The year was 1.18 in Java, and I spawned into a random world of blocks. An odd number showed up on my screen, and only brought more confusion to the table.
7799844388299717637
That was certainly… interesting. Probably some weird coincidence, I thought. I punched some trees and I decided to build a boat and travel 550m south across the nearby lake. From there I found an interesting shipwreck in the mouth of a river. From here I trekked south through the savannah, crossed a couple rivers and passed some ravines. When I hit my fifth ravine, I was fed up and decided to switch direction. I saw a nearby village to the east near the side of the river, so I decided to trek there.
The villagers were very friendly, and treated me nicely. They provided a bed, protection, a house and a couple emeralds as a bonus. When I asked what I could do to repay them, they told me that the ocean south-west of them contained 4 weird monuments close to each other, and that they needed that information but couldn’t swim. I decided to take their advice, and only a bit later I found all four of them and noted down their exact X and Z coordinates.
To present my findings, I assigned them numbers from one to four, ordered from north to south. Lastly, I removed all the minus symbols to make it easier to understand and prevent confusion.
After I returned with the info, they thanked me. Then after an hour they gave me some cryptic coordinates for a prize they had hidden. It read as this:
4X - 2X - 13
(4X - 1X) ÷ 48
3X - 2X + 30
Z4 - Z3 - 11
Z1 + Z2 + Z3 + Z4 + 3X + 50