flying_castles
by tombkingsts
Flying Castles adds floating castles that generate in the world, each holding villagers, pillagers, spawners and loot, with a stone structure of its own.
What it does
Castles generate at random as airborne structures in several sizes and types, and each one may be empty or hold villagers, pillagers or spawners. Large stone castles include hidden diamond blocks. Inside them are knights of several kinds: iron-armored and gold-armored melee fighters that hit hard, and archers that fire arrows and slow-shooting magic bullets. Knights can be hurt into a short boost of speed or strength, and defeated ones may drop blaze rods, iron nuggets or a noble's amulet.
The mod also adds the noble's amulet, which makes nearby knights neutral or afraid when held, and lets the holder trade with nobles and peasants. Nobles trade rarely for an emerald block, peasants trade workbench items for an iron ingot, and magic knights trade brewing items for a lapis lazuli block. Knights can also spawn through the world alongside other mods. Files are published for Forge and NeoForge, and the mod runs on client and server.
Key features
Random flying castles
Floating castles generate in several sizes and types, some empty and some holding villagers, pillagers or spawners.
Knights and archers
Iron-armored and gold-armored knights fight in melee, while archers shoot arrows and magic bullets that slow movement.
Noble's amulet
While a player holds the amulet, nearby knights stop treating them as hostile, and a right-click halts every mob in range for a short stretch of seconds.
Trading with nobles and peasants
Nobles, peasants and magic knights each offer trades for emerald, iron, lapis or brewing items.
Stone castles with diamonds
Large stone castles include hidden diamond blocks, found by exploring the structure.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.20.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.19.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.15.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.14.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want castles and knights to appear in generated worlds, and server owners who want the structures to spawn on their server.
How it compares
Battle Castles is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.16.5 – 1.21.1, client and server, under the Apache License 2.0, and it is not open source. Castle Dungeons is server-side only, for Fabric and Forge across 1.19.2 – 1.20, under All rights reserved. The Lost Castle is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 1.18.2 – 26.1.2, and runs server-side only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flying_castles | Forge and NeoForge | 1.14.4 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2025-05-25 |
| Battle Castles | Forge and NeoForge | 1.16.5 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-01-12 |
| Castle Dungeons | Fabric and Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20 | Server-side only | 2023-06-12 |
| The Lost Castle | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.18.2 – 26.1.2 | Server-side only | 2026-05-10 |
Questions
Does Flying Castles need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Flying Castles support?
Can Flying Castles run on versions after 1.20.6?
In the catalog
flying_castles is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,058 World generation mods for Forge. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.
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What the author says
This mod will add flying castles that are randomly generated for size, types of structures and loot so that every time it feels different. The big stone castles even have 2 hidden diamond blocks. In the creative infentory you can also find blocks for the generation for the flying castles.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/flying_castles
- Owner
- tombkingsts
- Published
- 2022-04-06
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-05-25
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15