Villageat spawn
Ruined Portal102 blocks
Ocean Ruins149 blocks
Minecraft Badlands Village Seeds
By the ChunkScan Team · Updated August 2026
Badlands, still called mesa by many players, have striped terracotta and gold ore high in the hills, but no villages. These seeds pair a badlands biome with a village nearby, so you get trades and a colourful building stone early on. Every seed below was scanned and has badlands and a village near spawn. Of the Java 26.3 seeds we scanned, 23,359 have the biome within 512 blocks of spawn and the structure within 1,000 blocks; for half of them the structure is 416 blocks away or closer. Versions with at least 12 such seeds in our scan: 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 26.2 and 26.3.
Seeds with badlands and a village near spawn
Distances in blocks from spawn
- Villageat spawn
Desert Pyramid204 blocks
Shipwreck204 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Desert Pyramid47 blocks
- Ocean Ruins204 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal35 blocks
Trial Chambers251 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers107 blocks
- Shipwreck140 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ocean Ruins243 blocks
- Ruined Portal256 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Abandoned Camp107 blocks- Shipwreck204 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers91 blocks
- Ruined Portal273 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal248 blocks
- Ocean Ruins299 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Jungle Temple235 blocks- Ruined Portal340 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Desert Pyramid154 blocks
Buried Treasure269 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Shipwreck149 blocks
- Ruined Portal150 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ocean Ruins208 blocks
- Ruined Portal315 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers244 blocks
Pillager Outpost273 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers89 blocks
- Ocean Ruins107 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ocean Ruins227 blocks
Ocean Monument227 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal144 blocks
- Shipwreck269 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers124 blocks
- Ruined Portal210 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers193 blocks
- Desert Pyramid242 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ocean Ruins91 blocks
- Trial Chambers169 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Pillager Outpost187 blocks
- Trial Chambers234 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ocean Ruins72 blocks
- Shipwreck138 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers92 blocks
- Ruined Portal202 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal80 blocks
- Trial Chambers106 blocks
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Trades and terracotta in one start
The village gives beds, food and villagers, and mason villagers trade for terracotta and glazed terracotta. The badlands give coloured terracotta without dyeing, red sand and gold ore near the surface. Mineshafts in badlands can be exposed at the surface, which makes iron and rails easy to reach.
Do villages spawn in the badlands?
No. Villages never generate in any badlands biome. They spawn in plains, meadows, deserts, savannas, taigas and snowy plains. On these seeds the village is in one of those biomes near the badlands, often a desert or savanna.
Is mesa the same as badlands?
Yes. The biome was called mesa until it was renamed badlands in 1.13. Eroded badlands and wooded badlands are variants of the same biome.