome, there usually isn’t much wood around.
Another good biome could be the Mega Taiga. It is essentially just a gigantic spruce forest that has two by two trees that are tall enough to give you a stack of spruce from almost every tree you chop down. Wolves spawn in this forest so you can tame them and use them to defend yourself or get food. This forest comes with the normal passive mobs from most biomes, but it also has the block podzol, which is unique to this biome. Some of the downfalls of this biome are that the Mega Taiga is so big that you will get lost in it for days and may have to resort to creative mode to escape it. The trees are so tall and big that when mobs spawn, chances are they won’t die in the daylight because of all the shade; however, the trees also provide a lot of cover from the mobs. The land is also usually hilly making it hard to build in this biome unless you are more skilled with uneven terrain.
Another biome to consider is the desert biome. The desert is one of the best biomes to find chests in because of the desert temples that spawn here. You also have desert villages that have a lot of resources. Like with The Plains biome, there is nowhere for mobs to hide from the sun, so they will die immediately once the sun comes up. It’s also flat, leaving plenty of room for building. However, this biome also comes with a lot of disadvantages. For example, there is very little water, if any, in the desert biome. This causes many issues regarding farming or anything else that needs water. There is no grass, so even if you did bring water into the desert, you’d have nowhere to plant anything. Only bunnies spawn, so there would be a constant lack of food unless you survive on bread or other food sources. There is no wood in this biome, so you would have to bring wood and, when you need more, leave and take it back to your base. Overall, this is a great place to explore and find chests; however, it’s not a great place to build with resources in mind.
These three are only a few options of where you could consider building your base in. There are still 48 other overworld biomes and another 10ish in the Nether and End that have so many different resources, looks, and uses that it would be hard not to find a biome you would like.
https://apexminecrafthosting.com/the-complete-guide-to-minecraft/biomes/
https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/biomes
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