About Ancient Structures
From ModrinthAdds handcrafted structures from ancient civilizations (Mayan, Roman, Japanese, Germanic) with custom loot, mobs, and secrets
🏛️ 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 Ancient Structures serie
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
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 5 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Ancient Structures on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Fabric, Forge, NeoForge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 0.0.16, released 2026-10-27
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (5 versions) | 26.3 |
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 to 26.3 (3 versions) | 26.3 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
| Quilt | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 14 recorded builds of Ancient Structures.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0.16 | 2026-10-27 | 1.20.1 | Fabric |
| 0.0.16 | 2026-10-27 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 0.4.0 | 2026-10-24 | 26.3 | NeoForge |
| 0.4.0 | 2026-10-24 | 26.3 | Fabric |
| 0.3.0 | 2026-10-24 | 26.1.2 | NeoForge |
| 0.3.0 | 2026-10-24 | 26.1.2 | Fabric |
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project 1eAoo2KR (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
- Required: modrinth project RgWXq0La (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
- Required: modrinth project vEgtiJIY (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
- Required: modrinth project p19vrgc2 (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Ancient Structures on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWorld generation
Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Ancient Structures as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 4 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-28Open ↗
- ✓AuthorTheGoldenWorld, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-onlyFree















