Decorative Blocks Wiki

Decorative Blocks adds 16 new building parts to Minecraft, focused on medieval and rustic aesthetics. All blocks are designed to help you craft authentic-looking taverns, farmhouses, cabins, and stone castles.

The mod includes wooden structural pieces, fire light sources (both normal and soul-fire variants), stone architectural elements, and specialty blocks like thatch roofing and transparent lattice windows. Every block fits naturally into the vanilla art style.

Oak Beam

A thick horizontal structural beam made from oak. Place it horizontally along ceilings or walls to add depth and weight to large rooms. Connects visually to adjacent beams.

Oak Support

A vertical support pillar variant of the oak beam. Use it alongside stone pillars or as standalone load-bearing elements in timber-frame construction.

Oak Seat

A low bench or ledge block. Perfect for filling corners, window ledges, or adding seating areas to taverns and halls.

Oak Palisade

A vertical wooden stake block. Line them up to form defensive walls, fences with more visual bulk than vanilla fences, or rustic enclosures.

Brazier

An iron bowl on a stand filled with normal fire. Emits the same light level as a torch. Place on floors, patios, or mount on poles for path lighting. Does not spread fire.

Chandelier

A hanging iron chandelier with multiple candle points. Place on the underside of ceilings to light up large interior spaces. Light level: 15.

Bonfire

A large ground fire that emits bright light and crackling particle effects. Great for campfire scenes, village centres, or event areas. Light level: 15.

Soul Brazier

A brazier variant that burns with soul fire (blue flame). Emits a cooler blue light and keeps Piglins at a distance. Light level: 10.

Soul Chandelier

A chandelier variant with soul fire flames. Use in nether-themed builds or underground areas for a haunting blue glow.

Soul Bonfire

A large bonfire variant burning with soul fire. Like the normal bonfire but blue-tinted and safe near Piglins.

Stone Pillar

A tall stone column block. Stack multiple pillars to build classical or medieval columns. Connects top-and-bottom to form seamless multi-block pillars.

Bar Panel

A decorative iron bar grid panel. Thicker than vanilla iron bars and designed to fit inside wall openings, windows, or as dungeon cell dividers.

Chain

A chain link block that hangs vertically. Connect chandeliers, lanterns, or other blocks to ceilings with realistic chain segments.

Thatch

A golden straw block for roofing. Gives farmhouses, taverns, and old huts an authentic thatched-roof look. Has a layered straw texture on all sides.

Lattice

A transparent stone mesh block. Works like a see-through window without using glass. Lets light pass through while blocking mobs. Ideal for medieval window openings or decorative screen walls.

Rocky Dirt

A dirt block with embedded pebbles and rocks. Use it for natural-looking ground variation around medieval buildings, stables, or garden paths.

1. Install the mod — Place the downloaded JAR file into your Minecraft mods/ folder alongside your mod loader.
2. Open Creative Inventory — All 16 Decorative Blocks items appear under the Decorative Blocks creative tab. Search for decorative to find them quickly.
3. Survival crafting — Most blocks have crafting recipes using vanilla materials (oak planks, stone, iron, sand). Open your crafting table and experiment, or check the recipes with a recipe viewer mod like JEI or REI.
4. Placement — All blocks support normal block placement. Beams and chains have directional placement (look at the face you want the long axis to point along).
5. Soul fire variants — Craft the soul variants with Soul Sand or Soul Soil in the recipe instead of regular materials.

• Optional dependency: If the Soul Fired mod is installed, the soul fire variants gain extra interactions.
• Recipe viewers: Fully compatible with JEI and REI — all recipes are visible.
• Shaders: All light-emitting blocks work with popular shader packs. The soul fire blocks produce the expected blue light coloring.
• Other decorative mods: No known conflicts with Chipped, Supplementaries, or similar mods.

Blocks missing from Creative tab Make sure you have the correct version of the mod for your Minecraft and mod loader version. Check the download page for the right file.

Thatch appears pink/black (missing texture) This is a resource pack conflict. Disable other packs or update them. The mod's built-in textures load correctly without any resource pack.

Lattice not transparent This is usually caused by a shader or graphics setting that overrides translucent block rendering. Try setting Graphics to Fancy in Video Settings.

Game crashes on startup Ensure the mod loader version matches what the mod requires. Check the mod loader log for the specific error. Most crashes are caused by an outdated loader or a conflicting mod.