The beautiful thing about Minecraft is how you gradually improve as a player, honing your craft, slowly developing your skill – and your personal taste often follows suit. Small, dirty shacks becomes beautiful villas, simple cobblestone is replaced with jungle tree or terracotta, and that pile of sand blocks you threw on the floor instead of building a bed becomes an actual bed When it comes to building a home in Minecraft, there’s a great variety of approaches you can take. Of course, it can be fun to kind of wing it and allow your home to develop organically according to your needs and whatever materials you have on hand. But some folks have a vision for what they want their Minecraft habitation to look like. It’s your own little piece of this immense world, after all, and it can be nifty to make it feel unique and satisfying to carefully follow a detailed plan. But in order to do so, well, you’ll need a blueprint before you can begin. minecraft house blueprints
Have you built your very own house in Minecraft yet? If so, have you built a super fancy one that will be the envy of all your virtual friends that you play with? If the answer is no, then it is time to change that! We have taken a look at some of the swankiest and coolest abodes that you can make in the game, from houses to towers to castles and have chosen the best of the bunch, with details on how to find the blueprints to start building!
With so much content out there, inspiration for Minecraft houses can be hard to come by. This is especially true for beginners who may be unfamiliar with many of the game’s mechanics. Although it’s relatively easy to build a basic house on the fly in Minecraft, a simple blueprint can go a long way and can allow even beginners to build something beautiful. Below, we’ve listed some of our favorite blueprints for homes that you can build in Minecraft.
The best Minecraft house blueprints
Tiny Survival House 1
This is a great one to start with if it’s your first time following a blueprint in Minecraft. As the name implies, Tiny Survival House 1 is a very small house that’s just big enough for a bed, making it good for survival and not much else. Besides being good for practicing following a blueprint, this house’s small size and simple resources (you’ll just need wood and a little cobblestone) make it easy to build several of them. If you plan to make extensive trips across the map, placing these houses at certain waypoints provides a handy source of shelter in a pinch, as well as a way of preserving your progress should you run into danger?
Tiny Stone House
The Tiny Stone House is in a similar vein to the previous house, only, as you might guess, it’s stone-based rather than wood-based. Ultimately, it’s all about what kind of aesthetic you prefer, but this, like the Tiny Survival House, is good practice for a newcomer to blueprints and a nice way of creating easily-crafted shelters across the map.
Victorian castle
Well, doesn’t this look epic? This is a sublime design and one that will impress anyone who pays you a visit to your virtual world of Minecraft. It will take some time to build but as you can see from the glorious design of it, you will be pleased that you did it.
Castle with blue towers
While not quite as epic in scope as the last, this is still a great castle to have and even more so if you like your homes to have lots of blue as a central color. It is still a complex one to make and as you can see by the number of materials needed, it is no small one!
Mini castle
This is a great one to try if you want to start building castles but you are not quite ready to make the leap to the larger, more sprawling, designs that are out there. It is nowhere near as fiddly as the others on the list and you don’t need anywhere near as many materials either – so a perfect starter castle.
Village Hunters House
Prefer a more rusty brick color scheme? Then you’ll want to try the Village Hunters House. This very simple rectangular building remains great for practice but is also ideal for remote locations. As the name implies, this house resembles a hunter’s lodge; and amidst a lush, remote forest, this simple red-brick building will no doubt feel very cozy and inviting.
Minimalist Gothic House
The Minimalist Gothic House puts a rather classic architectural spin on these tiny abodes. It’s still small and simple to build, but with its overhanging roof and stone chimney, it’s got a classical Gothic look to it that’ll lend your Minecraft outpost a bit of class.
World of Warcraft Human Wizard Tower
If you are a fan of both Minecraft and World of Warcraft then you probably do not need us to tell you why this is a tower that you are going to want to build. Even if you are not though this is still a great one to choose and it will be an epic addition to any Minecraft player’s list of builds.
Steampunk Fantasy Tower House
This is one of the tallest towers going – so tall in fact that we could not fit the entire thing into one picture. And not only does it tower above everything else with the top nestled in with the clouds, but it looks great as it does it too.
Fantasy Tower
Sometimes you want something that just looks amazing and that is what you will get with this fantasy tower that has some fancy gold included to give it some bling. The attention to detail on this one is quite something and if you can follow the blueprints and recreate them then you will have a tower that will be the envy of everyone you meet!
Small Survival House
Stepping things up a bit, the Small Survival House is the one to build when you’re feeling a bit more confident about building off blueprints but aren’t yet quite ready to construct full-scale mansions. As the name implies, this is a house on a smaller scale, but it still has some size to it. It’s a house with two floors, a hedge, a veranda, and a nice wooden exterior. It’s got all the vibes of a pleasant holiday cottage, and once you’ve got it decorated and furnished, it’ll really feel like a home, regardless of whether or not you intend to use it as your main base of operations.
Simple Starter Treehouse
Once you’ve gotten used to the basics of following blueprints, it’ll be time to start putting a twist on the abodes you choose to build. Treehouses, for instance. The Simple Starter Treehouse is a great way to practice the complexities of building a home in a Minecraft tree. It’s a tricky process, but the unique experience of dwelling in the treetops is more than worth it. Plus, pick the right tree, and you’ll have a view even the most elaborate house can’t provide.
Huge Modern Mansion
Go big or go home, right? Well this one is certainly big and the amount of blocks needed is quite the number – it will be worth it though when you have completed it. This is an epic design and an awesome looking mansion and while constructing it may take you a while, we suspect that you will be glad you did when you see the final product.
Detailed Nordic House
Let’s go a lot smaller for this next one, and this Nordic-themed home is a great one to get if you like the theme or you want to have a bit of an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla vibe going on. The number of blocks needed is small in comparison to many others and this will be one that a novice could have a crack at without running into too many problems as they build it.
Modern Duplex House
There are a lot of older style buildings out there and many on this list, so let’s have a look at one that is a bit more modern – not everyone is a lover of history. This modern duplex house is a stylish one and is a very different look from a lot of the others that you will see. We’d happily live in this ourselves if it were built in the real world!
Semi-Organic Medieval Treehouse
And once you’ve got the treehouse-building basics in the bag, it might be time to start experimenting with more elaborate treetop constructions. The Semi-Organic Medieval Treehouse is just the thing to add a truly unique twist to your Minecraft habitation. Really, now, how often are you going to see a medieval-themed treehouse, much less one with a partially organic structure? It’s structured like this one that reminds us how tremendously creative one can get with building in Minecraft.
8. Fantasy Victorian Mansion
About time we start moving on to fancier things. Things like the Fantasy Victorian Mansion. With its multiple stories and sharply tapering gables, this building very much brings to mind the style of Victorian architecture. Sure, it’s kind of elaborate, and you’ll need to feel confident working with blueprints in order to attempt constructing it (oh, and you’ll need a lot of oak wood). However, once you feel ready, this is just the sort of abode to make you feel like the head of a refined noble family.
Big Village House
Want to stay minimal, but scale up a bit? Then you might want to try the Big Village House. This one doesn’t follow any particular architectural style and follows a relatively simple stone-and-wood exterior color scheme, but it’s a sizable establishment, with multiple rooms and some very appealing interior décor. It’s the ideal sort of house for the player who doesn’t want to be too ostentatious or showy but who still likes the notion of shacking up in a larger home, with plenty of storage space and room to move around. As a nice bonus, it’s also got a pool and some garden space for green-thumbed players.
Modern Mansion
There’s been a lot of stuff on this list with wood-based construction and Victorian aesthetics, but what if you prefer something a bit more modern? Well, naturally, you’ll opt for a blueprint like the Modern Mansion. Constructed chiefly of stone and clay, with a bit of wood to offset the lighter colors, this building has a minimalist style to it that greatly brings to mind the sort of place that a modern Silicon Valley billionaire might live. It’s a little more complicated to construct than some of the other stuff on this list, but it still has a relatively low block count, and its slick, geometric look is very satisfying to put together.
Simple Quartz Modern House
And sticking to the theme of homes with a modern aesthetic, the Simple Quartz Modern House follows that theme very much. Chiefly constructed out of quartz and glass, it’s got the kind of sleek, minimalist, open-plan style to it that’ll really make you feel like a modern yuppie.
Quartz Suburban House With Pool
And if you end up taking to the quartz-based aesthetic, you can follow the billionaire’s approach of taking what you like and getting more of it. There’s a whole lot of quartz-based house blueprints out there, but the Quartz Suburban House with a Pool is probably one of the most elaborate options. It takes the geometric open-plan quartz design and offsets it with a bit of brick, adding a pool, patio, and backyard to really make your Minecraft self feel like a trendy upper-middle classer.
Khrushchyovka Soviet Apartment Building
Soviet buildings, generally speaking, we’re all about being blandly functional and, well, rather dull to look at. That sort of thing is an acquired taste, to be sure, but if you’d like to bring that Eastern Bloc look to your map, blueprints like that of the Khrushchyovka Soviet Apartment Building are probably for you. Build several of these together, and you’ll really bring a grim industrial feeling to the wild world of Minecraft. There’s also a sizable number of apartments in the building, making it a handy place for storage or a good place for all your friends to shack up when you’re playing one of those larger co-op games. Just make sure they don’t get too creative with the decoration if you want to keep that authentically somber Soviet look.
Governor’s Palace
Let’s go back to a more old-school look for the last few items on our list. The Governor’s Palace is a tremendously-sized Georgian mansion with tons of rooms, lush furnishing, and some eye-catching topiary out front. Consisting of more than 40,000 blocks and calling for a variety of stone, brick, and wood, it goes without saying that this one is going to take a while to build. Once you’re done, however, it’s the kind of place that’ll really make you (and your friends, should you deign to offer them a room or two) feel like the elected rulers of your Minecraft map.
Huge Modern Mansion
And in keeping with that theme, the Huge Modern Mansion is, well, a huge mansion, though it’s more mock-Tudor than modern. Consisting of more than 47,000 blocks, chiefly bricks and wood, this one is likewise going to take you some serious time to construct. However, with its multiple floors, sprawling interior and exterior features, and pleasantly light color scheme, this is bound to be the sort of Minecraft house that’ll really make you feel like you’ve established yourself in this highly competitive world.
