in SP i started with a 4x4 dirt or wooden house, don't remember. Next thing i managed to do is get a large forest fire started burning everything down. Including the house

Don't quite recall single player, when me and bcman (My brother, he hasn't been online for a year or two) started, I usually picked the side of a cave (By the water). he did a large dirt house, and later had a few paths in the top of a mountain.

As for MultiPlayer, CFUK was at the top of the server list, and gave it a try. I think it was the 2nd map I started building on (1st one had broonie's house [i], in the middle of a tiny lake). It had Mine City, but I went down by the water and built in a 6 block high hill, and expanded to build underwater. (There was a large pyramid that went as high as possible in those days as well by other members). BCMan built tower city in the same area, so eventually I did build a spleef tower (Rebuilt that a couple times on later maps, but afaik, never used it).

No pictures from that era, unfortunately. (Although I have some of my resort, competing with Frozen Peaks, a map or two after (2nd picture is the basement of the first picture)

Sweet memories with you conathan :')

My first house was a cobble front dug into the side of a jungle hill not far from the MOD fenced area at ship spawn. It totally sucked but it served it's purpose for about 3 days
After playing MCsp for about a year my brain is stuck on "must be bigger... BIGGER DAMNIT!"

in single player i set up in the side of a mountain. the "house" was made out of dirt, sobble, stone, wood, glass. a true mess.


in multiplayer it was near spawn, when we had the old west-themed spawn ah memories.
i made it out of cobble, birch logs and wooden planks, with basements, one floor and a small attic.