If you've been playing Minecraft for a while, you've probably learned about seeds and how they determine the way the game procedurally generates the world when you start a new run. Over the many years that Minecraft has been popular, fans have learned at lot about how seeds work exactly, and what seeds give you the most beneficial spawn points, biomes, geographical layouts and more. If you're someone who prefers challenge instead, there are also plenty of seeds that makes things interesting instead of easy. Let's take a look at the best Minecraft seeds out there.

What Are Seeds?

A seed in Minecraft is a string of integers that is used by the procedural generation algorithm to determine the specifics of the game world it creates when you start a new save.

Seeds are not cross-compatible across the myriad versions of the game due to how different they are from a coding perspective, but the basic principle is the same. Under normal circumstances, this is randomized - well, mostly, but that is a way too in-depth coding topic for this article - but you can enter your own seeds to essentially select the world you'll spawn into. If you ever appear in a world that you've come to really enjoy, or it has a fantastic spawn location, you can check the seed anytime by typing "/seed" into the chat!

Seeds also determine the spawn location, therefore some seeds are considered beneficial simply because they drop you nearby easily accessible sources of useful resources. Others can be visually interesting, or offer a unique challenge right after spawning.

The Best Minecraft Seeds
The Best Minecraft Seeds