Forts and tiers

The 11 generated fort layouts, the 4 default tiers and the palettes they are built from.

Every fort is generated when the raid starts. The layout sets the shape, the tier’s palette sets the blocks, and a random seed adds variation, so no two raids look quite the same. Every gate faces south.

The 11 layouts

Layout	Footprint	What it is
outpost	23 x 23	A log palisade round a watchtower. The vault sits in the tower’s stone base
camp	27 x 27	Tents round two fire pits inside a broken palisade, a lookout in each back corner. The chief’s tent holds the vault
hideout	25 x 25	A two-storey timber house inside a palisade, its upper floor jutting out, lookouts in the back corners and tents in the yard. The vault is on the ground floor
keep	31 x 31	A square curtain wall with corner towers, a south gate and a central keep holding the vault
watchtower	25 x 25	A tall round tower with a signal fire on top, in a walled yard. The vault sits in its base
castle	35 x 35	A curtain wall with a round tower on each corner, a twin-towered gatehouse with its portcullis up, and a great hall under a gabled roof holding the vault
citadel	39 x 39	A bigger, taller keep with an upper floor
ziggurat	33 x 33	A stepped temple: four terraces, a grand stair up the south face and a fire shrine on the summit, where the vault sits
fortress	41 x 41	Two rings of walls: a low outer wall with corner turrets and a tall inner wall with towers, round a three-storey donjon that holds the vault
arena	33 x 33	Tiers of seats round a pit, gates north and south, a turret on each diagonal and the vault on a dais in the middle of the pit
bastion	41 x 41	A star fort: a square curtain wall with a walkway, an arrowhead bastion on each corner, obelisks burning in the yard and a dark keep holding the vault

The fort’s area is its footprint plus site.margin blocks of open ground on every side (4 by default), from the foundation up to a few blocks above the top.

Camp

Camp, an Outlaw Hideout layout

Keep

Keep, a Bandit Stronghold layout, from its south gate

Watchtower

Watchtower, a Bandit Stronghold layout

Ziggurat

Ziggurat, a Warlord Fortress layout

Arena

Arena, a Nightmare Bastion layout, at night

In PRO you can also raid your own builds. See Custom forts.

The 4 default tiers

Tiers are listed easiest first in config.yml. Each tier picks one of its layouts at random for every raid.

Tier	Key	Layouts	Guards	Vault unlocks at	Crack	Time limit
Outlaw Hideout	easy	outpost, camp, hideout	6	1 guard left	20 s	15 min
Bandit Stronghold	medium	keep, watchtower, castle	12	2 guards left	30 s	20 min
Warlord Fortress	hard	citadel, ziggurat, fortress	18	2 guards left	40 s	25 min
Nightmare Bastion	nightmare	citadel, arena, bastion	23	3 guards left	60 s	30 min

Raid Bases Lite runs the first tier in config.yml only (the Outlaw Hideout by default). PRO runs every tier.

Outlaw Hideout

Spruce palisades, campfires and coloured tents. Four Outlaw Lookouts (pillagers) on the towers and two Outlaw Brutes (vindicators) in the yard.

Loot: iron, gold, emeralds, arrows, and a chance of a golden apple or diamonds. PRO: wall HP 2, buy price 2,500, money reward 50 to 150.

Bandit Stronghold

Stone brick walls with cracked and mossy patches. Eight Bandit Archers on the walls and towers, three Bandit Enforcers with iron helmets in the yard, and a Bandit Alchemist (witch) in the keep.

Loot: iron, gold, emeralds, diamonds, golden apples, experience bottles and a chance of a saddle. PRO: wall HP 3, buy price 6,000, money reward 150 to 350.

Warlord Fortress

Deepslate walls, blackstone keeps and soul lanterns. Twelve Warlord Archers, four armoured Warlord Guards, The Warlord (an evoker with double health) in the keep and a Siege Beast (ravager) in the yard.

Loot: diamonds, gold and emerald blocks, golden apples, a chance of an enchanted golden apple, a totem of undying and netherite scrap, plus experience bottles. PRO: wall HP 4, buy price 15,000, money reward 400 to 800.

Nightmare Bastion

Blackstone and nether brick, crimson floors and soul campfires. Eight Bastion Sentries (wither skeletons with stone swords), six Bastion Archers, six Bastion Butchers in diamond helmets, two Bastion Warlocks (evokers) and a Bastion Beast (ravager).

Loot: diamond blocks, netherite, enchanted golden apples, totems, 32 to 64 experience bottles and a 10% chance of the Warlord’s Star, a named nether star. PRO: wall HP 5, money reward 1,000 to 2,000. It has no buy price by default and is never picked by the schedule (nightmare: 0), so it rises from an admin command or a WorldEvents event.

Make your own tier

Add a new section under tiers with any key. Every field is optional and falls back to a default.

plugins/RaidBases/config.yml

tiers:
  # ...the four default tiers...
  frost:
    name: "<gradient:#a0e9ff:#ffffff>Frost Outpost</gradient>"
    layouts: [watchtower, keep]
    palette:
      variation: 0.2
      wall: [packed_ice, blue_ice, snow_block]
      wall-top: packed_ice
      tower: [packed_ice, blue_ice]
      floor: spruce_planks
      banner: light_blue
    guards:
      - type: stray
        count: 8
        post: wall
        name: "<aqua>Frost Archer"
      - type: vindicator
        count: 3
        post: yard
        name: "<aqua>Frost Brute"
        gear:
          head: leather_helmet
    unlock-guards-left: 1
    crack-seconds: 30
    crack-decay: 0.5
    time-limit-minutes: 20
    loot-grace-seconds: 45
    loot:
      - item: diamond
        amount: 2-5
        chance: 0.8

Then add it to the schedule weights, for example frost: 2 under schedule.tiers, or start it with /raid start frost. See Configuration for every tier field.

Palettes

A palette maps each part of a fort to blocks. A list mixes them: the first block is the main one, and the others appear at the variation rate (0 to 1). That gives walls their cracked and mossy patches. A part you leave out uses the built-in default.

Part	Built-in default	Used for
ground	coarse dirt, podzol	The fort’s ground layer
courtyard	gravel, cobblestone	Paths and courtyards
wall	stone bricks, cracked and mossy stone bricks	Curtain walls
wall-top	stone bricks	Battlements
tower	stone bricks, cracked stone bricks	Towers
keep	polished andesite, andesite	The central keep
floor	spruce planks	Floors and walkways
pillar	spruce log	Posts and pillars
palisade	spruce log, stripped spruce log	Log palisades
palisade-top	spruce fence	Palisade points
fence	spruce fence	Fences and rails
light	lantern	Lights
banner	red	Banner colour (a dye colour name)
fire	campfire	Fire pits and signal fires
deco	hay block, fletching table, target, smithing table	Yard clutter
tent	red, white and brown wool	Camp and hideout tents, one per tent
stairs	stone brick stairs	The ziggurat’s stair
roof	spruce stairs	The hideout’s and castle’s roofs
vault	vault[facing=south]	The vault block
foundation	cobblestone	Fills the gaps under the fort down to solid ground

Block names use Minecraft ids without the minecraft: prefix, for example deepslate_bricks.