If you’ve ever played Minecraft Java Edition, you will be familiar with its title screen, and the blurry, slowly rotating world in the background.
This has been around for almost a decade, first appearing in 2011 and running from beta 1.8 to version 1.13, but no one knew what the origin was. That is, no one knew the character string used to generate this title screen world in the game itself. For years players have wondered, what seed do I need to put to find that exact place that so many people have seen before, but presumably no one has visited?
On July 18, 2020, a group of players found the seed for the initial Minecraft landscape. It turns out that there are two seeds for the world. Here are the details:
- Version: Beta 1.7.3
- Coordinates X = 61.48 ~, Y = 75, Z = -68.73 ~
- Seed: 2151901553968352745 OR 8091867987493326313 (both work)
Enter any of the seeds and you get this:
Redditor Tomlacko explained how the team solved the seed of the background world in a post on the Minecraft sub. Tomlacko started by working the world axis and exact Z coordinate using the clouds seen in the panorama, then combined this research with another project dedicated to finding the seed of the famous Minecraft pack.png image (the grassy hill with trees and a boardwalk on the beach). icon seen on the resource pack selection screen and the server selection screen).
But it was only when Minecraft @ Home, a distributed computing project that allows users to donate their idle computers to Minecraft-related research, got involved when this panoramic project really started. Minecraft @ Home scoured all possible worlds for features that exactly matched what is visible on the title screen. The project started on June 14 and then started about two days ago, and less than 24 hours later, someone who was running the Minecraft @ Home program was able to find the seed that that world generates, and the coordinates of that particular area. .
“In less than 24 hours after launching the panoramic app, a volunteer host at Minecraft @ Home found this seed,” said Tomlacko.
“This was approximately 93 days of processing time with a total of 54.5 exaFLOP tablets in 24 hours.”
One of the people who discovered the seed, a user named Earthcomputer uploaded a video below that reveals the remarkable find:
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Even though millions of people have seen this world over the course of almost a decade, it is only now that Minecraft players can explore it at will. The way the world generation of Minecraft works is such that if you and your friend use the same seed then they will both get the same world to explore, so if you find a really cool world with the “Eurogamer” seed for example Then you could let other people experience the same landscape without needing to connect through multiplayer. They just have to write the “Eurogamer” seed when starting their new game. Now all Minecraft players can explore its iconic title screen world.
It is a fantastic find, but the group that discovered the seed does not rest on its laurels. They are currently using the Minecraft @ Home project to search for the tallest cactus. Currently, they have found one of 22 tall blocks.
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