ADVANCED STRUCTURES: PRE-RELEASE
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Advanced Structures is a vanilla-style datapack that fills your world with over 70 hand-crafted structures, from humble roadside wells to crumbling giant ruins swallowed by time. Every structure is designed to feel like it has always been there — weathered, overgrown, and waiting to be found.
What's Included
- 70+ unique structures spanning a wide range of scales and styles
- Structures range from small details like wells and waypoints to massive multi-piece superstructures generated through Jigsaw
- Each structure uses carefully tuned decay and aging processors so no two generations look identical — mossy, cracked, crumbled, or half-buried
- Lore books hidden throughout, telling the story of a world with a history
Lore
The world holds secrets. Scattered across ruins, forgotten temples, and collapsed citadels are the writings of those who came before. Find their journals, their warnings, and their maps. The story unfolds as you explore — there is no quest marker, only curiosity.
Design
Every structure is built to feel vanilla-adjacent — nothing that would look out of place in a Mojang update. Structures respect terrain, use familiar block palettes, and decay naturally into their surroundings. Jigsaw-based structures like the ruined citadel generate differently every time, ensuring no two worlds feel the same.

A special thanks to Complementary Shaders for their awesome shaderpacks!
Pre-Release Notes
This is an early pre-release. Here is what is and isn't in yet:
| Status | |
|---|---|
| Overworld structures | Included |
| Lore books | Included |
| Nether structures | Not yet |
| End structures | Not yet |
| Full lore completion | In progress |
Expect bugs, missing features, and balance changes before the full release. Please report any issues you find — feedback at this stage is hugely valuable.
Compatibility
- Minecraft: 1.21.x
- Type: Datapack (vanilla, no mods required)
- Compatible with most other datapacks
- Not compatible with datapacks that override the same structure sets or template pools
Installation
- Download the
.zipfile - Place it in your world's
datapacksfolder - Run
/reloadif adding to an existing world - New structures will generate in newly generated chunks only
- If you don't like one of the structures, go into: data/structures/worldgen/structure/ and remove the structures file.
Full release coming in late fall 2026 with possible Nether and End structures, completed lore, bug fixes and additional content!
This once rich fortress was a center of learning for the whole overworld, now only crumbling ruins remain.
A huge underwater structure gaurded by an army of mobs. You can find mending books and diamond blocks, in addition to other loot in the center. Do not try to farm the tridents and armor from the drowned spawners. (They won't drop anthing!)
This vast city lies in the frozen wasteland. Discover it's riches as well as a map to the ruined citadel by going to the center of town.
As a cargo vessel, this ship carried much loot, but now it has sunk deep beneath the waves, waiting for an brave explorer to dive down and uncover it's secrets.
This long abandoned settlement can be up to 180 blocks big and is found is plains biomes.
An ancient jungle city lost in the undergrowth.
A village that spawns on mountain tops that has happy ghasts for carring cargo. You can find dried ghasts in certain chests in the houses.
Deep beneath the surface lies the lost library, the only way to find it is throwing an eye of ender. Once you have found it, the end is near...
A upgraded version of the vanilla structure, this desert temple sits on a massive bomb waiting to to off at any second. Don't trigger it!
This vast sprawling series of corridors and hallways has four chests in the center, each containing some of the best loot in the game.
A modest well in a forest biome.
The pillager tower looms high above the overworld, full of pillagers, vindicators, evokers, and even ravagers, this structure is a good target for heroes.
A strange and somewhat useless structure made for farming mushrooms. A map here can be found in the mushroom hut.
An outpost that wandering traders use as a base.
A structure that spawns in the jungle and has a few spawners to fight.
The pillager camp can be found in most biomes. The pillagers are moving, Stop them before it is too late!
A small structure that has 4 chests with compasses, iron and lodestone. This is to teach new players about compasses and lodestones.
Deep within the jungle, the mossy spire lies. With its netherack fire on the top, the flames will never go out.
The main room of the lost library structure, this room contains many long forgotten books. Also, you can find an enchanting table in the center.
A common structure in the desert that you can use as a base overnight or just collect the gold block.
These Structures can be found in almost any biome and have spiraling stairs up the sides. The view from up there is amazing!
A tower in the woods that leads to other structures via the map at the top.
Remnants of massive trees of another age, these hollowed out stumps can be found in old growth taigas.
These long forgotten ruins contain two hidden chests somewhere inside of them.
This strange monument can be found in mangrove swamps. Who built it? Nobody knows, maybe the frogs themselves?
A small underwater structure with a elder guardian inside. Defeat it to get a sponge.
A towering statue of a creeper standing alone. It can be found in any biome in the overworld.
The desert tomb has two husk spawners inside of it and it is crawling with them on the top, but the loot is worth the fight. All above screenshots are taken with complementary shaders.
| Version | Minecraft | Loader | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
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Advanced Structures: Pre-Release 1.0.3 1.0.3 |
26.1.2
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neoforge
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Download |
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Advanced Structures: Pre-Release 1.0.3 1.0.3 |
1.21.8
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datapack
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Download |
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Advanced Structures: Pre-Release 1.0.2 (mod) 1.0.0 |
1.21.10, 1.21.11, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2
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neoforge
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Download |
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Advanced Structures: Pre-Release 1.0.0 1.0.1 |
1.21.10, 1.21.11, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2
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datapack
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Download |