What Do You Do To Maximize Your Treasure Hunting In The Reef?

So, my personal favorite way to get emeralds is by hunting for treasure in the reef. But I've been wondering what the best way is to get the most emeralds. Usually I just reserve a spot for one of everything, but I was wondering what strategies other people have come up with. There are 36 slots of inventory and hotbar space. Four of them are taken up by accessory slots. Three are taken up by soul points, quest journals, and the compass. I also reserve one final spot for my primary weapon. This leaves 28 spots for treasure stacks. Now, in my experience the easiest treasure to get full stacks of are Small Pearls, Glowing Pearls, Silver Nuggets, Gold Nuggets, Silver Bars, and Gold Bars. Do you think I should just stick to those and ignore everything else (barring the occasional diamond or sunken artifact)?

 

You are using the breathing helmet while doing this right?

 

Of course.

 

Not many people here are using this method to get money, but what I used to do while trying that out is trying to grab as much items as I can, and I usually go where a "group" of items is, no matter how worth it is

 

Breathing Helmet II
Try and free more spaces up (four seems a bit much)
Certain classes have mobility spells (You cant use mages teleport underwater)
Search the very edges of the reef, a lot of flat 'land' where many items spawn
Lastly try and fit as many items in your inventory as humanely possible

 

When I treasure hunt in Seavale, I prioritize Sunken Artifacts, blocks of gold, blocks of silver, bundles of gold & silver, diamonds, sapphires, amethysts, rubies, topazs, and huge pearls. Those are the ones that sell for the most.

 

F3 + B does amazing things for you, it can show you where items you wouldn't usually see are located as it shows hitboxes, and its 100% legal since its a feature in mc.

 

For the diamonds and artifacts: While I have not proven this, when I have done the treasure diving these two "EB-worth" items always spawn around the deepest area of the reef. This area is around the direct center of the reef and has shallow-level colored coral with cream-colored coral beneath.

I infer that because the items are spawned using mobs with a health of 0, their item is the only thing that drops when they spawn. The spawn areas are scattered around the area, with more common treasure receiving more spawns than the rarer treasure. Possibly, since the diamond and artifact only spawn once every few minutes, it could be said that they have one spawn point somewhere over the middle of the reef (for added difficulty since it's very deep).

I would hover around the middle of the reef with the Breathing Helmet II and float around there, collecting rare treasures while waiting for the diamond/artifact to spawn.

 

I think I've noticed the same thing. I've found double diamonds and double artifacts somewhere in the center of the reef, kind of near a cave. Hearing someone else confirm it makes me want to try this strategy.

 

I can actually confirm this. My game was lagging out while I was underwater and saw 2 entities (i think they were armor stands), then they disappeared after the connection came back a few seconds later, and a sunken artifact and nugget spawned above where they were (like when emeralds appear above enemies after death).