Minecraft Medieval House Ideas and Builds
10 medieval builds, each with a free 3D preview and the full materials list, from 712 to 6,278 blocks: 3 medium, 6 hard and 1 expert.
A whole medieval town to build: houses, a tavern, a smithy, a market square, town walls with a gate, a keep, a guard tower and a windmill, in stone, timber and tile.
- Builds
- 10
- Blocks
- 712 to 6,278
- Build time
- 55 min to 6.5 hours
- Layers
- 15 to 31
Medieval houses
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Houses
Ravenstone House
Hard About 1.5 hours 21 × 15 1,487 blocks
A medieval house with a stone ground floor and a timber upper floor that juts out on carved brackets. A steep roof with a front gable, a brick chimney on a stone breast, a side balcony and a staircase inside.
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Houses
Highgarden Manor
Expert About 6.5 hours 45 × 32 6,278 blocks
A grand manor round a stone courtyard: two wings, a four-storey entrance tower with a balcony, slate roofs that meet in valleys, dormers and four chimneys. A long project for a server spawn or a big survival base.
Medieval castles
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Castles
Greyholm Medieval Keep
Hard About 2.5 hours 29 × 18 2,211 blocks
A medieval keep: a tall square tower of grey stone with dressed corners, a parapet on corbels with a turret on every corner and a steep tiled roof, a stone stair up to the great hall under a little porch, and a jettied timber wing with a well in the yard.
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Castles
Kingsford Medieval Town Gate
Hard About 2.5 hours 37 × 12 2,234 blocks
A medieval town gate: a stone gate tower with an arched passage, a raised portcullis and banners, a jettied guard room under a tall tiled gable, crenellated walls with towers on both sides and a stone bridge over the moat.
Medieval village buildings
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Village Buildings
Goldmeadow Medieval Windmill
Medium About 1.5 hours 31 × 20 1,097 blocks
A medieval tower windmill among wheat fields: an eight-sided tower with a stone base, a body of cream plaster and spruce with a gallery round it, a tiled cap and four big sails with white cloth, with hay stacked by the door.
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Village Buildings
Emberford Medieval Blacksmith
Medium About 1.5 hours 23 × 14 1,137 blocks
A medieval blacksmith: the smith's house with a jettied upper floor of cream plaster and spruce, and beside it a forge open to the street on stone pillars, with furnaces, an anvil, a quenching trough and a glowing hearth under a tall stone chimney.
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Village Buildings
Highford Medieval Market
Hard About 1.5 hours 21 × 22 1,338 blocks
A medieval market square: a paved square with a roofed well, market stalls with striped awnings selling produce, flowers, cloth and tools, and a market hall with a stone arcade, a jettied upper floor with flower boxes and a bell turret on its tiled roof.
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Village Buildings
Boarshead Medieval Tavern
Hard About 1.5 hours 21 × 22 1,585 blocks
A big medieval tavern: a stone ground floor, a jettied upper floor of cream plaster and spruce timber, an upper room over the entrance on stone pillars, steep tiled roofs with crested gables, a stone chimney, flower boxes and a beer garden with tables.
More medieval builds
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Towers
Hawkridge Medieval Guard Tower
Medium About 55 min 15 × 9 712 blocks
A tall medieval guard tower: a stone shaft with arrow slits, a lookout room of cream plaster and spruce that juts out on stone corbels, a steep tiled spire with a flag, and a low stone guardhouse with braziers by the door.
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Survival Bases
Ashcombe Medieval Survival Base
Hard About 2.5 hours 41 × 35 2,625 blocks
A medieval survival base: a walled farmstead with a round stone tower and a timbered enchanting room under a steep tiled spire, a jettied farmhouse with its stores outside, an open smithy with furnaces, an anvil and a forge, a timber barn with stalls and a hay loft, a pen and a well in the courtyard, fields outside the gate and a mine with rails in the hill.
How to build a medieval house in Minecraft
What the medieval builds here have in common. Follow these and your own build will look the part.
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STEP 1
Start with a stone base
Build the ground floor in stone bricks on a cobblestone footing. Mix in a few mossy and cracked bricks so the wall looks old.
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STEP 2
Frame the upper floor in timber
Stand stripped spruce logs as posts on plank beams and fill the panels between them with a pale block such as smooth sandstone.
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STEP 3
Push the upper floor out
Let the upper floor hang one block over the street on a row of upside-down stairs. That overhang is what makes it read as medieval.
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STEP 4
Build a steep roof
Use stairs for a steep roof, in orange acacia for tiles, brick for red tiles or a dark block for slate, with thick boards along the gable.
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STEP 5
Add a stone chimney
Run a chimney up the outside of a gable wall and let it rise above the ridge.
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STEP 6
Finish the front
Flower boxes under the windows, shutters of open trapdoors and a lantern by the door.
The blocks these builds use most
Added up over all 10 medieval builds. A good palette to stock up on before you start.
| Block | Blocks in total | Used in |
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| Stone Bricks | 3,099 | 10 of 10 builds |
| Spruce Planks | 2,450 | 9 of 10 builds |
| Acacia Stairs | 1,240 | 8 of 10 builds |
| Cobblestone | 948 | 10 of 10 builds |
| Spruce Stairs | 694 | 9 of 10 builds |
| Smooth Sandstone | 640 | 8 of 10 builds |
| Spruce Trapdoor | 622 | 10 of 10 builds |
| Mossy Stone Bricks | 588 | 10 of 10 builds |
Questions
How many blocks does a Minecraft medieval build need?
The medieval builds here take between 712 and 6,278 blocks. The smallest is Hawkridge Medieval Guard Tower with 712 blocks, the largest is Highgarden Manor with 6,278.
How long does it take to make a medieval build in Minecraft?
About 55 min for Hawkridge Medieval Guard Tower, up to about 6.5 hours for Highgarden Manor, once you have gathered the blocks.
Which medieval build is the easiest?
Hawkridge Medieval Guard Tower. It is rated medium, takes 712 blocks and stands 15 by 9 blocks on the ground.
Can I build these in survival?
Yes. Every build lists each block you need with the number of stacks, so you can gather first and build after. All of them use blocks you can get in survival.
Do these medieval builds come with a schematic?
Yes. Each build has a .schem file for Litematica, WorldEdit and Axiom, next to the layer-by-layer blueprints.
Are the blueprints free?
The 3D preview, the sizes and the full materials list of every build are free. The layer-by-layer blueprints and the schematic come with the build for €2.99, paid once, or with Pro for every build.
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