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Ancient City Near Desert and Badlands Spawn

This seed places you in a desert with a close Ancient City and varied biomes nearby.

A bird's-eye view of a vast desert landscape meeting a warm ocean, with distant badlands and a small spawn marker.
3D fly-over of the world around spawn, rendered from the seed. Click to open it in the interactive 3D map.
Version
Java 26.2
+11
26.226.1.226.1.126.11.21.111.21.101.21.91.21.81.21.71.21.61.21.51.21.4
Spawn
-296, -168
Spawn biome
Desert
Seed 5479434642494424094

You spawn in a desert at (-296, -168), with a significant Ancient City about 769 blocks away. While the immediate spawn is flat desert, a diverse mix of biomes, including Badlands and Warm Ocean, are close by. This seed offers a good balance of early game resource access and later-game exploration.

What you land in

You spawn in a desert at (-296, -168) at surface height y=73, giving you a flat start.

Structures nearest to spawn

The nearest structure is an Amethyst Geode at (-263, -188), just 39 blocks from spawn. A Shipwreck is also relatively close at about 190 blocks away, and a Trial Chambers is around 223 blocks from your starting point.

StructureCoordinates (X, Z)Blocks from spawn
💜 Amethyst Geode ↗ NE-263, -188 39
⚓ Shipwreck ↙ SW-464, -80 190
⛏️ Mineshaft ↓ S-368, 32 213
⚔️ Trial Chambers ↓ S-240, 48 223
🌊 Ocean Ruin ↓ S-256, 144 315
🌋 Ruined Portal → E96, -320 420
⛲ Desert Well ↘ SE80, 71 446
🏚️ Ancient City ↗ NE240, -720 769
🏘️ Village ← W-1,040, -400 779
🐪 Desert Pyramid ↘ SE288, 624 984
💰 Buried Treasure → E761, -135 1,058
🏺 Trail Ruins ↖ NW-1,264, -896 1,211
🗿 Jungle Temple ↖ NW-1,376, -912 1,311
🔱 Ocean Monument ↙ SW-1,424, 672 1,406
🗼 Pillager Outpost ↑ N-416, -1,776 1,612
🧙 Swamp Hut ↘ SE1,152, 560 1,621
🧿 Stronghold ↗ NE1,364, -1,324 2,023

Nearest instance of each type inside a 5,000-block box centred on spawn. Coordinates are the structure's origin; ancient cities and mineshafts sit far below the surface.

Biome mix around spawn

Your spawn is surrounded by Desert, which makes up about 15.3% of the nearby area. Warm Ocean covers 30.1% of the area, and Badlands is about 192 blocks away, making up 10% of the nearby biomes. Forest and Sparse Jungle are further out at around 737-753 blocks.

BiomeShareNearest patch (blocks)
Warm Ocean 30.1% 64
Desert 15.3% 0
Badlands 10% 192
Eroded Badlands 8.5% 226
Lukewarm Ocean 6.7% 736
River 5.3% 143
Savanna 5.2% 854
Wooded Badlands 4% 391
Stony Shore 3.7% 91
Forest 3.1% 737
Plains 2.1% 832
Deep Lukewarm Ocean 2.1% 997
Sparse Jungle 1.6% 753
Jungle 1.4% 959

Surface biome sampled on a grid across a 2,048×2,048 block box centred on spawn. Biomes under 1% share are omitted, except the biome you spawn in.

Is this seed for you?

A desert start with a quick path to an Ancient City and varied biomes for resources.

Worth it for

  • Ancient City is relatively close at about 769 blocks
  • Diverse biomes available within 800 blocks, including Badlands and various Jungles
  • Lush caves are present in 2.8% of the underground census
  • Nether fortress only 336 nether blocks from your spawn portal

Worth knowing

  • No village within 700 blocks of spawn
  • Stronghold is over 2000 blocks away
  • No immediate dramatic terrain at spawn