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Ancient Structures: Cultural buildings

Adds handcrafted structures from ancient civilizations (Mayan, Roman, Japanese, Germanic) with custom loot, mobs, and secrets.
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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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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!

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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

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