Overview
When you first start your server, the world is randomly generated (this includes biomes, villages, and other structures). Part of what makes Minecraft fun is the fact that no worlds are the same. However, you may not want a uniquely created world. Enter the world of seeds; these can be used to generate the same world any time use the seed. Singleplayer seeds are the exact same as multi-player seed, only multiplayer seeds are a little more difficult to implement.
Finding a World’s Seed
How to find a singleplayer seed
- Open Minecraft and join your desired world.
- Once in the world, type “/seed” in chat.
- The response is the seed ID. Click it to copy to your clipboard.
How to find the seed of a server
- Go to our Control Panel and click your desired server.
- Once you see the console, type “seed” and press enter.
- The seed ID should have been outputted in the console.
How to Use a Custom Seed
- Go to our Control Panel and stop the desired server.
- On the left had bar, click Files.
- Locate the server.properties file and click on it.
- Look for level-seed (typically towards the top) you can use ctrl+f to search and enter your desired seed. It is possible that you need to add this variable. Just add it anywhere in the file, it should look like this "level-seed=".
- scroll to the bottom and click the
button. - Go back to the Files tab and rename your “world” folder to something other than “world” ex. “world_old” and “world_nether_old”. Renaming or deleting needs to happen to all the folders that start with “world”. Renaming will allow you to keep your existing world. If you don’t want your current world, just delete them.
- Now start the server. To verify that the seed loaded correctly, type “seed” in the server console. The console should display what seed is entered into the server.properties file.
Frequent Questions
Stuff from my world isn’t showing up
This is because you have to generate the world with the seed before building anything. Don’t worry, you can always restore your old world by renaming it back to world and removing/renaming the seed world.
The seed didn’t generate after the server restart
If your seed did not change, it’s likely the world was not reset correctly. Make sure that you stop the server, change the world’s folder name, and start it back up. Also, make sure that the seed is set in the server.properties file. If this file was not saved properly, the seed may revert back to a random seed.
