These Minecraft Ancient City Redesigns Are Gloriously Green
Minecraft builders are renovating 1.19 update's old cities as if they were never destroyed.
As if the deep dark weren't daunting enough, intrepid builders are tearing off complete redesigns of Minecraft 1.19's huge new ancient cities. There is a little small building happening in between other projects.
The vast, ruined structures that lie deep underground are spooky. They include ruinous pillars that abound in the dark, surrounded by Sculk blocks, and shriekers that summon an officer to call you if you don't touch their territory.
Maybe the wardens are only angry because their homes are in a state of disrepair though. The builders are working to restore the old cities to their former splendor. A lot of these cities have been completely renovated with lush cave greenery, to show that they were once cities. Some add their own legends and lighten the dark with lots of bright blocks. At least one decided to keep the atmosphere spooky. Perhaps the old cities were always dangerous. The most bold of these builders have even completed their construction in a hardcore mode, not creative. You won't catch me doing that.
These builds utilize the top Minecraft texture packs and shaders to create vibrant auras. I've collected a few of the most beautiful and ancient city designs and models available today, along with a a link to the builder who came up with them. This isn't the end of Minecrafting that is truly amazing. We've also gathered some impressive desert temple redesigns as well as underwater bases and many more of the top Minecraft designs.
The restored city of Unsorted Guy takes us back in the dark and deep to a time before it was destroyed by sculk and wardens. In this build showcase (opens in new tab), Unsorted Guy explains how he started by replacing all the sculk with deepslate blocks. He also converted the ceilings to stalactites, and brought in a lot of vines and leaves from the lush caves. Unsorted Guy also relocates grass blocks, excavates a stream, and builds his own version of an old city farm. This was a place full of life at one time. With all that water, the final structure definitely has a sort of hidden mountain city feel to it.
I'm getting huge Atlantis vibes off this reimagined ancient city created by Andyisyoda. There's a lot of greenery that is being added to the site. STRONGCRAFT.ORG It's hard to believe that the underground cities were grey and uncolored.
In the build timelapse embedded above, you can see Andyisyoda constructing high-fantasy bridges across a layer of water and covered in vines. But don't worry, they've preserved some of the spookiness intact with a lava moat that encircles the huge central portal. By the end, they've got an entire sunken city that is surrounded by towers, massive greenery that drapes and walls of lights.
As if creating an entire city from scratch wasn't difficult enough, Fixxitt412 has completed it in complete survival mode, which means there is no life after death, and over the course of 100 days. Fixxitt's build is also super green with manicured areas of flowers and farms, however they haven't completely eliminated all the sculk, which feels like a nice addition.
The structure has a mystical feel to it, with lots of lights and stained-glass emanating from the copper conduits at the top of the central portal. They've even designed houses for a group of villagers to move down and live in the darkness, though I wonder how long they'd survive.
Another lush subterranean city was built by RandomGgames (opens in new tab) and OceanManRulesZaWardo. This one is more of an overgrown design, maybe even as abandoned as the ancient cities themselves are. Like the other gorgeous green structures, it uses a variety of vines and leaves as well as some of the old glowstone blocks to light. It appears that the two have gotten rid of nearly all the sculk and have replaced it with wood walkways and arches that are deepslate.
This "build" is actually only two screenshots (opens new tab) however it's a pretty decent image and I couldn't resist including it for the other inspiration-seekers in this room.
This is the exact opposite of the calming green recreations of the old city. If Seggie ever did a full-on investigation of this I'm sure it would look like an even more frightening place than Nether fortresses. The skull archway and the blue flames are very foreboding.
This is not an official Minecraft build. This is a Lego set design based off the ancient cities created by Veyniac540 (opens in new tab). It's really amazing. They've even put together the building instructions and parts list if you are looking to build it yourself (opens in a new tab). That is, after you're done building things inside Minecraft.