Some time ago I came across a very nice seed for starting out in after creating a random world in 1.7.x; the seed still works in 1.8 and I decided to share it (I've previously mentioned it once or twice).
The seed is "-3830842913915544643", without quotes, default world type in 1.7-1.8.
You spawn in a village - but this is no ordinary village, as indicated by the contents of the blacksmith's chest, which, along with two libraries (14 bookshelves), will give you a very good head start (I don't normally look at these sort of seeds but I've never seen a blacksmith chest with this much valuable loot):
This is what you see first thing after spawning:
A view from above; there are two libraries, a blacksmith, a church, a large house, and a field of wheat; there's also pigs nearby:
Now, what is in the blacksmith's chest?
That's right - six diamonds, nearly a full set of iron armor, an iron pickaxe, and three each of apples and bread.
Here's another look at the village; there is a cave opening in front of the library (not very deep but a good source of coal and iron) and you'll want to provide some steps to the house, which is too high:
(as an aside, what's the point of the cobblestone under the paths? The game places paths on the highest block so it isn't going to prevent them from "collapsing" into caves, which are generated before villages, unless the ceiling is only one block deep)
Also, here is a map of the underground around spawn, made with Unmined; there is a quite large cave system, among the largest that I've seen in a 1.7+ world, to the west of spawn with many surface cave openings around -270, 350:
Some time ago I came across a very nice seed for starting out in after creating a random world in 1.7.x; the seed still works in 1.8 and I decided to share it (I've previously mentioned it once or twice).
The seed is "-3830842913915544643", without quotes, default world type in 1.7-1.8.
You spawn in a village - but this is no ordinary village, as indicated by the contents of the blacksmith's chest, which, along with two libraries (14 bookshelves), will give you a very good head start (I don't normally look at these sort of seeds but I've never seen a blacksmith chest with this much valuable loot):
A view from above; there are two libraries, a blacksmith, a church, a large house, and a field of wheat; there's also pigs nearby:
Now, what is in the blacksmith's chest?
That's right - six diamonds, nearly a full set of iron armor, an iron pickaxe, and three each of apples and bread.
Here's another look at the village; there is a cave opening in front of the library (not very deep but a good source of coal and iron) and you'll want to provide some steps to the house, which is too high:
(as an aside, what's the point of the cobblestone under the paths? The game places paths on the highest block so it isn't going to prevent them from "collapsing" into caves, which are generated before villages, unless the ceiling is only one block deep)
Also, here is a map of the underground around spawn, made with Unmined; there is a quite large cave system, among the largest that I've seen in a 1.7+ world, to the west of spawn with many surface cave openings around -270, 350:
Here is a map of the seed in AmidstExporter:
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Oh dang nice find! gonna have to check it out.
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