How to find your seed and locate structures in Minecraft

Your seed is the number that decides where every structure generates. Get it with /seed, enter it in a seed map set to your edition and version, and you can read the coordinates of every village, mansion or trial chamber around you. This guide covers Java Edition 26.3.

Open the chat with T and type:

/seed

The game answers Seed: [number]. Click the number to copy it to the clipboard. More details are on the /seed command page.

• Singleplayer: the command works even with cheats off.
• Server: you need operator rights (permission level 2). In the server console, type seed without the slash.
• Realm: the owner opens World Backups, clicks Download Latest, then runs /seed in the downloaded singleplayer copy.
• Bedrock Edition: the seed is shown in the world settings.

The same seed does not give the same structures everywhere. Mojang changes world generation between versions, and Bedrock Edition places structures differently from Java. Before you open a map, write down:

• the edition: Java or Bedrock;
• the version you play, shown at the bottom left of the title screen (for example 26.3).

Chunks you explored before an update keep the structures of the old version. A map set to 26.3 is right only for the chunks generated in 26.3. Our seed pages show the difference: each seed is checked in 26.3, 26.2 and 1.21 separately.

Every structure page on Blockaria has an interactive seed map by Chunkbase. Open the page of the structure you want, for example the Woodland Mansion or the Trial Chambers, then:

1. paste your seed in the Your seed field;
2. pick Java or Bedrock under Edition;
3. click Load the map. It comes from chunkbase.com and loads only when you click;
4. click a marker to read its X and Z coordinates.

The map shows one structure type at a time. To compare several, open each page in turn, or start from the list of all structures.

The game cuts the world into square regions and tries to place one structure of each type per region. The try fails when the biome does not fit, so some regions stay empty. These sizes come from the 26.3 game files:

Woodland Mansions are rare: their regions are 1,280 blocks wide and they only generate in a Dark Forest or a Pale Garden. Strongholds follow their own rings around 0, 0: see how to find the End portal.

With cheats on, the game finds the nearest structure for you:

/locate structure minecraft:mansion

The answer reads The nearest minecraft:mansion is at [X, ~, Z] (N blocks away). Click the coordinates to teleport. A tag finds every variant at once, for example all five village types:

/locate structure #minecraft:village

• Search from the right dimension: a Nether Fortress only shows up when you run the command in the Nether.
• Could not find a structure of type ... nearby also appears when the world was created with Generate Structures off.
• /locate biome minecraft:cherry_grove finds a biome the same way.
• In a survival world, Open to LAN with Allow Cheats on gives you the command until you leave the world.

Build any /locate command with the generator below, then copy it.

Press F3: the XYZ line shows where you stand. Walk or ride until your X and Z match the target. For a surface structure, Y does not matter. Underground ones sit deep: an Ancient City starts at Y -27, Trial Chambers between Y -40 and Y -20.

For trips of several thousand blocks, go through the Nether: 1 block there equals 8 in the Overworld. Divide the target X and Z by 8, travel to that point in the Nether and build a portal there. The converter does the math.

• Nothing there? Compare the edition and version on the map with your world first.
• Still nothing? The chunk may have been generated before an update. Try the next marker further out, in land you have never visited.
• Found it? Note the coordinates in a book at your base: /locate is not available in survival without cheats.