Minecraft Stronghold & End Portal Finder

By the ChunkScan Team · Updated October 2026

Quick answer: To find the stronghold and End portal, enter your world seed on this page and the nearest strongholds appear on the map with exact coordinates — the first ring lies 1,280 to 2,816 blocks from the world origin on Java. Without the seed, throw two eyes of ender from two spots and enter both positions and angles to triangulate it. Link straight to a result with /stronghold-finder?seed=YOUR_SEED.

Every Minecraft world has strongholds arranged in rings around the origin, and each one holds the end portal. This finder gives you two ways to reach yours: enter your world seed to see stronghold coordinates on a map, or — if you are already in-game — triangulate it from two eye of ender throws without needing the seed at all. Everything runs in your browser.

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Java seeds with a stronghold within 2,000 blocks, closest first

Distances in blocks from spawn

Biome map of Java seed 4824947746197614250 around spawn

Ice Spikes spawn · x -1200, z -240

  • Stronghold131 blocks
  • Buried Treasure158 blocks
  • Trial Chambers206 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -5559145134955208530 around spawn

Snowy Plains spawn · x 560, z -1712

  • Stronghold158 blocks
  • Ruined Portal178 blocks
  • Shipwreck211 blocks
Biome map of Java seed 739182680715632457 around spawn

Snowy Taiga spawn · x -1248, z -704

  • Stronghold212 blocks
  • Ocean Ruins215 blocks
  • Shipwreck249 blocks
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Biome map of Java seed 5735985814141658653 around spawn

Forest spawn · x -1216, z -176

  • Stronghold215 blocks
  • Ocean Ruins228 blocks
  • Buried Treasure264 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -271787304394956185 around spawn

Desert spawn · x -1104, z 512

  • Stronghold224 blocks
  • Trial Chambers217 blocks
  • Ocean Ruins239 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -3131697168917379496 around spawn

Plains spawn · x -928, z -608

  • Stronghold266 blocks
  • Ocean Ruins147 blocks
  • Trial Chambers155 blocks
Biome map of Java seed 6557903745630282485 around spawn

Beach spawn · x -1076, z 668

  • Stronghold282 blocks
  • Buried Treasure111 blocks
  • Shipwreck199 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -7343668889311975415 around spawn

Forest spawn · x -1024, z -528

  • Stronghold288 blocks
  • Buried Treasure141 blocks
  • Ocean Ruins152 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -7148013614495048576 around spawn

Old Growth Birch Forest spawn · x 1360, z 352

  • Stronghold305 blocks
  • Ruined Portal45 blocks
  • Shipwreck104 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -1765344146458410066 around spawn

Taiga spawn · x -336, z 1168

  • Stronghold325 blocks
  • Abandoned Camp229 blocks
  • Trial Chambers249 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -8913440449646240893 around spawn

Forest spawn · x -1248, z -624

  • Stronghold340 blocks
  • Buried Treasure97 blocks
  • Ocean Ruins149 blocks
Biome map of Java seed -8070830272958868247 around spawn

Forest spawn · x -1200, z 864

  • Stronghold352 blocks
  • Ocean Ruins91 blocks
  • Witch Hut152 blocks

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How do I find a stronghold?

If you know your seed, the seed locator computes stronghold positions directly and shows them on the map — useful for planning a world before you play it. If you are already in a world and do not know the seed, use eye of ender triangulation instead: throw one eye, note where you stand and the direction it floats, move a few hundred blocks sideways, throw a second, and the two directions cross at the stronghold.

How does eye of ender triangulation work?

An eye of ender floats toward the nearest stronghold, so a single throw gives you a direction but not a distance. Two throws from different positions give two directions, and where those lines cross is the stronghold. For the best accuracy, make your second throw well to the side of the first — throwing again from almost the same spot gives two nearly parallel lines that cross far from the real location. Read the direction from the F3 screen's Facing angle for each throw.

Where do strongholds spawn?

Strongholds generate in rings around the world origin: the first ring holds three strongholds roughly 1,280 to 2,816 blocks out, with more rings further away, for 128 total in a modern world. Each stronghold contains exactly one end portal room. Because the rings are centred on the origin rather than your spawn, the nearest stronghold is not always in the direction you expect, which is why a finder saves a lot of blind digging.

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