Ancient Cityat spawn
Trial Chambers361 blocks
Ruined Portal392 blocks
Minecraft Bedrock Dark Forest Ancient City Seeds
By the ChunkScan Team · Updated August 2026
Bedrock Edition seeds for phones, consoles and Windows. Structure positions differ from Java, so these are different seeds. 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 Bedrock 26.3 seeds we scanned, 28,020 have the biome within 512 blocks of spawn and the structure within 1,000 blocks; for half of them the structure is 607 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.
Bedrock seeds with a dark forest and an ancient city near spawn
Distances in blocks from spawn
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Ruined Portal308 blocks
Village392 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Ruined Portal217 blocks
- Trial Chambers381 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Village184 blocks
Stronghold184 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers238 blocks
- Ruined Portal304 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
Buried Treasure153 blocks- Ruined Portal211 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Trial Chambers240 blocks
- Village271 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
- Village271 blocks
- Ruined Portal368 blocks
- Ancient Cityat spawn
Pillager Outpost258 blocks- Village325 blocks
- Ancient City33 blocks
Trail Ruins124 blocks- Trial Chambers264 blocks
- Ancient City33 blocks
- Village255 blocks
- Ruined Portal314 blocks
- Ancient City33 blocks
- Ruined Portalat spawn
- Trial Chambers101 blocks
- Ancient City33 blocks
- Village326 blocks
- Trial Chambers339 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
- Trail Ruins155 blocks
- Trial Chambers292 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
- Trial Chambers286 blocks
- Ruined Portal296 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
- Ruined Portal46 blocks
- Trail Ruins84 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
- Trial Chambers141 blocks
Shipwreck260 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
- Trial Chambers169 blocks
- Ruined Portal398 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
- Trial Chambers115 blocks
- Ruined Portal120 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
Ocean Ruins147 blocks- Trial Chambers169 blocks
- Ancient City40 blocks
- Shipwreck152 blocks
- Trial Chambers184 blocks
- Ancient City46 blocks
- Ruined Portal312 blocks
Igloo376 blocks
- Ancient City46 blocks
- Ocean Ruins212 blocks
- Shipwreck254 blocks
- Ancient City46 blocks
- Ocean Ruins227 blocks
- Trial Chambers234 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.