Buried Treasure

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Buried Treasure
Chest.png: Infobox image for Minecraft structure 'Buried Treasure'
Biomes
Generates in
existing chunks  
No
Consists of

A buried treasure is a naturally generated structure that consists of a buried loot chest found in beaches and located with explorer maps. Buried treasures are the only source of the heart of the sea, which can be used to craft a conduit.

Generation

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Buried treasures generate in beach, snowy beach, and stony shore‌[BE only] biomes, and can also generate underwater. They are dramatically more common in Bedrock Edition than in Java Edition.

The treasure chest is almost always buried by some material. Most of the time the chest generates buried in a beach, so it has a sand or gravel block covering it. Sometimes, if generated on the side of an underwater hill, it spawns with stone blocks covering it. If it generates on the surface of the ocean floor, a gravel or sand block covers it. Nonetheless, terrain generation can cause the chest to be buried by any suitable terrain-generated blocks, such as coal ore and diorite.

In Java Edition, buried treasures always generate at chunk section relative 9 (out of 0 through 15) on both the X and Z axis,[1] and are always facing east.

In Bedrock Edition, buried treasures always generate at chunk section relative 8 (out of 0 through 15) on the X and Z axis.

Location per seed

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A preview of buried treasure generation is shown below:

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Structure

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A dug up buried treasure chest

Buried treasures contain a single chest full of various loot. If the chest is exposed to water, it generates waterlogged.

See also: Chest loot

A heart of the sea is always present in every buried treasure.

In Java Edition, each buried treasure chest contains items drawn from 7 pools, with the following distribution:

Item Stack Size Weight Chance Avg.
per chest
Avg. # chests
to search
1× 5–8× 1–3× 0–1× 2× 0–2× 1× 1× 5–8× 1–3× 0–1× 2× 0–2× 1×
Heart of the Sea 1——————1⁄1——————100.0%1.0001.0
Iron Ingot —1–4——————20⁄35—————99.4%9.2861.0
Gold Ingot —1–4——————10⁄35—————88.0%4.6431.1
BlockSprite air.png: Sprite image for air in MinecraftNothing[A] ——————1——————148⁄18580.0%0.8001.2
Cooked Cod ————2–4——————1⁄2——75.0%3.0001.3
Cooked Salmon ————2–4——————1⁄2——75.0%3.0001.3
Potion of Water Breathing —————1——————1⁄1—66.7%1.0001.5
TNT —1–2——————5⁄35—————62.7%1.3931.6
Emerald ——4–8——————5⁄15————53.1%4.0001.9
Prismarine Crystals ——1–5——————5⁄15————53.1%2.0001.9
Diamond ——1–2——————5⁄15————53.1%1.0001.9
Leather Tunic ———1——————1⁄3———16.7%0.1676.0
Iron Spear ———1——————1⁄3———16.7%0.1676.0
Iron Sword ———1——————1⁄3———16.7%0.1676.0
Copper Nautilus Armor ——————1——————20⁄18510.8%0.1089.2
Iron Nautilus Armor ——————1——————10⁄1855.4%0.05418.5
Golden Nautilus Armor ——————1——————5⁄1852.7%0.02737.0
Diamond Nautilus Armor ——————1——————2⁄1851.1%0.01192.5

In Bedrock Edition, each buried treasure chest contains items drawn from 7 pools, with the following distribution:

Item Stack Size Weight Chance Avg.
per chest
Avg. # chests
to search
1× 5–8× 1–3× 0–1× 2× 0–2× 1× 1× 5–8× 1–3× 0–1× 2× 0–2× 1×
Heart of the Sea 1——————1⁄1——————100.0%1.0001.0
Iron Ingot —1–4——————20⁄35—————99.4%9.2861.0
Gold Ingot —1–4——————10⁄35—————88.0%4.6431.1
BlockSprite air.png: Sprite image for air in MinecraftNothing[A] ——————1——————740⁄92580.0%0.8001.2
Cooked Cod ————2–4——————1⁄2——75.0%3.0001.3
Cooked Salmon ————2–4——————1⁄2——75.0%3.0001.3
Potion of Water Breathing —————1——————15⁄15—66.7%1.0001.5
TNT —1–5——————5⁄35—————62.7%2.7861.6
Emerald ——4–8——————5⁄15————53.1%4.0001.9
Prismarine Crystals ——1–5——————5⁄15————53.1%2.0001.9
Diamond ——1–2——————5⁄15————53.1%1.0001.9
Leather Tunic ———1——————1⁄3———16.7%0.1676.0
Iron Spear ———1——————1⁄3———16.7%0.1676.0
Iron Sword ———1——————1⁄3———16.7%0.1676.0
Copper Nautilus Armor ——————1——————100⁄92510.8%0.1089.2
Iron Nautilus Armor ——————1——————50⁄9255.4%0.05418.5
Golden Nautilus Armor ——————1——————25⁄9252.7%0.02737.0
Diamond Nautilus Armor ——————1——————10⁄9251.1%0.01192.5
  1. ↑ a b 'Nothing' does not refer to the chance of an empty chest. Instead, it refers to the chance that the random loot generator does not add any loot on a single roll.


Data values

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Java Edition:

Structure typeIdentifier
EnvSprite buried-treasure.png: Sprite image for buried-treasure in Minecraft Buried Treasureburied_treasure
StructureIdentifier
EnvSprite buried-treasure.png: Sprite image for buried-treasure in Minecraft Buried Treasureburied_treasure

Bedrock Edition:

StructureIdentifierAlias ID Translation key
EnvSprite buried-treasure.png: Sprite image for buried-treasure in Minecraft Buried Treasureburied_treasureburiedtreasure feature.buried_treasure

Config

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Java Edition:

Achievements

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IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
Treasure HunterBuy an Ocean Explorer or Woodland Explorer map from a villager, then enter the revealed structure.Buy it from a cartographer villager, and then visit the indicated structure while the purchased map is in your main hand (hotbar).40Silver
Me Gold!Dig up a buried treasureOpen a buried treasure chest.30Silver

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.1318w10a Added buried treasures.
18w19a A heart of the sea now generates in all buried treasure chests.
1.1821w39a Buried treasure chests now have a chance of containing potions of Water Breathing.
1.21.1125w41a Buried treasure chests can now contain iron spears.
Buried treasure chests can now contain copper, iron, golden and diamond nautilus armor.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2 Added buried treasures.
beta 1.2.20.1 A heart of the sea now generates in all buried treasure chests.
1.21.130Preview 1.21.130.20 The loot of buried treasure chests has been overhauled to match Java Edition.
Buried treasure chests can now contain iron spears and copper, iron, golden, and diamond nautilus armor.
Buried treasure chests can now contain cooked cod, cooked salmon, emeralds, leather tunics, and iron swords.
Buried treasure chests can no longer contain music discs "mellohi" and "wait", name tags, chainmail armor, book and quills, leads, bottles o' enchanting, potions of Regeneration, or cake.

Minecraft Education

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Minecraft Education
1.4.0 Added buried treasures, with a heart of the sea being able to generate in them.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU69 1.761.761.76Patch 38 Added buried treasures, with a heart of the sea being able to generate in them.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Buried Treasure" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

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  • Buried treasures are the smallest naturally generated structure in the game.
  • In Java Edition, the player arrow is shown under the X of the treasure, but in Bedrock Edition, the player arrow is shown on top of the X.
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Screenshots

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Historical screenshots

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Notes

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  1. ↑ A generated chest exposed to water is always waterlogged.

References

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