Minecraft:Archaeology

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Steve and Minecraft:Ari excavating a Minecraft:trail ruin.

Archaeology is a gameplay mechanic that allows the Minecraft:player to find Minecraft:items representing historical artifacts inside Minecraft:suspicious sand and Minecraft:suspicious gravel.

Guide

Players can use a Minecraft:brush on suspicious sand (located in warm Minecraft:ocean ruins, Minecraft:desert pyramids, and Minecraft:desert wells) or suspicious gravel (located in cold ocean ruins and Minecraft:trail ruins). Players can discover and obtain artifacts and other loot, such as Minecraft:sticks, Minecraft:emeralds, and Minecraft:pottery sherds, which can be used to craft Minecraft:decorated pots. If a suspicious block falls or is broken, the loot inside is lost.

Features

Blocks

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• Can be crafted with any 4 pottery sherds or Minecraft:brick items, placed in a rhombus shape.
  • The specific type of crafting material used determines which side of the resulting decorated pot shows a symbol.
    • The possible symbols are determined by the type of pottery sherd used to craft the pot.
    • Sides of the pot corresponding to bricks when crafted use a plain texture with no symbol.
• Fragile and easy to break:
  • If broken with any block-breaking tool, drops as its component materials.
  • If broken without a tool, or using a tool with the Minecraft:Silk Touch Minecraft:enchantment, drops as itself.
  • Can be broken with projectiles.
• Has a single storage slot that allows players to store up to one stack of a block or item.

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• Only found from suspicious sand in warm Minecraft:ocean ruins.
• Hatches into Minecraft:snifflets.
• Once two eggs are found, can be continuously obtained by Minecraft:breeding sniffers with Minecraft:torchflower seeds.

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• Generates in cold ocean ruins and Minecraft:trail ruins.
• Brushing the suspicious gravel with a brush extracts items.
• Suspicious gravel drops as an item in Survival mode if it stays in its falling block entity state for more than 30 seconds. This can be achieved by dropping the suspicious gravel into a two-block deep soul sand bubble column or onto two layers of cobwebs. Both actions slow down the falling suspicious gravel enough for its 30-second timer to expire, allowing it to drop in item form.Template:Only

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• Generates in Minecraft:desert pyramids, Minecraft:desert wells, and warm ocean ruins.
• Brushing the suspicious sand with a brush extracts items.
• Suspicious sand drops as an item in Survival mode if it stays in its falling block entity state for more than 30 seconds. This can be achieved by dropping the suspicious sand into a two-block deep soul sand bubble column or onto two layers of cobwebs. Both actions slow down the falling suspicious sand enough for its 30-second timer to expire, allowing it to drop in item form.Template:Only

Items

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• Tools which can be used to brush suspicious blocks.
• Can be crafted with a Minecraft:feather, Minecraft:copper ingot, and Minecraft:stick.

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• Items with symbolic pictures on them.
• Different structures contain different pottery sherds.
• Have 23 different variants.
• 3 of them are not found in archaeology and are found in Minecraft:trial chambers.
• They cannot be crafted and are only found by Minecraft:brushing Minecraft:suspicious sand and Minecraft:suspicious gravel, or in trial chambers.

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World generation

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• A buried generated structure from a lost culture.
• Generates in Minecraft:taigas, Minecraft:snowy taigas, Minecraft:old growth taigas (both types), Minecraft:old growth birch forests, and Minecraft:jungles.
• Comprised of a tower, a path across the bottom, and a few additional rooms attached to the side.
• Contains Minecraft:gravel and suspicious gravel, as well as Minecraft:mud bricks and several colors of Minecraft:terracotta and Minecraft:glazed terracotta.
• Four armor trims and seven pottery sherds can be found here.

Gameplay

• The player can find items in suspicious sand or suspicious gravel inside of certain structures by using the brush.
  • In desert pyramids, suspicious sand can contain a pottery sherd, Minecraft:TNT, Minecraft:gunpowder, Minecraft:emerald, or a Minecraft:diamond.
  • In desert wells, suspicious sand can contain a pottery sherd, a Minecraft:brick, an emerald, a Minecraft:stick, or Minecraft:suspicious stew.
  • In warm ocean ruins, suspicious sand can contain a pottery sherd, a sniffer egg, an Minecraft:iron axe, an emerald, Minecraft:wheat, a Minecraft:wooden hoe, Minecraft:coal, or a Minecraft:gold nugget.
  • In cold ocean ruins, suspicious gravel can contain a pottery sherd, an iron axe, an emerald, wheat, a wooden hoe, coal, or a gold nugget.
  • In trail ruins, suspicious gravel can contain a pottery sherd, an emerald, wheat, Minecraft:clay, a brick, Minecraft:dyes, a dyed Minecraft:candle, a Minecraft:stained glass pane, a Minecraft:hanging sign, a gold nugget, coal, Minecraft:wheat seeds, Minecraft:beetroot seeds, a Minecraft:dead bush, a Minecraft:flower pot, Minecraft:string, a Minecraft:lead, a "Relic" music disc, or an Minecraft:armor trim.

Loot tables

Minecraft:Ocean ruins

Cold ocean ruins

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History

Bedrock Edition

• Clay pots.
  Clay pots.
• Ceramic sherds.
  Ceramic sherds.
• An excavation site.
  An excavation site.
• Dig site from Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2020.
  Dig site from Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2020.
• Excavation site render from the image.
  Excavation site render from the image.
• Excavation site tent render from the image.
  Excavation site tent render from the image.
• Excavation site research station render from the image.
  Excavation site research station render from the image.

Gallery

Screenshots

• Clay pots and a Minecraft:brush.
  Clay pots and a Minecraft:brush.
• Two stacked pots outside a Minecraft:desert pyramid.
  Two stacked pots outside a Minecraft:desert pyramid.
• A pot next to a dropped brush.
  A pot next to a dropped brush.
• Four pots inside a desert pyramid.
  Four pots inside a desert pyramid.
• Pots stacked next to a Minecraft:desert Minecraft:village house.
  Pots stacked next to a Minecraft:desert Minecraft:village house.
• Two lone pots next to a desert well.
  Two lone pots next to a desert well.
• Efe brushing Minecraft:suspicious gravel at a trail ruin.
  Efe brushing Minecraft:suspicious gravel at a trail ruin.
• An archaeology room in a desert pyramid.
  An archaeology room in a desert pyramid.
• Minecraft:Noor excavates a desert pyramid.
  Minecraft:Noor excavates a desert pyramid.
• Efe uncovers a Minecraft:sniffer egg in an ocean ruin.
  Efe uncovers a Minecraft:sniffer egg in an ocean ruin.

Concept artwork

• Concept art.
  Concept art.

In other media

• Suspicious sand being brushed.
  Suspicious sand being brushed.
• Minecraft:Ari brushing suspicious sand in the Minecraft:Trails & Tales trailer.
  Minecraft:Ari brushing suspicious sand in the Minecraft:Trails & Tales trailer.
• A pottery sherd being dug out of the ground.
  A pottery sherd being dug out of the ground.
• Minecraft:Sunny holding up a newly recovered sherd.
  Minecraft:Sunny holding up a newly recovered sherd.