If you’ve ever played Minecraft Java Edition you’ll be familiar with its title screen – and the blurred, slowly rotating world in the background.
This has been around for nearly a decade, first appearing in 2011 and running from beta 1.8 to version 1.13 – but no-one knew the seed for it. That is to say, no-one knew the string of characters used to generate this title screen world in the game itself. For years players have wondered, what seed do I need to put in to find that exact place so many people have seen before, but no-one has presumably ever visited?
On 18th July 2020, a group of players found the seed for Minecraft’s opening panorama. It turns out there are two seeds for the world. Here are the details:
Version: Beta 1.7.3Coordinates: X=61.48~, Y=75, Z=-68.73~Seed: 2151901553968352745 OR 8091867987493326313 (both work)
Punch either seed in, and you get this:
Redditor Tomlacko explained how the team worked out the background world seed in a post on the Minecraft sub. Tomlacko started by working out the world axis and the exact Z coordinate using the clouds seen in the panorama, then combined this research with another project devoted to finding the seed of Minecraft’s famous pack.png image (the grassy hill with trees and a beach waterfront icon seen in the resource pack selection screen and the server selection screen).