Top Rated Seeds: June 2013

The seeds I'm working on now will be for July, so thus endeth June. Here's the list of the top scoring seeds from the month.

• [ 24.9 ] 99999999999
• [ 24.3 ] mjolnir
• [ 22.4 ] eastandwest
• [ 22.4 ] stenograph
• [ 21.6 ] hardyboys
• [ 20.8 ] corpsdeballet
• [ 20.8 ] crissandcross
• [ 20.4 ] blackandblue
• [ 20.4 ] chronograph
• [ 20.3 ] abutment
• [ 20.2 ] soubresaut
• [ 20.2 ] 3sheets2thewind
• [ 20.1 ] nauticalbynature

Also, there were two seeds that received a lot of repeat traffic even though they weren't as highly ranked as the others. That's usually a good sign that I may have missed something awesome:

• voussoir
• satyagraha

Top Rated Seeds: April 2013

Just in case you're new to the site, here's a list of the top ten best seed I found this month.

4b2a1	2013.04.06	26.5	B
2jj8h	2013.04.07	25.2	E
moravian	2013.04.25	25.1	I
worldofgoo	2013.04.05	24.5	A
4pu889	2013.04.12	24	I
flyswatter	2013.04.15	23.7	E
c27j83	2013.04.12	23.6	A
vanillawow	2013.04.19	23.2	I
mg3si4o10(oh)2	2013.04.21	22.2	B
lennart	2013.04.29	21.6	A

Seed & Map: philadelphia

SEED MAP PIXEL COUNTS Classification: Forest water 36.6% trees 25.7% plains 23.9% sand 9.6% ice/snow -0.1% * margin of error +/- 1.1%

Rating

• ++ Beginner ++
• Intermediate
• Advanced
• Expert
• Suicidal Expert

Spawn and Version

Spawn: -61.69.-106
Version: XBL 1.1.1 (equiv Beta 1.7.3)

Seed Score MH 7.5 DW 3.7 C 4.8 W 5.5 SP 6.3 VR 3.2 AF 7.2     38.2

My Review

This is a fantastic level for anyone -- from the newest of the new to the bravest of the seasoned. You will find something on this level that interests you, I promise. It is incredibly well balanced. There are flat lands for flat people and hilly lands for bumpy people. The southwest corner isn't really a land mass as much as it is a shell that hides the caves. The center of the map is a large, crazy mountain range full of pitfalls and sheer cliffs and sinkholes and craters. They are difficult to traverse, but scenic once you get there. I highly recommend this level.

Clay

• [-333.65.-7] medium clay
• [-325.67.151] medium clay
• [144.66.362] medium clay

Items of Interest

• [-182.67.-189] tall waterfall and small land bridge
• [-137.80.-262] deep pit that goes down to Y=12
• [-325.67.175] hidden medium cave with stalactites
• [-334.68.216] deep cave complex with coal and iron
• [-370.67.221] deep pitfall cave
• [-270.93.340] medium overhang
• [-253.80.315] small crater and two medium spires
• [-70.83.60] large floater
• [-47.70.341] medium lake
• [249.65.315] sea mound
• [324.65.332] suspicious erosion island (bring pickaxes)
• [335.70.-132] medium cave
• [322.80.-146] large land bridge
• [343.68.-170] lava pit, forest fire, and medium overhang
• [58.81.-163] long waterfall
• [44.67.-369] small gorge
• [21.108.84] crater
• [0.76.-290] erosion with medium cave and stalactites
• [142.77.-119] two medium waterfalls
• [165.69.-142] small overhang with hidi
• [177.75.-85] long land bridge with deep shadow
• [213.72.-44] long land bridge with deep shadow #2
• [170.65.231] medium lava flow

Images

A small gorge splits this palisade into two. At right, this is a large floater hovering above a hillside. You can build a hut on him at -70.83.60.

The Pop 20: Most Popular 1.1.1 Xbox Minecraft Seeds

A few of you have been asking me to which seeds I was referring when I said that I won't be reviewing any of the Pop 20s because they had already been reviewed ad nauseam on other Web sites. This is the list of twenty seed names that are the most popular for one of two reasons: either they are really spectacular or they are sucky but hyped to death because it's so easy to find chests full of saddles.

I'll let you decide which is which.

Without further ado, I present -- in order -- the carefully constructed list of the top twenty most revered Xbox Minecraft 1.1.1 seed names:

1. gargamel
2. Dead Mau5
3. 404
4. Glacier
5. worstseedever
6. MODDED
7. 888
8. 404
9. Bambi
10. Diamonds
11. pokeylucky
12. Artomix
13. Heaven
14. bacon
15. Quesadila
16. Wolf
17. 10110101
18. 6665565566
19. IceCream
20. xbox360

Seed: landdownunder

Rating

• ++ Beginner ++
• Intermediate
• Advanced
• Expert
• Suicidal Expert

Spawn Coordinates

292.65.301

Seed Score MH 6.8 DW 7.5 C 3.9 W 7.7 SP 5.3 VR 2.9 AF 5.1     39.2

My Review

This was the best seed of the day. This level has a great balance, with lots of trees and some seriously deep water. The hills are a combination of graceful, easy-to-climb mounds and epic, cliff-faced mountains. You're going to have to search for your resources, but if you're looking for a scenic seed, then this is one you have got to check out.

Items of Interest

• [277.65.221] small iron
• [243.78.126] medium coal with waterfall
• [69.69.18] hidi-hole with coal
• [-190.72.71] sugar
• [-323.71.56] pumpkins, medium overhang, and a medium waterfall
• [-382.66.61] massive spire, waterfall, and lava pit that's wrecking havoc on that tree

Images

This massive spire stands next to a lava pit that's decided to weed out the neighboring trees. You can find them both at -382.66.61. At right, these pumpkins have a great view of this land bridge which features two waterfalls (the second fall is obscured in the photograph).

Seed: aop456

Special Achievements

• Premium! This map has scored higher than 40 out of 70 in the overall score.

Rating

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• ++ Advanced ++
• Expert
• Suicidal Expert

Spawn Coordinates

-63.73.105

Seed Score MH 7.3 DW 4.8 C 7.1 W 5.1 SP 6.0 VR 4.8 AF 6.9     42.0

My Review

Third best of the day. This seed has two things going for it. One is the easily accessible lava pits and the other is the massive crater at the top of the big mountain. This crater was so huge I couldn't shoot a photo of it. The top of the crater is usually obscured by clouds, so you can actually fall into it if you come in over the top and are unaware that it's there. Luckily, there's a shortcut; a collapsed entryway that you can sort of see through and dig through to enter in the middle. Amazingly, this seed is incredibly well balanced, illustrated by the premium award standing without earning any of the other awards. Oh, and there's lots of squid here, too.

Items of Interest

It's all about the massive pit: 30.92.271. It's quite a hike from the spawn, so make sure you bring lots of supplies.

Image Coordinates

A nice view of the balanced portion near the river bed. There's even a small lava pit just off screen to the right of this view. Sorry, no coords.