Luki's Ancient Cities
by lukidonu
Luki's Ancient Cities reworks the Ancient City structures with remade buildings and a revised vanilla loot table, so exploring one is worth the effort.
What it does
The Ancient Cities are the underground structures in vanilla Minecraft. This mod replaces their buildings with new designs that read more clearly as cities, and it reworks the loot table so that looting a city yields more valuable material. The stated aim is to make each city more significant and worth exploring after a player has cleared it.
The structures are large and sit underground, so the author notes that some generation oddities may appear. The Watchtower build is inspired by work from an artist on Instagram. The server must run the mod, while players may add it. The mod is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the Data pack platform is also supported.
Files cover 1.20.4 – 1.21.11 across 15 release versions, with v1.2+mod for 1.21.11 as the latest build on every loader. The code is not open source, and all rights are reserved. The mod was first published on 2025-01-31 and last updated on 2025-11-02.
Key features
Remade Ancient City buildings
The city buildings are rebuilt with new designs meant to look more like city districts than the vanilla layout.
Reworked loot table
The vanilla loot table for Ancient Cities is changed to add more valuable materials to chests.
Watchtower build
A watchtower structure is added to the cities, inspired by an artist's Instagram work.
Underground generation
The larger city structures generate underground, where some placement quirks may occur.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x3 of 3 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Exploring cities on a server
A server owner installs the mod so that players exploring the Ancient Cities find rebuilt districts and richer loot.
Who it’s for: Server owners and players who explore the Ancient Cities of the world, especially those who want a reason to loot them after the first visit.
Questions
Does Luki's Ancient Cities need to be installed on the client?
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In the catalog
Luki's Ancient Cities is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
# About: Luki's Ancient Cities is a mod for 1.21 focused on overhauling the visual and gameplay aspects of the Ancient Cities and making them more significant and worthwhile. The ancient cities have completely remade buildings to make them look more like cities. The vanilla loot table has also been reworked, adding…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/lukis-ancient-cities
- Owner
- lukidonu
- Published
- 2025-01-31
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15