What you need
Three things, and two of them are free downloads.
Fabric Loader
Dungeons and Taverns is a Fabric mod, so the loader has to be installed for the exact Minecraft version you want to play.
How to set it up Step twoThe right build
One jar per Minecraft version. Pick yours from the dropdown on the download page and it hands you the matching file.
Go to the download pageSingle player setup
The whole process, start to finish.
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Install Fabric Loader
Run the Fabric installer and choose the Minecraft version you want to play. It creates a new launcher profile, usually named something like
fabric-loader-1.21.11.Launch the game once with that profile before going further. That first launch creates the instance folders, including the
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Download the matching build
On the download page, pick your Minecraft version from the dropdown. The button then gives you the exact jar for it, for example
dungeons-and-taverns-5.3.0-fabric-1.21.11.jar.Getting this right matters more than anything else on this page. A build made for one Minecraft version will not load on another.
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Move the jar into the mods folder
Open your
modsfolder and drop the jar straight in. Do not unzip it, do not rename it, and do not put it in a subfolder. Exact paths for every system are listed below.Using Prism, MultiMC or ATLauncher? Each instance has its own
modsfolder. Use the one belonging to the instance you actually launch, not the shared.minecraftfolder. -
Launch with the Fabric profile
Select the Fabric profile in your launcher and start the game. Textures for keys and charts load automatically, so there is nothing else to install and no resource pack to enable.
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Head somewhere new
Structures generate in newly created chunks only, so an existing world keeps every build you already have. Travel a few thousand blocks past your borders and DnT structures start appearing.
Installing on a server
Install it once on the server and everyone exploring finds the structures.
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Run a Fabric server
Your server needs the Fabric server launcher for the same Minecraft version your players connect with. Stop the server before making any changes.
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Upload the jar
Put the same jar from the download page into the server's
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Start the server and explore
Boot it back up. Structures appear in freshly generated chunks, so an established survival world will need players to push outward before they see anything new.
Players can join and explore normally. Installing the same build on their own client also gives them the custom item textures.
Where the mods folder lives
Paste these straight into your file explorer address bar.
| System | Minecraft folder | Drop the jar in |
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| Windows | %appdata%\.minecraft | %appdata%\.minecraft\mods |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft | ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/mods |
| Linux | ~/.minecraft | ~/.minecraft/mods |
| Prism, MultiMC, ATLauncher | The instance folder for that profile | mods inside that instance |
| Server | The server root folder | mods next to server.properties |
No mods folder yet? Launch the game once with the Fabric profile and it appears. You can also create it by hand with exactly that name, in lower case.
Did it work?
Confirm the mod loaded
With cheats on, start typing /locate structure nova_structures:. If DnT structure names appear in the autocomplete, the mod is running.
Find one on demand
Finish that command with any structure name and the game points you at the nearest one. All 40 are in the structure guide.
Then play properly
Find a tavern, level its villager to Apprentice inside the building, and start buying charts to everything else.
When something does not show up
No structures are spawning
Almost always because you are looking in chunks that already existed. Structures generate only in chunks created after the mod was installed, so travel several thousand blocks past your explored area, or test in a fresh world.
If a brand new world also shows nothing, check that the jar is in the right mods folder and that you launched the Fabric profile rather than vanilla.
The game crashes on startup, or the mod is ignored
The build has to match both Fabric and your exact Minecraft version. A 1.21.4 jar will not run on 1.21.8, and no Fabric build will run on a vanilla profile.
Go back to the download page, pick your version from the dropdown again, and confirm the filename ends with the version you are actually launching.
I cannot find the mods folder
It only appears after the first launch with Fabric selected. Launch once, close the game, and check again. Failing that, create a folder named mods in lower case inside the instance folder, using the paths above.
Keys and charts show missing textures
That usually means the game is reading an incomplete download. Delete the jar, download it again from the download page, and make sure the file did not get unzipped by your browser.
Structures overlap with another mod's buildings
Rare, but possible when several structure mods target the same biome. DnT adds its own structures rather than replacing vanilla worldgen, so it usually sits alongside biome packs such as Terralith without trouble. Bring specific conflicts to the Discord.
Still stuck
Bring your Minecraft version, your Fabric Loader version and a screenshot of your mods folder to the Discord server. That is the fastest way to get an answer, and the FAQ covers the wider questions.
Ready to go
Pick your Minecraft version, grab the build, and you will be walking into your first tavern in a couple of minutes.