Mapless Buried Treasure
HardOverworldFind a buried treasure chest without the map: spot the chest's spike on the pie chart, walk to block 9, 9 of its chunk and dig down. TheTalkingMime came up with it for hypermodern runs, so a beach without a shipwreck can still give you iron, TNT, food and a heart of the sea.
When to Use
On a beach spawn in Java Edition when no shipwreck map is close. It needs the debug screen, so the run has to be marked as an F3 run.
Estimated Time Save
Finding and reading a treasure map
Step-by-Step Guide
Start on the beach
Every chunk has a 1% chance to try placing a buried treasure, and the attempt only works where the biome check finds beach or snowy beach. In 1.16 and 1.17 about 98.7% of treasures have beach or snowy beach at block 10, 10 of their chunk.
Set up the pie chart
Open the chart at root.gameRenderer.level.entities. Keep entity distance at 50% or 500%; 50% makes a blockEntities spike bigger. With Sodium, turn Entity Culling off.
Find the spike
A chest is a block entity, so turn in place and watch the blockEntities slice. When it jumps, the chest is somewhere in that direction.
Walk to block 9, 9
In Java Edition the chest always sits at block 9, 9 inside its chunk. F3 shows where you stand inside the current chunk, so walk until both numbers read 9 in the chunk you suspect.
Dig to the stone
The chest is placed directly above the highest stone-like block in that column: stone, andesite, granite, diorite or sandstone. Dig straight down and the chest comes just before the first of those.
Read the clues
The game makes sure none of the six blocks touching the chest is air or liquid, and fills gaps with the block below or with sand. Stone sticking out of the sand or odd sand on the seabed can give a treasure away, and seagrass next to the chest can even leave it visible.
Loot it
In 26.2 the chest always holds a heart of the sea, 5 to 8 rolls of iron ingots, gold ingots and TNT, 1 to 3 rolls of emeralds, diamonds or prismarine crystals, two rolls of cooked cod or salmon, and sometimes a leather chestplate, an iron sword or an iron spear.
Pros
- +No shipwreck map needed, a beach can be enough
- +One chest covers iron, TNT and food
- +The spot inside the chunk is fixed, so the last step is exact
- +Buried treasure is the only source of a heart of the sea
Cons
- -Needs F3, so the run must be marked as an F3 run
- -Other chests and block entities nearby give false spikes
- -Only 1 chunk in 100 even tries to place a treasure
- -Finding the right chunk takes practice, even though the spot inside it is exact