Ancient Structures: Cultural buildings
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Adds handcrafted structures from ancient civilizations (Mayan, Roman, Japanese, Germanic) with custom loot, mobs, and secrets.
Description
🏛️ Ancient Structures
Ancient Structures is a full-featured Minecraft mod that adds cultural, handcrafted structures from ancient civilizations directly into your world.
It serves as a bridge within the Dawn of Time ecosystem, showcasing the architectural potential of Dawn of Time blocks and the animated armor models from Armor of the Ages through immersive world generation.
This first version includes around 20 unique structures spread across four civilizations: Mayan, Roman, Japanese, and German.
Each building is designed to enrich survival gameplay, with a focus on worldbuilding, atmosphere, and challenge. Players will encounter lone temples, sacred ruins, abandoned villages, and military sites. Each hiding custom loot, secret passages, mini-bosses, and animated mobs wearing culturally themed equipment.
The mod requires the following dependencies to work :
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Guardians
Guardians are skeletons, wither skeletons and zombies equipped with the armor of their culture. Each one gives an advancement.
| Culture | Guardian |
|---|---|
| Germanic | Cursed Knight (Iron Plate armor), False Archmage (Holy armor, wither skeleton) |
| Roman | Centurion (Centurion chestplate), Praetorian (full Centurion armor, wither skeleton) |
| Japanese | Fallen Samurai (O-Yoroi armor), Corrupted Farmer (Bamboo Hat), Temple Guardian (O-Yoroi and Raijin helmet, wither skeleton) |
| Pre-Columbian | Tribesmen (Quetzalcoatl helmet), Wrath of Quetzalcoatl (Quetzalcoatl armor, wither skeleton) |
Loot
Every culture has its own chests, with a common table and a rare table.
| Culture | Common loot | Rare loot |
|---|---|---|
| Germanic | Food, candles, books, leather | Holy and Iron Plate armor, bows, gold |
| Roman | Dawn of Time clay tiles, marble flower pots and fences | Centurion armor, bows, gold |
| Japanese | Teapots, sake, tatami mats, roof tiles, raked gravel | O-Yoroi, Raijin and Japanese Light armor, bows, gold |
| Pre-Columbian | Cocoa, moss, vines, melon slices, rammed dirt | Quetzalcoatl armor, bows, gold, cobwebs |
| Ruins | Old iron, leather and diamond armor pieces, bones, skulls | Name tags, diamonds |
Compatibility
| Mod | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dawn of Time | Required | Blocks and decorations used by the structures |
| Armor of the Ages | Required | Armor worn by the guardians and found in chests |
| Fusion | Required | Connected textures |
| YACL | Required | Config screen of Armor of the Ages |
| Biomes O' Plenty | Compatible | Extra biomes for every culture |
| Terralith | Compatible | Extra biomes for every culture |
| Oh The Biomes We've Gone | Compatible | Extra biomes for every culture |
| Regions Unexplored | Compatible | Extra biomes for every culture |
| Nature's Spirit | Compatible | Extra biomes for every culture |
| Atmospheric | Compatible | Extra jungle biomes for Pre-Columbian structures |
The Ancient Structure serie
The experience can be extended via the other structure mods from the Dawn of Time team. These packs are focused on a single culture to allow you to discover even more about architecture. Each pack is unique and reflects the team member style!
- Knoxxturre : Edo Japan
- Jackiefr: Chinese
Credits
- TheGoldenWorld – creator of the original datapack and all core structures
- Jackie – contributed to several buildings and created the custom mobs
- Poulpinou – developed the code to transform the datapack into a fully functional mod
- Lekter – credited for the design of the windmill
- Superchache39 - I learned with his videos to make datapacks
- ChatGPT has been used to wrap up this page in markdown & it helped me to create features in the mod
- Retro Diffusion has been used to generate the logo of this page
- Minecraft Title Generator from Ewan Howell has been used for the banner
Ancient Structures: Cultural buildings Team
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