The smallest medieval cottage in the set. A single-story stone-brick base, cozy timber walls, and a steep granite-slab roof in pinkish-terracotta — same color language as Three Story Cottage but at one-fifth the size. The whole build clocks in at just 46 steps, making it ideal as your first medieval house in a survival world (you can finish it in 20 minutes once you have stone bricks). The trick is in the details: vines climbing one whole wall, a smoking chimney with a campfire on the roof, three different oxidation stages of Lightning Rods used as decoration — those copper-toned rods stuck in the eaves are what make this read as a "cottage that's been here a while" instead of "freshly placed."
Drop it next to Three Story Cottage and Market Cottage and you have a complete medieval residential cluster: small starter, mid-tier merchant, big townhouse. Or use it solo as a player base — small enough to be cheap in survival but stylish enough that you won't be embarrassed by it on day 30.
Need help with techniques? Check our Minecraft building tips or browse all medieval builds.
Explore more medieval building tutorials with step-by-step guides
Follow step-by-step on your phone while you play.
