10 Minecraft Building Ideas for a Town

Building cool stuff is the main appeal of playing Minecraft. You can build practically anything you imagine, from diamond skyscrapers to zen gardens in the sky. This freedom can sometimes feel overwhelming – if everything is possible, how can you ever decide what to build? The answer is simple: look at what others have built before you, and start from there.

Without further ado, here are 10 interesting Minecraft building ideas for your town.

1. Sewers

Plumbing is the foundation of any civilization. It keeps waste below the ground and out of sight, so your town can look nice. To build a sewer in Minecraft:

1. Start by hollowing out the blocks below your town.
2. Then dig some sewage canals to divert water from the surface below ground.
3. Finally, expand the sewer system with additional rooms for storage, monster breeding, and other underground activities.

You can use any building blocks to build a sewer. We think stone looks best, combined with iron for railings, gates, doors, and fences.

2. Courthouse

If you’re running a Minecraft server that emphasizes role-play, it can be fun to build a courthouse to resolve conflicts between players in a peaceful way. Plus, it will make your town feel more like a real city.

You’ll need plenty of marble blocks for the exterior of the building and wood for the interior. Divide the main chamber in two, and build one half for the audience, and one for the jury, judges, and defendants. And if you’re looking for that frontier court vibe, place gallows nearby to swiftly punish bandits and criminals.

3. Prison

Prisons are rising in popularity on Minecraft multiplayer servers. They provide a fun environment for combat, looting, and survival, and they offer plenty of role-playing opportunities if you’re running a social server.

To build a prison, you will need stone for walls, iron for doors and fences, and red stone for a security system with lever-activated doors. If you want to make your prison extra secure, build a couple of watchtowers near the walls, and use obsidian blocks to prevent escape through digging.

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4. Hospital

There are many ways to get hurt in Minecraft, so building a hospital for players to heal and rest might not be a bad idea.

Use a white block-like marble for the exterior to make the hospital stand out. For the interior, you need beds, chests, and tables for holding healing items. You can also place healing beacons throughout the hospital for the AOE healing buff.

5. Diamond Skyscraper

Nothing says “obscene wealth” like a skyscraper built out of diamonds. Gathering enough diamonds to build such a thing can be downright tedious unless you use something like the Ore Excavation mod for faster mining.

You can use the skyscraper as a dwelling, as a gathering place for players, and even as a boss arena. The view from the top is not bad either. In terms of construction, there is nothing special about building a skyscraper. You stack rooms atop each other until you reach the desired height.

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6. Lighthouse

A lighthouse is the perfect escapist fantasy – a lone tower in the ocean, free from all but immediate concerns such as food, shelter, and heat. It is also a cool decoration for seaside towns.

To build a lighthouse tower, use a combination of brick and stone. If you have a penchant for red stone mechanics, create a rotating platform for the lightroom, to make your lighthouse behave like a real one.

7. Maze

Why go out of town for dungeon delving if you can create your own dungeon maze back in town? Mazes are extremely popular on multiplayer servers because they provide a convenient environment for combat. You can build a maze out of any type of block, underground as well as above.

We recommend using obsidian to prevent players from simply digging through walls. To make them more fun, add pit traps, monster spawners, secret passages behind rotating walls, and pressure plates connected to arrow launchers.

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8. Clock Tower

Nothing inspires a sense of dignity like the noble clock tower. A marvel of engineering, in order to build a clock tower, you will need a degree in Minecraft block mechanics.

The tower itself is easy to build (you can use bricks, wood, stone, or any other material) but the clock mechanism will take some time to figure out, especially if you want your clock to match in-game hours.

9. Zen Garden

Sometimes you just need a quiet place to relax after a long mining session. A zen garden takes little resources to build, but it can really bring a town to life.

You will need a small fishpond, various kinds of plants and flowers, some sand, and wood for the benches. Add some lanterns for ambient lighting during the night, and you’re basically done. Zen gardens are fragile, so be on the lookout if you plan on building one in survival mode.

10. Underground City

Since you’ll be doing lots of digging anyway, why not build an underground counterpart for your surface city? Use it as a test environment for combat with traps, monsters, and especially lava. To build an underground city, look for a large cave, or carve one out with TNT. After clearing the area, build just like you would a regular town. You can use more exotic materials like obsidian and precious stones to give your underground city a dwarven feel.

Conclusion

We’ve only scratched the surface of what you can build in Minecraft. If you’re creative and have time to spare, you will come up with even wilder ideas for town buildings. And if you find it tedious to gather materials for every building, try playing the game in Creative mode for access to unlimited resources. Happy building!

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