Trail Ruins

"Ruins" redirects here. For other uses, see Ruins (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Trails & Tales or Ocean Ruins.

Trail Ruins
Biomes	Jungle Old Growth Birch Forest Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Snowy Taiga Taiga
Can generate in existing chunks?	No
Consists of

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

Structure

Generation

Trail ruins are found in the taiga, snowy taiga, old growth taiga, old growth birch forest, and jungle biomes.

Aesthetics

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 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 décor made of mud bricks and terracotta. Most of the structure is buried in gravel, dirt, and coarse dirt, as well as suspicious gravel. In Bedrock Edition, they generate much more exposed on the surface compared to Java Edition, with sometimes the entire trail ruin being on the surface with the sections still buried in dirt and gravel.

Some blocks of suspicious gravel are generated floating, and will fall and be destroyed if an adjacent block is updated.

File structure

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

List

trail_ruins buildings group_full_1.nbt group_full_2.nbt group_full_3.nbt group_full_4.nbt group_full_5.nbt group_hall_1.nbt group_hall_2.nbt group_hall_3.nbt group_hall_4.nbt group_hall_5.nbt group_lower_1.nbt group_lower_2.nbt group_lower_3.nbt group_lower_4.nbt group_lower_5.nbt group_room_1.nbt group_room_2.nbt group_room_3.nbt group_room_4.nbt group_room_5.nbt group_upper_1.nbt group_upper_2.nbt group_upper_3.nbt group_upper_4.nbt group_upper_5.nbt large_room_1.nbt large_room_2.nbt large_room_3.nbt large_room_4.nbt large_room_5.nbt one_room_1.nbt one_room_2.nbt one_room_3.nbt one_room_4.nbt one_room_5.nbt decor decor_1.nbt decor_2.nbt decor_3.nbt decor_4.nbt decor_5.nbt decor_6.nbt decor_7.nbt roads long_road_end.nbt road_end_1.nbt road_section_1.nbt road_section_2.nbt road_section_3.nbt road_section_4.nbt road_spacer_1.nbt tower hall_1.nbt hall_2.nbt hall_3.nbt hall_4.nbt hall_5.nbt large_hall_1.nbt large_hall_2.nbt large_hall_3.nbt large_hall_4.nbt large_hall_5.nbt one_room_1.nbt one_room_2.nbt one_room_3.nbt one_room_4.nbt one_room_5.nbt platform_1.nbt platform_2.nbt platform_3.nbt platform_4.nbt platform_5.nbt stable_1.nbt stable_2.nbt stable_3.nbt stable_4.nbt stable_5.nbt tower_1.nbt tower_2.nbt tower_3.nbt tower_4.nbt tower_5.nbt tower_top_1.nbt tower_top_2.nbt tower_top_3.nbt tower_top_4.nbt tower_top_5.nbt

Loot

Like other structures, the trail ruins have loot. Below are the lists of loot, from most common to rarest:

Common

In Java Edition, each trail ruin's suspicious gravel contains 1 item stacks, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size	Weight	Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
Blue Dye	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Brick	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Brown Candle	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Emerald	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Green Candle	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Light Blue Dye	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Orange Dye	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Purple Candle	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Red Candle	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Wheat	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
White Dye	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Wooden Hoe	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Yellow Dye	1	2⁄45	4.4%	0.044	22.5
Beetroot Seeds	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Blue Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Coal	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Dead Bush	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Flower Pot	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Lead	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Light Blue Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Magenta Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Oak Hanging Sign	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Pink Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Purple Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Red Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Spruce Hanging Sign	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
String	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Wheat Seeds	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Yellow Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0
Gold Nugget	1	1⁄45	2.2%	0.022	45.0

In Bedrock Edition, each trail ruin's suspicious gravel contains 1 item stacks, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size	Weight	Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
Brick	1	4⁄46	8.7%	0.087	11.5
Blue Dye	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Brown Candle	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Clay Ball	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Emerald	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Green Candle	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Light Blue Dye	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Orange Dye	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Purple Candle	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Red Candle	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Wheat	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
White Dye	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Wooden Hoe	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Yellow Dye	1	2⁄46	4.3%	0.043	23.0
Beetroot Seeds	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Blue Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Dead Bush	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Flower Pot	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Lead	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Light Blue Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Magenta Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Oak Hanging Sign	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Pink Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Purple Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Red Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Spruce Hanging Sign	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
String	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Wheat Seeds	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Yellow Stained Glass Pane	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0
Gold Nugget	1	1⁄46	2.2%	0.022	46.0

Rare

In Java Edition, each trail ruin's rare suspicious gravel contains 1 item stacks, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size	Weight	Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
Burn Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Danger Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Music Disc (Relic)	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Friend Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Heart Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Host Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Howl Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Raiser Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Shaper Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Sheaf Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Wayfinder Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0

In Bedrock Edition, each trail ruin's rare suspicious gravel contains 1 item stacks, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size	Weight	Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
Burn Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Danger Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Music Disc (Relic)	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Friend Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Heart Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Host Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Howl Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Raiser Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Shaper Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Sheaf Pottery Sherd	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0
Wayfinder Armor Trim Smithing Template	1	1⁄12	8.3%	0.083	12.0

History

Java Edition
1.20		23w12a			Added trail ruins.
		23w16a			Trail ruins have been adjusted, adding more building variants.
					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.
		23w17a			Relic music disc now generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins as a rare loot with the probability for it to generate is 1/12.
					This also means that the probability of other rare loot items generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins is now 1/12.
Bedrock Edition
Next Major Update (Experimental)		beta 1.19.80.22			Added trail ruins behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.0		beta 1.20.0.21			Trail ruins are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.

Issues

Issues relating to "Trail Ruins" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Trail ruins are the only structures where concrete and mud bricks naturally generate.
• 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.
• Trail ruins took the developers 16-20 hours to design and build.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  A trail ruin that has not been exposed.

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  A trail ruin generated in a ocean.

Official images

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  Trail ruins in a jungle.

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  Some exposed trail ruins in a old growth birch forest.

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  Exposed trail ruins in a taiga.

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  Efe excavating an exposed trail ruin.

References

Generated structures, features and terrain features 

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