Pale Garden Start with an Ancient City to the East — Java 26.3

You spawn standing in a Pale Garden, with an Ancient City about 900 blocks east.

Top-down 2D biome map centred on spawn in a Pale Garden, with a spawn marker and markers for the Ancient City to the east and the stronghold.
Java 26.3 Edition Java Spawn 8, 8 Biome Pale Garden Structures 1
Pale GardenAncient CityBirch ForestDark ForestForestMeadowOld Growth Birch ForestPlainsTaigaStrongholdRiver
Open in the seed map →
Seed -1355868249678872030

Copy it into Minecraft 26.3 (Java).

You start this Java 26.3 world standing in a Pale Garden, one of the rarer biomes to land in at spawn, at about 120 blocks up. A Dark Forest begins roughly 90 blocks away, and rivers and old growth birch sit about 130 blocks out. The Ancient City lies about 900 blocks east, at (896, 176), and the stronghold is about 1500 blocks from spawn, so the long walk is worth planning.

Structures near spawn
Ancient City → E 896, 176 904
Biome mix near spawn
Forest 21%
Dark Forest 14%
Plains 13%
Old Growth Birch Forest 11%
Taiga 10%
River 7%
Birch Forest 7%