Greenhouse Designs?

[Sona]

So with how small greenhouse deigns can be, I was wondering what people have designed. Ideally I'm looking to see what people have done with pure glass ones, especially slab roofing if that can work. I'd hate to just make a flat box, or horizontal slab, block, slab, etc...

[ahueonao]

Here's what I have on the multiplayer server I'm active in:

 

I played a bit with the design to make it a better fit for the style of the rest of my base, but it's still pretty basic - two adjacent rooms with a 7x5 interior, so discounting water blocks that's a stack of crops between the two of them. The walls are what you have the most freedom with, so you could chisel some plant designs into it or even make it connected to the walls of your main base. I went with leaded glass panes since I'd just found a huge lead vein. While it's supposedly possible to make the glass roof slanted by combining slabs and full blocks, the game apparently gets pretty finicky with anything other than a flat roof. Haven't tried chiseled glass (with the mods that allow for it) to check if it works for a ceiling, either. The 'corner' blocks (ie both the vertical corners of the walls and the horizontal length where the walls meet the roof) can also be whatever you want, so you can chisel some patterns to make the whole structure less boring.

Edited August 13, 2022 by ahueonao

[Butterbot]

Can you really use leaded glass panes in a greenhouse? 

[flackstacks]

On 6/14/2023 at 9:47 AM, Butterbot said:

Can you really use leaded glass panes in a greenhouse? 

Well, yes of course, they just don't count towards the ceiling glass requirement because they're on the walls. You can use glacier ice on the ceiling though! A greenhouse works as long as

• the room is sealed
• is under 14x14x14 blocks
• and the roof is at least 50% glass (or glacier ice) blocks or slabs. 

Hope this helped two years later!  

[Michael Wojnar]

On 5/31/2025 at 7:05 PM, eerino said:

Hope this helped two years later!  

Helped me now! I didn't know roof only had to be 50% glass, saved me so much time!

[Kreeate]

This is not mine, but I found it awesome and inspiring.

 

Edited October 17, 2025 by Kreeate