The best Minecraft seeds 2023

The best Minecraft seeds cater to a number of requirements, like strongholds near villages for speedrunning, beautiful landscapes for building, or multiple structures for looting. These seeds are codes that Minecraft uses to generate worlds for you, so even though new worlds are randomly generated, you can rebuild in the same ones over and over again.

Of course you can leave your world generation completely up to fate, but if you’re unlucky, you could spend hours looking for a Minecraft ancient city, desert temples, your favourite Minecraft biomes, and other desirable features. Over a decade on, Minecraft remains one of the best PC games around, so you don’t want to waste time on a bad seed, you’d much rather spawn straight into a stunning landscape with a Minecraft village to get the best experience possible. So, here are just a few of the best Minecraft seeds for February 2023. Keep reading to the bottom if you need some help entering these seeds in-game.

To help you out, we’ve put the latest version each seed works with after the seed code. You’ll need to set your Minecraft launcher to the indicated version for the correct results before heading into the game and setting up your new world.

Here’s our pick of the best Minecraft seeds in 2023:

A winter wonderland

• Seed: 5488656216511509290
• Version: 1.19
• Features: Snowy biomes, Pillager Outpost, and villages, and igloos near spawn

It’s still winter in the Northern Hemisphere, so even though you might not be looking for a Minecraft Christmas guide, this winter wonderland seed is still perfect for the season, surrounding you with ice and snow as far as the eye can see. Head up the mountain right next to you on spawn, and you can either descend into a dripstone cave or build a festive town or icy-cool castle on the gorgeous frozen lake seen above. There are also plenty of rare structures near spawn to help you get essential loot in the early days.

Ride camels in this Minecraft 1.20 seed

• Seed: 2689156606574652174
• Version: 1.20

It’s never too early to start thinking about seeds for the next Minecraft update, and with camels, bamboo wood, and more available in 1.20 snapshots right now, ahead of this year’s Minecraft 1.20 release date, you can already start testing the features. Not only does this seed spawn you near a ruined portal and in a gorgeous badlands biome, but you’ll also find a desert village just a short hop from spawn. Make sure you have the experimental features data pack turned on, and this village will be home to some cute Minecraft camels to ride, perfect for travelling across the vast desert and badlands landscape surrounding you.

Infinite Mineshaft

• Seed: 107038380838084
• Version: 1.19
• Features: One, long, infinite mineshaft!

This one is utterly crazy. Spawn into this seed and head underground at z: 0.0 (well, equip yourself with some essential tools and armour first), and you’ll find one long Mineshaft that spawn the world’s entire x-axis. Right near spawn, it even opens up into a lush cave, so you’re path will be lit be glow berries. Think of all those glorious Mineshaft chests you’ll find filled with precious loot… Thanks to u/Cynix747 for sharing this incredible find on reddit. Our only advice: try not to get lost.

Mangrove swamp and Outpost

• Seed: 3546842701776989958
• Version: 1.19

Entering this seed found by Minecraft & Chill spawns you very close to an Illager outpost near a beach. Close by are a shipwreck, desert pyramid, and a village, but there’s also a vast Mangrove swamp to explore, which is ideal if you want to find Minecraft frogs. This world was discovered on Bedrock Edition, so some structures might be slightly different or missing altogether on Java Edition.

Gaspoweredpick Desert monolith

• Seed: 416469024
• Version: 1.19

At first, this Minecraft seed discovered by Gaspoweredpick seems unassuming aside from the Mangrove Swamp you spawn in. However, if you climb up a tree, you’ll find a striking spire. This area is a fantastic focal point, with the nearby desert having plenty to discover, including a desert village and a badlands biome.

Coastal Towns

• Seed: -7783854906403730143
• Version: 1.18

This Minecraft 1.18 seed spawns you on a rocky plateau close to a large village. Several spectacular mountains are in the distance, and just across the water is another village built into the cliffside – a perfect base for ocean adventuring. Even better, there’s a ruined portal and an accessible ocean ruin nearby, both containing valuable loot. It’s a great Minecraft survival seed for exploring the Caves and Cliffs update.

Mooshroom Paradise

• Seed: 859337968100847433
• Version: 1.18

After spawning on a sandy shore, turn around and venture out to sea to discover a Mooshroom paradise populated by several adorable Mooshrooms. Watch your step as the rare mushroom fields occasionally open up to huge ravines, but they do make the perfect place to build a stunning ravine base – especially since the Mooshroom environment keeps you safe from hostile mobs.

Woodland Mansion and Lush Caves

• Seed: 2377611421072266823
• Version: 1.18
• Coordinates: x=487, z=492

Instead of heading out to sea when you spawn into this seed, sail along the river toward the above coordinates, and you’ll come across a woodland mansion on the riverbank.

On the opposite bank, there’s a cave nestled in the hill – inside, it opens up into a vast lush cave, with a dripstone cave chamber on the side. There are plenty more lush caves in the vicinity to explore, but they require some digging to find.

Beautiful Lush Cave and exposed Mineshaft

• Seed: -1898624505743265221
• Version: 1.18
• Coordinates: x=2890, y=47, z=2200

While this breathtaking cave found by u/SushyDie on Reddit is a fair old trek from the initial spawn location, it’s more than worth the journey.

Travelling into the massive cave via the top of a disused mine shaft attached to the roof by chains, the vast expanse of the cave opens up below you and is the perfect location for an underground metropolis. Not to mention all that precious loot you can get find in the Mineshafts.

Vertical Island Village

Seed: -6537256334104833826
Version: 1.18
Coordinates: x=-416, z= 128

You can find this peculiar village, discovered by u/szmirgley on Reddit, to the west of the island where you spawn. These intrepid villagers have made a home all the way around a tall, jagged cliff jutting out of the sea, with harbours on every side, buildings perched on top, and farmland carved into the cliffside. While it looks cool, it’ll take a while to scale this crazy vertical island.

Hillside Village

Seed: 7492140738558
Version: 1.17

This taiga spawn, highlighted in a video by YouTuber Mazbro, contains several villages in the immediate vicinity, including a hillside village sitting on a mountaintop plateau. There are plenty of picturesque building opportunities along the coast, too.

Biome Cluster

Seed: -2268290183235354767
Version: 1.17

This seed spawns you in a jungle biome, next to mushroom fields bordered by a desert, which then transitions into beautiful badlands. Oh, and there’s a frozen ocean biome in the mix – we found a single polar bear during our expedition that was admiring its colourful surroundings. We have the intrepid explorer, YouTuber Avomance, to thank for finding this seed.

Minecraft title screen

Seed: 2151901553968352745
Version: Beta 1.7.3
Coordinates: x=61.48, y=75, z=-68.73

For many years the image of the Minecraft title screen eluded researchers determined to track down its whereabouts until finally, the announcement came that someone had found the original Minecraft title screen seed. This location of the title screen is now verified to be correct; you can see this momentous discovery in the video along with the exact coordinates and seed code above, which you’ll need to gaze at the now unblurred original Minecraft vista. If that doesn’t work, you can also use the following seed as both of them work: 8091867987493326313.

How to load into a specific Minecraft seed

Most of these seeds can be entered into both Java and Bedrock editions, and, thanks to seed parity, will provide almost the same results – as long as you’re playing in at least version 1.18.

How to enter a seed in Minecraft Java Edition:

• Select Single Player from the main menu
• Click Create New World
• Name your world and choose your game mode and difficulty
• Select More World Options
• Enter seed
• Select any other required options like resource packs
• Click Create New World

How to enter a seed in Bedrock Edition:

• Click Create New
  
• Then select Create New World
• Head to the Advanced options menu
• Enter seed
• Choose any other required options for your world
• Click Create

So there you have just selection of the best Minecraft seeds, but with an infinite number of worlds available, we’re sure there are some even more spectacular ones just waiting to be discovered, and we’ll update this list when they are. Meanwhile, there’s plenty to keep you busy exploring, but with something new to find around every corner, equip one of our favourite Minecraft skins, sharpen your pickaxe, and perhaps even load up one of the best Minecraft Shaders to see your new world in a whole new light. Anyway, we’re off, there’s more Minecraft diamonds to mine and this pickaxe won’t swing itself.

Additional contributions by Gina Lees.