As if the deep darkness wasn’t terrifying enough, intrepid builders are here to completely redesign Minecraft 1.19’s massive new old cities. You know, just a little light building in between other projects.
The massive ruined structures found deep underground are haunted by default: ruined pillars covering the darkness, covered in sculk blocks and screeching ready to summon a guard if you don’t tiptoe through. their territory.
Maybe the guards are just grumpy because their houses are in disrepair. Fortunately, these builders are renovating the ancient cities back to their imagined former glory. Some have been completely overhauled with lush cave greenery to prove that they used to be life-sustaining real towns. Others add their own knowledge and light up the darkness with a plethora of bright blocks. At least one decided to keep the ghostly feel. Perhaps the ancient cities were always dangerous. The most daring of these builders even completed their builds in hardcore mode, not creative. You’re not going to catch me doing that.
Most of these builds get help for their vibrant auras from the best Minecraft shaders and Minecraft texture packs. I’ve collected some of the coolest ancient buildings and designs out there now with a link to the builder who made them. As always, this is just the latest in great Minecrafting. We’ve also rounded up some really impressive redesigns of desert temples, underwater bases, and many more of the best Minecraft builds.
This restored old town by Unsorted Guy takes the deep dark back to a time before it was overrun by sculk and guards. Showcase in this build (opens in new tab)Unsorted Guy explains how he started by replacing all the sculk with deep slate blocks, converted the ceilings into stalactites, and brought in tons of vines and leaves from the lush caves. In addition to restoring all the structures, Unsorted Guy moves some blocks of grass and digs out a pond, even building his take on an old city farm. This place was once really full of life. With all that water, the final build definitely has some sort of secret mountain town vibe to it.
I’m getting big Atlantis vibes from this redesigned ancient city by Andyisyoda. Again, a lot of green is added here. I guess nobody wants to imagine that these underground cities were always gray and colorless, eh?
In the build timelapse embedded above, you can see Andyisyoda building imaginative bridges over a trough of water, all dripping from the vines. Don’t worry, they’ve kept some of the spookiness intact with a lava moat circling the giant center portal. By the end, they have an entire sunken city, surrounded by towers, huge draped greenery, and walls of light.
As if designing a city by hand wasn’t hard enough, Fixxitt412 has done it all in hardcore survival mode, meaning there’s no afterlife, over the course of 100 days. Fixxitt’s build is also super green, with manicured areas of flowers and farms, but they haven’t completely eradicated all the sculk, which feels like a nice touch.
This construction also has a magical feel, with lots of light and stained glass coming from the copper pipes on top of the central portal. They have even planned houses for some villagers to come down and live in the deep dark, although I wonder how long they would survive.
Another lavish underground city was built by RandomGgames (opens in new tab) and OceanManRules ZaWardo. This one is more of an overgrown style, maybe even as desolate as the old towns themselves already are. However, like these other beautiful green builds, it uses tons of vines and leaves, bringing in some classic old glowstone blocks for lighting. It appears the pair have cleared out pretty much all of the sculk and replaced it with wooden walkways and deep slate arches.
This “build” is actually just two screenshots (opens in new tab)not a fully fleshed out subcity, but it’s such a damn good image I couldn’t help but champion it in front of all the other inspiration seekers in the room.
This is the opposite of all these soothing, green recreations of the old town. If Seggie ever worked this out, I have no doubt it would look like an even more terrifying place than a Netherfort. That skull arch and all the blue flames are seriously ominous.
Okay, so this isn’t a Minecraft build at all. This is a Lego set design based on the ancient cities conceived by Veyniac540 (opens in new tab). But come on, that’s seriously neat. They even put together the building instructions and parts list if you want to build it yourself (opens in new tab). You know, after you’re done building things inside minecraft.
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