
Ancient Artifacts
My solution to the controversial Combat Update ft Elytra and easy endgame. Getting to the End of Minecraft feels like an early game achievement, lets change that!
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About this Mod
Ancient Artifacts
This is the Ancient Artifacts Mod Page. To find out more about how the mod works, where to find/craft all of the Blocks/Items in the world, their functionality and purpose, as well as a ton of other useful information and steps, please visit the wiki page.
Here is the new (1.21.1+) Forge Version
Description
This is an exploration and adventure mod that requires the player to seek out lost and forgotten treasures called Ancient Artifacts. These artifacts can be found all around the world and are required in order to ever seek the End again and fly with Elytra. A lot of people in the community have talked about how finding the End portal, beating the Ender dragon, and obtaining elyrta can be not challenging enough for most players and makes many means of travel such as minecarts and horses obsolete. Elytra is a great tool; however, it allows players to simply rely on a gunpowder farm and mending to fly many blocks per second.
There is also a new update for Minecraft coming out (if you have been living under a rock) called 1.20 Tales and Trails. One of the features it's adding is armor trims and smithing templates. From what Mojang has said, the smithing templates can be found in various places around the world like underwater ruins and piglin bastions. So, I took inspiration from that idea and decided what if player had to explore places like the ancient city and woodland mansion before beating the Ender Dragon and obtaining Elytra, especially if playing a hardcore world. So, this mod will add ~25 new items to the game and use rare existing items like the echo shard and nether star to be collected together, crafted, brewed, and placed together to form a monument of sorts.
This monument configured using all of the custom items/blocks added to the game, placed and used in the right way will allow for the eyes of ender to be placed in the End Portal frame. There are plans in the future to flesh these items out more, give them more functionality, and more ways to find in the world, but for now version 1 achieves the mods goal.
What it Adds (High Level)
- Several new blocks and items including a magic staff
- Additions of these new items to loot tables in the world
- Disabled End Portal by default, find all items to re-enable it
Compatibility
This mod currently works for Minecraft Fabric 1.19.2 - 1.21.1!!!
Support
If you have any questions, suggestions, or issues, put them on the issues page or reach out to me from my Discord Server!
Credits
EA6LE WIN6S (Brandon)
Available Versions
How to Install Ancient Artifacts on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Ancient Artifacts". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.1, 1.20.4, 1.20.2 (+5 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Ancient Artifacts server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Ancient Artifacts compatible with fabric?
Ancient Artifacts officially supports fabric for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.20.4, 1.20.2. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Ancient Artifacts – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Ancient Artifacts consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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