Cannot find seeds for the life of me. Help?

[MagMoff]

As the title says, I can't find any variety of farmable crop. I've traveled pretty far. Doesn't help that I'm pretty new, so I don't even know what I'm looking for. Is there any specific direction I should be going, or do I just walk in a random direction and hope?

[Vexxvididu]

It's just RNG and a keen eye.  I also had terrible luck finding crops in my main survival world.  When I created an alternative world for creative mode experiments it was all over, lol.

[Professor Dragon]

@Vexxvididu said it well.

You are looking in particular for slight colour variations. Crops are usually a brighter green than grass.

So just keep running around in different directions. Especially large grassy areas (easy to see far), not forests (dangerous).
And while you are doing so, harvest a few berry bushes and bring them back to place near your base.
This will also let you scout for things which may become important later, such as oak trees, limestone, animals etc.

Professor Dragon.

Edited December 10, 2025 by Professor Dragon

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! Like others here already noted, it's a bit reliant on RNG. Areas with decent rainfall usually have them(provided the climate is warm enough, but that shouldn't be a problem here), but sometimes there can be good soil and rainfall but no wild crop spawns. Just keep looking around and if you're having no luck in one area, try another.

However, it's also worth noting that as long as you're playing with lore content enabled, you can purchase seeds from agriculture traders, or find seeds as cracked vessel/ruins loot. 

[Broccoli Clock]

If there is one rule in VS it's this, if you are looking for something, and you've spent perhaps hours and travelled 100s of blocks searching, what you seek will literally be in your back yard. Clay is normally the one that follows this rule, you need it early game and if you are new to the game you might not know where it spawns or what it looks like. You'll likely spend ages hunting it down, and now festooned with stacks of clay you make your way home, only to literally walk over a huge clay deposit 25 blocks from your base. It's always this way.

As a newbie, could I really recommend the handbook, not only is it a mine of useful information, and the antidote to those who have brought "the other block game" meta to this one, but it actually shows images of what the crops look like in their different stages. So, for example, carrots..

Just for reference, you won't get a guaranteed seed from any crop unless fully grown, although the % of getting one that isn't fully grown is still pretty high. I've gotten seeds from crops at stage 2/7, and none from those at 6/7. There is a similar % for getting the actual crop, although it's much lower and you tend to only get crops from plants almost fully grown. You always get crops from fully grown plants.

Edited December 10, 2025 by Broccoli Clock