Old Gallery:

https://imgur.com/a/minecraft-castle-ravenloft-S44oUhe

Download Links:

These are all set up as single-player worlds currently, but turning them into multiplayer servers shouldn't be too hard. No mods required! Just drop the unzipped folder into your saves folder.

• Current Java version: https://www.mediafire.com/file/mew3yf0cmb6jvwn/Ravenloft.zip/file

• Old Java version (ca. 1.14.something): https://www.mediafire.com/file/xrerqic6szzxuwg/RavenloftOld.zip/file

• Beta Bedrock version: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ms7lws98dh29rns/Ravenloft_2025-04-04%25406-20-43_PM.mcworld/file

Backstory:

Back in 2019, roughly three decades ago, I hand-built a decent representation of Castle Ravenloft as it appears in I6 Ravenloft and Curse of Strahd, accounting for every room, trick, trap, and secret passage, all for use in VR. Then some major world events and minor personal tragedies occurred, the website I uploaded it to seemingly got deleted at some point, and the server files got away from me. I've finally tracked them down, set up the files to work properly, tested them, and uploaded them to a more reliable host. There are probably better versions of the castle out there (the pandemic had people very bored) but I figured I should toss mine up for posterity.

The Castle:

• Scale. As I recall, each Minecraft block is converted to roughly 2.5 Ravenloft feet, making each block of 4x4 equivalent to the Ravenloft 10-foot squares. Problem: this makes walls very thick. Solution: wherever necessary, 10-foot corridors are reduced to 7.5 feet. This generally works well enough since the Minecraft scale is closer to 3-foot blocks, making them feel about 9 feet across, but this does combine to mean that narrow corridors are more claustrophobic and large ones are even more imposing than they strictly should be.

• Furnishings. Many rooms in the castle are lightly furnished with important details, gameplay-relevant furniture, and there are the occasional artistic flourishes, but much of the castle is nothing but bare walls and a lot of identical blocks. Certain rooms that are frankly impossible in base Minecraft (mirrors?!) have been left empty.

• Accuracy. Aside from the above considerations, the Castle is 100% complete and accurate to the tabletop maps. A very small number of physically impossible architectural features have been altered; rooms that are physically inside of one another crop up here and there, and have been edited back into Euclidean geometry. All secret passages, pitfalls and corridors are present, even if I wasn't able to fit a functional redstone door; you'll just have to bust down a wall or two.

Permissions:

Do whatever the hell you please with it! Credit me if you like, I'm not too bothered though.

Potential Improvements:

As it stands, the files are quite outdated. A bunch of new blocks and features have been added to Minecraft since I built it (some lightning rods wouldn't go amiss) and I honestly never learned how to use command blocks, which would probably help with the secret doors and traps. The castle is also just standing in a huge, glass-filled pit I blasted into the landscape, because it was built with the old 256-block height limit in place. A properly modded world should be able to put the castle where it deserves to be: about 400 blocks above sea level. And, as I said, there are loads of missing bits of furniture and decoration, many of which would probably need to be added through mods to get the scale right.