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Desert Pyramid

A sandstone pyramid with four treasure chests above a pressure-plate trap wired to nine TNT blocks. Players come for its valuables, Dune armor trims, and the pottery sherds in a separate archaeology room.

Sandstone desert pyramid with orange-patterned towers, obsidian beside it, village houses beyond and forest to the right
Desert temple at 64, 76, 80Seed 28462718234064871 · Java 26.3

From the Minecraft Wiki, summarised

How it generates

Generates on the desert surface, often partly buried in sand, with the treasure and archaeology rooms below the main floor. Modern Java follows the terrain instead of fixing the floor at Y=65.

Biomes

  • Desert

Placement values are for Java 26.3, in chunks. Biome and terrain checks can still reject a candidate. Pyramids are more frequent in Bedrock, but its exact placement values aren't confirmed. The mobs listed are normal spawns in the dark, not guaranteed guards or spawners. The update that added pyramids has no known official name.

Notable loot

  • Diamond
  • Enchanted Golden Apple
  • Enchanted Book
  • Dune Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Copper Horse Armor
  • Leather
  • Pottery sherds: Archer, Miner, Prize, Skull
  • TNT

Mobs

  • Zombie
  • Skeleton
  • Creeper
  • Spider

History

  1. 1.3.1Java

    Introduced desert pyramids in snapshot 12w21a.

  2. 0.13.0Bedrock

    Added desert pyramids to Pocket Edition, the predecessor of Bedrock Edition.

  3. 1.18Java

    Reworked placement around the terrain surface, allowing partial burial and preventing placement over water.

  4. 1.20 / 1.20.0Java and Bedrock

    Released the archaeology chamber, suspicious sand, pottery sherds, and Dune armor trim loot.

  5. 1.21.6Java

    Replaced saddle chest loot with stacks of one to five leather.

  6. 1.21.90Bedrock

    Replaced saddle chest loot with stacks of one to five leather.

  7. 1.21.9Java

    Added copper horse armor to chest loot with the same weight as iron horse armor.

  8. 1.21.111Bedrock

    Added copper horse armor to the loot tables that already offered iron horse armor.

  9. 26.3Java

    Added Desert Pyramid Maps obtainable from abandoned camps.

  10. 26.50Bedrock

    Added abandoned-camp explorer maps that can lead to desert pyramids.

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Screenshots

Desert village houses in the foreground, the pyramid and a tall sandstone pillar beyond, forest to the left
Desert temple at 64, 76, 80Seed 28462718234064871 · Java 26.3
Top-down view of desert with the square pyramid, village houses to the south and forest along the west edge
Desert temple at 64, 76, 80Seed 28462718234064871 · Java 26.3

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Seeds with this desert pyramid

We found this desert pyramid at these coordinates in the seed's Java version. Other versions and Bedrock may generate a different world.

SeedVersionVariantX, Y, Z
Desert pyramid at the edge of a desert village, with a ruined portal beside it28462718234064871Java 26.3Desert temple64, 76, 80

Sources

The description, generation rules, variants, loot, mobs and history above are summarised from the Minecraft Wiki article Desert Pyramid, retrieved 2026-09-30. Minecraft Wiki text is available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. We have not checked these facts in game.

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