Minecraft players on the hunt for buried treasure will likely need a treasure map to find it unless they are incredibly lucky or nuanced in their searching methods.
Introduced in Minecraft: Java Edition version 1.13, treasure maps are instrumental in finding buried treasure in most instances. Whereas players can still find hidden structures without explorer maps, finding a treasure chest the size of one block among the massive amount of sand in a beach or ocean biome is like finding a needle in a haystack.
However, with a treasure map, players are given substantial indication of where a treasure is buried even if they dont know its precise elevation.
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How to Find a Buried Treasure Map
To find a treasure map, you’ll need to go to a water biome to search for a shipwreck. Although it is rare, shipwrecks are sometimes known to spawn on beach shores too. The safest bet is to go to the water biome and find some dolphins. Once you do, kill some Salmon and Cod and feed them to the dolphins raw. To learn more about the
Now that you fed the dolphins, they’ll start leading you to either a Shipwreck or Underwater Ruins. You may need to feed them a couple of fishes before they fully lead you to one or the other. advertisement
You can get lucky too and find one by naturally exploring the waters. Sometimes they’ll be easy to spot because the ship mast will be peaking out of the water. But if it’s not peaking out of the water, just keep an eye out, and you’ll notice the ship standing out from the rest of the ocean environment.
For both Java and Bedrock, it’s the same odds of finding a Treasure map in a shipwreck.
What Is a Buried Treasure Map and How Does It Work
Unlike a Map, a Buried Treasure Map isn’t meant to be used as a guide on how to get back home. It still functions as a normal map would, but instead of showing your location, it’ll lead you to Buried Treasure that’s indicated with a giant red X.
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Buried treasure structures generate in beach biomes, and can also generate underwater.
The treasure chest is almost always buried by some material. Most of the time the chest generates buried in a beach, so it has a sand or gravel block covering it. Sometimes, if generated on the side of an underwater hill, it spawns with stone blocks covering it. If it generates on the surface of the ocean floor, a gravel or sand block covers it. Nonetheless, terrain generation can cause the chest to be buried by any suitable terrain-generated blocks, such as coal ore and diorite.
In Java Edition, buried treasure always generates at chunk coordinate 9 (out of 0 through 15) on both the X and Z axis,[1] and are always facing east.
In Bedrock Edition, buried treasure always generates at chunk coordinate 8 (out of 0 through 15) on the X and Z axis.
FAQ
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