Medieval Builds
Castles, towers, villages, blacksmith shops, and medieval-style architecture.
A functional medieval blacksmith shop with a working forge area, anvil station, water quench barrels, and tool displays. Uses lava behind iron bars for the forge fire.
A grand castle gatehouse with twin towers, a portcullis made of iron bars, arrow slits, and battlements. Functions as both an entrance and a defensive structure.
A compact market stall with a colorful wool awning, barrel counters, and item frame displays. Fits medieval villages and server spawn areas.
A Tudor-style medieval house with exposed timber framing, white plaster walls, and a steep spruce roof. The cobblestone foundation adds historical authenticity.
A tall stone watchtower with an internal ladder, arrow slits, and a wooden observation platform at the top. Fits castle walls or standalone outposts.
A grand medieval throne room with a red carpet leading to an elevated throne, hanging chandeliers, banners along the walls, and golden accents throughout.
Timber framing
A timber-framed wall is a grid of logs filled in with a light block. A log lines up with the face you place it against, so the cross beams go in by clicking the side of the post next to them, and an axe strips the bark off for a lighter beam. The medieval village house fills its spruce frame with white concrete, which needs 1.12 or later.
Stone, bars and chains
- Walls
- Wall blocks join other walls, iron bars and glass panes, but never fences. Fence gates do connect, which is handy for a gate in a stone wall.
- Iron bars
- Bars join each other and glass panes, so a grid of them reads as a portcullis. They do not open, so the one on the castle gatehouse is there for looks.
- Chains
- A chain can hang straight down or lie along either horizontal axis, and lanterns, bells and hanging signs hang from it. That is how the chandeliers in the throne room are made.
- Candles
- Up to four candles of the same color fit on one block. Each lit candle adds 3 to the light level, up to 12 with four, and flint and steel lights them.
Carpet can be placed on any block except air, stairs included, so a red carpet can run all the way up the steps to the throne.
A forge that works
- Lava
- In the Overworld lava flows 3 blocks from its source, 7 in the Nether, at one block every 1.5 seconds. It can set fire to flammable blocks near it without touching them, so keep wood and wool clear of the forge. Barrels never burn, but lava can still start a fire in the air beside them.
- Anvil
- Each use has a 12% chance to wear an anvil down a stage, from chipped to damaged to gone, about 25 uses on average. An anvil that falls more than one block has a 5% chance per block fallen to lose a stage too.
- Blast furnace
- Smelts ores twice as fast as a furnace and burns fuel twice as fast. It is also the armorer's job site block.
- Cauldron
- Holds water, lava or powder snow, and it is the leatherworker's job site block.
The blacksmith forge keeps its lava behind iron bars.
Market stalls villagers will use
A job site block in a stall can give an unemployed villager its profession. In Java a villager looks for the nearest unclaimed job site block within 48 blocks.
A barrel makes a fisherman, a smoker a butcher and a composter a farmer. A loom makes a shepherd, a stonecutter a mason, a fletching table a fletcher and a cartography table a cartographer. A lectern makes a librarian, a brewing stand a cleric and a cauldron a leatherworker, and the forge blocks give an armorer (blast furnace), a toolsmith (smithing table) and a weaponsmith (grindstone).
The market stall already has barrels in its counter, so a villager nearby can become a fisherman there.