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Best Minecraft seeds for 1.21 January 2025Find Ancient Cities, easy diamonds, and spectacular landscapes with the best Minecraft seeds for 1.21
Find Ancient Cities, easy diamonds, and spectacular landscapes with the best Minecraft seeds for 1.21
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Below, we’ve put together a list of40 of the very best Minecraft seeds for 1.21, covering a wide array of different starts and key starting resources so you can pick the right seed for your needs. Looking for easy diamonds? We’ve got you covered. Want to spawn next to a village, or even an Ancient City? You can find them below! We’ve got a Minecraft seed for just about everyone here, so keep reading!
Best Minecraft seeds 1.21
Here are the 40 best Minecraft seeds for 1.21 that we’ve found:
If any of these seeds sound promising to you, then have a scroll below for more details on each of the coolest and best Minecraft seeds for your new Minecraft adventure in 2024!
Sakura Season
Sakura Field | Seed: -5584399987456711267 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -5584399987456711267
Minecraft’s 1.20 update introduced the Cherry Grove as its sole new biome, but these cherry blossoms are some of the most beautiful environmental additions in the entire game. This seed gives you a great view of Minecraft’s Cherry Groves, planting you right on the edge of a cherry blossom forest that makes for the perfect idyllic backdrop for all of your crafting experiments. Why not take inspiration from your surroundings and try your hand atbuilding a Japanese-style house?
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Pink and White
Pink and White | Seed: 5063885805507972583 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 5063885805507972583
Here’s another example of Minecraft’s Cherry Grove biome, combined with a smattering of Snowy Slopes. You’ll spawn right at the base of the slopes with cherry trees all around you, and the striking collage of colours makes this location quite the looker for survival and gathering adventures. A plains village lies just on the other side of the snow-covered mountain, so you’ll haveeasy access to tradingas you claim this beautiful juxtaposition of pink and white as your base.
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Frozen Edge Of The World
Frozen Edge Of The World | Seed: -1754216045272489466 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -1754216045272489466
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Orange Savanna Village
Orange Savanna Village | Seed: -2429048941048277130 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -2429048941048277130
This seed spawns you right in front of a savanna village with a striking feature - a vertical rock formation that looms above the town, almost like an ancient sundial. Not only is this a visually appealing starting location at the intersection of a wide variety of biomes, but it’s also a great place to begin your Minecraft adventure, with accessible trading in a peaceful community that sits right on the cusp of the badlands.
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Savanna Plateau River
Savanna Plateau River | Seed: 5101553622029575588 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 5101553622029575588
Giant Mangrove Swamp
Giant Mangrove Swamp | Seed: 4025804172371830787 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 4025804172371830787
Swamps have been among the least interesting biomes you can come across in a Minecraft world for many years. But with the release of the Wild Update, they finally got some love with theMangrove Swampsub-biome. With this seed you’ll start on the coast of a colossal, sprawling Mangrove Swamp filled with trees, lilypads, water, and doubtless plenty of adorable littlefrogs, too.
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Deep Dark and Ancient Cities
Deep Dark and Ancient Cities | Seed: -2909343002793827664 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -2909343002793827664
The forboding Deep Dark, introduced to Minecraft’s worlds with the 1.19 update, remains one of the most popular and intriguing biomes of the game, full of secrets to uncover andAncient Citiesto explore. This seed parks you right on the edge of a large Deep Dark biome which you can easily access from the idyllic (and apt) Dark Forest on the surface above.
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Mountain Range And Deep Dark Biome
Mountain Range And Deep Dark Biome | Seed: 7644964991330705060 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 7644964991330705060
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Immediate Ancient City
Immediate Ancient City | Seed: -4651105460712845864 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -4651105460712845864
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Giant Treeless Desert
Giant Treeless Desert | Seed: -8631174543717435159 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -8631174543717435159
If you want a challenging start, then why not test your skills against this coastal desert seed. You’ll be hard-pressed to find much in the way of trees for your early wooden tools here. Thankfully there’s a desert village in the distance, but will it give you enough to survive? Only one way to find out.
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Incredible Hollow Mountain
Incredible Hollow Mountain | Seed: 8486672581758651406 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 8486672581758651406
This is possibly the most jaw-dropping Minecraft seed I’ve ever had the pleasure to come across. Here you’ll spawn in a Roofed Forest next to a mountain. Approach the mountain and you’ll find a crack in the side, which leads into a truly magical place. Turns out the entire mountain is hollow and filled with Lush Caves, stalactites, abandoned mineshafts, and all sorts of other weird and wonderful features leading all the way down to deepslate and beyond. It’s truly a sight to behold.
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Snowcapped Mountains
Snowcapped Mountains | Seed: -7649949940957896961 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -7649949940957896961
As you might guess, snowcapped mountains dominate the landscape in this Minecraft seed. Follow the strip of snow to the west and you’ll see that the peaks only get higher and higher. But this is also a starting seed of lows as well as highs: right next to where you spawn is the opening to a colossal cave system which descends far below, all the way down to bedrock. Expect plenty of opportunities for earlyMinecraft diamond miningandenchantinghere!
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Easy Diamonds
Easy Diamonds | Seed: -4361528937055201680 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -4361528937055201680
This lovely starting seed plants you on the border between a meadow and a savanna, atop one of the many characterful winding hills added with Minecraft 1.18. But perhaps more excitingly, there are several prominent gaping holes in the ground around you, each of which leads far below sea level, through expansive caverns filled withdripstone, diamond,copper, and other useful resources.
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Easy Diamonds 2
Easy Diamonds 2 | Seed: -7723232821704547830 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -7723232821704547830
What an aesthetically pleasing curve on that there ravine, don’t you agree? It’s like the entire landscape is smiling at you, beckoning you to climb inside its mouth and delve into the subterranean depths below. It’s always nice when you start next to the opening to such a giant cave system, because you can easily get down to the Y-Level you need and start strip-mining for diamonds and other essentials from day one.
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Easy Diamonds 3
Easy Diamonds 3 | Seed: -8169697951202909253 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -8169697951202909253
A seed of towering heights and plummeting depths, this one. You’ll spawn on a forest next to an ominous snow-capped mountain, which makes for a pretty cool seed in itself. But the key here is to head downthat tiny cave entrance right next to where you spawn. It may look like it leads nowhere at first, and then it’ll keep going, and going, and then it’ll suddenly widen out into a spectacular cavern which dips down to nearly bedrock level. From there you can easily find all the diamonds and other deep-world riches your heart desires.
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Easy Diamonds 4
Easy Diamonds 4 | Seed: -198600772450851689 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -198600772450851689
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Giant Cavern Spawn
Giant Cavern Spawn | Seed: 7445395903252703439 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 7445395903252703439
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Savanna Hillside Village
Savanna Hillside Village | Seed: -698247204184653391 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -698247204184653391
What a great place for a village. This group of villagers decided to build their huts and structures spread out across the side of a large savanna hill, leading to a really lovely-looking landscape. But that’s not all: there’s also a gigantic stone-topped mountain that looms large over the village, so you can pick whether to expand the village or to rule above it with your first build.
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Shipwreck Island
Shipwreck Island | Seed: -9142863513851137753 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -9142863513851137753
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Villages & Pyramids
Villages & Pyramids | Seed: 6630997395534342573 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 6630997395534342573
This desert seed is absolutely littered with structures. You’ll start with two villages on either side of you in close proximity, but have a wander around and you’ll find plenty more, alongside desert pyramids and even a temple or two in the jungles across the water. If you’re looking for early access to all sorts of useful contraptions and resources, then this is one of the best seeds we’ve found.
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Flat Building Area
Flat Building Area | Seed: 4504535438041489910 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 4504535438041489910
If you’re looking for a nice, flat, beautiful area on which to construct a massiveMinecraft build, then you’ll love this seed for its sheer simplicity. Here you begin your adventure atop a meadows hill with just a handful of trees dotted about for some easy initial wood. My favourite thing about this location is the way the rivers carve their way through the landscape, giving an otherwise uninteresting patch of land some incredible vistas - particularly if you play with some of thebest Minecraft shadersenabled!
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Two-Tree Desert Island
Two-Tree Desert Island | Seed: -7740300553320684095 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -7740300553320684095
For a more challenging starting seed, why not try out this desert island spawn? It’s actually a rather large starting island, but the fact that there are only a couple of trees across the entire landmass may make you ponder your chances of survival a little more.
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Instant Lush Caves
Instant Lush Caves | Seed: -6002410844389446864 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -6002410844389446864
Above ground, this seed is nothing extraordinary (although it does feature some rather excellent ice spikes). What makes this seed a favourite is that you can easily delve below ground and find a massive, sprawling Lush Caves biome, covered in dripleaf and lichen and all sorts of other weird and wonderful subterranean quirks.
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Plains & Surface Lava
Plains & Surface Lava | Seed: -1718501946501227358 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -1718501946501227358
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Coastal Rock Formation
Coastal Rock Formation | Seed: 5662255238676129291 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 5662255238676129291
This lovely-looking Minecraft landscape caught my eye thanks to the towering rock formation on the coast in the distance. I love formations like these, they’re just crying out for a build of some sort. Maybe alighthouse, or a mansion of some sort. Around you the landscape is just as characterful, with flower and sunflower forests dotted about, and a ruined portal in the water not at all far from spawn.
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Two-Tone Island
Two-Tone Island | Seed: 1664128793606897522 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 1664128793606897522
This is another island seed that struck me as a lovely little place to start a new home. It’s quite distinctive, with one half covered in sand and the other in forest. As island starts go, this seed is fairly kind, giving you several dozen trees to help kickstart your journey. But it just looks like a wonderful foundation on which to build a rusticMinecraft house, don’t you think?
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Desert Badlands Coast
Desert Badlands Coast | Seed: 4479470260786833195 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 4479470260786833195
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Dripstone Ravine
Dripstone Ravine | Seed: 821163920768877950 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 821163920768877950
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Forest Cliffs
Forest Cliffs | Seed: -9163391121958459490 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -9163391121958459490
If you want to marvel at the peaks and troughs of Minecraft’s terrain generation, this seed is a great place to start. Here you spawn near the peak of a large taiga mountain, looking down at the gorgeous valleys below. Be careful not to fall, as it’s a very long way down nowadays!
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Badlands Mountain
Badlands Mountain | Seed: -932245979383499761 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -932245979383499761
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Old Growth Pine Taiga
Old Growth Pine Taiga | Seed: -5543523367840054503 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -5543523367840054503
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Ocean Of Ice Spikes
Ocean Of Ice Spikes | Seed: -6909477426377259322 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -6909477426377259322
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Bamboo Jungle & Buried Treasure
Bamboo Jungle | Seed: -4813269715648826820 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -4813269715648826820
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Savanna & Desert Village
Savanna & Desert Village | Seed: -184311627141651860 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -184311627141651860
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Mooshroom Island
Mooshroom Island | Seed: 7749012223532925400 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 7749012223532925400
This seed may not seem particularly noteworthy - just a beach on the edge of some Taiga and plains. But once you’re set up with the basics, take a boat out to the south-west and you’ll quickly run into one of the largest Mooshroom biomes I’ve come across. So for those who really like their fungi, this seed is for you!
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All Biomes
All Biomes | Seed: 7830518263619659759 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 7830518263619659759
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Sunken Mansion
Sunken Mansion | Seed: 37021689 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 37021689
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Perfect Tower Base
Perfect Tower Base | Seed: 1665533335506319603 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 1665533335506319603
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Cherry Valley
Cherry Valley | Seed: 1691256543523180978 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: 1691256543523180978
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Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon | Seed: -7775094310068025774 |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mojang Studios
Seed: -7775094310068025774
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Well, those are all the best Minecraft seeds we’ve got for now; hopefully you’ve found one or two worlds that match up with what you were after. To give your new world more of a visual pop, there are varioustexture packs available. And why stop with just the world? A new Minecraft journey deserves a new you, so take a look at our list of thebest Minecraft skinswhile you’re here, or even our list of thebest Minecraft modsfor a totally new experience!
