OKAY. So I typed in the seed “Rarity the Unicorn,” and despite not generating a world made of diamonds, gold, lapis, and pink sheep, I managed to find a cool place to build my first settlement. What you see here is a ravine I found with an abandoned mineshaft inside it, which I plundered for some raw materials. (And I found a chest with bread and iron in it!) The area around it is very mountainous, but there’s a swamp nearby as well. Still hoping to find a taiga sometime.
I crossed a desert on my way to finding this place, and I had hoped to find a village and score some wheat, but to no avail. All the villages I’ve found in other games have been in deserts, weirdly. Is that just my weird luck?