Starting House

The starting house was a structure that acted as the starting place when first spawned in a Java Edition Indev world. It could be considered the first "structure" added to the game (though it could also be considered a feature).

Starting House

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  Outside

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  Inside

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  Outside

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  Inside (Added TNT chest)

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  Outside

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  Inside (Added Separated wool chest)

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  Outside

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  Inside (removed TNT & Wool chests)

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  Outside

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  Inside (All chests removed)

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  Outside

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  Inside

Consists of	Torch Oak Planks Stone Moss Stone (formerly) Chest (formerly)

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Generation

When creating a new world, the player spawned inside the starting house located in the center of the world.

Structure

The structure consisted of a single 7 block wide × 7 block long × 4 block tall room, with a 1×2 hole for players to exit and two torches on the interior. When starting houses were added, they were made of mossy cobblestone (which was unavailable naturally on the map anywhere else) and 4 chests, one filled with TNT, one with a full stack (99 at the time) of every type of block, another with every type of item and one filled with every color of wool. As Indev progressed from testing items and blocks to testing the actual survival aspect, these chests were removed. Later, the design of the house was changed. The floor was changed to stone and the walls and roof were changed to planks.

Chest contents

The amount and content of the chests changed between versions.

Indev 20100124-2119

The original layout contained Block and Item Chests;

Blocks	[hide]Items
Large chest9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999	Chest9999

Indev 20100124-2310

A dedicated TNT chest was added, but the stack of TNT in the Blocks chest remained;

Blocks	Items	[hide]TNT
Large chest9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999	Chest9999	Large chest999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

Indev 20100125

Cloth was then moved to its own chest, and removed from the Blocks chest;

Blocks	Items	TNT	[hide]Cloth
Large chest99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999	Chest9999	Large chest999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999	Chest99999999999999999999999999999999

Indev 20100128-2200

New tools and items were added, and all stacks went from 99 to 100 items;

Blocks	Items	TNT	[hide]Cloth
Large chest100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100	Chest100100100100100100	Large chest100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100	Chest100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100

History

[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100124-2119				Added starting house.
							The starting house is made of mossy cobblestone with two torches and three chests.
							Contained 99 of every block in the game except for dirt, water, lava, fire, and double slabs.
							A smaller chest contained a shovel, pickaxe, axe, flint and steel, 99 apples, a bow and 99 arrows.
			20100124-2310				Added chest with 54 stacks of TNT to the starting house.
			20100125				Wool has been separated from the main chest of blocks to its own chest.
			20100128-2200				100 of Coal, Diamond, Iron Ingot, Gold Ingot added to the items chest. Iron, wood, stone and diamond shovels, pickaxes, axes and swords added.
							Blocks and items are now found in stacks of 100.
			20100129-1447				Removed TNT and wool chests.
							Removed all items from the blocks and items chests.
			20100130				Removed the remaining chests.
20100213							The starting house is now made of planks and stone.
20100214							Due to a bug, if there is no suitable place to spawn a starting house, it simply does not spawn.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							The starting house has been removed.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  The outside of the starting house

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  A view of the early starting house

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  A view of the starting house

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  The inside of the starting house

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  Contents of the cloth chest

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  First version of the blocks chest