The Lost Cities
by McJty
Players who want to explore an abandoned city instead of ordinary overworld terrain can generate one with The Lost Cities, which replaces the usual surface with ruined districts.
What it does
The mod generates large procedural cities with roads, buildings, green spaces, elevated routes, river crossings, rail lines, underground passages and metro lines. Building interiors can hold loot, spawners and cellars, and the amount of damage and decay is adjustable. Cities are placed into the normal terrain, so The Lost Cities can be combined with biome and terrain mods. Depending on the chosen profile, a world may contain dense city regions, rare cities set apart by wilderness, heavily damaged ruins, tall skylines or domed cities.
The Lost Cities is server-side only, so unmodded clients can connect to a server that runs it. Fabric API and Forge Config API Port are required dependencies, and The One Probe is optional. The mod is open source under the MIT License and is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 23 release versions, 1.10.2 – 26.2. Ten catalog mods require it, including Lost Cities Modern Tweaks and Lost Cities Filter.
Key features
Procedural city generation
Streets, skyscrapers, apartment blocks, factories, parks and flooded areas are generated across the overworld.
Transport infrastructure
Highways, bridges, railways, tunnels and subway systems connect the city districts.
Built-in generation profiles
Several profiles cover very different styles, from sprawling city regions to rare cities separated by wilderness.
In-game configuration screen
A configuration screen lets players select a profile and adjust city generation without editing files.
Data-driven assets
Buildings, palettes, city styles and world styles are defined in data files, and custom profiles can control frequency, height, damage, explosions, terrain and loot.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.21.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.20.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.15.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.14.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.12.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.11.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.10.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Required by 10 mods
Use cases
Survival exploration
Players explore ruined districts for loot and hazards that the vanilla overworld does not contain.
Modpack building
Pack authors define custom profiles and assets to shape how cities appear alongside other content.
Who it’s for: Players who want ruined cities in the overworld, and server owners or modpack authors who want to control how those cities generate.
Questions
Which dependencies does The Lost Cities require?
Can the city profile be changed after the world is generated?
In the catalog
The Lost Cities is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
The Lost Cities transforms Minecraft's Overworld into a vast, abandoned civilization. Explore ruined skyscrapers, apartment blocks, factories, roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, subway systems, parks, flooded areas, and underground rooms filled with loot and dangers. Cities are integrated into the normal terrain, so…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/the-lost-cities
- Owner
- McJty
- Published
- 2023-01-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15