What are the best Minecraft tower designs? While houses may seem like the ideal way to showcase your Minecraft skills, and a Minecraft treehouse is a wonderful accomplishment, there’s something to be said about putting together a tower that reaches into the heavens. It’s going to take a lot of time and energy, but boy, are the results worth it when you’re quite literally towering over your world.
The freedom to make whatever you want makes Minecraft one of the best PC games. These juggernauts are intricately detailed, fully climbable, and sure to keep you safe from the most dangerous Minecraft mobs – unless, of course, they start chipping away at the base. Between massive gothic spires, fantasy turrets, and everything in between, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite Minecraft towers – which should be just enough to send your imagination sky-high in the survival game.
The 13 best Minecraft tower designs to build in 1.21 are:
Medieval watchtower
If you’re inspired by the ominous Pillagers roaming around your Minecraft world and their looming outposts, then why not build your own watchtower to keep an eye on them, or anything or anyone else who might be inbound for your base.
This medieval watchtower from Dio Rods on Youtube certainly gives those pillagers a run for their money when it comes to style, with a gorgeous but easy to gather combination of oak, spruce, and stone. However, if you wanted to change this up a bit, you could redesign this tower in any color palette you wanted. For a cute look, you might want to use cherry blossom and new pale oak. For something a bit more offputting to enemies and strangers, perhaps dark oak and deepslate.
Minecraft clock tower
There’s one big problem with living in a clock tower, and that’s the noisy mechanisms and bells. Fortunately, that’s not something you have to worry about in Minecraft, so this is a majestic way to live out your dreams of living in a clock – if that’s something you dream of.
For a detailed clock face, you have to make a Minecraft clock tower build fairly large, but that only makes it cooler to live in. It does mean it’s tough to build, but luckily the Minecraft Fantasy Builds channel is here to help with this handy tutorial to building a medieval-style clock tower in your Minecraft world. Like with most Minecraft builds, you can change out the color palette for anything you like, and you could even add various floors for all your living rooms inside.
Minecraft tower house
Of course you can always live in the towers in this list, provided there’s space to do so, but what about if you instead made a house into a tower? We just love this Minecraft steampunk fantasy tower house blueprint which is kind of three houses on top of each other. Sure, we’re not sure of the structural stability of this design, but what makes Minecraft so great is that you can make anything a reality.
Rustic wizard tower
As creator BigTonyMC says at the top of the tutorial the best, and coolest and most stylist, way of getting in and out of this epic tower is to soar in on wings. That seems like the most fantasy way of doing things, too. However, you can still build this wizard tower before you reach The End and get your Elytra as there’s a cute little porch entry from the ground, as well.
Big Tony also shows you how to perfectly design the interior of your tower to get the most of the limited space. And while it’s a but cozy up top, there is plenty of room for home comforts on the ground floor.
Colorful wizard tower
Wizard towers mix the fairy tale aesthetic of fantasy towers with a little magic. This Minecraft wizard tower build by Pixlriffs packs heaps of charm and multiple turrets. This build is practical, too, with chests and a Minecraft potions lab to help you concoct your magical brews. Check out more Pixlriffs builds on his YouTube channel.
Fantasy tower
If you’re looking to assert your dominance in your Minecraft world with a structure piercing the heavens, then look no further than this Fantasy Tower from Jeracraft.
Intricately detailed and with a solid stone foundation, it might not be the easiest build (especially for anyone suffering from vertigo), but it’s sure to keep you busy for hours and stand the test of time. Once you’re finished, you can enjoy the view of your entire server.
Fantasy Medieval Tower
A lot of these tower builds naturally fall under the category of ‘fantasy’, so here’s another one, and we love this one for the additional floating room on the side of it’s main structure. In fact, this makes us think you could add to this in other ways, too, or perhaps just another additional room. You could also make it taller if it’s not quite dominating enough for you.
This Minecraft tower build comes from Minecraft Fantasy Builds over on Youtube, and the easy to follow tutorial takes it slow, while showing exactly which blocks you need in the top left corner of the screen. If the fantasy tower above is a bit too tricky, then, this one should be a breeze – and it’s super cute to boot.
Tower of light
Nights in Minecraft are dark, but this build from A1MOSTADDICTED MINECRAFT is sure to be a beacon of warmth (or you could try an actual Minecraft beacon), and you can probably see it from space, too.
Beginning with a stone pillar before essentially building a beautiful house on top, before growing in complexity and detail the higher it goes. Even better, when it’s dark, the lights in the windows and on the column add an extra dose of atmosphere.
Rustic tower
This Rustic Tower from Avomance is as monolithic as it is beautiful, perched atop a hill overlooking a port village.
Fitting in nicely with the rest of the world, this creation is wrapped in greenery and built of equal parts wood and stone. Perhaps most impressively, this structure was built freehand – i.e. without a template.
World’s tallest tower
Back to Jeracraft here, and now the creator is just showing off. This stone purple tower is huge and architecturally impossible – at least, we think it is.
A gothic stone tower that would give Sauron a run for his money is linked to a further spire by a freestanding spiral staircase. Extra turrets protrude from the base tower, too, and the whole thing is capped off by huge mushrooms in the surrounding area.
Medieval lighthouse
Something a little different, this medieval lighthouse from Master Majesty is giving off “Beacons of Gondor” vibes.
Built out at sea (because where else would you find a lighthouse), this huge structure is full of stairs and ladders to help you get to the top, along with a viewing platform to help guide wayward ships home. Once night falls, it’s lit from top to bottom, too – with lanterns hanging from every level.
Minecraft skyscraper
If you’re loving these tower designs, you can apply your new builds to make your very own city in Minecraft. Now you’ve mastered the height of these grand designs, take a look at the impressive skyline of the most built up places in Minecraft, Mattupolis. If you need a simpler jumping off point, we’ve included how to build one of our favorite skyscrapers in Minecraft, a sandstone and dark oak building with glass panes that wouldn’t look out of place in 1920s New York.
Minecraft watchtower
This medieval watchtower is the perfect place to cast your eye across the land and marvel at your other blocky creations. The interior is just as impressive, coming alive at night with lanterns adorning the walls as you head up a spiral staircase to keep an eye out for lurking Minecraft phantoms.
These are the best Minecraft tower designs we’ve come across, but if you’re looking to start a little smaller, here are some cool Minecraft house ideas. Smaller than that? Check out these stylish Minecraft kitchen ideas to pimp out your blocky pad and the best Minecraft seeds to build it. We also have a list of the best crafting games if you’ve exhausted everything Minecraft has to offer.
Additional entries from Lloyd Coombes and Danielle Rose.