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is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes in size (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the
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especially, there are websites and articles, dedicated to sharing seeds which have been found to generate interesting maps. Some of the best seeds for Minecraft generate your player near cool or interesting structures. Players use seeds to help them decide what type of world they want.
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1.7.2. The map seed is unchanged, but the map generation algorithm has changed, leading to a discontinuity where new chunks are created beside old chunks.
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unmodified map, or the unmodified map can be exchanged between players, just by specifying the map seed. Map seeds are a type of
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The map seed only has meaning in the context of the algorithm used to generate the map (that algorithm is often, based on
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Games which use procedural generation and include support for setting the map seed include
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Number or string used to procedurally generate a game world
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The effect of loading a map originally generated in
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video games
procedural world generation
random seeds

Ark: Survival Evolved
Minecraft
Factorio
SCP – Containment Breach
Terraria

Perlin noise
discontinuities
speedrunning
"Minecraft Seeds - The Best Minecraft Seed List!"
Archived
"Minecraft Seeds - Minecraft Seed HQ"
Archived
"The best Minecraft seeds for beautiful, interesting worlds"
Archived
"The best Minecraft seeds"
Archived
"Friday Facts #112 - Better noise"
Archived
"How do games like Minecraft generate entire worlds from a seed number?"
StackExchange
Archived
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Procedural generation
Video game terminology

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