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Trail Ruins

Buried settlements made of roads, towers, and smaller buildings. Brushing their suspicious gravel turns up distinctive armor trims, pottery sherds, and the Relic music disc.

Partly frozen lake with a small spruce islet, snowy spruce hills on one side and a grassy slope on the other
Trail ruins at 32, 48, -160Seed 613114469485949 · Java 26.3

From the Minecraft Wiki, summarised

How it generates

Usually buried under forest terrain, with only the tip of a tower showing. The buildings are packed with sediment, so there are no open rooms to walk into.

Biomes

  • Jungle
  • Old Growth Birch Forest
  • Old Growth Pine Taiga
  • Old Growth Spruce Taiga
  • Snowy Taiga
  • Taiga

Bedrock 1.20.60 fixed the detached tower and the other placement differences from Java. Rare and common suspicious gravel use separate loot tables, and each of the twelve rare rewards is equally likely. Nothing spawns with the ruins.

Notable loot

  • Host Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Raiser Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Shaper Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Wayfinder Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Relic Music Disc
  • Pottery sherds: Burn, Danger, Friend, Heart, Heartbreak, Howl, Sheaf
  • Emerald
  • Damaged Anvil (salvage)

History

  1. 1.20 (23w12a)Java

    Introduced trail ruins and their archaeological loot.

  2. 1.19.80 (Preview 1.19.80.22)Bedrock

    Introduced trail ruins behind the Next Major Update experiment.

  3. 1.20 (23w16a)Java

    Expanded building variation, removed suspicious sand, and separated common from rare archaeology loot.

  4. 1.20.0 (Preview 1.20.0.22)Bedrock

    Updated building pieces and archaeology loot tables, but left the upper tower detached.

  5. 1.20 (23w17a)Java

    Added the Relic music disc, bringing the rare archaeology pool to twelve equally weighted rewards.

  6. 1.20 / 1.20.0Java and Bedrock

    Released trail ruins as a standard Trails & Tales feature.

  7. 1.20.60Bedrock

    Aligned generation locations and configurations with Java and reconnected the upper tower.

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Screenshots

Wide blue bay with sandy beaches, ringed by dense dark green forest
Trail ruins at -480, 48, 16Seed 5096040350616420880 · Java 26.3
Village houses on ledges up a dirt and stone cliff, a river winding through spruce forest to the right
Trail ruins at 32, 74, 48Seed 3481099971675538 · Java 26.3
Snowy spruce forest along the edge of a frozen sea, with a small snowy islet in the foreground
Trail ruins at -160, 48, 64Seed 2311750628306715 · Java 26.3
Dense old growth spruce forest with patches of brown ground, snowy forest and a river at the top left
Trail ruins at -144, 49, 48Seed 667406256774050 · Java 26.3
Oak and birch forest on a low shore with sandy spits, mountains and stone spires behind
Trail ruins at -160, 53, 96Seed 64630255946901 · Java 26.3

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Seeds with this trail ruins

We found each trail ruins at these coordinates in the seed's Java version. Other versions and Bedrock may generate a different world.

SeedVersionVariantX, Y, Z
Snowy village with a ruined portal in its streets, trail ruins and an ancient city613114469485949Java 26.3Trail ruins32, 48, -160
Mushroom island offshore, with a pillager outpost by a dappled forest5096040350616420880Java 26.3Trail ruins-480, 48, 16
Pale garden abandoned camp on a hilltop, with a ruined portal below the cliff1697828004813856Java 26.3Trail ruins240, 87, -144
Dappled forest camp on a hilltop, with a ruined portal beside cherry trees17277575243043769Java 26.3Trail ruins112, 56, -256
Ocean monument among icebergs in a frozen ocean, with an igloo to the north2311750628306715Java 26.3Trail ruins-160, 48, 64
Taiga village climbing a steep cliff above a river, with trail ruins beneath3481099971675538Java 26.3Trail ruins32, 74, 48
Ruined portal on the edge of a taiga village in old growth spruce forest667406256774050Java 26.3Trail ruins-144, 49, 48
Forest abandoned camp next to a ruined portal by a river64630255946901Java 26.3Trail ruins-160, 53, 96
Taiga village beside a frozen bay full of icebergs1658433229300290Java 26.3Trail ruins96, 57, 128
Large taiga village on a spruce coast, with lush caves and trail ruins beneath1100837525202368Java 26.3Trail ruins208, 48, -224
Snowy taiga abandoned camp near buried trail ruins36661500743853332Java 26.3Trail ruins160, 48, 48
Abandoned camp in a badlands valley with a giant ruined portal109062250015565Java 26.3Trail ruins-256, 76, 176

Sources

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

Seed numbers, coordinates and screenshots come from SeedLookout's own in-game verification. About verified seeds