10 Iconic Minecraft Seeds LOST to Time 

I hope you all enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed making it!

Seeds made me feel like minecraft was truly full of infinite possibilities, id spend after school afternoons just typing as many words as I could think up just to see what I could generate. This video resurfaced some great memories!

Forgot to mention that worstseedever has a massive cave system connected to the mob spawner. Cave systems that large were fairly rare back then, and it was loaded with diamonds. I built a base in the dungeon spawner room with a arrow dispenser trap and a horrible looking guard tower attached. Some of my favorite memories happened on that seed.

If you're nostalgic for the old Beta era seeds, I highly reccomend checking out the Modern Beta mod, which adds a new world type that restores the old world generation. And it actually restores it, not recreates it, so all the famous seeds like Glacier, Gargamel, and 404 actually work. (404 challenge in Hardcore, anyone? Also it uses the 1.18 cave depth so its probably even more wild.) I know you can bring old worlds forward for similar results, but there's something so neat about just being able to load up these nostalgic seeds.

I love that some of these seed names you can tell people were like “I give up looking for seed let me just type something dumb” and then accidentally found one of the greatest seeds

I remember "4" on 1.7 in 2013 spawned you on an island with a ravine which contained an exposed stronghold, was a fun seed where you could make the stronghold your starter base.

The nyan seed was really special. Back in the time the lava would cause the floor to catch fire (you'd only see smoke particles because fire textures weren't implemented yet) and the only escape was the small island. It's pure nostalgia for me because I grew up with the pocket edition

The seed “4” was also the seed of Hermitcraft season 1 making it that much more nostalgic

The seed 'lost' also used to spawn you in an island back in the beta.

The nostalgic seed that I often go back to play in b1.5_01 is -11. I found it from one of those websites which advertised "cool Minecraft seeds" and they weren't lying. It spawns you in a small desert but with a MASSIVE cave right next to you. If you go to the other side of the cave/mountain, you get the funky overhangs and mountains. There are some cave systems near the mountain as well.

The first PE seed you referenced was also known as “raygun” Definitely a good seed back then, had a lot of fun playing it.

I remember watching paulsoresjr and Stampy play 404 back in the day and being terrified, and then playing myself and not even lasting the first night, good times

I find it interesting that the seed names were player inputs. I imagine the "gimmeabreak" discoverer was hunting for seeds that spawned the player next to a village and was so frustrated they typed "Gimme a break!" and the Game took pity!

I remember learning about 404 in the official minecraft textbook like 8 years ago lol

there used to be a semi-popular seed on the old version of pocket edition called "bioworld", had insane terrain generation for the time

I remember glacier and gargamel and I have to say that I preferred gargamel to glacier. I loved how tightly the gargamel mountains held you in place and how the different "tiers" of mountains naturally guided you to building different levels to your base. So much nostalgia; I wish I still had the old world where I built a wizard's tower but the game updated as I was installing green stained glass to my build and I both lost the world to corruption by trying to move it off of my grandma's old computer and was quickly pulled away because my friends insisted on using the most recent updates and mods. Maybe now is the time to go back and relive some of the memories of those seeds. I wonder if there's a way to copy-paste large sections of a world from one world to another, as I think it'd be awesome to copypaste the gargamel mountains into a modern 1.19-1.20 world and have it walled off like a nature preserve.

I remember I started playing minecraft around 1.2.4 but watching the old top 10 videos which were obviously made for old versions, I worked so hard to get glacier to work

Good video, like always. btw I've done some little research and found out that from 2009 to 2014 mojang changed massively 7 times the overworld generation, but from 2014 to 2021 there weren't any changes as massive to the overworld generation.

Not only was "Nyan" interesting for having lava, it also showed off how primitive fire's programming was at the time. The leaves next to the lava would catch fire, which would then spread to ALL blocks in the world. This resulted in invisible fire completely consuming your world.

I'm surprised there was no mention of the seed "b". Wide open flat terrain was very rare back in Beta, but "b" spawned you right in a flat field with plenty of room to build whatever you wanted.

I’d definitely like to bring attention to Beta 1.4’s wolf seed, the same update that introduced wolves. It was even advertised by the devs if I remember correctly. It had great mountains surrounding a large almost floating island, which was a big thing back then. I think it was the world that first introduced me to the concept of seed finding, too.

i remember two other well-known pocket edition seeds since that was what i played on for a long time, "superpig" which spawned the player near a cliffside village in a swamp, and "villagepls" which spawned the player in between two villages that were generated right next to eachother in a desert. i believe there was also a temple nearby but i could be wrong

It would be very interesting to see a video where you load all of these seeds in each terrain generation update to see how the seeds changed over time Edit: maybe also one where you do the inverse: take well known modern seeds and go backwards in versions

In official releases 1.3-1.6, the seed "woo" spawned you with a desert temple, well, and surface dungeon nearby, with a second dungeon in a cave beneath the temple. A great start, if you ask me - I was thinking of the splash texts referencing early Minecraft promoters when I discovered it.

You can't talk about seed '4' without talking about the other seed '4'. In more recent versions (1.8.9 is the last version to work with it), seed 4 spawns you on a relatively small island, and within the exact chunk you spawn in there is a stronghold, which is visible from the surface of the island. The portal room is submerged in the ocean and cut off from the rest of the stronghold. Unfortunately, 1.9 changed stronghold generation, so while you still spawn on the island, the stronghold is completely gone.

I remember one world I found in the very old version of Pocket Edition (back when Nether Reactors were a thing and worlds were very small) I generated this one world with a giant mountain that engulfed like 1/3 of the world. Back then, this felt like it went up to build height.

You are an absolute icon for including both sides of the minecraft community rather than just complaining about bedrock like most java RU-vidrs. Sincerely, thank you 😊

One of the best I used in beta 1.7.3 was 10110101. It had a fair degree of fame for a series of mountain arches not far from spawn. Kinda surprised it didn't get a mention here.

Pocket Edition veteran here! Nyan was one of my absolute favorites, but for a slightly different reason. Looking back on it, it’s kinda dumb, but let me give some context. Back in those days of Pocket Edition, there were no naturally-spawning cave systems. You had to strip mine for all of your ore, which is also one of the reasons the 0.4.0 seed was so important. Knowing exactly where you could find a deposit of any ore, let alone diamonds, would save you tons of time and stone pickaxes. But, back to Nyan, there was a hidden “cave” in one of the mountains. There was an indent on the face of a mountain, and if you dug a bit further into it, you came across a little hollow pocket with grass on the floor. No mining value at all, but my 11-year-old brain thought it made the absolute best base! Especially if you covered the indent with stone, you could pretty much make a fully natural secret base. Even back then, my fixation on it was probably a bit dumb, but I had at least 3 survival worlds using it, including my very first, if I remember correctly. We’ve come such a long way since then, but that seed will always hold a special place in my heart. I actually clicked on this video hoping to see Nyan referenced, and you delivered! Now I’m going to go download that recreation, I need to see if my cave’s still there…

Whenever I need some nostalgia, I always come to your channel. Love your content so much, please continue making more videos based on beta minecraft!

As someone who got their start in Minecraft on pocket edition I remember the seed gilgamesh spawning you in a fantastic ice lake that has walls of terrain all around it. This was back when the nether core was a thing, and was spewing out netherack towers so it definitely doesn’t exist today.

I used a seed called “turnofthetides” it was an awesome flat seed with lots of riches, gravel and stone pits and great caves. Lots of nostalgia for that one. I remember Deadmau5 had his own special seed

I remember the first time I played Minecraft. I went to my dads girlfriend’s house and played it on her kids’ xbox 360. I had no idea how to play anything at that time. They put me in creative on a beach, with a mooshroom island not far away. Things I remember doing on this world: -building a house and chicken coop out of prismarine, this is probably the first thing I ever did -making a roller coaster out of bookshelves and calling it some nerdy shit -Making a straight parkour course from the beach to the mooshroom island, all glow stone and no gaps bigger than 3 blocks -Making a kings throne, but it was uneven and looked really stupid - using redstone torches as my only light source -building a prison and putting skeletons inside it What I would give to see that world one more time.

In the early days of Pocket Edition, before lava and water buckets existed (in either game mode), the popular lava seed in my friend group was Holycrap. I was so nervous about typing it in because I thought I would get in trouble for typing 'crap'. I used that seed dozens of times, and I could never possibly forget it. That's a core memory right there.

Thanks for mentioning the Pocket Edition seeds as well. I had forgotten I played on those seeds and now I remember the chest duping trick and the weird nether we had back then. Good times

Some thigs about the "nyan" seed: Somewhere in this 255x255 block world, there are 1 or 2 sugarcane plants. Dig right under them and you will find 3 diamonds, enough for a pickaxe, and back when I played 0.6.0 on my android, I also found redstone ore nearby, however they dropped absolutely nothing, even with a diamond pickaxe.

Nyan is still probably my favorite seed to this day, just because of all the fond memories I had on it. I remember building a mansion on top of the (at the time) huge mountain with a balcony that went over the cliff, so I could just look over the world and admire the weird generation.

The early full-release seeds give me a lot of nostalgia because I started playing in the era of huge oceans. I remember it taking me over 10 minutes of sailing to find even one small island.

Oh God, the nostalgia. I forgot a lot of these, but 404 lives rent free in my mind, such a classic.

i remember an old seed called "dessert" that would spawn you right next to a sand temple. it was one of the first custom seeds i ever used.

Glacier was my first Minecraft world, back in Beta 1.5. I actually still have that world. I remember building a creeper and zombie statue out of wool on the mountain, and a small watchtower on the peak above cloud level.

I used to play on this one pocket edition seed I found. The seed was "lake" it was a pretty nice seed. Me and my brother played on it a lot together. It worked up until 1.19. It was my favorite seed. It spawned you on the beach of an ocean near mountains and forests. I remember building underground bases inside of the mountains overlooking the ocean. It was really beautiful. I also remember one time when me and my brother were playing on the seed and I intentionally burned our house down. We laughed about it afterwards.

DUUUDE I CLICKED THIS VIDEO THINKING ABOUT NYAN!! When i was younger i spent hours making new worlds with the nyan seed and just messing around making different bases and it was something so special. i just loved nyan cat and that’s how i discovered it. man, thank you so much for including nyan, i didn’t think you actually would!!

Nyan gave me SO much nostalgia...I also remember in pocket edition there was "SeedRock," which was popular for it's flat areas but unfortunately had no water. That was my favorite seed and sometimes when I hear certain songs I am taken back to my survival world where I'd built two houses, a school, and managed to chop down every tree in the world.

this is the only video that appears when searching up "old minecraft challenge gravel beach" that related to the 404 challenge i had forgotten the name and BOY its an oldie but a goodie, i always had some sort of affection towards it

Man, I remember having a world with the seed "narnia" when I was like 11 years old. It was all snowy and I genuinely believed it was intentional 😂

I remember the seed "Water" having a survival island, a single tree, and a cave entry into a seemingly endless cave system. I can't remember what version it was from, but if i would play older versions for the sake a specific seed, it would be that.

404 challenge fr reminds me of my childhood

When I started to play Minecraft, I only could play pocket edition and I hated the small world size, so I didn't play a whole lot. but my friend at the time told me about nyan and that was the old world I played on for almost 2 years every day, because my phone couldn't update to the next version. I did some cool stuff on that seed. I made a giant creeper, a dirt palace, a massive cobblestone castle on the main ridge, and I even mined of all of level 5-10 over the course of a month, only to get like 2 stacks of diamond, half of which was pickaxes used to mine the hole to start with. I was so proud. every shot of that world showed me a spot or shared a memory of something I built, thank you for doing this It made my day.❤

I recognize that thumbnail seed anywhere. The 404 seed was actually my very first Minecraft world ever, but I never participated in the challenge aspect of it and instead played the game as normal. The nostalgia is palpable.

2:50 my first ever survival world was played on this seed. I mined a ton of diamonds... then ran out of torches, broke all my picks, spent 3 IRL days lost in the pitch-black cave system before finally giving up and mining a staircase from nearly bedrock level to the surface with my fists. I finally got back to my house whose walls were made of sand, and as the night set in, a creeper blew up my chests by targeting me through the wall. And here I am over a decade later still enjoying everything this iconic game has to offer. 10/10, would get stuck underground for days again.

Worstseedever is so nostalgic to me, I literally remember everything about it, from the top of my head if you dig right next to exposed one there was another spawner with a double chest, a spider one like a hundred blocks away, and the cave you see in this video near by the exposed spawner (which I turned into a very nice house) if you dig a staircase in a certain location you find a skeleton spawner. Overall one of the best seeds ever

I’m so glad you included ‘worstseedever’! It was by far my favorite seed as a kid and this brought back so many memories

the Seed "Sprite" was a survival island seed, spawned you on a small island with no land anywhere else and like 1 tree, I dont think it works anymore but was really cool back then

The seed "4" is also the seed that was used for the very first season of Hermitcraft!

Nyan just unlocked a memory for me! I remember when everyone in my class was playing that seed, and I was told there were a lot of diamonds bc there was a lot of lava, but that’s probably the only seed where I could never find any lol. Also, there was a PE seed that spawned you on a small island, and the only other island in the world was on the opposite corner

I recently started watching your channel Keep it up its really good and I love this Minecraft content it’s so nostalgic. Hi from Brazil

Oh man, I still remember those lava falls in nyan. I never really played for long in that seed but it's still immensely nostalgic.

Dude nyan sent me for a loop, i used to play that seed so much with my brother like 10 years ago. Thank you so much

I only realise now that I was typing "gimmeabreak" wrong back then. My friend told me about this seed, and I remember typing it in as "give me a break" and it not being anything special lol

So glad you mentioned the nyan seed for PE. Back in 2012 I recorded a video on my dads iPad on a duplication glitch for that version of Minecraft PE at the time. I also included the nyan seed since finding lava was a big deal back then and where you could immediately find diamonds, gold, and iron immediately. Before I deleted it out of cringe and embarrassment (regrettably now). My 12 year old self at the time was astonished at the fact that I managed to hit over 10k views in one video. Good times…

I REMEMBER PLAYING GIMMEABREAK! it was one of my favorite seeds as a kid. I cant believe that I remember seeing the exact same loot in the exact same position of the chest. thank you for reopening those memories, Ryan!

Nyan such a great map, brings back many memories of pocket edition during school. As soon as I saw the two lava falls I immediately knew what map that was.

worstseedever just unlocked memories i forgot i had. I remember looking for seeds that had crazy dungeon spawns all the time after i saw it. Thanks for reminding me of some nostalgic memories :)

I played gargamel back when it was new with a friend of mine. Every time they updated the terrain generation we just move into a new generated area to make a new base. We went through three updates before we finally decided to try a new seed.

This gave me the physical sensation of being thrown back in time. Wonderful

Oh my gosh, I remember nyan! I thought this video wouldn’t apply to me as I only had pocket edition until recently but the nostalgia kick from nyan was a nice surprise

My personal favorite seed in my eleven years of playing has been "Twister!!!" in the ~1.2.5 era. I once saw it in a Tornado Survival playthrough and have had a few different worlds in the seed over the years. I always build the same starter hut just as whoever did the series did. Couple years back I even booted an instance of 1.2.5 just to get a world with the starting area before copying the world over to some modern modpack. Of course, it left a very visible border where the old chunks and new/modded ones changed over but man it was fun to play in a map with a small slice of old-school terrain.

You actually gave me a blast of nostalgia with nyan on pocket edition. I never thought I’d hear or see it again but I still have my nyan world on my first iPod touch lol. I might boot it up and take a look at it again.

Back on pre-9.0 Pocket Edition, there were no super flat worlds for building in creative, and while it was nothing special in survival, the seed “fight” gave you some nice flat terrain to work with when building. I made so many worlds with that seed.

Artomix. Wow. That brings back so many memories of playing on my mom's terrible PC at our warehouse, and learning to build TNT water cannons on the north (I think) island. Made railways connecting the spawn island to there, and just blew the whole desert up!

10:11 Omg I still remember Artomix to this day. One of my first ever seeds I chose to play in. Watched the whole video thinking about that seed and then it pops up haha Thanks for the Nostalgia!

Glacier was the seed me, my friend, and my brother used for our very first minecraft world on Xbox 360. It gives me a LOT of nostalgia to explore nowadays.

The main seed I always remember putting in was the “sprite” seed good ol fashion survival island

man I forgot how much I loved those floating islands that use to generate in the older versions, I remember seeking them out to build my houses on when I was a kid because I thought they were the absolute coolest.

My favorite seed I remember using was on pocket edition. Idk what version it was, but if you used the seed "FINAL" you'd be spawned in a village, and if you dig straight down in front of the well, you come out in a stronghold and can easily find an end portal. When I'd play with friends, this was always our favorite seed to use

There was a seed I played on with my friends when Minecraft released on Xbox 360, that was simply “888” It had an open mob spawner about 20 blocks from spawn, and a neat terrain generation. It’s a very nostalgic seed, but each update we’d retry the seed, to find it was updated, however NEVER disappointed, and often had some of the coolest terrain generation I’ve seen, even trying it today

i remember both of those pocket edition seeds so fondly, i haven’t heard anyone talk about them in a LONG time If there is an apk out there with mcpe 0.8.0 or older than we can get those seeds back

There was a seed I found on a website about 10 years ago that was for Beta 1.3-1.7.2 and it spawned you in a massive hilled area with a big lake in the center of it. And right by your spawn was not only an exposed skeleton dungeon, but that dungeon also had a golden apple inside of it as part of the loot. The site seemed to have gone down a while ago but I still have two copies of that world (in case one corrupts I have a backup .world file to restore it) but I don't remember the seed. It was a big mash of numbers but it's still my favorite beta seed and is the beta world I still play on to this day

I remember finding out about the seed "Dossier" in 1.7 (or was it 1.8? somewhen around there) and trying it. It spawned you on a small island with another island to the north, and there weren't many trees. The oddity of this seed, though, was that just on the other side of the island north of spawn, there was an EXPOSED stronghold AT SEA LEVEL whose only room was the End Portal room. I'd never seen anything like it, and haven't since. I remember building a small floating castle on top of it to serve as my home base. I also remember putting in the seed "raspberry popsicle" a few versions later and getting a plains spawn right next to a swamp with an extensive resource-rich cave system underneath.

My favorite seed as a child was infq. This was back in 2012, I’m not sure which world generation this would have been associated with. The seed spawned you on an island/ mushroom island biome. The small island would sometimes have 0 trees, maybe 1 if you were lucky. It was essentially a true survivor island seed.

nyan was so iconic. i literally gasped when you showed it on screen

I don’t remember doing any of these as of 6:00 but I remember doing several console and 0.8.1 seeds and that is so nostalgic to me, I remember mining out my very first pe survival edition world absolutely DRY

seed 4 brought me nostalgia but i'm surprised you haven't included seed 11 from pre full release 1.7. if i recall correctly it spawns you on lonely island with stronghold basically exposed by ravine

For me, my most remembered seed was TmT on the old pocket edition. It was an alright java seed with a village but me, not understanding that there was a difference in seeds, used it on that edition and was met with a mostly stone and gravel world that I loved dearly regardless

I once played 999 on old when I played an older version of Pocket Edition. You spawn in a village in a plains biome with a few oak trees nearby. Beyond the castle was a big hill, but not a mountain, leading to a spruce biome. On the other side was a desert containing a second village. Yes, two villages at spawn. There was an acacia biome near the plains village, and the plains village has diamonds below a place near a small library. Seed 999, World Type: Old. I forgot which version it was in.

I’m so glad you mentioned nyan on Pocket Edition! I spent hours and hours on my nyan world as a kid

I played MC:PE almost everyday. I remember a seed... I think it was called "avatar", which actually generated avatar-like mountains. That was my creative-only seed. Hollowed out most mountains to create "homes" in every one of them. Every single one had a purpose like mining station, hospital, etc. and was all connected with cobblestone roads. I still have the map saved on my PC. And a map i personally found, featured a deep valley surrounded almost 360° by mountains and another mountain with a hole that went through it. That one i used for survival. Had collected every possible item in that map. Oh, how much i miss MC:PE. The old terrain generation, the way better crafting menu for mobile phones, the BlockLauncher, the countless mods... How cool was the "floating biomes mod" which added floating islands with new blocks and trees. Or the redstone mod before redstone was added. The nostalgia is real.

A pocket edition seed that I remember is "porsche", I even did a seed review back in the day for it lol, the seed contained a massive crater/hole in the ground with lava falls and stuff inside it, definitely one of my favourites!

I can also distinctly remember that in the 4 seed there was a mineshaft, directly accessible from the ocean between the spawn island and the mushroom island

“Nyan” on pocket edition was the first experience I have ever had playing Minecraft. My older brother let me play on his iPod and told me to put in that seed. The nostalgia and memory of playing Minecraft for the first time ever is one of the greatest things ever. Thank you for unlocking that memory for me

Nyan unlocked something missing from my brain for the last 10 years. I remember being so excited to show my friends my super cool lava world at school.

Unrelated but I gotta say that I love your pronunciation of "nyan" Keep it up man, your videos are a bomb of nostalgia every time

This video made me remember that one time I input “Dżungla” as the seed in an old version of Minecraft (can’t remember which one exactly) and what I got was literally a Jungle at spawn (“Dżungla” means “Jungle” in Polish). Great times 🔥

On of my favorite seeds to go back to is "DadandMarySOS" pre beta 1.8. That series was what I watched growing up as a kid, and there were so many fond memories watching that

nyan was my favorite seed to use!!! my cousin and i invested so much of our time playing on just that seed alone omg it was just too good

my favorite seed growing up was Good Game Dolphins. it would spawn you on a tree, then you walk straight forward maybe 150 blocks and it lands you in a village. directly to the right was an ocean, and when you walked into the ocean, you would see an exposed stronghold portal room. the stronghold itself wasn't super big either, which made it perfect to transform into a base. i spent SO. MANY. HOURS. playing this seed in different worlds, it was easily one of the best parts of my childhood

There was one I loved, which was just DiamondSeed. Typing this into pocket edition back in 2015 would spawn you on a beach and when digging onto the cave system below. It was a giant cave with over 3 stacks of diamonds to find. Now when used all diamonds have been replaced with coal

I played on the seed Glacier, I did build a house that just had a balcony but it wasn't anything special, the thing that made me really proud of myself had to be the bridges which would connect the floatings islands and overhangs. It still makes me proud :)

Vivid memories of Glacier. Kept going back to that seed - a funny memory I have there is the Steve co. Supply crates. I had been into TF2 at the time and found it hilarious.