The Nether Update required some serious fixes regarding server crashes, pushing Mojang to release a flurry of updates. Here are the top 30 Minecraft 1.16.5 seeds you can safely play without stressing over stability issues.

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Minecraft 1.16.5: Top 30 Seeds List

Three Villages Around Pillager Outpost

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  • Seed: 1375583897
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 376, 4
  • Biomes: Dark Forest, Plains

Three Plains Villages surround the Pillager Outpost in this world. The one closest to Spawn has a Blacksmith, so players should make their way to that village first. While heading from that village to the second and third towns, players will also run into a ruined Nether Portal that they can loot. Walk carefully around the outpost while on this path to avoid fighting unprepared. After visiting all of the villages, players can use the resources they’ve gathered to craft gear so they can take on the Pillagers safely.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village 1: 179, -271Plains Village 2: 178, -734Plains Village 3: 445, -671Pillager Outpost: 232, -489Ruined Nether Portal: 165, -604

Desert Dangers

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  • Seed: 168574860435364815
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: -193, -10
  • Biomes: Desert, Forest

Entering this Desert from Spawn leads players straight to a Pillager Outpost and a Desert Temple. While the area around the Outpost is empty, making it easy for the Pillagers to fire crossbows at their enemies, players could lead the Pillagers into the Temple to fight them. Continue heading northwest from the Temple to find a Desert Village bordering a Plains biome and a Windswept Forest biome.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPillager Outpost: -185, -136Desert Temple: -198, -166Desert Village: -425, -498

Cliffside Temple by Frozen Ocean

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  • Seed: -1534328126
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 260, 4
  • Biomes: Beach, Frozen Ocean, Jungle

This Jungle Temple is stuck to the side of an oddly thin hill. The hill’s thinness makes it look like part of the temple has vanished into thin air. Next to the hill is a Frozen Ocean, which contains a set of Cold Ocean Ruins next to the shore and an underwater shipwreck beneath an iceberg. Be very careful when breaking the ice above the ocean to swim to these structures. If the ice regrows above you, there’s a chance you’ll drown before breaking it and making your way back to the surface.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesJungle Temple: 262, 38Small Cold Ocean Ruins: 220, 50Shipwreck: 186, 44

Oceanic Witch Hut

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  • Seed: 4439039572323364775
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 182, 14
  • Biomes: Beach, Ocean, Plains, Swamp

This witch’s hut floats idly in an ocean that has merged with a Swamp biome. If you’re brave enough to venture into the hut and defeat its witch in battle, you’ll have access to a crafting table and a cauldron. Additionally, you’ll be able to adopt a black cat. Return to the island at Spawn to explore a shipwreck and a nearly completed ruined Nether portal. The portal’s chest has almost everything you need to repair it except for a single obsidian block, which you’ll need to either find or craft yourself.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesShipwreck: 158, 31Ruined Nether Portal: 277, 69Witch Hut: 372, -347

Basalt Fortress

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  • Seed: 1142972107
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 44, 4
  • Biomes: Basalt Delta, Plains, Taiga

Walk southeast from Spawn to discover a Plains Village at the edge of a Taiga. There is a small crater on one side of the village. As you get closer to it, you’ll discover that there is a ruined Nether portal lurking in the crater. Completing the portal and taking it will bring you to a Basalt Delta that is home to a Nether Fortress.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village: 187, 125Ruined Nether Portal: 211, 107Nether Fortress: -23, -9

Shipwreck and Ruined Portal by Blacksmith Village

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  • Seed: -3809668562184767726
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 64, 202
  • Biomes: Beach, Forest, Plains

One of the best structures to spawn next to in Minecraft is a village with a Blacksmith. The village gives players access to food and villager trades, while the Blacksmith has a chest containing armor and tools. An extra benefit of this seed is that the shipwreck next to the village has a chest that contains several emeralds. These can be traded with the Blacksmith for even better gear, or with one of the other villagers for other items to help you survive. Make sure to visit the Nether Portal hidden by the mountain for a few extra treasures before heading off to explore the rest of the world.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesBlacksmith Village: 103, 207Ruined Nether Portal: 24, 303Shipwreck: 228, 236Buried Treasure: -7, 60, 89

March on Mansion

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  • Seed: 1083342820
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 44, 4
  • Biomes: Dark Forest, Forest, Plains

Woodland Mansions in older versions of Minecraft often have more unique generations than Mansions in more up-to-date versions. This Mansion has cut through a small pond, causing a puddle to form on its third floor. Weirdly enough, the water floats in place rather than spilling all over the floor! This isn’t the only unique feature of the Mansion, as it also has three copies of the same hidden room on its first floor.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village 1: 44, 4Taiga Village: -223, 64Ruined Nether portal: 49, 169Plains Village 2: -233, 518Woodland Mansion: 175, 734Plains Village 3: 78, 1,056

Artic Villages

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  • Seed: -2420695931733284848
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 4, 8
  • Biomes: Snowy Mountains, Snowy Plains

Snow covers the island at Spawn, turning the world into a wintry wonderland. You’ll find four Snowy Villages on this island alongside three igloos with basements. Several of these villages come with Blacksmiths, giving survival players a good head start.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesSnowy Village 1: -435, 129Snowy Village 2: -332, -317Snowy Village 3: 117, -244Snowy Village 4: 637, -282Igloo with basement 1: 291, -283Igloo with basement 2: 243, -683Igloo with basement 3: -205, -427

Pillaged Village

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  • Seed: 1249606256
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 260, 16
  • Biomes: Plains, Taiga

A Pillager Outpost stands tall next to this Taiga Village. The only thing standing between the villagers and the Pillagers are a few Iron Golems, but they’re struggling to keep up against the Pillagers’ numbers. This means it’s up to you to protect the villagers from their attackers. Creative players could build a wall to keep the Pillagers out while survivalists can take on the Pillagers themselves or grow the village to increase the number of Iron Golems.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesTaiga Village: 605, 100Pillager Outpost: 600, 183

Desert Savanna island

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  • Seed: -1146020902
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 708, 4
  • Biomes: Desert, Ocean, Savanna

Spawn on a small Beach island next to a much larger Desert and Savanna island. Just by looking around the island, you’ll be able to easily find two Savanna Villages. They’ll have plenty of useful resources despite the fact that neither has a Blacksmith. Players looking for resources like you would find in a Blacksmith will find some helpful treasures in the two Desert Temples hidden in the island’s Desert.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesSavanna Village 1: 925, -339Desert Temple 1: 697, -470Desert Temple 2: 1,033, -487Savanna Village 2: 1,054, -755

Jungle Temple in a Savanna Village

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  • Seed: 1958280979
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 44, 4
  • Biomes: Jungle, Savanna

The close proximity of Jungle and Savanna biomes in this world has allowed a Jungle Temple to spawn next to a Savanna Village. It makes its home in the river between the two biomes and contains several chests of treasure. Looting it and the village will give you everything you need to survive well in this world. If you find yourself wanting more, there is a second Jungle Temple closer to Spawn with two more loot chests.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesJungle Temple: 278, 7Savanna Village: -282, -372Jungle Temple 2: -300, -410

Hidden Snowy Beach Igloo

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  • Seed: -8649512807081901403
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 9, 45
  • Biomes: Snowy Beach, Snowy Taiga

You won’t have to worry about hostile mobs when you live in this Snowy Beach biome. This is because one side of the beach is home to an igloo, which is only visible to those who look at it from a specific direction. It can easily be turned into a secure base just by adding a door. Look beneath the carpet in this igloo to find its hidden basement. Not only will this give you a Golden Apple, but it will help you expand the igloo without collapsing the beach around it.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesUnderwater ruined Nether portal: -363, 40Igloo with basement: -301, -159

Snowy Swamp village

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  • Seed: -79198828
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 44, 4
  • Biomes: Forest, Snowy Plains, Swamp

This Snowy Village extends into a small Swamp biome, making its white igloos stand out from the rest of the village. The village is home to a single Blacksmith whose home chest contains 3 diamonds. This means you’ll be able to craft a diamond pickaxe or an enchanting table at the start of your world! Explore the Snowy Plains to find an igloo with a basement close to the town.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesSnowy Village: 94, -226Igloo with basement: 187, -157

Mansion with missing patches

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  • Seed: 8839085157825889010
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 217, -20
  • Biomes: Dark Forest, Forest, Plains

Parts of this Mansion’s floor are missing, causing them to be filled with water or dirt. This allows you to sneak into some rooms through the holes, making for a unique Mansion experience! You’ll also have an easier time fighting Creepers and other hostile mobs using the pools of water. While you explore the Mansion and uncover these patches, make sure to search the walls for hints about secret rooms.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesWoodland Mansion: 1,384, -840

Plains Village above Stronghold

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  • Seed: 1920047558
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 48, 4
  • Biomes: Forest, Plains

A ravine filled with lava cuts through the center of this Plains Village. It gives you immediate access to ores so long as you tread carefully and dig through the ravine’s walls. As a bonus, you’ll also find a Stronghold directly beneath the village. It is tiny and leads you directly to an End Portal with a single Eye of Ender.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village: 539, 549Stronghold Entrance: 549, 24, 548End Portal: 518, 6, 533

Starting Stronghold

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  • Seed: -250494459
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 632, 8
  • Biomes: Desert, Plains

Nothing is sweeter than a Minecraft seed with an End Portal next to Spawn. This world begins in a Plains Village next to a Desert and a Savanna. By traveling into the Desert and digging down, you’ll drop into one of the Stronghold’s many staircases. Walk through its halls to find an End Portal with two Eyes of Ender already inserted.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village: 676, 73Stronghold staircase: 948, 32, 101End Portal: 946, 16, 112

Dangerous Desert

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  • Seed: 7353724656830272592
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 171, -26
  • Biomes: Desert, Plains, Savanna

If you’re looking for a challenge, look no further than this Desert world. There are three Desert Temples and two Pillager Outposts in the area surrounding Spawn. If you’re not confident in taking them on barehanded, visit the village by the first temple to gather supplies before moving on to the hostile structures. By the time you conquer them all, you’ll be the owner of untold riches.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesDesert Village with Desert Temple: 534, -222Desert Temple 2: 520, 120Pillager Outpost: 9, 71Pillager Outpost with Desert Temple: -213, 150

Six Temple Jungle

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  • Seed: 29984597
  • Version: Bedrock
  • Spawn: 44, 4
  • Biomes: Jungle, Jungle Hills

Six Jungle Temples occupy this large Jungle. They’re scattered around the biome, so you will need to travel around to reach them all. While exploring them, make sure to uncover the secret chest inside each one for special treasures. Players who tire of the Jungle can head east to wander through a Snowy Plains biome.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesJungle Temple 1: 37, 69Jungle Temple 2: 134, 551Jungle Temple 3: -154, 232Jungle Temple 4: -234, -200Jungle Temple 5: 358, -185Jungle Temple 6: 581, -169

Mushroom peninsula

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  • Seed: -8049776397178681697
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: -196, 248
  • Biomes: Mushroom Island, Savanna

One of the coolest aspects of Minecraft 1.16.5 is that you can often find Mushroom Field biomes attached to other biomes. In this seed, you spawn on a small survival island next to a Mushroom Island connected to a Savanna. You’ll be surprised to find an acacia village crossing over from the Savanna into the mushroom biome. There is another village a thousand blocks away; otherwise, you’ll need to explore the ocean for structures.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesOcean Monument: -232, 376Mushroom peninsula: -60, 136Savanna village: 24, 8Second Savanna village: 790, -499

Spawn Mansion

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  • Seed: 7982634199012855771
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 128, 32
  • Biomes: Plains, Forest

A cozy little village is at Spawn alongside a small two-story Woodland Mansion. You will find some really good secret chests hidden inside the mansion, but the mobs won’t let you get them that easily. To the west of Spawn, a large lake hides several buried treasure chests. I recommend traveling this way first so you can use the materials from the chests to take on the Woodland Mansion’s monsters.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village: 94, 36Woodland Mansion: 115, 105Buried Treasure 1: -519, 58, 73Buried Treasure 2: -679, 57, 905Buried Treasure 3: -711, 51, 889

Ice Spiked village

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  • Seed: 7751162368028100198
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 0, 0
  • Biomes: Ice Spikes, Snowy Plains

I spawned in the center of a large Ice Spikes patch in this seed. To my surprise, there was a tiny village on the outskirts of the biome. Although there isn’t much loot in the village itself, there are not one but two igloos with basements nearby. These two should provide you with enough gold to buy any tools and gear you need.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesIce Spiked village: 45, 7Igloo with basement 1: 344, 296Igloo with basement 2: 312, -408

Jungle Temple guardians

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  • Seed: 8108794125419846437
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: -68, -132
  • Biomes: Jungle, Plains

What if you found a village with a Jungle Temple integrated into its architecture? Well, here’s your chance to discover such a village at the start of a Minecraft world. The huts stand so close to each other that they merge with the temple. This combined structure can function as a base after getting rid of all the mobs inside.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesJungle Temple guardians: 104, 56Jungle Temple 2: -216, -216Pillager Outpost in Desert Temple: 888, 104

Mushroom Plains Village

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  • Seed: 4778515467969755658
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 208, 4
  • Biomes: Mushroom Island, Plains

There’s no safer place in Minecraft than a Mushroom Island. If you spawn here, you’ll get a village and a nice patch of mushrooms that will protect you from all hostile mobs. When you find yourself ready for a challenge, travel a few hundred blocks to a Pillager Outpost. If you don’t feel prepared to take on the Pillagers, visit a buried treasure chest to gather materials to craft weapons.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesMushroom village: 67, 106Buried Treasure: 441, 52, -199Pillager Outpost: 569, 234

Minecraft Mansion adventures

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  • Seed: -5332952418924194858
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 36, -36
  • Biomes: Plains, Forest

This seed begins in a village that has been generated next to a Woodland Mansion. Since there are no other structures in a thousand-block radius of Spawn, it’s the perfect opportunity to test your survival skills using only the tools and materials available from the start of the world. If you tire of living next to tons of Illagers and other hostile mobs, travel to the closest Taiga Village and retire from fighting.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village: 51, 28Woodland Mansion: 9, 132Taiga Village: -1,019, -4

Village on top of a Shattered Savanna

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  • Seed: 2834512694584724836
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: 0, 0
  • Biomes: Shattered Savanna, Desert

Hot and dry biomes, such as Savannas and Deserts, have plenty of helpful uses despite not being the best for farming due to a lack of water. In this seed, you’ll spawn in an acacia village that stands on top of a Shattered Savanna biome with some nice waterfalls. On this hill, you can mine materials like stone, coal, iron, gold, diamond, redstone, and copper.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesShattered Savanna village: 29, 47Desert Temple: 328, -248Desert Village with Temple: 527, -389

Mysterious Jungle village home

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  • Seed: 8876033227843653670
  • Version: Java
  • Spawn: -132, 192
  • Biomes: Plains, Jungle

What if one of the huts in a village was actually a Jungle Temple full of loot? This seed makes this idea come to life in the small village closest to Spawn. After visiting this village, I urge you to explore the northern part of the Jungle as you’ll find three more Jungle Temples.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesMysterious Jungle village home: 88, 88Jungle Temple 1: 40, -296Jungle Temple 2: -152, -360Jungle Temple 3: -696, 72

Icy Mushroom Island

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  • Seed: -1465850640117401326
  • Version: Java
  • Coordinates: -100, 50
  • Biomes: Frozen Ocean, Mushroom Island

Spawn is set on a large Mushroom Island with a very unusual Plains Village. The village is generated on a tiny piece of Plains biome, something you rarely see in newer Minecraft seeds. This island is surrounded by icebergs, shipwrecks, and even an underwater ruined portal. Also, be careful at Spawn, as an exposed ocean ruin next to the village is causing a few Drowned enemies to appear.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesPlains Village: -100, 50Small Cold Ocean Ruin: -209, 158Shipwreck: -332, 217Underwater ruined portal: -313, 254

Frozen lake shipwreck

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  • Seed: -2633346777609645921
  • Version: Java
  • Coordinates: -150, 200
  • Biomes: Icebergs, Ocean

There are several exciting points of interest in this survival Minecraft world. First, you will see a shipwreck stuck on an iceberg in the middle of a lake. Secondly, you’ll have the chance to explore a Taiga Village. Lastly, you will find a double dungeon underground near Spawn. One of them spawns spiders while the other one generates zombies.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesFrozen lake shipwreck: -300, 500Pillager Outpost: -424, 24Taiga Village: -400, 350Spider dungeon: -217, 36, 116Zombie dungeon: -216, 36, 125

Small Nether mansion

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  • Seed: -1667363160490966618
  • Version: Java
  • Coordinates: 50, 200
  • Biomes: Savanna, Roofed Forest

This world begins in a small Plains Village east of a Shattered Savanna biome. Walk west over the Shattered Savanna’s hills to come across a second village and a Woodland Mansion. The Mansion is on the smaller size, but it comes with a ruined Nether Portal to make up for the missing rooms. Its chest has a golden pickaxe enchanted with Fortune III that allows you to gather extra diamonds at the start of your game.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesStarting Plains Village: 16, 271Plains Village: -410, 302Woodland Mansion: -495, 283Ruined Nether portal: -546, 371

World between two villages

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  • Seed: 886925522416857401
  • Version: Java
  • Coordinates: 50, -50
  • Biomes: Taiga, Plains, Ice Spikes

Begin your adventure between two villages in this seed. The first is surrounded by trees in a Taiga biome while the second resides in an Ice Spikes biome. A ravine between the two goes deep enough underground to reach two intertwining ravines. This phenomenon creates a large, multi-directional cave system for you to explore.

Key Locations and their CoordinatesTaiga Village: 72, 56Ravine: 201, -166Plains Village: 232, -264

That’s it for my list of the top 30 seeds for the Minecraft 1.16.5 version. Stay tuned for more Minecraft tips and tricks articles right here on Gameskinny.

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