Villageat spawn
Ruined Portal102 blocks
Ocean Ruins149 blocks
Minecraft Dark Forest Village Seeds
By the ChunkScan Team · Updated August 2026
Dark forests have dark oak trees, huge mushrooms and a canopy so thick that mobs can spawn beneath it during the day. They never have a village, so these seeds pair one with a village nearby. Every seed below was scanned and has a dark forest and a village near spawn. Of the Java 26.3 seeds we scanned, 76,214 have the biome within 512 blocks of spawn and the structure within 1,000 blocks; for half of them the structure is 470 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 a dark forest and a village near spawn
Distances in blocks from spawn
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal50 blocks
Abandoned Camp97 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Trial Chambers266 blocks- Ruined Portal351 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Buried Treasure119 blocks- Trial Chambers205 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Pillager Outpost244 blocks- Trial Chambers300 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal229 blocks
- Trial Chambers325 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal248 blocks
- Ocean Ruins299 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portalat spawn
- Trial Chambers103 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Jungle Temple235 blocks- Ruined Portal340 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers227 blocks
- Abandoned Camp359 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers157 blocks
- Abandoned Camp214 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Abandoned Camp240 blocks
- Ruined Portal272 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Trail Ruins97 blocks- Ruined Portal157 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers196 blocks
- Ruined Portal329 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Buried Treasure183 blocks
- Trial Chambers248 blocks
- Villageat spawn
Ancient City91 blocks- Pillager Outpost217 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers248 blocks
- Trail Ruins252 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trail Ruins273 blocks
- Trial Chambers281 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Trial Chambers97 blocks
- Ruined Portal315 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal97 blocks
- Ocean Ruins291 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Buried Treasure75 blocks
Shipwreck159 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Ruined Portal222 blocks
- Abandoned Camp266 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Buried Treasure55 blocks
- Ocean Ruins192 blocks
- Villageat spawn
- Shipwreck126 blocks
- Buried Treasure137 blocks
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Dark oak wood with a village to fall back on
Dark oak trees give a lot of wood per tree, and huge mushrooms give mushroom blocks and food. The village nearby supplies beds, crops and trades, and is a safer place to sleep than the forest. Light the forest edge with torches before you chop there.
Do villages spawn in dark forests?
No. Villages never generate in dark forests. They spawn in plains, meadows, deserts, savannas, taigas and snowy plains. On these seeds the village is in a nearby biome within 1,000 blocks of spawn.
Why do mobs spawn in a dark forest during the day?
The dark oak canopy keeps the ground dark enough for hostile mobs to spawn. They also do not burn in sunlight under the leaves. Torches on the ground or cutting the canopy stops it.