Spawn Gazebo

Every new world begins in a little round stone gazebo: a copper dome, lanterns, benches and a starter chest, built from the wood that grows nearest your spawn.

A Fabric and NeoForge mod for Minecraft 26.3 and 1.21.1, and a plugin for Paper servers on 26.3.

What you get

• A round gazebo at the world spawn, built once when a world is created: a stepped plinth, pillars of stripped logs, arched openings on four sides and a weathered copper dome with a lightning rod. Inside, a glowstone floor, two benches, potted saplings and four decorated pots with seeds and saplings to break open.
• Built from what’s around it. The pillars and benches are the wood that grows nearest the spawn: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, pale oak, bamboo or poplar. In deserts and badlands the stone is sandstone and the dome a browner copper; everywhere else it’s grey stone with moss creeping in and azaleas growing over the dome.
• A starter chest, in the railing opposite the entrance, like vanilla’s bonus chest: a bed, sixteen torches, six bread, four saplings and a bundle. Or, if you’d rather, the bonus chest’s own loot (a few tools, wood, food and seeds, different every time), or any loot table you name. The first player takes the chest; everyone who joins after them is handed a roll of the same loot. With Lootr installed, each player gets their own copy of the chest instead.
• Lanterns hang under the eaves and stand either side of the steps, so the spawn is lit at night.
• Protection. Outside creative the gazebo can’t be broken or built on, and explosions, fire, pistons and buckets leave it alone. The chest, benches and pots still work, and the decorated pots can still be broken for their contents. The protection reaches 12 blocks from the middle of the gazebo (the gazebo itself reaches 7), so the lawn around it stays as it was; the radius is a setting.

Building it also moves the world spawn to the middle of the gazebo and sets the spawn_radius game rule to 0, so everyone starts inside it. Any lava pool at the surface within 16 blocks (or the protected radius, if that’s wider) is set to stone, so nobody’s first steps outside are into lava.

Settings

In config/spawn_gazebo.properties, or in game through Mod Menu on Fabric, or the Mods screen’s Config button on NeoForge (Spawn Gazebo > Config):

On a server, the server’s settings file decides; players’ own settings are greyed out there.

Worlds

Brand-new worlds get the gazebo by themselves. For a world you already have, an operator stands where they want it and types /spawngazebo build, then /spawngazebo build confirm within 30 seconds: the gazebo is built there in the local wood, and the world spawn and the protection move to it (Minecraft 26.3 and 1.21.1). Anyone standing where it goes is moved up onto its floor, and it won’t build where a gazebo already stands. Removing the mod leaves the gazebo standing as ordinary blocks.

Requirements

Minecraft 26.3 and Java 25, with either Fabric (Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer and Fabric API; Mod Menu is optional) or NeoForge 26.3 or newer (nothing else needed). For Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21), the +1.21.1 files: Fabric with Fabric API, or NeoForge 21.1. Lootr is optional on both. Pick the fabric or neoforge file for your loader and Minecraft version.

Paper servers: Spawn Gazebo is also a plugin for Paper 26.3 (Java 25), on CurseForge, Hangar and GitHub. Drop it in the server’s plugins folder; players need nothing installed. It does everything above except Lootr and the settings screen (use the config file). The gazebo is built the first time the server starts a brand-new world.

On 1.21.1 there is no pale oak or poplar gazebo, the starter kit has no bundle (bundles are still an experiment there), and gazebos in deserts and badlands get dead bushes instead of cactus flowers.

About this mod

I made this for my own worlds and am sharing it in case it suits yours. It’s open source under the MIT License, so you’re welcome to read it, fork it or include it in a modpack.

Found a bug or have an idea? Tell me on GitHub.

More of my mods, in short videos: youtube.com/@gabmaybelle