Seed: dastardlybastard

Special Achievements

• Anseled! Higher than 8 out of 10 in awesome features.

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

210.65.190

Seed Score MH 6.3 DW 6.2 C 3.1 W 3.7 SP 5.3 VR 2.1 AF 8.2     34.9

My Review

What makes this level amazing is the sheer number of heavy shadows that appear around the map. Not only are there large overhangs that create the shadows you would expect, but there are vaulted caves which house dozens of bad guys just itching to blow you up. Trees are rare and so are resources, plus getting through the mountains is incredibly difficult. I rate this as an expert level and though I think it would be fun for beginners to see it during the day, they should leave by nightfall.

Items of Interest

• [238.73.-185] cliff-side hidi-hole
• [223.71.-112] massive overhang
• [229.68.-41] a medium waterfall hides a creeper cave
• [224.67.-10] hidden cave and a massive overhang
• [388.72.-114] shortcut cave and nearby iron deposit
• [-106.65.-351] deep pitfall cave
• [-351.65.-130] small pitfall, iron, possible zombie spawn
• [-357.66.357] pack of wolves
• [-247.66.336] medium cave
• [-150.65.307] medium clay
• [136.72.380] deep pitfall cave, large coal
• [196.102.353] massive land bridge with pitfall

Images

At top, a small sandy overhang adds some shade to this otherwise scorching desert landscape. Beneath that, a very intense overhang that comes very close to qualifying as a hidi-hole. Beware the skeletons that live in its shadow. At right, if you look very carefully, you can see a creeper emerging from the shadows of this massive land bridge.

The final photograph (a late addition) is a massive vaulted cave I found beneath a mountain. It is completely shaded and full of day-walking baddies. I highly recommend bringing along a diamond sword if you plan on exploring this cave.

Seed: [26]

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

-37.65.176

Seed Score MH 4.2 DW 5.7 C 3.6 W 6.4 SP 3.8 VR 2.9 AF 4.4     31.0

My Review

What can I tell you? I started the next 100 seeds with the next in my ongoing obsession with bracketed numbers. I feel strongly that one of these is going to pay out. Anyway... LAKES. Lots and lots of lakes. The other thing -- and this is more of a cautionary note -- is random creepers. They're not even in the shade or in caves -- just out in the open wondering around. It was weird and maybe a glitch. Who knows. Anyway, good trees and deep water. Worth checking out.

Items of Interest

• [24.69.395] crazy overhang (see photo)
• [-19.66.365] gravel
• [-60.65.375] clay and random creeper
• [-225.65.316] sugar
• [-252.65.316] two large caves
• [-308.66.287] coal
• [-340.68.269] hidi-hole

Images

This crazy overhang, located at 24.69.395, is one of only a handful of eye-catching formations on this level. If you're looking for some visual stimulation, choose another level.

Legendary Seed: opensource

Special Achievements

• Perfection! This seed has achieved one or more perfect scores.
• Legendary Seed! This map has scored an astonishing 55+ out of 70 in the overall score.
• Golden! This map has scored higher than 50 out of 70 in the overall score.
• Premium! This map has scored higher than 40 out of 70 in the overall score.
• Rolling! Higher than 8 out of 10 in hills and mountains.
• Abyssal! Higher than 8 out of 10 in deep water.
• Spelunked! Higher than 8 out of 10 in caves.
• Anseled! Higher than 8 out of 10 in awesome features.

Legendary Status

This seed has, in my opinion, generated such interesting features and provides such entertaining potential that it deserves recognition as a seed in the top 1% of all those I've reviewed.

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

55.65.189

Seed Score MH 8.9 DW 8.2 C 8.4 W 7.2 SP 5.8 VR 7.7 AF 10.0     56.2

My Review

I could not finish this seed fast enough. The second I saw this thing, I knew I had discovered something awesome. You could, theoretically walk through about 40% of this board and be like, "What? This thing is crap. It's all flat and boring." Keep walking! When you get to the southwest quadrant, that's when all hell is going to break loose. Craters, creepers, overhangs, multiple land bridges conjoining, pitfalls, and some things you've got to see to believe. If you're a beginner, load it up just to see it, but don't expect to survive. Experts: good luck. I was this close (you can't see it, but I'm indicating with narrow fingers) to rating this one suicidal. This board has so many landmarks that I couldn't write them all down on a single piece of paper and, indeed, if I've missed any, please add them in the comments below along with the coordinates.

How difficult is this level, you may be asking? Well I'll tell you. I played this thing first on creative wussy mode -- AND DIED when I took a header off the top of a mountain and fell from 128 to 64. Alright. Then I played it on normal and had my ass handed to me as, apparently, I may be a beginner. This board is epic.

Can't Miss

I could choose any number of things that this board has that you'd have to see. However, one in particular was stunning. It wasn't the perfectly formed crater and it wasn't the mountain above the cloud line and it wasn't any of the floaters -- of which there are MANY! No. At 243.72.15, I found what I will refer to as the "Black Waterfall" -- a waterfall contained within a shortcut cave that is so narrow and dark that no light illuminates the water. It is without question unique, beautiful, and guarded by creepers in the dozens if you play anything other than creative. It is a must-see attraction.

Items of Interest

Warning: the following list contains spoiler locations for the major landmarks and items available in this seed. If you prefer to discover these things on your own, skip ahead to the bottom paragraph.

• [-396.67.78] coal
• [-356.82.216] quintuple waterfall
• [-359.65.313] gravel and floater
• [-400.68.298] lava fall and land bridge
• [-408.67.337] small clay deposit
• [-391.70.373] overhang
• [-396.83.337] hidi-hole and coal
• [-268.72.372] red flower patch
• [-259.65.320] red flower patch #2
• [-205.65.355] sugar
• [-25.65.346] sugar
• [211.76.349] waterfall and small cave
• [210.77.334] hidi-hole with hidden cave
• [217.78.332] large waterfall bursting out of cliff
• [205.69.312] waterfall
• [197.77.300] great shortcut cave behind waterfall
• [204.79.257] shortcut cave
• [251.81.298] land bridge
• [234.74.308] waterfall
• [254.65.332] wolves
• [396.74.272] small cliff diving experience
• [344.83.237] land bridge
• [380.71.172] epic coal cave
• [393.66.151] mushrooms and coal
• [381.67.115] complex of deep holes; watch where you walk
• [303.69.128] floater
• [322.69.102] flooded cave
• [321.70.64] medium cave, hidi-hole, coal, and hidden cave with underground waterfall
• [367.88.1] stone mountainside
• [393.85.12] overhang
• [339.83.-26] waterfall
• [287.72.-47] waterfall and coal
• [243.72.15] the black waterfall
• [238.66.50] massive land bridge
• [228.67.57] twin waterfalls
• [205.67.60] floater
• [196.72.94] land bridge
• [208.75.110] crazy flattop overhang; do not dig, only one block deep
• [230.65.109] iron deposit
• [239.65.87] waterfall and overhang
• [291.81.72] crevasse, hidi-hole
• [298.84.72] a perfectly formed crater, gorgeous
• [309.85.4] massive floater
• [344.92.-79] lava pit
• [336.72.-106] large land bridge
• [328.95.-157] massive ravine
• [253.124.-186] tall mountain above clouds; do not fall off this mountain!!!
• [55.65.189] clay
• [45.65.225] hidi-hole, coal, and cave
• [57.65.310] clay
• [-21.65.346] sugar
• [-122.65.284] medium cave
• [-369.65.312] gravel
• [-349.65.255] the Twin Towers: two waterfalls
• [-363.75.-143] cliff diving
• [-384.66.-179] shortcut cave and gravel
• [-170.65.-44] sugar
• [-59.64.24] medium cave
• [-25.63.-25] coal
• [62.65.-376] deep hole
• [304.71.-379] one lonely pumpkin: very sad
• [111.65.361] pumpkin patch

This is not even close to a complete list, by the way. There were cliff-side caves I couldn't get to and floaters I could barely see and couldn't get the coordinates for. The northwest quadrant has a desert of all things and there is a large amount of flat land for those who like to build large castles. There is truly something for everyone on this board.

Images

There was no way I was doing this review with only two photos. You'll have to bear with me as I try to cover all of these shots.

So, working from top to bottom, this is a general shot of the southwest quadrant that shows two waterfalls converging and then running to the ocean. You can also see an overhang on the right covered in trees that houses some creepers.

Next is two massive floaters hovering above an already elevated hilltop. Deep in the background of this particular shot, you can see the tallest of the mountains.

Third is the double waterfall shot. There are no less than twenty waterfalls in this seed. The final large shot is a thick land bridge adjacent to a lava pit (left). Many skeletons live under here.

The final three shots are the smaller ones to the right. The first shows a variety of formations you're going to find here, including a heavy overhang that casts a deep shadow. Next is a waterfall that was near my spawn, unique in that there's a cave behind it. Finally, the last shot is a conflagration of several land bridges that leaves this massive area in perpetual nighttime.

Seed & Map: crosstype

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

0.77.130

Seed Score MH 5.5 DW 6.4 C 4.9 W 6.2 SP 2.1 VR 3.8 AF 4.3     33.2

My Review

I took a look at this entire seed map and I didn't find any ice or snow at all. This bodes well for me. There were a few really cool formations and plenty of wood, however this map isn't for beginners. If you want to have some real fun, set up your camp inside the large desert just south of the center of the map. Also, there is a particularly thick forest at about 215.64.0 that is dark enough to house daytime-creepers, so watch where you chop. I found a mushroom in a tree, a hefty desert, and several overhangs with trees and other plants growing on them.

Items of Interest

Warning: the following list contains spoiler locations for the major landmarks and items available in this seed. If you prefer to discover these things on your own, skip ahead to the bottom paragraph.

• [12.77.142] interesting stone hillside
• [54.94.150] coal deposit
• [55.80.157] crazy overhang
• [95.71.140] floating idol
• [157.20.171] shortcut cave and coal
• [137.65.186] gravel
• [199.73.158] submerged hidi-hole
• [390.86.152] floater
• [366.72.250] deep hidi-hole; shortcut cave complex
• [339.80.325] multiple overhangs (3)
• [379.77.327] shortcut cave
• [372.69.386] hidi-hole
• [335.59.397] dig down for hidden cave
• [319.79.375] shady overhang; watch out for skeletons
• [285.73.364] hidi-hole
• [-59.65.390] wolves, wool, and sugar on peninsula
• [-139.64.358] shortcut cave and hidden cave
• [-166.73.347] megacoal
• [-343.66.76] tiny patch of snow, weird
• [-280.67.115] shortcut cave with small cave
• [-312.64.39] shortcut cave with iron
• [-304.65.-11] clay
• [-314.58.-47] subterranean cavern bring lots of pickaxes and dig down eight blocks
• [-328.65.-107] bring shovel, underground iron, gravel, and cave
• [-322.64.-226] small waterfall
• [-273.65.-386] private island; no animals
• [-202.65.-323] discolored water (possible glitch)
• [-142.69.-332] medium cave with coal
• [-60.65.-322] gravel
• [20.65.-309] yellow flower patch
• [58.72.-325] lava pit
• [284.73.-314] submerged cave with coal
• [308.75.-316] hidi-hole with shortcut cave
• [344.68.-294] coal under gravel
• [372.71.-205] deep hidi-hole
• [361.80.-166] shortcut cave complex
• [377.71.-123] gravel, coal, and hidi-hole
• [368.78.-88] forest
• [369.72.-43] medium cave and coal
• [20.73.20] lava pit
• [-54.72.126] sunken pond
• [-67.72.148] large waterfall
• [-137.71.25] red flower patch
• [-186.65.-176] lava pit
• [37.68.-85] coal
• [48.67.-94] deep hidi-hole
• [48.86.-44] floater
• [116.79.-98] shortcut cave
• [148.77.-100] deep hole
• [187.74.-84] hidi-hole

Image Coordinates

So, here are some interesting formations for ya. First, there is a seriously long but narrow overhang, so it doesn't cast a shadow that can protect creepers but is still really cool. At right, this thing is like a mothership hovering above Los Angeles during any one of a dozen alien invasion movies. Good luck building on this thing; the sand isn't all that stable.

Seed: offbeathope

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

0.69.-28

Seed Score MH 4.1 DW 2.7 C 7.2 W 5.5 SP 3.2 VR 4.7 AF 3.8     31.2

My Review

This level is all about several massive coal deposits that are available and out in the open. Beyond this, however, other resources are quite scarce, so it's a mixed bag. Wood, however, is in abundance so this level is a breeze even for beginners. There are several really deep caves and more than a few were full of baddies, so I'm guessing there are some spawns to be farmed (though I couldn't swear to it). Still, worth a look.

Items of Interest

• [5.69.-42] creeper cave
• [-17.73.-72] pumpkins
• [-74.67.-167] shortcut cave with coal and a hidden cave in the floor
• [-194.75.1] huge hole
• [-191.76.-20] coal deposit

Images

This particular mountain had really steep cliffs and was a tricky climb. I like that. At right, the floor of this particular valley was a desert wonderland full of cacti and no rain. If you look carefully, you can just make out a cave on the left.

Seed: 10987654321

Special Achievements

• Rolling! Higher than 8 out of 10 in hills and mountains.

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

33.71.84

Seed Score MH 8.4 DW 6.5 C 4.1 W 6.2 SP 5.1 VR 2.4 AF 6.2     38.9

My Review

Since the first one worked out so well (12345678910), let's go the other way! Well what'dya know? It's even better. In fact, it's the second best seed I took a look at today. High, jutting mountains that pop up completely out of the blue is the call of the day for this level. Zombies sounds just walkin' around and shielded creepers make this a challenging seed; avoid this one if you're still just learning Minecraft.

Items of Interest

• [184.103.177] the sound of zombies underfoot

Images

The image up top is an example of how the hills just kind of pop up out of nowhere like that. They are very sheer and you can become seriously wounded falling off of one.

Seed: 12345678910

Special Achievements

• Anseled! Higher than 8 out of 10 in awesome features.

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

0.67.40

Seed Score MH 5.1 DW 4.1 C 3.2 W 4.2 SP 2.9 VR 2.8 AF 8.2     30.5

My Review

So, I figured I'd try all the numbers and see what that got me. Not bad, but it could have been a lot better. Aside from a few really nice formations (including the spire in the top photograph), a few packs of wolves, and challenges from some shadow-protected bad guys, this level is actually quite boring. There's a good number of trees, but serious threats and pitfalls abound, making this a level not suited for beginners.

Items of Interest

• [77.71.51] a small cave

Images

This is a big fat spire that grows out of the ground right next to the rushing waters of a waterfall pouring out of the mountain that I'm on (just out of frame). At right, this is a great overhang I found with deep shadows that allows this skeleton to remain perfectly healthy and on patrol during the day.

Seed: finger-lickin

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

-2.68.64

Seed Score MH 3.8 DW 3.2 C 3.9 W 4.9 SP 2.1 VR 2.8 AF 5.2     25.9

My Review

I enjoyed this level even though it didn't score very high. As my first one of the day, it's always nice to find some crazy formations to get me in the mood to Minecraft. There was a lot of clay around and I found a few day-creepers in a forest who snuck up and killed me. Overall, a good board for the advanced crowd.

Items of Interest

• [43.67.38] shortcut cave
• [-2.68.64] pumpkins in my spawn
• [135.64.-250] three-way land bridge

Images

You can't really tell, but this is a triple land bridge. These two entrances and then an exit out the back of the mountain. It was a really cool find. At right, I found this huge sandy floater on my way out to one of the corners of the map (52.65.-194). If you get on top, don't dig, it will collapse.

Seed: jsmash7

Special Achievements

• Rolling! Higher than 8 out of 10 in hills.

Rating

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

Spawn Coordinates

270.65.-127

Seed Score MH 8.4 DW 8.1 C 1.4 W 6.3 SP 4.7 VR 1.6 AF 6.3     36.8

My Review

I love hiking through hills in Minecraft, so this was a really nice level. Lots of ups and downs, as it were. This seed looks like something out of survivor. Picking out two photos for this particular level was tough because I found four really quirky formations within five minutes walk of each other. Pretty good! The spawn is on the far east of the map and is surrounded with wood. I'd say this was a challenge for a beginner who can stay on the spawn island and a fun curiosity for a seasoned player who doesn't mind swimming due west to check out the rest of the board.

Items of Interest

• [61.73.-161] a cave that as I was passing it, the creepers literally came out to greet me in the middle of the day. It was like overflowing with death
• [-76.88.6] is a really nice valley that might have some good resources to mine
• [-140.88.11] a nice waterfall

Image Coordinates

Image at top is a really nice spire that could house a house if you felt like climbing that beast. The image at right is a dinosaur!