Sunken Treasure
Using a shovel enchanted with Fortune on sand in an ocean or river biome has a chance to yield sunken treasure. This can include rare loot like sponges and a Message in a Bottle.
Guide
In order to have a chance of obtaining a sunken treasure reward from a block of sand, the player must have at least 4 blocks of water above them and break the sand block with a shovel enchanted with Fortune. Each additional level of Fortune increases the chance of receiving sunken treasure from a sand block; Fortune I yields a 10% chance, Fortune II yields a 26% chance, and Fortune III yields a 48% chance.
Main Rewards
If the player obtains sunken treasure from a sand block, the distribution of items they can find is below. Note that the weights of the first table are not quite exact due to a simplification of how the sunken treasure loot tables are actually set up, but for all intensive purposes, they are close enough.
In Java Edition, each sunken treasure contains 1 item stacks, with the following distribution:
| Item | Stack Size [FN 1] | Weight [FN 2] | Chance [FN 3] | Avg. per chest [FN 4] |
Avg. # chests to search [FN 5] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bone |
1 | 1729⁄9999 | 17.3% | 0.173 | 5.8 |
| File:ParallelItemSprite message-in-a-bottle.pngMessage In A Bottle | 1 | 1152⁄9999 | 11.5% | 0.115 | 8.7 |
 Prismarine Crystals |
1 | 576⁄9999 | 5.8% | 0.058 | 17.4 |
| File:ParallelItemSprite waders.pngWaders | 1 | 300⁄9999 | 3.0% | 0.030 | 33.3 |
 Bottle o' Enchanting |
1 | 288⁄9999 | 2.9% | 0.029 | 34.7 |
 Gold Ingot |
1 | 288⁄9999 | 2.9% | 0.029 | 34.7 |
 Leather Boots |
1 | 250⁄9999 | 2.5% | 0.025 | 40.0 |
| File:ParallelItemSprite treasure-chest.pngTreasure Chest | 1 | 58⁄9999 | 0.6% | 0.006 | 172.4 |
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- ↑ The weight of this item relative to other items in the pool.
- ↑ The odds of finding any of this item in a single chest.
- ↑ The number of items expected per chest, averaged over a large number of chests.
- ↑ The average number of chests the player should expect to search to find any of this item.
Treasure Chest Rewards
The rarest item the player has a chance of obtaining from a sunken treasure drop is a Treasure Chest, which has the following distribution:
In Java Edition, each sunken treasure chest contains items drawn from 7 pools, with the following distribution:
| Item | Stack Size [FN 1] | Weight [FN 2] | Chance [FN 3] | Avg. per chest [FN 4] |
Avg. # chests to search [FN 5] |
||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1× | 0–2× | 1–3× | 4–8× | 2–4× | 0–1× | 2× | 1× | 0–2× | 1–3× | 4–8× | 2–4× | 0–1× | 2× | ||||
 Clay Ball |
— | — | — | 5–9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15⁄50 | — | — | — | 86.7% | 12.600 | 1.2 |
 Sand |
— | — | — | 1–4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15⁄50 | — | — | — | 86.7% | 4.500 | 1.2 |
 Raw Cod |
— | — | — | — | — | — | 2–5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5⁄14 | 58.7% | 2.500 | 1.7 |
 Raw Salmon |
— | — | — | — | — | — | 2–5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5⁄14 | 58.7% | 2.500 | 1.7 |
 Lapis Lazuli |
— | — | — | — | 4–12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10⁄50 | — | — | 47.9% | 4.800 | 2.1 |
 Gunpowder |
— | — | — | — | 2–5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10⁄50 | — | — | 47.9% | 2.100 | 2.1 |
 Iron Nugget |
— | — | — | — | 1–4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10⁄50 | — | — | 47.9% | 1.500 | 2.1 |
 Gold Nugget |
— | — | — | — | 1–3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10⁄50 | — | — | 47.9% | 1.200 | 2.1 |
 Emerald |
— | 1–2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 20⁄35 | — | — | — | — | — | 46.3% | 0.857 | 2.2 |
| Bone |
— | — | — | — | 1–5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5⁄50 | — | — | 26.8% | 0.900 | 3.7 |
 Rotten Flesh |
— | — | — | — | 1–5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5⁄50 | — | — | 26.8% | 0.900 | 3.7 |
 Diamond |
— | 1–2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10⁄35 | — | — | — | — | — | 25.9% | 0.429 | 3.9 |
 Enchanted Book[FN 6] |
— | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2⁄4 | — | 25.0% | 0.250 | 4.0 |
 Heart Of The Sea |
1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10⁄61 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16.4% | 0.164 | 6.1 |
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"avgamount": 4.8, "chanceany": 0.4794666666666667 }, "clay-ball": { "itemname": "clay-ball", "sizes": [ "—", "—", "—", "5–9", "—", "—", "—" ], "sortsize": [ 0, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0 ], "sortweight": [ 0, 0, 0, 15, 0, 0, 0 ], "weights": [ "—", "—", "—", "<sup>15</sup>⁄<sub>50</sub>", "—", "—", "—" ], "avgamount": 12.6, "chanceany": 0.866835738 }, "gunpowder": { "itemname": "gunpowder", "sizes": [ "—", "—", "—", "—", "2–5", "—", "—" ], "sortsize": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 3.5, 0, 0 ], "sortweight": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0 ], "weights": [ "—", "—", "—", "—", "<sup>10</sup>⁄<sub>50</sub>", "—", "—" ], "avgamount": 2.1, "chanceany": 0.4794666666666667 }, "emerald": { "itemname": "emerald", "sizes": [ "—", "1–2", "—", "—", "—", "—", "—" ], "sortsize": [ 0, 1.5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ], "sortweight": [ 0, 20, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ], "weights": [ "—", "<sup>20</sup>⁄<sub>35</sub>", "—", "—", "—", "—", "—" ], "avgamount": 0.8571428571428571, "chanceany": 0.4625850340136055 } }, "structID": "sunken-treasure-chest", "poolsJavaUpcoming": [], "structure": "Sunken Treasure Chest", "container": "sand block", "itemDataJavaUpcoming": [], "allRollsJavaUpcoming": [], "itemDataBedrock": [], "poolsBedrock": [], "allRollsBedrockUpcoming": [], "allRollsBedrock": [], "itemDataBedrockUpcoming": [], "chest_type": "suspicious sand", "header": "[[parallel:Sunken Treasure]]", "allRollsJava": [ 1, "0–2", "1–3", "4–8", "2–4", "0–1", 2 ], "link": "[[parallel:Sunken Treasure]]" } } }- ↑ The size of stacks (or for unstackable items, number) of this item on any given roll.
- ↑ The weight of this item relative to other items in the pool.
- ↑ The odds of finding any of this item in a single chest.
- ↑ The number of items expected per chest, averaged over a large number of chests.
- ↑ The average number of chests the player should expect to search to find any of this item.
- ↑ All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed, and Swift Sneak), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.