Farmstead Builder
Barns, silos, sheds, coops and every farm building in one tool
Farmstead Builder makes every kind of farm building inside Blender, from a red gambrel barn to a whole farmyard. Pick one of 40 real-world presets, drag a few sliders or press Surprise, and the building rebuilds live with photo textures, clean UVs and real-world sizes.
It covers the farm buildings of America and Europe: gambrel, gothic-arch, bank, Dutch, pole, prairie, monitor and tobacco barns, timber-frame, alpine, tithe, threshing and field barns, horse stables, livestock barns, milking parlours, loafing sheds, machine sheds, hay barns and Quonset huts, chicken coops with runs, pig sties and granaries on staddle stones.
Round buildings are included too: round and octagonal barns, oast houses with their kilns and cowls, and dovecotes. Storage comes as concrete stave, glass-lined steel and tile tower silos, corrugated grain bins with ladders and vents, corn cribs and silage bunkers. Finish the yard with a windpump whose wheel really turns, round, square and wrapped bales, stock tanks and troughs, hay racks, paddock fences, gates and dry stone walls.
40 farm buildings
Barns, stables, silos, grain bins, Quonsets, oast houses, coops and windpumps from America and Europe, each one a click away.
One click, a new building
Pick a preset in the sidebar and the building rebuilds on the spot, with its roof, walls, doors and finish.
Drag a slider, watch it rebuild
Width, length and the roof shape change live, so you can design a barn to fit your scene in seconds.
Fresh or weathered
One slider takes the paint from fresh to faded and the tin roof from bright to rusty.
It really turns
The windpump wheel comes animated and loops forever, ready for a film or a game.
Barns and sheds
Choose from 10 roof shapes (gable, gambrel, gothic arch, hip, half hip, monitor, saltbox, shed, Quonset and flat), 7 roof coverings and 12 wall claddings from vertical boards to fieldstone, brick and timber frame. Add sliding, hinged, Dutch or roll-up doors, hay loft doors, windows, cupolas and weathervanes, lean-tos on any side, porches, a bank or stone plinth and a yard with a chicken run, stone pen or paddock.
Materials
Every surface uses bundled CC0 photo textures from Poly Haven with physically based shading that also works in game engines. Choose the paint colors, then move one Weathering slider from fresh paint and bright tin to faded boards, rust and dirt.
Features
- 40 real-world presets in 10 structure types, each with a picture in the sidebar
- Live rebuild while you drag a slider, plus Surprise and Vary buttons
- Real-world sizes in meters, with the size and face count shown in the panel
- Game-ready: clean UVs, low, medium or high detail, sensible origins, low face counts
- Animated windpump wheel that loops forever
- Fresh to weathered in one slider, with your own paint colors
- Shift+A menu with every preset, and Convert to Mesh for export to FBX, OBJ or glTF
Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Install in under a minute (Blender 4.2+)
- In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
- Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
- Pick the downloaded zip. Do not unzip it.
Questions
Which Blender versions are supported?
Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Can I use the buildings in a game engine?
Yes. Every building has clean UVs, physically based materials with photo textures, real-world sizes and a low face count. Convert to Mesh turns it into plain mesh objects ready for FBX, OBJ or glTF export.
Are the textures included?
Yes. The photo textures are CC0 Poly Haven textures bundled with the add-on, so nothing needs to be downloaded and you may use them in commercial work.
Does the windpump move?
Yes. Its wheel is keyframed to turn forever at the speed you set, so it plays in the viewport, in renders and after export as an animation.
Details
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Blender
- 4.2 or newer
- Tested on
- 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
- Render engines
- Cycles, EEVEE
- Category
- Modeling
- Download
- 9.4 MB zip
- License
- GPL v3