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Worldbuilding/Minecraft

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List of Structures & Landmarks that world builders might want to use in their worlds: Academy (+ alchemist, arcane, artificer’s, bards, healers, mages, military, naval, royal, science) Abbey Acropolis, Citadel Ale House, Pub, Tavern Alley Alms House, Poor House Altar (deity, element, power, environment, luck, magic, old one, outsider, sacrificial, spirit, etc) Amphitheater Apiary, Bee House Aquarium Aqueduct Archives Archway Arena (+ gladiatorial, music, performance, racing, sports) Assaying House Assembly House, Bouleuterion, Council House, Senate House Asylum Atelier (artist workshop or studio) Auction House Aviary Bakery Bank Bar Barn Barracks Barrows (earthen or stone mound over a tomb) Bathhouse Battle Ground Bazaar Black Market, Underground Market Blockhouse Board (+ message, quest) Boom Chain - harbor chain or river chain used to block boats. Operated from a chain tower Breakwater Brewery Bridge (Covered Bridge, Draw Bridge, Living Root Bridge, Rope Bridge, Sky Bridge) Brothel, House of Ill Repute Bungalow Burial Ground, Cemetery, Graveyard Burial Mound Cabin Cache (+ pirates, rebel, smugglers, thieves) Caer / Cair (stronghold) Cairn Cafe (coffee house) Canal Cantina Caravan (wagons)(+ merchant, military, nomads, pilgrims, prison, refugee, settlers, slavers) Caravanserai (inn / outfitter for caravans) Casino, Gambling Hall Castle Catacombs Cathedral Causeway Cellar (+ root, storm, wine) Cemetery, Burial Ground, Graveyard, Necropolis Chain Tower - tower used to raise or lower a boom chain (harbor or river chain) Chalet (alpine cottage, herdsman’s hut) Chantry - arcane base, safe house, or stronghold / chapel or alter Chapel Chateau Church Circle of Stones Circle of Wagons Circus Cistern Citadel, Acropolis City Cliff Dwellings Coach House Coffeehouse College (+ alchemist, arcane, bards, healers, mages, naval, of artificers, of science, royal) Colosseum Conservatory (greenhouse) Consulate Convent, Nunnery Cooking Pit, Fire Pit Corral (cattle, horse, livestock) Cottage Courthouse Covered Walkway Croft (rented farmhouse & land) Crypt, Mausoleum, Sepulcher, Tomb Cupola (domed roof supported by pillars) Custom House (office for importing or exporting goods) Dam Den (+ assassins, drug, gambling, hookah, opium, smugglers, thieves) Dig Site (fossils, minerals, ruins) Dike / Levee Dock (boat, ship, airship) Dockyard Dojo, Sparring Hall, Training Hall Dome Dovecote Drill Grounds, Parade Grounds, Training Grounds Drug (+ den, lounge, parlor) Dugout, Pit-House Dungeon, Jail, Prison Embassy (+ country, dimensional travelers, major faction, minor faction, race, realm, world) Estate Executioners Block Fairgrounds Farm, Farms, Farmland (animal, crop, dairy, fallowed, share croppers) Feasting Hall, Mead Hall - large building, single room, the residence of a lord or king and his retainers Ferry Fighting Pit Fire Pit, Cooking Pit Flotilla (+ town, village, city) Forge Fort, Fortress (+ coastal, island, mountain, sea / wooden, stone, metal) Fortifications (cheval de frise, moat, palisade, towers, trench, wall, wooden stakes) Fountain Freehold Gallows, Gibbet Gambling (+ den, hall, lounge, parlor), Casino Garden, Gardens (+ crop*, flower, hanging, herb, mushroom, rock, rooftop, sculpture, zen) Garrison Gate, Gates Gate House Giant Board Game (chess, game of UR, go, mancala, oware, patolli, tafl, etc) Giant (+ construct, golem, idol, mecha, statue) Giant object from a bygone age (helmet, shield, sword, etc) Gibbet, Gallows Granary Grange - farmhouse & outbuildings Grave (+ fresh, marker, mass, open, site, stone, vacated, yard) Graveyard, Burial Ground, Cemetery Greens, Park Grounds (+ burial, fair, parade, sacred, tourney, training) Guard House Guard Post Guild, Guild Hall, Guild House Hall (+ city, gambling, guild, mead, meeting, music, opera, town, training) Hanging Tree, Hangman's Tree Harbor Hash House, Hashish House (place where drug hashish can be bought) Hatchery (animal, beast, monster) Hay Stack Hedge Maze Henge Hideout Hippodrome (stadium for horse racing) Hold Home Homestead Hookah (+ bar, den, lounge, parlor) Horreum (warehouse) Hostel (bed & breakfast) Hot Springs (+ bath, bathhouse, resort, spa) House (+ assaying, bath, boat, coach, coffee, farm, guard, guest, guild, hashish, long, manor, opera, ritual, safe, smoke, sod, summer, tea, theater, turf, winter) House of Ill Repute, Brothel Hovel Hut, Huts (adobe, cloth, earthen, grass, hide, ice, mud, snow, stone, straw, wood) Idol Inn Jail, Dungeon, Prison Keep Labyrinth Library (+ arcane, great, royal) Lift (wench & platform) Lighthouse Lock, Locks (waterway) Lodge (+ hunting, masons, medicine, porters, safari, secret society*, sweat, wardens) Lyceum - hall for public lectures Machinery (from bygone age or civilization / size – cart, building, town) Magical Construct (energy construct, gateway, giant guardian golem, giant levitating crystal, moving sculpture, orb of power, rune stones, sigil stones, summoning circle, teleportation circle, well of power) Manor Marker Marker Stone (border stone, boundary stone) Market, Market Place, Market Square, Street Market Market Stall, Street Stall Massage Parlor Mausoleum, Crypt, Sepulcher, Tomb Mead Hall, Feasting Hall - large building, single room, the residence of a lord or king and his retainers Megalith (single: capstone, menhir, monolith / multiple: alignment, circle, cist, dolmen, wall) Memorial Messenger Pigeon Loft Mews (row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above them) Midden (+ heap, mound, pile) Mill (+flour, saw, water, wind) Minaret Mine, Mines (coal, crystal [normal, magic], gem stone [normal, magic], guano, metal [normal, magic], mineral [normal, magic], salt, substance) Mint (coin / currency manufacturer) Mission (place for missionary work) Moat (+ dry, lava, mud, quicksand, spiked, tar, water) Monastery Monolith Monument Mosque Mound (+ burial, ceremonial, midden, shell, temple) Museum Music Hall Necropolis, Cemetery, Burial Ground, Graveyard Nunnery, Convent Obelisk Observatory Opera Hall / Opera House Opium Den Oratory Orchard Orphanage Orrery (A mechanical model of the solar system. Used to represent the positions and motions of celestial bodies) Ossuary (building, well, or site for skeletal remains) Outfitters Outpost Paddock Pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves ) Palace Palafito, Stilt House (house or building on stilts) Palisade Parade Grounds, Drill Grounds, Training Grounds Park, Greens Parlor, Parlour (drug, massage, tattoo) Pattern - Large pattern or symbol that can be seen from above (crop circle / geoglyph / natural formation that resembles something) Pen, Pens (+ animal, monster, slave) Pier Pillar, Pillars Pit (+ dwelling, fighting, monster, prison, slave) Plantation Playhouse, Theater House Plazza Port Portal Prison, Dungeon, Jail Privy, Outhouse Pub, Ale House, Tavern Public Square Public Toilets Pueblo Pyramid Pyre (+ funeral) Qanat, kārīz (underground aqueduct, transporting water from an aquifer or water well to the surface) Quarry (crystal, magic crystal, metal, mineral, stone, substance) Ranch (animal, monster) Redoubt (temporary fortification) Reflecting Pool, Reflection Pool Road, Roads (cobblestone, dirt, paved / + abandoned, cross, main, rural) Rondavel (round hut with a conical roof) Rooftop Slums Root Cellar Ruin, Ruins Rune Stone Sally Port (secure, controlled entry way to a fortification or prison) Saltern, Salt Works Sanctuary Sauna Sawmill Scaffolding School Sculpture (+ large, giant, garden, scale city model) Sea Gate Sea Wall Sepulcher, Crypt, Mausoleum, Tomb Sewer, Sewers Shack Shanty Town Shed Sheepfold Shelter Ship Graveyard Shipwreck Shipyard, Shipyards Shop Shrine (deity, druidic, element, power, environment, guardian, luck, magic, old one, outsider, spirit, etc) Siege Tower Sign Sign Post Site (+ building, camp, construction, dig, excavation, grave, ritual) Slaughter House Slums Smithy Sparring Hall, Dojo, Training Hall Square (+ market, public, town) Stables Stair Statue (Idol, large, giant, guardian, monument) Steading (farmstead, homestead) Stele (stone or wooden slab inscribed, carved, or painted with text or ornamentation) Stepwell, baori, vavs (wells, cisterns or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level) Stockade Stockyard Stone (+ guide, marker, navigation, sigil, ward) Store Storehouse, Warehouse Street Street Vendors, Market Stall, Street Stall ( alcove, booth, cart, stall, stand, tent) Stronghold Sun Dial Sunken (city, ruins, ship, temple) Supply Post Symbol (coat of arms, emblem, flag, ritual circle, rune, seal, sigil, symbol, ward) Tannery Taphouse (inn / tavern with liquor on tap) Tavern, Ale House, Pub Tea House Temple Tent City (+ merchant, military, nomads, pilgrims, refugee, settlers, squatters) Theater House, Playhouse Threshing Floor Tomb, Crypt, Mausoleum, Sepulcher Totem Pole Tourney Field / Tournament Field Tower (+ bell, chain, clock, guard, peel, siege, signal, watch, wizard) Town Trade Route Trading Post Training Grounds, Drill Grounds, Parade Grounds Training Hall, Dojo, Sparring Hall Tree House Tree Town Trench (+ spiked) Tunnel University (+ alchemist, arcane, artificer’s, bards, healers, mages, naval, of science, royal) Vault Ventilation Shafts - vertical ventilation shafts for a underground (large structure / town / city) Villa (large country house / estate) Village Vineyard Wall (+ barrier, breached, city, earthen, great, inner, outer, sea, stone, town, wooden) Ward Stone, Warding Stone, Sigil Stone Warehouse, Storehouse Watch Tower Water Mill Weighhouse, Weighing House Well (+ artesian, covered, dry, house, of magic, water) Well House Wharf Windcatcher, Wind Tower. Wind Scoop (700 year old cooling system) Windmill Winery Work Camp Workshop Wormery Yurt (round tent covered in skins or felt, used by nomads) Ziggurat Zoo (mundane, rare, exotic, magical, alien - creatures) **Structure Mods:** (structure type + mod) Architectural Influence - Arabic, Asian, European, Germanic, Mexican, Turkish, Fantasy Culture, etc Aware - animated / sentient / genius loci / benevolent / hostile / mischievous Built Over - ancient ruins, battle ground, building to building connecting tunnels, catacombs, cave system, cistern, entrance to a dungeon, grave site, magical nexus, mines, portal, prison, shelter, temple, tomb, underground city, well of magic Constructed on the back of a giant creature (crab, beetle, turtle, etc) Dimensional Anomaly - structure appears in a fixed location. appears & disappears at certain time or during certain events Ghostly / Out of phase - structure can be seen but is intangible Giant “x” built into a structure - bucket, helmet, insect shell, mollusk shell, mushroom, skull, tree Magic - absorbing, amplified magic, anti-magic, cursed, divine, infernal, magically (sealed, warded), recharge mana, reduced magic, wild magic Scale - built for different size beings (giants, large like an ogre, human sized, slightly shorter humans, small races like halflings, tiny races like pixies Ship converted into a structure State - ½ buried, abandoned, barricaded, burned, collapsed, condemned, cursed, desecrated, flooded, for sale, haunted, hidden, infested, leaning, overgrown, ransacked, recently excavated, ruined, sacred, sunken, under construction Unusual Feature - clockwork, front for “x”, hidden by illusion, levitating, mobile, on stilts, shape shifting door Unusual Material - crystal, earth, ice, living plants, metal, monster (bone, carapace, hide, scale, shell), pykrete (ice + cotten), resin, shaped stone Wandering - structure occasionally moves to a new location / locomotion - deconstructs & rebuilds at new location, levitating, sliding, teleportation, walking **Districts:** Administration - ? Arcane - Business - market, merchant, “x” industry, trade, trader Education - academy, college, school, university Entertainment - arena, art, garden, opera, poet, theater Food - restaurants, street food vendors Foreign Enclave - foreign embassy / dimension, nationality, race Government - capitol, government offices, senate Industry / Industrial - Leadership - council, palace, senate Location - canal, cliff side, (n, s, e, w) gate, garden, guild, harbor, heights, hill, island, lighthouse, overlook, plateau, port, portal, sea side, stockyard, terrace, under town, wharf, waterside Magic - alchemist, artificers, enchanters, university Market - shops, stores, street vendors Merchant Military - garrison, soldier Monument New vs Old - old town Red Light - brothels, prostitutes Religion - temple Residential Social Status - royal, noble, upper class, lower class, slums / platinum, gold, silver, iron, copper / diamond, ruby, sapphire, emerald, jade Trade - businesses, shops, stores, street vendors Warehouse What it’s known for - cherry trees, fish, flowers, garden, of bells, spice, waterfalls **Guilds:** adventurers, alchemist, artisans, assassins, bankers, bards, bounty hunters, caravan trade, couriers, courtesans, craftsman, demon hunters, explorers, fighters, illuminators, mage, mage hunters, masons, merchants, mercenary, miners, monster hunters, monster trainers, peace keepers, relic hunters, smithing, soap makers, thieves, thief hunters, tinkerers, trade, treasure hunters, warriors, witch hunters, wizards **Offices:** archivist, assayer, barrister, cartographer’s office, city hall, city watch, constable, courier, custom house, functionaries’ office, grave digger, guards, guild (type), harbor master, information broker, magic item broker, letter carrier, magistrate, mayor, money changer, money lender, notary, ombudsman (citizen advocate, inspector general), port authority, public records, scribe, sheriff, tax, town hall, transportation (dirigible / magic flying ship / magic portal / stagecoach / teleportation / train), undertaker, wardens **Shops:** (shops, street vendors, hawkers, traveling merchants) alchemist, animal trainer, apothecary, armorer, artificer, baker, barber, basketweaver, blacksmith, boatwright, book store, bowyer, butcher, candle maker, candy, carpenter, cartwright, cheesemonger, clockworks, clothier, coachwright, cobbler, confectionery, cooper, curio, diviner, druggist, dyer, enchanter, farrier (equine hoof care), fireworks, fishmonger, fletcher, fortune teller, furrier, general store, glass blower, glover, greengrocer, haberdashery (clothing & accessories), hat, healer, herbalist, incense, jeweler, launderer, leather worker, lock smith, magic shop, mapmaker, mask, mercer (textiles), metal smith (bronze, copper, pewter, gold, silver, tin), miller, oddities, oil merchant, net maker, oracle, outfitters, paper maker, pawn, perfume, pet shop, pharmacist, potter, rope maker, rug shop, sailwright, seer, shipwright, sleighwright, soap maker, spice, stone mason, sundries, tailor, talismonger, tanner, tattoo parlor, tea shop, thatcher, tiler, tinkerer, tobacco, travel office, wainwright (cartwright), ward maker, weapon smith, weaver, wheelwright, wig maker **Edit** - Last update 02/01/2024
+ List of Structures in a Modern Age **Structures and Landmarks in a modern age:** Context: A list of structures that world builders might want to use in their worlds: Based on this post: [Possible Locastion in a City](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/ulovcu/possible_locations_in_a_city_what_did_i_forget/) by [penswright](https://www.reddit.com/user/penswright) Abby Academy (agriculture, civil engineering, cooking, drama, fine arts, medical, military, music, naval, police, science, theological) Airfield Air Force Base Airplane Graveyard Airport Airport Runway Airport Terminal Airport Tower Alley Amphitheater Amusement Park Animal Shelter, Animal Rehab Center Apartments, Condominiums Aquarium Aqueduct Arcade Arena, Stadium (music, sports) Army Base Art Gallery, Art Studio Artificial Island Artillery Range Artwork Assisted Living Facility, Nursing Home, Old Folks Home Auction House Aviary Bakery Bank Bar, Pub Barber, Hair Salon Barn Barracks Battle Ground Beauty Salon Bed and Breakfast, B&B Billboards Blood Bank Boat House Border Checkpoint Border Wall Botanical Garden Bottling Plant Bowling Alley Breakwater Brewery Brickyard Bridge (Covered Bridge, Draw Bridge, Living Root Bridge, Overpass, Rope Bridge, Sky Bridge, Spaghetti Junction, Suspension Bridge, Train Trestle) Brothel, House of Ill Repute Bungalow Burial Ground, Cemetery, Graveyard Bus Stop Bus Terminal Bunker (personal, military, government) Butcher Cabin Call Center Camp Grounds Camping Site Canal Cannery Capitol Building Capsule Hotel, Pod Hotel Car Lot, Car Dealership (new, used, preowned, rental) Carnival Carport Car Wash + (automatic, full service, self-service) Cash Lender, Money Lender Casino, Gambling Hall Cathedral Causeway C.D.C. (Center of Disease Control) Cellar (+ root, storm, wine) Cell Tower Cemetery, Burial Ground, Graveyard Chapel Chateau Chemical Plant Church Circus Cistern Civic Center Coffeehouse College (agricultural, art, business, culinary, engineering, medical, military, music, science, technical, theological) Collision Post Colosseum Compound (+ apartment, business, military, prison, private residence, religious, research) Concert Hall, Music Hall, Theater Construction Site Consulate + (Country) Container Yard, Shipping Container Yard Convent, Nunnery Convention Center Cooking Pit, Fire Pit Correctional Facility, Jail, Prison Cottage Courthouse Covered Walkway Crematorium Cupola (domed roof supported by pillars) Dairy Farm Dam Dam (Hydroelectric) Dance Studio, Dance Hall Day Care Deer Stand Deli Dig Site (fossils, minerals, ruins) Dike / Levee DMV (department of motor vehicles) Dock (boat, ship) Dockyard Dojo, Sparring Hall, Training Hall Dome Dormitory Draw Bridge Drive-in Theater Electrical Substation Embassy (+ country, major faction, minor faction) Equestrian Center Estate Factory, Assembly Plant, Manufacturing Plant, Production Plant (automotive, beverages, electronics, foods, machines) Fairgrounds Farm Fields Farm House Farmers Market Fence (barbed wire, chain link, electric, picket, wooden, wrought iron) Ferry Film Studio Fire Department, Fire House, Fire Station Fire Hydrant Fire Lookout Tower Fire Pit, Cooking Pit Fishery Fish Market Food Bank Fort Foundry Fountain Freight Terminal (airport, sea port, railroad terminal, truck terminal) Funeral Home Fun House Gas Company Gas Station Garage (automotive, mechanical) Garden, Gardens (+ crop*, flower, hanging, herb, hydroponic, indoor, mushroom, rock, rooftop, sculpture, zen) Garrison Gate, Gates Gate House Gazebo Giant Dump Truck, BelAZ 75710 (20.6m long, 9.87m wide, 8.16m tall) Glassworks Golf Club Golf Course Gondola Lift, Aerial Lift, Cable Car Government Building (agency, department, office) Government Building (campaign office) Government Building (capital) Grain Silo Grave (+ exhumed, fresh, marker, mass, open, site, stone, yard) Graveyard, Burial Ground, Cemetery Greenhouse Grocery Store Grow Out House (giant barn for chickens) Grounds (+ burial, fair, parade, sacred, tourney, training) Guard House, Guard Post Guard Post, Guard House Gun Range Gym, Gymnasium Hair Salon, Barber Hall (+ assembly, city, dance, gambling, guild, meeting, music, opera, town, training) Hanger Harbor Hardware Store Hatchery (animal, fish) Hay Stack Hedge Maze Helipad High-Rise Building, Skyscraper Highway Hiking Trail, Nature Trail, Nature Walk Home, Private Residence Homeless Shelter Hospice Care Center Hospital Hostel Hotel, Motel House, Home, Private Residence (brick, concrete, vinyl siding, wood) House (+ assaying, bath, boat, coach, coffee, farm, guard, guest, manor, opera, safe, smoke, sod, summer, tea, theater, turf, winter) House Boat House of Ill Repute, Brothel Hovel Hunting Lodge Ice Skating Rink Indoor Farm (+ CEA controlled environment agriculture, hydroponics, vertical farming) Industrial Complex Jail, Correctional Facility, Prison Junkyard, Scrapyard Kindergarten Lab, Laboratory Lamp Post Land Fill Large Sea Going Vessel (cargo ship, cruise ship, military ship, oil tanker) Launch Pad Laundromat Library Light Pole, Street Light Lighthouse Lock, Locks (waterway) Log Flume Lumber Yard Mall Manor, Mansion Mansion, Manor Marina Marker Market, Market Place, Market Square, Street Market Market Stall, Street Stall Marriage Venue Massage Parlor Mausoleum, Crypt, Sepulcher, Tomb Medical Clinic Medical Laboratory Memorial Mental Health Facility, Psychiatric Hospital Mess Hall Mill (+flour, saw, water, wind) Mine, Mines (coal, crystal, gem stone, guano, metal, mineral, salt, stone, substance) Mini Golf Course, Putt Putt Course Mini House Mini-Storage Center Mint (coin / currency manufacturer) Missile Silo Mission (place for missionary work) Monastery Monorail Monument Morgue Motel, Hotel Movie Theater (indoor, drive-in) Museum Music Hall, Concert Hall, Theater Nature Trail, Hiking Trail, Nature Walk Naval Base Newspaper Office Noise Barrier, Acoustic Barrier Nunnery, Convent Obstacle Course Observatory Office (Type) Office Building Oil Platform, Drilling Platform, Oil Rig Oil Well Old Folks Home, Assisted Living Facility, Nursing Home Opera Hall / Opera House Orchard Orphanage Outhouse Overpass Paddock Paper Mill Park (dog, nature, recreational, skate) Parking Lot Parking Structure, Parking Deck, Parking Garage Particle Accelerator, Atom Smasher, Large Hadron Collider Pawn Store Pharmacy Phone Booth, Phone Box Pier Pillar, Pillars Pipeline (gas, oil, water) Planetarium Plantation Play Ground (indoor / outdoor) Plaza Police Station Pool (private, public, olympic sized) Port Post Office Power Plant (coal, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear) Preserve Prison, Correctional Facility, Jail Private Residence (cabin, cottage, house, house boat, mansion, mini house, mobile home) Pub, Bar Public Bathroom Public Bench Public Park Public Showers (usually found at beaches and parks) Public Square Public Water Fountain Quarry (coal, metal, mineral, salt, stone, substance) Race Track (car, dog, drag strip, gokart, horse, person) Radio Station Radio Telescope Ranch (cattle, horse) Ranger Station Recording Studio Recycling Center Refinery (+ iron, metal, natural gas, oil, petroleum, salt, sugar) Reflecting Pool, Reflection Pool Rehab Center Research Station Reservation Reservoir Restaurant (cafe, cafeteria, deli, fast food, sit in, themed) Rest Stop Retirement Community Road (asphalt, dirt, cobblestone, concrete, gravel) Road Maintenance Yard (storage for road work materials, tools, and vehicles) Roadside Stand (eggs, farm, fireworks, fish, flower, honey, produce, vegetable) Rodeo Roller Coaster Rooftop Slums Root Cellar RV Park Sauna Sawmill Scaffolding School + (elementary, grammar, high, junior high, middle, private, religious, summer) Sculpture + (large, giant, garden, scale city model) Scrapyard, Junkyard Sea Gate Sea Wall Seed Banks Server Farm, Server Cluster Sewers, Sewer Tunnels Shack Shanty Town Shed Shelter (abuse, animal, disaster, fallout, private, storm) Ship Graveyard Shipping Container Ship Wreck Shipyard, Shipyards Shop, Store Shopping Mall Shrine Sidewalk Sign Sign Post Site (+ building, camp, construction, dig, excavation, grave, ritual) Skating Park Skating Rink, Roller Skating Rink Ski Lift Ski Lodge Skyscraper, High-Rise Building Slaughter House Slums Solar Farm Soup Kitchen Spa Sparring Hall, Dojo, Training Hall Spillway Sports Court (basketball, tennis, volleyball) Sports Field (baseball, football, soccer) Square (+ market, public, town) Stables (horses, fantasy: draft animals, mounts, pack animals, work animals, etc) Stadium, Arena (music, sports) Stair Street Light, Light Pole Stockyard Storage Shed, Storage Building Store, Shop (big-box store, mall, mega-store, stand alone, strip mall) + (type) Storehouse, Warehouse Storm Drains Storm Shelter Street Street Vendors, Market Stall, Street Stall ( alcove, booth, cart, stall, stand, tent) Strip Club Strip Mall Studio (+ art, music, painting, pottery, recording, TV) Submarine Communication Cable, Underwater Cable Subway Terminal Subway Train Subway Tunnels Summer Camp Supermarket Tank (chemical, gas) Tanning Salon Tax Office Tea House Temple Tent (personal, multi-person, fairground, big top) Tent City (+ merchant, military, nomads, pilgrims, refugee, settlers, squatters) Textile Mill Theater (+ dance, opera, movie, music) Theme Park Toll Booth Tourney Field / Tournament Field Tower (+ air traffic control, bell, cell phone, clock, drilling, fire lookout, lifeguard, meteorological measurement, observation, power line, radio, rocket launch, solar telescope, water) Town Hall Traffic Barriers Traffic Jam Traffic Signs Trailer Park Train Cars Training Grounds, Drill Grounds, Parade Grounds Training Hall, Dojo, Sparring Hall Train Tracks, Rail Road, Rail Way Train Terminal Train Yard Trash Dump Tree House Truck Stop Tunnel TV Station University Utility Box (cable, phone) Utility Poles (light pole, phone pole, power pole) Utility Tunnels Vault Vehicle (airplane, boat, car, dirigible, helicopter, hot air balloon, hovercraft, ship, submarine, truck) Vet Villa (large country house / estate) Vineyard Visitor Center, Information Center (corporate, landmark, park, school, state) Wall (+ barrier, border, breached, divider, earthen, great, inner, outer, sea, stone, wooden) Warehouse, Storehouse Waste Treatment Plant, Sewage Treatment Plant, Water Treatment Plant Water Mill Water Park Water Reservoir Water Slide Water Tower Water Treatment Plant, Sewage Treatment Plant, Waste Treatment Plant Water Works Weather Station Wedding Venue Weigh Station Well (+ artesian, covered, dry, house, water) Well House Wharf Wind Turbine Wind Farm Winery Wreck (airplane, car, dirigible, helicopter, hovercraft, ship, train, truck) Youth Center Zip Line Zoo **Government Agencies, Departments, Offices:** agriculture / ATF (alcohol, tobacco, & firearms) / BLM (land management) / campaign / county clerk / DFG (fish & game) / DHEC (health and environmental control) / DFW (fish & wildlife) / DHHS (health & human services) / DHS (homeland security) / DOC (corrections, prison) / DOD (defense) / DOE (energy) / DOJ (justice) / DOT (transportation) / DPR (parks & recreation) / DPS (public safety) / DPW (public works) / EPA (environmental protection) / FEMA (emergency management) / immigration / IRS (internal revenue service) / OSHA (occupational safety & health) / public records / social services / USDA (agriculture, food inspection) / veteran’s affairs **Office:** accounting, animal control, assayers, bail bonds, boat rental, building inspection, car rental, corporate office, dentist, doctor, disaster recovery, employment agency, fast cash, harbor master, home inspection, insurance, land surveyors, lawyer, loan, news, pest control, police, optometrist, private detective, psychiatrist, private security, realtor, tax, travel, truck rental, utilities **Stores:** antique, appliance, art, arts & crafts, bakery, bike, book, candy, carpet, clothing, coffee, comic, convenience, costume, discount, drug, dry cleaner, curio, electronics, farm supply, fireworks, flower, formal wear, furniture, game, gas, general, gun, grocery, hardware, hobby, home and garden, home improvement, ice cream, jewelry, kitchen ware, lawn equipment, lingerie, liquor, magazine, mattress, music, office supply, outdoor, pawn, perfume, pet, pet groomer, pet supply, pharmacy, phone, pottery, print shop, retail, rug, second hand, shipping, shoe, souvenir, sports, tailor, thrift, tire, tobacco, toy, video rental, wedding **Edit:** Last Edit 09/16/2023
List of Environments & Geological Formations Resource Environment / Geological Formations Names: Context: A list of environments & terrain that world builders might want to use in their worlds: Abandoned Mines or Quarries Abandoned Structures or Ruins Alien Encroachment, Alien Environment Foothold (areas near gateways, dimensional rifts, crashed ships, bio-domes, meteor impacts, or a recently opened environment where environs, flora, and fauna from one side have spread to the other side) Anchialine Pool (a landlocked pool of water with a subterranean connection to the ocean) Animal / Monster (+ burrow, lair, graveyard, hatching grounds, hive, nest, nesting grounds, warren) Animal / Monster Trail Arch (+ natural arch, bridge*, ice arch, sea arch, stone arch ) Archipelago, Island Chain Aretes (narrow ridge between 2 valleys) Artesian Well (water under positive pressure coming out of the ground / coming out of a hollow tree) Ash Field, Ash Plain (area covered in volcanic ash) Atoll ( ring shaped coral island ) Avalanche Site (+ ice, snow, rock) Badlands Barrens Barrier Island Barrows Basalt Columns Basin, Bowl (landform sunken below the surrounding area) Bay Bayou Beach (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Blowhole Blue Hole (a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island) Bluff, Bluffs Bog (+ peat) Boreal Forest, Snow Forest, Taiga (subarctic coniferous forest) Bornhardt (dome shaped, steep-sided, bald rock outcropping) Boulder Field, Block Field, Stone Field Bowl, Basin (landform sunken below the surrounding area) Bridge (+ fallen tree, ice, natural, roots, skeletal, stone, tidal, vines, web) Brook Burm (narrow ledge or shelf) Butte (isolated hill or mountain) Caldera (cauldron-like depression created by collapse of crust above an emptied or partially emptied magma chamber) Canyon Cape Cataract (large waterfall) Causeway (natural) Cave, Cavern (+ ice, sea, undersea) Cenote (pit or sinkhole that exposes groundwater) Chaparral, Shrubland Cirque, Corrie (ampitheatre shaped valley created by glacier) Clearcut (area where all the trees have been cut down) Cliff Coast Coral Forest (+ giant, on land, undersea) Coral Reef Cove Crag Crater (+ black glass, lake) Crater Lake Creek Crevasse Crossing Crystal (type)(+ canyon, cavern, cluster, deposit, druse, field, forest, garden, giant geode, vein) Dale Dam (+ beaver, natural) Desert (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Dimensional Rift, Planar Rift Divide Dry (+ creak, gulch, lake bed, pond, river bed, stream) Dune, Dunes (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Dust Bowl Enchanted / Cursed Forest (+ animated, awakened, candy, crystallized, demonic corruption, flesh abomination, haunted, slime, toxic, etc) Escarpment (steep slope or long cliff, that separates 2 relatively level areas of different elevation) Esker (long winding ridge of stratified sand & gravel) Estuary Falls Farm, Farms, Farmland (+ crop type, herd type, fallowed) Fen Field, Fields Field of (cacti, coral, crystals, flowers, fulgurites, fungi, moss, mushrooms, pods, spikes, thorns, vines, webs) Fissure Fjord (long narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs) Flats (+ mud, salt) Floating Island (levitating, floating on water, floating on lava) [Sky Isles] Flood Plain Ford Forest (type)(+ bamboo, bonsai, boreal, burned, coniferous, cursed, dwarf, dead, dying, evergreen, fungal, giant, haunted, ironwood, of flowers, petrified, pygmy, redwood, spiny, temperate, tropical) Forest of (cacti, coral, crystals, flowers, fulgurites, fungi, moss, mushrooms, pods, spikes, thorns, vines, webs) Fulgurite Forest Fumarole / Fumarole Field - Volcanic gas vents Fungal Forest Gap Garden Geothermal Mudpot(s) Geyser (+ blowhole, lava, sand, steam) Geyser Basin Giant Footprint, Pawprint, Hoofprint (size: wagon, house, castle, town) Giant Forest Giant Fulgurite Giant Geode Giant Insect (+ carapace, cocoon, hive, mound, nest, shell, tower, webs) Giant Lilly Pad Giant Monster Remains (body, insect carapace, sea shell, skeleton, snail shell, tortoise shell) Giant Mushroom Giant Plants (type: bushes, flowers, trees, vines) Giant Tree Glacial Horn (sharp pyramid shaped peak) Glacier Glade Glass Field, Glass Plain (site where some event super heated the ground turning the sand into glass or clay into ceramic) Glen Gorge Grassland Graveyard (type: animal, kaiju, monster) Grounds (+ breeding, burial, hatching, hunting, nesting, proving, spawning) Grotto Grove Gulch Gully Hanging Valley (tributary valley higher than the main valley) Hellscape (+ burning, frozen, toxic, volcanic) Hill Hot Springs Hurst ( Hillock ) Island, Isles (+ barrier, chain, tidal, volcanic) Isthmus Jungle Kame (irregularly shaped hill made of sand & gravel, left by a glacier) Key, Keys Krummholz (stunted windblown trees growing near the tree line on mountains) Lagoon Lake (+ arctic, boiling, bubbling, color, fresh water, frozen, hypersaline, inland, of acid, of fire, of lava, salt water, shallow, toxic, underground, volcanic) Lake Bed (+ dried) Landing Landmass (+ floating on water, held up by plants, held up by roots, levitating, on pillars) Lava (+ fields, flow, geyser, lake, pool, river, sea, tube) Lava Flow (+ molten, solidified, old) Lava Tube Ledge Levee Mangrove Marsh (+ brackish, freshwater) Massif (isolated mountain or isolated mountain range) Meadow Mesa Mineral (+ deposit, field, surface deposit, vein) Mire Moor Moraine (debris left by a glacier) Mound Mount / Mountain Mountain Cloud Layer (+ above, below, within) Mudflats, Tidal Flat Mudflow, Mudslide Mudpot, Mud pool (acidic hot spring of bubbling mud) Natural Tower, Pinnacle, Spire, Needle (individual rock column shaped like a vertical shaft) Natural Water Slide Nunatak (exposed rocky ridge not covered in ice within an ice field or glacier) Oasis Ocean Orchard, Orchards Overhang Overlook Pack Ice Pass Pasture Paternoster (series of glacial lakes connected by a stream) Path Pattern - Large pattern or symbol that can be seen from above (crop circle / geoglyph / natural formation that resembles something) Peak Peninsula Petrified Forest Pingo (mound of earth covered ice in arctic environments) Pit, Pits (+ mud, sand, slime, tar) Planar Rift, Dimensional Rift Plateau Point Pond Pool, Pools Prairie Precipice Pumice Raft Quicksand Rainforest Rapids Ravine Reef Ridge Rift Valley River (+ cascading, flooded, frozen, underground, whitewater rapids) River Delta River Valley Roche Moutonnee (rock formation created by passing of a glacier) Salt Flats Salt Marsh Sand Bar Sand Pit Sands (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Savanna Scrubland, Shrubland, Chaparral Sea (+ arctic, bubbling, color, fresh water, frozen, hypersaline, inland, of acid, of fire, salt water, shallow, toxic, underground, volcanic) Sea Cave Shallows Shelf Shoreline (+ rocky, sandy) Sink Hole Spire Springs Steppes Stream Summit Swamp Taiga, Boreal Forest, Snow Forest (subarctic coniferous forest) Tarn (mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque by a glacier) Tar Pits Tepui, Table Top Mountain - flat top mountains Terrace Tidal Cave Tidal Island Tidal Land Bridge Tide Pool, Tidal Pool Trail Trembling Earth (spongy ground / plant material over water) Trench (+ undersea) Tundra Tunnel (+ earthen, giant insect, ice, monster burrow, natural, stone) Undersea (+ canyon, cavern, deeps, kelp beds, oyster beds, reef, ruins, shallows, trench, volcano) Vale Valley (+ glacial, hanging, river, step, u-shapped) Valley Step Volcano (+ active, dormant, inactive, island, smoking, underwater) Warrens Waste, Wastes, Wasteland Waterfall Well (+ artesian, divine, infernal, of magic, of power, water) Wetland, Wetlands Whirlpool, Maelstrom (permanent, reoccurring) Wild, Wilds Wood, Woods (type)(+ burned, cursed, giant, haunted, petrified, spiny) Biome Mods: (biome type + mod) Arctic - cold, often frozen or icy conditions Aware - animated / sentient / collective sentient / genius loci / benevolent / hostile Day Light - always day / always night / always solar eclipse / long day or night Dimensional Anomaly - terrain appears in a fixed location, terrain appears & disappears at certain times or certain events Disaster (during / after) - avalanche, blizzard, earthquake, fire, flood, fungal bloom, hurricane, ice storm, meteor shower, plague, red tide, sand storm, swarm, tidal wave, tornado, volcanic eruption, war vs. monster, war vs. sentient Giant Monster - Biome is on top of a living giant monster / Biome is a giant monster (earth elemental / golem) Fauna - normal, clockwork, elemental, enchanted, giant, helpful, intelligent, magic construct, mischievous, monster, poisonous, spirit, thieves, toxic to eat, transformed people, zombie Flora - normal, burned, clear cut, dead, enchanted, fast growing, fast life cycle, floating gas bags, giant, intelligent, magic construct, predatory, toxic Hollow Earth - terrain in giant hollow space within the planet (underground) Magic - absorbing / amplified magic / cursed / reduced magic / wild magic Perpetual Weather - fire tornado, fog, hurricane, ice storm, lightning storm, mist, rain storm, sand storm, snow storm, wild magic storm Resources (animals) - able to domesticate, bioluminescent light source, bones, carapace, dung, feathers, food, fossils, fur, guano, hide, honey, ink, ivory, oil, pearls, quills, scales, silk, venom, wax, wool Resources (plants) - bioluminescent light source, building material, brewed drink, cotton, drug, dye, flowers, food, fuel, incense, innately magical, medicine, needles, oil, poison, resins, spice, syrup, tinder, water, wax Resources (minerals) - clay, coal, crystals (+ fast growing, giant, luminescent), gems, innately magical material, metals, minerals (+ glowing), salt, stone Resources (other) - fertile soil, fossils Resources (magic) - innately magic material or substance, amplify magic, resist magic, replenish mana, anti-magic Season - spring, summer, fall, winter / dry season, rainy season Unusual Atmosphere - corrosive / flammable / low oxygen / thin / toxic / steamy / vacuum Unusual Features - mineral formations (luminescent) / mineral formations (spiky) Unusual Gravity - hi-gravity / low gravity / fluctuating Unusual Magnetic Field - fluctuating / moving / strong / weak Vegetation - animated / bio-luminescent / fast growing plants or fungus / giant / spikes / toxic Wandering - terrain moves over time / locomotion - grows into area / transforms adjacent area / teleports
ADHD edition, internalized ableism