A lakeside village with a ruined portal
Seed information
- Seed
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9034078504 - Location
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9, 78, 24 - Compatible versions
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Minecraft Java
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1.20 - 1.21.11
Works with: 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
Description
If you’re looking for a great starter seed, this one might be your best bet. You spawn in the Plains biomes and after walking a few blocks, you see a lake with a village on top of it. There’s even a ruined nether portal floating on the lake too, making the general spawn area a great location to start your base. Additionally, there’s a small lava fall nearby, some Sunflower Plains, and more forested areas.
For this seed’s world generation, the lakeside village spawn point also has a another village on an elevated part of the plains which is larger than the lake’s spawned village. A few hundred blocks away, there’s another Plains Village you can visit as well. While for other generated structures, thre’s a Pillager Outpost under 700 blocks with its Outpost Tower generated underground. Aside from that, there’s a Woodland Mansion around 1500 blocks away. The last feature of this seed is that it also has a rare small multibiome forest. Around 1000 blocks from your spawnpoint, this forest has the Dark Forest, Pale Garden, and Pine Taiga all in one area.
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Nearby locations
Village #1 (Plains)
Right across the lakeside village.
X: -146, Y: 80, Z:
177
Village #2 (Plains)
X: 712, Y: 66, Z:
668
Ancient City
X: 120, Y: -51, Z:
1192
Pillager Outpost
The Pillager Outpost Tower spawned underground.
X: -687, Y: 76, Z:
-254
Woodland Mansion
X: -753, Y: 62, Z:
1597
Multibiome Forest
A triple variant forest of the Dark Forest, Pale Garden, and Pine Taiga.
X: -1074, Y: 123, Z:
212
Frequently asked questions
A seed is just a number or text string that Minecraft uses to generate your world. When you create a world and type something into the “Seed” box (like `12345` or `MyLittleWorld`), the game turns that into a big number. That number is the recipe the game uses to place: biomes, structures (villages, temples, strongholds) and terrain (mountains, oceans, caves). So if you are using the same seed + same version + same edition (Java/Bedrock) = same world layout. Change anything in the seed and you’ll get a different world.
Since 1.18+ Java and Bedrock use more similar terrain generation, so the overall shape of the world can look similar for the same seed: similar mountain ranges, big oceans, etc. but structures and details like villages or ruined portals often don’t line up exactly between Java and Bedrock. Older versions (pre-1.18) are even more different.
No. Seeds are very version-sensitive because Mojang keeps changing world generation. Big updates like 1.13, 1.16, and 1.18 massively changed world gen and 1.20+ keeps tweaking structures and biomes. A 1.16 seed will still load in 1.20, but the world won’t match: biomes can shift, structures move, and if you had a village at spawn that might disappear. The seed number is still valid, but the layout isn’t guaranteed to look the same. As a rule of thumb, always use the same edition and version the seed was shared for if you want your world to look like the screenshots.
A 1.21.1 seed used in 26.1 will generate the same world as long as you’re on the same edition. Mojang usually keeps world generation identical across small patch versions.
You can see your seed by opening the world, press T and type `/seed` in the chat (cheats must be enabled), then press ENTER. On Java, if cheats are off, you can temporarily enable them via “Open to LAN → Allow Cheats → Start LAN World” and then run `/seed` . On **Bedrock**, you can find the seed from the world settings: Advanced page or on the Game page. On multiplayer servers, you’ll only see the seed if the server lets you: some allow `/seed` for all players, some only for admins, and many block it entirely But to find new interesting seeds, people use scripts that check for certain world formations in millions of random seeds, and interesting ones are highlighted and checked.
