Villageat spawn
Trial Chambers40 blocks
Ruined Portal256 blocks
Minecraft Village Finder
By the ChunkScan Team · Updated October 2026
Quick answer: To find a village, enter your world seed on this page and choose Java or Bedrock: the map marks every village around spawn or any coordinates you pan to. Villages generate in plains, desert, savanna, taiga and snowy plains. Link straight to a result with /village-finder?seed=YOUR_SEED.
Villages give you beds, food, trades and iron golems, which makes the nearest one the most useful landmark in a new world. This finder maps them for any seed, entirely in your browser, so your seed is never sent to a server. Pan the map to your base to see which villages are in reach, and zoom out to compare directions before you set off. Positions differ between Java and Bedrock for the same seed, so pick your edition first.
Java seeds with a village within 300 blocks, most structures nearby first
Distances in blocks from spawn
- Village57 blocks
- Trial Chambers102 blocks
Buried Treasure110 blocks
- Village227 blocks
- Ruined Portal35 blocks
- Trial Chambers40 blocks
- Village227 blocks
- Trial Chambers107 blocks
Shipwreck232 blocks
- Village150 blocks
- Buried Treasure40 blocks
- Trial Chambers234 blocks
- Village208 blocks
- Buried Treasure148 blocks
Ocean Ruins184 blocks
- Village107 blocks
- Buried Treasure91 blocks
- Trial Chambers100 blocks
- Village71 blocks
- Shipwreck91 blocks
- Ocean Ruins239 blocks
- Village215 blocks
- Buried Treasure185 blocks
- Trial Chambers185 blocks
- Village163 blocks
- Trial Chambers178 blocks
- Ocean Ruins192 blocks
- Village172 blocks
- Buried Treasure190 blocks
- Trial Chambers198 blocks
- Village300 blocks
- Ocean Ruins126 blocks
Trail Ruins160 blocks
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Why find a village?
Villages are the best early-game shortcut in Minecraft: beds to set your spawn, farms and chests for food and tools, and villagers to trade with. A librarian can sell mending, a toolsmith diamond gear, and a cluster of villagers with beds and workstations spawns iron golems for an iron farm. Knowing where the nearest village is turns the first night from a scramble into a plan.
Where do villages spawn?
Villages generate on the surface in plains, desert, savanna, taiga and snowy plains biomes, and each biome has its own building style. Bedrock Edition also places them in snowy taiga and sunflower plains. The map marks the village centre, which is where the bell and meeting point sit, so the houses spread out a little around the marker.
How do I find several villages close together?
Villages are placed on a coarse grid with random offsets, so they are common but unevenly spread: some seeds put three within a few hundred blocks, others leave long gaps. Zoom out on the map to compare directions before you travel, and look for two villages close together if you want to move villagers between them for a trading hall.
Do villages spawn in the same place on Java and Bedrock?
Both editions generate villages, but the same seed places them at different coordinates on Java and Bedrock, so choose your edition above before reading positions off the map. Zombie villages, which spawn without doors or torches, exist in both editions and are not distinguished on the map.