Ancient Cities

This is a highly improved & optimised derivative of a data pack originally by lukidonu.

New Ancient Cities to get lost in

Bigger, more varied, and far more rewarding to explore than the vanilla deep-dark layout.

This data pack overhauls Ancient City generation so every city comes out larger with more custom buildings, bridges and structures instead of the same handful of vanilla rooms.

All while the Warden still lurks in the dark below.

Pairs perfectly with Better Ancient Cities: these cities still generate as regular minecraft:ancient_city structures, so a management plugin like Better Ancient Cities can discover, snapshot, protect, auto-reset and manage loot.
Turn your Ancient Cities into renewable, multiplayer-friendly content.

September 21: the better ancient cities plugin is not yet updated for 26.3, but does work with 26.2

What's been done

• Works on Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3 from one download
• Fixed MANY features that were broken or not behaving as intended
• Repackaged for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge & Quilt (data pack + mod)
• Added a built-in loot editor to tune every chest, barrel, pot & vault to your server

Customise the loot

Want different rewards? This and the other data packs in this collection comes with a simple loot editor.
No commands, no JSON. Just open a plain-text settings file, change how common each item is, how many drop, and how full each container rolls, then double-click Build-Loot to apply it.

You can add or remove items too, and misspelled item names are caught before anything is saved. Grab it from the GitHub collection and read HOW TO CHANGE LOOT.txt.

Credits

• Original author: lukidonu
• Updated, fixed and improved by: darkstarworks

More refreshed projects

The full collection of revived data packs & mods:

• darkstarworks on Modrinth
• My premium plugins (ESMP)
• GitHub: minecraft-refresh-collection