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# Commands

All commands are under `/ancient` (aliases `/bac`, `/acp`, `/ancientcity`, `/betterancientcities`) and require `bac.admin` (default: operators). `<id>` is a city id from `/ancient list`.

| Command                               | What it does                                                                                                                                  |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/ancient menu`                       | Open the admin GUI (the recommended way to do everything below).                                                                              |
| `/ancient list`                       | List discovered cities (active + pending). Coordinates are click-to-teleport; `[menu]` opens the city in the GUI.                             |
| `/ancient info <id>`                  | Show a city's bounds, piece count, and status.                                                                                                |
| `/ancient approve <id>`               | Activate a pending city (enables loot + protection; captures a baseline snapshot).                                                            |
| `/ancient delete <id>`                | Unregister a city and all its data.                                                                                                           |
| `/ancient tp <id>`                    | Teleport to a city's centre.                                                                                                                  |
| `/ancient open <id>`                  | Open a specific city directly in the GUI.                                                                                                     |
| `/ancient check`                      | Look at a block and report whether it's in a city, inside a structure piece, and whether it's protected — **independent of your own bypass**. |
| `/ancient snapshot <id>`              | Capture the city's structure as a restore point.                                                                                              |
| `/ancient reset <id>`                 | Restore the city from its snapshot (reverts griefing + sculk spread).                                                                         |
| `/ancient ban <id> <player> [reason]` | Loot-ban a player from a city (they can still walk through it).                                                                               |
| `/ancient unban <id> <player>`        | Lift a loot ban.                                                                                                                              |
| `/ancient bans <id>`                  | List a city's loot bans.                                                                                                                      |
| `/ancient resetloot <id> <player>`    | Clear a player's loot copies so they can loot the city fresh.                                                                                 |
| `/ancient reload`                     | Reload `config.yml`.                                                                                                                          |
| `/ancient help`                       | Show the command list in-game.                                                                                                                |

{% hint style="info" %}
`/ancient check` is the quickest way to confirm protection coverage as an operator — operators bypass protection, so simply trying to break a block won't tell you whether it's protected. `check` reports the rule regardless of your bypass.
{% endhint %}