How to build a Skybase in Minecraft

In this article, I will show you how to create Skybases in Minecraft.

Note: This only works for servers, as in single player, you can’t go back up to your sky base without making a tower of blocks.

What you need:

1. 2-3 stacks of sand/gravel (any block will do, but sand/gravel is easier as you will see shortly.)
2. Any building material but in slabs (you can use full blocks but slabs are resource friendly.)
3. A torch.
4. A bucket of water.
5. All the basic stuff you need to start a base (food, seeds, saplings, dirt, etc..)

What you must do:

Put a single torch on the ground, and put sand/gravel on top of it. The reason why is so that when you are done creating the skybase above, you can remove the sand/gravel tower by removing the block on top of the torch. Put any block on the ground and jump on the sand/gravel. Then just pillar jump using sand/gravel until you run out of it or reach a certain height (150 – 200 is a good height to build your base.) Note that some servers have lower height limits to reduce lag caused by sky bases. After you reach the height you want, put any block that isn’t affected by gravity on top of the sand/gravel pillar, /sethome, and place the water beside it. That way, you can go down, remove the block on the torch, and watch your sand/gravel pillar go down and break in pieces. After you are done with that, do /home and remove the water source (if you haven’t removed it when you got down.)

Now you can create your base! First thing you have to do is build a platform. You MUST use slabs instead of ordinary blocks since it saves resources (for example, 33 cobblestone can make about a stack of slabs.) Make sure you place the slabs upside-down. After that, you can make all the buildings you need on your sky base. Make sure you don’t fall! (unless you built your skybase above an ocean.)