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How to build a cloister ?!
By [BLK] Telu
This guide explain how to make a cloister properly.
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
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Cloister 
Splite cloister 
Examples of cloister 
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Cloister
To make a cloister, you need two things :

- A door who is not part of the cloister, who give access to it and who is build in your monastery
- A closed space part of the cloister and build around this door

What you can use to build the cloister ? Everything available in the building list of the cloister. The space just need to be a closed space from exterior.

Below is an example with a cloister who have three walls (White)
The door is part of my Hospitium (Yellow)
On the left of the Hospitium is a refectory.

This is showing than the cloister is just part of the entire monastery but doesn't work like the game teached you about the other buildings. (You can't stick a door to a piece of the cloister, for example, it's impossible)



The cloister can take the form you want, it doesn't matter. The most important is to have access to it from a door of the build stick to the cloister. It's never an entire closed space, the piece who close the cloister is never part of it.



The cloister entrance module are only use to allow the monks to get access to the walkway and for aesthetics purpose. It's not mandatory to enter into the cloister. To enter in the cloister, you really need a door part of another building.

If builders and monks manage to go inside, it should work.
If you have errors popping, then, you did it wrong.


A brother visiting and leaving a cloister. Getting his cloister buff. Proving than the building work.

The green square show than the space is closed. It is not an information telling you if the cloister will work or if people will be stuck or not.

You can put whatever you want inside the cloister. Some people put a monastic garden. I think it's a really nice idea.

Splite cloister
You don't need to build the entire cloister in a single object.

You can split it in different part.

If it say than it's too far away. You just need to build some temporary parts in the gap, then delete them before submitting the building. This tip works for every customizing building of the game !


I've three parts of a cloister who are all from the same function of the monastery.

Word of the end
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[BLK] Telu  [author] 16 Apr @ 10:42am 
The concept of a cloister is to be a closed ring with a door from the monastery leading to the cloister. Should work with only one door leading to the cloister, i don't see why you will need to put two doors. And the trick is to let people go inside the ring to be able to build it, so, you need a door coming from a building already build, so people can come in and finish building the cloister.
[BLK] Telu  [author] 16 Apr @ 10:39am 
I need to try it again to check. A lot of people seem to struggle with the cloister again. That's weird.
Keanu Leaves 1 Apr @ 7:59pm 
Instructions unclear: head stuck in Refectory. Send help.
Triggerfin 18 Mar @ 11:35pm 
Parts of this are outdated, though it is generally helpful.
My first (and working!) cloister was a freestanding square (6x6) of cloister rooms, with two cloister entrance rooms, and monks/nuns would enter it through a door placed on the outside of one of them. The only "connection" to another building was an arch located outside over a path between the cloister and a kitchen.
exmaria 16 Mar @ 5:59pm 
Found someone's suggestion on reddit which saved my sanity, saying to make sure you use *two entrance blocks* - one pointed inside, and one pointed outside. Put the doors on the opposite short sides, with at least one hall block on each side of them, then use at least four hall blocks between the corners on the long sides. This lets you build it away from your other buildings if you didn't leave a good place to attach it. It's not much to look at, but it functions.
tangosierra7 8 Mar @ 4:27pm 
I found the problem was constructing it as a freestanding monastery item, and trying to attach it ot another freestanding monastic item (the kitchen and refectory). When I destroyed all the freeform items and built them as part of the monastery dorm itself, the green line went all the way around and voila! Task completed!
bertamatematicas 22 Feb @ 4:20am 
por que mis monjes no trabajan?
[BLK] Telu  [author] 21 Feb @ 4:07am 
@bakmacska maybe it got patched, idk.You need to start your cloister, add new building around (not related to cloister), edit your cloister to add a new cloister part. Repeat until the cloister is a closed area.
[BLK] Telu  [author] 21 Feb @ 4:04am 
@HackePeetra You need to fulfill theirs needs. You need a monastic kitchen and a refectory. Both need to be configured.
[BLK] Telu  [author] 21 Feb @ 4:01am 
I had no issues about size ...