Minecraft Stronghold Finder
Find the strongholds in your world, and with them the end portal. The map shows the strongholds around you and lists the nearest, so you can save your eyes of ender.
- Dimension
- Overworld
- How many
- 128 per world, in 8 rings (Java 1.9+)
- First ring
- 3 strongholds, about 1,300 to 2,800 blocks from 0,0
- Inside
- The end portal room
Source: Minecraft Wiki
Positions are for Java Edition. Bedrock Edition places structures differently; they will be added to the Bedrock map once they match the official Bedrock server.
How to use it
- 1
Enter your seed
Type or paste your world's seed in the Seed box and pick the version you play. In Java Edition, type /seed in chat to see it. If you upgraded an old world, pick the version its chunks were generated in: chunks that already exist keep what they had.
- 2
See the nearest
The Find tab lists the five nearest strongholds to the middle of the map, with coordinates. Drag the map somewhere else and press Find to search from there.
- 3
Go there
Click a marker or a result to copy its coordinates or a /tp command, then paste it in the game.
How strongholds are placed
Strongholds sit in rings around 0,0. The first ring has 3, spread evenly around the center; the next rings have 6, 10, 15, 21, 28 and 36, and the last 9. Each ring is about 3,000 blocks further out than the one before. Every stronghold is then moved to a suitable biome nearby, which is why the exact spot depends on the seed.
The marker is where the stronghold starts. The portal room is somewhere inside: go to the coordinates, dig down and follow the corridors.
Checked against the game
We compared the map with the official Minecraft Java server's /locate on 20 held-out seeds: 120 of 120 answers for this structure were the same chunk (Java 26.3 and 1.21.4). How we tested