About Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension)
From ModrinthArda's Sculks mod is a mod that improves the ancient city in the game and offers the ability to open the ancient portal in the ancient city. This mod adds many deep dark biomes to the game and many boss creatures found in these biomes.
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Arda's Sculk mod is a mod that allows you to make more powerful tools and items by improving the sculks in the game.
Versions 1.4 and above require GECKOLIB.
- Mod -
New Portal
A new portal has been added to the game and you can make a portal igniter that will open this ancient portal with the new materials you collect from the ancient city.
- Ancient World: To access this dimension, the Ancient World Portal Igniter item is required.
Sculk Flowers
Many flowers and plants have been added that you can use as decoration and light sources in your game.
Ancient City Ores
New Loots
More new items have been added to the game, including the sculkerite upgrade template, which can be found in chests in the ancient city.
Sculk Golem
In the new boss area, you can fight the Sculk Golem boss and craft the new sculkerite multi-tool with the sculk crystal he drops!
Shadow Hunter
Radioactive Warden
Sculk Arms
The newly added sculk arms will give you fists as powerful as the warden's, these sculk arms are crafted with materials obtained from chests and creatures in the ancient city.
Sculkerite items!
New powerful sculkerite tools after Netherite.
Soul Sculk Plains
Grass on the ground slows the creature down compared to normal sculk grass , and soul sensors located around it can slow the player down even further.
Sculk Plains
They are flat places in a new dimension.
Black Birch Forest
It is a dangerous biome where a squeaking creature lives among the dense trees.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 3 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.1.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension) 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
- 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
- 1.5_2 (beta), released 2026-10-24
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 | 1.21.1 |
From 7 recorded builds of Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension).
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5_2 beta | 2026-10-24 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.5 beta | 2026-10-11 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.4.3.5_1 | 2026-07-17 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.4.3.5_1 | 2026-07-17 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.4.3.5 | 2026-03-12 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.4.3.5 | 2026-02-09 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project 8BmcQJ2H (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension) 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 catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension) as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.1 and 2 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-25Open ↗
- ✓AuthorIxra, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLGPL-2.1-onlyFree
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Do my players need to install Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension)?
Modrinth lists Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension) as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Which loaders does it support?
Forge and NeoForge.
Is it free?
Yes. Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension) is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LGPL-2.1-only.
How do I add it to my Nxeon server?
Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.
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