Woods, but digital
Want to spend some time in the quiet woods and escape the bustle of the city? Epic Games now offers an alternative: 156 digital meshes for building a rural retreat in Unreal Engine. The Modular Rural Cabin pack by Dutch environment artist Maarten Hof is available on Fab for free until 7 October 2025.
What’s in the pack
The assets cover wooden cabins with corrugated iron roofing, furniture, clutter props such as oil drums and tyres, and vegetation including a conifer tree. Six demo scenes are included to show possible layouts. The meshes come with eight customisable master materials, and texture resolution goes up to 2,048 x 2,048 pixels. Lightmaps are baked in, but LODs are missing, which could be relevant for performance-sensitive projects.
From digital cabins to digital forests
The pack comes from Maarten Hof, whose ArtStation portfolio showcases atmospheric forests, modular buildings and moody woodland environments. The assets echo his trademark style: a carefully balanced mix of architectural detail and slightly eerie forest quiet, exactly the kind of place you might escape to if Slack notifications didn’t have a way of following you into the trees.
Technical notes for the cautious
According to the official Fab listing, the assets are designed for “realistic AAA quality visuals, style, and budget.” The kit is provided in Unreal Engine format, supports UE4.22+ and UE5.0+, and stated explicitly was not generated with AI. The package currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 28 reviews on Fab. Distribution follows the Fab Standard Licence, which permits commercial use across engines and tools, subject to the Fab EULA.
Test before production
As with all free marketplace downloads, artists should test the pack in their own pipelines before adopting it for actual production work.
