Ancient Realms for Minecraft

Review Ancient Realms

Ancient Realms

A mod that adds three absolutely new dimensions to the world of Minecraft. You’ve never seen any of them before, let alone seeing them in the real world, because these dimensions are absolutely fantastic, with their own, quite harmonious near-magical lore, monsters, and dungeons. It’s rather fun exploring them, because the local ecosphere madness – is what sets the mod apart from other new dimensions.

Attention! The mod doesn’t have a guidelines book, so we recommend installing the JEI extension for more convenient crafting.

Candy Dimension

Before traveling to the Candy Dimension, get ready for the pink attack on your eyes. Everything in this dimension is pink, shiny, caramel-acidic, and looks like the most favorite children’s sweets. Chocolate replaces earth, candy stones replace real ones, various marshmallows, marmalades, and other candy wonders replace trees. Besides, you can taste most of the plants in this biome.

However, despite looking sweet, the Dimension still remains fully functional. There are deposits of new ores underground, you can use blocks from the surface for construction and decoration or cut plants for wood.

You can feel confused when you see local mobs for the first time – they are so markedly friendly. It’s even a bit scary when our familiar Creeper or zombie wears a smiling mask, while attacking the player with an axe or just exploding with equal fun and with a smile on the mask. At the same time, not all of the mobs existing in the dimension are aggressive. For example, the Gingerbread Men or Walking Marshmallows aren’t interested in the player at all; even if you attack them, they’ll run away without fighting you back.

In the dimension you’ll also find a few dungeons. First, these are small structures scattered around the world, with spawners and little loot sometimes. Second, these are castles – large and relatively safe, but with plenty of loot inside. And third, these are large bastions similar to the bastions of the Nether, where no one will ever welcome an adventitious traveler. There’s enough loot there as well, but you should be extremely careful, because there are a lot of mobs there, and they all are extremely aggressive.

Air Dimension

The air dimension – is a place that you shouldn’t visit without preparing strong Elytras and a large supply of fireworks in advance. Yes, this is a fully island dimension similar to the End. However, unlike the End, there are simply no portals that can carry players from one large island to another.

Local mobs won’t be friendly to strangers either. All local mobs. Even peacefully looking Clauds will still attack you. And with over 50 hearts of the local mobs’ health level in mind, this dimension can really become challenging for an unprepared player.

When traveling around the islands, you can search for ores, collect construction blocks, as well as explore dungeons. There aren’t many of them here – just two of them, apart from structures with spawners of abnormally huge spiders. The only difference between a small fortress and a large fortress is size, even the main boss – a magician Claude – is the same. However, he guards quite a lot of valuable loot and local currency, if you suddenly feel like collecting it.

Abandoned Dimension

The darkest, even creepy dimension added by the mod. In this dark, frightening world, everything is bad – both darkness, and lava lakes, and mobs trying to kill the player at every turn. The mod creators have really succeeded in conveying the atmosphere of a destroyed, dead world, where you don’t really want to travel, even when searching for valuable loot – by the rules of the genre, it is in this world that the most valuable resources, loot, and other useful items are.

Local mobs – are the creatures that always want to kill you without even hiding their goals. Rare monsters have 50 hp only; most of the enemies are much stronger and deadlier. There aren’t peaceful ones here; this Dimension is about utmost survival in a totally dead world.

Dungeons are a difficult topic here. There are some, but they are just as frightening and gloomy as everything else. As for loot, you won’t be able to become rich, because most of the local dungeons are ruins and statues of a bygone civilization, and judging by the debris remained, it has gone in an extremely terrible way, probably, because of Black Magic.

Ores and blocks

Since the mod adds as many as three totally different dimensions, the number of new construction blocks just goes through the roof. These are stones, wood, and a variety of plants, ranging from the ones that are eager to kill you to a delicious dinner. If you want, you can choose the bright and cheerful one , otherwise – immerse in the atmosphere of horror.

There are quite a lot of ores as well – they are peculiar for every dimension, so you’ll have to do plenty of digging to find them all.

In addition to the ores, there’s an alloy system in the game as well. You can use these alloys to obtain tough ingots to craft top-class armor and weapons.

Armor and weapon

Totally, the mod adds 10 types of armor. The weakest of them – the Polonium chainmail – has similar characteristics to the vanilla’s Netherite. The strongest – the Sugar and Kilinium Armors – have the following features:

· Helmet +8 to armor, +2 to armor toughness

· Breastplate +20 to armor, +2 to armor toughness

· Greave +18 to armor, +2 to armor toughness

· Boots +8 to armor, +2 to armor toughness

Weapons are represented by a large number of swords, bombs, and spears in the mod. You can use all the obtained ores and alloys to craft a standard set of weapons: a sword, a knife, a mace, an axe, a spear, a crossbow, or a bomb. The characteristics of the resulting weapon directly depend on the value of the ore or alloy: for example, a golden sword will inflict only 5.2 points of damage, but a Razium sword features as many as 20.2 points of damage. In addition to a set of weapons crafted of ores, the mod also offers firearms and artifact blades, which you can find in dungeons or kick out of bosses.

Besides, you can also use ores and alloys to craft a set of tools. And you really should take advantage of this opportunity, because you can’t dig many ores from the mod even with a Netherite pickaxe, but they are easily mined with the most primitive Polonium pickaxe.

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