Ocean Ruins

How it generates

Usually sits on the seabed or partly buried in it, though buildings can reach onto nearby shores. Height follows the terrain, and suspicious blocks can be hidden under ordinary sediment.

Biomes

• Ocean
• Deep Ocean
• Cold Ocean
• Deep Cold Ocean
• Frozen Ocean
• Deep Frozen Ocean
• Lukewarm Ocean
• Deep Lukewarm Ocean
• Warm Ocean

Placement values are for Java 26.3. Cold and warm ruins share one placement grid, and the biome decides which one you get. Cold ruins appear in normal, cold, and frozen oceans and their deep versions; warm ruins appear in warm, lukewarm, and deep lukewarm oceans. In Java, 30% of ruins are large, and 90% of large ruins bring a cluster of 4–8 smaller buildings. Drowned placed with the ruins don't despawn, and Java can also generate zombie nautilus jockeys. In both editions, each brushed block of suspicious sand in a warm ruin has a 1 in 15 chance of a sniffer egg. Java chests can hold stone spears; Bedrock's aren't confirmed to.

Variants

• Cold · Stone-brick ruins with suspicious gravel and Blade, Explorer, Mourner, and Plenty pottery sherds.
• Warm · Sandstone ruins with suspicious sand, sniffer eggs, and Angler, Shelter, and Snort pottery sherds.
• Small · Compact buildings using the small-ruin chest loot table.
• Large · Larger buildings using a separate chest loot table and usually accompanied by smaller ruins.

Notable loot

• Buried Treasure Map
• Sniffer Egg (warm suspicious sand)
• Blade, Explorer, Mourner, and Plenty pottery sherds (cold)
• Angler, Shelter, and Snort pottery sherds (warm)
• Enchanted book (large-ruin chest)
• Enchanted fishing rod
• Stone spear (Java chest loot)
• Copper, iron, golden, and diamond nautilus armor

Mobs

• Drowned
• Zombie Nautilus (Java jockey generation)
• Coral Zombie Nautilus (Java jockey generation in Warm Ocean)