Building a base.

Ok, lets start, of course you are going to need a house, food and a weapon to survive or else you can derp and fist fight with zambies :p
materials: obsidian (called obby mostly), ender pearls, diamond pickaxes and torches/glow stone.
(Base,Chest Area and home)
So if your playing factions you should take at least 30-60 minutes to get away from /warp wild or /spawn or what ever the place you can build a base on, if i were you, i would take a lot of ender pearls with you if able to, ender pearls take 2 and a half hearts of damage if no armor / bad armor is on so, if you have the armor frank showed you (the name has nothing to do with it, look at the enchants) then you'll probably take 0.01 damage (not even half a heart) so you run and jump at the same time (it is the fastest way for moving unless in a horse or with a plugin) and every time you are ready you throw an ender pearl, i would suggest to keep health on top of half if could just so if you get in a battle, so , when you find a safe spot you can either make it underground OR in the sky (called a skybase ) if you have a powerful faction you should claim like this:

            (Underground example, preferably 2 blocks above bedrock)                                        
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                                                  #_____________
       Base:                                     (----------------)
                                                    (----------------)
                                                    (----------------)  
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(you will also need some stone to fill up every hole you make)

(this is claim symbol example = #)  
  like that but in all sides, if you do that then you are going to have to make 1 or 2 decoy bases, FUN TIME
you will need : TNT and cobblestone WOOOOOOOO

Now you build a base on the floor    (were grass is at the top) and all you do is make a decent base and TNT it up :) WOOOOOO, or you can do a fake base in the sky with some chests and put Crap on the chests ;)

Or you could just build this XD


So, ive told you what you will need to build the base but not HOW to build the base, so here it goes :o

1. You have to do 2 layers of obsidian to make it strong against TNT
2. You should make it small if not strong enough to claim  or if you want it simple
3. The more obsidian layers the better !!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. When you are done with your design you will now need more obby, water and lava
5. You put water all on the roof of the base, for this you will have to make a 2 x 2 hole to walk and place, please do not forget to place blocks behind were you walk :)
6. When you do the water it must look something like the picture on top so people cant TNT you base
7. Now, that is a above ground base, that it the WORST idea ever, they are easy to spot, easy to build a cannon on and worst easier for hackers to see
8. When you do the water thing you do another layer, this time it could be something like cobble or something strong not dirt though >XD
9. In that other layer you will need to craft and drink a fire resist pot shown in this pic over here :

    step 1:  

    step 2:  
    (you make that with the awkward potion the step 1 will give you)

      step 3:
       (you make this with what step 2 gives you)

   10. This will make it so you can walk in lava without burning
   11.Now you fill that other layer with the lava and you fill that with obby again :)



Now, how can you get all those approximately 6 stacks of obby? well you need money for that and to get money i would come back tomorrow so you can see the best ways ;)  (ill also teach you how to make a simple hard-to-find sky base)


Daniel here signing out. P.S