Buried Treasure

Buried treasures are generated in beach biomes and sometimes even underwater. These chests will almost always spawn in some form of solid material. Most of the time buried treasures will be on a beach, so they will usually be covered up by some sand or gravel.

When the treasure spawns on the side of an underwater hill it will be covered with stone blocks, if generated on the ocean floor it will be covered up by sand and gravel. In Java Edition, buried treasure will always be generated at chunk coordinate 9 (out of 0 through 15) on both the X and Z axis and are always facing east. In Bedrock Edition, buried treasures generate at chunk coordinate 8 (out of 0 through 15) on the X and Z axis.

Buried treasures will always have a heart of the sea in them and the chest will also be filled with various loot.

A buried treasure full of items (via screenshot)

In Java Edition, the buried treasure chest will contain items from 6 loot pools which consist of:

1. Heart of the sea (100% chance)
2. Potion of water breathing (100% chance)
3. Iron ingot (99.4% chance)
4. Gold ingot (88% chance)
5. Cooked cod (75% chance)
6. Cooked salmon (75% chance)
7. Leather tunic (75% chance)
8. Iron sword (75% chance)
9. TNT (62.7% chance)
10. Emerald (59.9% chance)
11. Prismarine Crystals (59.9% chance)
12. Diamond (59.9% chance)

In Bedrock Edition, the buried treasure chest will contain items from 6 loot pools which consist of:

1. Heart of iron (100% chance)
2. Iron ingot (57.2% chance)
3. Chainmail helmet (57.2% chance)
4. Chainmail chest plate (57.2% chance)
5. Chainmail leggings (57.2% chance)
6. Chainmail boots (57.2% chance)
7. Potion of water breathing (46.9% chance)
8. Diamond (46.9% chance)
9. Gold ingot (34.3% chance)
10. Lead (34.3% chance)
11. TNT (34.3% chance)
12. Name tag (34.3% chance)
13. Potion of regeneration (34.3% chance)
14. Prismarine crystal (18.9% chance)
15. Book and quill (18.9% chance)
16. Music disc - mellohi (18.9% chance)
17. Music disc - wait (18.9% chance)
18. Bottle o’ Enchanting (11.8% chance)
19. Cake (4.1% chance)

Buried treasures are always worth taking a look at if you come across one, as they can contain some quite useful items. They are also the only source of obtaining the heart of the sea item which is required for making a conduit.

Q. How deep is buried treasure buried?

A. Buried treasures are usually 40 blocks below ground level.

Q. How do you find buried treasure?

A. To find the buried treasure, you will need a treasure map which can be found in shipwrecks.