ANCIENT CITY: Everything To Know - Secret Portals, How To Find, & More!

The Minecraft Ancient City Guide! 💫 DOES THE ANCIENT CITY HAVE A PORTAL? 🤔 This week for the Everything series we are headed deep! In this video we talk about how to find an ancient city, how to open the ancient city centerpiece, the rare blocks that can be found here, the structures that make up the city, and more!

ACTS
0:00 - background and concept art
2:00 - how to find ancient city
3:37 - properties and structures
7:06 - ancient city loot
9:05 - centerpiece puzzle
10:49 - the portal & use

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[sleepless.sprout]

such a comfort channel for me, i always come back to the survival series when i'm struggling and your videos are number one priority in my notif box!! thank you for your humor, positivity, and consistency 💕 love the high quality content and personality!! keep it up 😊

[bonkbonkbonkbonkbonk]

given how elaborate the ancient cities are, i really really hope they go above and beyond again for design if they ever redo nether fortresses and strongholds

[ViperPL]

Also interesting thing I just realised:
Remember how we were super confused when soul lanterns came out in 1.16 and were weaker than normal ones?

I think that was already a setup for the Ancient City.

[onyxpeacock]

I hope they add a new dimension, like if anyone has seen the extra end biomes mod where the trees of different biomes, the plants, creatures, and water are all different and glow that'd be so cool

[Punmaster]

From what I understand, there are no plans for a new realm to visit in minecraft. So if you follow the context clues that Game Theorist did, one might conclude that the ancient city is in ruins because of the skulk taking over and the Warden killing and/or scaring the city inhabitants away. And that the big monument is in fact a portal to the realm the skulk came from, but it's so dangerous that any means to open that portal have long since been lost or destroyed to prevent anyone from going back, or more so, keeping anymore skulk from coming through.

And the skulk itself is a living organism that works like a hivemind, I'll point to Stranger Things and the tentacles and Mindflayer as a loose example. It consumed most of the city and surrounding areas which is why things don't spawn there. And so when a player enters and sets off the shriekers enough times, the skulk is able to create the Warden to defend itself from harm. This is a lot tamer than some of the more popular mods like the taint from thaumcraft.

I personally would love to see them implement that mysterious realm the skulk came from, actually get confirmation on the game's lore and what is and isn't happening in the narrative, and see if what Game Theorist said is true or close to the truth

[JasperPino]

I think it Will probably lead to a small pocket dimension to fight a new boss

[goldenkurlz]

I'm in the process of looking for my first ancient city! What timing! What grace! As always thanks wattles. Your videos never disappoint.

[CrispyChicken]

I'm really impressed with the editing when you described the different deepslate blocks.

[saratormenta]

Okay so hear me out.
I don't think that portal will lead to a sculk dimension that the sculk came from or anything.
I think it's the other way around: sculk was always in the overworld, that's why it's everywhere down below. The outsiders are actually an intelligent civilization (perhaps dwarvelike, based on the architecture). They found out how to make portals and reached the overworld, but appeared in the deeps. They discovered a new mineral: redstone! It seemed to do magic things, so they started investigating how it behaved and what it could be useful for. However the new world they found had a problem: sculk. The dark blue-green thing seemed funny at first, with its tentacles and sensors. However, they found out the hard way that it was not friendly, soon after the screaming started. Wjen the sculk started taking over their new-built city, the few citizens that survived had to fall back through the portal, shut it down, and hope the sculk hadn't already followed them there.

[ViperPL]

Crazy you uploaded this vid today Wattles, I just finished looting my first Ancient City in my Hardcore world

[deadmeneatoatmeal]

One of the best episodes so far. Great content and Quality. 👌

[JohnFiala]

I would love a guide on how to explore and get the most out of an ancient city.

[jcfrvnx]

I just quit my world in an ancient city with lots of questions and here's the just uploaded video in my recommendations

[therisensun]

Some truly excellent editing here Wattles, you really hit it out of the ballpark!

[oimateusaqui]

If you wanna a good seed, I recommend 22062004, there's an ancient city under the world spawn! (At least on bedrock)

[idjer]

Hey Wattles can you talk about "Block Entities" Next Episode

[jackirish]

In 1.20 I think Echo shards will get more uses in my opinion

[owenabbott]

I watched a game theory video and in that video Matt Patt proposed the idea that the centre structure WAS a portal but only for lore purposes

[spaghettiinadictionary]

Holy cow. been trying to find one a these for days and found one as your video ended! Thank you for the good luck you gave me, ya heckin' wizard!

[anaisrodriguez]

deepslate editing was awesome!!! keep it up wattles