How to use the Trail Ruins Finder
Trail ruins are buried structures in taiga, snowy taiga, old growth taiga, birch and jungle biomes. Bring a brush: suspicious gravel inside holds sherds, smithing templates and the Relic music disc.
- Type or paste your seed in the seed box (numbers and text seeds both work), then pick your edition and version.
- Trail ruins are marked on the map automatically. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and hover an icon to see its coordinates.
- Click an icon to copy the coordinates or a ready-made /tp command, and tick "Completed" to keep track of the ones you have visited.
- Use the "Nearest" list in the sidebar to jump straight to the closest ones to spawn or to any X/Z you enter.
Where trail ruins generate
Trail ruins (1.20) use regions of 34×34 chunks with an 8-chunk separation on Java. They need a taiga, snowy taiga, old growth pine taiga, old growth spruce taiga, old growth birch forest or jungle at the start. Most of the ruin is buried in the ground, with only a few terracotta and mud brick blocks poking out of the surface.
Look for patches of terracotta, mud bricks and coloured glass panes near the marker, then dig down 5–10 blocks. The full ruin is a cluster of buried roads and rooms.
Archaeology loot
Suspicious gravel in trail ruins holds the most varied archaeology loot in the game: pottery sherds, dyes, candles, coloured glass panes, the Relic music disc (made from fragments) and the wayfinder, raiser, shaper and host armor trim templates.
Each suspicious gravel block can only be brushed once, and it breaks if you mine it, so always use a brush. Gravel near the surface is easy to find. The rest sits deeper around the walls.
Digging out a trail ruin
Clear the ruin from the top down with a shovel, but stop around any gravel that looks speckled: that is suspicious gravel, and it falls and breaks like normal gravel if the block under it is removed. Bring several brushes, torches for the lower rooms and a few stacks of blocks to support the gravel while you work.
Collect a set of pottery sherds to craft decorated pots, and keep the armor trim templates: duplicating one costs seven diamonds plus a block of the template's material, so the original is worth more than any single find.
Editions and versions
| Dimension | Overworld |
|---|---|
| Java Edition | 1.20 – 26.3, exact positions |
| Bedrock Edition | 1.20 – 26.3, exact positions |
Questions
Why can't I see the trail ruin?
Trail ruins are mostly buried, with only a few blocks showing on the surface. Dig at the marker; the structure extends downward.
Which biomes have trail ruins?
Taiga, snowy taiga, old growth pine and spruce taiga, jungle and old growth birch forest.
Are trail ruins exact on Bedrock?
Yes. The finder implements Bedrock's placement for 1.20+, so pick Bedrock in the edition selector.
Which armor trims come from trail ruins?
Wayfinder, raiser, shaper and host smithing templates, all from brushing suspicious gravel.
Which version added trail ruins?
Minecraft 1.20 (Trails & Tales), together with the brush and archaeology.
Updated · data for Minecraft Java & Bedrock up to 26.3