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The reason why we know it’s a portal is because in the the game files the smaller version of it is called small portal statue. Btw great build.

11:41 the panda reaching in awe towards the completed city pretty much surmises my vibe having watched the completed project. Absolute mad lad builder right here

I agree with the thought of Skulk coming from another dimension. I think that an ancient race of builders built this city underground to escape a catastrophe on the surface, perhaps the Wither, and they sought to flee to another world. When the portal only briefly opened, the skulk and warden came through, forcing them to abandoned their city and flee again, this time to the End. This theory is not mine, but is one I am very sold on.

this unsorted guy is good at building

That house structure that you said you didn't know what it was, I restored as a blacksmith's home, with the bottomed floor having the smithing equipment and the second floor being the living space. I also encased it in glass, because who knows how much glass was destroyed with the city sitting uninhabited for so long? PS: It looks great!

Now imagine, with a future update years later the portal/statue in the middle leads to a new dimension filled with "not corrupted" skulk blocks and lots of Redstone structures and whatnot

I wish they would more structures like this on the surface. It would make the game that much more enjoyable in my opinion

the Ancient city has aalways given me aztek vibes, so seeing it built in a jungle like this was absoluletly amazing!

Can you please build UG City next? PLEASE

The ancient city, located around a mountain range that provided protection, was ruled by a benevolent king. He allowed strangers from an outside village from far away to build a portal that they believed would teleport them to a demension that they could explore and discover wondrous things. Little did they know that the dimension unleashed the skulk and a dangerous being called "The Warden" into their world. They thought that by destroying the portal, The Warden would be destroyed. But it only banished the central hub of their city underground. The ones who escaped the city's fate, abandoned the mountain range and splintered off into many smaller villages in different biomes all around the minecraft realm.

Absolutely stunning renovation, Kim. Going to be rewatching this one quite a few times to draw some inspiration for a few different builds. Thanks for the excellent work.

imagine just traveling in your survival world trying to find a village and you just see a ancient city above ground

Really awesome build! I want to know more about that panda lore though…

I really dig the Mayan-esque inspiration in your design! Well done my dude.

Love you for using Behold a Pale Horse (Reconciled) from Halo 3 for the reveal. Such an epic piece.

The reveal at the end with the sound effects gave me chills

This looks AWESOME at first I thought: meh I don’t really like the mud bricks with the stone but then it turned out AMAZING

Loving the color palette here--lots of gray stones, but with the warm accents of the mud bricks and the wood and the greenery.

From some videos i"ve watched actually, this is the one i prefer because you build it as an archeologist point of view, not just a creative thing, you brighten the stone as it could be from the past but not changing anything from what a buid could be.

Man all of your builds are just insane like fr. Btw which shaders and resource packs do you use? It really enhances the video alot.

I know I'm a bit late on the train, but here is my theory about the Ancient City. When it was first announced, I had this headcanon, that the Minecraft surface world was unhabitable in ancient times. Probably with a dark sky so mobs could spawn every time. The ruined Nether portals and the Fallen Kingdom series of CaptainSparklez also gave me the idea, that there possible was a HUGE piglin vs humans war in the overworld, that probably left the surface in ruins. So the humans fled into the underground and build the Ancient Cities. Instead iron golems, they had wardens, that protected them from the cave mobs. Since there are many mobs in caves, the wardens killed lots of them and accumulated a large amount of energy from the XP. People started experiencing with portals. They knew the Nether existed and searched for a new dimension, where they could possibly start a new life outside the underground. I don't know why they choose to build the portal in the middle of their city. Maybe for easy access. And the first and only dimension they manage to find, was the sculk dimension. The second they managed to open the portal, all the XP from the killed mobs exploded into sculk, causing it to spread over the city and through the caves. The wardens got corrupted, destroying everything in their path and causing the downfall of the Ancient Cities. Surviving Humans fled their home, never looking back. They reached the surface and saw, it had become a peaceful place, where they could restart over under the sunlight.

Awesome build UG! The blocks you used were perfect.

youve outdone yourself yet again kimmmm ✨ great build

this Ancient City looks really amazing Kim Bravo Man Keep Up on your Work Kim

I loved your use of stones! Very nicely done, Kim. Looking forward to the next one.

I love this, I hope to make large structures like this some day - so far I have only made small sporadic villages for myself

Love the lore you build into these builds!

Damn amazing! I could only fathom how to be this creative a builder!

my personal idea for the lore of the ancient cities, is that the reason the portals existed was not to go to another dimension, but to travel between cities, it would explain why every city has a portal. but i think that there was an experiment done, perhaps trying to create a new dimension or maybe trying to travel to a new dimension, but it went wrong and the skulk corrupted the city, then traveled through the portal to the other cities, thus destroying them all, from there it feeds into the normal minecraft theory about how the strongholds were made and the enderman, and the end cities, so on and so forth.

This is amazing! I watched your other video last week and started to fix up an ancient city. Mine does have a spa and a mine going through it which I believe both are rare. Its a small mine so im getting rid of it though. Restoring this ancient city is taking agesssss but im enjoying it. Im trying to get the buildings as close to what they were as I can.

The general aesthetic of this city reminds me of Shadow of the Colossus. I hope that someday someone will try and build Dormin's temple, it would be awesome.

Pls send a world download for this! This is way too stunning. Honestly you should send this to the marketplace

I have a theory for the ancient city: the people who built it managed to create a portal to the skulk dimension and used skulk for their own purposes. However in the labs underneath the portal, the skulk went out of control, spreading and summoning wardens!

I'm actually in love with the whole Maya aesthetic you chose, it looks SO GOOD!!!

this was amazing! one of my theories is that the ancient builders all over the world faced a sickness/plague that turned them undead so they escaped to another realm but one person from each city had to stay behind as a sacrifice to disable the portal so no mobs can get through to the other side hence the warden the one person who stayed behind attacking anything that lives. then after sometime there was a massive sinkhole or the minecraft poles shifted or tectonic plates shifted causing the city to collapse underground. where anything sculk is and consumed the last person alive. Sculk is the alive version of soul sand.

This looks simply amazing! I love the vibes of it :)

I've just found the city a week ago, and i just watched this today, and heard him say the spa was rare, so i went looking for it in my city, and I found it!

I was WAITING FOR THISSS

Amazing vid; funny, well edited, spectacular builds and your plugs weren't shameful in the slightest creatively segued.

The foley sounds at the end really make the showcase,good job!🎉

This turned out amazing!!

This is the first video I've ever seen from you. Well done, you have a wild talent an an amazing personality with a good sense of humor. Cheers mate

in the last video, I commented that the portal looked like a warden's head. to clarify I meant that it was a portal,just shaped like a Warden's head

They should add "Ancient Ruins" to Jungle biomes! They could be similar to ancient cities but above ground and maybe add unique enemy types that dwell there.

Using Halo music for the grand reveal. Perfection. 👌🏼

This seems to be a Greek/Mayan themed city. All in all, shockingly beautiful and adore it. Mad respect.

im crying i love this build so much. its glorious!!!

The sound ambiance was amazing work

omg i love this and you had my brain going off on some kinda mythology like that they took a vow of silence in order to be like the peace full warden and this influenced the occupation they did focusing on quiet time reading / gardening / and being one with nature they also had this thing where when someone spoke they where shuned and most people would refer to them as "shouted" and if you where banished that was called "being yelled out" but all of this was written never spoken less you be yelled out into the loud world

great build!

Loved the Halo music at the end. :)

*Me enjoying a minecraft video* 11:00 *Me holding onto my couch for dear life trying not to get blown away lol* Perfect song choice 👌

this should be added in minecraft fr, very nice work! :)

Plot twist, this is the true restoration video and the ancient cities used to be above ground but slowly sunk below ground over the thousands of years.

So good man. Keep it up.

Looks incredible, great work… keep it up

The warden is a trapped and transformed human and he wants you to help him, but if you don't listen he will destroy you!

This turned out beautifully! :)

5:00 I 100% agree that it’s a portal but I don’t think that the sculk is there because of it but rather the other way around. Some deep dark biomes that are so small that they don’t have ancient cities. so to me it seems like they made cities in a few deep dark biomes but then something happened involving the portal, a bunch of people died, and a bunch of sculk spread throughout the caverns that housed the ancient cities

11:01 i love the Halo music :D

your videos are amazing and I really enjoyed your Jurassic park video I love Jurassic park

got chills from this, absolutely amazing

I love the what if concept ! but now that you went into that path, you have to make the 2 other possibilities which are what if the ancient city was made in the nether and what if it was built in the end !

Damn. This is an epic project, good job!!

The city showcase was awesome 😍😍

This is actually really cool. This makes me think that it would be super cool if the over world had naturally spawning "cities" for villagers. Or mega villages. Idk, some large civilization

i love what youve done with the ancient city, these videos are interesting to watch

Wow, it looks so Cool :O

the result is soo beautiful!!

Wow, this is some amazing work!

Wow amazing!! I gotta tour this city myself

Wow dude, you did a lot of hard work!

This guy is like a perfect mix of hacker and God

Entrance Walls.... Gates, those are gates. Anyhow, not much into Minecraft, but this ancient city intrigues me. And I like What-If-Scenarious. So, you got me there.

Liked your video of restoring it. I wanted to try as well but on survival I tried and failed So now I'm clearing it all out lol😅 so much cobbled deepslate

I agree with you on the middle statue, just look at the disc "otherside" (of the portal)

I wish my computer could handle these downloads!!!! This is soooooo cool

Niiiiiice music choice for the showcase

That ancient city is beautiful

Wow it looks rlly good :0

Hey great Build, keep up the great work. I was wondering what shaders and settings/mods you are using to create this look? I really like those aesthetics

Wow, this is so beautiful.. i want to live some days in this city, this should be cool

wow you did it so 👏😍good.

Absolutely gorgeous!!

Nice work my man

It is that seriously you send yourself doing those constructions brother, I love how you work seriously :D

Absolutely amazing build... wow

This is super cool

The thumbnail made me subscribe!!!

5:30 Check out game theory if you want to hear the origin story of the ancient builders who originally built the city.

Absolutely stunning, this is so well done, amazing work, 10/10. ♥

Possible one of the best intro’s I ever seen, if not the best.

Thats is marvelous

“Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two words.” -Ancient City- -Asient City- Unsorted guy: “They are the same words”

This is absolutely stunning

MY GUY! i watched and remodeled my own ancient city underneath because of your prev video but always wanted it to be above ground. downloaded you world and converted it onto my realm THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! So good i deleted my other realm with it underneath

Woah! Nice

I like to imagine that the centrepiece portal is a portal to a sculk world, but sculk is like the equivalent of a really annoying fungus, and everything else in the alternate world is 1000x deadlier than the sculk itself

11:02 This is how you know this guy still loves Halo ;)