Ancient Structures

🏛️ 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:

• Dawn of Time
• Armor of the Ages
• Fusion
• YetAnotherConfig (YACL)

Other cultural datapacks

The Ancient Structures experience can be extended via the datapacks of the Dawn of Time team. These datapacks are focused on a single culture to allow you to discover even more about architecture. Adventure awaits you!

Project Status & Feedback

The mod is very recent, and feedback from players is extremely valuable to help refine structure generation, gameplay balance, and visual consistency.

To share suggestions, ideas, or report issues, feel free to fill out this feedback sheet:
📄 Google Sheet – Structure Review & Feedback

Future Plans

In future updates, additional datapacks will be released to expand the number of buildings per civilization.
A video tutorial will also be made to help players create and share their own Ancient Structures packs using Dawn of Time as a foundation.

Our mods

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