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Walled Medieval Town
A 49 by 49 walled town with six houses, a keep, a market well, a gatehouse and roofed towers.
- Size
- 49×49×25
- Difficulty
- Expert
- Style
- Medieval
- Blocks
- 9,431 blocks
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Grand Cathedral
A cross-shaped stone cathedral with stained glass, rose windows, pews and a 44-block bell tower.
A showpiece mega build. A long nave and wide transept form a cross under steep deepslate tile roofs, buttresses frame tall stained glass windows, three rose windows glow at the ends and a bell tower with an open belfry and spire rises at the front.
- Size (W × L × H)
- 37 × 48 × 45
- Blocks to place
- 6,084
- Layers
- 45
- Difficulty
- Expert
- Best biomes
- Plains, Any
- Works in
- Java and Bedrock 1.18+
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The .schem file is a Sponge schematic for WorldEdit and similar tools on Java 1.21 or newer. Preview it first in the Schematic Viewer. Bedrock players can follow the layer plan below.
How to build the Grand Cathedral
- 1
Footprint
Mark a 13-wide nave running 39 blocks and a 33-wide transept crossing it near the back, and floor both with polished andesite.
- 2
Walls and buttresses
Build stone brick walls 18 tall and add buttress columns outside the nave every four blocks.
- 3
Glass
Fill the bays between buttresses with tall stained glass and add round rose windows to the transept ends and the back wall.
- 4
Roofs
Roof the transept, then the nave, with deepslate tile stairs and a tile ridge.
- 5
Bell tower
Build an 11 by 11 tower 38 tall at the front with three floors, a ladder, open belfry arches and a pyramid spire.
- 6
Interior
Add pews from oak stairs, stone columns with glowstone tops and a raised altar with lanterns.
Builder tips
- Deepslate tiles need version 1.18 or newer.
- Build scaffolding to reach the high windows.
- Premium members can open every layer and download the .schem file.
Materials
Exact counts for every block in the build. Stacks are 64.
| Block | Count | Stacks |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Bricks | 3364 | 52 × 64 + 36 |
| Deepslate Tile Stairs | 876 | 13 × 64 + 44 |
| Polished Andesite | 751 | 11 × 64 + 47 |
| Spruce Planks | 240 | 3 × 64 + 48 |
| Mossy Stone Bricks | 238 | 3 × 64 + 46 |
| Cracked Stone Bricks | 220 | 3 × 64 + 28 |
| Blue Stained Glass | 116 | 1 × 64 + 52 |
| Red Stained Glass | 104 | 1 × 64 + 40 |
| Deepslate Tiles | 61 | 61 |
| Yellow Stained Glass | 47 | 47 |
| Ladder | 29 | 29 |
| Oak Stairs | 28 | 28 |
| Glowstone | 8 | 8 |
| Lantern | 2 | 2 |
Gathering estimate
Planks, stairs, slabs, bricks and glass converted back to what you collect, using standard recipes. Rounded up.
- Cobblestone3822
- Deepslate Tiles1375
- Polished Andesite751
- Blue Stained Glass116
- Red Stained Glass104
- Spruce Log60
- Yellow Stained Glass47
- Oak Log19
- Glowstone8
- Lantern2
Layer-by-layer plan
Build from the bottom up. Each layer shows exactly which block goes where, with the layer below shown faintly for alignment.
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