Minecraft randomly generates its worlds. In the background, the almost limitless game world is created based on intricate algorithms. A little known fact is that the basic code in the world is based on something called the seed, which is just a few characters long.
By default, the game grabs the current system time as the basic input for the starting values of a world and runs with that. However those seeds can be influenced, they can be copied and pasted into Minecraft’s underlying code, and
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