diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQuery.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQuery.java
index 947014f43e0..ddc02d32e55 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQuery.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQuery.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public final class TermsSliceQuery extends SliceQuery {
     // Fixed seed for computing term hashCode
-    private static final int SEED = 7919;
+    public static final int SEED = 7919;
 
     public TermsSliceQuery(String field, int id, int max) {
         super(field, id, max);
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQueryTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQueryTests.java
index e00dabc6363..3fa4ce41052 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQueryTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/slice/TermsSliceQueryTests.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.QueryUtils;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.StringHelper;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.UUIDs;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;
 
@@ -72,7 +73,8 @@ public class TermsSliceQueryTests extends ESTestCase {
             Document doc = new Document();
             String uuid = UUIDs.base64UUID();
             BytesRef br = new BytesRef(uuid);
-            int id = Math.floorMod(br.hashCode(), max);
+            int hashCode = StringHelper.murmurhash3_x86_32(br, TermsSliceQuery.SEED);
+            int id = Math.floorMod(hashCode, max);
             sliceCounters[id] ++;
             doc.add(new StringField("uuid", uuid, Field.Store.YES));
             w.addDocument(doc);