Add more ancient city goals (filtered)

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StarFaint30 messagesstarted Aug 9, 2026, 1:57 PM

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StarFaintOP2 months ago(edited)

Ancient cities are large, dangerous, contain lots of loot. They need more goals (& love). I suggest:
1 - Obtain recovery compass
2 - Eat an enchanted golden apple (Only if the ancient city has one)
3 - Stand on reinforced deepslate (The portal-frame-like blocks in the center)
4 - Mine reinforced deepslate (Harder version of #3?)

Reasoning:
1 - The recovery compass is the icon of DraftOut. There HAS to be a goal for it.
2 - A little RNG won't hurt, It's nearly 1/10 per chest so not that bad.
3 - Racing to the center of the city while avoiding the warden would be fun ^-^
4 - Like some death goals, you need to commit some time (82.5s) without having many overlap options. I'd choose an appropriate time to start mining & cook some food/ore.

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maskers2 months ago

goals telling you there's an ancient city feels weird

maskers2 months ago

ig other goals already do it so maybe 1,3,4 are fine but for 2 imo it's not obvious ancient city is the intended route for it so itd be a weird indicator

maskers2 months ago

though other goals do it for biomes with a pretty large radius, which is surely too big for an ancient city? would it be smaller specifically for these few goals? also feels kinda weird

Vapcr2 months ago

I feel like cities already offer a unique line on a lot of things, for example netherless lamp, all torches, and soul lantern. Not to mention amethyst for spyglass, horse armor, exp bottle... the list goes on really. The issue is just the consistency of finding the city. It's not as obvious as trial chamber, so goals that mandate locating it will feel awful and get thrown in the "avoid like the plague" bucket with enter end

StarFaintOP2 months ago

They usually appear under mountains? I mentioned that these goals check for cities within a radius.

Threadfinn2 months ago

I think it's pretty consistent to find if you use preemptive/mapless

Vapcr2 months ago

Imma need a demonstration of how to do that then lol

StarFaintOP2 months ago(edited)

I meant more goals that require an ancient city.

StarFaintOP2 months ago(edited)

For #2: ancient cities are the easiest way.

maskers2 months ago

last i tried i could preemptive the ancient city only after digging down past y=0 but idr if it was 26.1.1

maskers2 months ago

i wouldn't like goals that require going back to spawn, i feel like this would often mean dying and digging down on a mountain with stone picks for a while

Lightning2 months ago(edited)

maybe this would be good if the seed type is an abandoned camp with ancient city map

blanket addict2 months ago

hard disagree death reset to spawn strats are aura

blanket addict2 months ago

I agree that goals which force ancient city would be bad though, it's a weird amount of info to give the player and it's awkward trying to access one, I think it'd be super linear in a similar way to how the end goals were

blanket addict2 months ago

probably not as bad as the end goals if it's consistent to find the ancient city, but then knowing that there is an ancient city becomes weirdly impactful and that feels really forced to me which I don't like

Pythoria2 months ago

God apples are so annoying to get I travelled like 30k blocks and couldn't find one on some bingo server

Lexingtonius2 months ago

huge fan of 1, should for sure be a goal aga

Lexingtonius2 months ago(edited)

not so convinced by 2, 3, 4, especially 2 and 4 - 2 specifically has been discussed a lot before, and i agree with the sentiment that it's just far too rng and bs to lose a game to

Threadfinn2 months ago

I do agree recovery compass seems like a good goal because it's the logo, but you need 13 chests on average to get enough shards, and it's definitely not every city has enough

Lexingtonius2 months ago

did not realise they were so rare

Lexingtonius2 months ago

maybe not then

Lexingtonius2 months ago

13 ancient city chests feels very unreasonable

Threadfinn2 months ago

I don't know why mojang made it so hard to get an item that only really helps beginners

Lexingtonius2 months ago

like thats hardish even with an elytra tbh

Lightning2 months ago(edited)

i mean if this is gonna be a goal you could just change the stack size or make the odds better

edit: im not saying that should be done, more so that shards being rare doesnt mean it cant be a goal

pinkpuff2 months ago

'Obtain echo shard' ?

Lexingtonius2 months ago

yeah makes way more sense

Lexingtonius2 months ago

but its not as cool as draftout logo goal agar