Trail Ruins

Not to be confused with Trails & TalesTricky Trials, or Trial Chambers.
For other uses, see Ruins.

Trail ruins are buried structures that work as archaeological sites where suspicious gravel generates. They are found in heavily forested biomes and resemble ruined villages from a lost culture.[1]

Generation

The biomes the trail ruins can be found in are the taiga, snowy taiga, old growth spruce taiga, old growth pine taiga, old growth birch forest, and the jungle.

Trail ruins are the only structures where mud bricks, packed mud, and blocks of coal naturally generate.

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Structure

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 stained 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 a decor made out of mud bricks and terracotta. Most of the structure is buried in gravel, dirt, and coarse dirt, as well as suspicious gravel, which may lead to the illusion that they are just a few misplaced blocks at first glance.

Trail ruins are completely solid; they don't have interior rooms.

Some blocks of suspicious gravel are generated floating. They fall and are destroyed if an adjacent block is updated.[2]

File structure

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

Structure blueprint

Buildings

Decor

Roads

Tower

Loot

The loot in trail ruins can be found by brushing suspicious gravel randomly generated throughout the structure. There are two types of suspicious gravel, common and rare. Their loot tables are listed below.

Each structure piece (see the file structure list above for piece names) contains gravel and uses one of three processor lists to replace some of the gravel with other blocks, including suspicious gravel. All of the tower_top structure pieces and everything in the roads folder replaces two gravel with two common suspicious gravel. The rest replace nine gravel with six common suspicious gravel and three rare suspicious gravel. Additionally, all of the processor lists (except for the one used for the tower_top) first replace 20% of the gravel with dirt, then 10% of the remaining gravel with coarse dirt, followed by common suspicious gravel, and finally rare suspicious gravel (if applicable). This means a structure piece can generate less suspicious gravel than it should. This mainly affects the decor structure pieces as they contain less gravel, but is extremely unlikely with larger structure pieces.

Common

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

Item Stack Size [A] Weight [B] Chance [C] Avg.
per block
[D]
Avg. # blocks
to brush
[E]
Blue Dye 12454.4%0.04422.5
Brick 12454.4%0.04422.5
Brown Candle 12454.4%0.04422.5
Clay 12454.4%0.04422.5
Emerald 12454.4%0.04422.5
Green Candle 12454.4%0.04422.5
Light Blue Dye 12454.4%0.04422.5
Orange Dye 12454.4%0.04422.5
Purple Candle 12454.4%0.04422.5
Red Candle 12454.4%0.04422.5
Wheat 12454.4%0.04422.5
White Dye 12454.4%0.04422.5
Wooden Hoe 12454.4%0.04422.5
Yellow Dye 12454.4%0.04422.5
Beetroot Seeds 11452.2%0.02245.0
Blue Stained Glass Pane 11452.2%0.02245.0
Coal 11452.2%0.02245.0
Dead Bush 11452.2%0.02245.0
Flower Pot 11452.2%0.02245.0
Lead 11452.2%0.02245.0
Light Blue Stained Glass Pane 11452.2%0.02245.0
Magenta Stained Glass Pane 11452.2%0.02245.0
Oak Hanging Sign 11452.2%0.02245.0
Pink Stained Glass Pane 11452.2%0.02245.0
Purple Stained Glass Pane 11452.2%0.02245.0
Red Stained Glass Pane 11452.2%0.02245.0
Spruce Hanging Sign 11452.2%0.02245.0
String 11452.2%0.02245.0
Wheat Seeds 11452.2%0.02245.0
Yellow Stained Glass Pane 11452.2%0.02245.0
Gold Nugget 11452.2%0.02245.0

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

Item Stack Size [A] Weight [B] Chance [C] Avg.
per block
[D]
Avg. # blocks
to brush
[E]
Brick 14468.7%0.08711.5
Blue Dye 12464.3%0.04323.0
Brown Candle 12464.3%0.04323.0
Clay Ball 12464.3%0.04323.0
Emerald 12464.3%0.04323.0
Green Candle 12464.3%0.04323.0
Light Blue Dye 12464.3%0.04323.0
Orange Dye 12464.3%0.04323.0
Purple Candle 12464.3%0.04323.0
Red Candle 12464.3%0.04323.0
Wheat 12464.3%0.04323.0
White Dye 12464.3%0.04323.0
Wooden Hoe 12464.3%0.04323.0
Yellow Dye 12464.3%0.04323.0
Beetroot Seeds 11462.2%0.02246.0
Blue Stained Glass Pane 11462.2%0.02246.0
Dead Bush 11462.2%0.02246.0
Flower Pot 11462.2%0.02246.0
Lead 11462.2%0.02246.0
Light Blue Stained Glass Pane 11462.2%0.02246.0
Magenta Stained Glass Pane 11462.2%0.02246.0
Oak Hanging Sign 11462.2%0.02246.0
Pink Stained Glass Pane 11462.2%0.02246.0
Purple Stained Glass Pane 11462.2%0.02246.0
Red Stained Glass Pane 11462.2%0.02246.0
Spruce Hanging Sign 11462.2%0.02246.0
String 11462.2%0.02246.0
Wheat Seeds 11462.2%0.02246.0
Yellow Stained Glass Pane 11462.2%0.02246.0
Gold Nugget 11462.2%0.02246.0
  1. a b The size of stacks (or for unstackable items, number) of this item on any given roll.
  2. a b The weight of this item relative to other items in the pool.
  3. a b The odds of finding any of this item in a single chest.
  4. a b The number of items expected per chest, averaged over a large number of chests.
  5. a b The average number of chests the player should expect to search to find any of this item.

Rare

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

Item Stack Size [A] Weight [B] Chance [C] Avg.
per block
[D]
Avg. # blocks
to brush
[E]
Burn Pottery Sherd 11128.3%0.08312.0
Danger Pottery Sherd 11128.3%0.08312.0
Music Disc (Relic) 11128.3%0.08312.0
Friend Pottery Sherd 11128.3%0.08312.0
Heart Pottery Sherd 11128.3%0.08312.0
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd 11128.3%0.08312.0
Host Armor Trim Smithing Template 11128.3%0.08312.0
Howl Pottery Sherd 11128.3%0.08312.0
Raiser Armor Trim Smithing Template 11128.3%0.08312.0
Shaper Armor Trim Smithing Template 11128.3%0.08312.0
Sheaf Pottery Sherd 11128.3%0.08312.0
Wayfinder Armor Trim Smithing Template 11128.3%0.08312.0
  1. The size of stacks (or for unstackable items, number) of this item on any given roll.
  2. The weight of this item relative to other items in the pool.
  3. The odds of finding any of this item in a single chest.
  4. The number of items expected per chest, averaged over a large number of chests.
  5. The average number of chests the player should expect to search to find any of this item.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Structure typeIdentifier
BlockSprite jigsaw.png: Sprite image for jigsaw in Minecraft Jigsawjigsaw
StructureIdentifier
EnvSprite trail-ruins.png: Sprite image for trail-ruins in Minecraft Trail Ruinstrail_ruins

Bedrock Edition:

StructureIdentifierTranslation key
EnvSprite trail-ruins.png: Sprite image for trail-ruins in Minecraft Trail Ruinstrail_ruinsfeature.trail_ruins

History

Java Edition
1.2023w12aAdded trail ruins.
23w16aTrail 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.
23w17aRelic music discs now generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins as rare loot.
This also means that the probability of other rare loot items generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins is now 1/12.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.80
Experiment
Next Major Update
Preview 1.19.80.22Added trail ruins behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.0Preview 1.20.0.21Trail ruins are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.20.0.22Trail ruins have been adjusted, adding more building variants.
The upper part of the tower is detached from the rest of the structure.
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.
Relic music discs now generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins as rare loot.
1.20.60Preview 1.20.60.24Trail ruins now generate with the same locations and configurations as in Java Edition.
The upper part of the tower is no longer detached from the rest of the structure.

Issues

Issues relating to "Trail Ruins" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

  • 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.[3]
  • One iteration of the trail ruins took the developers 16-20 hours over the course of a few weeks to design and build.[4]
  • Evidence of a "lost villager civilization", similar but distinct from the ones that exist today". [5]

Gallery

Screenshots

Mojang screenshots

In other media

References

  1. https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/14204477222157-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-1-19-80-22
  2. MC-263062 — resolved as "Works As Intended".
  3. "Hey y'all, thanks for the positive response to the new iteration of Trail Ruins. We put in a lot of work, behind the scenes, to create an interesting experience for you! FYI: I added the new decor structure as a nod to the original video. It's not a hint to anything else!" (archived)@HeartlessMoesh on X (formerly Twitter), April 22, 2023
  4. "Work for the new iteration and variants took place over roughly 16-20 hours, over a few weeks. My main role is QA. I was loaned out to design/build the Trail Ruins." (archived)@HeartlessMoesh on X (formerly Twitter), April 22, 2023
  5. Intrepid explorers recently began to uncover evidence of lost villager cultures – similar but distinct from the ones that exist today. All that remains of these civilizations are buried below the ground in heavily forested biomes, in what Mojang Studios’ archaeology team call “trail ruins”.[1]

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