Build guide · Minecraft Java 1.21.4
Stone castle
Build Nixi's stone castle yourself: a 3D model you can turn and step through layer by layer, the materials for all 3,583 blocks and free .litematic and .schem files.
- 3,583 blocks
- 20 kinds
- 33 × 33 footprint
- 26 layers tall
The 3D model
Drag to turn it, pinch or scroll to zoom. Step through the layers to build it bottom-up.
Slide down to see the build one layer at a time.
Materials
Everything for the whole build. A stack is 64 unless the row says otherwise.
| Block | Blocks | Stacks |
|---|---|---|
| Stone bricks | 1,424 | 22 stacks + 16 |
| Deepslate tiles | 722 | 11 stacks + 18 |
| Deepslate tile stairs | 368 | 5 stacks + 48 |
| Deepslate bricks | 263 | 4 stacks + 7 |
| Stone brick stairs | 238 | 3 stacks + 46 |
| Mossy stone bricks | 161 | 2 stacks + 33 |
| Cracked stone bricks | 97 | 1 stack + 33 |
| Polished deepslate | 72 | 1 stack + 8 |
| Glass pane | 68 | 1 stack + 4 |
| Spruce slab | 63 | 63 |
| Stone brick slab | 42 | 42 |
| Spruce fence | 27 | 27 |
| Stone brick wall | 16 | 16 |
| Lantern | 6 | 6 |
| Iron bars | 6 | 6 |
| Spruce trapdoor | 3 | 3 |
| Spruce log | 2 | 2 |
| Torch | 2 | 2 |
| Pink banner | 2 | 2 |
| Chiseled stone bricks | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 3,583 | 55 stacks + 63 |
Layer by layer
Block counts for all 26 layers
| Layer | Blocks | What goes in |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 202 | Deepslate bricks 200, Spruce log 2 |
| 2 | 184 | Stone bricks 143, Mossy stone bricks 24, Cracked stone bricks 11, Polished deepslate 4, Spruce fence 2 |
| 3 | 193 | Stone bricks 155, Mossy stone bricks 17, Cracked stone bricks 7, Polished deepslate 4, Spruce trapdoor 3, Iron bars 3, Spruce fence 2, Torch 2 |
| 4 | 188 | Stone bricks 140, Mossy stone bricks 16, Cracked stone bricks 15, Glass pane 8, Polished deepslate 4, Iron bars 3, Lantern 2 |
| 5 | 215 | Stone bricks 154, Glass pane 16, Mossy stone bricks 15, Spruce fence 15, Cracked stone bricks 8, Polished deepslate 4, Pink banner 2, Chiseled stone bricks 1 |
| 6 | 252 | Stone bricks 156, Spruce slab 63, Mossy stone bricks 11, Cracked stone bricks 10, Glass pane 8, Polished deepslate 4 |
| 7 | 280 | Stone bricks 156, Stone brick stairs 91, Mossy stone bricks 17, Cracked stone bricks 10, Polished deepslate 4, Glass pane 2 |
| 8 | 188 | Stone bricks 127, Stone brick slab 26, Mossy stone bricks 12, Glass pane 10, Cracked stone bricks 9, Polished deepslate 4 |
| 9 | 153 | Stone bricks 103, Stone brick stairs 19, Mossy stone bricks 15, Glass pane 8, Polished deepslate 4, Cracked stone bricks 4 |
| 10 | 161 | Stone bricks 120, Mossy stone bricks 18, Cracked stone bricks 11, Glass pane 8, Polished deepslate 4 |
| 11 | 128 | Stone bricks 69, Stone brick wall 16, Stone brick slab 16, Mossy stone bricks 10, Glass pane 8, Cracked stone bricks 5, Polished deepslate 4 |
| 12 | 96 | Stone bricks 56, Polished deepslate 32, Cracked stone bricks 4, Mossy stone bricks 4 |
| 13 | 248 | Stone brick stairs 128, Deepslate bricks 63, Deepslate tile stairs 22, Deepslate tiles 21, Stone bricks 14 |
| 14 | 246 | Deepslate tiles 156, Deepslate tile stairs 80, Stone bricks 8, Cracked stone bricks 2 |
| 15 | 196 | Deepslate tiles 116, Deepslate tile stairs 70, Stone bricks 10 |
| 16 | 161 | Deepslate tiles 123, Deepslate tile stairs 32, Stone bricks 5, Cracked stone bricks 1 |
| 17 | 144 | Deepslate tiles 85, Deepslate tile stairs 53, Stone bricks 4, Mossy stone bricks 2 |
| 18 | 119 | Deepslate tiles 86, Deepslate tile stairs 31, Stone bricks 2 |
| 19 | 82 | Deepslate tiles 46, Deepslate tile stairs 34, Stone bricks 2 |
| 20 | 60 | Deepslate tiles 48, Deepslate tile stairs 12 |
| 21 | 48 | Deepslate tile stairs 34, Deepslate tiles 14 |
| 22 | 13 | Deepslate tiles 13 |
| 23 | 14 | Deepslate tiles 14 |
| 24 | 5 | Spruce fence 5 |
| 25 | 4 | Spruce fence 3, Lantern 1 |
| 26 | 3 | Lantern 3 |
Schematic downloads
.litematic is for the Litematica mod: it projects the build into your world, shows it layer by layer and lists the materials you still need. Best for survival. .schem (Sponge v3) is for WorldEdit, FastAsyncWorldEdit and Axiom. Newer Litematica loads it too. Both files are for Java 1.21.4 and hold the blocks only (no chest contents). Free to use. A credit to Nixi is welcome.
The finished build
Watch her build it
The build as a YouTube Short: My AI built a stone castle block by block
Where this model comes from
This model is a scan of the blocks standing in Nixi's world on 2026-10-17, read at the design's 3,624 cells (showpiece.castle). Terrain, scaffolding and anything else around the build are left out.
49 design blocks were never placed and are not in the model (28 deepslate tiles, 14 deepslate tile stairs, 2 lantern, 2 spruce fence, 1 spruce door, 1 stone bricks).
The buildlog shows no design block set by RCON: she placed every block in this model herself, in survival (the build script set the stage: time, weather, her teleports).
The design is from Nixi's own design catalog.
The colours are our own flat picks with patterns drawn in your browser. They are not Minecraft's textures, so the model looks simpler than the game. The block types and counts are exact.