How to Place Western Structures and Decor

The Horse Keeper Resource Pack lets you decorate your world with custom Wild West structures—including a piano, windmill, waterwheel, and scarecrow—without requiring experimental features. Instead of crafting new blocks, you create these props by renaming standard vanilla armor stands.

Preparing the Materials

To create any of the custom structures, gather the following vanilla items in Survival or Creative mode:

• An Anvil (and experience levels if playing in Survival)
• Name Tags
• Armor Stands

Spawning the Structures

1. Place your anvil and interact with it to open the renaming menu.

2. Insert a Name Tag into the first slot and change its name to match the structure you want to build. For example, type scarecrow in lowercase to make a scarecrow, or use the corresponding name for the Piano, Windmill, or Waterwheel.

3. Take the renamed tag from the anvil.

4. Place an armor stand on the exact block where you want your decoration to appear.

5. Hold the renamed Name Tag and use it on the armor stand. The stand's model will immediately change into the chosen Western structure.

Playing the Piano

If you transform an armor stand into a Piano, it includes an interactive feature. Walk up to the piano and interact with it to change the armor stand's pose (which normally requires crouching and interacting in Bedrock Edition). Cycling through the armor stand's poses will play the piano.