Best 1.20 Survival Seeds

Comfortable spawns with a village, a ruined portal and plenty of biome variety in walking distance — the strongest possible start to a survival world.

Java Edition 1.20 · 15 verified seeds · updated 2026-07-17

Map of Minecraft seed -8446227830384971302 around spawn Explore this seed
#1

-8446227830384971302

Taiga spawn with a village 48 blocks out, a ruined portal at 229 and 15+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
16, 16 (Taiga)
Stronghold
2,656 blocks
  • Village48
  • Ruined Portal229

Nearby biomes: Taiga · Frozen Ocean · Forest · Cold Ocean · Snowy Taiga · Frozen River

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Map of Minecraft seed 8024014215515641496 around spawn Explore this seed
#2

8024014215515641496

Taiga spawn with a village 16 blocks out, a ruined portal at 288 and 14+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Taiga)
Stronghold
2,052 blocks
  • Village16
  • Ruined Portal288

Nearby biomes: Taiga · Ocean · Forest · Beach · River · Old Growth Pine Taiga

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Map of Minecraft seed 6413512877212708833 around spawn Explore this seed
#3

6413512877212708833

Plains spawn with a village 218 blocks out, a ruined portal at 173 and 13+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
-16, -48 (Plains)
Stronghold
1,582 blocks
  • Ruined Portal173
  • Village218
  • Jungle Temple338

Nearby biomes: Plains · Jungle · Sparse Jungle · Savanna · Forest · River

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Map of Minecraft seed -5141726132395493968 around spawn Explore this seed
#4

-5141726132395493968

Forest spawn with a village 122 blocks out, a ruined portal at 258 and 10+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
192, -112 (Forest)
Stronghold
1,717 blocks
  • Village122
  • Ruined Portal258

Nearby biomes: Ocean · Deep Ocean · Lukewarm Ocean · Beach · Deep Lukewarm Ocean · Deep Cold Ocean

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Map of Minecraft seed -3194181643994378984 around spawn Explore this seed
#5

-3194181643994378984

Forest spawn with a village 222 blocks out, a ruined portal at 365 and 17+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Forest)
Stronghold
2,612 blocks
  • Village222
  • Ancient City318
  • Ruined Portal365
  • Pillager Outpost429

Nearby biomes: Plains · Lush Caves · Forest · Taiga · Dripstone Caves · Old Growth Spruce Taiga

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Map of Minecraft seed 3148706055315238109 around spawn Explore this seed
#6

3148706055315238109

Forest spawn with a village 280 blocks out, a ruined portal at 160 and 14+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Forest)
Stronghold
2,171 blocks
  • Ruined Portal160
  • Village280

Nearby biomes: Plains · Forest · Taiga · Snowy Plains · Snowy Taiga · River

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Map of Minecraft seed -5182376880724206564 around spawn Explore this seed
#7

-5182376880724206564

Plains spawn with a village 294 blocks out, a ruined portal at 256 and 17+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Plains)
Stronghold
2,128 blocks
  • Ancient City144
  • Ruined Portal256
  • Village294
  • Pillager Outpost395

Nearby biomes: Plains · Forest · Savanna · Dripstone Caves · River · Birch Forest

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Map of Minecraft seed -3663231438815439349 around spawn Explore this seed
#8

-3663231438815439349

Sparse Jungle spawn with a village 292 blocks out, a ruined portal at 102 and 13+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Sparse Jungle)
Stronghold
1,655 blocks
  • Ruined Portal102
  • Village292

Nearby biomes: Plains · Lukewarm Ocean · Mangrove Swamp · Sparse Jungle · Savanna · River

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#9

7006750381757525494

Jungle spawn with a village 210 blocks out, a ruined portal at 371 and 15+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
96, -64 (Jungle)
Stronghold
1,702 blocks
  • Village210
  • Ocean Monument248
  • Ruined Portal371

Nearby biomes: Deep Lukewarm Ocean · Lukewarm Ocean · Deep Ocean · Jungle · Beach

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#11

3660108603817237200

Taiga spawn with a village 200 blocks out, a ruined portal at 258 and 11+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Taiga)
Stronghold
2,598 blocks
  • Village200
  • Ruined Portal258

Nearby biomes: Taiga · Forest · Old Growth Pine Taiga · Old Growth Spruce Taiga · River · Plains

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#12

4659817460129287610

Plains spawn with a village 64 blocks out, a ruined portal at 453 and 9+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Plains)
Stronghold
1,396 blocks
  • Village64
  • Ruined Portal453

Nearby biomes: Plains · Forest · River · Taiga · Swamp

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#13

2109947735381349346

Plains spawn with a village 132 blocks out, a ruined portal at 330 and 9+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Plains)
Stronghold
2,309 blocks
  • Village132
  • Ruined Portal330

Nearby biomes: Plains · Forest · Birch Forest · River · Old Growth Birch Forest

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#14

4327158569729716504

Savanna Plateau spawn with a village 330 blocks out, a ruined portal at 58 and 12+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Savanna Plateau)
Stronghold
1,992 blocks
  • Ruined Portal58
  • Village330

Nearby biomes: Savanna · Plains · Forest · Stony Shore · River · Lukewarm Ocean

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#15

397778226691567517

Savanna spawn with a village 209 blocks out, a ruined portal at 307 and 12+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
16, -48 (Savanna)
Stronghold
1,655 blocks
  • Village209
  • Pillager Outpost265
  • Ruined Portal307

Nearby biomes: Savanna · Forest · River · Dripstone Caves · Plains · Jungle

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About these 1.20 seeds

Every seed here passes the same test: you spawn in a livable biome with a village within 350 blocks, a ruined portal within 500, and at least five different biomes inside a 512-block radius. That combination means food, beds and trades on day one, an early nether route, and enough terrain variety that you never need to travel far for wood, sand or stone variants.

1.20 (Trails & Tales) added cherry groves and buried trail ruins to world generation, and 1.20.1 is one of the most-pinned modpack versions — plenty of worlds are still being started on it. Every seed below was verified on 1.20's own generation, not back-ported from a newer list: 1.21 changed worldgen (trial chambers, then the pale garden), so a list verified there can't honestly claim these coordinates.

Verified for Java Edition 1.20 (Trails & Tales). Biomes, terrain and structures are identical across 1.20 – 1.20.6, so any 1.20.x world matches these maps — the only generation change in the patches (1.20.2 made diamond ore more common in the deepslate layers) doesn't affect anything these cards measure.

Playing the current version instead? See the latest survival seeds — or the same list for 1.19 · 1.18 · 1.16. All 1.20 lists live under best 1.20 seeds.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from the main survival seeds page?
Same criteria, different worldgen: these are separate seeds found and verified on 1.20's generation. Our main survival seeds list is verified on the current version, and seeds don't transfer exactly between the two.
Which releases do these seeds work on?
The whole 1.20 line — 1.20 through 1.20.6, including 1.20.1 modpacks: biomes, terrain and structure positions are identical across the patches. (The one generation change, 1.20.2 making diamond ore more common in the deepslate layers, doesn't move anything on these cards.) On 1.21+ the same seed generates almost the same world, but trial chambers (1.21) and pale gardens (1.21.4) appear and a few placements shift, so use our main lists for current versions.
Do these seeds work on Bedrock Edition?
No — Java and Bedrock generate different worlds from the same seed. These lists are Java Edition only.