Residents with lives
Named families in real homes. They walk to work, staff the tills, go to school, shop, sit in the pub, grow old and have children.
A MINECRAFT BEDROCK ADD-ON
Grow up in
Seabourne.
You start life aged 10 in a seaside town of 86 residents, each with a name, a home and a routine. Get through the school gates by 10:00, get a job at 16, rent a flat, catch the bus to the pier and see what kind of life you make.
The Living City, by Chris Jones + Claude
v0.1.0 · town 1.8 MB · add-on 0.8 MB · Free development build
Requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.50+. The .mcworld already has the whole town built.
Homes to live in
Terraces, semis, a mansion, flats and seafront apartments. Rent from 18, buy, repair and sell. Your door only opens for you.
Days in a year
Four 10-day seasons. Earn 120 school credits, then jobs open at 16, 18 and 21. You age on your own birthday.
YOUR HOME TOWN
A whole seaside town.
About 340 × 340 blocks: twelve city blocks, a promenade, a beach and a pier, with farmland round the edge.
- The seafrontPier and arcade · beach huts · bandstand · The Grand
- Town centreSuperstore · The Copper Kettle · Codfather's · The Anchor · High Street
- CivicSeabourne Academy · Town Hall · hospital · police station
- HomesHillcrest · Upperton Road · Downs View · Grove Court · Marine Court
Two buses run an 11-stop loop with zombie drivers. An ambulance drives the roads when you call 999 from your Logbook.
THE PEOPLE
80 looks. No two the same.
Residents come in every skin tone, with different hair, glasses and hats. Staff wear their uniforms: police, nurses, chefs, shop staff, office workers, and the bus drivers, who are zombies.
FROM DOWNLOAD TO FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Move in.
You'll need your own copy of Minecraft Bedrock. Java Edition is not supported.
Download the town
Download the
.mcworldand open it with Minecraft. It imports as Seabourne - The Living City, with the add-on included.Play
Open the world. You're 10, it's 07:45 on a school day, and your Logbook is in your last hotbar slot. The school gates open at 09:30 and shut at 10:00.
Or build it yourself
Open the
.mcaddon, create a new Flat world and activate The Living City behaviour pack. No experiments needed. The town builds itself in about two minutes, your street first.
FIRST RELEASE · 25 OCTOBER 2026
v0.1.0: the first playable slice.
School: a real gate, lessons with teachers, one credit per full day, qualifications at 120 credits and 60 more in further education.
Work and money: real vacancies at real workplaces, a time clock, tasks, and pay every half hour. Every penny is tracked, with receipts.
Shops: take goods off the shelves into a basket and pay at the till. Cafes, the chippy and the pub cook to order. Drinks are 18+. Walk out without paying and the police come after you.
Life: buses, injuries and ambulances, the hospital, renting and buying, dating and marriage, children and inheritance, elections for mayor and a homeless charity. When you die, carry on as your child.
Coming later: cars and dealerships, pets, running your own shop, the casino, nightclubs and bigger leisure venues. Server owners can switch off crime, alcohol and illness.
Before you move in
DEVELOPMENT BUILD FOR PLAYTESTING
Mojang's Bedrock server 1.26.52 builds the whole town and passes 30 self-checks and 45 automated play-throughs: school, shopping, jobs, arrests and bail, ambulances, death and new lives, homes, elections and buses. Models, the on-screen display and controller feel still need a real-device playtest.
Controls at a glance
Use your Logbook for everything: school, jobs, money, homes, family, health, friends, the map and your record. Talk to residents to shop, order food, see the doctor or vote.
Use a shelf to pick something up; sneak and use it to put it back. Pay at the till. Use a bus to board, press Jump to ring for your stop.
Playing together
Everyone joins one world: share it over your Wi-Fi as a LAN game, or run it on a Bedrock Dedicated Server. Players' ages, jobs and homes are their own; the clock, the shops and the town are shared.
Verify your downloads
The town is a 1,837,621-byte file. Its SHA-256 checksum is:
9ddc013c679ca796c8cc7a64bd8397a3f3406682cd261728fcc7f6a226d201b6
The add-on is a 838,714-byte file. Its SHA-256 checksum is:
861b65f9466e60983f44e4e0d10e00af3b12c126e5c95b5c1afaea0ce61b73b8