Fortress28 blocks
Village81 blocks
Shipwreck131 blocks
Minecraft Nether Fortress Seeds
Minecraft Seeds · By the ChunkScan Team · Updated August 2026
Nether fortresses are the only reliable source of blaze rods and the only place wither skeletons spawn, so a fortress near your spawn portal is one of the most useful early finds in the Nether. The seeds below each put a fortress close to the portal-linked spawn coordinate, ranked by distance and verified by scanning the world with cubiomes. Distances are measured in Nether blocks (1 Nether block = 8 Overworld blocks).
Nether fortress seeds, closest to the spawn portal first
Ancient City0 blocks- Fortress64 blocks
- Ancient City193 blocks
Ruined Portal N0 blocks
Ruined Portal0 blocks- Fortress65 blocks
- Fortress67 blocks
Treasure67 blocks
Bastion99 blocks
- Ruined Portal N57 blocks
- Fortress72 blocks
- Treasure107 blocks
- Fortress80 blocks
- Bastion192 blocks
Trial Chambers258 blocks
Jungle Temple0 blocks- Fortress80 blocks
Trail Ruins81 blocks
- Ancient City0 blocks
Igloo35 blocks- Fortress93 blocks
- Ruined Portal0 blocks
- Ruined Portal N0 blocks
- Trial Chambers93 blocks
- Shipwreck0 blocks
- Fortress101 blocks
- Village128 blocks
- Ancient City0 blocks
- Fortress102 blocks
- Fortress128 blocks
- Jungle Temple0 blocks
- Trial Chambers45 blocks
- Fortress112 blocks
- Fortress112 blocks
- Fortress124 blocks
- Ancient City178 blocks
- Treasure71 blocks
- Fortress112 blocks
- Bastion125 blocks
- Ruined Portal0 blocks
- Ruined Portal N0 blocks
- Fortress113 blocks
- Village0 blocks
Ocean Ruin57 blocks- Fortress130 blocks
- Village35 blocks
- Treasure57 blocks
- Treasure89 blocks
- Ruined Portal32 blocks
- Shipwreck113 blocks
- Treasure123 blocks
- Fortress133 blocks
- Trial Chambers160 blocks
- Shipwreck172 blocks
- Fortress134 blocks
- Ocean Ruin147 blocks
- Ruined Portal186 blocks
Outpost0 blocks- Trial Chambers57 blocks
- Fortress137 blocks
- Village16 blocks
- Bastion102 blocks
- Shipwreck102 blocks
- Village0 blocks
- Fortress147 blocks
- Village236 blocks
- Outpost57 blocks
- Trial Chambers81 blocks
- Fortress152 blocks
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Why a fortress near spawn matters
Blaze rods are the fuel for brewing and the only way to make blaze powder for eyes of ender, so reaching the End depends on finding a fortress. Fortresses are also the sole spawn point for wither skeletons and their skulls. Having one near your spawn portal turns a dangerous expedition into a quick trip.
How the distances are measured
Each seed was generated and scanned with cubiomes for the listed edition and version, and fortress positions are computed against the Nether generator centered on the spawn's portal-linked coordinate (Overworld spawn divided by 8). That is where a player stepping through a spawn portal actually arrives, so the ranking reflects real travel distance.
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