Starting House

This page describes content that has been removed from Java Edition.

This feature was present in earlier versions of Java Edition, but has since been removed.

Starting House

Outside

Inside

Outside

Inside (Added TNT chest)

Outside

Inside (Added Separated Cloth chest)

Outside

Inside (removed TNT & Cloth chests)

Outside

Inside (All chests removed)

Outside

Inside

Consists of	Torch Oak Planks Stone Moss Stone​[formerly] Chest​[formerly]

The starting house^[1] 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).

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 cloth. 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 contents of the chests changed between versions.

Indev 0.31 20100124-2119

The original layout in Indev 0.31 20100124-2119 contained Block and Item chests;

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Large chest9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
Items	Chest9999

Indev 0.31 20100124-2310

A dedicated TNT chest was added in Indev 0.31 20100124-2310, but the stack of TNT in the Blocks chest remained;

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Large chest9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
Items	Chest9999
TNT	Large chest999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

Indev 0.31 20100125

Cloth was then moved to its own chest in Indev 0.31 20100125, and removed from the Blocks chest;

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Large chest99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
Items	Chest9999
TNT	Large chest999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
Cloth	Chest99999999999999999999999999999999

Indev 0.31 20100128-2200

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

Chest	Contents
Blocks	Large chest100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100
Items	Chest100100100100100100
TNT	Large chest100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100
Cloth	Chest100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100100

History

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				Cloth has been separated from the main chest of blocks to its own chest.
			20100128-2200				Added 100 coal, diamonds, iron ingots, and gold ingots to the items chest. Iron, wood, stone, and diamond shovels, pickaxes, axes, and swords have also been added.
							Blocks and items are now found in stacks of 100.
			20100129-1447				Removed TNT and cloth 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.
							The starting house now only spawns in flat, unobstructed areas. However, as a side effect, if there is no suitable place to spawn a starting house, it simply does not spawn.
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
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  A starting house that leads to the void.

References