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How to Find the World Seed on a Minecraft Server

Find the seed your Minecraft world was generated from.

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From Console

  1. Open your server and go to Console.
  2. Start the server if it's offline.
  3. Type seed and press Enter.

The server prints Seed: [...].

In game

Operators can run /seed in chat, then click the number to copy it.

From the world files

If the server won't start, read the seed from level.dat:

  1. Open Files and go into your world folder (usually world).
  2. Click level.dat. It opens in the NBT editor.
  3. Use Search NBT tags to find seed. On 1.16 and newer it's under WorldGenSettings; on older versions it's RandomSeed.

Note

level-seed in server.properties only shows the seed you asked for before the world was made. If it was blank, the world used a random seed, and seed is the way to see it.

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