The Nether's piglin fortresses, finally worth the trip

Better Bastions replaces every bastion remnant with a huge, procedurally generated piglin fortress. Walled citadels with a keep and a spire, hoglin ranches with a terraced pit, treasure vaults around a lava lake, a hundred-block bridge over the lava sea… and no two of them are ever the same.

It only changes world generation: server-side, no dependencies, vanilla loot, and it works with every mod that knows what a bastion is.

At a glance

Four layouts

🏰 The Citadel — a walled piglin town: curtain walls with battlements and lava falls, four corner towers, a gatehouse with a portcullis, barracks along the walls and a three-storey keep crowned by a spire. The courtyard has a lava fountain, braziers and (in crimson forests) giant fungi.

🐗 The Hoglin Ranch — a terraced pit full of hoglins behind fences, roofed stalls stacked with wart bales, a gabled feed store and a bridge with the stablemaster's platform above the herd.

💰 The Treasure Vault — a hollow fortress around a lava lake. Galleries ring the walls on four levels, a gilded spire bleeding lava rises from the lake and the hoard sits on top of it, guarded by brutes. Two of the four bridges to it have collapsed.

🌉 The Great Bridge — a 100-block arched causeway over the lava sea with a gatehouse at each end and a fortified tower in the middle. One span fell long ago; the piglins patched it with planks.

Five biome styles

The biome under the bastion decides its look:

• Nether Wastes — classic blackstone, gold and magma
• Crimson Forest — nether wart roofs, shroomlights, weeping vines, giant crimson fungi
• Warped Forest — warped wart, twisting vines and soul lanterns
• Soul Sand Valley — heavily ruined, soul fire braziers, bone ribs rising from soul soil
• Basalt (modded Nether biomes) — basalt columns and polished basalt

What makes them feel alive

• Garrisons: piglins with their weapons, brutes guarding gates and treasure, hoglins in the stables
• Lava falls pouring from gilded spouts, lit windows, hanging lanterns and banners in the style's colour
• Weathering: erosion holes, cracked bricks and rubble that make every bastion look old
• Real interiors: barracks with mezzanines, a throne hall, spiral staircases, galleries, stalls, vaults
• Procedural: every bastion is generated from the world seed, so each one is different

Configuration

config/betterbastions-common.toml

Changes apply to bastions generated after the change (existing chunks are not touched).

Commands (for builders and screenshots)

• /betterbastions place <citadel|stables|vault|bridge> [wastes|crimson|warped|soul|basalt] [0|90|180|270] — builds one at your feet
• /betterbastions info — which bastion you are standing in
• /betterbastions test — plans every variant in memory and checks them

Gallery

More screenshots in the Gallery tab.

Which file do I download?

FAQ

Do I need a new world? Only for new chunks: bastions that already exist stay as they are. Explore new parts of the Nether (or a new world) to find the new ones.

Does it work on servers? Yes, and only the server needs it: it only changes world generation.

Is it compatible with Incendium / BetterNether / Regions Unexplored…? It uses the vanilla biome tag #minecraft:has_structure/bastion_remnant, so it spawns wherever those mods allow bastions, and picks a style from the biome's name.

Can I use it in my modpack? Yes. MIT licence.

Forge? Yes on 1.20.1: the same file works on Forge 47 and NeoForge 1.20.1. Newer versions are NeoForge only.

Fabric? Not for now.

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Screenshots taken with Complementary Reimagined shaders (not included).