🏛️ 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!
- 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
All Versions
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- New advancement tree: Explorer branch (find the 22 structures in the mod) with 5 cultural sub-advancements (japanese, roman, germanic, maya, ruins) and the Hunter branch, kill all the ancient creatures in the mod
- New mobs to kill: Fallen Samurai (japanese), False Archmage (german), Praetorian (roman)
- Updated Readme
- Fixed lone_priest and windmill structures not spawning (corrupted NBT re-exported)
- Fixed fabric mod not loading due to incorrect id in fabric.mod.json
- Should have fixed an issue about the Mayan Temple 3 with a broken NBT
If you find any bugs, please report them on the issue tracker: https://github.com/DawnOfTimeMC/ancientstructures/issues !
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon:** https://urlr.me/1RLyj

- New advancement tree: Explorer branch (find the 22 structures in the mod) with 5 cultural sub-advancements (japanese, roman, germanic, maya, ruins) and the Hunter branch, kill all the ancient creatures in the mod
- New mobs to kill: Fallen Samurai (japanese), False Archmage (german), Praetorian (roman)
- Updated Readme
- Fixed lone_priest and windmill structures not spawning (corrupted NBT re-exported)
- Fixed fabric mod not loading due to incorrect id in fabric.mod.json
- Should have fixed an issue about the Mayan Temple 3 with a broken NBT
If you find any bugs, please report them on the issue tracker: https://github.com/DawnOfTimeMC/ancientstructures/issues !
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon:** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.0.11 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- Added new building : Lone Mayan Temple

- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.1.1 NeoForge/Fabric 1.21.1**
- Added back the mobs in every structure, enjoy!
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.1.1 NeoForge/Fabric 1.21.1**
- Added back the mobs in every structure, enjoy!
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.1.0 NeoForge/Fabric 1.21.1**
- Portage of the mod to 1.21.1
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.1.0 NeoForge/Fabric 1.21.1**
- Portage of the mod to 1.21.1
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.0.10 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- Added new building : German Town
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.0.10 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- Added new building : German Town
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.0.9 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- Added new building : Japanese Temple
- Added new boss : Temple Boss
- Changed all seeds for a better spawning experience
- Exported back the mayan_temple3 to make sure the boss was here
- Modified the loots to match the very last version of DoT 1.5.18. You should not have broken loottables anymore
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.0.9 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- Added new building : Japanese Temple
- Added new boss : Temple Boss
- Changed all seeds for a better spawning experience
- Exported back the mayan_temple3 to make sure the boss was here
- Modified the loots to match the very last version of DoT 1.5.18. You should not have broken loottables anymore
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.0.7 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- The Wither boss is now a mc.function mob, you can target it with the 'wither_boss' tag if you need it for map making or any type of project.
- If you want to summon it do '/function ancientstructures:mobs/wither_boss
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- 🏛️ Ancient Structures 0.0.7 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- The Wither boss is now a mc.function mob, you can target it with the 'wither_boss' tag if you need it for map making or any type of project.
- If you want to summon it do '/function ancientstructures:mobs/wither_boss
- 🧡 Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- Ancient Structures 0.0.5 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- New building : Mayan Temple
- Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- Ancient Structures 0.0.5 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- New building : Mayan Temple
- Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- Ancient Structures 0.0.4 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- New building : Lone Priest
- Modified structure seeds
- Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- Ancient Structures 0.0.4 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- New building : Lone Priest
- Modified structure seeds
- Support the project on Patreon :** https://urlr.me/1RLyj
- Ancient Structures 0.0.3 Forge 1.20.1**
- New building : Roman tombstone
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- Ancient Structures 0.0.2 Forge/Fabric 1.20.1**
- German :**
- german_farm
- lone_german_farmer
- lone_german_house
- ruined_german_village
- windmill
- Japanese :**
- japanese_forge
- japanese_pagoda
- ruined_japanese_village
- rengoku_house
- Mayan :**
- mayan_ruins
- mayan_temple
- mayan_temple2
- mayan_village
- Roman :**
- roman_bath
- roman_house
- roman_ruined_temple
- roman_temple
