10 Iconic Minecraft Seeds LOST to Time

You can’t discuss minecraft nostalgia  without talking about old iconic seeds,   or the algorithmic code that drives minecraft’s  terrain generation, unique to every world.   Almost every major minecraft update has either  changed the terrain generation system entirely,   like we saw from beta 1.7.3 to beta  1.8, or added a new biome, structure,  

Or something that changes the terrain generator  in a major way. This effectively erases the   old seeds from the previous version. And  so today, we’re going to enter the time   machine and look at some of the most famous,  iconic seeds ever found in minecraft history.

We’ll start with the trifecta of the most famous  ones ever found. The three you’ve probably heard   of at least once. Let’s start with arguably the  most famous beta seed of all time: gargamel. No,   not you. At the time, the gargamel seed spawned  you into one of the most incredible worlds you  

Could get in beta. It was unique right from  the start as it spawned you inside a cave   on the cliffside, which was mind boggling for  the time. When you get out of the spawn cave,   you’re met with an insane mountain area with  a huge valley in the middle. There are so many  

Interesting spots to build and so many starting  materials to start your first day with. When this   was discovered, gargamel spread like wildfire  around different forums and other communities,   and became beloved and famous ever since.  Unfortunately though, when beta 1.8,   aka the adventure update rolled around, the  terrain generator had a major overhaul, and  

Gargamel was changed to this. And thus, the seed  was made obsolete unless you continued to play   your previous world that was using it in beta 1.8.  It was left behind as a mere fond memory for many. The next most popular beta seed was Glacier.  Glacier was pretty similar to gargamel with its  

Huge mountains and cliff faces right at the spawn.  Not only that, but it featured huge overhangs and   massive floating islands. It was so popular that  lead developer jeb tweeted about it in 2011,   giving credit to the original founder. Now don’t  get me wrong, I do love the terrain generation  

In minecraft today. Especially post 1.18 with  the new crazy mountains and extreme hills. But,   something felt so special about finding  a seed like Glacier back in the day.   Even after taking off my nostalgia tinted  glasses, it’s still fun to explore the old  

Beta terrain. You never really knew what  you were gonna stumble upon. Glacier also   stopped working when beta 1.8 came around.  In fact, it became a shell of what it was,   with nothing super notable around. If  you played glacier back in the day,  

Let me know in the comments, and let me know if  you built something amazing in these mountains. This wouldn’t be a famous seed list video  without the 404 challenge. Putting 404 as the   seed pre-beta 1.8 spawned you on this beach area,  with a huge amount of gravel nearby. Punching  

Some of the gravel away makes it all fall, and  reveals a massive cave system. Like, one of the   biggest naturally generated cave systems I’ve  ever seen in beta. The guy who first discovered   this seed probably was so surprised and scared when all that gravel fell all the sudden. Anyway,  

The quote unquote “404 challenge” was simple,  yet difficult. Someone thought it would be fun   to gather as many materials aboveground on the  very first day, and then live the rest of the   time you played the world underground in the cave  system under the gravel. Never being allowed to  

Resurface again. Let me reiterate – someone  thought this would be FUN. No but really,   it was one of the OG minecraft challenges,  predating things like skyblock and survival island   when it was discovered. However, unfortunately  like the first 2 seeds, beta 1.8 ruined the 404  

Challenge forever, but you can of course go back  and play it at any time in the older versions. It’s also been recreated hundreds of times for newer versions of minecraft. I’ll link some of those in the description below!

The 404 challenge will forever live as one of the most difficult  vanilla minecraft challenges ever conceived. Number 4 is 4. Yes just 4. 4 is 4. 4  for 4. The fourth seed on this list is   4. Okay I’m done. Putting just “4” as the  seed in the early minecraft release days,  

Right around minecraft official version 1.5,  spawned you on an island that doesn’t   seem super interesting at first. But well, turn  west and you’ll see you spawn right next to the   rare mushroom island biome. Like, it’s right  there off the spawn which is super cool. Also,  

The island was perfect for starting a base  and has enough materials and cave systems to give   you a great head start in your survival world.  Perhaps the coolest and most memorable part of   4 though, is heading to the nearest stronghold,  which is only a few hundred blocks away from  

Spawn. The stronghold is exposed in a cave  system, making it super easy to find, but also   shares it with a large abandoned mineshaft.  Also super nearby is a skeleton spawner. So   the three most interesting things to find in caves  at the time are not only in the same cave system,  

But share the same spawn chunk. So while 4 maybe  isn’t the most famous or memorable on this list,   I have seen it discussed quite a bit over the years  and for good reason in my opinion. Another early official release famous seed was Raccoon  city, working around version 1.2 and 1.3ish. Similar  

To 4, it spawned you on an island in the middle  of a large ocean, but this time it was a large   jungle only island. There’s also a really nice  lake on one side, which in my opinion is one of  

The best lake spawns i’ve ever seen in my 13  years of playing minecraft. It just looks so   natural and pretty. Anyway it’s no secret that  jungles are one of the hardest, most annoying   biomes to traverse and modify in minecraft, even today, so this one was a challenge in that way. It  

Was also fun to eventually turn the jungle into  a large base and completely transform the island. Lastly,   if you head southwest through the ocean, you’ll find  a mushroom island super close by. If you headed north has   a weirdly generated tundra in the middle of a  desert. God, I loved the old wacky generation.

When minecraft villages were released, people  were racing to find seeds with villages right   near the spawn. And you can’t discuss old famous  village seeds without mentioning gimmeabreak.   gimmeabreak only works for a tiny window of  updates, from beta 1.8 to official release  

1.1. It spawns you inside of a decently good  sized old style village, with a blacksmith   chest and everything. It also features some  pretty epic mountains as the backdrop. So,   while villagers were essentially useless  back then, finding a village was still  

A rare and new experience, and literally  being able to spawn in one was definitely   memorable. However, when jungle biomes  were introduced into the game in version 1.2.1,   seeds were reset once again, and gimmeabreak’s  short reign was over. As sad as it is to talk  

About and play these seeds after they got changed,  you have to remember that when all these famous   seeds get deleted, new ones quickly get discovered;  and the magic of finding cool seeds returns. If you’re enjoying the seed nostalgia  so far, let me know, and subscribe  

For a potentially endless minecraft  experience. It means a lot to me, thank you! The next 2 go out to all my pocket edition homies  out there. I had to include these on the list,   because they are crazy nostalgic for a vast  amount of people, but also really cool for  

The time. Let’s start with the seed 0.4.0. Using  0.4.0 as the seed for pocket edition version 0.4.0   became an instant classic, not only because the  seed shared the version number, which is funny,   but it kind of became the forefront of pocket  edition seeds. But why is it so special? Well,  

They call it the “instant diamond seed”, because  if you dig down right at spawn, you’ll hit a ton   of iron, which you can then make an iron pickaxe  out of, and then towards the bedrock, there’s a vein  

Of 6 diamonds. It offered an amazing start, and  was probably just some kid thinking they were clever   typing in the version as the seed. Or as I like  to think, a complete accident thinking they had   to type the version in that prompt or something,  which would be unbelievably hilarious. Anyway,  

I don’t have a way to play pocket edition  for the video, hence the screenshots. But   if you can access old pocket edition versions,  definitely hit this stop on your nostalgia train. I originally wanted to only include one pocket edition seed  on this list, but I had to include this next one,  

And couldn’t just pick one of the two  considering how iconic they are. Let’s   talk about nyan. 2011  meme sensation turned minecraft seed,   nyan was special for pocket edition simply because  it contained a lot of lava. It’s something we take  

For granted today that wasn’t always like that.  Back in the infant days of pocket edition,   worlds were finite, kind of like indev or  minecraft classic, so lava spawns in pocket   edition seeds were incredibly rare, let alone to  this caliber. Nyan also featured the epitome of  

Early game biome generation with its vast and  weird mountains, and some cool spots to build.   What you’re seeing on screen is a java recreation  of the original seed, and I’ve left a download  

Link to this one in the description below. While it’s not my  personal cup of nostalgic tea as I didn’t get to   experience nyan in its heyday, or play pocket edition really at all. I have to tip my  metaphorical fedora to my pocket edition folks.

Back to java edition, the next seed on the list  is Artomix. First popularized for Minecraft   release 1.3 by the absolute legend chimneyswift11,  Artomix is similar to raccoon city from earlier,   featuring a large jungle island with a  few smaller islands around it. What makes  

It stand out is obviously the fact that  it literally looks like something out of   insert-generic-tropical-island-vacation-spot-name-here.   It basically is a jungle on an extreme  hill on an island. Hawaii called,   they want their island back. Anyway, this seed  spread like wildfire from there, as it offered  

Yet another unique island survival experience in  minecraft. Which, now that i’m going through this list,   i’m kind of realizing that the steps for a seed to  make it to a list like this is 1) have crazy mountains or  

2) be an island or 3) see 1 and 2. Artomix is  3. Man, we really are easily amused aren’t we. I saved the best for last. worstseedever. Heh. See  why I said BEST for LAST? Anyone? *please god help  

Me*. No really, the seed worstseedever is actually the best, because like all the best things, it started as a   joke. I remember reading that the original person  who found this seed put that in the prompt as a  

Joke while in an xbox 360 party call with friends,  and it ended up becoming the most famous xbox 360   edition seed of all time. We love ourselves a good  poetic story. So why was worstseedever actually   the best? Well besides having some surface exposed  coal and iron literally within a dozen blocks of  

The spawnpoint, it has a literal monster spawner,  or dungeon, ABOVE GROUND right at spawn. There’s   sand that collapsed and exposed it. The chest  loot is pretty good too. And this is back when the   xbox and PC seeds were identical, pre minecraft  bedrock, so you could also access worstseedever  

On PC from beta 1.3 to beta 1.7.3, before it  was removed again in beta 1.8’s terrain generator   overhaul. worstseedever, ironically, will forever go down  as one of the best, most legendary seeds in minecraft history. Well, there you have it. Despite being lost to  time in major minecraft updates, these seeds  

Live on forever in our memories. Let me know if I  missed any of your favorite old minecraft seeds in   the comments below. If you thought this list was pretty cool, leave a like and subscribe if you’re brand  

New for more stuff just like this. I love you all  so so very much, and I’ll see you in the next one. shoutout to u beautiful humans who use subtitles<3