The Warden lives deep underground in Minecraft, packing a powerful punch.

Here, you might learn all about the Warden’s mechanics.

Ancient Cities also play host to a more curious secret, however.

An Ancient City portal background image with a circle PNG of inside the redstone room.

What Is The Secret Redstone Room?

Ancient Citiesare sprawling underground structures that generate very rarely in the Deep Dark biome.

This portal islarge,rectangular, andmade out of reinforced deepslate.

A Minecraft Warden in a lit-up Ancient City.

We highly suggest exploring the Ancient City with a Potion of Night Vision.

This will help you see what is going on clearly.

Fortunately, locating the door isn’t too hard if you know where to look.

A player looking at the Ancient City portal.

They act as a central pillar, while two player-sized one-by-two areas open on either side.

Can You Tunnel Into The Redstone Room?

Yes; if you want to immediately enter this room, you might simply tunnel in through the side.

A circle highlighting the redstone room door.

If you want to do this, head to the rectangular platform under the portal and tunnel inwards.

Mechanism One

Thefirst mechanismis arguably the simplest.

The gimmick is simply that the Sculk isvery heavily occluded with wool.

A Minecraft player tunnelling into the side of the redstone room in an Ancient City.

you might also eat food here, which triggers the pistons to open.

It featuresa sprawling mess of redstonethat’s been redundant since 1.5, acting asa toggle flip-flop, ort-flip-flop.

As for how the door is opened, it’s more or lessidentical to mechanism one.

A player looking into the Ancient City redstone doorway.

What’s Inside The Secret Redstone Room?

The first featuresa lectern with a comparator running out of it, into a lamp.

This demonstrates the functionality oftarget blocks, and showcases howredstone blocks can act as a moveable power source.

A candle circled in an Ancient City.

The final room showcases by far the most useful principle for newcomers to redstone.

It showsa redstone block feeding power into two repeaters, whichrun into a wool and glass block respectively.

A very key idea to understand when working with redstone.

A player looking at the redstone door in an Ancient City with the left side highlighted.

Is There Loot In The Redstone Room?

Unfortunately, there is no loot in the redstone room, aside from the redstone items found within.

If you want to mine up these items and use them, then go for it!

A redstone door mechanism in an Ancient City.

Other than that though, the room is meant as a redstone tutorial/introduction for you to follow.

Another angle of the redstone door mechanism.

A Minecraft lectern attached to redstone.

A player looking at a target block and redstone behind glass.

A player looking at a redstone mechanism from above.

A view from inside the Ancient City Redstone Room.

An image of a Minecraft village with a circle PNG of a player holding an ender pearl.

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