I was looking for a seed to start my new world on, and I think I found it.
Seed: -2275361428485614656
The seed starts you near a large lake with the majority of the biomes bordering the lake, meaning whatever type of terrain you are looking for you can find it easily. There are also several villages and several desert/jungle temples near by, most of which are near rivers meaning they are easy to find(a quick luck didn't find any too terribly epic in them but nothing too bad either, the village closest to spawn does have a blacksmith.)
Of course, I hear you ask, what if you want to build on islands, or you want a mushroom island biome, this seed also delivers.
To the northeast of spawn you get a nice plains/forest islan with a village, a large island, and two mushroom island.
I have by no means explored this seed fully, and while it doesn't immediatly seem to have any "epic" features, it is incredibly well rounded and will likely have what you're looking for, including a great number of awesome places to build your next home.
I see lots of cool seeds out there, and while villages, temples, and what not are nice, what I'm really looking for is a seed with a good river. The bigger, both length and width, and the more biomes it passes through the better. An optimal seed would empty out to the ocean near some good land for building(plains, forest, desert, ect). Villages, temples, huts, ect are awesome, but not the main thing I'm looking for.
If anyone knows of any such seeds, I'd appriciate you sending them my way, and I'll post any I manage to find.
Further exploration reveals a few new things. There are some mountains and snowy areas down south, and to the west is a desert that has another village(significantly closer than the northwest one), and a desert well, both near the coast/
In this seed you spawn on a large island/small continent that's made of both forest and plains, giving you enough wood for whatever you need, and enough space even for large spaces. Nearby to the large continent to the north/east you can find swamps, deserts, forests, jungles, tundras, and taigas. Of note there is a Desert Temple in the desert to the northwest that has a lot of gold in it. The only mountains I found were far north, but the tundra to the east is fairly rugged.
North of the map listed below there is an NPC village, it's a bit aways but you can find it by following the river between the forest and the NW desert. I have not yet explored south and to the west of the map, but it seems to be a promising seed.
I just made a random world, and I was quite pleased at how it turned out. You spawn in(or very near) an NPC village. There are several biomes in walking distance(jungle, desert, mountain, plains, taiga, ect. A Ravine, jungle temple, expose dungeon, and second village are all near by as well. All in all I'm quite fond of the seed.
Let me know what you think.
EDIT: This was made using the most recent snapshot, though it should work in 1.2.5 as well.
Healing potions, golden apples, clocks, and powered rails are enough for it to always be worth mining gold when you see it. Gold Blocks and equiptment look cool(though gold tools are really only useful if say you're doing a short youtube video and you want to reduce block breaking time.)
It was cool even before it was useful. I wouldn't mind a few more cosmetic blocks(I'd like to be able to make a coal block or a redstone block).
One of the easiest ways is just to build a nether portal at each end, and make a safe tunnel going between them in the nether. If the portals are underground you can just quickly burrow through the netherack.
Water channels are pretty cool, and cheep(though time consuming), and even without going downwards they get devent speed.
If I don't need a large farm I make a small indoor farm, usually the dirt is one block around ground level around an infinate sprint that I cover. That way it's easy to harvest all the wheat without stepping on the farmland.
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Seed: -2275361428485614656
The seed starts you near a large lake with the majority of the biomes bordering the lake, meaning whatever type of terrain you are looking for you can find it easily. There are also several villages and several desert/jungle temples near by, most of which are near rivers meaning they are easy to find(a quick luck didn't find any too terribly epic in them but nothing too bad either, the village closest to spawn does have a blacksmith.)
Of course, I hear you ask, what if you want to build on islands, or you want a mushroom island biome, this seed also delivers.
To the northeast of spawn you get a nice plains/forest islan with a village, a large island, and two mushroom island.
I have by no means explored this seed fully, and while it doesn't immediatly seem to have any "epic" features, it is incredibly well rounded and will likely have what you're looking for, including a great number of awesome places to build your next home.
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If anyone knows of any such seeds, I'd appriciate you sending them my way, and I'll post any I manage to find.
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Yeah, almost perfect, if there were some good mountains to the west, a village in one of the deserts, and a temple in the jungle it would be perfect.
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In this seed you spawn on a large island/small continent that's made of both forest and plains, giving you enough wood for whatever you need, and enough space even for large spaces. Nearby to the large continent to the north/east you can find swamps, deserts, forests, jungles, tundras, and taigas. Of note there is a Desert Temple in the desert to the northwest that has a lot of gold in it. The only mountains I found were far north, but the tundra to the east is fairly rugged.
North of the map listed below there is an NPC village, it's a bit aways but you can find it by following the river between the forest and the NW desert. I have not yet explored south and to the west of the map, but it seems to be a promising seed.
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Assuming you have the snapshot installed, it's directly north of the starting village, right near where the jungle biome starts.
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You'll spawn in a village, and another will be NE.
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Btw, there is an ender portal right off the SW corner of the map I made in the first picture(the map is centered on the village you spawn in).
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I just made a random world, and I was quite pleased at how it turned out. You spawn in(or very near) an NPC village. There are several biomes in walking distance(jungle, desert, mountain, plains, taiga, ect. A Ravine, jungle temple, expose dungeon, and second village are all near by as well. All in all I'm quite fond of the seed.
Let me know what you think.
EDIT: This was made using the most recent snapshot, though it should work in 1.2.5 as well.
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There's no way for the game to know who to teleport. Dispensers are fired from a redstone current, which can be triggered by darn near everything.
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It was cool even before it was useful. I wouldn't mind a few more cosmetic blocks(I'd like to be able to make a coal block or a redstone block).
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Water channels are pretty cool, and cheep(though time consuming), and even without going downwards they get devent speed.
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