Ancient Cityat spawn
Trial Chambers134 blocks
Pillager Outpost279 blocks
Minecraft Dark Forest Ancient City Seeds
By the ChunkScan Team · Updated August 2026
Ancient cities lie deep below the surface in the deep dark, and these seeds put one within reach of a dark forest. You get dark oak wood and mushrooms above and one of the best loot structures below. Every seed below was scanned and has a dark forest and an ancient city near spawn. Of the Java 26.3 seeds we scanned, 29,303 have the biome within 512 blocks of spawn and the structure within 1,000 blocks; for half of them the structure is 608 blocks away or closer. Versions with at least 12 such seeds in our scan: 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 26.2 and 26.3.
Seeds with a dark forest and an ancient city near spawn
Distances in blocks from spawn
- Ancient Cityat spawn
Ruined Portal257 blocks- Trial Chambers345 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
Abandoned Camp260 blocks- Trial Chambers277 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Abandoned Camp167 blocks
- Trial Chambers271 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Abandoned Camp65 blocks
- Ruined Portal373 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers247 blocks
- Abandoned Camp283 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Abandoned Camp279 blocks
- Trial Chambers284 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers250 blocks
- Ruined Portal272 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers105 blocks
- Abandoned Camp214 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
Village229 blocks- Ruined Portal315 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers159 blocks
- Pillager Outpost237 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Ruined Portal71 blocks
- Trial Chambers285 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers183 blocks
Trail Ruins194 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Village240 blocks
- Ruined Portal252 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trail Ruins203 blocks
- Abandoned Camp272 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Abandoned Camp224 blocks
- Ruined Portal250 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Ruined Portal337 blocks
- Abandoned Camp493 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Ruined Portal57 blocks
- Abandoned Camp208 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Village252 blocks
- Trial Chambers346 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Abandoned Camp210 blocks
- Trial Chambers261 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers149 blocks
- Pillager Outpost194 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers157 blocks
- Abandoned Camp167 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Ruined Portal288 blocks
- Pillager Outpost362 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers204 blocks
- Abandoned Camp208 blocks
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Dark oak above and deep dark loot below
Ancient city chests can hold enchanted golden apples, swift sneak books, echo shards for recovery compasses, the disc fragment for music disc 5 and diamond gear. The dark forest gives dark oak logs and huge mushrooms for a surface base. The warden can be summoned in the city, so sneak and avoid sculk shriekers.
Is the ancient city under the dark forest?
Not always. Ancient cities generate deep underground in the deep dark, which is most common below mountains. On these seeds the city is within 1,000 blocks of spawn, but the biome above it may differ from the forest. Open the seed map to see both positions.
Which version do I need for ancient cities?
Ancient cities were added in 1.19. Create the world on the version listed with the seed. Before 1.19 the same seed has no ancient cities.