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Ancient City

An enormous ruined complex in the Deep Dark, where sculk sensors and shriekers punish careless exploring. Its chests hold echo shards, Swift Sneak books, disc fragments, and sought-after armor trim templates.

Deepslate brick room seen through glass panes, with sculk in the walls and a moss floor
Ancient city at 48, -51, 160Seed 12784623149172763 · Java 26.3

From the Minecraft Wiki, summarised

How it generates

Generates deep underground with its main floor at Y=-51. The Deep Dark biome it needs goes with low-erosion terrain, often under mountains and plateaus.

Biomes

  • Deep Dark

Placement values are for Java 26.3, in chunks. A candidate only becomes a city if the Deep Dark is there. In Java the structure's starting anchor is Y=-27, which differs from the main floor height. Mobs don't spawn naturally inside a Java city, but its shriekers can summon wardens. Bedrock's exact placement values aren't confirmed.

Notable loot

  • Echo Shard
  • Enchanted Book with Swift Sneak
  • Silence Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Ward Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Disc Fragment: 5
  • Music Disc: otherside
  • Enchanted Golden Apple
  • Diamond Leggings

Mobs

  • Warden

History

  1. Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1Java

    Introduced experimental ancient cities.

  2. 22w13aJava

    Added redesigned cities to the regular snapshot series.

  3. 22w14aJava

    Added echo shards to city loot and removed duplicate building pieces.

  4. 1.19Java

    Released ancient cities as standard world generation.

  5. 1.19.0Bedrock

    Released ancient cities without experimental gameplay.

  6. 1.20Java

    Made Ward and Silence armor trim templates available in normal city chest loot.

  7. 1.21.6Java

    Replaced saddle loot with stacks of 1–5 leather.

  8. 26.1Java

    Removed name tags from ancient-city chest loot.

  9. 26.3Java

    Added abandoned-camp maps leading to ancient cities and the distinct Buried Ancient City Map item.

Read the full article on the Minecraft Wiki ↗

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Screenshots

Deepslate brick room seen through glass panes, with a moss floor inside
Ancient city at 240, -51, 0Seed 613114469485949 · Java 26.3
Deepslate brick room seen through glass panes, with a moss floor inside
Ancient city at 16, -51, 16Seed 6378256306624431 · Java 26.3
Deepslate brick room seen through glass panes, with dark sculk blocks on the back wall
Ancient city at 64, -51, -256Seed 3233241926201645 · Java 26.3
Deepslate brick room seen through glass panes, with a moss floor and sculk blocks in the walls
Ancient city at 16, -51, 160Seed -1844727049180781334 · Java 26.3
Deepslate brick corridor with glass panes, soul lanterns and a sculk-covered ceiling underground
Ancient city at 240, -51, 240Seed 1919394327020867 · Java 26.3

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Seeds with this ancient city

We found each ancient city at these coordinates in the seed's Java version. Other versions and Bedrock may generate a different world.

SeedVersionVariantX, Y, Z
Pale garden on a high ridge, with a camp, an ancient city and a ruined portal in a birch forest12784623149172763Java 26.3Ancient city48, -51, 160
Snowy village with a ruined portal in its streets, trail ruins and an ancient city613114469485949Java 26.3Ancient city240, -51, 0
Dappled forest valley camp below snowy peaks, over an ancient city6378256306624431Java 26.3Ancient city16, -51, 16
Plains village climbing a snowy mountain, with an ancient city to the north3233241926201645Java 26.3Ancient city64, -51, -256
Dappled forest and cherry grove between snowy peaks, over an ancient city-1844727049180781334Java 26.3Ancient city16, -51, 160
Abandoned camp in a pale garden with an ancient city nearby1919394327020867Java 26.3Ancient city240, -51, 240
Woodland mansion and village in a mountain ring5811050894855099212Java 1.20.1Ancient city45, -34, 0

Sources

The description, generation rules, variants, loot, mobs and history above are summarised from the Minecraft Wiki article Ancient City, retrieved 2026-09-30. Minecraft Wiki text is available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. We have not checked these facts in game.

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