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TONI's Better Ocean Monuments

Ocean monuments rebuilt from the ground up: a four tier sunken temple with a different maze of rooms every time, a gold vault, loot chests and three looks (pristine, ruined, frozen). Server-side, vanilla blocks only.![Uploading image...]()

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Latest stable file Better Monuments 1.0.2 (NeoForge 26.3)
Game version 26.3
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About this project

What does TONI's Better Ocean Monuments add?

Better Monuments: ocean monuments rebuilt from the ground up

The ocean monument was the most boring dungeon in the game. Not anymore.
Better Monuments replaces every ocean monument of your world with a four tier sunken temple, built block by block by a generator: a different maze of rooms every time, loot worth the dive, and the three Elder Guardians waiting for you.

1. A temple on the sea floor

A plaza, four stepped tiers of 8x8, 6x6, 4x4 and 2x2 rooms, lit battlements and a spire on top. It appears exactly where the vanilla monument would: same deep oceans, same spacing.

2. A different maze every time

Eight gates lead into a maze of doors and of shafts between the tiers that is never the same twice. Behind them: coral gardens, sunken archives, crypts guarded by drowned, treasure rooms, thermal vents, sponge rooms and pillared halls. Dead ends are where the loot is.

3. The gold vault

At the heart of the temple, a sealed vault with a core of gold blocks and four chests with the best loot of the monument: diamonds, gold, enchanted books and, with some luck, a heart of the sea or a trident.

4. The throne room

Two Elder Guardians hold the great halls of the second tier. The third one waits at the top, in the throne room under the spire, with two more vault chests.

5. Pristine, ruined or frozen

Most monuments are intact. Some are ruins: collapsed walls, mossy bricks and seagrass growing through the floors. In frozen oceans they are covered in ice.

At a glance

Replaces The vanilla ocean monument (minecraft:monument). /locate structure minecraft:monument and ocean explorer maps lead to the new one (before 1.19: /locate Monument).
Guardians They spawn inside as always, so guardian farms still work. The three Elder Guardians are there too.
Loot Chests with their own loot tables (bettermonuments:chests/monument_room and monument_vault), sponges, and gold blocks in the vault.
Where to install Server-side: install it on the server (or in single player). Players do not need it.
Blocks Vanilla blocks only. No new blocks, items or mobs.
Loaders Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, Minecraft 1.8 to 26.3: every version each loader exists for. Forge 1.8 to 26.3, Fabric 1.14 to 26.3, NeoForge 1.20.1 to 26.3.
Dependencies None, except Fabric API on Fabric 1.16.2 to 1.18.2.
Older versions Up to 1.18.2 the game still places its monument and the mod rebuilds it while the chunks generate. Before 1.13 there is no coral, drowned or trident: coral gardens are stained terracotta, guardians take the place of the drowned and the vault prize is a different treasure.
Existing worlds Monuments in chunks generated before installing the mod do not change. New chunks get the new monument.

FAQ

Does it work with other world generation mods?
Yes, as long as they do not replace the ocean monument too.

Can I remove the mod later?
The blocks stay. The game will warn about the unknown structure in those chunks, and guardians stop spawning in monuments built by the mod.

Can I use it in my modpack?
Yes.

More from us

  • Better Shipwrecks: shipwrecks rebuilt the same way, fully 3D and procedurally generated. A perfect match for Better Monuments.
  • Questions, ideas or bugs? Join our Discord or leave a comment.

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