Dungeons:Ancient Hunt

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Ancient Hunt is the first other dimensions mission in Minecraft Dungeons. It is unlocked after completing any mission on Default V or higher, and collecting gold within Ancient Hunt unlocks the piglin merchant.

Ancient Hunt is a sequence of three sub-missions connected by two nether portals. It can be accessed by clicking on a nether portal found within Nether Room, a sub dungeon within Camp, as well as from the other dimensions tab on the mission select map. Ancient Hunt is the only mission in the game where gold can be obtained from mobs and chests. The ordinary mobs found within Ancient Hunt are more varied than in other locations, and never drop equipment when defeated.

There are always three sub-missions within Ancient Hunt, and the specific sub-missions that generate are random with no duplication. The three sub-missions can contain hunt doors, which lead to Gold Room or one of the various ancient dungeons. Gold Room contains piglin chests, which reward the hero with gold. Ancient dungeons contain ancients, a type of powerful mob which drops gilded gear upon being defeated.

Starting Ancient Hunt requires sacrificing equipment, and optionally up to nine enchantment points which increase the spawn rate of ancient dungeons, and in turn decrease the spawn rate of Gold Rooms. The different types of melee weapons, ranged weapons, armor, and artifacts have different runes associated with them: 👁 DungeonsMiscellaneousSprite A.png: Sprite image for A in Minecraft
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Specific rune combinations are required to enable specific ancient dungeons to spawn within an Ancient Hunt, and at least one ancient dungeon type must be able to spawn before the mission can be started. Ten ancients require items received through DLCs for them to be summoned. If the items are required through other means, these ancients may be summoned without owning any DLCs. Frostwarden requires items from Creeping Winter, Windbeard requires items from Howling Peaks, The Unending and Unstoppable Tusk require items from Flames of the Nether, Vengeful Mariner and Abyssal Eye require items from Hidden Depths, and Scuttling Torment, The Swarm, and Watcher of The End require items from Echoing Void. Consult the following tables to see the runes that specific equipment provide:

Reaching the exit door found in the third sub-mission ends the mission, and rewards the hero with a mission loot chest that always has thirty gold. Completing Ancient Hunt also rerolls the piglin merchant's items and resets the restock cost.