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  1. Minecraft: Java Edition
  2. MC-236650

Minecraft in 1.18 has 2^48 seeds instead of 2^64 seeds.

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      Minecraft loses 18,446,462,598,732,840,960 seeds, resulting a total of 281,474,976,710,656 seeds, for 1.18. Here are the seeds and screenshots of these happenings.

      Seed 1 - original

      Seed 281474976710657 - almost identical, though different tree locations and biome boundaries.

      Seed -7379792620528906220 - different biomes and expected shadow seed

      Expected result: It should have 2^64 seeds, edit: including shadow seeds.

      Observed result: It has 2^48 seeds.

       

        1. shadow-seed-expected-1-18.png
          shadow-seed-expected-1-18.png
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        2. seeds2.png
          seeds2.png
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        3. seeds.png
          seeds.png
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        4. seed-expected-shadow.png
          seed-expected-shadow.png
          3.82 MB
        5. seed-2power48plus1-1-18.png
          seed-2power48plus1-1-18.png
          3.06 MB
        6. seed-2-48.png
          seed-2-48.png
          3.79 MB
        7. seed-1-1-18.png
          seed-1-1-18.png
          3.44 MB
        8. seed-0.png
          seed-0.png
          4.04 MB

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            SwartyNine2691 Alec Parungao
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