Minecraft Viking House Ideas and Builds
8 Viking builds, each with a free 3D preview and the full materials list, from 336 to 4,340 blocks: 1 easy, 3 medium, 3 hard and 1 expert.
A whole Viking village to build: a longhouse, houses, a farm, a watchtower, a ringfort and a boathouse with a longship, in spruce, dark oak and stone.
- Builds
- 8
- Blocks
- 336 to 4,340
- Build time
- 25 min to 5 hours
- Layers
- 13 to 29
Viking houses
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Houses
Laksholm Viking Fishing Hut
Easy About 25 min 18 × 7 336 blocks
A small Viking fishing hut on stilts over a lake: a timber hut with a jetty to the shore, a working deck with nets drying on a frame, barrels for the catch and a ladder down to the water. An easy first build for your Viking village.
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Houses
Ulfheim Viking House
Medium About 40 min 12 × 14 496 blocks
A Viking house with a stone ground floor, an upper floor of dark timber and daub that juts out over the door, and a steep dark oak roof with a cross gable, carved dragon heads and shields by the door.
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Houses
Frostmere Viking Longhouse
Expert About 5 hours 86 × 28 4,340 blocks
A great Viking hall of spruce logs on the shore of a frozen lake. Carved dragon heads on the gables, round shields by the doors and a long hearth inside. Outside: a longship hauled up on rollers, a storehouse on stilts, a fire pit and a rune stone in the snow.
More Viking builds
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Towers
Skjoldvik Viking Watchtower
Medium About 55 min 21 × 14 637 blocks
A Viking lookout tower on a snowy shore, built like a stave church: a skirt roof halfway up, a lookout with shields along the railing under a steep spire, and a jetty out into the bay.
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Farms
Kornvik Viking Farm
Medium About 1 hour 20 × 27 985 blocks
A Viking farmstead: a tall barn with big open doors, a hay loft and a steep dark oak roof, a lean-to of stalls, a field of wheat, carrots, potatoes and beetroots watered by a channel, a scarecrow and a roofed well.
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Survival Bases
Bjorngard Viking Survival Base
Hard About 1.5 hours 32 × 21 1,233 blocks
A fortified Viking survival base: a log hall with beds and an enchanting corner, a storage wing lined with chests, a stone wall with a covered gatehouse round a yard with a smithy, a storage shed, a garden and an animal pen, and rails running out of a mine in a rocky hill.
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Castles
Jarnborg Viking Ringfort
Hard About 2 hours 39 × 40 2,041 blocks
A round Viking fort in the snow: a palisade with pointed tops and a walkway all the way round, a gatehouse with stone towers and a portcullis, four gates, two longhouses with bowed walls, war tents round a fire pit, a training ground and the jarl's banner in the middle.
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Village Buildings
Ormsnes Viking Boathouse
Hard About 2.5 hours 40 × 53 2,050 blocks
A Viking shipyard on a snowy fjord: a long stone boathouse under a steep dark oak roof with the jarl's longship halfway out down the slipway, a new ship being built on a second slipway, a timber store, a pier and snowy mountains all round.
How to build a Viking house in Minecraft
What the Viking builds here have in common. Follow these and your own build will look the part.
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STEP 1
Put timber on stone
Build a low wall of stone and set walls of spruce logs or boards on top of it.
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STEP 2
Give it a steep, dark roof
A steep roof of dark oak stairs that reaches low over the walls, with a cross gable above the door.
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STEP 3
Carve the gable ends
End each ridge in a dragon head: a few stairs and a fence post that curl up and out past the gable.
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STEP 4
Hang shields and lanterns
Put shields on every other block along a wall and hang lanterns under the eaves.
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STEP 5
Fence it in
A palisade of pointed logs or a low stone wall with a gate makes a house into a homestead.
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STEP 6
Pick the right place
Viking builds look best by water, in a spruce forest or in the snow.
The blocks these builds use most
Added up over all 8 Viking builds. A good palette to stock up on before you start.
| Block | Blocks in total | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Spruce Log | 2,360 | 8 of 8 builds |
| Spruce Planks | 2,015 | 8 of 8 builds |
| Dark Oak Stairs | 1,672 | 8 of 8 builds |
| Cobblestone | 995 | 7 of 8 builds |
| Spruce Stairs | 687 | 8 of 8 builds |
| Dark Oak Planks | 685 | 8 of 8 builds |
| Mossy Cobblestone | 533 | 7 of 8 builds |
| Stripped Spruce Log | 502 | 5 of 8 builds |
Questions
How many blocks does a Minecraft Viking build need?
The Viking builds here take between 336 and 4,340 blocks. The smallest is Laksholm Viking Fishing Hut with 336 blocks, the largest is Frostmere Viking Longhouse with 4,340.
How long does it take to make a Viking build in Minecraft?
About 25 min for Laksholm Viking Fishing Hut, up to about 5 hours for Frostmere Viking Longhouse, once you have gathered the blocks.
Which Viking build is the easiest?
Laksholm Viking Fishing Hut. It is rated easy, takes 336 blocks and stands 18 by 7 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 Viking 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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