Over 11,000 NPGS samples were included in the initial shipments of seeds from all over the world (pictured above). The historic opening of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was celebrated 26 February 2008. The worldwide effort to preserve seeds is consistent with the philosophy that genetic resources are global assets. In the northernmost town on Earth, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault protects around 865000 seed samples from almost. Participation in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault endeavor gave the United States a visible presence in the worldwide effort to safeguard the genetic diversity that underpins our food supply. Seriously I couldn’t think of a vegetable that it was missing. The seed vault does not store seedlings that have not grown into saplings. It functions much like a bank, being able to store all common types of seeds and saplings used in Farming, but not seeds or sapling given through quests. It has everything you could ever need in your survival garden. The seed vault is a storage system found in the Farming Guild, directly west of the bank chest.

Everything from tomatoes to lettuce to beans, radishes, squash, corn, and on and on and on. Svalbard Global Seed Vault, secure facility built into the side of a mountain on Spitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard islands (a Norwegian archipelago.

through NPGS's field sites and base collection at NCGRP. This bucket is an heirloom seed vault containing 38 different varieties of seeds. Seed of crops important for food and agriculture will be safely stored for hundreds to thousands of years, protected from global or regional catastrophes.ĭuplicate storage to ensure backed up plant collections is accomplished within the U.S. The vault consists of three large concrete chambers that collectively have the capacity to hold 3.5 million seed samples. Constructing the vault required drilling a 390 feet tunnel into permafrost on the side of a mountain on Spitsbergen Island. This vault is located about half way between the North Pole and the coast of Norway, near the town of Longyearbyen (population 1900), in the remote arctic island archipelago of Svalbard. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault represents a global effort to safeguard plant genetic resources for future generations.

Seed vault