How to Prevent Breaking Desert Pyramid Loot Blocks

Desert pyramids contain buried rooms and sand-filled areas where suspicious sand blends seamlessly into the surrounding floor. A high-efficiency shovel can destroy several suspicious sand blocks before you notice the slight texture difference.

Surveying the Temple Floor

1. Enter the desert pyramid and bring torches or another light source to illuminate the interior floor.

2. Scan the sand blocks on the floor for the small red crewmate shape in the corner of the texture.

3. Brush any immediately visible marked blocks before you start digging down to reveal the rest of the buried archaeological site.

Digging Out Buried Sand Safely

Because both regular sand and suspicious sand are affected by gravity, breaking an unmarked block underneath a marked one will cause the suspicious sand to fall and shatter, destroying the loot inside.

1. Always excavate from the top layer down rather than digging a vertical shaft and clearing from the bottom.

2. Remove unmarked sand blocks one layer at a time with your shovel.

3. Whenever a red crewmate icon appears on the top face of a block in the layer below you, pause your digging.

4. Use your brush on that marked block immediately. Once the item pops out, the red crewmate icon disappears, letting you know the block has reverted to normal sand and can be safely dug away to reach the layer beneath it.