Minecraft offers infinite potential for you to build the aesthetic houses and towns of your dreams — you just need to be willing to put a little bit of elbow grease in and maybe download a mod or two to make things easier. When you’re building gothic-inspired houses and cathedrals in Minecraft, you’re going to end up getting pretty intricate, which means following tutorials is a great idea.
If you get the courage, you can even mix and match pieces from various tutorials and the best gothic house ideas to build your ideal blocky home. Just know, you’re in for the long haul with any gothic build.
10 Dark Fantasy House
A Simpler Build, But Still Impressive
- Dark Fantasy House by Seicraft
While this house might take you a minute to build, it’s a perfectly feasible task to do for survival. It’s really practical in its size and, meaning that you don’t have excess space and nothing to do with it and you also don’t have too little space that you’re overflowing out of.
Whether this ends up being your permanent home or a temporary abode on your path to building a larger gothic home, it’s a good start. Despite the dark appearance of the building, it’s a striking building that you will probably be able to find easily if you end up getting lost.
9 Gothic Mansion
You Should Probably Build This In Creative
- Gothic Mansion by superstarCraft
This gothic mansion is pretty big, which means you have room to play around with the interior, building out your perfect rooms and storage areas. Its taller height means that it will probably reach far above any forest that you find yourself tucked away in, so finding your way home will be easy enough.
Just don’t be surprised if some ghosts end up moving into your home — chances are that you’ll never even run into them because you will have a wealth of space and limitless potential for your interior decoration.
8 Dark Academia House
A Gothic Cottage, Snuggled In The Forest
- Dark Academia House by Croissant Cat
This cottage blends gothic aesthetics with cottagecore ones to make a pretty little cottage that would be right at home in any forest. It would fit in perfectly with the Dark Forest Biome which, while difficult to track down, would be absolutely worth the effort.
If large and imposing houses aren’t your cup of tea, then this cottage might suit you perfectly — cozy and ready to welcome you through its doors at any time of day or night. If you don’t like the look of the building without shaders, you can also substitute blocks for whatever your heart desires to scratch your gothic cottage itch.
7 Victorian House
If You Like History, You’ll Love This
- Victorian House by TimeCube Productions
When thinking of gothic houses and architecture there’s a good chance that you’re going to end up thinking about a Victorian House at some point. As such, why not indulge in building yourself a good ol’ Victorian Mansion?
Whether you’re taking inspiration from one and stealing specific aspects of its design, or copying one from real life right down to the foundation, it’ll be a striking building in your world. You can live out your dreams of being a Victorian-era ghost who haunts the hallways singing mournfully for their lost love or speaking of a Raven who only offers “Nevermore” to any woes you offer it.
6 Dark Oak House
Subtle But Effective
- Dark Oak House by Lex The Builder
Although the Dark Oak House might look even better with shaders and some texture mods, it’s still a beautiful gothic house that looks natural in its environment. The fact that it doesn’t utilize blocks that either take forever to get or are nearly impossible to get your hands on in bulk is an important facet of what makes this house compelling.
Many of the gothic house builds in Minecraft heavily rely on stone and brick to achieve their ideal appearances, but this Dark Oak House feels way more natural, utilizing a surplus of wood and easily gatherable materials.
5 Medieval Mansion
You Can Keep Horses Here!
- Medieval Mansion by Lex The Builder
Medieval creations and art go hand in hand with gothic creations and art, given that gothic art is a subgenre of medieval art. This unique build stands out from the other gothic homes, given that it has its own aesthetic that isn’t intentionally trying to go for that potentially haunted and dark and mysterious nature.
Plus you can easily add on to this mansion, adding in stables and sprawling gardens that you can fill with gardening or farming mods or with the standard vanilla items.
4 Haunted Mansion
All Good Gothic Homes Have Ghosts
- Haunted Mansion by Kelpie The Fox
When you think of gothic things, chances are ghosts, skulls, and the macabre easily come up and stick with you. If you want to stick to that interpretation of gothic homes, you should probably angle yourself for a haunted house. This house is small, but mighty, home to many potentially dark secrets (or new ghostly residents).
You might need a mod or two here and there in order to make it look exactly like the tutorial, though. Otherwise, feel free to substitute the items that you get your hands on until you find something that you think looks nice — just remember, the dark the material, the better.
3 Haunted Victorian House
History And Ghosts Go Hand In Hand
- Haunted Victorian House by Jax and Wild
Victorian houses? Haunted with ghosts and the like? A sprawling and potentially abandoned pumpkin patch off to the side? This build hits on those wonderfully eerie and creepy aspects that are well-loved in gothic aesthetics. This gothic home is big and features striking green windows, giving it an eerie feeling — especially when they’re illuminated by lantern light.
Plus with some adorably creepy ghosts floating around the roof, nobody will dare argue that your gothic home isn’t actually haunted. You will need to do a bit of hunting to find a lot of terracotta if you opt to build this home in survival mode, though.
2 Deepslate Mansion
Varying Your Textures Is Key
- Big House Tutorial by Sev
So you like cottages but you think they’re a little bit small — even still, you might find yourself compelled to try and build something similar. This Deepslate Mansion is the key to building yourself a smaller gothic home that, while it still has a lot of space, fits that cross-over between cottagecore and gothic.
A key element in this build is varying your textures to make it look really interesting and more than two-dimensional. Another key element is having the right tree leaves that you can attach around, almost like creeping and crawling vines.
1 Gothic Cathedral
Why Not Go All Out?
- Gothic Cathedral by Catsou
You are not going to be able to build this cathedral in survival unless you have a lot of time and patience. Utilizing mods is absolutely a necessity in order to cut down on the work that needs to be done and save yourself a lot of hassle, but it is so worth it in the end.
This cathedral is imposing, towering over the landscape in all of its grand decadence and elegance. You would be remiss not to include it somewhere in your world. If you’re going to go all out with a gothic home, this is the way to do it.
