Ocean ruins are a good example of simple but good looking ruins in minecraft. I dont see why they didnt just make them the same way they did ocean ruins.
Actually there are a lot of written and oral records of ancient civilizations that used tons of brightly colored material for decoration, design, etc. We just think of it all being muted and bland because that’s what time and the sun does to things: it washes them out and they get dirty. So finding these brightly colored blocks makes sense in Minecraft where only copper changes via oxidation over time.
The problem is that it doesn't fit in some of the biomes it's in. For example, it's like putting a savanna village in a plains biome. I feel like these new structures should only spawn in deserts and Mesa. And possibly jungle, too. Anywhere else and it looks off
Like roman statues, we picture them as a beautiful white marble, but in reality most all of them were vibrantly painted.. the paint has all just faded away.
I like that the ruins are colourful but I wish the colour palettes weren’t so random. I’d rather find a ruin with only a few types of coloured blocks …. So much easier on my inventory!
@@Josh651Pro I knew someone would bring this up. I guess mojang don't want unnecessary horror in most aspects of the game. At the end of the day it is made for kids. The deep dark is an exception, it is meant to be horrifying and it is hidden away deep underground rather than just lying on the surface. You have to be reasonably capable to reach the cities creating a skill barrier to block the light hearted
I do feel they're setting up a story between these Hosts, Wayfinders, and Shapers. From all the Ancient Ruins, I'd guess the Wayfinders were seafaring explorers, the Hosts were caretakers and site managers, and the Shapers are the official name for "the Ancient Builders". I'd guess Armor Trims were a form of social identifier.
omg you're so right, each culture has it's own unique trim that define them, that makes so much sense o_o (I mean... I guess it should have been kinda obvious but I didn't see it and you actually blowed my mind x))
the trail ruins seems to have once been a cosy hotel for travelers on the trail. love that their using one of the best underrated blocks their is glazed terracotta. (light gray and yellow are my favs) and the best brick (mud) (besides the norm bricks and prizmarin) half of me wants to know the archeology loot table now and half of me wants to discover it for my self. :)
It's one of these rare moments where glazed terracotta are used correctly, After seeing this structure, my opinion changed so much on these blocks, definitely will be using these blocks more
I think they should incorporate the petrified wood slab as a type of "wood" that only is found in these buried structures. they should also expand on that idea and maybe make more types like petrified logs.
Maybe the roads of different sites used to string together and create paths to the deep dark. Going with that line of thought, the portal like structure actually used to contain a giant map that displayed huge areas. Then there is a way to recreate the map which would help locate other types of sites to go robbing... I mean exploring and doing archeology searching.
I took an archeology class in the summer good ol’ ‘20. And you know what we did the entire time? We dug up pottery shards! There was a ton of other stuff too, like cat jaws, coins, tobacco pipes, and more! I really hope that Minecraft at least adds a few more things to find! 🤞
You know what you find in any random history museum in my country? In order of chance going down: Pottery shards, arrow heads, chainmail pieces rot into stones, sometimes coins and jewelry. Most likely - pottery shards, arrow head.
Ya know, I was kinda neutral about trail ruins. Like, I was looking forward to finding them, but not as much as some other 1.20 things, but after you showed them off, and explained them a little more, my hype on it is definitely up. Especially for that purple room. I'd love to find that and make a mini hideout there. Dig it out and build it back up. Hopefully putting these in those old biomes is 1 step closer to those biomes getting updates. At least we finally have something to find in a birch forest.
I don’t think the suspicious dirt will come because they’re making all of the gravity blocks suspicious due to the fact that it adds an extra challenge to excavating them. So if they made the dirt blocks suspicious they would either have to make the first ever gravity based dirt block or would have to remove a major aspect of the archeology system.
I think it needs more ruins (like castles) and more variety in existing ruins, like how portals can be in different conditions, statues, new stone material like marble, sandstone bricks, limestone, mediterranean biome too perhaps?
@@lexibroadbent1467 i mean youd need to find them first to duplicate them, i just think that not making it duplicatable would limit builders alot. Id imagine that spending as long as 4 hours wouldnt even get a quarter of a stack. If youre more of an adventurer, making self rules to make it more fun for yourself is doable, but for late game builders, they wouldnt really have an option like that
@@neroxyx3085 the thing with the pots is that they’re not really supposed to be used on a wider scale. They’re supposed to be unique and tell stories of the players adventures. For builders, there is the decorative pot made out of bricks.
What’s great abt how archeology works in the game, is that you can tell what an item in suspicious sand is before you actually completely brush it. So if you see beetroot seeds, stop brushing and break that sus sand/gravel block to save on inventory space
Low tier loot is only a problem/junk because the inventory is terrible. You're right, we need the bundle. We may even need more. I saw the loot tables at this place and thought I'd likely chuck anything outside the trims and pot shards, stuff I'd usually keep but when I'm travelling, I won't have room for. What we need is smart storage INSIDE the inventory. Imagine a tab that opens up for stone types, candle types, carpet types.
Ancient Cities are still Minecraft's current best structure, but I like these Trail Ruins, too. When 1.20 comes out I hope newly generated secret teaching rooms in the Ancient City centers get new examples with the Calibrated Sculk Sensor.
@@Fiucha8893End Cities look cool and I love their loot. But I was disappointed when I first visited them because I wanted them to be populated with NPCs and not just Shulkers. Maybe I'll change my mind when The End Dimension gets an upgrade.
I also love the colour of the trail ruins and i kinda hope as well as the small village like trail ruin there could be new massive variants (like ancient city sized, except its buried) of loads of things in a city but be a lot rarer
I found an exposed trail ruins while experimenting. So i went into survival with an shovel, pickaxe and brush and excavated the whole thing. It was really fun and the thing looked great.
Fun fact: If you want to brush every possible block you actually have to dig out the ruins all from the top. Because if you dig out the main room and then from their dig in direction of the trails on the bottom, it can happen that you destroy the suspicious gravel blocks, because you make them fall.
I tore one of these apart in my world and got a ton of pottery peices and armor trims but I kind of regretted digging out all the terracotta instead of getting to see what the structure looked like from a far. It might be cool to try building one of these but how it might have looked before it became burried
With the road sloping down, kind of makes me think that it is heading to the ancient city that is below the ground. heck even some the structures have the look of the ancient city.
Super excited to try these out and can't wait to hear what they say the lore is !!!!! Also love the change on finding some building blocks now more often then just in certain biomes again like terracotta either a Mesa or you need collect clay this addition of the trail ruins helps out allot when you cant find a Mesa and or don't have allot of clay to spare for a build :) and the colors omg give me Mayan and Aztec vibes. I honestly want to excavate one of these and make my base in it!!!!!
*I don't think the color of the structures is the real problem. The actual problem is it just looks like random blocks in random positions and not like an actual city or village. A colored old town is a good idea tho.*
It’s not supposed to look like a city. It’s supposed to look like the ruins of a building after time has compressed layers of building materials into a chunk. This is how archeology actually is. You dig through chunks of clay and dirt to find artifacts. In real life Archeologists aren’t raiding caves.
Thanks Wattles, I have been waiting this video 😊 ! And, now that I have been spending more time with that structure, all those colors doesn’t bother me as much as they did when I saw it first time 😊
In my opinion the color really adds to the story that it was trying to teach. There are dyes and colored glass every where showing that this civilization really did value color in their traditions. I hope this doesn't change.
@@bababab6906 The blocks are not randomly placed. Mud blocks at the bottom suggests a stronger foundation; cobble and stone bricks suggest paths; bricks suggests working with fire in a kiln; glazed terracotta suggests mosaic traditions; the dyes and colored terracota suggests their art and architecture. See how 80% of the materials chosen all come from the same material: clay. This culture has obvious inspiration from meso-amaerican and islamic cultures in terms of art and architecture. All it takes is to be a bit more of a history and archeology nerd to see how the trail ruins are much closer to actual archeological finds than other ruins in minecraft which are more inspired by fantasy and fictional ruins.
I believe they will make the “ancient library” as the next archeological excavation site or maybe they will update the current library in the stronghold to have more suspicious gravel and stuff
A great addition would be a specific compass found in these structures. Like your suggestion for a bastion compass, a new compass could be found for ancient ruins.
I know others have said this but when brushing suspicious sand/gravel, you can see what the item inside is before even finishing, so if its something that'll just clutter your inventory (SEEDS) just stop before the brushing is done and break the block normally. Saves space and time
Ancient cities only look white because their paint has worn off over time. In reality, Roman and Greek cities were brightly painted with a variety of colors, much like these structures. The whole white marble aesthetic is just based on a historical misconception
The terracotta army was found painted but due to oxidization eight basically turns gray in a few minutes, that’s why people are not excavating them anymore. They want to dig after we have the technology to keep the color.
@@junchan_3200 yes. So we theoretically could do it (seal the place and a camera attached to it with film, like a bubble, and blow in some nitrogen. Work with oxigen tanks or using mechanisms), but in practice that's too expensive.
Wouldn’t really make sense if they had like tools, since they’ve been in the ground for so long it probably turned into dirt, dust, rust, etc. Though, you can found diamonds and emeralds from suspicious sand/gravel.
what would be REALLY cool, is if there were some kind of villager workstations that you could only find in this structure (maybe in the purple room) for some new villager variants
It would be nice if the cartographer villager gets a new trade with maps to these structures. At least on bedrock they seem to also appear above ground, but in small ravines or exposed caves. Personally I like the colorful buildings ( remains rather), and if you take the time to restore them as best you can by the clues, it starts making more sense. The tower is pretty easy to restore (and IMO looks rather good in restored condition), but the other buildings need some imagination. It looks like the random blocks are parts of roofs and walks that collapsed. I also suspect that entire parts of the buildings have dropped down a block from where they should have been. I love the clues and speculation as to what happened (earthquake, flood, volcano eruption?) that caused the structures to collapse and fill with sand dirt and gravel. The colors gives me sn impression that the civilization was rich and thriving, and the workstations that were also shown in the video tells it was quite advanced. Seems to me it whould have been quite peaceful and based on farming as well, as no weapons or types of armor are found in the loot table. Not sure how the armor troms fit into that line of thought though.
It's probably not big enough to have been an actual city, but I think it might have been some sort of general store, or place where travelers on the road would be able to rest. This makes sense, because the structure where the job blocks were would have probably been where craftsmen made stock for the store, the tower could have been an inn, and, going off of what another comment on this video said about armor trims reperesenting professions, then it would make sense that, if it is a general store or inn, all types of people would be there.
My father was an actual archaeologist (God rest his soul) I went on excavation trips with him. It's pretty accurate you'll find a lot of junk. What junk that is depends on the time of the excavation site. Like pottery shards from an ancient rubbish pit or where they discarded their bones after eating. If you're unlucky, their latrine. Or 150 year old buttons, broken bottles and where they tossed their crappy old candlestick. Then 5% of the time you find something REALLY GOOD.
I found 3 of them so far. One went down Into an open area with more structures, the second went down Into water, and the third seems to be completely above ground.
The bundle is also usefull for other stuff e.g. take 1 of each working block (enderchest, anvil, workbench, bed ect.) on only one space. Or store lots of differnt maps. Or store raw ores until you get 9 to condense them to a block
stuff like this makes me wonder how sandlogged/gravellogged/dirtlogged blocks could work. like removing them could create carpet-like blocks. loose sand/gravel/dirt.
I would love to see a handful of these structures with the terricatta replaced with their fired vierients - like over thime they faided due to being burried for eons and the fired blocked were what they really looked like when they were lived in so long a go!
I am very busy with university work. I have to spend at least 16 hours a day. But I definitely watch Wattles's video, even if I don't have time to play minecraft. Most days, the only youtube video I watch is Wattles's video.
mojang I don't care about seasons in minecraft but could we get some foggy mornings or nights in minecraft where fireflies fly and cicadas chirp and its slightly humid. or more rainy days or drizzleing outside. it would help the world to feel less boring and it would be fun and cozy. AND it would keep your base feeling fresh and more beautiful. plssss mojang! ps this is the SON of Anton and Megan Rytting.
The trail ruins are so interesting! I like to believe that the ruins used to be outposts/rest stops for wandering villagers. The pottery and armor templates make me believe they were some kind of trading posts with artisans, and with the more advanced stuff they had, because it was such high traffic foot areas, a lot of these posts got to be more technologically advanced than villages of the time. Though I have an another theory based on the armor templates. I think the armor templates point to the thought of different clans based on the design patterns of the armor. These patterns told about where someone with that armor was from, or their specialty perhaps? Like how the military has different branches, the armor has different styles to signify the different branch someone specialized in like the wave for ocean, etc. If that’s true then that would mean that the trail ruins might really have been outposts/rest stops, since where they’re located are in far out places that look like they might be where patrols would go. Those are my theories at any rate.
The sand and gravel indicate that the structures were taken by a great flood, that spanned the entire world. I feel that this update is an expansion to the ocean monuments and drowned villages. It's a nice addition to the lore and immersion of the Minecraft world. Given this information, I'd think that the oversaturation of colored clay is due to erosion of what it used to be. So, we'd have to be creative if we want to restore the structures.
A high efficiency shovel should actually be the last thing to bring, because you could accidentally mine some of the "suspicious" soil along with the usual stuff that you're trying to clear away. Any form of mining, or moving the suspicious materials will ruin the suspiciousness.
Every time I take a break they always add in so much stuff I have to catch back on. Currently learning about the new flying mobs and everything from the last update lol
In archaeology, they actually dig up trash mounds because trash shows the way ancient life was so calling it junk makes sense and as you dig more you'll find rare, valuable, and artistic stuff just like the game :)
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Wattles i urge you to say this !! What if we were able to get skulls here ?? This will probably tell a lot of story 🙂 and as these structures are ancient it should have leather armour as the cloth and food like honey 🍯 might be a cool attention to detail and i think here a few mobs like zombie or spider should spawn naturally
I don't even know how it would work since minecraft worlds are randomly generated, but it would be awesome if these structures somehow led to to a village and the underground ancient villages, so you could spend hours following it like a story and mining it out and all
I'm fairly certain these are alluding to other mobs that are extinct, the one clearly looks like a sniffer head. I think the "random colors" are not as random as we initially think.
Come on Mojang the Bundle is ready just you need to add to the creative menu and i agree with u that these structues should be improved and these are not end game structures they are just giving junk items when excavated so the devs should work on this or add some new items or some thing better than this!
I’d like to see the terracotta toned down a bit. If there were a design to it, that would be cool. Like a window on one of these towers seems to have some design put into it. But for the most part, it just looks like a clutter of colors. Like they quite literally threw it together. On the other hand, this does make it resemble rubble or just a crushed building a bit more
I had pretty much this exact same experience and same thoughts yesterday. Excavating surprisingly fun, structures interesting, junk needs bundles, sus blocks breaking by falling one block annoying (I had a sus sand that was floating so broke when the block next to it went). This makes archaeology an actual worthwhile feature and not just meh
I love those ruins! Here's my theory about what they used to be: Given the name "trail ruins", the big road on it's center, the presence of stables and the little to no other structures than the tower/stables combo (I've spawned a bunch of them on a test world, one generated with only the road and the tower/stables), I would say they were a sort of breakpoint down the road where wandering people could sleep safe from creepers and such. There were people living and farming here but they weren't big villages, maybe a couple families It's also probable they were potters, we can find almost half of the the pottery shards sorts there, and they had bricks and terracotta (baked clay, not mined from the mesa, they got "unnatural" colors), and glazed terracotta
Adding up the percentages you get 95.4%, 4.6% off 100. Assuming you did miss raiser in the loot table that puts it up to 99%, which makes it just about perfect.
The only thing that is jarringly off about the trail ruins is the stonecutter block with its spinning blade, what is powering that thing after thousands of years buried?! Apart from that I like it. I've seen way too many people not realising that the structure is actually pretty coherent once you remove all the sand and gravel. I think it is a cool structure that could maybe have a few more interesting sub-structures that make you wonder what they were rather than just buildings. Maybe like how the ancient city has some shrine-looking structures for example.
It would be cool if the sniffer egg could only be found in these structures, the law could be that the egg was protected or something and is now lost to the ages. Also, it would be could to find some sort of new music disc like the ancient city and if you have both you can combine them to discover the ancient law of the game.
do you like the idea of this structure?! how about the aesthetics?!
Yes, I would even repair it so that it would lead to a farm I would make, for decoration of the farm itself
Top tier
Cool ideea is ruins compass to find ancient stuctures similar to brush woud be useful
yessir!
Ocean ruins are a good example of simple but good looking ruins in minecraft. I dont see why they didnt just make them the same way they did ocean ruins.
As an actual archaeologist my opinion is that it should stay the same. Doing digs is actually very delicate work, i like that it breaks so easily
I saw the word archaeologist and I thought u were abt to suggest the addition of an archaeologist villager lol
@@skyrrmish6207 he trades you brushes and charges 30 emeralds
@@FlatterySuplex perfectly balanced as all things should be
I’m also an archaeologist, and I came to say the same thing! Those early surveys can genuinely be just walking and looking for something to find.
Also Agree that it would be hard to find but if you buy a Acient map from the villager for 64 emerald that would be fine
Actually there are a lot of written and oral records of ancient civilizations that used tons of brightly colored material for decoration, design, etc. We just think of it all being muted and bland because that’s what time and the sun does to things: it washes them out and they get dirty. So finding these brightly colored blocks makes sense in Minecraft where only copper changes via oxidation over time.
Not to mention that these structures are completely buried, which immensely helps in preserving the colors
The problem is that it doesn't fit in some of the biomes it's in. For example, it's like putting a savanna village in a plains biome. I feel like these new structures should only spawn in deserts and Mesa. And possibly jungle, too. Anywhere else and it looks off
Like roman statues, we picture them as a beautiful white marble, but in reality most all of them were vibrantly painted.. the paint has all just faded away.
@Josh651Pro who's to say that the biome haven't changed since the time of the ancients?
I like that the ruins are colourful but I wish the colour palettes weren’t so random. I’d rather find a ruin with only a few types of coloured blocks …. So much easier on my inventory!
to me it looks like an ancient colourful village. the tower is the church and the trail and the small houses just remind me of your classic village
We must be able to get skulls here though
@@suyashsingh8111 would be cool maybe too graphic for kids
@@shaneosullivan3358 😭 yea I thought so
@@shaneosullivan3358 Ancient cities: are we a joke to you?
@@Josh651Pro I knew someone would bring this up. I guess mojang don't want unnecessary horror in most aspects of the game. At the end of the day it is made for kids. The deep dark is an exception, it is meant to be horrifying and it is hidden away deep underground rather than just lying on the surface. You have to be reasonably capable to reach the cities creating a skill barrier to block the light hearted
I do feel they're setting up a story between these Hosts, Wayfinders, and Shapers. From all the Ancient Ruins, I'd guess the Wayfinders were seafaring explorers, the Hosts were caretakers and site managers, and the Shapers are the official name for "the Ancient Builders". I'd guess Armor Trims were a form of social identifier.
omg you're so right, each culture has it's own unique trim that define them, that makes so much sense o_o
(I mean... I guess it should have been kinda obvious but I didn't see it and you actually blowed my mind x))
That's actually a really cool idea I love that
Aren't the host action, knowledge and foresight?
They seem more like God's then site managers
the trail ruins seems to have once been a cosy hotel for travelers on the trail. love that their using one of the best underrated blocks their is glazed terracotta. (light gray and yellow are my favs) and the best brick (mud) (besides the norm bricks and prizmarin) half of me wants to know the archeology loot table now and half of me wants to discover it for my self. :)
It's one of these rare moments where glazed terracotta are used correctly, After seeing this structure, my opinion changed so much on these blocks, definitely will be using these blocks more
I only like white glazed terracota, others look way too weird for my buildings
Brown and green are my favorites of the glazed terracotta. I used the green to make a wall pattern behind a liquor bar.
@@velvet3784 your weird the white one is the one that doesn't work with anything
I think they should incorporate the petrified wood slab as a type of "wood" that only is found in these buried structures. they should also expand on that idea and maybe make more types like petrified logs.
Maybe the roads of different sites used to string together and create paths to the deep dark.
Going with that line of thought, the portal like structure actually used to contain a giant map that displayed huge areas. Then there is a way to recreate the map which would help locate other types of sites to go robbing... I mean exploring and doing archeology searching.
I took an archeology class in the summer good ol’ ‘20.
And you know what we did the entire time?
We dug up pottery shards!
There was a ton of other stuff too, like cat jaws, coins, tobacco pipes, and more!
I really hope that Minecraft at least adds a few more things to find! 🤞
Doubt Mojang would add tobacco pipes, but coins would be a fun idea
You know what you find in any random history museum in my country? In order of chance going down: Pottery shards, arrow heads, chainmail pieces rot into stones, sometimes coins and jewelry. Most likely - pottery shards, arrow head.
@@diamond13dog and arrows/flint.
Ya know, I was kinda neutral about trail ruins. Like, I was looking forward to finding them, but not as much as some other 1.20 things, but after you showed them off, and explained them a little more, my hype on it is definitely up. Especially for that purple room. I'd love to find that and make a mini hideout there. Dig it out and build it back up. Hopefully putting these in those old biomes is 1 step closer to those biomes getting updates. At least we finally have something to find in a birch forest.
Now all we need a suspicious dirt and this update would be perfect
We need archaeology in jungle temples first it’ll make no sense if that dosent happen
I don’t think the suspicious dirt will come because they’re making all of the gravity blocks suspicious due to the fact that it adds an extra challenge to excavating them. So if they made the dirt blocks suspicious they would either have to make the first ever gravity based dirt block or would have to remove a major aspect of the archeology system.
@@noizepusher7594Next snapshot suspicious anvils and dragon eggs will be added
@@noizepusher7594 suspicious red sand?
I think it needs more ruins (like castles) and more variety in existing ruins, like how portals can be in different conditions, statues, new stone material like marble, sandstone bricks, limestone, mediterranean biome too perhaps?
Can't wait to dig these cities out and make a base out of them, i absolutely love the aesthetic!
I think duplicating shards would go against the story telling and “uniqueness” of the archaeology sights
How so? The idea of imprinting the design on clay brought up at 11:23 makes perfect sense to me seeing as the decorated pots seem indented
@@zmitter4844 yes but the point of them is you explore to find the shards you want. Duplicating them would make this exploration obsolete.
@@lexibroadbent1467 I mean, if it weren't for the fact that most of the loot of the sus blocks are just trash, I would agree.
@@lexibroadbent1467 i mean youd need to find them first to duplicate them, i just think that not making it duplicatable would limit builders alot. Id imagine that spending as long as 4 hours wouldnt even get a quarter of a stack. If youre more of an adventurer, making self rules to make it more fun for yourself is doable, but for late game builders, they wouldnt really have an option like that
@@neroxyx3085 the thing with the pots is that they’re not really supposed to be used on a wider scale. They’re supposed to be unique and tell stories of the players adventures. For builders, there is the decorative pot made out of bricks.
Kinda glad archaeology is this and not what they showed originally.
Although yes, I would like dye and storage in the pots
What’s great abt how archeology works in the game, is that you can tell what an item in suspicious sand is before you actually completely brush it. So if you see beetroot seeds, stop brushing and break that sus sand/gravel block to save on inventory space
Dyeable Pottery shards MUST Be a thing🤩 and making them function as a secret container is GENIUS!!!😍
the older shards from 2020 where better tho. AND you could fire them (shef's kiss)
The fact that dye is in the loot table seems like a hint that we might be able to dye them
Did you mean…
… *SHERDS?????*
Low tier loot is only a problem/junk because the inventory is terrible. You're right, we need the bundle. We may even need more.
I saw the loot tables at this place and thought I'd likely chuck anything outside the trims and pot shards, stuff I'd usually keep but when I'm travelling, I won't have room for.
What we need is smart storage INSIDE the inventory. Imagine a tab that opens up for stone types, candle types, carpet types.
Ancient Cities are still Minecraft's current best structure, but I like these Trail Ruins, too. When 1.20 comes out I hope newly generated secret teaching rooms in the Ancient City centers get new examples with the Calibrated Sculk Sensor.
End cities>>>>
@@Fiucha8893End Cities look cool and I love their loot. But I was disappointed when I first visited them because I wanted them to be populated with NPCs and not just Shulkers. Maybe I'll change my mind when The End Dimension gets an upgrade.
I also love the colour of the trail ruins and i kinda hope as well as the small village like trail ruin there could be new massive variants (like ancient city sized, except its buried) of loads of things in a city but be a lot rarer
We have finally found the settlements of the Ancient Builders!
6:30 if only there was an item that helped with tiny item clutter 🤔
yes to all the rare blocks. reminds me of a ruined version of Mythical Sausages builds
I found an exposed trail ruins while experimenting. So i went into survival with an shovel, pickaxe and brush and excavated the whole thing. It was really fun and the thing looked great.
Fun fact: If you want to brush every possible block you actually have to dig out the ruins all from the top. Because if you dig out the main room and then from their dig in direction of the trails on the bottom, it can happen that you destroy the suspicious gravel blocks, because you make them fall.
I tore one of these apart in my world and got a ton of pottery peices and armor trims but I kind of regretted digging out all the terracotta instead of getting to see what the structure looked like from a far. It might be cool to try building one of these but how it might have looked before it became burried
same
i destroyed the whole thing before i realized it was a whole structure, i did. get a cool armor trim tho
Using tool of stone will be much more useful in these sites, that way I can reduce the risk of breaking the sands with the loot.
I'm thinking Trail Ruins will make Minecraft buildings more colorful. Still hoping to be able to dye the pots and possibly even fire and glaze them...
I hope this update or a minor update adds the pink Moolip cow from Minecraft Earth in the cherry blossom biome as it really fits with the biome.
Nope no fun so not getting added sorry maybe next year!
@@bababab6906 I didn't mean for Minecraft 1.20, I just meant it for a minor update. Maybe it will be in the next mob vote.
With the road sloping down, kind of makes me think that it is heading to the ancient city that is below the ground. heck even some the structures have the look of the ancient city.
Wrong
Super excited to try these out and can't wait to hear what they say the lore is !!!!! Also love the change on finding some building blocks now more often then just in certain biomes again like terracotta either a Mesa or you need collect clay this addition of the trail ruins helps out allot when you cant find a Mesa and or don't have allot of clay to spare for a build :) and the colors omg give me Mayan and Aztec vibes. I honestly want to excavate one of these and make my base in it!!!!!
*I don't think the color of the structures is the real problem. The actual problem is it just looks like random blocks in random positions and not like an actual city or village. A colored old town is a good idea tho.*
It’s not supposed to look like a city. It’s supposed to look like the ruins of a building after time has compressed layers of building materials into a chunk.
This is how archeology actually is. You dig through chunks of clay and dirt to find artifacts. In real life Archeologists aren’t raiding caves.
Thanks Wattles, I have been waiting this video 😊 ! And, now that I have been spending more time with that structure, all those colors doesn’t bother me as much as they did when I saw it first time 😊
We need to be able to put efficiency on brushes with an anvil. probably really helpful when clearing a trail ruin.
Those armor trim patterns on the leather with the quartz, make it look like gingerbread men! 😂 8:26
In my opinion the color really adds to the story that it was trying to teach. There are dyes and colored glass every where showing that this civilization really did value color in their traditions. I hope this doesn't change.
Don't know how you got that out of a bunch of randomly placed blocks lmao
@@bababab6906 The blocks are not randomly placed. Mud blocks at the bottom suggests a stronger foundation; cobble and stone bricks suggest paths; bricks suggests working with fire in a kiln; glazed terracotta suggests mosaic traditions; the dyes and colored terracota suggests their art and architecture. See how 80% of the materials chosen all come from the same material: clay. This culture has obvious inspiration from meso-amaerican and islamic cultures in terms of art and architecture. All it takes is to be a bit more of a history and archeology nerd to see how the trail ruins are much closer to actual archeological finds than other ruins in minecraft which are more inspired by fantasy and fictional ruins.
I believe they will make the “ancient library” as the next archeological excavation site or maybe they will update the current library in the stronghold to have more suspicious gravel and stuff
A great addition would be a specific compass found in these structures. Like your suggestion for a bastion compass, a new compass could be found for ancient ruins.
No fun so sorry not getting added
Anyone else think that the new structure looks like a ruined town street with colourful walls on the houses lining it?
15:32 WAIT THERE IS A JIGSAW BLOCK IN THE STRUCTURE BEHIND THE SAND
I found at least a couple on the surface in bedrock edition. That is, one was in an exposed cave, the other one in kind of a a ravine.
I know others have said this but when brushing suspicious sand/gravel, you can see what the item inside is before even finishing, so if its something that'll just clutter your inventory (SEEDS) just stop before the brushing is done and break the block normally. Saves space and time
You know, for something to be that deep it would take millenia. Which makes you wonder how old the deep dark city is.
I think it’s more likely that the city was built underground rather then buried, since they are in large caverns
Ancient cities only look white because their paint has worn off over time. In reality, Roman and Greek cities were brightly painted with a variety of colors, much like these structures. The whole white marble aesthetic is just based on a historical misconception
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I think ancient cities are a great addition lore-wise, even thinking of how.
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The terracotta army was found painted but due to oxidization eight basically turns gray in a few minutes, that’s why people are not excavating them anymore. They want to dig after we have the technology to keep the color.
We do have, but it's costly. Blow in some inert gas...
@@annasolovyeva1013 yeah its going to be really hard to seal the entire place for that and expensive as well
@@junchan_3200 yes. So we theoretically could do it (seal the place and a camera attached to it with film, like a bubble, and blow in some nitrogen. Work with oxigen tanks or using mechanisms), but in practice that's too expensive.
Love these structures! Can’t wait for the update!
I think the structures are amazing! It would be cool if you could find ancient tools or weapons but make them really rare!
Nah Minecraft doesn't like fun
Wouldn’t really make sense if they had like tools, since they’ve been in the ground for so long it probably turned into dirt, dust, rust, etc.
Though, you can found diamonds and emeralds from suspicious sand/gravel.
@@Tay10rd True but you could say the same with other loot items, for example glass
what would be REALLY cool, is if there were some kind of villager workstations that you could only find in this structure (maybe in the purple room) for some new villager variants
It would be nice if the cartographer villager gets a new trade with maps to these structures. At least on bedrock they seem to also appear above ground, but in small ravines or exposed caves.
Personally I like the colorful buildings ( remains rather), and if you take the time to restore them as best you can by the clues, it starts making more sense. The tower is pretty easy to restore (and IMO looks rather good in restored condition), but the other buildings need some imagination. It looks like the random blocks are parts of roofs and walks that collapsed. I also suspect that entire parts of the buildings have dropped down a block from where they should have been.
I love the clues and speculation as to what happened (earthquake, flood, volcano eruption?) that caused the structures to collapse and fill with sand dirt and gravel. The colors gives me sn impression that the civilization was rich and thriving, and the workstations that were also shown in the video tells it was quite advanced. Seems to me it whould have been quite peaceful and based on farming as well, as no weapons or types of armor are found in the loot table. Not sure how the armor troms fit into that line of thought though.
Ceremonial armor. Gotta have that drip for festival days.
It's probably not big enough to have been an actual city, but I think it might have been some sort of general store, or place where travelers on the road would be able to rest. This makes sense, because the structure where the job blocks were would have probably been where craftsmen made stock for the store, the tower could have been an inn, and, going off of what another comment on this video said about armor trims reperesenting professions, then it would make sense that, if it is a general store or inn, all types of people would be there.
Found this and was beyond confused, thanks for the help wattles
My father was an actual archaeologist (God rest his soul) I went on excavation trips with him. It's pretty accurate you'll find a lot of junk. What junk that is depends on the time of the excavation site. Like pottery shards from an ancient rubbish pit or where they discarded their bones after eating. If you're unlucky, their latrine. Or 150 year old buttons, broken bottles and where they tossed their crappy old candlestick. Then 5% of the time you find something REALLY GOOD.
I love this. Want the update in my world so I can go out and explore some more!
I found 3 of them so far. One went down Into an open area with more structures, the second went down Into water, and the third seems to be completely above ground.
Yo this is epic to see I can't wait to find one when I just walking around
promoting the bundle like this... got me interested for the bundle for the first time
The bundle is also usefull for other stuff e.g. take 1 of each working block (enderchest, anvil, workbench, bed ect.) on only one space.
Or store lots of differnt maps.
Or store raw ores until you get 9 to condense them to a block
stuff like this makes me wonder how sandlogged/gravellogged/dirtlogged blocks could work. like removing them could create carpet-like blocks. loose sand/gravel/dirt.
Well well well, I love it.
Gona make a hole museum and put EVERY item I fond in there.
Great video.
I would love to see a handful of these structures with the terricatta replaced with their fired vierients - like over thime they faided due to being burried for eons and the fired blocked were what they really looked like when they were lived in so long a go!
I am very busy with university work. I have to spend at least 16 hours a day. But I definitely watch Wattles's video, even if I don't have time to play minecraft. Most days, the only youtube video I watch is Wattles's video.
mojang I don't care about seasons in minecraft but could we get some foggy mornings or nights in minecraft where fireflies fly and cicadas chirp and its slightly humid. or more rainy days or drizzleing outside. it would help the world to feel less boring and it would be fun and cozy. AND it would keep your base feeling fresh and more beautiful. plssss mojang! ps this is the SON of Anton and Megan Rytting.
The trail ruins are so interesting! I like to believe that the ruins used to be outposts/rest stops for wandering villagers. The pottery and armor templates make me believe they were some kind of trading posts with artisans, and with the more advanced stuff they had, because it was such high traffic foot areas, a lot of these posts got to be more technologically advanced than villages of the time.
Though I have an another theory based on the armor templates.
I think the armor templates point to the thought of different clans based on the design patterns of the armor. These patterns told about where someone with that armor was from, or their specialty perhaps? Like how the military has different branches, the armor has different styles to signify the different branch someone specialized in like the wave for ocean, etc.
If that’s true then that would mean that the trail ruins might really have been outposts/rest stops, since where they’re located are in far out places that look like they might be where patrols would go.
Those are my theories at any rate.
Can't wait for 1.21!
It’d be cool if you could find signs with the enchantment table language on it around the structure or something
The sand and gravel indicate that the structures were taken by a great flood, that spanned the entire world. I feel that this update is an expansion to the ocean monuments and drowned villages. It's a nice addition to the lore and immersion of the Minecraft world. Given this information, I'd think that the oversaturation of colored clay is due to erosion of what it used to be. So, we'd have to be creative if we want to restore the structures.
A high efficiency shovel should actually be the last thing to bring, because you could accidentally mine some of the "suspicious" soil along with the usual stuff that you're trying to clear away. Any form of mining, or moving the suspicious materials will ruin the suspiciousness.
Wattles the efficiency shovel is driving me insane, use a stone one
I love it all! The colors. The digging/brushing. I just found my first fossil & dug it out. I was geeking out. 😂
Every time I take a break they always add in so much stuff I have to catch back on. Currently learning about the new flying mobs and everything from the last update lol
In archaeology, they actually dig up trash mounds because trash shows the way ancient life was so calling it junk makes sense and as you dig more you'll find rare, valuable, and artistic stuff just like the game :)
Hi wattles, and sorry about my last comment, it was a misunderstanding, you are the best Minecraft TH-camr!!!
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There are actually 4 Armor trims found in the trail ruins. Wayfinder, shaper, raiser and host.
Time to recreate an ancient civilization and "hire" actors to play out the role... WAIT DOES THIS EXPLAIN THE JUNGLE VILLAGERS?!
Wattles i urge you to say this !!
What if we were able to get skulls here ??
This will probably tell a lot of story 🙂 and as these structures are ancient it should have leather armour as the cloth and food like honey 🍯 might be a cool attention to detail and i think here a few mobs like zombie or spider should spawn naturally
Bundle you say, nah.
However Backpack, yes
I don't even know how it would work since minecraft worlds are randomly generated, but it would be awesome if these structures somehow led to to a village and the underground ancient villages, so you could spend hours following it like a story and mining it out and all
I'm fairly certain these are alluding to other mobs that are extinct, the one clearly looks like a sniffer head. I think the "random colors" are not as random as we initially think.
Come on Mojang the Bundle is ready just you need to add to the creative menu
and i agree with u that these structues should be improved and these are not end game structures
they are just giving junk items when excavated so the devs should work on this or add some new items or some thing better than this!
I can confirm I was able to find the Raiser armor trim when I excavated a trail ruin in a survival world I made lol
Love it! Thanks for this tutorial!
I wish we could use clay and shards to make dyed teracotta blocks with the shard textures imprinted on them
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You summoned matpat
I want a base from you here in your next world, where you discover, uncover, and rebuild in your style.
I’d like to see the terracotta toned down a bit. If there were a design to it, that would be cool. Like a window on one of these towers seems to have some design put into it. But for the most part, it just looks like a clutter of colors. Like they quite literally threw it together.
On the other hand, this does make it resemble rubble or just a crushed building a bit more
At first i used to think the structures were too messy and ugly but now I'm starting to understand their use.
I love this whole idea and i love the colors!
I had pretty much this exact same experience and same thoughts yesterday. Excavating surprisingly fun, structures interesting, junk needs bundles, sus blocks breaking by falling one block annoying (I had a sus sand that was floating so broke when the block next to it went). This makes archaeology an actual worthwhile feature and not just meh
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I love those ruins!
Here's my theory about what they used to be:
Given the name "trail ruins", the big road on it's center, the presence of stables and the little to no other structures than the tower/stables combo (I've spawned a bunch of them on a test world, one generated with only the road and the tower/stables), I would say they were a sort of breakpoint down the road where wandering people could sleep safe from creepers and such. There were people living and farming here but they weren't big villages, maybe a couple families
It's also probable they were potters, we can find almost half of the the pottery shards sorts there, and they had bricks and terracotta (baked clay, not mined from the mesa, they got "unnatural" colors), and glazed terracotta
I'm looking forward to you loving everything about chasing upgrade thingies in survival 😈
Adding up the percentages you get 95.4%, 4.6% off 100. Assuming you did miss raiser in the loot table that puts it up to 99%, which makes it just about perfect.
The only thing that is jarringly off about the trail ruins is the stonecutter block with its spinning blade, what is powering that thing after thousands of years buried?!
Apart from that I like it. I've seen way too many people not realising that the structure is actually pretty coherent once you remove all the sand and gravel. I think it is a cool structure that could maybe have a few more interesting sub-structures that make you wonder what they were rather than just buildings. Maybe like how the ancient city has some shrine-looking structures for example.
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As I was watching this video I dug up a raiser trim at a trail ruin.
I think everything is cool about the trail ruins and mud bricks
It would be cool if the sniffer egg could only be found in these structures, the law could be that the egg was protected or something and is now lost to the ages. Also, it would be could to find some sort of new music disc like the ancient city and if you have both you can combine them to discover the ancient law of the game.
Really hope they add more structures to this and make it bigger, like a whole town. I also hope that you can change the color of the armor modifiers