Minecraft Cherry Blossom Seed: 0 Records Name One, 14 Codes Could Hold One

What a cherry blossom seed actually is

Two facts about the biome set the whole page, and both come from the game's own release notes rather than from us.

It is new. The Cherry Grove biome was added in Minecraft 1.20, the Trails & Tales update, which shipped in March 2023. The official 1.20 notes list it as a new biome with cherry blossom trees, found in the mountains, in similar places as meadows, and describe the canopies as big and flat, like fluffy pink clouds. Bedrock got the same biome in the 1.20 line, in the 1.19.80 previews that led up to it.

The names get mixed up. The in-game biome is called Cherry Grove. Cherry Blossom is the name of the tree that grows in it. Searchers use both words for the same thing, which is why this page covers the pair, and why we counted them as a pair rather than as two separate topics.

It is a mountain biome, and that is the detail that decides this page. A Cherry Grove does not sit on a flat beach at sea level. It generates on slopes and foothills in the mountains, which means the trees that make it worth looking at stand on ground well above Y=64. Hold that thought, because it is exactly the number our records stop at.

The count: zero cherry, zero blossom, zero grove

Two sources, one result each, listed in full. There is no third place these words could be hiding.

The last two rows are why this page is not simply an absence. Our records are not blank on terrain in general — twelve of them say mountain and thirteen say trees. They are blank on this terrain, because cherry groves did not exist when almost all of them were written, and because the people who wrote the rest were hunting islands, not scenery.

The version window: which fourteen codes could actually hold one

Cherry Grove arrived in 1.20. That gives every record a cutoff, and the cutoff is sharper than it looks. Twenty-nine of our forty-nine records are archive cards posted between 1 March 2011 and 5 October 2019 — every one of them was written before the biome shipped. Those twenty-nine cannot hold a cherry grove on principle, not by omission.

The twenty table rows split into three groups once you apply the same cutoff.

Fifteen rows, fourteen distinct codes — the fifteenth is 2016000, which is listed twice because the same code is a different world on Java and on Bedrock. Those fourteen codes are the complete shortlist of seeds on this site that could hand you a Cherry Grove, and every one of them is listed in full further down with what we do know about it.

The height problem: our highest coordinate is Y=64

This is the part that decides the page. A Cherry Grove generates on mountains, and a mountain grove stands above sea level. Our coordinate table does not go there.

The whole table holds twelve distinct full three-number coordinates. Not twelve per page, not twelve recent — twelve in total, across all twenty rows, and every one of them comes from just three rows. Here they are, complete.

Nine different heights, one of them underground, and a ceiling of Y=64. Sea level in Minecraft is Y=63, so our highest recorded point is one block above the waterline. Every coordinate we publish is a beach-level or below-water landmark: a village on a flat plain, a temple on sand, a shipwreck, a stronghold under a well, a monument on the sea floor. There is no hillside in the table, no cliff path, no summit, and nothing that points up a mountain.

That is the honest blocker for cherry groves. Even the fourteen codes that could generate one do not come with a way to reach the canopy, because a coordinate that sits at Y=64 cannot be a coordinate inside a mountain grove. You would have to find it yourself, and then write down the height, which is precisely the field our records never filled in.

Two related gaps sit underneath this one. The archive cards carry an x and z for eight of twenty-nine and no height at all — card 3 says Coordinates (x=70, z=280) and stops there. And not one of the twenty-nine cards states a distance in blocks, so even the flat pair tells you where and not how far.

Six checks before you call a code a cherry blossom seed

Six checks, in the order we run them on a record before repeating anything off it. Each one is answerable from the record itself, in about a minute, without loading a world.

Check 3 is the one that fails on a field rather than on a world, and check 5 is the one that decides whether a code is usable at all. Check 6 is the one no record in the set can answer, and that is the honest limit of what we publish.

The two seeds worth loading first, in full

The other twelve codes, in one line each

The remaining candidates from the version window, each with the single fact that decides whether it is worth your time.

Four of the fourteen are rows our own tester turned down for server use, and they are listed here because a rejection is still a record. Rejected for distance, rejected for a missing dual monument, rejected for a crossroads that sits too far, rejected for a bastion too far. None of those rejections says anything about cherry trees, which is the point: the reason each row was tested had nothing to do with scenery.

First day when you are hunting a grove instead of surviving

Every record on this page is missing the biome field, so a grove run has to be planned around the twelve coordinates we do have rather than around the biome we do not. The order below is built from what the records actually say.

1. Decide what a cherry grove is worth to you before you load anything. The official 1.20 notes describe the canopies as big and flat, like fluffy pink clouds, and the biome as rare enough that the game’s own promotional material made a point of hunting it down. If that is the goal, you are going exploring, and the day-one priority is tools, not views.
2. On 2016000 in Java, take the village first. The village sits at -24, 64, 12, twenty-seven blocks from spawn, with twelve houses, two blacksmith forges, one church and two farms. A village gives you the tools to travel, and the blacksmith is the only place in our entire record set with a purpose-built forge.
3. Never go underground before you have a bed and a shield. The stronghold on 2016000 is at -21, 42, 18, eleven blocks beneath the village well, and the only diamond we have a coordinate for is at -32, 11, 25. Both are deep. Y=11 is the lowest height on this entire site.
4. On Bedrock, 2016000 is an ocean and you must accept that. The Bedrock row records spawn at 0, 62, 0 in open ocean, with a shipwreck at 0, 58, 120 that holds a treasure map. Take the map and sail. The Java village does not exist on this edition.
5. If you take 39720048960, use the tilde and then climb. The recorded command is /tp -576 ~ 80, and that island already carries ice peaks, dark forest, jungle, bamboo, stone shore and lush cave. It is the only record on this site with mountainous ground, and the tilde means you pick the height — go high, because a grove sits above sea level and our highest coordinate is Y=64.
6. Write the height down when you find it. Nine Y values across forty-nine records, and a ceiling of Y=64. If you stand in a grove and do not record its height, this page will read exactly the same in a year. The whole gap on this page is one missing field.
7. Do not treat a colour in a screenshot as a biome. A pink sheep is one sheep, on one card, in a jungle, posted in 2013. A grove is a named biome on a mountain, and it needs the name and the height to count.

Running a grove hunt with other people

Scenery runs split a group differently from survival runs, because the bottleneck is not resources but map knowledge. Seed 2016000 on Java gives everyone the same eleven-block walk to the same village at -24, 64, 12, and the same stronghold at -21, 42, 18 — so a group that splits up on day one splits up blind, while a group that agrees on a meeting point at the village can cover four times the ground. Seed 39720048960 is the opposite shape: it is one island with six biomes on it, so a group has to choose a direction rather than choose a destination.

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