Towny House 5 - Hipped-Roof Cottage
If you have ever tried to build a medieval town in Minecraft, you know the hardest part is making houses that feel lived in rather than dropped from orbit. The Towny House 5 - Hipped-Roof Cottage solves that problem with a broad, believable cottage that looks like it has stood on the same spot for a hundred years. With a low hipped deepslate roof, a central stone chimney, framed windows, and cobblestone entry steps, this build slots neatly into any village, farming hamlet, or towny server spawn.
It is part of the free Spaleforce collection, and it is ready to play the moment you load it. Whether you are decorating a survival base or filling out a roleplay settlement, this cottage earns its place fast.
What You Get in the Download
The package is refreshingly simple. There is no mod dependency, no resource pack, and no hidden setup. Everything you need ships in one zip:
- A flat creative world containing the finished build, with your spawn point placed right in front of the cottage
- towny-house-5.schem, the same structure as a schematic you can paste into your own world
- A README.txt with clear instructions
When you download Towny House 5 - Hipped-Roof Cottage, you are getting a finished, decorated interior and exterior, not a shell. The palette leans on barrels, soul soil, stripped dark oak wood, stripped oak logs, and cracked deepslate tiles, which gives the walls a warm, weathered tone that contrasts nicely against the cool grey roof.
Build Details and Scale
Size and Block Count
The structure measures 36 x 37 x 33 blocks (width x height x length) and uses 3,859 blocks in total. That footprint is large enough to read as a proper house on a town street, but small enough that you can place several along a road without them crowding each other. The 37-block height comes mostly from the chimney and roof pitch, so the cottage stays visually low and wide, exactly as a hipped-roof design should.
Materials Worth Noting
The mix of stripped logs and stripped dark oak wood keeps the walls from looking flat, while cracked deepslate tiles on the roof add age without extra effort. Soul soil appears in the detailing, and barrels serve as storage props that double as decoration. If you plan to rebuild the cottage by hand in survival, gather deepslate, dark oak, and oak in bulk before you start.
Supported Versions and Loaders
The world file is built for Java Edition 26.1.2 or newer. The schematic itself works on Java Edition 1.20.4 or newer, which covers most players running modern versions. For pasting, you need WorldEdit or FastAsyncWorldEdit. On Paper or Spigot servers, drop the .schem file into plugins/WorldEdit/schematics/. On Fabric or NeoForge, including singleplayer, the correct path is config/worldedit/schematics/.
If you would rather skip the folder hunting entirely, the foxygame.net launcher handles it for you: it lists Towny House 5 - Hipped-Roof Cottage in its add-on catalog and installs it with a single click, so the world and schematic land in the right directories without manual copying.
How to Install and Paste the Build
Playing the Included World
The quickest route is the CurseForge app, which installs the world for you. If you prefer doing it manually, copy the folder from the zip into .minecraft/saves/. Then open Minecraft, choose Singleplayer, and load the world. It is set to creative mode with cheats enabled, and you spawn facing the cottage.
Pasting the Schematic
To place the build in your own map, follow these steps:
- Install WorldEdit or FastAsyncWorldEdit on your client or server
- Copy towny-house-5.schem into the schematics folder for your loader
- In game, run //schem load towny-house-5
- Stand where you want the build to appear and run //paste
That is the whole process. If you are unsure about the folder location, the README.txt in the download spells it out for each platform.
Why This Cottage Works in a Town
Hipped roofs are a small detail that changes everything. Instead of a sharp gable that screams "starter house," the low deepslate roof slopes on all four sides, which reads as older, sturdier architecture. The central chimney anchors the silhouette, and the cobblestone steps give the entrance a natural approach. Placed in a row with slight rotation, several copies of this cottage form a convincing medieval street.
Because the schematic is clean and the block count is moderate, it also performs well on servers. You will not tank tick rates by pasting a dozen of them along a towny plot.
Final Thoughts
Towny House 5 - Hipped-Roof Cottage is one of those builds that quietly does a lot of work. It is free, it comes with both a ready-to-play world and a schematic, and it fits Java Edition 1.20.4 and newer for pasting. If you are building a town and need housing that looks settled rather than new, download Towny House 5 - Hipped-Roof Cottage for Minecraft, load up WorldEdit, and start pasting. Your streets will look better within minutes.