Buried Treasure

"We found this cool stuff! Let's hide it."

- Nathan Adams

Buried treasure is a naturally generated structure consisting of a buried loot chest. The chest is buried primarily in beaches, and rarely in the ocean floor. Buried treasure is the only source of the heart of the sea.

Generation
Buried treasure structures generate in beach biomes, and can also generate underwater.

Buried treasure can be located using buried treasure maps.

Structure
Buried treasure structures contain a single chest. The 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 a stone block 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. If the chest is exposed to water, it generates waterlogged.

Trivia

 * Buried treasure are the only structures that contain loot chests consisting of a single chest. They are also the smallest naturally-occurring structures in the game.