I purchased this game more than 13 years ago, but for the first time I feel the need to open up a ticket here today.
The thing I always loved most about Minecraft was the Robinson Crusoe experience. Spawning on an isolated tiny island in the middle of the ocean with only little resources and fighting to survive.
Since the last version it is impossible to spawn on an island like e.g. the one I attached here (seed -5624510716287680941). I have a list of dozens of tiny survival island seeds, none of them spawn me on an island anymore.
Additional seeds to showcase that the spawn changed from island to mainland:
-4324510696522254938
-5524510724836363270
-5624510712870080527
-5624510714319906296
-5624510714515750674
-5624510717930727247
-5624510717950882939
I came here in hopes of either reverting the spawn changes or at least allow these tiny survival island spawns again, because it takes away a huge part of the fun of this game and there is a big community of people that want to specifally spawn on these seeds.
Idea to solve this:
Have a toggle to allow this type of spawns
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During 1.18 the entirety of world generation was overhauled, and no seed was left unaffected. Terrain generation no longer depends on biome, but the other way around. Terrain generation generates values used for biome placement. This means that not a single seed has the same/similar shape between 1.17 and 1.18, and that's not a bug.
If you read their 1.21.50 Changelog, I saw they patched that to "always set world spawn to a preferred biome rather than a bad one" to fix sometimes spawning in water