If you do find some, you’ll want to guard it with your life. But this is the Nether we’re talking about – where lives are lost on a regular basis. Luckily, even if you do meet a grisly end in a pool of lava, ancient debris is totally fireproof and will be there for you to collect once you’ve respawned. If you can figure out a way to get it out of the lava, anyway.
A swifter but more dangerous way to amass ancient debris is to play archaeologist yourself – hunting down bastion remnants, where ancient debris is often abandoned in chests. These structures are packed with piglins and hoglins, who won’t be too happy to see you. But if you can survive their onslaught, then you’ll likely head home with a good amount of ancient debris in your inventory.
Oh, and let us know if you’d like to join the ranks of Mojang’s archaeology team, delving deep into the fieriest, hottest, darkest and most dangerous parts of the Nether, confronting hoglins, ghasts, blazes, wither skeletons and magma cubes in the hope of bringing back some tiny bits of rusty metal. For some reason our archaeologists don’t have a very long life expectancy, so we’re always looking for new victims recruits.
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