40 of the coolest Minecraft seeds for exploring 1.21
Looking for the best Minecraft seeds?Minecraftis an incredibly versatile game, offering a multitude of diverse biomes to explore. With our list of the best 1.21 Minecraft seeds, you can explore snowcapped mountains, endless Deep Dark biomes, survival islands, buried treasure hoards, easy places to mineDiamondsand more - all within the latest version of the game.
To discover one of these fascinating new worlds, first launch Minecraft. Then from the main menu, click Singleplayer, then CreateNew World, and then More World Options. Enter your chosen Minecraft seed into the black text box, and then click Create New World. Simple!
Now comes the fun part: choosing which cool Minecraft seeds you want to explore. Take a look at our library of 40 dang good Minecraft seeds for Java Edition 1.21, and pick out a few that look interesting to you. Then get exploring! That’s what Minecraft’s all about, after all.
Note: if you’re playing on mobile, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, or anything else that doesn’t use Java, then check out our list of thebest Minecraft Bedrock seedsinstead!
Best Minecraft seeds 1.21
Here are all the best Minecraft seeds we’ve found for Java 1.21:
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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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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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This seed starts you in front of a remote swath of frozen ocean with a variety of frosty structures rising from the deep waters before you. You’ll really feel like an explorer standing on the edge of the world, and if you’ve ever read At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft’s science-fiction romp about a group of travellers in the Arctic who stumble upon ancient horrors, you might also feel unnerved by the imposing geometrical shapes of the ice before you. There’s even a submerged ocean monument not too far from your spawning location, if you dare to brave the deep, frozen waters. Who knows, maybe that’s where Cthulhu lies sleeping!
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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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This seed places you on a high savanna plateau overlooking a canyon river, with another striking plateau on the other side. The river acts as a hotbed of activity here, with multiple ravines leading down into dark dungeons for explorers who want to battle skeletons and zombies, and a peaceful savanna village located on a cliffside by the lake that the river spills into. It’s an inspiring array of scenery to begin your Minecraft explorations, especially if you’re bold, enjoy traversing difficult terrain, and are immediately interested in delving into the depths below the surface.
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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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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Another seed which gives you easy access to the Deep Dark biome, here you’re presented with the gorgeous vista of a snowcapped mountain range surrounded by forest. Delve deep, and you’ll find yourself in the centre of a truly colossal Deep Dark biome filled with numerous Ancient Cities. Have fun exploring - just be wary of theWarden!
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Rounding off our trilogy of Deep Dark seeds, this world gives you a great start thanks to a nearby taiga village, from which you can dive down into the ravine below. Keep going, and you’ll soon start to see pockets of Deep Dark biome, followed by another majestic and ominous Ancient City dotted with lavafalls, chests filled with goodies, and mineshafts. It’s a dangerous place down there.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s not every day you can see the sunlight shining against deepslate. This Birch Forest seed plants you next to a gaping hole in the world, down which pours a waterfall from a nearby river. Enter the cave and you’ll quickly descend beyond Level 0 and into deepslate territory and far beyond. An excellent seed for fast diamond excavation if I’ve ever seen one.
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This incredible Minecraft seed provides an interesting challenge: how to get out of the giant cavern you’ve spawned in! That’s right, this seed spawns you at Y-Level 24, way below sea level, surrounded by winding cave systems and dripstone. You’ll need to show some serious spelunking skill if you want to climb out of this cavern in order to harvest your first planks of wood from the snowy plains high above.
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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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I couldn’t not include this seed. You don’t get many tiny island starts when playing with Minecraft seeds, since the game usually does a decent job of placing you on the nearest bit of mainland instead. That’s why this curious seed made me pause. This is one of the smallest islands I’ve ever spawned on, a scant few sand blocks in width. Given the lack of trees nearby, any player spawning here would likely die - that is, if it weren’t for the shipwreck cresting above the water a short distance away, which gives you access to your precious first few planks of wood.
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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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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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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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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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This idyllic Minecraft starting seed has a little bit of everything. A plainsMinecraft villageright next to spawn; steep savanna peaks to the northwest; surface lava for an earlyNether rush; cows and otherMinecraft mobsnearby for early food… What more could you ask for in order to get set up quickly in a new Minecraft world?
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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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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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For those who love the sight of a Badlands hilltop or two, this starting seed gives you the wonderful sight of terracotta without the challenging lack of nearby trees that might otherwise hamper your early progress. Head to the top of the nearby mountain to find wood aplenty, and from there you can also take a look around at the sprawling desert landscape and see what sights take your interest.
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This interesting seed plants you right on the edge of a fascinating-looking dripstone-covered ravine, and the more you look at it the more you’ll realise that such terrain generation never would have been possible before the two-part Caves And Cliffs update was released. Poke your head above ground, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by forests and swampland as far as the eye can see.
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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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Terracotta lovers will be right at home with this seed, which starts you right on top of some glorious-looking badlands surrounded by desert. It’s not the most challenging starting seed in the universe, but the lack of trees and wildlife in the immediate vicinity may give you pause if you choose to try your luck in this Minecraft world.
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Old Growth Pine Taiga biomes are one of my favourite biome types. There’s something so fascinating and mysterious about these thick, towering forests. It’s like something out of Lord Of The Rings. The land is also broken up by hills which bulge out from the ground, taking the forest canopy even higher. A good spot for a treehouse, perhaps?
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A twist on the typical island start, this fascinating seed plants you on a tiny snowy beach with a single tree, surrounded by an ocean of ice spikes. The only wildlife nearby are polar bears, and you’ll have to slide your way out of this icy realm in order to find more hospitable climates.
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This lush jungle start gives you an instant supply of jungle wood and bamboo. Look around when you spawn, and you’ll also find a fairly self-contained and safe ravine which gives you easy access to basic ores such as coal and copper. For the real bounty though, have a dig around the shore for4 (4!) buried treasure chestsscattered nearby - or check the coordinates below to make things easier.
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If you love Savanna biomes as much as I do, then you’ll adore this starting seed. Located right on the edge of a desert housing both a Pyramid and a Village in plain sight, this sprawling Savanna is also overlooked by a wonderful valley of forest mountains. These mountains would make for a fantastic spot to build aMinecraft castleor some other majestic build.
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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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If you’re looking for the perfect world to set up a base, this seed founded byBabyemoAshley via Redditmay be for you. Upon spawning you’ll have access to all biomes in the game from your front doorstep. There are also a few villages dotted around and the usual broken Nether Portals you can harvest resources from. I even found a crate full of gold, armor and Golden Apples for my trouble. If you want to experience all the biomes, plants and animals Minecraft has to offer, this is a great seed to start with.
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This seed founded bymanngamania via Redditplops you right in front of a Woodland Mansion, complete with a surrounding village and broken Nether Portal. Whilst this collection of goodies is incentive enough, curiously several levels of the Woodland Mansion have been built into the surrounding terrain. There are also a few houses underneath the mansion in the underground caves. As such, it’s an interesting seed to explore. Perhaps this is Minecraft’s version of the sunken city of Atlantis!
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This seed found byFragrant_Result_186 via Reddithosts a massive cliff that almost touches the clouds right at the spawn point. If you’re looking to build an impressive tower structure, almost all of the work has been done for you with this seed. On one side of the mountain is a beautiful waterfall and the structure itself is surrounded by varying biomes. With this seed, you can build the Orthanc of your dreams and look down upon your enemies.
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Looking for the perfect backdrop to your new base? Cherry Valley is a lake surrounded by cherry blossoms and offers a picturesque space to start a new build. Although upon spawning into the seed you’ll have a fair trek ahead of you, the luscious scenery makes it more than worth the effort. With a Plains village nearby and plenty to explore, the Cherry Valley is an iconic land mass to settle by. Give thanks toShoowa via Redditfor discovering this hidden gem.
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This Minecraft seed will spawn you within the heart of a Badlands biome. Not only do the surrounding slopes uncannily resemble the Grand Canyon, but there are plenty of other biomes nearby like the River, Desert, Savanna, Plains, and Jungle biomes. This means you could set up your very own Grand Canyon mansion and have plenty of outside resources to boot. If you love the idea of a Terracotta abode, this is certainly an interesting backdrop to choose!
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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!
