Welcome to Ancients
Ancients is a Minecraft prison server set in the Greek underworld. You start as a prisoner of Tartarus with nothing but a wooden pickaxe and climb from there: mine ore, enchant your gear, prestige, and fight your way up through the underworld.
The current map is Map IV: Asphodel, which opened on 2 October 2026.
How to join
Open Minecraft Java Edition (the server runs version 1.21.11) and add a server with the address play.ancients.gg. You land in the hub first. Right-click the compass in your hotbar to open the server selector and step into Tartarus. Return to the hub any time with /hub.
Where you play
| Area | What it is | How to get there |
|---|---|---|
| Tartarus | The prison core: spawn, the mines, shops and your day-to-day grind. | /spawn, /warp |
| Forgotten Polis | Private PvE runs where you hunt shades and wraiths at an area level you pick. | /polis (opens at Fund Tier I) |
| The Sacred Way | A PvP road for Prestige II, level 102 players, and the only source of uber keys. | /warp sacred |
The Polis unlocks once the community reaches Fund Tier I. Contribute through the Community Fund with /fund. A Polis run is private to you: no PvP, and you keep your inventory and XP on death.
What's new in Map IV
- The Sacred Way: a long PvP road south, paid in Ichor, with Avatars of the four uber bosses raised at its shrine.
- The Lower Pit: the sealed centre of the Erebus Pit, with the Confluence jewel altar and Erebus, the Unlit.
- Pets that follow you, earn XP and level to 100.
- The Hunter Tree: Hunter XP and a 132-node passive tree in
/hunter. - Talos, the construct that runs boss fights for you, rebuilt around one upgrade level.
- Excavation finds you brush out of the rock while mining.
- Debris Field and three other new pickaxe prestige perks built around meteorites.
- A new tutorial, rebuilt quests with a contract board, and a Halloween spawn town. See Your First Steps.
Useful commands
A quick crib for getting around: /warp, /spawn, /hub, /polis, /rules, /discord, /link, /vote, /bugreport, and /help, which opens this wiki in your browser. The full list is on Useful Commands.
Start here
Before heading into danger, read Death & Item Loss. What you keep changes between the prison, the Polis, the Pit, the Sacred Way and events.
New to the underworld? Your First Steps covers the tutorial and your first levels. Then read up on Voting, Discord Linking and Rules & Support.
Version history
v4.0.0 (Map 4)
- Map IV, Asphodel, opened. New areas: the Sacred Way (
/warp sacred) and the lower Erebus Pit. - The Forgotten Polis is now private runs with area levels, entered with
/polis.
v3.0.0
- The Ancient Roads have been removed. The Forgotten Polis is now the only alignment zone, so Tartarus and the Polis are the two areas you move between.
v2.0.0
- The Forgotten Polis and the Ancient Roads now both open at Fund Tier I, the Ancient Roads no longer need Hunter Rank III to enter.
/helpnow opens the Ancients wiki (wiki.ancients.gg) with a clickable link, replacing the old in-game tutorial menu.