Desert pyramid

A desert pyramid, colloquially called a desert temple, is a sandstone structure sometimes generated in deserts, where a hidden fosse containing loot is protected by a TNT trap.

Generation
Desert pyramids are uncommon and may generate in deserts.

Structure
Desert pyramids are constructed with normal, chiseled and cut sandstone, orange and blue terracotta, sandstone slabs and sandstone stairs. The orange symbols on the outside is the ancient egyptian symbol for life, an Ankh. There is one main entrance at the ground floor level, a one block wide entrance at the top and two more entrances on the left and right sides near the top of the pyramid. The top of the pyramid's ceiling is almost always above ground, so a buried pyramid is accessible, but fall damage is likely. In the center of the pyramid's 21×21 ground floor is a checkerboard pattern of terracotta and sandstone, with a block of blue terracotta in the center.

Underneath this terracotta is a fosse containing four chests, which are rigged by a stone pressure plate directly under the blue terracotta block. The pressure plate is connected to a 3×3 grid of TNT, which means that if a player or mob unintentionally steps on the plate, it sets off the nine TNT blocks, which destroy the chests and their loot.

As there is no light in the fosse, mobs sometimes spawn inside and trigger the TNT trap, destroying the chests and loot before any player can reach it.

When a desert pyramid generates above a canyon (ravine), it has a deeper foundation.

Loot
The loot chances above are per chest, and there are four chests. Each chest has a 2.6% chance of an enchanted golden apple, but with four chests, each pyramid has a 10% chance of having at least one for example.

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 * Tutorial on defeating desert pyramids.
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 * Minecraft Dungeons:Desert Temple