Best Minecraft Cave Seeds for Bedrock & Java

Most Minecraft players spend a decent amount of time inside caves and caverns to obtain key materials, but it can be hard to know whether you’ve got a great cave seed or not without spending hours exploring. I’ve taken the risk for you and found the best Minecraft Cave seeds for each version.

Best Minecraft Java Cave Seeds

In addition to plentiful resources, these underground networks hold tons of enemies and unique structures like Ancient Cities. The seeds I found contain the best of both structures and geographically interesting caves in Minecraft.

Witch from the Underwater Ravine

Seed: -5767921876753916282

This Witch Hut spawns at the divide between a Swamp and an Ocean biome. Because of this, the four oak pillars holding the hut up extend deep into one of the ocean's ravines. They make the hut the perfect place to build an elevator to the bottom of the ocean. Luckily, the beach you spawn on is both next to the Witch Hut and the home to plenty of turtles! Use these turtles to craft a Turtle Shell helmet to help you breathe underwater longer while exploring the deep sea cavern.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Turtle Beach: Spawn
Witch Hut: 708, -302

Underground Living

Seed: 3200555351024836009

At first glance, this cave's two tunnels look the same. Each leads to the same Dripstone Cave containing both water and lava falls. In spite of this, I recommend following the left pathway. It leads you more directly to deeper sections of the cave containing the Deep Dark and even an Ancient City. You'll be able to visit the Ancient City without mining at all, making this a perfect rare spawn for cave lovers.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Dripstone Cave: 15, 48, 25
Deep Dark: -14, -9, 87
Ancient City: 0, 42, 55

Plains Ravine

Seed: 3994865973633188678

Plains Villages are the perfect place to prepare for any spelunking adventure. This Plains Village conveniently lays its path blocks leading to the cave. Additionally, they've created several small waterfalls dropping into the cave to allow anyone to go in and out of it with ease. For a little extra loot, visit the ruined portal nearby. If you gather enough diamonds and obsidian in the cave, you can rebuild the portal for a Nether trip.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Plains Village with Ravine: Spawn
Ruined Portal: 86, 40

Simple and Deep

Seed: 6836297732212051588

Sometimes, you just want a regular cave with no frills or strings attached. This seed gives you exactly that—a deep cave dropping to deepslate with nothing but you, precious ores, and any mobs that generate in the darkness of the cavern. Make sure to prepare yourself before going in by gathering food, dirt, and saplings. It's a very long drop and you won't want to make the trip back and forth as your inventory fills up.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cave Entrance: -19, 79

Dark Drip Lava Mines

Seed: 2425536010563890453

These mines hang treacherously above a lake of lava. The only things providing them with safety are the waterfalls scattered around the cave, which have turned portions of the lake into obsidian. The Sculk around the area is a great source of experience for those looking to enchant their armor and tools.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cave Entrance: 83, -80
Dark Drip Lava Mines: -25, -37, -117

Sinkhole Desert

Seed: -802214440283998814

A set of sinkholes has formed in the middle of this Desert. While that would usually be a bad thing, these holes have revealed a set of caverns beneath the surface! Use the waterfall in the first sinkhole to explore its area and an underwater Dripstone Cave. You can reach the cavern of the second sinkhole from here, which is home to a Lush Cave.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Waterfall Cave Entrance: 46, 62, -39
Sinkhole: -34, 65, -64
Lush Cave: -88, 11, -43
Underwater Dripstone Cave: 65, 22, -89

Glow Squid Falls

Seed: -6290381374722815594

Glow Squids are the only mob that drop Glow Ink Sacs, which are used to craft items like Glow Item Frames. This makes finding them a treat, especially in a cave close to Spawn! This cave also contains a mineshaft in the Deepslate layers beyond the waterfall. It has all sorts of treasures to help you start your next survival world on the right foot.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cave Entrance: 281, 86, -168
Mineshaft: 369, -29, -207

Dripstone Desert

Seed: 5082464229587767783

The Desert in this seed acts as the ceiling for a giant Dripstone Cave. There are two Desert Villages in this biome, each of which has its own entrance to the cave. The best path to take in this seed is to visit the Wooded Badlands to gather wood and saplings, travel to both Desert Villages for supplies, and finally, head inside the Dripstone Cave. If you want a goal to work toward, try to make your way to the two Ancient Cities at the south end of the cave.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Desert Village: -251, -51
Cave Entrance near the first village: -270, -297
Desert Village 2: -367, -266
Cave Entrance near second village: -270, -297
Ancient City 1: -554, -45, 592
Ancient City 2: -616, -45, 984

Lush Lava Pools

Seed: 1906416636132707096

This Lush Cave's main feature is the larger pool of lava near its entrance. It helps light up the cave in combination with the glow berries, although you'll want to be wary of fire spread. There will be an amethyst geode nearby as well as another deeper in the cave.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cave Entrance: -22, 50, -138
Amethyst Geode: -38, -25, -65
Amethyst Geode 2: 76, -22, 15

Mountain Village Dripstone

Seed: -5584892961652404399

The Plains Village on this mountain chose to live near this Dripstone Cave to gather materials for their Blacksmith. The cave is filled with iron, coal, diamonds, and anything else a smith could ever need. It's about a 500-block from Spawn, but the materials and village make the trip worth it. If you're not convinced it's a gem, check out the seed for yourself!

Key Locations and Coordinates
Mountain Village: -233, 247
Dripstone Cave Entrance: -241, 200

Best Minecraft Bedrock Cave Seeds

Just like the Java edition seeds, these seeds combine the best of unique cave formations and structure generations for Minecraft Bedrock. Gear up and get ready to go spelunking!

Lava Lakes and Falls

Seed: -2860500151403008143

This cave has the three D's that fulfill every spelunker's dreams—Deepslate, the Deep Dark, and Dripstone. The top portion of the cave is made of Dripstone with a pool of water. If you swim down the waterfall spilling out of that pool, you'll be dropped down to this deepslate layer containing pools of lava and patches of Deep Dark biome.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Dripstone Cave Entrance: 18, -5
Deep Dark with Lava Pools: 20, -45, -2

Deep Dark Cove Caverns

Seed: 1437785306674498023

Exploring the caverns beneath this cove only gets more exciting the longer you adventure through them. The start of the cave has a few waterfalls that will drop you down to the deepslate layers of the cave. This first area contains several sections of Deep Dark biome and a large lava lake. There are several paths you can take to go deeper into the cavern, one of which takes you to an Ancient City. You're guaranteed to spend hours exploring and uncovering new treasures on your journeys to and through the city.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cove Cavern Entrance: 80, 63, 226
Deep Dark with Lava Lake: 119, -37, 175
Ancient City: 121, -45, 416

Deep Dark Lava Pools

Seed: 3710568949726864472

The deep hues of the Deep Dark meet blazing pools of lava in this cavern. By entering a secondary entrance to the main cavern in this seed, players can follow a path on the left to find these lava pools. There are plenty of Sculk Sensors and similar blocks in the Deep Dark. You can harvest them to use in your base or leave them to increase the size of the Deep Dark.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cave Entrance: 161, 124
Deep Dark Lava Pools: 161, -52, 80
Amethyst Geode: 199, -26, 11

Arena Beneath the Lake

Seed: -4546914566567487828

The hole beneath this lake is perfect for use as some sort of gladiatorial arena. The walls are high and sloped with the only easy way in and out being the waterfall in the center. This waterfall can be sectioned off so that the pit can be transformed into a mob farm for more technically savvy players. There are two more caves a short walk away. The first contains both Lush Cave and Dripstone elements while the second gives quick access to Deepslate.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Arena Beneath the Lake: 71, 22, 76
Lush Dripstone Cave: -5, 54, 24
Cave to Deepslate: 25, 49, 51

Cave of Splendor

Seed: 4763228050964941815

If you want to explore everything a Minecraft cave offers, I highly recommend checking out this fantastic cavern. Its entrance is located near a Plains Village, giving you useful resources at the start of the game. The cave itself contains plentiful resources like amethyst geodes. The best part is the ruined Nether Portal hidden deep within the Deepslate next to the cave's section of Lush Cave.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Plains Village: -266, -453
Cave Entrance: -246, 65, -348
Amethyst Geode: -267, -27, -315
Ruined Portal: -323, -15, -612
Lush Cave: -400, -3, -642

Mushroom Cavern

Seed: 1384329880929654696

The cavern beneath this Mushroom Island is filled with lava pools and plenty of diamonds. The waterfalls within it are unique because they are a muted purple-grey color since they are in a Mushroom Fields biome. It adds an interesting look to the cave that isn't seen often. Players will find a ruined portal near the external entrance of the cave and a mineshaft near the entrance on the inside.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Mushroom Island: -18, -200
Cave Entrance: -257, 68, -229
Ruined Portal: -319, 65, -255
Mineshaft: -325, -4, -245

Lush Skeleton Spawner

Seed: 4337868007922984517

The area around Spawn is an Old Growth Taiga biome with a beautiful lake. Walking to the lake reveals a Lush Cave at the edge. The water from the lake spills into it, giving you an easy way to enter and exit the cavern. Entering the cavern reveals a Skeleton Spawner out in the open right at the beginning! You can use the bones from this spawner to tame the wolves from the Taiga.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cave Entrance: 20, 60, 5
Skeleton Spawner: 7, 8, -32

Village over Lake Cavern

Seed: -5161171804879353020

This Plains Village has made their home on top of a giant watery cavern. To make the most of it, you'll need either a Turtle Helmet or a helmet enchanted with Respiration and Aqua Affinity. Getting one of the two provides unlimited access to all of the cave's resources. As a bonus, you won't have to worry about taking damage from lava while in the cave.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Village over Lake Cavern: -243, 63, -371

Deep Drip

Seed: -3615395503769126445

Whether you like dripstone for its appearance or lava duplication abilities, you'll be able to gather tons of it in this cave. The entrance to the cave is large with multiple areas to explore. Each of these areas will contain plenty of dripstone, plus mobs to fight and ores to mine. After gathering some iron, you can use the water from the natural water elevators to create your own throughout the cave.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cavern Entrance: -64, 67, -50
Amethyst Geode: -109, 22, 6

Branching Paths

Seed: -1114450996663617047

A few steps away from Spawn is a large ravine with two paths. The path on the left drops down to deepslate quickly and has lots of lava. It's dangerous, but there is a high chance of profit. The right pathway contains a small segment of lush cave, giving you access to moss and glow berries. I recommend stopping there first so you can plant glow berries all over the cave for both food and lighting.

Key Locations and Coordinates
Cave Entrance: 1, 14
Lush Cave: -37, 1, 22
Lava Falls: 24, 21, 29

For more Minecraft seeds and starting points, check out Best Minecraft Ancient City Seeds for Bedrock and Java on Pro Game Guides. For base design ideas, read about the Best Minecraft Cottage Designs on our sister site, Gamepur.

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