This has been around for nearly a decade, first appearing in 2011 and running from beta 1.8 to version 1.13 - but no-one knew the seed for it.

That is to say, no-one knew the string of characters used to generate this title screen world in the game itself.

For years players have wondered, what seed do I need to put in to find that exact place so many people have seen before, but no-one has presumably ever visited On 18th July 2020, a group of players found the seed for Minecrafts opening panorama.

Here are the details: Version: Beta 1.7.3 Coordinates: X61.48, Y75, Z-68.73 Seed: 2151901553968352745 OR 8091867987493326313 (both work) Punch either seed in, and you get this: Redditor Tomlacko explained how the team worked out the background world seed in a post on the Minecraft sub.

But it was only when MinecraftHome, a distributed computing project that lets users donate their idle computers to Minecraft-related research, got involved that this panorama project truly kicked off.

MinecraftHome checked every possible world for features that exactly matched whats visible in the title screen.

The project started on 14th June then went live around two days ago - and less than 24 hours later someone running the MinecraftHome program was able to find the seed that generates that world - and the coordinates of that particular area.

In less than 24 hours after launching the panorama application; a volunteer host on MinecraftHome found this seed, Tomlacko explained.

This was approximately 93 days of processing time at a total of 54.5 exaFLOPs compressed into 24 hours.

The way Minecrafts world generation works is such that if you and your friend both use the same seed, then youll both get the same world to explore - so if you find a really cool world with seed Eurogamer, for example, then you could let other people experience the same landscape without them needing to connect via multiplayer.

They just have to type in the seed Eurogamer when starting up their own new game.

Now, all Minecraft players can explore its iconic title screen world.

Its a fantastic find, but the group who discovered the seed are not resting on their laurels.

Theyre currently using the MinecraftHome project to search for the tallest cactus.

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