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 summer 2026 with possible Nether and End structures, completed lore, and additional content!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.8
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Advanced Structures Pre-Release 1.0.3.zip
- Download size: 1.5 MB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.