This post is to highlight the best of the best seeds posted this year, to celebrate our great seed finders and to recap the year. Contents:

1 – Annual Recap
2 – Around the Community
3 – New Seeding Tools
4 – Memes
5 – Top Seeds & Seeders
6 – New For 2026

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⛏️ Annual Recap ⛏️

This year Mojang released Spring to Life (mob variants, fireflies), Chase the Skies (ghast mounts), The Copper Age (copper golems, new uses), and Mounts of Mayhem (nautilus mounts, spears). So overall a slower year for world gen, but still new reasons to explore, and our seeders still managed to get very creative.

We started the year with a Pale Garden trend after their release in ‘The Garden Awakens’, seeing all sorts of beautiful valleys, lakes and mansions. The larger valleys and lakes trend stayed as strong as ever, with plenty of top ‘Cherry Valley’ and ‘Mountain Ring’ seeds.

Thanks to NoiseSamplerGUI by Fragrant Result we’ve seen incredible ‘amplified’ structures and biomes this year. Most notably, u/DylanDC14 and Damduck found the highest known point in Minecraft at Y = 301. The same trend also led us to finding overground structures deep down in caves, some as far as the Deep Dark and in Ancient Cities. A few of these are featured below.

We’ve also seen crazy structure combos that show where the term ‘Bugrock’ comes from, as well as new tools pushing the limits of what’s possible even outside of bugs. This has included double stronghold portals, twelve eye portals, quintuple structures combos, and quad ocean desert temples. Be sure to check out the green ‘Featured’ tag for a concentrated look at all of the finds.

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🏘️ Around the Community 🏘️

Over in the YouTube community we want to give a special shout out to both Minecraft & Chill (u/MinecraftChill) and Stofix (u/stofix_) who’ve hit milestones and continue to bring seeds into Minecraft pop-culture.

This year AwesomePlayer98 hosted the first Seedfinding Championships, a technical competition for chasing down ultra rare world-gen features. There’s talk of a new competition at the start of 2026 so if you’re interested follow the Discord link above. (Just don’t ask how the review video is coming along! 😆)

Minecraft@Home (u/minecraftathome) continued to break new ground, finding new panorama seeds in as little as 14 hours. Most notably this year was the mega project to find a Mushroom Island spawn in current versions. It took beyond trillions of seeds checked by dozens of specialist seeders but of course they made it work! Video here.

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🔬 Seeding Tools 🔬

The website McSeedMap (McSeedMap by Megsys gained traction this year, notably as it allows basic automated searching without needing any downloads, as well as regular map view. If you’re looking for a tailored seed with a few chosen biomes and structures, this is the perfect tool for you.

The website and Google play app Seed Map viewer (Seed Map by u/f3rpas also gained attention this year. This platform allows brilliant 3D and orbital views of any seed, including structures as well as foliage. It also has the ability to find specific things within seeds, so if you have a world and want to get to know it better, this is for you.

MCSeedShare MCSeedShare by iCreaty is another good 3rd party database to keep in your seeds rotation. It’s continued to grow this year and supports many filters to search by, which can be more functional than Reddit’s search bar, and it has support for different languages.

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🎭 Memes 🎭

As always, r/minecraftseeds knows how to have a laugh. We certainly found that some Minecraft Movie references made their way into the sub, the usually insane requests, and what else would our top post be if not a give me your seed bro comment?

We’ve seen 69 mountains, suspicious lakes, and request diagrams that Pablo Picasso himself would not be able to design.

We have a channel in our Discord for sharing memes, whether they’re about seeds, Minecraft or anything else. We’re looking at including some memes in the monthly round up posts, so if you have some good world-gen/minecraft ones that you think would fit, this is the place!

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🌱 Java & Bedrock 🌱

And the bit we’ve all been waiting for, links to the very best seeds of the year. There were too many amazing ones to include, but we tried our best.

Africa

Seed: -6579860493282982247
Finder: u/K1NG_IC3
Picture: 1st, Top Left
Note: Large Biomes

Biggest Mushroom Island in Minecraft

Seed: 888880641529027638
Finders: u/minecraftathome, u/ZennithMC, Jereaux, Meox, ShowMe7
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Jurassic Valley

Seed: 69427194527559476
Finder: u/stofix_
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Pandora Jungle Temple

Seed: 694269426942719923
Finder: u/stofix_ (2)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Fire vs Grass Mountain Crater

Seed: 100000019873386049
Finder: u/Connors3462
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Citadel Mountain In Valley

Seed: 888882903781400170
Finder: u/ZennithMC
Picture: 1st, Top Left

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🌱 Java 🌱

Quad Village Mountain Crater

Seed: 1244994422874902852
Finder: u/Connors3462 (2)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Quad Village Island

Seed: 2800096416986572871
Finder: u/ZennithMC (2)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Double Village Cherry Valley

Seed: 888880777356331877
Finder: u/ZennithMC (3)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

*Desert Pyramid / Ancient City *

Seed: 7101332189657068768
Finder: u/Fragrant_Result_186
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Ice Cave Outpost

Seed: 6942699783490145785
Finder: u/stofix_ (3)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Village / Ancient City

Seed: -6717069237572499903
Finder: u/DylanDC14, u/_DamgodW_-_
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Mushroom Island Spawn

Seed: 655555775381624347
Finder: u/Doogie8876
Picture: 1st, Top Left
Note: Large Biomes

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🌱 Bedrock 🌱

Double End Portal / Trial Chamber

Seed: 2157805408577749411
Finder: u/Fragrant_Result_186 (2)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Hardcore One Block Spawn

Seed: -2702159776422296816
Finder: u/Fragrant_Result_186 (3)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Diamond Fossil / Portal

Seed: 3694003410822460448
Finder: u/ExperiencePretend775
Picture: 1st, Top Left

All Biomes & Structures Continent

Seed: -5207005594169711425
Finder: u/PeasantLord1
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Void Access Igloo Through Portal

Seed: -5439815280427549155
Finder: u/crackedMagnet
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Desert Temple On Stilts

Seed: 32224767973644761
Finder: u/MZEEN1367
Picture: 1st, Top Left

Spawn In Nether-like Cave

Seed: 2670362583054513308
Finder: u/Fragrant_Result_186 (4)
Picture: 1st, Top Left

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🏆 Top Seeders of the Year 🏆

We have counted up all of the feature-level seeds this year across Reddit, YouTube and Minecraft & Chill and want to shoutout these top seeders for their consistently great work.

10 – u/_DamgodW_-_
10 – u/Fit_Wait9799
10 – u/Connors3462 (Top in MC & Chill)
11 – u/Fragrant_Result_186 (Top in SOTY)
12 – u/PeasantLord1
12 – u/MZEEN1367 (Top in Karma)
12 – u/ZennithMC (Top Post OTY)
13 – u/DylanDC14
28 – u/Doogie8876 (Top in Reddit)
37 – u/stofix_ (Top in YouTube)

Thank you to not just these seed finders but all of our regular posters for their fantastic seeds too, and to all of our regular commenters for responding to requests and generating a sense of community.

Annual Award

We’ve tracked the history of the Minecraft Seeds community to create a casual award for the community’s most featured seed finder. For both the amount of seeds and quality, this year we’re pleased to award it to Stofix.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2012: Wizz007 (Seeds Pro)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2013: Samellis
🇺🇸 2014: Weatherman
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2015: íBrà
🇺🇸 2016: Telepathic Grunt
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2017: íBrà (Minecraft Amino)
🇺🇸 2018: Telepathic Grunt
🇺🇸 2019: QibliTF (Reddit & YouTube)
🇧🇪 2020: Killstepz
🇧🇪 2021: Killstepz
🇳🇿 2022: Cracked Magnet
🇯🇵 2023: Fragrant Result
🇯🇵 2024: Fragrant Result
🇫🇷 2025: Stofix! 🏆

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🆕 New For 2026 🆕

We are excited to finally show off our very own Users Flairs. These are tags of every biome in the game, so that you can represent your favourite by your username. We’ve also included some special tags for dimensional features, common world gen features (lakes/valleys) and even one or two modded and archive version biomes. We’ll be looking to optimise and refine these as we go based on how well the system comes off and the resources available.

We’re excited to see what seeds brings next year. We’ve just crossed 400k users, so next year we’ll be seeing what progress we can make to 500k! The Seeds of the Month will continue, and we are planning to renovate the Discord. We’re looking forward to seeing you next year, but for now, enjoy the holidays!