Abbey

Abbey

Type	Jigsaw structure
Biomes	Forest, Dark Forest
Generates in	Overworld, partly underground
Consists of	Stone, tuff bricks, andesite, cobblestone, moss, copper grates, copper eyes
Added in	1.10
Resource location	minecraft:abbey_overgrown

The Abbey is a large ruined dungeon structure added by Matcha Flavoured. It consists of an overgrown tower on the surface and a maze of trial rooms, puzzle rooms and reward rooms deep underground, connected by doors and grates that open when a copper eye is shot. The developer describes it as "the bastion of the overworld": where the Bastion Remnant supplies adamant scrap, the Abbey supplies silver.

The Abbey is a late-mid to late-game dungeon. The release notes recommend full diamond gear and good food, and advise against steel armor because its blast resistance "makes the dungeon boring".

Generation

The only Abbey variant is the Overgrown Abbey (structure ID minecraft:abbey_overgrown, map name "Overgrown Abbey Map"). The pack's code also contains the pieces for a "default" abbey, but these are used only as the underground part of the overgrown one.

Abbeys generate in Forest and Dark Forest biomes. Placement uses the structure set minecraft:abbey:

• Random spread with a spacing of 60 chunks and a separation of 40 chunks (salt 10187261). At most one Abbey can generate in each 60 × 60 chunk (960 × 960 block) region, and two Abbeys are always at least 40 chunks apart.
• An exclusion zone keeps Abbeys at least 16 chunks away from any village.

The structure is a jigsaw structure with a maximum depth of 20 pieces, a maximum horizontal distance of 116 blocks from its start and beard_thin terrain adaptation. Its first piece, the tower, is placed 10 blocks below the surface (the MOTION_BLOCKING_NO_LEAVES heightmap), so its lower floors are buried.

Abbeys can be found with an Overgrown Abbey Map, which the Archaeologist sells at level 3 in exchange for The Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost. See Explorer maps. They can also be located with /locate structure minecraft:abbey_overgrown.

Structure

An Abbey is assembled from template pieces joined by jigsaw blocks. The pieces are chosen from these template pools:

Pool	Pieces (weight)	Role
abbey/overgrown/tower	tower	Surface tower; the structure's start.
abbey/default/entrances	entrance_0	Shaft from the bottom of the tower to the dungeon.
abbey/default/entrance_rooms	tutorial	First room of the dungeon.
abbey/default/dungeon_rooms	waterfall (1), quad_spawn_walkways (3), spider_triple_walkway (3), drawbridge (3), water_and_lava (3)	Combat rooms.
abbey/default/puzzle_rooms	hallway_pitfall, lantern_drop, decision_puzzle, bath, jump_puzzle (1 each)	Puzzle rooms.
abbey/default/boon_rooms	boon_checkpoint, boon_vault, boon_heart (1 each)	Small dead-end reward rooms.

The layout follows this chain:

1. The tower (21 × 48 × 23 blocks) stands on the surface. Its bottom jigsaw connects down to the entrance shaft.
2. The entrance (30 × 48 × 13) is a 48-block-deep shaft with a bubble column over soul sand to carry the player back up, and a copper eye door and several copper eye grates. A crystal heart lies on a ledge inside it.
3. The tutorial room (35 × 16 × 35) is the hub of the dungeon. It holds five trial spawners, connects to reward rooms on its east and west sides, to puzzle rooms on its upper east and west sides, and to a combat room to the south.
4. Combat rooms connect onward to puzzle rooms and reward rooms, and puzzle rooms connect back to combat rooms, so the dungeon branches until the depth limit or the 116-block radius is reached.
5. Reward rooms ("boons") are 5 × 7 × 7 dead ends.

Several jigsaw blocks in the combat rooms point to a pool named abbey/default/dungeon, and the tutorial room's entrance connector points to abbey/default/entrace_rooms. Neither pool exists, so those connectors never generate anything.

Rooms

Room	Size	Contents
Tower	21 × 48 × 23	3 trapped chests (barracks loot) on the barracks floor, 1 trapped chest (tower loot) at the top, 20 decorated pots, a soul campfire, 12 brown beds, 4 infested cobblestone, 7 allays.
Entrance	30 × 48 × 13	Bubble-column shaft, 2 copper eye doors, 6 copper eye grates, a crystal heart item.
Tutorial	35 × 16 × 35	5 trial spawners, 4 copper eye lanterns, 6 copper eye doors, 6 copper eye grates, a vault placeholder, 4 skeleton skulls.
Waterfall	48 × 24 × 33	8 monster spawners (6 skeleton, 2 husk), a large waterfall, many copper eye grates.
Quad spawn walkways	22 × 11 × 22	2 trial spawners (skeleton and armored skeleton), copper eye doors and grates.
Spider triple walkway	27 × 11 × 22	2 spider trial spawners, 1 cave spider monster spawner, 1 vault (trial key), bats.
Drawbridge	31 × 14 × 19	5 trial spawners (cave spider, skeleton, 3 zombie including an armored one), TNT, copper eye doors, grates and lanterns.
Water and lava	22 × 13 × 35	2 trial spawners (armored skeleton, blaze), water and lava, blackstone.
Hallway pitfall	19 × 10 × 13	Pointed dripstone pit, ladders, a copper eye door and grates.
Lantern drop	17 × 37 × 13	A zombie trial spawner, 2 chipped anvils, TNT, a copper eye lantern, bubble column.
Decision puzzle	19 × 10 × 17	A cave spider trial spawner, a dispenser with 3 tipped arrows of Poison (long), bats.
Bath	19 × 10 × 13	A water pool and vertical copper eye grates.
Jump puzzle	26 × 31 × 17	A parkour climb over infested cobblestone, vertical copper eye grates, an ominous vault at the top.
Boon: checkpoint	5 × 7 × 7	A silver bullion item and blocks that can become Native Silver ore.
Boon: vault	5 × 7 × 7	An ominous vault.
Boon: heart	5 × 7 × 7	A crystal heart item.

Block processors

Placeholder blocks in the templates are replaced when the structure generates. Each placeholder's rules are checked in order and the first one that succeeds is used, so the effective chances are lower than the listed chance for later rules.

Placeholder	Underground rooms (abbey_dungeon)	Tower (abbey_tower)
Magenta glazed terracotta	30% cobweb, otherwise air	Same
Yellow glazed terracotta	25% cracked decorated pot (Abbey pot loot); 25% flower pot; 6.25% vault; 25% cobweb; otherwise air. Effective: pot 25%, flower pot 18.8%, vault 3.5%, cobweb 13.2%, air 39.5%.	20.3% cracked decorated pot; 20.3% flower pot; 12.5% skeleton skull; 6.25% vault; 20.3% cobweb; otherwise air
Brown glazed terracotta	50% cracked decorated pot; 30% flower pot; otherwise air (effective 50%, 15%, 35%)	33% cracked decorated pot; 21% flower pot; otherwise air
Tuff bricks	65% stone bricks; 15% cracked stone bricks; otherwise mossy stone bricks	Stone
Polished tuff	Andesite	Andesite
Orange glazed terracotta	Vault	—
Cyan glazed terracotta	Ominous vault	—
Blue glazed terracotta	30% Native Deepslate Silver, otherwise deepslate	—
Pink glazed terracotta	30% Native Silver, otherwise stone	—

Vaults created by a processor have no configuration, so they use the vanilla default: they open with a Trial Key and give chests/trial_chambers/reward loot. The two ominous vaults placed in the templates (boon vault and jump puzzle) open with an Ominous Trial Key and give chests/trial_chambers/reward_ominous loot. See Trial Chambers#Loot for these tables.

Copper eyes

Main article: Copper Eye

The dungeon's doors, grates and hanging lanterns are controlled by copper eyes (target blocks). Shooting a copper eye with any projectile opens the iron-bar door below it, slides or lifts its copper grate, or drops its lantern. Each copper eye works once.

Warding stones

A warding stone cannot be placed in an Abbey (or in Trial Chambers). If a player tries, the stone explodes like TNT with no fuse.

Loot

Tower chests

The trapped chest at the top of the tower uses chests/abbey/tower. It always contains The Tanakh or The Quran and has a 50% chance of a crystal heart. Loot table minecraft:chests/abbey/tower (source); pools roll 0–1; 1; 4 time(s).

Item	Stack size	Chance per roll	Chance per table	Notes
Crystal Heart	1	100%	50.0%
Arrow	16–32	100%	100%
Compound Bow	1	50.0%	50.0%
Iron Sword	1	50.0%	50.0%
The Tanakh	1	50.0%	50.0%
The Quran	1	50.0%	50.0%
Bone	1–4	31.2%	77.7%
Estus Ash	1–4	31.2%	77.7%
Tattered Leather	4–8	31.2%	77.7%
Obol	1	6.25%	22.8%

Barracks chests

The three trapped chests on the barracks floor use chests/abbey/barracks. Loot table minecraft:chests/abbey/barracks (source); pools roll 0–1; 1; 3 time(s).

Item	Stack size	Chance per roll	Chance per table	Notes
Arrow	8–16	100%	100%
Compound Bow	1	50.0%	25.0%
Iron Sword	1	50.0%	25.0%
Crystal Heart	1	33.3%	33.3%
Bone	1–4	31.2%	67.5%
Estus Ash	1–4	31.2%	67.5%
Tattered Leather	4–8	31.2%	67.5%
Obol	1	6.25%	17.6%

Decorated pots

The tower's 20 decorated pots and every pot created by a processor use pots/abbey/common. Loot table minecraft:pots/abbey/common (source); pools roll 1 time(s).

Item	Stack size	Chance per roll	Chance per table	Notes
Arrow	2–8	20.2%	20.2%
Tattered Leather	2–6	18.2%	18.2%
Copper Ingot	3–8	16.2%	16.2%
Sturdy Leather	1–3	16.2%	16.2%
Iron Ingot	3–5	14.1%	14.1%
Sulfur Chunk	2–4	8.08%	8.08%
Raw Estus	1	4.04%	4.04%
Trial Key	1	2.02%	2.02%
Obol	1	1.01%	1.01%

Other

• Vaults: see Trial Chambers#Loot.
• Trial spawners drop keys from spawners/trial_chamber/key: an 80% chance of a trial key and a 20% chance of an ominous trial key per key drop.
• A crystal heart item lies in the entrance shaft and in the heart boon room; silver bullion lies in the checkpoint boon room.

Mobs

Warding has no effect on undead wearing copper armor, which makes the armored skeletons and zombies of the Abbey dangerous even to warded players.

Room	Spawner	Mob
Tutorial	Trial spawner "Buff Copper Skeletons" (×2)	Skeleton in a full copper armor set with a bow with Power I and Punch I
	Trial spawner "Buff Stay"	Stray with an iron helmet, copper chestplate, leggings and boots and a bow with Power II and Punch I
	Trial spawner (×2)	Spider
Quad spawn walkways	Trial spawner	Skeleton
	Trial spawner	Copper-armored skeleton (Power I, Punch I bow)
Spider triple walkway	Trial spawner (×2)	Spider
	Monster spawner	Cave Spider
Drawbridge	Trial spawner	Cave Spider
	Trial spawner	Skeleton
	Trial spawner (×2)	Zombie
	Trial spawner	Zombie in a full copper armor set with an iron spear
Water and lava	Trial spawner	Copper-armored skeleton
	Trial spawner	Blaze
Waterfall	Monster spawner (×8)	6 Skeleton, 2 Husk
Lantern drop	Trial spawner	Zombie
Decision puzzle	Trial spawner	Cave Spider

The equipped mobs from trial spawners never drop their equipment, and have a safe fall distance of 16 blocks and a water movement efficiency of 0.8. Mobs from the monster spawners carry the NoDrops tag and drop nothing, like all spawner mobs in the pack (see Spawner).

Seven allays are placed in the tower when it generates, along with several bats in the dungeon.

After the Ender Dragon is killed, hostile mobs stop spawning on the surface (see Surface). Abbeys and Trial Chambers are exempt, so mobs keep spawning inside them.

Music

The track "Abbey" by Vee Vaicekauskas replaces the forest background music, so it plays in Forest, Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest and Dark Forest biomes. See Music.

History

1.10 August 10, 2026	Added the Abbey (Overgrown Abbey). The Archaeologist sells Abbey maps.
1.12 August 12, 2026	Ominous Trial Keys did not drop from the Abbey's spawners. As a fix, key drops became 20% Ominous Trial Keys.
1.12.1-alpha September 1, 2026	Warding Stones can no longer be placed in Abbeys. The tower chest now always contains The Quran or The Tanakh. Added the "Abbey" background track. The copper eye scan now runs when a target is hit, instead of every tick.
1.12.2 September 19, 2026	Allays now generate with the structure; previously they did not spawn. Abbey mobs no longer vanish after the Ender Dragon is killed, and Abbeys keep spawning mobs after the dragon. Spawner mobs no longer drop anything.

Trivia

• The developer called the Abbey "my first real structure" and said future structures would each revolve "around their own special mechanics. Classic Zelda nonsense."
• The developer originally made Abbeys "as rare as woodland mansions (accidentally)", then made them more common.
• The trial spawner for strays is named "Buff Stay", a misspelling of "stray".
• The advancement description for silver says that most silver deposits "are now harboured in Abbeys".
• The developer's notes plan a full redesign with more surrounding buildings, a proper downstairs entrance and more uses for the copper eye.
• The Abbey was not designed as a source of silver. The developer was already building it when players complained that silver was too hard to find, and chose to put silver in the new structure rather than change how the ore generates. The 1.10 release notes call Abbeys "the bastion of the overworld": bastions provide adamant scrap, Abbeys provide silver.

See also

• Papal Outpost, whose watchtower uses the Abbey's loot tables
• Copper Eye
• Trial Chambers