I usually just dig a 2x2x3 pit to throw junk in. The items seem to get removed after some time and/or distance traveled.

they don't want to clog memory with all your litter.

A Minecraft thread without screenies? Shame on you, I thought a lot of you must've kicked up some cool bases since the last thread.

EDIT: Or maybe a quick video tour. Here's a good one I found.

I don't personally have that much of a creative side. At least, creating fancy "bases" doesn't interest me too much. What interests me more is the doing. My bases usually end up being pretty boring. Just dug out holes in the ground, etc.

That's how most of mine end up. With a tower or something on top. I posted a video tour of a big castle I made (it's still on my Youtube), that's pretty much the biggest base I've ever built.

For some reason I have a thing for floating island bases and hidden underground bases. Am I secretly an evil genius?

In Infdev mode tree leaves occasionally drop saplings when they're destroyed. Simply place these saplings in a well-lit, grassy area and over time a tree will grow.

Edit:

Wow... I messed that up... I thought it was 6 blocks in either direction, turns out it is now only two! Bonus! I think it still needs a minimum height of 6 though. So the minimum space for a tree would be 5x5x6. Also, only 1 torch is required.

Edit 2:
Haha that's kind of funny, last night I carved out this epic undergound treefarm room 57x57x6 thinking I would only be able to get 16 trees in there... Turns out I'll be having much more wood than I expected!

Edit 3:
This is for underground tree farming of course, so you still need to place your sapling on a dirt block. It does not need to be grassy.

Edit 4:
Notch added boats! And bigger better trees! And cacti!

It would be kind of convenient if he would fix the "bug" that causes animals to spawn on trees. I see more sheep in trees than I see on the ground.

I just started playing Red Dead Redemption so it will probably be a while before I get back to Minecraft (though I may play if I'm too lazy to wait for RDR to load).

Well, at least them bastards won't appear in my base now. I had entered my base one time (on my new map) and saw like 5 sheep in there, and the door was closed!

This game appeals to me on so many levels, but from what I can manage to Google up, the only payment option seems to be PayPal (requiring you to sign up before even giving information on how to buy the thing? Seriously? Does the guy have a deep aversion to money or something?). So no Minecraft for me!

Up to the point where they, mid-transaction, for no reason whatsoever, suddenly drop you to a shittily machine-translated page^[1] where none of the buttons make any sense anymore. And that is the point at which I go "WTF PayPal? I knew you were evil, but not that you were this goddamned incompetent!" and decide never to do business with them again.

Well, today I dug deep, reaching the bottom of the map via a vertical shaft with ladders.

It netted me three stacks of iron! And several stacks of redstone dust, a good bit of coal, some gold, and eight diamond. It was an epic cave.

I might just dig down at another random spot to find a second cave system. The caves near the bottom of the map are full of resources!