Rebuilding Minecraft's Trail Ruins Structure But What Did It Look Like?

[@ecko]

*Hello everyone, thankyou all for giving me the suggestion to rebuild this lost in time civilization. I've never done anything like this and I was quite nervous for the outcome but honestly although it took me over 2 hours to complete! I was so happy with the final outcome. I'd love to hear your theories on what this would have looked like!* Book Me! www.cameo.com/eckosoldier All Trail Ruins Artefacts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2SqY5qwbZ2WpZo plushie coming soon! prnt.sc/nSvgcaBGOeNq

[@Technostorm313]

This community is incredible

[@jrhrbnf-zo5ws]

One of the pottery shard had a picture of a sniffer

[@ecko]

Yeah that’s how I came up with the plant theory :)

[@wolfie-games]

​@@ecko can you make a world download

[@Mg_gaming5349]

​@@ecko can you make this worlds download

[@Lumberjack_king]

I really love the idea of the wandering traders coming from this ancient civilization I definitely think that they traveled a lot since they had terracotta also I think they were originally underground as a way to defend themselves

[@tristanmitchell1242]

The tower is the only bit that pokes above ground. Maybe it was the way to the surface? Then they used one entrance to the tower ground floor as a mine, and the other as the town.

[@unboxing_legend7708]

i personally think itd be the only time in which ud see villagers and the ancient people live together as one. unless the villagers, loot table can trade gold nuggets, the only 2 things i can assume are left that deal with gold nuggets is the player so the ancient people or the piglins, yet i wouldnt really see how the piglins would tie-in to this here unless it plays of from minecraft legends as the buildings from back then are made of all these sorts of materials and was likely a small village or town which had been raided. i still would lean more toward the ancient builders more as inhabitants and the village being abandoned due to the piglins because villagers dont at least right now, sell armour trimmed armour nor sell the things in order to make them.

[@Lumberjack_king]

@@unboxing_legend7708 true

[@Bozebo]

@@tristanmitchell1242 Maybe they're rock/ground submarines like the worms in Dune almost or the film Tremors hah! And they left behind all the long snaking caves underground :) Stick a TNT duping quarry machine on the front hah.

[@PolaIndustries444]

The trail ruins are said to be the oldest structure in the game, This is due to the pottery and smithing templates which represent the first things the Builders did when they started to leave the tribal era such as taming wolfs, Learning how to make better tools and making houses Maybe since their age, it would probably be on the surface since they wouldn’t learn how to make stuff underground that early

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

Since it uses a lot of terracotta, it could be a lost Mesa village or maybe even a badlands village too

[@FlammingHot770]

"But this is just a theory. A GAME THEORY " 😂

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

@@FlammingHot770 🥁🥁🔔

[@Zaiomi-3113]

Ruining your childhood since 2011. - Game Theory

[@strangecolouredbird]

Or the builders just had taste.

[@heyhowyadoin670]

Than the structure would probably spawn in a mesa or badlands biome

[@ajmartinez2101]

The trail ruins remind me of the Silk Road from ancient history. In my mind, the Silk Road was just that, one long road that passed through towns and cities…where someone like a wandering trader would travel along. Your recreation really did it justice, and I loved to see your thought processes, even if a little different from mine. I think that shows how there could have been so many little communities along one longer road for trading and communicating, so each town will be unique! Great watch.

[@a_weird_strawberry]

This is amazing! It turned out really good, good job!

[@ecko]

Thank you so much!

[@Kasnickijakub]

You should be decorating hardened clay pots, because they'll break. You decorate them with they are still wet.

[@LV-nb9cs]

A brick hole in the ground can only be one thing in my opinion; Water storage. Imagining the cross as a golem statue is a good idea, but the two next to him are two blocks tall, so definetly adults. If I had to guess I would say soldiers. Maybe a war memorial of some sort. Also, you always say "village", but a sable, a tower, an armoury and a few houses aren't a village. It's more likely that is was sone sort of roadsite inn, where the wandering traders slept.

[@chain_1931]

That brick hole you mentioned may of been a building at one time and just caved in due to a sink hole or other natural decays.

[@bobajett1025]

If that’s just a rest stop imagine what the actual towns looked like

[@user-gh3we8pq7t]

Yall are thinking about this too much

[@unboxing_legend7708]

i would still class it as a village in progress if anything. i believe it heavily ties in from minecraft legends where these assortments of blocks at least most or all of them, are used for villages which villagers live in and have built them selves back then. the reason why its abandoned and in ruins is because the village wasnt able to be defended against the piglins. seeming as the hero in minecraft legends can apparently speak the villagers language and talk to them easily and the fact we now know the origins of the illagers, i think both people like steve and villagers once coincided with one another at some stage traded and even the people like steve ended up making trimmed armour to defend the village while it grew and traded with likely other villages. there likely wasnt many defending the town for the villagers nor was there much in the way of golems of defense back then in which the villagers knew how to make or had the recources to make which is why some of the villager towns fell while others stood standing likely the whole way through the war.

[@SargentRail]

I tried this in survival, and it proved a challenge excavating it but I invisaged it as a kind of war-ish place. Mine had a lot of duller colours. It was in a taiga, though.

[@jackkungamer6648]

The trims are culture wears for minecraft witch I really like

[@zamil876]

Minecraft made an addon that shows what it would have looked like!

[@bruhman-he6mn]

What's it called

[@gabrielrangel956]

The best recreation I've seen so far

[@Yarik-lego]

This is very cool!!!

[@strangecolouredbird]

I'd like to do this too! It's a cracking idea!

[@johnathonklett2679]

15:05 says they weren't using iron yet 16:13 says they made iron golems

[@NE0N22]

Real life counterpart of this kind of ancient civilization in real life is indus valley/Harappan valley civilization. It is also recently discovered by recent I mean 1921 no one literally knows how it ended it is said that it was flooded by the river and it kinda makes sense that Minecraft includes it and also 2/3 of times of time I found this thing under the river .

[@anickmine9495]

So cool😂

[@mushroomman4488]

The place that you think is to cook pot, I think it's related to the mini portal in the deep dark, and maybe it needs a charged creeper to activate. What do you think?

[@ecko]

my thought was since it's got the creeper on it and the creeper is a shard type they needed to extract the design before use :) so many theories :D

[@Simplycleric]

So this is just trails

[@brittanyr2790]

You should make a tutorial on how to build the trail ruins

[@ecko]

Well there was no tutorial, I just went with what my imagination seen that the time :)

[@brittanyr2790]

Ok but thanks 😁

[@brittanyr2790]

What I was meaning was for people who don't have the update so they can have it in their world!

[@dinoguyadventures7531]

Is great I give it 91/100 and oncs this new build comes to minecraft is goaan de installed what would I do but im sure for month for now is not happening when even we get update for it

[@meme5776]

Why does the trail ruins look a bit like burger king

[@TreeSpire]

i cant find the structure, whenever i find a trail ruin and i dig under it its just dirt and stone

[@ecko]

Go down 12 blocks, it’s bugged on bedrock atm

[@TreeSpire]

@@ecko oh okay thanks

[@Nithoe]

can i have the world plz?

[@phoenixdening6434]

when you realise mojang started copying legend of zelda breath of the wild with sculk covering a giant city

[@javer9972]

Im early :>

[@hootowl9006]

Really liked how you rebuilt the ruins! Appreciate the time it must have taken to do it! Came out really good! Keep up the amazing content! Hope you are having a fantastic day! Take care.

[@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣΚΑΤΣΕΛΗΣ]

What if the "friend" pottery shard is actually a Tuff golem and Mojang wanted us to vote it cuz it was the protector of this structure in ancient times?❤

[@karllelke2896]

I imagine that they would have used many different colours, because we can find so many of them in the ruins. Maybe they were highly spiritual with different dyes and ceremonies (maybe a bit like Indias kinda festives). I love the work you've done and if one wanted to expand it, I think a "colourstore" would be a good fit as well.

[@unboxing_legend7708]

or just part of their evolution and growth finding out new things. put it this way, if villagers once lived there which seems likely, weve already seen villagers grow over the years and become semi advanced as well. they went from simple huts to full fledge houses, trading basic items to advanced items, we see how they work and function and live now moreless, they never even really had proper pathways, it was made out of wood and now they have clean dirt pathways and slightly more advanced docks for the villages that live next to rivers and oceans.

[@Minecraftassassin-re6og]

Just like when you rebuilt the trial ruins to its formal glory I rebuilt the whole ancient city and made it livable based on the loot and a bit of logic (and when I mean by livable I mean literally livable for villagers and the players themselves) admittedly it was a nightmare to do but definitely worth it and as for someone who does archaeological work with structures and civilizations in Minecraft it was fascinating bc of the designs of each building and how they lived and the history behind it all

[@Lumberjack_king]

That’s really cool it would be awesome to see it

[@Minecraftassassin-re6og]

@@Lumberjack_king I may just show it one day and show what the ancient city would of like before it's ruin but for now they is more mysteries to discover and more questions to answer (like the evolution of life on the overworld, how was the nether and end truly discovered, who built the strongholds and mineshafts, how did plant life get into the end, why are the piglings obsessed with gold, who made the end portal frame and why, why is the player driven to kill the Ender dragon if it's already imprisoned in the end, why do zolings and piglings zombifie in the overworld) and throughout my time in my archaeological work I have learnt to speak villager, illager and in the middle of learning to speak pigling (although speaking to illagers I can only do thought vindicators)

[@Lumberjack_king]

@@Minecraftassassin-re6og I absolutely love this comment also do you know endermen actually speak a distorted version of English

[@Minecraftassassin-re6og]

@@Lumberjack_king I do and I made it my Minecraft life's mission to uncover the hidden history and secrets of Minecraft and reveal what life was truly like before the player spawned in the overworld (I have always been an architectural style player) and my goals were always to share knowledge no matter how little it is (funny enough the statis chamber on java edition can be built on bedrock edition and I have uncovered how to do it and the ways to use it)

[@Lumberjack_king]

@@Minecraftassassin-re6og that’s incredible you kind remind me of the mobeastiary book’ also what’s the “stasis chamber”

[@Lumberjack_king]

I like how you interpreted the structure I disagree about some things but it’s cool

[@rustyshackleford234]

I just realized that I used to watch your channel as a kid nearly a decade ago! And I’ve recently just re-discovered you!

[@ecko]

:) yes I'm very old in the youtube world

[@rustyshackleford234]

@@ecko I’m glad to see your still doing very well! 😁

[@GonzoStudioz]

That’s sick!

[@ansh-458]

Kuta

[@jackkungamer6648]

The trims are more like tribes

[@نعم-انها-المخدرات]

Who love 1.20?

[@MahmoudGaming739]

Me

[@MahmoudGaming739]

The 1.20 have many features than the 1.19

[@มกราสิงห์กวาง]

I like it Minecraft 1.20 is more a lot of features lol

[@มกราสิงห์กวาง]

Is better than 1.19 because 1.19 has a lowest features lol but 1.20 in mcpe he will add sniffer eggs and a pitcher plants

[@mrman287]

Me

[@jrhrbnf-zo5ws]

I saw people looking into the trail ruin file and there are many variety structures, one of them is a structure that had furnace, blast furnace, grindstone, the table that use for armor trim

[@ecko]

Maybe I should find another one and rebuild that 🤔

[@leadharsh0616]

​@@ecko that room also contains iron bars! So they were using iron

[@kazueballesteros3665]

Imagine your a wandering trader going to the trail ruins only to find some random player fixing it lol

[@parrio227]

18:00 i feel like the stairs could be to a kind of rooftop the way it is on some default houses in desert villages

[@Sergeantsyrup10]

Yeah when I dug up my trail ruins wandering traders started spawning

[@jackkungamer6648]

Hey Ecko, when 1.20 come out Witch trims would you choose they all looks like a deffrent Nation Armor Witch is cool for Servers who build nation. For me it will be the snout one

[@rubylikessonic2]

When 1.20 comes out I'm gonna do this in my survival world

[@mushroomman4488]

As soon as I saw the part that you think is a reference to the cooking the pots I think it is i

[@IndifferentRAM]

Ngl, I haven't watched a non Minecraft update related video of yours in a long time. This is a good video!

[@PROUD_TITOIST]

1:50 that brick thing to me looks like "Portal statue" from ancient city

[@GonzoStudioz]

I just need a download for the original, or just fully excavated ruin.

[@mrmuffins951]

In my worlds I’ve always just destroyed structures. I’ve torn down entire villages but this inspired me to rebuild a trials ruins instead of tearing it down. Awesome video! I’d love to see another video with something like an ocean ruins, bastion remnants, shipwreck, or portal ruins

[@ETHAN-is3li]

I wonder how trail ruins would look in the real world

[@dankRITZ.]

I'm doing this to! But I ain't messing with the underground,I'm duplicating it above the trail ruin,I also found it while a nearby igloo with the dungeon.

[@willrapp6066]

Some great theories but you should have worked with what was already there and not added and taken away so much with absolutely nothing to show that it should be that way. I’m no archeologist but a more scientific approach would’ve been nice to see. 😢

[@unboxing_legend7708]

the 1 thing i keep seeing on these ruin trail resotration type videos in minecraft is how poorly people wrongly assume how they were once built and trying to add their own flare's into it rather than building it back up and just preserving it. to me and my opinion of it, when people say they are going to restore the buildings, they dont pay near enough attention to how it was actually designed and what each room actually is which annoys me. people tend to say and speak about the loot table of what u can find while digging but then instantly forget about it when building up the buildings and the tower and each room to what they actually are. idk if it is this video or the last one i just watched on someone else's but, i noticed there was a shop room of some sort within one of the buildings and even though they vaguely assumed it could be one, the person decided to make more of a mess with the room and not correctly understand what it clearly is.

[@AllenBlackjack]

You've inspired me. When I get Minecraft working again, I'll be building a Trail City

[@louaisalmi5128]

Hi Ecko I think the crawling is going to be available on bedrock edition because thee is a bug where if you keep pushing piston on your head back and forward your camera show you that you can go under one block gap idk if it's a real bug or crawling is on development tho ❤

[@A11V1R15]

I think the "danger room" had wood or hay roof, since it is missing

[@ecko]

love that theory

[@abhijitjoshi4767]

Everyone just focusing on trail ruins completely forgoting ancient city also home of an ancient civilizations

[@AMG_Lunar]

That’s so cool

[@Arctic.]

i found a secret room under the building near the tower [there was a ladder and if you dig down there was more ladders]

[@richardterry3000]

I found a map table in the top of the stairs at 17:30 of the video. An early astronomy or observatory room?

[@Masonkale]

Bruh the creeper like shrin was a grave stone not a thing for making pots

[@DanQuirino1985]

The Ancient cities are old, ok, the name says that, they are effing old. But I'm inclined to believe the Trail ruins still predates the Ancient cities by at least a few centuries. The absence of iron pickaxes and any iron related item like lanterns for example are at least an argument for that. That also means no diamonds, so those 4 trimmed diamond armors over there were not possible in their time. Their armor trims were being used on leather probably. Anyway, peoples that descended from the trail ruins people managed to keep the armor trim tradition alive. So they went to several other parts of the world and started customizing their armor trims to their surroundings. Another possibility maybe even in conjunction with the previous one, is that at some point, when the war broke out the armor trims were necessary as a type of uniform so you could identify each people and know who were your enemies and who were allies. But overall, your rebuilding of the trails was great.

[@BradleyPickersgill]

Alot of the trail ruins spawn with iron bars, grind stones, smithing table. They definitely used iron.

[@kedaarsumeshkrishnan6751]

Wait what if they used sniffers for food resource cuz sniffers dig out seeds from the ground

[@itsmewiraXD]

Sorry Ecko. I Am Late 2 Hours I Am Busy

[@mushroomman4488]

As soon as I saw the part that you think is a reference to the cooking the pots I think it is is

[@onebeartoe]

Thanks I was looking for something just like this!

[@MrKarat-up8gx]

I like their build Style these are not the average wood houses

[@teamoutdoable750]

Maybe the gold nuggets were for the yellow trimming on the robes

[@JOBELIKE_MC]

First comment The new structure is just a big mess

[@gamingsquarestudios7968]

At 16:27 it think those are graves in my opinion. That big grave is for adults and the smaller one is for children i think so and at 17:19 i think that is well with stairs i am from india and we call it 'baoli'. Baoli means a big and deep well with stairs inside it. People go through stairs and take water from well. I think it's a baoli.

[@ecko]

that makes sense :D

[@sleepsadist]

This structure is giving me village defense vibes

[@MrPudding605]

so you say that they didint had any irons but they had iron golems

[@bogeeb2567]

Anybody know a seed where you spawn near trail ruins

[@samlove-qv9fp]

9:32 those roses not being aligned to one another are making me osd

[@SGGaming-jb6wo]

There is a water source on that village a.k.a economic place of traders which is the well or a flowing source of water. Caravans, Inn or houses, tents for traders when selling livestocks, chickens, and other items. The Magi a.k.a Wondering Traders are the one who roam around, place to place with the same village to other villages around the over world of Minecraft. The ancient villagers are also on that village to summon the Friend (Iron Golem) and for trading. Originally, the Wondering Traders was once on that place, but even though they have their own village, they still roam to trade with their caravans of llamas. The traders who visited foreign villages prefer ro stay on tents or rent houses... That's how it was and some structure soon might have many variant of structures (not the same pattern as what we have today) that would define the culture, identity, race of the villagers/traders.

[@Plutoniumsniffer]

The trails ruins is just a pot factory

[@comicreaperharry3723]

I have a theory about these ruin, what if many many years ago these civilizations were originally living on the surface of Minecraft, but the world terraforming itself or some big disaster happened burring them all.

[@jacobbailey6919]

Hey Ecko the copy cords on Playstation just gone Idk what's going on

[@ecko]

just go to creator settings and turn them on

[@Voltaire8559]

This explains what went on at Knossos when the pseudo archaeologists were reconstructing the “palace”. When you reconstruct a site without understanding the evidential context and only follow your feeling, then the site is no longer accurately reconstructed, just re-imagined.

[@BeneathTheBrightSky]

My new lore theory for the trail ruins is that they were built by the ancient builder, those who accidentally created a zombie plague. My idea is that, while most of the time they hid in nether fortresses and bastions, when they needed to go to the overworld (for some reason or another), they would use the trail ruins as a way to safely get around below ground where they were safe from zombies. If they had to venture aboveground, they would do so through the tower.

[@johnethanjeber1235]

I attempted to rebuild the trail ruins

[@damatapetindvajset6540]

Maybe the mysterious stairs you eventually destroyed could've been leading to some kind of terrace on the roof, giving the message that the house belonged to some important person

[@theguys0305]

The trail ruins can be constructed entirely from dirt, dye and dripstone. Turn the dirt to mud turn it to mud bricks or dry it out with the dripstone technique. Then smelt the clay to terracotta or smelt the clay balls into bricks.

[@Bluepandaiscool]

i'm color blind too lol

[@Nithoe]

idk how to send world downloads :(

[@SHADOWPAW13]

I was on the fence about excavating the ruins, but watching your video made it seem fun to repair them 😊

[@joshuahicks8511]

They updated it gotta try again

[@Mrh8913]

Some graves? 16:36

[@teamoutdoable750]

It could be a structure for wandering traders, a lot of the colors go along with them

[@emmortis2684]

I wanna live there

[@arnamtapraniya5441]

First comment

[@Pb7.62]

Devlopment lore!!

[@mydogblacky8040]

Yeeeeeees

[@MECKENICALROBOT]

What about *thatched roofs?* 5:30 or mud & straw

[@twotonedrew]

Absolutely awesome

[@Fracture35]

Ye bro

[@mrsmiley5602]

It kind of make sense because he does sell you a lot of the stuff you find In the structure

[@ecko]

yeah I thought so too, now he lost his home and wanders to still make ends meet

[@robinagreer]

I love this... 10 outta 10!

[@Mudassar.Riaz47]

Sir how to get shadow in mcpe

[@ecko]

?

[@cvk4488]

@@ecko Guess he meant how to get shaders which look realistic

[@TheGJgaming07]

This is actually awesome!

[@gatewoodanimations9753]

Looks really good!

[@MutantSeek]

I love your vids!

[@MutantSeek]

Hi 1st!

[@CreeperPlayz.................]

Mojang added social studies to minecraft💀💀

[@co-jt6gd]

Count me in, I love social studies! And science.