Why pick your seed before opening the server
Minecraft 26.3, also known as Wilderness Bound, came out on September 15, 2026 and added a new autumn forest, the Dappled Forest, abandoned camps to loot and straw beds to sleep through the night without moving your spawn point. If you have not read it yet, our overview of Wilderness Bound covers everything that changed.
On a server, the seed matters twice as much as in singleplayer. Everyone shares the same spawn, and a bad one, a treeless desert or a one-chunk island, is paid for over months. On the other hand, a village two minutes away, an autumn forest and a Trial Chamber underfoot make people come back the next day. And unlike singleplayer, changing the seed once players have settled means wiping everything.
So here are thirteen Java 26.3 seeds worth your time, each for a different way of playing, with the coordinates of the spots that matter.
These seeds are for Minecraft Java Edition 26.3. On Bedrock, the same number gives a similar but not identical world, structures move. Coordinates are in X Y Z format, the ones you see by pressing F3 in game. Before resetting a world for a seed, check it on Chunkbase with the Java 26.3 version selected.
1. The lake village in the autumn forest
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The perfect seed to discover what 26.3 brings. You spawn right inside a Dappled Forest, red, orange and yellow poplars as far as you can see, with a plains village built around a lake one minute away. A second village on the water sits just behind it, and an abandoned camp with its campfire waits a few hundred blocks south.
| Place | Coordinates | Distance from spawn |
|---|---|---|
| Spawn, inside the Dappled Forest | 96 63 16 | 0 |
| Lake village | 60 62 60 | 60 blocks |
| Water village | 0 63 32 | 100 blocks |
| Abandoned camp | 99 65 429 | 410 blocks |
Who it is for. A survival server with friends that wants a beautiful spawn from the first login, without hunting for the new forest at the other end of the map.
2. Base camp at the foot of the frozen peaks
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Spawn sits between an autumn forest and snowy mountains, with an abandoned camp and a ruined portal on the way. An ice spikes valley, a cherry ridge and a pillager outpost complete the surface, and an Ancient City sleeps five hundred blocks away under the mountains for players who want an endgame goal.
| Place | Coordinates | Distance from spawn |
|---|---|---|
| Spawn | -32 84 32 | 0 |
| Dappled Forest | -288 84 -224 | 360 blocks |
| Ruined portal | 101 64 224 | 230 blocks |
| Pillager outpost | 48 88 -352 | 390 blocks |
| Hillside abandoned camp | 16 108 -416 | 450 blocks |
| Ice spikes valley | -416 84 -256 | 480 blocks |
| Ancient City | -544 -51 32 | 510 blocks |
| Cherry ridge | 64 84 -576 | 620 blocks |
Who it is for. Servers that like contrasting biomes, and groups that want an Ancient City within reach without it sitting under spawn.
3. The builders' playground
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A spawn up in the mountains, a flat meadow just below to lay out a built spawn, a plains village at the foot of the peaks and blooming cherry slopes for the scenery. Further out, a mountain waterfall and an Ancient City crossed by a waterfall and a lavafall, the kind of place that ends up as a screenshot on the Discord.
| Place | Coordinates | Distance from spawn |
|---|---|---|
| Spawn, in the mountains | -16 100 16 | 0 |
| Meadow to build on | -80 100 176 | 170 blocks |
| Plains village | -208 98 -160 | 260 blocks |
| Cherry slopes | 240 124 -208 | 340 blocks |
| Mountain waterfall | -85 143 -523 | 540 blocks |
| Ancient City with its falls | -224 -51 -576 | 630 blocks |
Who it is for. Creative or building-focused survival servers, and anyone who wants a spawn that looks the part with as little terraforming as possible.
4. The coastal village with two smiths
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A very efficiency-minded seed. Spawn is on plains by the ocean with a ruined portal and its chest eighty blocks away. The coastal village has an armorer and a weaponsmith, which means diamond trades from the first levels, and a Trial Chamber hides two hundred and fifty blocks away. As a bonus, a sulfur cave added in 26.2 for those who want to see the new cubes.
| Place | Coordinates | Distance from spawn |
|---|---|---|
| Spawn | 128 69 -32 | 0 |
| Ruined portal | 197 78 13 | 80 blocks |
| Trial Chamber | 32 -28 192 | 240 blocks |
| Coastal village, two smiths | 144 64 336 | 370 blocks |
| Second village with a smith | 48 80 -528 | 500 blocks |
| Sulfur cave | 218 31 542 | 580 blocks |
Who it is for. Competitive survival servers or short sessions, when you want gear fast and clear objectives.
5. Everything at hand, village, portal and Trial Chamber
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A few minutes' walk south-east and you reach a plains village, a ruined portal twenty blocks from its houses and a Trial Chamber right underneath. It is the ideal trio for a server that wants to offer content on the first evening, without players scattering in every direction.
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Trial Chamber | 294 2 290 |
| Ruined portal | 297 340 |
| Village | 315 343 |
| Ocean ruins | 435 661 |
Who it is for. A server opening on an event night, or a small group that wants to play together without running a thousand blocks.
6. Villagers versus pillagers
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A savanna spawn, a village to the east, and a pillager outpost to the south, close enough for raids to become part of daily life. A cherry grove and a bamboo jungle a few hundred blocks away bring the materials the savanna lacks. A second village further out lets a second group of players settle.
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Savanna village | 225 0 |
| Pillager outpost | 215 261 |
| Ruined portal | 347 242 |
| Second village | 523 266 |
| Cherry grove | 202 -382 |
| Bamboo jungle | 524 -299 |
Who it is for. Servers that want organised conflict, village defense, raids, and a good excuse to build walls.
7. Every biome within a thousand blocks
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The seed for a server that wants everyone to find their own corner. Dark forest, taiga, mushroom fields, swamp, desert, badlands, cherry grove, snowy plains, all within a thousand-block radius of spawn. On a twenty-player server, it guarantees that bases look nothing alike and nobody has to cross three oceans to find sand.
| Biome | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Dark forest | 192 112 |
| Taiga | 150 150 |
| Mushroom fields | 312 -112 |
| Swamp | -240 -662 |
| Cherry grove | 752 81 |
| Badlands | 819 -891 |
| Desert | 950 -777 |
| Snowy plains | -731 971 |
Who it is for. Public servers and large groups, where biome variety matters more than a perfect spawn.
8. The mineshaft that never ends
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A generation oddity, a mineshaft that runs along the whole X axis at Z 8, opening near spawn into a lush cave. Rails, chests and wood without end, a village nearby to restock and a Trial Chamber as a bonus. Players who love digging will never come back up.
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Mineshaft intersection | 0 8 |
| Village | 96 192 |
| Trial Chamber | 41 -31 9 |
Who it is for. A survival server for underground explorers, or simply a nice surprise for players who dig down at spawn.
9. The plains island in the autumn lake
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You spawn on a flat grassy island in the middle of a lake, and all around it, as far as you can see, the Dappled Forest. No village at spawn, and that is the point, the island is a blank page for a built spawn, protected by water, with poplar wood a boat ride away. A pillager outpost and a ruined portal wait to the east, a village and a shipwreck to the west.
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Spawn, on the island | 0 71 15 |
| Ruined portal | 261 106 116 |
| Pillager outpost | 160 208 |
| Trial Chamber | 329 -23 233 |
| Plains village | -416 208 |
| Trial Chamber | -455 -29 233 |
| Shipwreck | -488 280 |
Who it is for. Servers that want to build their own spawn on flat, already beautiful ground, and groups that like starting from nothing.
10. The island village under the cherry mountain
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The village sits on an island in the middle of a lake, with the autumn forest on one side and a mountain covered in blooming cherry trees on the other. Pink, orange and red in the same field of view, and a lake that works as a natural moat. Two Trial Chambers underfoot and a ruined portal less than two hundred blocks away round off a very comfortable start.
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Island village, at spawn | 32 48 |
| Ruined portal | 140 78 180 |
| Trial Chamber | 105 -16 201 |
| Trial Chamber | -265 -23 119 |
| Buried ruined portal | -363 -47 296 |
Who it is for. Servers that want the most photogenic spawn on this list without placing a single block.
11. The village hidden in the autumn forest
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A plains village generated right in the heart of a dense Dappled Forest, the houses peek out between red and orange poplars. The atmosphere is unique, and resources are there from the first minute. For later, an Ancient City three hundred blocks away and two Trial Chambers give goals to a group that wants to last.
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Village in the forest, at spawn | 0 32 |
| Trial Chamber | 105 -13 215 |
| Trial Chamber | -215 -19 135 |
| Ancient City | -232 -51 -232 |
| Buried ruined portal | 300 7 4 |
Who it is for. Survival servers that want to live inside what 26.3 added rather than go visit it.
12. The lake village in the cherry crater
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A giant crater lined with cherry trees, a lake at the bottom, a village on the water in the middle of the lake and a Dappled Forest spilling over one side. It is the seed that makes people say "wait, that generated by itself?". A pillager outpost to the north and a Trial Chamber right under the village keep players busy once the screenshots are taken.
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Village on the lake | 240 64 |
| Trial Chamber | 327 -14 7 |
| Buried ruined portal | 277 -13 52 |
| Ruined portal | 196 98 -268 |
| Pillager outpost | 352 -272 |
Who it is for. Building and screenshot-minded servers, and anyone who wants a spawn people talk about.
13. The island village on the great lake, for a moved spawn
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A plains village on an island in the centre of a large lake, ringed by Dappled Forest along the whole shore. The only catch, it sits about one thousand eight hundred blocks from the default spawn. On a server that is not a problem, move the spawn point once and for all with the command below, run from the panel console or by an operator in game.
/setworldspawn -1616 70 800
| Place | Coordinates |
|---|---|
| Island village | -1616 800 |
| Ruined portal | -1828 69 804 |
| Trial Chamber | -1383 -16 615 |
| Trial Chamber | -2055 -25 775 |
Who it is for. Servers willing to move the spawn to get an island village in the middle of the autumn forest, with two Trial Chambers within reach.
Applying a seed on your Winheberg server
On a Winheberg Minecraft server, the seed is set in the server.properties file, reachable from the Files tab of the panel. The world is generated only once, so this is done before the first opening, or together with a reset.
- Stop the server from the Console tab
- Open
server.propertiesand fill thelevel-seedline with the chosen number - On a server that already ran, delete the
world,world_netherandworld_the_endfolders, or changelevel-nameto keep the old world on disk - Restart, the world generates with the new seed
level-seed=1040674356
level-name=world
Deleting the world folders erases everyone's builds and inventories. Make a backup from the Backups tab first, and warn your players. If you change level-name, the old world stays on disk and you can go back to it.
Two 26.3 details to know for opening day. The whitelist is now enabled by default on a fresh configuration, our guide to becoming op and managing the whitelist saves you the first-night "You are not white-listed". And if your server still runs an older version, follow How to Change Your Minecraft Server Version before applying one of these seeds, the Dappled Forest does not exist before 26.3.
Already playing on a world you love and want to share its seed? Our guide explains how to find the seed of a Minecraft server or world.
And to start on the right plan
A seed does not use more resources than another, but the way you enjoy it does. A world that everyone explores in every direction, like seed 7, loads many chunks at once and needs more memory than a tight group around a village. Our Minecraft plans are built for that, and our support can advise you on the size to pick for your player count.
Happy generating, and write the seed down somewhere before someone asks "what was it again?". 🌳
