Steep Minecraft cliffs covered in snow by a Frozen Ocean and a Plains Village
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Top 20 Minecraft 1.18 Seeds

Minecraft 1.18 offers a permanent old world upgrading! It's time to explore the top 20 seeds for this version.

Minecraft 1.18, also known as the Caves and Cliffs update, vastly changed the generation of Overworld terrains and caverns alike. Our selection of the 20 best Minecraft 1.18 seeds will bring you to the most amazing caves and mountaintops available in this version of Minecraft.

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Blacksmith village by the beach

A Plains Village on a Beach biome with a Pillager Outpost in the background in Minecraft
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Finding a village with a Blacksmith at the start of a Minecraft world is already a great thing. To sweeten up this seed, the beach next to the village has three buried treasure chests hidden within it! Use the resources from the village and the chests to craft tools to mine the ores on the nearby Stony Shores. Afterward, craft strong gear and fight the Pillager Outpost in the distance.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Plains Village: 244, -184
Buried Treasure 1: 200, 62, -120
Buried Treasure 2: 280, 65, -56
Buried Treasure 3: 344, 60, -40
Pillager Outpost: 505, 168

Floating Nether portal

A Nether Portal floating in the area in Minecraft's Nether
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In most cases, creating a Nether Portal in the overworld causes one to spawn on top of any Nether biome. However, the Nether Portal in this seed has mysteriously generated in the middle of the air! The portal has spawned a few blocks of obsidian around it to prevent you from falling. Finding ways to explore the Nether despite this handicap would make for a fun adventure.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Plains Village: 163, -204
Ruined Nether portal: 117, -265

Woodland Mansion riches

A Minecraft Woodland Mansion on the edge of a canyon
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Woodland Mansions are often notoriously difficult to find, especially if you’re looking for one close to Spawn. This seed contains a Woodland Mansion that is just over 500 blocks from the start of the world. What makes it better than similarly close Mansions is the presence of a secret room on the third floor hiding a diamond block encased in obsidian! If you’re able to craft a diamond pickaxe, you’ll easily gather 9 more diamonds and enough obsidian for a Nether portal here.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Woodland Mansion: 521, 505

Glacial Cliffs

Steep Minecraft cliffs covered in snow by a Frozen Ocean and a Plains Village
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This seed displays the full glory of the cliffs available in Minecraft 1.18 with a snowy twist. There are a variety of caverns sprinkled throughout the cliffs. Each cave is filled with precious minerals, making adventuring into any of them a worthwhile trip. The west side of the mountain range is home to a cozy Plains Village while the east has an igloo hidden in the snow.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Glacial Cliffs: -123, -148
Igloo: 66, -250
Plains Village: -238, 160

Snowy Outpost by Plains Village

A Minecraft Pillager Outpost on a patch of Snowy Slopes biome by a Plains Village
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A Pillager Outpost stands tall over the lone patch of Snowy Slopes biome within this Meadow. To its right is a Plains Village next to a ruined Nether portal. While the portal is incomplete, there are enough obsidian blocks in its chest to rebuild it as well as a flint-and-steel to light it. This means you can go to the Nether as soon as you reach this area.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Pillager Outpost: 392, 329
Plains Village: 286, 274
Ruined Nether portal: 264, 137

Two Swamp villages

Two Minecraft Plains Villages by a Swamp
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After entering this world, walk to the northwest. You’ll come across two Plains Villages next to each other and a Swamp biome. The first Plains Village extends into the Swamp, with one of its buildings actually being a Witch Hut disguised as a home! This will be a helpful setup if you want to use the Witch to help create and cure Zombified Villagers for better trades.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Plains Village 1: 43, -365
Witch Hut: 112, -382
Plains Village 2: -201, -411

Tall Desert Temple

A tall Desert Temple by a Desert Village in Minecraft
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This Desert Temple has generated on the side of a hill, causing its front entrance to be too tall to reach. Thankfully, you can easily enter it by climbing the hill and dropping through the top of the temple. The coast west of the temple is home to a Desert Village. It’s the perfect place to set up base using the treasures from the temple’s secret basement room.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Desert Temple: 265, -358
Desert Village: 128, -497

Snowy Village ravine

A Snowy Village with half of its homes in a Minecraft ravine
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Placing villages partially inside caves is something that could never happen in previous versions of Minecraft. However, the Caves and Cliffs update now allows village homes to spawn at the bottom of ravines, as you’ll discover in the first Snowy Village. A similarly unique phenomenon happens in the second village due to a small ravine cutting through it.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Snowy Village 1: 169, 417
Snowy Village 2: 326, 545
Snowy Village 3: 572, 284

Lush ravine

A Lush Cave ravine filled with water and lava in Minecraft
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A seed with a Lush Cave at Spawn is perfect for players new to Minecraft 1.18. This one does have plenty of lava, so you’ll have to tread through it carefully. Thankfully, there is enough water to drop down safely and prevent yourself from catching on fire.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Lush Cave: -135, 138

Windswept Savanna village

A Minecraft Plains Village next to a Windswept Savanna biome
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A new Windswept Savanna biome combined with a Plains Village in this world. The new Windswept Savanna biome is even more chaotic than its predecessor, Shattered Savanna. Its hills are steeper, the torn terrain is more dangerous, and the ravines are deeper than ever before. Lucky for you, the village has a Blacksmith that will help you get geared up to explore this new biome.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Buried Treasure: 249, 62, 409
Plains Village: 564, 340

Badlands and Desert island

A Minecraft island made up of Badlands and Desert biomes with two Desert Villages and a Desert Temple
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  • Seed: -8465667184237341595
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: -743, -319
  • Biomes: Badlands, Coral Reef, Desert, Mushroom Fields

Badlands and Desert biomes come together to form this large Minecraft island. It is home to two Desert Villages and a Desert Temple, although the waterways cutting through the island have separated them. There is a Coral Reef surrounding the area as well as a Mushroom Island only a short swim away. The only thing missing is trees, but you’ll be able to use shipwrecks, villagers, and Wandering Traders to gather wood and potentially saplings.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Desert Village 1: -966, -458
Desert Village 2: -744, -838
Desert Temple: -777, -842
Mushroom Island: -944, -3

Plains Village between islands

A Minecraft Plains Village between two Plains islands
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An island village at Spawn is always a sight to behold! This one is not a usual island village as it practically connects two separate islands with its buildings and roads. This will surely make your survival game a lot of fun, even though there aren’t that many trees on the islands.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Plains Village: 62, 335
Cold Ocean Ruin Cluster: 137, 138

Nether Portal beneath Plains Village

A Minecraft Plains Village with a ruined Nether portal beneath one of the homes
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When this Plains Village generated on top of a small hill, it buried a ruined Nether portal in the same area beneath one of its homes. The portal’s chest is easily reachable and the portal itself can be dug up quickly. Additionally, this portal is only missing a single obsidian block to be completed! If you gather a little iron from one of the surrounding hills, you can use the lava beneath the portal and the water from the village’s river to craft the final block and enter the Nether.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Plains Village: 56, 117
Ruined Nether portal: 58, 142

Hollow Windswept Mountain

A Windswept Savanna Mountain that is hollow inside next to a Plains Village in Minecraft
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Spawn right next to a massive hollow mountain that is located near a Plains Village. As one would expect, the dark hollow pit in the cliffside is teeming with hostile mobs. Approach it carefully and light it up as quickly as you can. The mountain is filled with plenty of exposed ores, so it makes for a great place to go mining.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Hollow Mountain: -335, 149
Plains Village: -245, 244

Woodland Mansion on an island

A Woodland Mansion on an island across the ocean from a Plains Village in Minecraft
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  • Seed: -5914402865110739534
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: -16, 68
  • Biomes: Dark Forest, Forest, Plains, Snowy Plains

When you enter this world, the first thing you’ll encounter is a large ruined Nether portal. After looting it, you’ll need to walk back in the opposite direction and follow the coastline to the left. This path will lead you through a Forest to a Plains Village with a Blacksmith. Depending on your render distance, standing at the edge of the village and looking into the ocean may reveal a small island with a Woodland Mansion! Traveling to all of these structures will make a great journey for any adventurous Minecraft players.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Ruined Nether portal: -5, 181
Plains Village: -356, -381
Woodland Mansion: 253, -581
Shipwreck: -124, -748

Badlands Lush Cave

A Lush Cave hidden in the side of a Badlands hill in Minecraft
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Lush Caves rarely expose themselves on the surface, but in this world you’ll find an exposed Lush Cave biome in the Badlands at Spawn. While the glow berries help light it up, you’ll want to quickly craft torches to stay safe from hostile mobs. Travel southeast to find a Savanna Village standing on top of a flooded ravine.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Lush Cave: 62, 70
Savanna Village: 599, 690

Floating Temple by Shipwreck Isle

A Minecraft Jungle Temple floating in the ocean next to an island with a shipwreck
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  • Seed: 6244329200709678636
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 89, -36
  • Biomes: Beach, Jungle, Windswept Savanna

Treasure hunting has never been easier than in this Minecraft seed. To start, walk north along the coast to find a Jungle Temple floating in the ocean. It contains two chests, one placed beyond the traps and another in the hidden redstone room. After exploring here, set sail to the Windswept island with a shipwreck. There will be two chests in the wreckage as well as six other treasure chests scattered around the island and the surrounding sea.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Floating Jungle Temple: 82, -248
Shipwreck: -101, -474
Buried Treasure 1: -56, 47, -504
Buried Treasure 2: 8, 55, -552
Buried Treasure 3: 8, 62, -504
Buried Treasure 4: 8, 46, -440
Buried Treasure 5: 72, 41, -504
Buried Treasure 6: 72, 59, -552

Plains Village above dungeons

A Minecraft Plains Village by a Snowy Plains and an Ice Spike biome
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This world begins on a Frozen River near an Ice Spike biome and a Plains biome. Travel to the Plains biome to find a Plains Village, which you’ll be happy to discover is above two different dungeons. The first has a Spider Spawner and a single chest while the second contains a Zombie Spawner and two loot chests.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Plains Village: -151, 215
Zombie Dungeon: -93, -24, 258
Spider Dungeon: -89, 25, 229

Coral Reef cliffs

A set of Desert and Badlands cliffs above a Coral Reef with a Desert Village and a Desert Temple
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These steep Desert Cliffs tower over a Coral Reef, making for an imposing sight. On top of the cliffs is a large Desert Village that gives you easy access to food and other supplies. If you explore where the ocean meets the cliff, you’ll see a tower that is part of a mostly-buried Desert Temple.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Desert Village: 188, 230
Desert Temple: 273, 290

Dark Oak peninsula

A Dark Forest peninsula with a shipwreck and an Ocean Monument in Minecraft
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An Ocean Monument, a shipwreck, and two ruined Nether portals can all be found around Spawn! The shipwreck is partially above the ocean, but you’ll need to dive into the water to loot the rest. Each ruined portal has a chest with nice loot including iron nuggets, magma charges, and golden armor and tools. You won’t have access to a village, but there is a Mushroom island slightly southwest of the peninsula.

Key Locations and their Coordinates
Shipwreck: 261, -157
Ruined Portal 1: 47, 3
Ruined Portal 2: 69, -326
Ocean Monument: 176, 111

That’s it for our list of the top 20 seeds for the 1.18 version of Minecraft. Stay tuned for more Minecraft tips and tricks articles right here on Gameskinny.


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