Best 1.20 Minecraft Seeds (December 2023) – Xbox One, PS4, & All Platforms!

Folks like me don't want to keep changing worlds to find the best seeds in Minecraft—you want it now while the inspiration for playing is still fresh! I've gathered 15 of the most exciting seeds we've ever found in 1.20 to help you start a new, exhilarating world quickly on any platform.

Best Minecraft 1.20 Seeds on all platforms

Each of these Minecraft 1.20 seeds can be used for either Bedrock or Java editions. The biomes and general geography will stay the same, but the structures may change. This is reflected in the coordinate tables provided for each seed, which show identical geographic coordinates but different structural coordinates.

15 - Picturesque Scenery

Seed: 7370144044535963269

Of all of the seeds I've explored in Minecraft, this is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful. I spawned in a lush and vibrant Bamboo Jungle surrounded by multiple mountains. One of the mountains is very stony with a small icy patch, while the other is taller with more snow. There is also a sprawling Birch Forest next to the Jungle as well as a Lush Cave only a short distance away. If you try this seed out for yourself, you'll never want to leave!

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Icy Patch on Stony Mountain: 1, 164	Icy Patch on Stony Mountain: 1, 164
Jungle Mountain Crater: -174, -89	Jungle Mountain Crater: -174, -89
Cavern Opening in Wooded Badlands: 217, 108, -301	Cavern Opening in Wooded Badlands: 217, 108, -301
Lush Cave with Mineshaft: 240, -283	Lush Cave: 255, -261

14 - Cherry Village Hill

Seed: -6513326223170930471

This Cherry Grove hill seems as if it was made specifically for the Plains Village on top of it. It contains multiple levels of dirt platforms that the villagers built their homes and farms on, plus a cave toward the bottom to get some easy ores. As a special touch to this already unique seed, the lone cherry tree to the right of the village makes up its own tiny Cherry Grove biome.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Cherry Grove: 103, 128	Cherry Grove: 103, 128
Lone Cherry Tree: 186, 336	Lone Cherry Tree: 186, 336
Plains Village: 288, -272	Platform Plains Village: 105, 165
Dripstone Cave Entrance: 259, 276	Dripstone Cave Entrance: 259, 276

13 - Garden Beneath the Overworld

Seed: -1918831654961711687

This is one of the most beautiful Lush Caves that can be found in Minecraft currently. It's multilayer, extending all the way down to Deepslate, and filled with layers of clay-lined water pools and waterfalls. The cave's entrance has plenty of trees that can easily be used to gather wood and saplings to use in developing the cave. Since it is open to the Overworld as well, you'll be able to grow crops and get a lot of sunlight easily.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Lush Cave Entrance: -90, 42	Lush Cave Entrance: -90, 42
Woodland Mansion: 152, 182	Shipwreck: 440, 392
Shipwreck: 248, 558	Shipwreck 2: -376, 200

12 - Fragmented Peninsula

Seed: 2621361697578117101

While Spawn appears to be on a small Desert Island near the shore, it is actually on a peninsula that remains connected to the mainland beneath the sea. A gorgeous Coral Reef surrounds it, littered with shipwrecks, ruins, and other treasures. Java players will be able to find a rare diamond fossil on this seed, while Bedrock players will have a nearby cluster of Large Warm Ocean ruins instead. As a bonus, a Lush Cave hides beneath the peninsula! Arm yourself with brushes, shovels, and pickaxes to explore this seed to its fullest potential.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Deepslate Lush Cave: 136, -10, 7	Deepslate Lush Cave: 136, -10, 7
Diamond Fossil: 137, -34, 8	Large Warm Ocean Ruin Cluster: 56, 72
Shipwreck: -200, 104	Shipwreck: 168, 248
Coral Reef Shipwreck with Ruined Portal: 312, 264	Shipwreck 2: 440, 200

11 - Sniffer's Ocean Home

Seed: 7459302910435312467

You'll never have to worry about hunting for Sniffer Eggs in this seed! Despite its size, the small Warm Oceans next to your Badlands spawn is jam-packed with Warm Ocean Ruins in both versions. With so many ruins to explore, it seems impossible to not be able to get at least one egg. The location is perfect because after gathering the eggs, you can choose whether to return to the Badlands side of the Warm Ocean or travel to the more grassy, forested biomes on the other side.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Small Warm Ruin: 120, 72	Small Warm Ruin: 56, 168
Small Warm Ruin 2: -232, 24	Small Warm Ruin 2: -280, 40
Small Warm Ruin 3: 328, -184	Small Warm Ruin 3: -248, -152
Large Warm Ruin Cluster: 40, -264	Small Warm Ruin 4: 136, -248
Shipwreck: -104, -216	Large Warm Ruin Cluster: 474, -168

Related: 26 Best Minecraft 1.20 Seeds (Java and Bedrock)

10 - River Valley Island

Seed: -6260761228952867864

The world starts in the middle of a Plains valley. The land you spawn on is isolated from the rest of the valley by a circular river, while Cherry Grove hills loom above you on three sides. A Plains Village can be seen on one of these hills. This seed is perfect for creating a castle or town surrounded by a moat. Plus, the close proximity of the villagers means it will be very easy to move them into your town.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Plains Village: 154, -143	Buried Treasure: 328, -184
River Cave: 130, 0	River Cave: 130, 0
Ruined Portal: 56, 136	Plains Village above Stronghold Stairway: 744, -376

9 - Treacherous Desert

Seed: -3620289166610301037

Spawn is set between Badlands and Desert biomes. This provides a very mountainous landscape that forces the player to venture further in order to find resources and treasures. In Java, the star of the show is a Desert Village that balances atop of one of the first hills you come across. Players must traverse the dangerous dunes and make their way up to the village in order to acquire materials and meet merchants. This village does not exist in Bedrock—however, there are villages deeper within the desert that make up for this.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Desert Village: 189, -239	Desert Village: 840, 24
Zombie Desert Village: 256, 144	Desert Temple: 73, 10
Ancient City: -620, -38, -624	Ruined Portal: 162, 230
Two Villages and Ruined Portal: 944, 800	Desert Village 2: 632, 664

8 - Trail Ruins to Lush Cave

Seed: -147999686515683229

This seed starts you off in an Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome. To the east is the ocean, while the west leads you to Old Growth Pine and Dark Forest biomes. Both Bedrock and Java versions of this seed have a large Trail Ruins archeology site that can be excavated and then used to dig into the area's Lush Cave. In Java, a mineshaft is connected to the cave itself, allowing players to gather even more potential treasure.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Trail Ruins: -1,052, 191	Trail Ruins: -936, 184
Lush Cave: -1,003, 19, 189	Lush Cave: -1,003, 19, 189
Mineshaft: -955, 11, 214	Large Cold Ocean Ruins: -808, 184

7 - Cherry Grove Beginnings

Seed: -6941378067760014623

Spawn in this seed is set within a Cherry Grove biome, with a Plains biome in the west and colder biome residing in the east. In Java, this mountain contains two Pillager Outposts as well as an Ancient City. In Bedrock, the mountain is home to only one Pillager Outpost, but it contains one Ancient City beneath it as well as another on the outskirts of the Cherry Grove biome!

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Pillager Outpost 1: 352, 368	Pillager Outpost: 616, 504
Pillager Outpost 2: 528, 320	Snowy Village: -344, 232
Ancient City: 221, -49, -35	Ancient City: 488, -44, 120

6 - Caved In Mansion with Village

Seed: 7887943438113683498

A multi-structure point of interest is always exciting to see in Minecraft. This is why we chose this seed, which features a Plains Village, a Woodland Mansion, and a ruined portal all inside a sprawling Dripstone Cave! Apart from this crazy clash of structures, this seed features multi-biome forests surrounding it on all sides, which makes exploration above ground worthwhile when you wish to venture out of the caves.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Mansion with Village: 88, 88	Ruined Portal: 296, 136
Ruined Portal: 136, 56	Ruined Portal 2: 24, 72
Mega Ravine: -166, 46, -59	Mineshaft: 312, -8
Ancient City: 456, -51, -232	Zombie Plains Village: 768, 0

5 - Beautiful Multi-Biome Cliffside

Seed: -1820780390

This incredible Bedrock seed spawns you right on a cliffside of a vast cove, looking straight at the ocean. The terrain is covered with a Jungle biome and goes into a polar area covered with frozen waterfalls. The cove is split right in the middle with volcanic magma falls, making this seed even more unique. Plenty of building and exploring opportunities are possible. I particularly fancy the idea of building a floating city right in the middle of the cove.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Small, Warm Ruin: 56, 136	Plains Village: -192 ,160
Shipwreck: 24, 184	Ancient City: 104, -51, 120
Ancient City: -232, -51, 104	Ancient City 2: -328, -51, 184
Ruined Portal: -360, 280	Ruined Portal: -280, -312

Related: Best Minecraft Coral Reef Seeds (Bedrock and Java)

4 - The Jungle Oasis

Seed: 1002142499220426

Spawning in this seed feels like stumbling across an oasis while traversing an arid desert, hence the name. Once you load into this seed, you will find yourself in a large patch of Jungle biome in the middle of a vast desert along with a beautiful river flowing right through the middle. It features lots of villages, desert wells, and a cave system right below the surface. The jungle even has a lava pool on the surface where you can build your Nether portal!

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Desert Village: -240, -416	Desert Village: 184, -296
Desert Well: -30, 270	Desert Well: 110, -369
Ruined Portal: 72, -408	Ruined Portal: 376, 200
Desert Temple: 168, 168	Desert Temple: 72, -232
Pillager Outpost: -704, 80	Pillager Outpost: -808, 232

3 - Biodiversity

Seed: 79067

We considered this seed to be the pinnacle of world generation since the 1.18 update. Even after the overhaul of the game's world generation, it continues to have nearly every biome and cluster of almost every overworld structure within a couple of thousand blocks of spawn. Additionally, it has a 1,000-block row of several Ancient Cities just south of Spawn as well as a couple of small patches of a Mangrove Swamp biome nearby.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Jungle Temple: -184, 344	Jungle Temple: -168, 216
Jungle Temple 2: 24, 712	Village: 200, 312
Mushroom Island: -400, -400	Mushroom Island: -400, -400
Ocean Monument: -232, -392	Pillager Outpost: 472, 376
Ancient City: 136, -51, 856	Ancient City: 392, -51, 504

2 - Badlands Lake

Seed: -436497117887980569

This seed spawns you right by the edges of a giant lake surrounded by high-rising plateaus of Wooded Badlands, hence the name. However, this seed has much more to offer than a beautiful view. A few blocks away from Spawn, you will find a Desert Village with multiple towers and a Savanna Village on an adjacent mountain. If the surface isn't enough, dig down to find Lush Caves, Deep Dark biomes, and plenty of ores to mine for resources.

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Desert Village: -416, -224	Desert Village: -216, -328
Ruined Portal: -568, 8	Ruined Portal: 104, 296
Shipwreck: -568, 152	Shipwreck: -664, 600
Savanna Village: -256, -720	Savanna Village: 872, -408
Desert Temple: -200, 328	Desert Temple: -264, -296

1 - Exposed lush cave

Seed: 2204054850500208009

You will have to travel over 2,000 blocks to reach it, but once you do, it will be worth it because a lush open cave on this map will leave you breathless as it did to me! A wonderful hidden cave in the middle of a bamboo forest captivates with its beauty, thanks to its plunging waterfall and hanging foliage. It's the perfect hideout base or a pirate cove just waiting to be constructed by you!

Key Java Locations	Key Bedrock Locations
Cove: -650, 70, 1,800	Cove: -650, 70, 1,800
Woodland Mansion: 1,848, 100, 600	Woodland Mansion: 1,992, 100, 5,944

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