When I copy any seed that is posted in the Seeds section I recieve something completly different. E.g. somebody says that the seed 3666440496532277820 makes you spawn in a spider dungeon and this spawn is even confirmed. But when I use it, then I spawn in some random commonplace landscape. Same goes for every seed, it never creates what it's supposed to create.
When I look at the seed ID on the screen after having pressed F3 it even says another number. However, while this number is not the one I entered, it does stay the same if I put in the same ID. So if I use a seed, it creates something different than it should, but everytime I use the seed it creates the same things.
And before you yell "MOD'S FAULT!", I even forced an update and same happens with a clean version of minecraft.
I would like to use seeds, since I find the normal Minecraft landscape a bit dull and the Biomes mod has not yet be updated for 1.1.
I also do apologise if this is the wrong section, but I haven't experienced this problem before 1.1 and I could not find anything after searching and a more appropiate section.
I should mention that the spawn location tends to be randomized every time you create a different world with the seed.
You could make two worlds with the same exact seed, making two worlds exactly the same, but your spawn point will be different in both.
Be careful not to include any spaces or quotation marks when you copy the seed. Also, make sure the seed you're using was discovered in the most recent version of Minecraft. The same seed can create different worlds depending on which version of Minecraft you're using.
As mentioned, it spawns you in the world the seed creates, no gaurantees as to where it spawns you.
Look for the co-ordinates of what you're looking for.
Also seeds tend to change in what worlds they create by the updates.
Between 1.1 and when jungle biomes were introduced in the following snapshots, the terrain generation made a big change as far as what the seed would give you. You might actually find some similarity between two maps with the same seed generated in 1.1 and the jungle snapshot, but odds are good it will make big changes. The same goes for when 1.8 came about. It was then that a major revamp of terrain generation occurred.
A fair amount of people do take the time to share what version the seed works with. Unfortunately some take things for granted and won't. But when they do share, be sure to pay attention. Otherwise you have no place to rage when you get something different.
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In the real world, you stick your head in the dirt to hide from problems.
In Minecraft, you stick your head in the dirt to find problems.
The world generator code has changed many times since the seed input was added. At least 5 separate times.
It was different in 1.1 than 1.0, and it's even changed again during the snapshots for the upcoming 1.2.
That's most likely what is the problem. You are probably trying a seed from a previous version that no longer creates the same world.
If you are sure the seed is the correct number, and you are the version the seed calls for, then it's probably as others have suggested, and the fact that many seeds do not have a single fixed spawn point. Many do.. but some don't. And so you may be getting the right world, but just not ending up where you think you should.
But I suspect you are trying to use an old seed, like from 1.8 times or something, on the new world gen. Those worlds are lost forever. Like Glacier, and gargamel.. lost to the sands of time..
E.g. somebody says that the seed 3666440496532277820 makes you spawn in a spider dungeon and this spawn is even confirmed. But when I use it, then I spawn in some random commonplace landscape.
I remember that seed. That's ages old in Minecraft years. I actually still have that spider dungeon world in my beta 1.5 backup folder. :tongue.gif:
Everyone saying you're typing the seed wrong...they don't know what they're talking about. The seed isn't working because terrain generation has changed 3 times now since then, so that world is long lost, with all other seeds from that era.
EDIT: I found the original thread for that seed. Looks like it's 2 weeks away from being a year old. http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/192662-spawn-in-a-spider-dungeon/
But yeah, like I said, All seeds from before Minecon (Nov 2011) are dead now, unless you happen to have an old minecraft.jar to generate them.
Another few options for you, if you really want to use an old seed, or just to check one out, would be NBXLite or MCNostalgia. NBXLite allows Minecraft 1.1 to use multiple older generator versions, while MCNostalgia essentially downgrades Minecraft as a whole to a previous version of your choosing.
There may be, but there is also a copy paste error which could be happening as well. You get a completely different seed if you directly copy and paste a seed into the seed box.
From the OP this lead me to believe the copy paste thing is the culprit:
Any alpha-numeric seeds entered get converted into pure numeric strings by the generator. This is normal, and the values are the same.
I copy and paste seeds all the time, and I've never been taken to the wrong world.
There may be, but there is also a copy paste error which could be happening as well. You get a completely different seed if you directly copy and paste a seed into the seed box.
From the OP this lead me to believe the copy paste thing is the culprit:
I don't know what you are talking about here because I copy and paste seeds all the time.
The only thing I can think of is if you were to mismanage to fully highlight the full seed, or perhaps highlight too much of it, getting an extra/exttraneous character in there or something.
But I have a large file of seeds and cut and paste them routinely, throughout many versions.. and only once or twice did I get unexpected results.. and I remember in one case it was because I copy/pasted without the leading minus sign on that particular seed.
When I copy any seed that is posted in the Seeds section I recieve something completly different. E.g. somebody says that the seed 3666440496532277820 makes you spawn in a spider dungeon and this spawn is even confirmed. But when I use it, then I spawn in some random commonplace landscape. Same goes for every seed, it never creates what it's supposed to create.
When I look at the seed ID on the screen after having pressed F3 it even says another number. However, while this number is not the one I entered, it does stay the same if I put in the same ID. So if I use a seed, it creates something different than it should, but everytime I use the seed it creates the same things.
And before you yell "MOD'S FAULT!", I even forced an update and same happens with a clean version of minecraft.
I would like to use seeds, since I find the normal Minecraft landscape a bit dull and the Biomes mod has not yet be updated for 1.1.
I also do apologise if this is the wrong section, but I haven't experienced this problem before 1.1 and I could not find anything after searching and a more appropiate section.
You could make two worlds with the same exact seed, making two worlds exactly the same, but your spawn point will be different in both.
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Look for the co-ordinates of what you're looking for.
Also seeds tend to change in what worlds they create by the updates.
A fair amount of people do take the time to share what version the seed works with. Unfortunately some take things for granted and won't. But when they do share, be sure to pay attention. Otherwise you have no place to rage when you get something different.
In Minecraft, you stick your head in the dirt to find problems.
The world generator code has changed many times since the seed input was added. At least 5 separate times.
It was different in 1.1 than 1.0, and it's even changed again during the snapshots for the upcoming 1.2.
That's most likely what is the problem. You are probably trying a seed from a previous version that no longer creates the same world.
If you are sure the seed is the correct number, and you are the version the seed calls for, then it's probably as others have suggested, and the fact that many seeds do not have a single fixed spawn point. Many do.. but some don't. And so you may be getting the right world, but just not ending up where you think you should.
But I suspect you are trying to use an old seed, like from 1.8 times or something, on the new world gen. Those worlds are lost forever. Like Glacier, and gargamel.. lost to the sands of time..
I remember that seed. That's ages old in Minecraft years. I actually still have that spider dungeon world in my beta 1.5 backup folder. :tongue.gif:
Everyone saying you're typing the seed wrong...they don't know what they're talking about. The seed isn't working because terrain generation has changed 3 times now since then, so that world is long lost, with all other seeds from that era.
EDIT: I found the original thread for that seed. Looks like it's 2 weeks away from being a year old.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/192662-spawn-in-a-spider-dungeon/
But yeah, like I said, All seeds from before Minecon (Nov 2011) are dead now, unless you happen to have an old minecraft.jar to generate them.
Another few options for you, if you really want to use an old seed, or just to check one out, would be NBXLite or MCNostalgia. NBXLite allows Minecraft 1.1 to use multiple older generator versions, while MCNostalgia essentially downgrades Minecraft as a whole to a previous version of your choosing.
Any alpha-numeric seeds entered get converted into pure numeric strings by the generator. This is normal, and the values are the same.
I copy and paste seeds all the time, and I've never been taken to the wrong world.
292202 spawns you in an endless ocean in 1.1 and the snapshots.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=155932
Crates
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=239467
Item Scrolling
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=174539
I don't know what you are talking about here because I copy and paste seeds all the time.
The only thing I can think of is if you were to mismanage to fully highlight the full seed, or perhaps highlight too much of it, getting an extra/exttraneous character in there or something.
But I have a large file of seeds and cut and paste them routinely, throughout many versions.. and only once or twice did I get unexpected results.. and I remember in one case it was because I copy/pasted without the leading minus sign on that particular seed.