

You know roughly how many blocks away they are, and, based on how many others there are, what angle to take. This means that once you know the location of one stronghold, you can calculate approximately where the others in the ring are. In the next ring, 4352–5888 blocks away, there are six strongholds spaced 60° apart. If you draw an imaginary ring around spawn, starting 1280 blocks away and ending 2816 blocks away, there will be three strongholds evenly spaced around the ring, at varying distances but 120° apart. Strongholds are generated equally spaced around 1536-block-wide concentric rings certain distances away from spawn (coordinates 0,0). The math From the official Minecraft wiki. You can get pretty technical with it.īut what if you don’t have Eyes of Ender? Well, as long as you know the location of one stronghold, you can use math to figure out where other ones are. The in-game method involves throwing Eyes of Ender and following where they float. However, public server seeds are generally kept secret to prevent people from doing stuff like that. If you know the Minecraft world’s seed, you can plug it into a tool that will calculate stronghold locations for you. There are a few different ways to find strongholds. I’d much rather find another stronghold, preferably one already near a settlement or road, and fix it up the way I like, with a nice safe End portal room, a well-signposted route in the Nether, etc. So it really grinds my gears when I need to use the End XP farm and find out that the End portal room is in some dark half-excavated cave in the middle of a trackless wilderness not connected to any roads or railways. And screw getting lost-I want to use safe, convenient public transportation networks as much as possible. Despite being tricked out in head-to-toe netherite armour with infinite arrows and a top-tier sword, I am absolutely terrified of monsters, and my entire play style is oriented around avoiding combat and danger as much as possible. But getting to an End portal can be annoying, especially if, like me, you are an extremely lazy coward. It’s also the only place to get valuable items like shulkers and elytra. Here, players like to build high-powered XP farms, one of the quickest ways to accumulate levels for mending gear or enchanting.


These are rare underground structures that contain End portals, the only way to access the alien dimension called the End. Note: If you just want to know what numbers to plug in where, skip to here.
