Minecraft: How To Find And Open The Ancient City's Secret Redstone Door
Minecraft's Deep Dark biome and the Ancient Cities it contains are home to numerous rare and valuable treasures. Exclusive enchantments and music discs, along with the helpful recovery compass, can all be found within the walls of the mysterious underground settlements.
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Ancient Cities also play host to a more curious secret, however. Buried beneath the portal-like structure in the centre of the city, locked away behind a secret door, is a hidden room filled with redstone contraptions, aiming to demonstrate technical mechanics to players. If you'd like to find and explore this secret room for yourself, here's everything you need to know.
Ancient Cities are sprawling underground structures that generate very rarely in the Deep Dark biome. The exact layout of an Ancient City is randomly generated, so you'll see different structures making up each one, but every Ancient City generates with a large portal structure in the centre.
This portal is large, rectangular, and made out of reinforced deepslate. In front of the portal is an area that resembles an altar, laden with candles, that has a large staircase leading up to it.Two walls surround the portal area, with a trench-like channel between them, and tunnels and walkways run from the edges of the city to the portal area in the four cardinal directions.
It's important to understand how the Ancient Cities are laid out, as this information is key to locating the secret redstone room. This room is hidden directly under the structure on which the portal sits, and is divided into several smaller rooms, each one containing a build that aims to teach the player about redstone.
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