Better Ancient Cities makes Minecraft's Ancient Cities reusable on a multiplayer server: every player gets their own chest loot, the loot comes back on a timer, and the city is protected from griefing. It finds every Ancient City in your world by itself, with no setup per city.
- Automatic discovery. Cities are found as players explore near them, using Minecraft's own structure data. No WorldEdit, no commands per city.
- Per-player chests. Every player gets their own copy of each city chest, so the second player to arrive still finds full chests.
- Loot refresh. Each city refills on its own timer, starting when someone first loots it, so cities never all refresh at once.
- Protection. The city's buildings can't be broken, built on, flooded, burned, pushed by pistons or blown up. The rock between the buildings can still be mined.
- Snapshots. Save a city's blocks and put them back later, undoing griefing and sculk spread.
- Player data. Chests looted, time spent, deaths and blocked griefing, per player and per city. See exactly what a player took from each chest.
- Loot bans. Stop one player looting one city. They can still walk through it.
- Staff menu.
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- Minecraft 1.21.1+. Use the
-mc26build for Minecraft 26.0 to 26.2, or the-mc263build for 26.3. - Paper, Folia, or Purpur.
- Java 21+ (Minecraft 26.x servers run on Java 25).
Better Ancient Cities works on its own. It does not need any other plugin.
installation.md - Install the jar and start the server.
quick-start.md - Find your first city and switch it on.
how-it-works.md - What the plugin does behind the scenes.
config.yml.md - Every setting explained.
troubleshooting.md - Known issues and their fixes.
- GitHub Issues - bug reports, feature requests
- Discord - community support, announcements
Source-available, free to use, no redistribution (see LICENSE).
