What rooms should go in a castle? Help me plan / roleplay

Working on my castle. What rooms should be in a good castle? You can see the layout in game if you like, take the 1x2 portal “DK” from Ultima Mall first floor. My current layout (it’s quite big, inner keep is 6x8 plots, outer keep is 12x18 plots, floating in the sky):

Outer keep: gardens, guard house, stables, huntsman/doghouse, 1 vacant large building to fill, future moat around inner keep
Outer keep towers unused, could be for the royal army?

Inner keep:
Basement: dungeon with sky cells, prison guard main room, execution chamber with future lava
Ground: palace kitchens, palace laundry, servants quarters, castle workshops, vacant rooms to fill
Main floor (above ground): great hall (dining room)
2nd floor: throne room, offices for various functionaries like keeper of the coin, head of the guard, head of the hunt, head of the stables, fleet admiral, army chief, police chief, jester, food taster, head blacksmith, head carpenter, head spy, chief diplomat, head of agriculture
3rd floor: king’s workshop and king’s storage
4th floor: rooftop farms (future)
Inner keep towers: king’s quarters tower, guest quarters tower, magician’s tower, astronomer’s tower, possibly a fifth tower to fill

What are more “roles” and rooms that should go in a castle?

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How about a catacomb for a family tomb

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you forgot potion master Hq

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Scribes room/ library, armoury.

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Can I come build nearby and be your opposing army castle, ever looming in the distance, occasionally staging raids with slingbows and bombs, laugh at the enormous amount of no damage I caused, and slink back to my own stronghold?

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Torture Chamber…beside the Execution Chamber.

Stable for the horses…err…Wildstock?

Escape tunnels

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Sure Mittins :blush:

Wait, Roleplay I hear you say? Sounds great! Can I be this guy?.. (I don’t need a room. Any ole hole in the ground will do) :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m in the sky, but I can build you a pit to grovel in.

No alchemist spot?

Edit: missed the spot of magicians tower

I often refer to this video on Shadiversity on principles of castle design. It’s VERY in depth and well thought out. It covers interior and exterior castle design from a historical standpoint.

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This is super helpful everyone :blush:.

They seriously dont have enough Build props to fill these spaces which to me kinda kills the building game. YES I have seen enough Gleam towers! Please let me go in a build and see a nice well furnished habitat i could live in!

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That fifth tower should probably have either a freakish beast or an old family friend you’ve been keeping prisoner for 20 - 25 years in it. Maybe a brother.

Not sure about those outer keep towers - I don’t see an armory here but more likely you better have a barracks for the troops you’re going to need if you’re warring with a neighboring kingdom. Maybe that’s your large vacant building.