Today's seeds are all about pairings. Once again, it turns out at the end of the day that many of these are food related because I get hungry while playing XBOX. I don't know why that happens, but there's something about all those chickens and mooshroom cows wondering around that gets my microwave going.
Today, I have a series of seed names that were based on the ballet and a few that were based on geography. I plan to have more this week, so stay tuned.
For the love of James Lipton, it's June 1st. Where has this year gone? It's already half over! This is simply awful. I had so many plans. So many dreams. Time, like water through a ravine pours --
-- wait a minute. Now that I think about it, July 2nd is the midpoint of the year. My bad. Alright, nobody panic. We've still got lots and lots of time before we have more lots and lots of time.
Here's another motley assortment of mundane words and phrases that produce extraordinary results if you secretly know where to use them.
Oh, an I found a seed so heinous that I had to create a new classification called "nightmare" to describe it.
Hey all. Not a whole lot of selection and I'm sure some of you have noticed that "pestleandmortar" had and abysmal score and yet somehow made the list. Well, that's because I found a "black cave" that I simply could not ignore. So, just for the sake of the photo, he made the list.
Today's theme: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Two greats of the early cinema, they did a bunch of movies together. I picked my four favorites and tested them out -- with great results.
So, here's a quick video tour of the awesome cave I found on At85. Hope you enjoy!
Hey, all. I was a bit hungry when I started today, so the theme of these seeds is "food glorious food". chickenmarsala had this one island that was really cool so I included it. The other three were all-star finds. The three holes in steakdiane brought it awfully close to legendary status.
In case you haven't been on in a while, there was an update two days ago. Nothing big, just some fixes. Also, they just launched free skins to celebrate the one-year "Birthday" of XBOX Minecraft. So, just in case you want to change the way you look in Minecraft I figured I'd mention it.
Today was a great day for villages. Similar scores, but for vastly different reasons. None of these seeds were standouts, but that could be because of the mega seed (iodicacid) I spent my weekend playing. "privateiii" is a great little island seed and each of the others have one or two really cool things I thought you might like to see that helped them make the list.
Each of the seeds on today's list were hit songs from the 1980s.
The above image just proves that Minecraft is getting weirder and weirder. So, my first all-star suicide level (morphshock) came out of the box today. Still looking for my first legendary seed. Hopefully, this weekend I'll be able to go on a tear and maybe do like thirty seed names to find the golden snitch of Minecraft seeds.
The CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GUA250 Gaming Computer is sleek, red, comes with Windows 7 (boo to Windows 8), has an NVIDIA GT-610 graphics card, and a 3.66GHz processor. This box can play all current games -- no mater how graphically intensive. If you're in the market for a new gaming system and you don't feel like building one yourself, you should seriously consider this one.
Here's a little video I put together for the seed "c27j83". Hope you enjoy!
Here's the list of the newest seed names. Enjoy.
I just wanted to welcome all of you who are visiting from my Facebook page. It's really cool that all of you joined up this week.
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So, another successful batch. I've got four this time. The first one (2jj8h) is a very exciting, beautiful expert level that I highly recommend. For those of you who like trees, it turns out "forest4thetrees" is a great one for whatever you do with dark forests.
Today's seeds are sponsored by the House of Marley Freedom Exodus Headphones.
Here are the seeds for today. I found two solid seeds and another one (matchmaker) that was worth mentioning because it has a really nice The End level and I found this killer huge open cavern.
Frankly, I waged a battle in my head over whether or not to call 4b2a1 "legendary" -- but decided against it at the last minute. I will however say that it's one of the best I've seen and there are plenty of mountains and waterfalls and cool nooks to experiment and build your fortresses in. Highly, highly recommended.
So, I've decided to (occasionally) take screenshots of The End from way up in the air so you can see the layout, since I've been able to determine that it's slightly different every time. More importantly, I'm going to try to find the Ender Portal and it's stronghold in each seed (every seed has one) using the eye orbs.
Now, it turns out that eye orb divining is not an exact science. If I get frustrated or it starts going longer than half an hour of searching, I'm just going to ballpark the coordinates and let you finish the search on your own.
Today's seeds are sponsored by NBA 2K13 for the Playstation 3. If you're an NBA sports nut like I am, you probably already own this game. But if you're new to the franchise or just looking to expand your sports horizons, hit play on the video above and, if you like what you see, click on the link below to head on over to OfficeMax and snatch it up.
| Total Score | |||||
| 26.5 / 30.0 ( 88.3% ) Awesome! | |||||
| RIM Scores* | |||||
| REAL | 7.8 | INT | 8.7 | MAG | 10 |
*Each rating has a maximum value of 10.0
Seed Number: 5099 3716
Version: XBL 1.4 (TU9) (no PC equiv)
The mountains on this level are very, very cool. At one point, I threw my hands in the air and was like -- there's too many waterfalls. I give up. Then I saw another one and I was like, "MINE!" This level has probably one of everything. I found a lagoon, a mushroom island, lava pit, pumpkins, at least a half-dozen lava falls, and who knows how many waterfalls. It's crazy and gorgeous all at once.
The southeast corner has these great keys out in the water.
My first can't miss of TU9. So exciting! What can it be? It's a pit full of waterfalls. That's it. Really cool hole in the ground -- probably something you're not going to see again for a while. Coords are 106.65.-293 -- just don't go diving into it without a way to get back out.
Wide open. It contains a fantastic nether fortress -- full of bridges. There were some great lava falls and the whole "horizon" was just swimming with bad guys. If you decide to go, seriously consider building your portal at 79.100.-80, as that dropped me in a prime spot.
| Total Score | |||||
| 14.4 / 30.0 ( 48.0% ) | |||||
| RIM Scores* | |||||
| REAL | 5.5 | INT | 3.2 | MAG | 5.7 |
*Each rating has a maximum value of 10.0
Seed Number: 187 761 9103
Version: XBL 1.4 (TU9) (no PC equiv)
This is an okay seed. Really, this one was all about two things: first, a massive cavern that I found that was, frankly, beautiful (see photos) and The End was actually pretty well laid out and easy to get over to the dragon. So I figured I'd throw it in here. The southwest corner of this map is all super swamp; avoid unless you need clay or something.
Well, here we go. New update, new seeds. I still am finding bugs -- including waterfalls that pour into lava without creating obsidian and a really, really annoying torch situation where they fail to illuminate the walls correctly -- or sometimes at all.
Most annoying is the low-RAM situation -- which is still lagging heavily if I attempt to use dynamite or if I aggro more than ten creeps. Clearly the programmers have done everything they have been asked to do, hardware limitations be damned. All I can do is hope that XBOX 720 comes out soon.
I am looking forward to The End. I'm hoping it also changes with each seed. I'll test that theory out later in the week and then post photos.
Anyway, here are today's seeds!
What's crackin' people. I have finally fully recovered from the effects of Hurricane Sandy and now I am back up and running and I have a half dozen seeds for you and, frankly, one entry that isn't a seed so much as it is a broken husk of a map -- a shameful survival nightmare set against the backdrop of a tiny island in the middle of a lake in the middle of nowhere.
In addition to these other seeds, I also have a bonus seed that I didn't feel like writing up, but was a very nice beginner level. The seed "intemerata" (no quotes) was one of the best mega-forests I've found. Outside of the trees/wood/forests you won't find much of anything else, but it's a nice place to start for noobs. Here is the map:
So, just in time before the hurricane destroys my home, job, and blog, I've posted the remainder of the good French seeds I found and a request from my cousin (2002) that turned out to be one of the best I've seen so far.
Given the unpredictable nature of hurricanes, there may be some delay in my next seeds coming out. I apologize in advance.
So, yesterday was more about getting clear in my head which aspects of the seeds I was going to rate and how to reformat the posts to accommodate the new 1.8.2 update. Now that I think I've got it clear, today I focused on really seeking out and evaluating top quality seeds. Of the eighteen I tried, here are six 1.8.2 seeds that I think you're going to enjoy:
Just in case you missed the post, you can now get seeds sent straight to your Facebook wall by typing "Xbox Minecraft Seed" into the Facebook search bar and joining our page. Feel free to leave comments or questions below, you can contact me via e-mail at angelikmayhem [at] yahoo.com, or you can befriend me on XBL -- user name ANGELIKMAYHEM (all caps).
So, a brand new update brings a change to the rules. I still refuse to try names like "boobies" and I still refuse to try any of the Top 200 "1.8.2" seeds that PC users crow about because there's already plenty written about them. This blog is for unique seed names only.
Each seed will be evaluated using the following seventeen categories, each on a scale of one to ten, for a total score of between 0 and 170. Some are judged on quality, others on quantity, some on how much of the map they cover, and still others on their general impressiveness. They are as follows:
There are certain score milestones that earn awards. You can search for seeds that have scored significantly in any category by using the following phrases in the search box:
When possible, I generate a full map by walking the entire board. Sometimes if I see a board is obviously awful, I'll quit early and post without a map. I take photos using my screen capture device. I also post videos from time to time. I wrap it all up in a nice neat bow and post them on the blog.
I do my best to find as many if not all of the amazing things to see as I can. I do make serious attempts to get underground, however as you can imagine this is quite time consuming and difficult. There have been seeds in the past labeled worthless that turned out to have amazing things like dungeons and diamonds. There's no such thing as a seed without a dungeon or a diamond, so when I don't report finding one, that just means these things are in not-so-blindingly-obvious spots. It could also mean I was getting a hand cramp and figured, well, there's a bunch of stuff here and they'll find the lapis lazuli when they come for the diamonds.
Seed names are sensitive, so I always pick seed names that are lowercase and contain no spaces unless otherwise indicated. And I do make a fuss when it happens. All seeds being tested are from the current build of Minecraft for the X-Box. These rules will be reposted (and possibly changed) with each version change. The reason for this is that seeds are specific to each version, so when the version changes all of the seed names I've tested become worthless and we start again. The current build is:
Xbox Minecraft version 1.8.2
(equivalent to PC version 1.2)
I refer to the seed's "rating" as the type of player I think should be playing it:
So, having done this for over four months now, I have developed a certain lingo that might be confusing to new players. So here are some common terms I use and their meanings.
So that's it. Hope you enjoy the blog and feel free to friend me on Xbox Live (ANGELIKMAYHEM -- in all caps). You can also e-mail me at angelikmayhem [at] yahoo.com if you want to chat.
