Trail Ruins

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Trail ruins are buried structures that work as archaeological sites where suspicious gravel generates. They are found in heavily forested biomes and resemble ruined villages from a lost culture.[1]

Generation

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The biomes the trail ruins can be found in are the taiga, snowy taiga, old growth spruce taiga, old growth pine taiga, old growth birch forest, and the jungle.

Trail ruins are one of the only structures that generate on the same locations in Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.

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Structure

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An excavated build in trail ruins

The trail ruins are structures that generate mostly underground with only the top of the tower above the ground. The ruins resemble small, ancient settlements. Each trail ruin has a main road made of cobblestone, stone, and stone bricks that connect multiple small buildings and a central tower made of stained terracotta and glazed terracotta, the tip of which is the only part of the structure that does not tend to generate underground. Adjacent to the tower generates two rooms and sometimes other small buildings and a decor made out of mud bricks and terracotta. Most of the structure is buried in gravel, dirt, and coarse dirt, as well as suspicious gravel, which may lead to the illusion that they are just a few misplaced blocks at first glance.

Trail ruins are completely solid; they don't have interior rooms.

Some blocks of suspicious gravel are generated floating. They fall and are destroyed if an adjacent block is updated.[2]

File structure

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All trail ruins structures found below are located in the folder client.jar/data/minecraft/structures/trail_ruins‌[JE only].

Structure blueprint

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Buildings

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Decor

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Roads

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Tower

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The loot in trail ruins can be found by brushing suspicious gravel randomly generated throughout the structure. There are two types of suspicious gravel, common and rare. Their loot tables are listed below.

Each structure piece (see the file structure list above for piece names) contains gravel and uses one of three processor lists to replace some of the gravel with other blocks, including suspicious gravel. All of the tower_top structure pieces and everything in the roads folder replace two gravel with two common suspicious gravel. The rest replace nine gravel with six common suspicious gravel and three rare suspicious gravel. Additionally, all of the processor lists (except for the one used for the tower_top) first replace 20% of the gravel with dirt, then 10% of the remaining gravel with coarse dirt, followed by common suspicious gravel, and finally rare suspicious gravel (if applicable). Thus, a structure piece—especially a decor structure piece—can generate less suspicious gravel than it should.

Common

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In Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, each trail ruins common suspicious gravel contains 1 item stack, with the following distribution:

Item Stack Size Weight Chance Avg.
per block
Avg. # blocks
to brush
Blue Dye 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Brick 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Brown Candle 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Clay 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Emerald 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Green Candle 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Light Blue Dye 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Orange Dye 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Purple Candle 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Red Candle 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Wheat 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
White Dye 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Wooden Hoe 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Yellow Dye 12⁄454.4%0.04422.5
Beetroot Seeds 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Blue Stained Glass Pane 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Coal 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Dead Bush 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Flower Pot 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Lead 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Light Blue Stained Glass Pane 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Magenta Stained Glass Pane 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Oak Hanging Sign 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Pink Stained Glass Pane 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Purple Stained Glass Pane 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Red Stained Glass Pane 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Spruce Hanging Sign 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
String 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Wheat Seeds 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Yellow Stained Glass Pane 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0
Gold Nugget 11⁄452.2%0.02245.0

In Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, each trail ruins rare suspicious gravel contains 1 item stack, with the following distribution:

Item Stack Size Weight Chance Avg.
per block
Avg. # blocks
to brush
Burn Pottery Sherd 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Danger Pottery Sherd 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Music Disc (Relic) 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Friend Pottery Sherd 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Heart Pottery Sherd 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Host Armor Trim 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Howl Pottery Sherd 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Raiser Armor Trim 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Shaper Armor Trim 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Sheaf Pottery Sherd 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0
Wayfinder Armor Trim 11⁄128.3%0.08312.0

Data values

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Java Edition:

Structure typeIdentifier
BlockSprite jigsaw.png: Sprite image for jigsaw in Minecraft Jigsawjigsaw
StructureIdentifier
EnvSprite trail-ruins.png: Sprite image for trail-ruins in Minecraft Trail Ruinstrail_ruins

Bedrock Edition:

Structure typeIdentifier
BlockSprite jigsaw.png: Sprite image for jigsaw in Minecraft Jigsawjigsaw
StructureIdentifier Translation key
EnvSprite trail-ruins.png: Sprite image for trail-ruins in Minecraft Trail Ruinstrail_ruins feature.trail_ruins

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.2023w12a Added trail ruins.
23w16a Trail ruins have been adjusted, adding more building variants.
Trail ruins no longer generate with sand, suspicious sand, stonecutters or smooth stone.
Tweaked the amount of gravel, dirt, and suspicious gravel.
Split the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the structure.
Rare loot items and common loot items now each have their own dedicated archaeological loot table.
23w17a Relic music discs now generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins as rare loot.
This also means that the probability of other rare loot items generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins is now 1/12.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.19.80
Experiment
Next Major Update
Preview 1.19.80.22 Added trail ruins behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.0Preview 1.20.0.21 Trail ruins are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.20.0.22 Trail ruins have been adjusted, adding more building variants.
The upper part of the tower is detached from the rest of the structure.
Trail ruins no longer generate with sand or suspicious sand.
Tweaked the amount of gravel, dirt, and suspicious gravel.
Split the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the structure.
Rare loot items and common loot items now each have their own dedicated archaeological loot table.
Relic music discs now generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins as rare loot.
1.20.60Preview 1.20.60.24 Trail ruins now generate with the same locations and configurations as in Java Edition.
The upper part of the tower is no longer detached from the rest of the structure.

Issues

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

Trivia

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  • One of the decor rooms with two coal blocks and brick stairs is a reference to pot baking from the original archeology showcased in Minecraft Live 2020.[3]
  • One iteration of the trail ruins took the developers 16-20 hours over the course of a few weeks to design and build.[4]
  • According to Mojang, trail ruins are "evidence of lost villager cultures – similar but distinct from the ones that exist today". [5]
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Screenshots

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Mojang images

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In other media

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References

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  1. ↑ "Minecraft Beta & Preview - 1.19.80.22" (Archive) – feedback.minecraft.net. "Added the Trail Ruins, a buried structure from a lost culture"
  2. ↑ MC-263062 – resolved as "Works As Intended".
  3. ↑ "Hey y'all, thanks for the positive response to the new iteration of Trail Ruins. We put in a lot of work, behind the scenes, to create an interesting experience for you! FYI: I added the new decor structure as a nod to the original video. It's not a hint to anything else!" (archived) – @HeartlessMoesh on X (formerly Twitter), April 22, 2023
  4. ↑ "Work for the new iteration and variants took place over roughly 16-20 hours, over a few weeks. My main role is QA. I was loaned out to design/build the Trail Ruins." (archived) – @HeartlessMoesh on X (formerly Twitter), April 22, 2023
  5. ↑ Intrepid explorers recently began to uncover evidence of lost villager cultures – similar but distinct from the ones that exist today. All that remains of these civilizations are buried below the ground in heavily forested biomes, in what Mojang Studios’ archaeology team call “trail ruins”.[1]
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