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

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#1

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Savanna spawn with a village 64 blocks out, a ruined portal at 51 and 12+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Savanna)
Stronghold
1,913 blocks
  • Ruined Portal51
  • Village64

Nearby biomes: Forest · Plains · Savanna · Desert · River · Warm Ocean

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#2

-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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#3

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Taiga spawn with a village 128 blocks out, a ruined portal at 48 and 14+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
16, -48 (Taiga)
Stronghold
1,493 blocks
  • Ruined Portal48
  • Village128

Nearby biomes: Taiga · Forest · Snowy Taiga · Old Growth Pine Taiga · Old Growth Spruce Taiga · Dripstone Caves

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#4

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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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#5

-927479080516309270

Plains spawn with a village 165 blocks out, a ruined portal at 102 and 16+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Plains)
Stronghold
2,471 blocks
  • Ruined Portal102
  • Village165

Nearby biomes: Plains · Forest · River · Old Growth Birch Forest · Flower Forest · Dripstone Caves

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#6

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Savanna spawn with a village 209 blocks out, a ruined portal at 86 and 17+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 32 (Savanna)
Stronghold
2,324 blocks
  • Ruined Portal86
  • Village209

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

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#7

-5779706968378178782

Forest spawn with a village 116 blocks out, a ruined portal at 353 and 19+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
-32, 64 (Forest)
Stronghold
2,668 blocks
  • Village116
  • Pillager Outpost351
  • Ruined Portal353
  • Ancient City465
  • Woodland Mansion553

Nearby biomes: Plains · Forest · Dark Forest · River · Cold Ocean · Birch Forest

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#8

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Savanna spawn with a village 93 blocks out, a ruined portal at 292 and 16+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 32 (Savanna)
Stronghold
2,250 blocks
  • Village93
  • Ruined Portal292
  • Jungle Temple420
  • Ocean Monument479

Nearby biomes: Lukewarm Ocean · Sparse Jungle · River · Jungle · Plains · Forest

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#9

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Plains spawn with a village 0 blocks out, a ruined portal at 198 and 9+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Plains)
Stronghold
2,604 blocks
  • Village0
  • Ruined Portal198

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

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#10

-1544288723284292644

Lush Caves spawn with a village 208 blocks out, a ruined portal at 66 and 16+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Lush Caves)
Stronghold
2,206 blocks
  • Ruined Portal66
  • Village208

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

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#11

-2107676450247378108

Plains spawn with a village 100 blocks out, a ruined portal at 192 and 13+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
176, -268 (Plains)
Stronghold
1,668 blocks
  • Village100
  • Ruined Portal192

Nearby biomes: Ocean · Deep Ocean · Forest · Lukewarm Ocean · Plains · Stony Shore

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#12

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Savanna spawn with a village 16 blocks out, a ruined portal at 213 and 9+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Savanna)
Stronghold
1,620 blocks
  • Village16
  • Ruined Portal213

Nearby biomes: Savanna · Mangrove Swamp · River

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#13

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Savanna spawn with a village 66 blocks out, a ruined portal at 322 and 14+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
0, 0 (Savanna)
Stronghold
2,410 blocks
  • Village66
  • Ruined Portal322
  • Ancient City422

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

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#14

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Sunflower Plains spawn with a village 204 blocks out, a ruined portal at 272 and 19+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
16, -16 (Sunflower Plains)
Stronghold
1,756 blocks
  • Ancient City200
  • Village204
  • Ruined Portal272

Nearby biomes: Plains · Lukewarm Ocean · Forest · Flower Forest · Ocean · Sunflower Plains

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#15

-203239533021857023

Savanna spawn with a village 66 blocks out, a ruined portal at 238 and 11+ biomes inside 512 blocks.

Spawn
160, 0 (Savanna)
Stronghold
2,192 blocks
  • Village66
  • Ruined Portal238

Nearby biomes: Savanna · Deep Lukewarm Ocean · Ocean · Lukewarm Ocean · Beach · Plains

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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 26.3 · 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.