Trail Ruins

This is how trail ruins will typically be found.

Trail ruins are Overworld structures that will generate in jungles, old growth birch forests, old growth pine taigas, old growth spruce taigas, snowy taigas, and taigas. They are usually found buried, although on Bedrock Edition it is much more common that the entire trail ruin will generate on the surface. They can be found on land or underwater, and will typically generate near oceans or rivers.

Trail ruins consist of a number of buildings lining a path made of cobblestone, stone, and stone bricks. There will always be a tall tower with random buildings either side of it. The tip of the tower will typically be exposed on the surface, which is usually the only indication of the fact that there is a trail ruin there at all. The rest of the structure will be a random assortment of buildings.

The buildings in a trail ruin will consist mostly of mud bricks, terracotta, and glazed terracotta. They will also sometimes generate with bricks, coal blocks, and a variety of different villager workstations. The whole structure will generate buried in gravel, dirt, coarse dirt, and suspicious gravel. Suspicious gravel has a slightly coarser texture than regular gravel. It cannot be obtained in Survival with any tool, similar to monster spawners, and will simply break if mined. This will also happen if it falls as the result of a block underneath it being broken.

Using a brush on suspicious gravel will eventually cause it to drop a piece of loot, and turn the block into regular gravel. There is a large range of loot that can be acquired from suspicious gravel in trail ruins. The more common items are dyes, dyed candles, bricks, emeralds, wheat, and wooden hoes. The slightly less common items are stained glass panes, beetroot seeds, coal, dead bushes, coal, flower pots, leads, oak and spruce hanging signs, string, wheat seeds, and gold nuggets.

The rarest items of all are a variety of different pottery sherds, the Host, Raiser, Shaper, and Wayfinder armor trims, and the Relic music disc.