Minecraft Biomes

Bright woodland of birch only, with the same gentle terrain as regular forest.

Pink cherry-blossom trees in mountain valleys and foothills — added in 1.20 and still one of the most-hunted biomes.

• Cherry blossom

Dark oak canopy dense enough for mobs to spawn beneath it in daylight; giant mushrooms grow here and woodland mansions generate in it.

• Woodland mansions
• Giant mushrooms

A forest variant with more flower types than any other biome — the place for dyes and bee farms.

• Flowers & dyes
• Bees

Oak and birch woodland — one of the most common biomes and a reliable early source of wood.

Flower-covered mountain grassland, sometimes with a lone tree that always holds a bee nest; villages occasionally generate here.

• Bees
• Villages

A rarer birch forest whose trees grow several blocks taller than normal birches.

A gray, silent dark-forest variant of pale oak and pale hanging moss, watched over by the creaking — added in 1.21.4.

• The creaking

Flat, open grassland where villages and horses are common — and one of the best biomes to find bee nests. The classic place to start a world.

• Villages
• Horses
• Bees

Plains carpeted with sunflowers — the only biome where they generate.

• Sunflowers

Rivers through snowy biomes freeze over — water still flows under the ice.

Snow-laden spruce on the mountainside — watch for powder snow disguised as ordinary snow.

• Powder snow

A rare snowy-plains variant of towering packed-ice spires.

Giant pines on a podzol floor with mossy boulders — one of the two mega-tree taigas.

Like the pine taiga, but its giant spruces keep full crowns of leaves.

Snow-dusted sand where cold oceans meet snowy land.

Snow-covered flats where strays roam at night; igloos and snowy villages generate here.

• Villages
• Igloos

Steep snowfields between the treeline and the peaks; goats spawn here and igloos can generate.

• Goats
• Igloos

Spruce forest under snow, home to white-coated arctic foxes.

• Foxes

Spruce forest with ferns and sweet berry bushes; wolves and foxes spawn, and taiga villages generate here.

• Wolves
• Foxes
• Berries
• Villages

Smoother summits glazed with packed ice and glacier-like ice formations.

The sharpest, highest mountain summits — bare stone and snow where goats leap between ledges.

• Goats

Peaks that form in warm regions — no snow, just stone streaked with calcite.

Windswept hills with scattered spruce and oak on the slopes.

A windswept-hills variant whose peaks are capped in gravel instead of stone.

Rugged stone mountains (formerly Extreme Hills) — llamas spawn here, and it's one of the few biomes where emerald ore generates.

• Llamas
• Emerald ore

Terracotta canyons where gold ore generates at every height and mineshafts break the surface.

• Gold ore
• Exposed mineshafts

Bamboo thickets on podzol where pandas spawn; jungle temples can generate here too.

• Pandas
• Jungle temples

Sand, cactus and husks; desert villages and desert temples make it one of the best loot biomes to spawn near.

• Villages
• Desert temples

Badlands carved into thin terracotta hoodoo spires.

Dense canopy with cocoa pods and melons; parrots and ocelots live here, and jungle temples hide under the trees.

• Parrots
• Jungle temples

Dry acacia grassland that never rains; savanna villages generate here and horses graze alongside cows.

• Villages
• Horses

The savanna's elevated tableland, where llamas spawn.

• Llamas

The jungle's thinner edge — far easier to cross, but jungle temples don't generate in it.

The wildest terrain in the game — savanna shattered into cliffs, overhangs and floating islands.

Badlands whose plateau tops carry coarse dirt and small oak groves.

Mud flats tangled with mangrove roots, home to frogs — added in 1.19.

• Frogs

Winding waterways that carve borders between biomes; salmon swim here and clay lines the bed.

Shallow murky water, lily pads and vine-draped oaks; witch huts generate here and slimes spawn on full-moon nights.

• Witch huts
• Slimes

Sandy coastline where turtles lay eggs — and where buried treasure is dug up.

• Turtles
• Buried treasure

Gravel-floored ocean where salmon swim alongside cod.

The deep variant of the cold ocean — monuments generate here too.

• Ocean monuments

Icebergs above, monument-depth water below — the coldest deep ocean.

• Ocean monuments
• Polar bears

The deep variant of the lukewarm ocean — deep enough for monuments.

• Ocean monuments

Roughly twice as deep as regular ocean — the depth where ocean monuments generate.

• Ocean monuments

Ice sheets and icebergs where polar bears roam the floes.

• Polar bears

Sandy-floored ocean where kelp, cod, pufferfish and tropical fish mix.

The rarest standard biome: remote mycelium islands where mooshrooms graze and no hostile mobs spawn naturally.

• Mooshrooms

Open temperate sea with squid, cod and drowned above a gravel floor.

Stone and gravel coastline that forms where mountains drop straight into the sea.

Tropical shallows with coral reefs, sea pickles, tropical fish and pufferfish.

• Coral reefs

The bottom of the world: sculk growths, shriekers that summon the warden, and ancient cities — the biome finder searches it at cave depth automatically.

• Ancient cities

Caverns of stalactites and stalagmites with extra copper ore — the biome behind every pointed-dripstone farm.

• Copper ore

Moss, glow berries and axolotl pools underground; an azalea tree on the surface marks a lush cave below.

• Axolotls
• Berries

Jagged basalt columns over lava deltas, thick with magma cubes; bastions don't generate here.

A red fungal forest of crimson stems — piglins patrol it and hoglins are hunted in it.

• Piglins

The classic netherrack expanse — zombified piglins, ghasts and exposed lava seas.

• Piglins
• Ghasts

An ashen valley of soul sand and soul fire where ghasts and skeletons roam among giant fossils.

• Ghasts

The teal fungal forest where endermen gather — the calmest place in the Nether and the classic ender-pearl farm spot.

• Endermen

The bare outer edges of the islands — no chorus trees, no cities.

The tops of the outer islands, where chorus trees grow and end cities generate.

• End cities

The gentle slopes of each outer island between its highland center and its barren rim.

The scattered stepping-stone islands filling the void gaps between the larger outer islands.

The central end-stone island where the ender dragon circles its obsidian pillars.

• Ender dragon