Minecraft Buried Treasure Finder

How to find buried treasure from a Minecraft seed

How buried treasure is placed

Buried treasure generates in beach and ocean biomes on a per-chunk check, so a beach can hold one chest in this chunk and nothing in the next. The chest is always hidden under sand or gravel roughly one block below the surface, never buried deep.

Heart of the Sea

Every buried-treasure chest contains a Heart of the Sea, the key ingredient for crafting a conduit that gives underwater breathing and night vision. Treasure maps from shipwrecks and ocean ruins point to the same chests, so the two scans work well together.

Digging to the chest

The scan returns the exact block X/Z, so drop to sea level, walk to the coordinates and dig down one or two blocks until you break into the chest. On land the chest sits around Y 60; near the shore it can spill out of the sand underwater.

The scan runs in your browser on the same free engine as the main SeedFinder console: no download, no login, and it reads Bedrock and Java seeds. Prefer to script it? Use the same engine over the REST API. See the API documentation.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I find buried treasure?

Enter your seed and position above and press Scan - Buried Treasure is already selected, so you get the exact chest coordinates.

What is in buried treasure?

Always a Heart of the Sea plus a mix of iron, gold, diamonds and other loot. The Heart of the Sea is required to craft a conduit.

Bedrock and Java?

Both editions are supported; set the Game version field to match your world.