How to Find and Raid Ancient Cities in Minecraft 1.20

[@Eyecraftmc]

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[@ZanPhan13]

Is Warden undead mob?

[@ARMTOAST]

you forgot to add the i card at 17:00!

[@Eyecraftmc]

@@ARMTOAST Sorry about that, added it now :)

[@amirra1d3n33]

ice room is a refrigerator dude :D thats how people kept theire stuff cool back then .

[@swankscabinet1625]

The coolest thing with the music discs are when you play 11 5 and I think it was 13 at the same time they tell an insane story. It’s amazing how well they made the discs pair up with each other

[@kevinchadwick9108]

Feel bad for anyone who had discovered an ancient city and went in not knowing about skulk sensors or the warden

[@pumkin610]

Rude awakening

[@Player-jh4ko]

I mean, we all had that feeling playing the game for the first time right? Remember how scary the nights used to be? I think this new biome will teach players that the world of Minecraft can be dangerous too.

[@beetrootx]

returning player here, this happened to me and now i have recurring nightmares

[@killwalker]

That was me. Last night. The lights....bright, dark. Bright dark. Wierd boxes with flying ghost things fluttering around. Then the music. But the weirdest part was the staircase I made, had one of those purple/black blocks appear in the way, and in my confusion, was one shotted by that Golem thing. Lost everything. Fully enchanted Bow and Fishing rod. Armor. Full stack of iron. Tried closing out the game hoping to reload into previous autosave. Didn't work. Reloaded into the base on the surface. 0 inventory. Tried to race down to get it all, all gone and another quick death courtesy of The Warden.

[@pandahz79]

Happened to me tonight, that why I went and watched a video now 😂

[@Xizyx]

When looting an Ancient City for the first time, also bring along an anvil (or enough iron to make one) so the Swift Sneak enchantment can be applied to leggings ASAP.

[@محمودمحمد-ر8ج2ك]

Thanks

[@LLLadySSS]

I have a shulker box just for miscellaneous useful stuff like that. I always have it on me

[@mxtof2452]

I have to admit that the restone showroom is a nice touch. The restone behavior is so counter-intuitive that many beginners don't know where / how to start learning it, and the jungle temple was not exactly helpful for that matter.

[@Eyecraftmc]

I definitely agree!

[@abhinavpandey3795]

Yes, I always wanted to learn these redstone machines

[@sirloin7667]

its a nice touch but i dont like the fact its literally in the most dangerous place in minecraft

[@mxtof2452]

@@sirloin7667 No pain, no gain. That's a still a better lesson than the one taught by the Mary Sues produced by Disney.

[@bigbird4481]

@@mxtof2452 what is Mary sues?

[@jarednthomas]

The achievement for dropping from world height to the bottom makes so much more sense now. They planned it all along, with a deep point in the world generating over a high point; genius.

[@newturtle3]

Mt structures when?

[@crobar1]

I raided 2 ancient cities, my first city I died many times, used the egg tactic some youtubers recommend, I don't recommend it, the more noise the warden picks up the angrier he gets. Raided second city without dying once, used a lot of wool and if the Warden starts spawning fly away and wait, the warden despawns really fast if you don't anger him. I highly recommend looting ancient cities the compass alone is worth the risk, but the best you can find in a ancient is swift sneak, must have enchantment for pants, makes building faster while holding shift

[@baviddarragan]

does the warden spawn in peaceful

[@alexdenommee3219]

Raided like 10 ancient cities on my locked hard world, its not hardcore, but I am having a blast tbh, I just travel with an elytra, rockets, and an ender chest when I'm going to take over a town (which I always do) near the ancient cities, I don't touch ancient cities that don't have a city on them though. It's usually super easy to dig down and have the city have a direct entrance to the ancient city (sometimes caves make it almost impossible but you do what you do) in your town, as I don't like setting a bed soo low, and I always get sheep and legit breed them for 2 hours and gather wool + breed during this time, usually the cities have 2+ ancient cities near them so the first one I only have enough to do about half, go back and I can breed and gather wool again and finish it and when I go back for the third time, the sheep farm is huge. There are soo many fucking sheep in some towns lol, the one city had a 45x45 area that was like 4 tiles down but still grew grass, and had soo many sheep that I couldn't even gather wool properly, they pushed me around, so I released half of them and it was legit like 400 sheep that took off, and I closed it off with a little less than half still in there, and it was still a pain to navigate.

[@thelurker1330]

@@alexdenommee3219 how do you even find that many cities?

[@alexdenommee3219]

@@thelurker1330 I'm on Java and I used chunkbase, its a no-cheats, hard-locked survival world non-hardcore, I just travelled and looked for areas with 2 things specifically: 2+ ancient cities 1+ village. The village becomes a sheep breeding area for 30 minutes while I lure/breed as many as I humanly can and harvest their precious wool, then I dig tunnels to the deep dark, some tunnels are harder to work with when theirs a giant f*cking cavern, but when you can just simply mine directly down to it, its super easy. I generally also gave up on wool and decided because I have soo many swift sneak 3 leggings, I just use ender pearls, sneak 3 leggings, and know where I am, and where I will pearl to when he spawns, I press Control + B (hitboxes) and watch his dumb butt from like 30 blocks away, I like to try to enderpearl towards the middle laneways with the grey wool on them, as they are usually 15-25 blocks away from any of the chests generally. I religiously use night vision potions, its a completely different experience. I also bring an ender chest and fill it from my base with blaze rods, golden carrots, fireworks, etc various crap. I don't use any gear ONCE I'm actually set with direct passage to the Ancient city EXCEPT swift sneak leggings, which are ridiculously better, its almost necessary to have swift sneak 3 in order to do this because its far quicker over the long run. Also take a little time to watch a video on ancient cities, and their setups/various rooms, there is a bathhouse that can have 2 or 3 chests sometimes, etc, and realize the warden is simply a nothing burger, he's meant to be ignored and avoided simply. If your in creative, he's fun, etc, but in survival, he's literally just a mob to avoid.

[@OppositeOpinion]

@@alexdenommee3219 you are a dirty cheater

[@Idfkwhyy]

The first time I discovered the deep dark, I had the luck to find that it was actually the entrance of an ancient city, I've watched a lot of KZbinrs walking through the deep dark, but doing it myself is 10x scarier.

[@marblesand863]

I definitely think Ancient Cities have potential to hold something far more sinister than what minecraft has ever created, especially when the center of the cities have a massive structure that resembles a portal. It would be a cool concept to activate said portal with "keys" that are guarded by the "Wardens" (that would explain the meaning of their name)... idk, just a thought

[@kat7095]

Thank for making this! I really needed a large amount of XP in my main world, wish me luck!

[@Eyecraftmc]

Good luck!

[@Remigrator]

Good luck lol

[@LLLadySSS]

If you need a lot of XP and quickly you’ll have to do some grinding first to make a fully reliable/never ending/consisten source of XP. I built a guardian farm in my survival world. Farm is by ianxofour. Check it out! I got to level 80 in like 2-3 minutes

[@wokevirushandsanitzer5300]

The ease of mining sculk makes it’s a really good way to find diamonds actually. You can reveal a massive amount of blocks very quickly with and efficiency V hoe.

[@MountainUnicycler]

@@wokevirushandsanitzer5300 moss mining is a great idea too - just bring a moss block and bonemeal. Go to the lowest part of the world and bonemeal the ground. Most blocks turn to moss except the ores. I’ve found plenty diamonds this way

[@codystone93]

Another item good for raiding the city is the spyglass. It lets you see some Shriekers a little easier.

[@masonrobbins1877]

or just use optifine 😂

[@codystone93]

@@masonrobbins1877 alot of people don't use mods or add-ons

[@BarmanClips]

@@masonrobbins1877 Yeah, like bedrock players can just do that.

[@joekreissl4499]

@@masonrobbins1877 if my grandma had wheels she would have been a bike

[@kevinjamesmartin7127]

@@masonrobbins1877 Cheating! Optifine zooming is cheating! I hate that Hermitcraft KZbinrs throw it around like it's nothing. Same as the mod Java players use that buffs shulker shell drops. It's straight-up cheating! If the spyglass exists in the game you need to wait to use it

[@gracefulcedrman1518]

4:34 Pretty sure the noteblocks are there as a trap, when crouching around trying not to alert any wardens, you can accidentally step on the pressure plate and have that "oh sh*t" moment as it starts to spawn from the sound emmited by the noteblock

[@akhil_1210]

Whereas that one friend stompin and dancing on them as you explain this

[@dougsvoboda6091]

That Ender Chest strategy would have saved me a lot of pain. I'll start using it on dangerous missions from now on. Thanks for the tip.

[@benthomason3307]

also a great place to store your emeralds if you keep one in each village.

[@OaoFlamen]

Tip: If you want smooth looting and avoid a Warden encounter, ALWAYS remove the Shierkers, as they are responsible for waking the Warden (It's helping me and my friends a lot to loot the ancient cities). Isolating them with Wool is a good thing to do, but I would recommend manually removing them anyway. And if you forget one, stay calm, it will only be activated after shouting twice more, and if the Warden spawns, leave the area with enderpearls or try not to get too close to him. And as a comment said around here, it's a great place for a base as long as you remove all the Shierkers.

[@mewCaedin]

Uh what? They made it so you have to trigger four shrieked to summon the warden

[@cadencezahniser]

The note block entering the ice room is most likely something that makes noise which causes the warden to come towards you.

[@alexdenommee3219]

also a piss off when you don't notice it because it usually activates a shrieker if ones in the area.

[@Papa_Emeritus_IV]

Fun fact: diamonds are incredibly common In ancient cities. If you mine most of the skulk, you'll find that there are alot of diamond ore. Pair this with fortune, and you can get a ridiculous amount.

[@Vezon1121]

Never thought I would see a generated structure in Minecraft that is a walk-in refrigerator, icebox room is pretty cool.

[@iank564]

At least you realize it was a refrigerator I was really beginning to think everyone else in the comments didn't care or was really stupid .

[@Akshay-xz5jq]

Hey I was waiting for this video I'm sure gonna use these tips in my new 1.19 survival world!❤️

[@muhammadnurakbar4188]

I can't wait for "Sculk catalyst xp farm" video

[@kaitlinmae6887]

One ancient city I was in spawned with a shrieker right next to the chest in the ice room. So when you open the trapdoor the shrieker went off. So now I just avoid the ice rooms since the loot isn’t good anyway

[@evilsharkey8954]

Just make sure you haven’t triggered a shrieker in more than 10 minutes, get down the trapdoor as fast as possible, and destroy the shrieker before it can recharge and shriek again (about 10 seconds). It really sucks when there’s two shriekers. Then you have to destroy the trapdoor on one shriek, destroy one shrieker, and then locate the second shrieker. To avoid spawning wardens, you have to do something else for 10 minutes after each shriek so you have some leeway in case you accidentally trigger two shrieks close together.

[@andresgonzalez306]

I think the ice is there to like make sure the food doesn’t go back because people in the past would put yheir food in boxes/rooms with ice to keep it from spoiling

[@GrandShroombah]

I'm 19, I've been playing Minecraft since I was 9, I used to know everything before 1.13, and now I got out of touch and I have no idea what I'm doing in caves, the nether, the ocean, and even villages feel extremely alien, or as if I'm missing hundreds of accessible features that I could easily figure out. But you said it exactly "Something that Minecraft lacks a little bit of is showing players how to play the game without just having to look up everything." So, I got to say your tutorials have literally saved the game for me and I am incredibly thankful for all the time, thought, and energy you put into making such well-made tutorials. Because I would not have had the patience to explore all these new updates and see just how much cool stuff has been added, I was one step away from going back to 1.12 and now I'm eagerly awaiting Sniffers.

[@tnt_gaming21]

8:40 the ice is because before people had refrigerators they had to use ice to cool their food. The aincent city is set to have been built by the ancient builders before fridges existed so they used it ti cool their food

[@DoomWalker42]

The ice room is meant to be a fridge or food cellar. They said on Twitter that it's meant to keep the food in the chest cool.

[@polarispulsar]

If you go in with several stacks of wool and a water fall to retreat up, you can loot a city with nothing but the wool and some food easily. I've raided two and summoned the warden several times without dying once

[@hannibal8637]

Ice boxes are like big refrigerators. In the mid 1900's, this is actually how refrigerators worked, but smaller. It's a food storeroom. As for the note blocks triggered by pressure plates, I imagine that these are like booby traps to tell the warden exactly where you are.

[@pinkzki6473]

There is obviously some lore going on with these cities. I wanna say it’s a portal, activating portal will start boss fight, where you end up fighting with the warden against creature from portal. But the fact that every ancient city, like 100% of the time has this structure directly in the middle of city, it has to mean something. Only one music disc that sounds super sus, and the warden himself being trigger by sound like a self defense alarm system, and his name deprives from the meaning “guard” like it’s obvy. I’m starting to think there’s no other dimension now, it’s just a portal to spawn a boss fight. And you fight in the ancient city. With the warden.

[@ryebread2862]

I think the portal is to the skulk dimension, and whoever lived there beforehand opened the portal and let the warden in. A warden is a guard, perhaps for the portal, so when it was opened it defended its dimension

[@nerd2594]

Go search up flim theory to see mattpatts theory

[@pinkzki6473]

@@nerd2594 just watched it. Yea that was pretty good theory. I will say, as a player I would be kinda bummed if that’s it though. Like it’s a cool addition to the game and fills it some lore if that theory of that video is correct. But as a player it’s kinda a bummer. Open up a new “city” with same loot as the end, and a new “boss” fight that doesn’t drop anything significant.

[@nerd2594]

@@pinkzki6473 maybe, but it's still a new biom(however you spell it,) and a new big ass structure, witch can give items that can completely change Redstone.

[@tetraxis3011]

I think it’s a security system, to isolate the city from dangerous mobs.

[@collectiveleak]

The note block and pressure plate is most likely a chime for someone walking into what was once a store. Theres an icebox for food, so there was more than likely stores, and just if you were to walk into a small business and a little bell gets hit by the door, same thing in minecraft

[@duck8431]

I think that the ancient builders are the ones that made the ancient cities and the ice room is made to store snow balls to distract the warden if they summoned him by accident I think that the ancient builders tried to benifit from the warden by building the city near the warden so he try to kill any thing that makes a noise

[@iank564]

All have too say about the ice rooms is, what do we call boxes/rooms filled with ice and or supper cold? And what do we use them for? (And before electricity people use ice boxes cooled with ice as refrigerator/freezers.)

[@brainwater176]

There's ice in the icebox/root cellar because that's how food used to be refrigerated. Also, elytra is totally unnecessary but useful. The first time I raided an ancient city I just stored my netherite armour and elytra in a chest so I didn't risk losing it. It's easy to avoid the warden if you go slowly, and if you spawn him, you can just pillar up with wool, and then start bridging out while avoiding stepping on the edges of the wool (that makes noise). I only brought eggs, 2 stacks of orange wool, nightvision potions, some food, and an iron hoe to raid my first ancient city. DO NOT drink milk to get rid of the blindness effect if the warden is summoned, he will hear you drinking milk.

[@gamingroomdbxvdbzwithomjay1622]

Nice video 👍👍👍 keep it up 👍

[@Eyecraftmc]

Thank you, I will

[@loctran7275]

Big tips: U may want to build a warden switch (it basically just disable the sculk shrieker), ilmango has already made one, so u can easily running around ancient city without worrying abt warden show up (Well, this may ruin the fun, so it's up to u)

[@riccardocentra9841]

How?

[@loctran7275]

@@riccardocentra9841 check ilmango channel, search for "Warden Switch"

[@gamerp1g]

This really helped me learn a lot thank you! I haven't played MC since they added this and it terrifies me LOL So fun!

[@unwariestthreegames1151]

its a bit late and i dont know if you ever found out, but traditionally icebox rooms were used to store foods, before refrigerators were invented, and they were essentially just a room deep in the earth that had ice in it, so i expect thats why it has ice blocks in it

[@nickjennings8233]

I really hope at some point they make those portal looking things actually functional a 3rd dimension would be great

[@tylersaysno400]

Bro your videos are all amazing, but at first I didn’t want to watch this because I wanted to experience it for the first time myself but holy hell am I glad I watched it 😂 it would’ve been an absolute NIGHTMARE experiencing this without any knowledge 😂

[@pawTheVillain]

i did some testing by switching back and forth between creative and survival in a new world and i found that generally, it’s best to have an already existing escape route into the surface accessible by elytra or maybe even a riptide trident OR to just have a high enough platform to where the warden cannot reach with his ranged attacks and just spam power 5 bow

[@slendersera]

It could be a portal, something like a stargate, so one portal that could go to different places in the universe. And that's where the sculk came from or where the civilization escaped to. Or perhaps the portal could have been used to travel between cities as an overworld teleporter. Less likely, it also could have functioned like a big display. Like a giant TV screen or like a billboard you'd see along a highway.

[@chronicsynergy]

it wasn't built by pillagers, rather the pillagers came and explored it long after it was abandoned, but also before you get there

[@ryanwalsh2455]

One of the best warden/ancient city vids i’ve seen. Gonna make one hell of a sheep farm for that wool.

[@baiatu5169]

My opinions: Wool is stored to "soundproof" the city, making it safer from potential wardens The ice room is a freezer for food, seeing how the loot pool consists of just that

[@esnoryo8113]

Wool saved us from this nightmare

[@VSLeader1]

I rarely sub to anyone, but the effort and content quality you've been putting out is a solid 10/10.

[@DaveOganesyan]

I hadn't known about wool and its tricks until I tried it myself and thought "hm, I wonder if I could insulate the sensors rather than paving everything in wool" and by god it made everything far faster to loot. I have summoned the Wardens so many times even after making most areas safe... but that hardly ever bothered me as I just waddled away between the shreek and the time it takes for the warden to appear. The ancient city is very easy as soon as you understand the quircks and if you're patient. I haven't brought any distraction items so I used my bow inatead, suboptimal but works just fine. The loot in my opinion is of the tier that wouldn't make sense to loot after the ender dragon. I'd say it's more useful before the ender dragon as you'd have full diamons set from the ancient city very quickly. The loot pool of the ancient city sits in a weird place between before the ender dragon and just average, with the most useful being the abundance of enchantment books and health potions. As for the enchanted iron armor... they could've done better considering the stakes can be high.

[@djhartford4549]

Just a warning, there is a bug where all your items instantly despawn upon being killed by the warden.

[@4wful_gh0st_11]

Your voice is so calm and your explanations are all very well done and complete, thank you !

[@Eyecraftmc]

You're very welcome!

[@anachibi]

Can the warden notice you if you box yourself in with wool?

[@fletch2772]

Smell, remember? It can sniff you out

[@wrne7121]

@@fletch2772 bro had to ruin my plot for my survival world in a few words

[@fletch2772]

@@wrne7121 build a tower at least 21 blocks tall, which is the range of it's blast, lure it over, and rain down arrows

[@wrne7121]

@@fletch2772 what if my cousin is being rude and shoots me off with snowballs

[@fletch2772]

@@wrne7121 allow me to direct you to an actual prompt from the game "granny simulator" Ahem Press E to kick that little shit

[@CatLegoDiver]

You are the best! Love all of your videos. No filler, just great content. You should be “KZbinr of the Year” if they had such a thing.

[@joesphkillam2599]

Literally looked at 4 videos and you said exactly what I needed 4 mins in

[@thissnotella]

The fact that my house was literally over a mountain which under it has the ancient city is just wow, I didn't even meant to do that, oh well, I won't have the problem of 'If I die ai lose my stuff'. :D

[@aaxen7255]

Returning to Minecraft after a very long break, I'm raiding my first Ancient City. I brought tons of wool, I'm being super careful, looted a few chests, got rid of a few shriekers and a lot of sensors, everything's going great ... until I got to an area with a whole lot of mobs?! I guess it was on the biome edge and they wandered in? Next thing I know, a creeper pops up on me, blasts me up and onto one of those second-story pathways, where I land on a shrieker ... Managed to escape with no Warden summoning but those moments are why we love Minecraft eh?

[@fieldsfamily6447]

the note blocks are a noise trap

[@Martino-xj6oj]

I think the Ice room is meant to be a freezer. back before fridges were invented, people just basements/cellars filled with ice to keep perishables cool. This is why we find food in these chests. The iron trapdoor also helps keep the cold in, as a wood trap door theoretically is not as airtight.

[@satyampawar7544]

I think opposite this is good that Minecraft doesn't teach most of the important thing in game so it left the player with so much to figure out and make the game more surprising and amazing.

[@jonardthebest]

Pro tip below! My experience: I had triggered the shriekers twice by accident and decided to open a chest. Baddest decision I made, cause the time I opened it I triggered it the third time and realised all I had done. Sadly also had to close the chest which triggered the shriekers AGAIN! Decided to tower up without armor, cause armor is kinda useless in deep dark. Ended up in a cave full of mobs and died. Spawned near my bed which I had placed near the ancient city in which the warden was still walking. No blocks to build up again. Pro tip! Never build up! Just run away. Before exploring place a chest in a place no sensors are around, but is easily accessable. Use this chest as a checkpoint and when full drop it in a chest near your bed you have placed near the ancient city. Also when you accedentily triggered the warden to spawn. Run to the chest and drop all your stuff in it. Then wait your time out safely at your bed till the warden despawns and go to the chest to take your stuff again.

[@Marsupial2]

8:43 I believe the ice room is just meant to signify a freezer hence the food

[@masift1494]

I really really hope the developers do something with that thing in the middle of the city that looks like a portal. Make it so that you have to find an item in the ancient city that activates the portal or something. You have to kill the warden and it drops said item maybe? The portal leads to a whole new dimension that is ENTIRELY sculk and skulk-like blocks, and has other dungeons/structures like the ancient city in it with new mobs. Like a nether 3.0 essentially. Make it very difficult just like the ancient city though so it gives players a good structure/biome to traverse late-game. The potential is insane.

[@mlggamer5296]

I didn't know you could find multiple ancient cities in one mountain? Thats crazy!

[@NeonAmnesia]

I guess I was lucky. Was using an old Woodland explorer map I found last year to find the mansion, it was nowhere to be found. But when I dug straight down where the mansion was supposed to be located, I fell into this city.

[@ellaceleste2929]

I looked up this video because while I was looking for diamonds I found myself in an ancient city. I was wondering if I should go in with my Iron gear I got. :) -I tried, Managed to loot a chest. Warden spawned right after and I died.

[@dooder9612]

"No idea why they are storing ice in this room where they have food, definitely not a fridge room or anything, not like ice in a chest gives off that vibe at all"

[@puttingwarheadsonforeheads9872]

I looked at my most recent save on my survival I started years ago about 2019. It said 3/21/21. Looks like I missed a lot. I needed a change of pace from bf1 mw2 r6 GTAO and a couple others. I made a tree farm with out Redstone. Oddly peaceful.

[@dopecello8670]

I just raided one of these with my brother tonight. Bring elytra, rockets, at least 3 or 4 shulkers, some shears, some totems, and a shulker of night vision potions. Pretty easy to raid with this stuff. Getting away from the warden isn’t that bad

[@MegaChickenfish]

Notably from watching another video as far as blocking their pathing, it does seem like wardens are only 1 block wide, so one block wide corridors won't block them. think keeping out endermen and zombies rather than wide mobs like spiders.

[@r4dical._.kermit411]

Someone probably already said this but maybe the pillagers wanted to collect the wool so they could rail the ancient city

[@ValXB70]

Very informative and useful guide! Thank you :)

[@DJ_Kers]

Pretty sure the ice is there for "historical" context. Hauling ice to fortresses or towns was pretty common (if it was possible) and it was used in storage rooms. That's why the ice is in the food room. Just look at the beginning of frozen

[@mrgingerman]

Or you could do the suicide method or the Ender pearl method. The Suicide/ Ender Pearl Method is for people who haven't been to the End yet, and theyre pretty much the same thing. Basically you go in there, you dont bring any armor or anything of value, only bring IRON tools NO DIAMONDS OR NETHERITE because the likely hood of death is sky high so bring something cheap and easy to replace. Break all the shreikers as fast as you can and when the Warden spawns don't fight it or trap it just accept death, or teleport away. Do it over again until you've eliminated most of the shriekers and sensors. After that you raid. and you can get all that XP back by just mining all the sculk.

[@zertilus]

A really cool item that could be added to minecraft, and be obtained in the dimension that this new portal brings you to, could be like a hover device that lets you fly like in creative mode, that would be really insane, I got the idea from seeing how tall the portal is and I thought that if the ancient beings were ultra powerful they must have had the ability to fly around like creative mode, or whatever. Just a cool idea that would make survival super awesome.

[@dezpappas9201]

I tried looting a few ancient City chests with the mistake of having all my stuff in my inventory. Luckily, at the cost of a few chests I missed (that I will come back for later now that I know a lot of tips), I did not spawn any wardens, even though I didn't even bring any wool. I did however, get VERY CLOSE to spawing one SEVERAL times. Basically meaning I probably got a bunch of sculk shriekers to level 2 before ultimately dipping (which is why I missed a bunch of chests).

[@pinkpapita6345]

Personally, it feels like the ancient cities were built by an ancient (shocker) civilization that for some unforseen reason fled to the end (stronghold) or the nether (ruined portals+nether fortresses) and the villagers and pillagers came long after. Pillagers being the more advanced ones explored the ancient cities, only creating bridges and small outposts as per their needs (most of their structures are always on the outskirts of the city)

[@palamontus1037]

i did it with one bed, 3 sets of arrows and crossbows and some food. thats probably the bare minimum. it could be done with just food and a bed tho. also the ice serves the purpose of conserving food, the food chest would have rotten stuff in it if that room wasnt cold (thats what i believe...)

[@harvestercommander3250]

First time I encountered the Deep Dark, I set off a shrieker and as soon as it went dark, I was like “nope”. Never went back.

[@mlggamer5296]

I actually didn't know that! So you can place wool. And shriekers won't bother you. Okay definitely going to try this in the next ancient city

[@SavageSeven-ed3xd]

The red stone is like going to a science museum without anything to explain how it works.

[@edwintwedt-coulter3564]

The room with ice, is just a fridge. Hense the food. Old school refrigeration, was a block of ice with sawdust. Hense the term "icebox"

[@xavierzlotorowiez316]

judging by reddit i must be lucky.. i found 2 cities until now. i saw 1 big hole reaching deepslate, jumped in, saw sculk, explored, found my first... second, i saw another huge hole, visible deeplsate, visible sculk from surface.. exploration = another city ^^

[@realfridge]

not me yelling at Eyecraft to run for his life when i see the warden emerging 😂

[@treyfolger995]

I raided the ancient city with iron armor after I spawned right next to a cave with a deep dark biome. If your really careful it's so worth it. Even if you do spawn a warden if you run away fast enough your perfectly fine cuz two can't spawn at once and eventually it'll despawn while you loot a different area

[@elfransito8108]

Your vids are so good, love your work and i thank you for learning me things like that

[@jesse4193]

Pro top, bridge over the city. Mine a chest with an axe and tower up to get back to safety.

[@jontaviusdolphinwood]

this helped a lot

[@anonymusnameless743]

the ice rooms are fridges, the chests are fulla food and ice, I don't thin they will add any function to it, It's probably just an esthetics

[@DamienDrake2389]

I guessed that the ice rooms are similar to how people in medieval times would keep things cold by storing ice underground and storing their food with them to preserve their food.

[@pikaandpizza]

HOW TO MAKE IT FUN currently playing with a friend here’s how we approached our 2nd city we found in survival, try to get above a large building, structure etc. bring/make a bed, chest, enchantment table. Leave EVERYTHING except a Diamond Hoe and a small amount of food, set your respawn point when your ready. Go down alone, take 64 torches and RUN WHILE LAYING AS MANY AS POSSIBLE. This makes it 100x more fun with friends. If your able to lay all the torches go back and your friend must do the same. The goal is to NOT DIE, lay ALL THE TORCHES. And DESTORY THE SPAWNERS. The Diamond hoe is good to take for mining the catalyst, skulk, sensors and spawners for EXP quickly. now to the fun part, IF you are to summon a Warden you must damage the warden ONCE and then RUN AND HIDE we call it “WARDEN TAG”. No cheats, no being scared just have fun and run. It’s MUCH faster than the typical crouching all around with all your loot and chancing death. Playing Warden Tag is just fun in general and trust me ITS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, it’s actually fun watching your friends run for there life 😂. All I must say is that hopefully you guys have fun with this if used! Good luck!

[@ianmoseley9910]

I have played a mod pack (cannot remember which). where you could activate the ancient city portal to reach another dimension

[@LostGeburah]

then there is me peacefully navigating toward a stronghold. finding it under a forest of dark woods and suddenly *warden's heart beats*

[@Mr.Samoloth]

The and the ice is just there to teach the mechanics of the warden, the ice spawns along with snow that you can turn into snowballs to bait the warden

[@chaitanyadesai9134]

Trust me you just need 1 hoe , 32 steak and 64 wool blocks and the most important tip is just run whenever warden will you just have to keep sprinting and break the sensors this helped me alot ❤

[@Spwuvx]

Just subbed, thank you!

[@barcoded-babexo]

i’m currently at -52 in my world & i found a little patch of that blue stuff but i can’t find any city! i dug down & it was pretty much instantly bedrock i’m so confused

[@SBCraftmc]

Thanks mate, clearly a perfect tutorial!

[@quiksilver0000]

I'm just observing what you did - Just break all the sensors, let a warden spawn and rocket launch yourself 20 blocks away, wait 60 seconds and come back happily? I got a feeling it's much harder than it looks....

[@xel-lotath]

I run around ancient city’s without a single care. Make tons of noise, after the fourth scream I run fast af away from the shrieker that summoned the warden. I’ve died once out of countless times raiding. I don’t believe it’s truly that hard to explore these areas. First few times I was cautious and took my time but now…desensitized completely. Good luck out there folks.

[@Blaze_Bro]

4:14 Ancient Builders...

[@user-gq6cz4qh5e]

I like this guy, no cringey, loud, shitty intro and outro. Just starting the vid away with his calm voice, You deserve more subs🫶🫶🫶

[@kid_dreamz1148]

My friends & i found one a few days ago . After a while we were just running everywhere trying to loot & outrunnig the warden. We retrived all the loot

[@Adrian00]

same but i lost my full netherite armor with tools and had all the loot on me

[@andreheget]

Thanks! Really helpful. I'm a veteran but I gotta ket to know these.

[@V0idixx]

in bedrock hostile mobs still spawn in the deep dark, had to fight so many to take over the city. It was much harder to collect all the Shriekers with the mobs

[@arghya1543]

Man i was waiting for this one without watching it i know it is going make me more pro :)))

[@aaronclaxton2980]

I think the warden is only potentially dangerous because after raiding ancient cities it was super easy to sneak away from the warden(without swift sneak) and even if you can’t in time you can still use a projectile to distract it. I have gotten away from the warden just fine without elytra and I only think it’s dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing