Archaeology

Archaeology is a gameplay mechanic that allows the player to find items that represent historical artifacts inside excavation sand, gravel and dirt blocks. This mechanic was intended to be part of the Caves & Cliffs Update (1.17 & 1.18).
== Additions ==
=== Blocks ===
Rubble Blocks
* Comes in sand, gravel and dirt variants.
* Has 16 layers.
* Can be found inside the archaeological excavation dig sites.
* Items can be found inside the block using a copper brush.
* Created upon using a copper brush on what appears to be normal sand, dirt or gravel.
 Clay Pot
* Uses the texture of clay.
* Can be craft with 7 clay blocks.
* Ceramic Sherds can be incorporated into a Decorated Clay Pot .
* Can be fired by lightning fire under the pot.
* Can fit up to 9 Ceramic Sherds.
 Cooked Clay Pot
* Uses the texture of bricks and hardened clay.
* Created by firing a clay pot or can be found inside archaeological dig sites
* Any Ceramic Sherds become permanently incorporated onto the pot and turn into a Decorated Cooked Clay Pot .
=== Items ===
 Brush
* Can be crafted with 2 strings and a copper ingot.
* Use to sweep away debris from rubble blocks.
* The brush begins to oxidize from day to day and turns blue .
** Oxidized Brush will reduce the ability to find artifacts inside the rubble blocks and brush things slower.
** Can be deoxidize by repair it with copper ingots on an avil.
Ceramic Sherds
* Contains 6 artifacts.
** Dragon Ceramic Sherd.
** Morning Ceramic Sherd.
** Axe Axe Ceramic Sherd.
** Hands Up Ceramic Sherd.
** Archer Ceramic Sherd.
** Mooo Ceramic Sherd.
* They have symbolic pictures on them.
* Different structures contain different sherds.
* They cannot be crafted and are only found by brushing rubble blocks.
== World generation ==
Excavation Dig Site
* Generates around the overworld.
* Contains different structure variants for each biome (plains, desert, badlands, taiga, mangrove swamp, snowy taiga).
* Consits of wool tents and a large pit containing rubble blocks.
== Official textures ==
File:Copper Brush Oxidized.webp|Oxidized Brush
File:Copper Brush.webp|Brush
File:Dragon.webp|Dragon Ceramic Sherd
File:Morning.webp|Morning Ceramic Sherd
File:Axe Axe.webp|Axe Axe Ceramic Sherd
File:Fight.png.webp|Fight Ceramic Sherd
File:Archer.webp|Archer Ceramic Sherd
File:Milky.webp|Moo Ceramic Sherd
File:Decorated Clay Pot.webp|Decorated Clay Pot
File:Clay Pot.webp|Clay Pot
File:Hardened Clay Pot.webp|Cooked Clay Pot
File:Decorated Cooked Clay Pot.webp|Decorated Cooked Clay Pot
== Official screenshots ==
File:Dig Site 1.webp|Dig Site Variant 1
File:Dig Site 3.png|Dig Site Variant 2
File:Dig Site 4.png|Dig Site Variant 2
File:Dig Site 2.jpeg|Dig Site Variant 3
File:Dig Site 5.png|Dig Site Variant 4
File:Dig Site 6.png|Dig Site Variant 5 (Desert)
File:Dig Site 7.png|Dig Site Variant 6 (Badlands)
File:Dig Site 8.jpeg|Inside a dig site
File:Dig Site 9.jpeg|Ditto
File:Dig Site 10.webp|Ditto
File:Dig Site 11.jpeg|A Copper Golem found inside a dig site
File:Dig Site 12.webp|Firing Decorated Clay Pots
File:Two Brushes.png|Two brushes at Minecraft Live 2020
File:Chest Loot.webp|Loot inside the chest in a dig site
File:Rubble Loots.png|All loot can be found and get inside Rubble blocks
== Development screenshots ==
File:Ceramic Sherds (pre-release).jpeg|Early Ceramic Sherds textures
File:Brush (pre-release).jpeg|Another early Brush texture can be seen in previous image
File:Brush.png|Early Brush texture
File:Brushing 3.png|Early Brushing animation