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Top 20 Minecraft 1.16.5 Seeds

The fifth minor update for Minecraft is 1.16.5, and it's time to check out all the best seeds for it.

The Nether Update required some serious fixes regarding server crashes, pushing Mojang to release a flurry of updates. Here are the top 20 Minecraft 1.16.5 seeds, and you can now safely play on any public server and not stress over stability issues.

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Minecraft 1.16.5: Top 20 Seeds List

Seed: -1465850640117401326

Mushroom island and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: -100, 50
  • Biomes: Mushroom Island

Spawn on a large mushroom island that has a very unusual village, which is generated on a tiny piece of plains biome. The whole island is surrounded by icebergs, shipwrecks, and even a ruined portal, which can be located underwater at coordinates -300, 250. Also, be careful at spawn, as there is an exposed ocean ruin next to the village with a few drowned zombies walking around.

Seed: -2633346777609645921

Iceberg shipwreck in Minecraft
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  • 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 at coordinates -300, 500. Second, there is a village nearby in the taiga biome at coordinates -400, 350. Lastly, you will find a double dungeon at coordinates -216, 35, 125, and -217, 35, 116. One of them spawns spiders, and the other one zombies.

Seed: -1667363160490966618

Woodland mansion and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, 200
  • Biomes: Savanna, Roofed Forest

Spawn in a village south of an incredible chain of shattered savanna hills that will lead you straight to a woodland mansion and another village at coordinates -400, 300. The mansion is unusually small for such a predominantly large structure. But there is also a ruined portal next to it at coordinates -500, 350, which you can use to travel to the nether.

Seed: 886925522416857401

Ice spikes and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, -50
  • Biomes: Taiga, Plains, Ice Spikes

Spawn between two villages: one in the taiga forest at coordinates 50, 50 and the other one in the ice spikes area at coordinates 200, -250. The ravine between the two villages goes deep enough to reach another two intertwining underground ravines, creating several multidirectional cave systems.

Seed: 8235040585706787673

Windswept savanna and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, 50
  • Biomes: Savanna, Desert

You will spawn in an oasis that is located on the very edge of the desert biome. This tiny piece of land luckily accommodates an acacia village. There are two more villages at coordinates -100, 200, and 200, -150 that occupy the desert territories. Lastly, look out for a desert temple near one of the villages at coordinates 50, -200.

Seed: -5004697438377915344

Portal inside the nether frotress in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, 50
  • Biomes: Forest, Extreme Hills

After spawning in the village that stands in the ravine, travel to coordinates -450, 100 for a ruined portal on the hills. This portal will send you straight into the nether fortress and right under the blaze spawner. This makes it a very rare and lucky spawner for farming blaze rods that can be later used for brewing potions.

Seed: -7404605241918712456

Various biomes and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 200, -50
  • Biomes: Various

Spawn in an intersection of all main biomes in Minecraft and even a few rare ones, such as shattered savanna and sunflower plains. To the west of spawn, you will see a desert village stuck in the valley between mesa and extreme hills at coordinates -100, 50. Further south, you can discover another village on the ocean shore at coordinates -350, 550.

Seed: -4099434556615951558

Jungle and desert village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 150, 200
  • Biomes: Jungle, Desert

This survival seed offers four structures all around and near spawn. Here are their exact coordinates:

  • Desert village: 200, 50
  • Jungle temple: 150, 200
  • Ruined portal: 50, 250
  • Desert pyramid: 50, 50

Each of these structures has at least one treasure chest or more. So prepare to collect a lot of loot.

Seed: 5859195333423694798

Three blacksmiths in a village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 150, -150
  • Biomes: Plains, Taiga

You will spawn in a valley between two taiga villages that stand at coordinates -300, 50, and 200, 150. But the most exciting village can be located at coordinates 850, 1050. It not only has three blacksmiths, which is extremely rare but there is also an entire stronghold right under it. It’s not very close to spawn, but the reward is worth the lengthy trip.

Seed: 550915391673325096

Ruined portal and island village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, 50
  • Biomes: Ocean, Plains

Island village and ruined portal at spawn! To the west of spawn, you will also find an ocean monument at coordinates -300, 150. To the east, there is a mainland covered in thick forestry. To the north of the island there is a massive swampland biome with its own village standing at coordinates 850, -250.

Seed: -2656282278242786925

Double village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 200, -50
  • Biomes: Taiga, Plains

Discovering a double village can take many hours of gameplay, but here, you will get a triple village with a total number of 40 buildings. That is a huge upside for any survival game and also a great foundation for an entire survival server. Bring your friends here and build something outstanding!

Seed: 7467971652334909926

Portal at the foot of the bastion remnant in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, 50
  • Biomes: Savanna, Desert

You will spawn in a savanna biome located in the middle of the desert and surrounded by four desert temples at coordinates:

  1. -200, -150
  2. -400, 50
  3. 250, -100
  4. 350, 50

At coordinates 50, 200, you will also find a ruined portal that will send you to the base of the bastion remnant treasure room structure.

Seed: 9025887385764104107

Mushroom island and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: -250, -150
  • Biomes: Mushroom Island, Savanna

Spawn on an ocean shore right next to a small taiga village. Then, swim across a narrow channel to your west. At coordinates -250, -100, you will discover a double biome island consisting of savanna and mushroom island biomes. It hosts an acacia village and ruined portal at coordinates -300, -350.

Seed: 1062048685332056767

Exposed mineshaft and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: -50, -50
  • Biomes: Desert, Plains, Mesa

A village, a ruined portal, and an exposed mineshaft at spawn! This rare combination of structures and biomes is great luck. You can easily access mineshaft and the nether world from here. Also, at coordinates -207, 18, 82 you will be able to locate a double zombie dungeon with four treasure chests full of loot.

Seed: -9059045145664655421

Woodland mansion and village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 150, 250
  • Biomes: Plains, Roofed Forest

Here is a super glitchy Minecraft seed that made one-half of a village generate inside the woodland mansion’s foundation. You can find it at coordinates 200, 300. The iron golem also spawns inside the mansion, but he can’t move. You could either release him by breaking the foundation or just use the rest of the available village.

Seed: 8552909708445235872

Ice spikes and double village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: -100, -250
  • Biomes: Forest, Ice Spikes

The surrounding area near spawn has three villages, one of which generates on an ice spikes biome. Here are their coordinates:

  1. 200, 100
  2. 50, -300
  3. -200, -200

Further to the west you will also find a pillager outpost with a bunch of angry mobs at coordinates -500, -350.

Seed: -1902170149663418656

Double acacia village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, -50
  • Biomes: Various

Spawn on a shattered savanna plateau with a couple of villages on top. They can be seen at coordinates 50, 50, and -250, 50. There is also a desert temple at coordinates 100, -150, just behind the northern hills. If you keep going up north, you will discover a plains village standing at coordinates -150, -350.

Seed: 6128774367593689241

Portal on the nether frotress bridge in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 50, 50
  • Biomes: Basalt Deltas

Right after you spawn, you can take two ways: one leads to the ruined portal at coordinates 50, 150, and the other one will take you to a single house located near the jungle at coordinates -200, 150. If you go through the portal, you will end up on one of the other fortresses at the basalt deltas. Just be careful, there are plenty of ghasts flying around.

Seed: 1011286478421046775

Pillager outpost and desert temple in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 150, -200
  • Biomes: Desert

What could be more dangerous than the combination of a pillager outpost and a desert temple, where both types of hostile mobs come together to protect the valuable treasure? You can find this weird combo at coordinates 50, -350. Just make sure that you have enough weapons and healing items to get them all.

Seed: -2570794004927232925

Pillager outpost and island village in Minecraft
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  • Coordinates: 100, -50
  • Biomes: Plains, Ocean

Spawn on a rather big survival island with its own little forest, village, and pillager outpost. The mainland is really close, so if you need more resources, you can always hop on there. The other closest village to the island can be found at coordinates 700, 300.

That’s it for my list of the top 20 seeds for the Minecraft 1.16.5 version. Stay tuned for more Minecraft tips and tricks articles right here.


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Serhii is the Writer at GameSkinny. He's been writing for GameSkinny since 2015. Before that, he's been writing for various outlets and playing video games, which eventually turned into a passion. The video games that have contributed the most to his enthusiasm for writing about this industry are Magic: The Gathering, Dark Souls, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.