When Dungeons Arise: Thornborn Towers Remake

A brand-new fan remake featuring multiple themed rooms – theater, gallery, museum, and more. The adventure awaits!

A fan-made rework of Thornborn Towers from When Dungeons Arise.

Available as an override datapack and a data-only NeoForge mod. Both replace DDA’s thornborn_towers structure templates and chest loot with a reworked, cleaned-up version.

What’s included

• Larger Volume – Brand new building twice as big as the original ones allowing more stuffs
• Themed rooms – a grand Theater, a Gallery with 42 paintings, a Museum, and more themed rooms waiting to explore
• Better Loots – More and better loots are placed in this building

Requirements

| Mod | Needed for |
| — | — |
| When Dungeons Arise | the base this pack overrides (required) |
| Create | structure blocks + loot |
| Supplementaries | structure blocks + loot |
| Quark | structure blocks + entities |
| Functional Armor Trims | optional – one armor stand carries its “thorns” attribute |

Moonlight Lib and Polymorph are required by the mod above.

Installation

As a mod (NeoForge 1.21.1)

1. Install the required mods above.
2. Drop the NeoForge jar in mods/.

As a datapack

1. Install the required mods above.
2. Place the pack in your world’s datapacks folder, after When Dungeons Arise (it is an override pack).
3. Enable the datapack through commands.

Structures do not retro-generate – travel to a newly generated region after installing.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge)

Known Issues

• Paintings larger than 1×1 in the Gallery may be offset by 1-2 blocks after the structure generates; 1×1 paintings are unaffected. This is vanilla 1.21.1 placement behavior for multi-block painting entities inside structures (world-space TileX/Y/Z re-attachment), not a datapack bug.
• Without Ice and Fire installed, a few armor stands log a harmless warning about unknown attachment data (though they still work normally).

Credits & disclaimer

• Built on the foundations of When Dungeons Arise. Fan-made rework – not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the original DDA authors.