How to Change the World SEED on Your Minecraft Server

A seed is a combination of letters and numbers and plays an important role in generating Minecraft worlds. The seed determines how the terrain, biomes and various structures are generated. If you know the seed used by someone else’s world, you can use it to generate the same terrain. In this guide, we explain how to change the seed of your Minecraft server.

Changing the Minecraft seed

Note Do you want to generate the same world as another server? Make sure you also use the same Minecraft version.

1. Log in to the game panel and go to your Minecraft server.
2. Stop the Minecraft server if it is still running.
3. Open the Files page and click the server.properties file.
4. Find the level-name= line and note the name after the equals sign (=). This is usually world.
5. Find the level-seed= line and enter the seed you want after the equals sign (=). A seed can contain numbers, letters or a combination of both. Leave the value empty if you want Minecraft to select a random seed. With a seed entered, the line should look like this:

level-seed=7499203634667178692

6. Click Save Content and return to the Files page.

Note Because a seed is only used during world generation, the current world must be deleted. Create a backup beforehand if you want to keep your world.

7. Select the world folder that matches the value of level-name and click Delete. Then confirm that you want to delete the folder.

Tip Not sure which software your Minecraft server is using? Go to Software under Management in the game panel.

The folders you need to delete depend on the server software:

Replace <level-name> with the name you noted in step 4.

8. Start the Minecraft server using the green start button. The server will now generate a new world using the configured seed.

Tip After the server has started, you can check the seed by entering seed in the console or /seed in Minecraft.