Stockade villages
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Villages in Minecraft are open to anything that wanders in. Stockades gives larger villages a defensive wall that looks like the villagers built it themselves. Each wall follows its village and its ground, and is built from materials of its biome.
Stockade
Villages in Minecraft are open to anything that wanders in. Stockade gives larger villages a defensive wall that looks like the villagers built it themselves. Each wall follows its village and its ground, and is built from materials of its biome.
What gets built
- A wall that follows the village: no perfect squares or circles. The wall hugs the outer houses and fields and goes up and down with the ground.
- Two gates, placed where the main streets leave the village:
- stone gatehouses with a wooden beam and an arch;
- log towers with railings;
- or sandstone towers in the desert.
- Each gate has a lantern, torches and hay bales.
- 2 to 5 watchtowers along the wall, depending on its length. They are 2×2 towers with battlements, a lantern on top and a ladder on the inside so you can climb up.
- Details that make it feel lived in:
- posts with lanterns;
- buttresses;
- ivy on old stone;
- planks nailed behind log palisades;
- flowering hedges;
- sand blown against desert walls;
- paths leading out of the gates.
- Water and holes:
- The wall goes around ponds, holes and small lakes when the detour is reasonable.
- Rivers and ravines up to 60 blocks wide are crossed with a bridge built from the same materials as the wall, and one of the gates sits at the bridge.
- Bridge pillars only go down to solid ground. Over deep ravines, the bridge rests on beams instead.
Stockade villages Team
