How to Locate Desert Ruins in Survival and Creative

Locating the overhauled Desert Ruins can be done either naturally through villager cartography or immediately using commands.

Finding Maps via Cartographers

Because this data pack replaces standard vanilla desert pyramids with expansive Desert Ruins, you can track them down in Survival using maps.

1. Find or employ a Cartographer villager using a cartography table.

2. Ensure experimental trade features are active in your world settings, as Cartographers require experimental trades enabled to offer Desert Explorer Maps (or Desert Village Maps).

3. Trade emeralds and compasses to level up the Cartographer until the explorer map becomes available in their trade offerings.

4. Hold the map in your hand and follow the marker across the desert to reach the site.

Finding Structures with Commands

If you have cheats enabled or are in Creative mode, you can immediately find the nearest overhauled temple using the /locate command. Open the chat console and enter either of the following commands:

• /locate structure nova_structures:desert_ruins
• /locate structure minecraft:desert_pyramid

The chat will return the coordinates of the closest structure. Click the coordinates in the chat log to auto-fill a teleport command and travel straight there.