Stockade villages

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.