Minecraft Should Expand Jungle Temples and Desert Pyramids Into Mini-Dungeons

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Minecraft's impending Wild Update comes with a lot of strong new features, including the fearsome Warden mob and new blocks that'll make swamps for more interesting to explore. Minecraft fans who love to explore the overworld in Survival will be particularly interested in the Deep Dark biome's ancient cities, cryptic underground structures overrun with sculk that hide rare loot. Even though Minecraft is largely designed to emphasize the player's creative choices, the game's adventure aspects can't be underestimated. The ancient cities showcase the value in providing Minecraft players with dungeon-like structures that include rare items and thematic enemies found in few other places.

That's why Mojang should consider revisiting the desert pyramids and jungle temples in a future Minecraft update. Both of these structures have been in Minecraft for years, serving as charming details to some of the game's less hospitable biomes, as well as sources of some hard-to-find plunder. However, as Minecraft has expanded and added more elaborate objectives for its players, these places feel increasingly trivial. Since Mojang is already refreshing so many familiar parts of the game lately, it might as well consider upgrading Minecraft's desert pyramids and jungle temples. These landmarks deserve to feature bigger risks and rewards alike.

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Desert pyramids and jungle temples have interesting designs in terms of architecture, but in terms of adventure, they're very limited. Each of them only has a couple rooms and a single trap that separates the player from some treasure. Because of this, these classic Minecraft locales generally only take a minute or two to explore, meaning they're