John has been writing about videogames for almost a decade, and playing them for almost three. His greatest passion is for Grand Strategy and immersive RPGs, but he's dabbled in pretty much every ...

Speedrunners take their craft seriously. In Minecraft, however, worlds are randomly generated. This means there’s no way to compare speedruns in two different worlds. Thankfully, seeds solve that ...

The world you spawn in changes everything in Minecraft. A bad seed means hours of wandering before you find decent resources. A great seed drops you next to a village, a ruined portal, and a biome ...