How to Make and Remove Fluid Thatch Roofs

Creating Fluid Thatch

Fluid thatch offers a flowing, organic texture ideal for building medieval cottage roofs, barns, and farm sheds.

1. Place standard hay bales where you want the roof or flooring to appear.

2. Equip a pair of shears in your hand.

3. Use the shears on the placed hay bale. The block will immediately convert into flowing thatch.

Thatch provides a textured, drooping look that blends naturally into rustic architecture without needing specialized roof stairs.

Clearing Thatch and Toggling the Feature

Unlike regular solid blocks, fluid thatch requires a specific tool to clear efficiently:

1. Equip any hoe in your main hand.

2. Use the hoe directly on the thatch block to clear it away instantly from your build.

If you want to prevent players from accidentally converting hay bales around farms and animal pens, open your world chat and enable the decorative_blocks:disableThatch gamerule. When this gamerule is set to true, shearing hay bales will no longer turn them into thatch.