Buried Treasure Chests, Ruins, and Shipwreck locations can be incorrect.

Updated the title, as it seems to affect multiple structures rather than just buried treasure chests.

If there are other structures that don't generate, or just appear off-set, please let us know 🙂

@Mega_Spud. I purposely travelled over 10000 blocks away from my hub in a location that ive never been before. All other strictures do generate. (At least the ones I see.) so it’s obvious that said chunks were all generated in 1.4

Since I posted that I have done a tonne more exploring and have found 9 different locations for Buried Tresure. Of those 9 4 of them did not have a chest. I asked Reddit and they gave me some tips and even with that it was no use. It seems to me that only 50% of all Buried Tresure generates.

In some cases, chunks can be generated without being explored. For example, a chunk can be generated simply because it comes within your render distance. The fact that you found nothing but gravel, no sea grass or kelp or coral, strongly suggests that this is the case. In my testing, I found only gravel in areas that I had explored and also in areas near explored areas, but when I traveled several thousand blocks into unexplored territory I found not only ruins, but sea grass and kelp all over.

For the same reason, it's fairly common for there to be isolated chunks within an ocean with sea grass, kelp, and/or coral, surrounded by barren chunks.

It doesn't look like -5 is a constant. I've seen chests with offset -2, -2 in the same world that I've seen -5, -5 offset before. For the cases where I'm sure the chunk is newly generated, I've never seen the chest to be entirely missing yet. I'm doing the search in creative mode and use commands to replace sand, dirt, stone etc. with glass around the area where maps identify. 

I think there may be two issues here but both location problems. I have found, in my newly created 1.4 iOS world, that the locator icon on the map does not represent my true position and is off by a few blocks e.g. The entire icon may be in water when I am clearly still on land. Therefore the locator may show you at the centre of the treasure cross but you may not actually be where the locator icon shows you on the map - with map held vertically and definitely not if held at an angle. It is a bug, surely, that the locator icon moves and shows a different location depending on the angle of the map as it is now means that locating exact locations using the map alone is impossible even with a map that is not zoomed out. I have not be able to find any buried treasure by either using locate command or the maps.

Please refer to the related issue with the map marker being offset: MCPE-32535

This can occur when the map is in different hands, and when looking up and down.

Added a picture that shows the chest is generated but then gets overwritten as it cannot be found when digging. I have only found buried treasure, off the Red Cross admittedly, when there is air around it never when it is completely buried.

I have the same problem

Ran into this issue recently with my first treasure map as well. were the worlds created before 1.13 and updated to it? i have yet to try starting a brand new world to see if i can reproduce my (multiple) issues.

First two treasure maps in our new world, excavated a 20x20 area around cross down to stone....nothing!

this bug is still active in v1.5.3, i'm not starting a new world so that s not the answer we want, we want this fixed for the worlds we have created in this Minecraft game, we've already spent weeks fixing game with all the broken stuff from aquatic update and now this stuff doesn't work, just a fix would be nice