I Excavated a Trail Ruin! 

I would love to see a restoration of a ruin! I'm sure it would be a lot of work and up for a lot of personal, creative interpretation, but I think the minecraft community is more forgiving of that sort of thing.

As someone who works in archaeology, I love that you did this!

That was so cool the way you went from archeologist to tour guide. Leaving the ruins in tact was a great idea too. If you find another, do you think you might want to take your best shot at restoring it to its former glory? I bet the villagers would love to learn about their past.

Personally I think it would be quite cool if you rebuilt the rest of the ruin with glass, sort of like what’s been done at Stone Henge, where you can look through some glass to see what it used to look like, by lining up an outline. But if you filled in all the holes and walls with glass, it’ll also make it easier to walk around but still preserving it

Just an idea I would like to see come to fruition, can you find a trail ruin and try to make it as complete as possible? Maybe otherwise making a city with the blocks used in these trail ruins.

Suspicious gravel and sand should be craftable and be able to put what you want in them as like a scavenger hunt for your friends

Thanks for preserving the ruin during excavation! Several of the new trail ruins videos I've seen so far are more about mining the whole ruin/taking all the blocks than preserving it, and I much prefer to see it intact and on display.

I love how you’ve transformed the Trail ruins and the time it took you to do this beautiful job! A tip would add a hut of the archaeological excavations in which there are cartoghrapy table for detail and lore of the series!

Now that I think about it, emeralds seem like a fair currency for experiences. Diamonds for the resources you "worked so hard" to obtain, emeralds for touring a structure or other attraction.

As an archaeologist I approve! You did a great job! Love the tour, totally worth 8 emeralds 😊 I've just spent hours fully excavating my first trial ruin. Great fun!

I like your digging outfit and the tour was definitely worth 8 emeralds! It was interesting to see what these ruins are all about.

I am a professional tour guide and I say you did a great job!

You could mount lights around the perimeter walls and frog lights in the floors that are not part of the ruin. I'd go with lanterns on the walls to avoid a swimming pool effect. You could even hang a few from chains above the ruins running the chains across the top from the safety fence or the rim.

You've inspired me! I've just finished excavating my first trail ruin. It was in the jungle- quite a challenge- but luckily it was on the banks of a river and visible. Now I'm building a visitor centre and museum and then I plan to ...er.. borrow a couple of villagers from a neighboring village and breed up some jungle guides to staff the place.

Surprised you didn't put all the loot on display around the ruins using Armour Stands and Item Frames

I love what you did for your Trail Ruin! On an SMP I'm playing on I found a Trail Ruin that I dug out inside and am turning the inside into a cozy starter base! Also was completely not expecting to have a shoutout for my winning build :D

This is the exact type of video I've been looking for! I'm saving this one to not lose it! After taking a look at my world on Chunkbase, I've discovered that there's a ruin very close to my base (albeit, in already generated chunks, so I'll have to reset them), and I plan on establishing an archaeological dig site there, just like yours!

ngl marloes voice is very charming. Its actually nice to hear that voice

2:40 WOOOOOHOOOOOOO GO ON EAGLE!!!!!!!!!!

You treated this like irl archeology and that is so appreciated!

A possible edit for the future. You could have made an architectural campsite between the too ruins on that patch of land to the right of the path. All the "architect's" ( you but law wise we can say there's more) could have lived there in tents while it was under excavation, could have carts for stroke and cranes and whatever is liked 👍

I'd love to see you build some other ruins around there and make a whole archeology area that incorporates the trail ruin and nether portal

I love this archeologist content, keep it up! Next time i would like to see you dig and transforming the Desert Temple into a good tourist attraction.

I love your imagination! I haven't found a ruin yet, but this video has really made me more excited to go looking! Thanks!

I love how Minecrafts lore is taking off. Personally I felt it spike with the release of the Ancient Cities. And now being able to find and excavate all these ruins? There is so much lore surrounding Minecrafts Ancient civilizations now and im loving it.

I just came back after not watching for a few months and holy crap. He's almost at 200k. Good job man! I remember watching since the 6th episode of tektopia, and it's insane to see how much you've grown.

I liked your tour! It was very relaxing and made me smile cuz I was imagining actually being a tourist visiting that place.

i loved the tour, actually lol. itd be nice to walk around afterwards maybe. also i thought the loot would be displayed in some items frames, so visitors could more easily see it plus its protected behind the frame (less chance of thievery?). speaking of thieves, we need a giftshop for those interested in trinkets hehe anyways, good videos!

Loving the 1.20 content! As always, great video!

looks awesome! the underground sections of the building staircases should be braced with logs or something, would look great :)

Working on excavating a trail ruin for my hardcore starter base right now. Thank you for fueling the fun doing it with your video :)

I'm on Android/Bedrock and the top is visible but there was stone and soil for about 15 tiles down before the actual ruins were available. This appears to be a reported Bedrock glitch, just letting others know - don't give up, it's there!

I just now had time to watch one of my favorites!! That was a wonderful video!!! ❤ I love all of your videos but I do think this one is perhaps my favorite one!!! I loved your tour and I personally think it’s worth the admission price!! I like going thru stuff myself but a guided tour is also pretty good for the historical info. So I’d do both!! 😂😂 I’m sorry you didn’t have visitors on your big opening day!! 🤣🤣 Once again you knocked it out of the park with your video!! ☺️☺️☺️ Thank you!! 😊

Well done, absolutely enjoyed your video, I just gathered a pile of terracotta blocks by a jungle river, had no clue what they were. I'm excited now and going to go back and excavate. Maybe I can put them back like I found them 🥴

That is a great idea. I dug up every block I found, but might do something similar if I find another

ItlsIndianaMarloe!

That was a really great video! You showed up on my recommended and now I’ve subscribed 🎉 well done!

You should do another type of archeology known as 'Experimental Archeology'. Obviously, dont do it to this exact site, but maybe try to recreate this exact ruin on the surface somewhere near this site. Archeologists would do it not only for tourism and to see what a place or building would have looked like in its "hay-day", but they would do it to learn more about the culture and to understand better how these structures were built. Theres a castle thats been under construction in France by a team of archeologists out of medieval technology. NO MODERN TOOLS. Its been being worked on for over 30 years, and its a pretty small castle Theyre mostly doing it to learn and understand better how a castle was built, the culture, Why castles were built, and what it would have taken to build just a tiny modest castle.

The tour guide part was wonderful, it actually made me feel accompanied instead of being lonely watching a video. :)

You should try to restore a ruin or build a museum around it

i lije project, just small, simple, realistic and nothing over the top like those other absurd giant builds in other channels. Thanks, luved it uu❤❤❤

I wish you had left the sus gravel loot in place, then visitors could see what was found in each room and check to wonder about what each room was for

i've been looking for videos like this since the release. i actually enjoyed watching this.

That's great, well done

I was hopping to find someone doing this. I have been imaging how to make a site from the trail ruins e you gave us a wonderful inspiration. I'm creating a back story for those ruins, and i pretend to create a similar site like yours, add cranes, advanced posts, barracks and all that stuff. Got a new sub.

looks good... should have made the hole wider and had a slab path around the wall on the inside for visitors

06:16 Oh I love that you did that..

i must say this was so fun to watch and i cant wait to do this myself too :3

I like how you did the fences with the chain! V nice

Great video with excellent editing!!!❤ I don’t know if your aware of this but you have a really nice voice to listen to, your not screaming at me like so many other content creators😂

Thank you for this video! I have no idea what I’m looking for.

that person's airship is amazing!!!

Using chains to make a fence is pretty cool

I just started the video and I like it already keep up the good work. You just earned a new subscriber

I like how chill your content is

I loved it, I subscribed thanks to this video, keep it going

Magnificent effort!

Looking good on your adventure

Guided tours are awesome and help increase the appreciation for the historical site. That doesn't mean you can't let people do some of their own exploration as well. Why not have both?

It's all so cool!

Always nice to find a non-shouty minecraft youtuber :D Subbed.

It was a great video! I hope to dig up a Trail Ruin myself one day, but my excavation site for tourists will surely not be as good as yours, I am still learning to build properly 😅

It might be fun for a survival player to excavate and renovate a trail ruin and use it as a base.

The one I recently excavated was peculiar. I found no residences and signs of semi-permanent habitation. There was every type of armor trim. Then, the fact that there was an observatory and two grindstone stations. All the clues pointed towards the structure being a military outpost deep in a distant region near the edge of an Ancient Builder Empire. This could've meant that Ancient Builders even at this early stage had the means to build an imperial state. It's not that crazy considering that the first empires in the real world were created thousands of years before the Rome was even founded.

You could refurbish one too! That’d be cool

"Too many leaves in this jungle" Let me introduce you to Mr. Clicky Fire is your friend.

1:04 I’d rather put unbreaking and mending on a flint and steel than on a brush. Crafting a new brush makes copper useful 😂

Your voice is so calming and I love it

Aw the two parrots sitting together. :))

ngl the pottery sherds are really Nice used as pillars if you stack them

A restored replica would be pretty cool

oh that's so cool, it looks like the ruin was supposed to be the great sphinx of giza

for the number of sherds you got, although there are many you didnt get, only those 6 you can get from the trail ruin. You have to go to other structures to get different ones

I did this about a month ago. I moved the underground buildings up to the main level and covered the hole with glass.

The tour was so adorable hahahah

when i was playing the beta on my xbox i found one in the middle of the ocean, luckily most of it was in an underground cave that i just had to drain, still a cool find tho

The front view of the tower looks like a statue of a face. I'll have to fully excavate one of my own ruins to see if that is a feature of them.

Not gonna lie your vids are satisfying i hope you get more subs

I enjoyed this video very much. 😊

Finaly i came across the content that i was searching

This would be so cool to visit in real life.

Nice tour 😊

You know, if you put this on a server in adventure mode, people could visit. Give them eight emeralds on spawn so they can visit the ruins. Maybe add a lectern with a book and quill so they can leave a short message.

I'd pay a stack of emeralds for that tour, very well thought out.

Anybody else realise that those like burner things with the block of Coal look really close to how pots were originally going to be make in 1.17 in the live event ages ago?

New marloe upload! 🎉❤

Wow 😲 they. So good 👍

A after guide trip snack inspired by what they think they ate at the place, would fill it out just fine. people are hungry and thirsty after visits

I rlly loved this I gotta sub

Great job 😊

I love doing this and making big bridges across the ocean to villages and player towns. But the only problem is no one will ever help they want to do more fun things. Noobs don't understand 99% of there travel is built by me and all my blocks I mined myself lol 3 months gone 😂.

I think these ruins are player structures. My proof: zombies and zombie villagers are different. We rarely/never see players in normal worlds. Players are nearly extinct, their society left in Strongholds, Temples, Mineshafts, and now Ruins.

I found lots of treasuer with the trail ruins even the tropical update

idk why i havant thought of ever using the chains as a actual fence because its so simple yet so sick. also to me an idk why with this either, but the front entrance looked more to me like a face or a bunny face at that which signified to me some kind of small town with a name maybe something referenced to a bunny, or some trading village of sorts.

I love this idea ❤

The ruins look familiar for a while then as I was playing mine crafted legends they look oddly like the villages from legends

Not too bad of a job!

Such a fun video!

This guy could most definitely be on hermitcraft

hey, just suggesting! maybe excavate some more and link nether portals so that we can visit other towns at the same time! thanks! your hard work certainly paid off!