Some extra space is good, and it can be useful to sometimes keep extras of rare stuff, but for common material, you often don't need to store a real lot of them, because you won't use that much of it anyway. You also don't need extremely huge storages, it really depends on how much stuff you actually wanna store. Also, make the interior 6 blocks tall, not 5 (many usually do 5 blocks tall first, because you can't easily reach farther without any extra stuff (like stepstool) or jumping up there, but 6 blocks height works much better with lanterns and chandeliers, IMO.
So, for example, make a few wooden shoeboxes at start, then add a roof to them, they'll look a bit more like a house. Making large and complex bases/towns, like that amazing castle there is quite difficult, particularly in vanilla, where there's no cheat sheets mod, to just get the stuff you need right away.įor start though, even the usual wooden shoebox can be much fancier with combining materials a bit, and a few little extras, like a roof.