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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!

Fabric
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Fabric
Downloads on Modrinth
9.3K
Followers on Modrinth
22
versions
28
Updated
July 12, 2026Jul 12
Published
in 2023
Structure Base 1 — Lever and Statues required to activate End Portal · swipe

At a glance

Runs on Fabric
For Minecraft 1.21.5–1.21.6, 1.21.10–26.1.2 …
Needed in the game and on the server
Latest version — 1.0.37-26.1.X from July 12, 2026
License MIT — free
Where it's needed
In gamerequiredOn serverrequired

Needed both in the game and on the server

Game versions1.21.1, 1.21.5–1.21.6, 1.21.10–26.1.2 …

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 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 - 26.1.2!!!

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)

FAQ

How to install Ancient Artifacts?

Install Fabric for your Minecraft version, download Ancient Artifacts for the same version and loader, put the file into the mods folder and launch the game with the loader profile.

Which Minecraft versions does Ancient Artifacts support?

Ancient Artifacts has builds for Minecraft 1.20.4, 1.21.1, 1.21.5–1.21.6, 1.21.10–26.1.2 ….

Is Ancient Artifacts needed on the server?

Needed in the game and on the server

License and source
MIT Licensefree to use and share with credit to the author
Original — Modrinth↗Files unchanged, verified with SHA-512Is this your mod? For rights holders

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