[MC-7908] Spawning underwater / In the middle of an (lava) ocean

Afaik, the game always tries to find dry land to spawn the player on (or at least very near). However, spawning in the middle large body of water is such a rare event that I'd leave it as an interesting challenge. Just roll a new world if not like..

In that particular seed, the game has already generated hundreds of random chunks in search of a suitable spot to spawn on, but apparently finally gives up.

(EDIT: source code tells the game does 1000 random movements from 0,0 and checks the spot for good spawn place; if all those spots are bad, the last try will be kept, no matter where it is.)

And no, its not duplicate of MC-2416 (that is about spawning inside features on dry land, this is about not finding that dry land in the first place).

Anon Ymus 2013-01-19T15:50:16Z

They're both about spawning in "illegal" positions, even if it is somewhat of a stretch.

Sebastian Schmidt 2013-01-19T15:54:22Z

Well, this is not MC-2416. This can be fixed by letting the player chose if he wants to continue searching for spawnpoints or if he wants to keep the "bad" spawn.

MC-2416 can be fixed by adjusting the height of the spawn point.

17 more comments

bugi74 2013-01-19T15:54:33Z

The MC-2416 would have a different fix than this. That other bug only needs to detect it has spawned inside non-empty (and non-water) block, and seek up for air, move the spawn point up (perhaps on top of a jungle tree 😛).

In this issue, moving up won't solve anything, you'd still just drop into water and dive down. You won't die, though, as long as one is at the keyboard when spawning and keeps swimming.

bugi74 2013-01-19T15:56:49Z

Sebastian's idea gave me another twist to it:

Just let the game keep looking for good spawn point as long as it takes by default, but give the player a button to force stop it ("Okay, okay, I'll swim!")

Anton Sanarov 2013-03-16T17:54:41Z

Version 1.5.
Seed "Yugongyishan"
Does also spawn underwater.

Jake 2013-09-07T12:49:40Z

I'm experiencing the samebug in Snapshot 13w36b.

Kajanor 2013-09-14T18:14:33Z

had the same
Seed: -7754467900641174952
13w37b

John Distler 2013-10-13T20:49:32Z

In 13w41b, the seed, "13" has this problem.

John Distler 2013-10-13T20:50:21Z

Confirmed in 13w41b.

Peter Hamstra 2014-01-06T03:45:40Z

1.7.4
Spawned in water when world was created.

Ezekiel 2014-02-26T22:39:27Z

Is this still a concern in the latest Minecraft version 14w08a? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

bugi74 2014-03-08T19:13:25Z

Not sure if the issue description and other older seeds are still valid tests, so I add that on one particular recreation of this seed -4542366974610774625 and version 14w10c, I spawned into a lake (the small ponds of water littering all over the places), at a spot deep enough to drown in. However, multiple other cases with that same seed has resulted in spawning at land, though near that pond.

kumasasa 2014-03-08T19:18:59Z

In MC-50371 is another seed with current versions.

a 2014-03-13T17:26:17Z

14w11b seed -502486041527794879 yields a spawn box that includes water deep enough to drown. I just did 5 world gens using this seed, and only the first time did I end up in the water. Settings were all default other than switching between creative/survival/hardcore.

seed -4313310572756625660 spawned me in the water too.

a 2014-08-09T01:22:24Z

seed -4313310572756625660 spawned deep underwater on 2nd try in 14w32d.
seed -5001480595212598747 works as well.

Also in 14w33a.

Anonymous 2014-08-28T13:32:46Z

Added an issue for the same reason so please author of article plus one version too:1.8 PRE3

Michael David Fontaine 2014-09-16T00:22:18Z

You can guarentee you will suffocate if you raise the sea level too high. It will always spawn you at the bottom of the water.

a 2014-09-16T00:59:48Z

That's not the point though. This is here so that unsuspecting default-mode users don't get screwed.

a 2015-02-16T16:51:55Z

using seed -4313310572756625660 spawned underwater in 1.8.2-pre7

a 2015-07-29T20:43:17Z

As above, affects 15w31a

Quinn Roundy 2015-12-11T05:44:11Z

Can confirm this occurs in 15w50a snapshot. Although, I am using 'Good Luck' preset and my spawn area is a small island surrounded by a lava ocean and other small islands. Nevertherless, Several times when I die (as I have not found sheep to set my spawn) I will spawn in the lava itself. Occurs in my case about 2/5 times.

Windows 10 (PC version of the game), Java 1.8

KingSupernova 2016-03-18T03:41:13Z

Relates to MC-67939. A simple partial fix to both bugs would be to make a rule that if land can't be found to spawn the player on, it allows them to spawn on top of water blocks. That way they at least wouldn't drown.

Also, could the description please be updated to include a current seed?

galaxy_2alex 2016-09-26T22:29:21Z

Some of the seeds provided no longer spawn you underwater, but "13" definitely still does.

Can Arslan 2018-02-17T12:11:04Z

Spawning in lava still possible with 1.12.1
Seed: 5581933512736969932