I redownloaded Minecraft and it randomly gave me a world, and it was super awesome, so I decide to search the seed on google, and HOW WAS IT FOUND 2 YEARS AGO??
I didn’t enter anything for the seed, it just had me jump into minecraft, so I don’t know if it’s a default seed or just crazy luck
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it’s possible, but EXTREMELY unlikely. i don’t know statistics but it should be so unlikely as to be impossible
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It’s completely possible albeit so incredibly slim that if you generated a new world with a random seed once per second since the universe began, you’d need to wait over 42 times the current age of the universe before you statistically found the same seed twice.
2^64 = 18.4 quintillion possible seeds, 18.4 quintillion seconds ≈ 584 billion years, age of the universe is ≈13.8 billion years, 584/13.8 = 42.3 times the age of the universe
Now, with the immense popularity of Minecraft, there are probably many more seeds being generated than one per second, however even 1000 seeds per second would have negligible impact. So I think it’s safe to say that no two Minecraft worlds have ever generated the same, unless you really did pull the one in 18 quadrillion chance.
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I didn’t enter anything for the seed, it just had me jump into minecraft, so I don’t know if it’s a default seed or just crazy luck
it’s possible, but EXTREMELY unlikely. i don’t know statistics but it should be so unlikely as to be impossible
It’s completely possible albeit so incredibly slim that if you generated a new world with a random seed once per second since the universe began, you’d need to wait over 42 times the current age of the universe before you statistically found the same seed twice.
2^64 = 18.4 quintillion possible seeds, 18.4 quintillion seconds ≈ 584 billion years, age of the universe is ≈13.8 billion years, 584/13.8 = 42.3 times the age of the universe
Now, with the immense popularity of Minecraft, there are probably many more seeds being generated than one per second, however even 1000 seeds per second would have negligible impact. So I think it’s safe to say that no two Minecraft worlds have ever generated the same, unless you really did pull the one in 18 quadrillion chance.