The Lost Cities

The Lost Cities is a world generation mod
A crossing

A crossing

Into the mountain

Into the mountain

Tunnel

Tunnel

In the city

In the city

Tall bridge

Tall bridge

Very tall bridge

Very tall bridge

In the Desert

In the Desert

The Control Center

The Control Center

BoP

BoP

Country side

Country side

City View

City View

City by night

City by night

Ruins

Ruins

Tunnel in the jungle

Tunnel in the jungle

Highway

Highway

Inside

Inside

Crater in ice

Crater in ice

Crossing

Crossing

Highway

Highway

The Jungle

The Jungle

Biomes O Plenty support

Biomes O Plenty support

City View in Ice

City View in Ice

City View

City View

Bridge

Bridge

A Bridge

A Bridge

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Description

Introduction

 

The Lost Cities is a mod that allows the player to play in an old abandoned city instead of the normal overworld. When you create your world you can select 'Lost Cities' as your worldtype. You spawn in an old and partially destroyed city that takes over the entire overworld. There are highways, bridges, tunnels, a subway system, tons of dungeons with spawners and loot and so on. There are also various configuration presets (called profiles) to alter how the world is generated.

 

This mod is very configurable. You can add custom buildings, blocks, control how cities are generated, and a lot more. Documentation on this can be found here: Lost City Wiki

 

This mod can be used server-side only (so vanilla clients can connect).

 

Documentation for 1.12

 

To use it server side you have to use 'lostcities' as the level-type (in server.properties).

 

Note that there is also a dimension (default ID 111) that you can travel too. This dimension can be disabled (useful if you want this for vanilla clients). But using this dimension you can keep the overworld normal and have The Lost Cities in a dimension. To go there (and back) the current way is to place a bed on top of two diamond blocks and surround it with 6 skulls. Then try to sleep in it.

 

If Biomes O Plenty is present there is also a Lost Cities (BoP) variant (or 'lostcities_bop' for servers) which will use Biomes O Plenty biomes.

 

To use a specific 'profile' (configuration profile) on a server you have to add this to your server-properties file:

 

generator-settings={"profile":"nodamage"}

 

 

Documentation for 1.16, 1.18, 1.19, and 1.20

 

In 1.14 Lost Cities is no longer a separate world type. That means you can use Lost Cities in combination with other world types (like for example, Biomes O Plenty or Wild Nature). To do this you select the world customization option after chosing a world type and press the 'LC' button on the top-right. In this new configuration screen you can enable Lost Cities and also customize various aspects of the generated cities.

 

The most flexible way to configure Lost Cities for usage on a server is to first create a single player world, hit the LC button and tweak the configs to how you want it. Generate the world and then copy the lostcities-server.toml file that is located in saves/<yourworld>/serverconfig to the server defaultconfigs directory.

 

 

Documentation for 1.21

In 1.21 server configs have changed. They can now be found again in the regular config directory. There you can edit the 'selectedProfile' value to the desired profile for your server (this is also used as the default profile for single player). With the 'selectedCustomJson' value you can set specific options. More documentation on how to do this later.

 

Varia

 

Also check the companion mod Lost Souls to add more challenge to the buildings:

https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/lost-souls

 

Note! Comments have been disabled because it is hard for me to check for this on too many places. If you want to submit a bug report then go to the 'Issues' tab or here: Lost Cities Issue Tracker. If you want to discuss RFTools in general you can do that here: Lost Cities on my discord

 

 

Modpack policy: Feel free to use this mod in any modpack you want.

 

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