Biome
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| Biomes are the different environments that can be found in the worlds of Minecraft. Main Page includes some biomes from the base game, but most biomes and their mechanics have been revamped or added. |  |
Default Biomes
Forest
| A common biome which generates with oak trees and about a 20% chance of birch trees.
Occasionally generates pumpkins. Fully affected by the seasons. |
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Seasonal Forest
| Has about a 80% chance of generating cherry trees, instead of oak trees.
Often generates mixed in with regular forests. Fully affected by the seasons. |
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Rainforest
| Temperate biome that generates with a dense canopy of oak trees, some shrubs and a lot of ferns.
Sugarcane generated in the rainforest will be significantly taller than in other biomes. Will occasionally generate pumpkins. It will not snow in the rainforest. |
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Birch Forest
| Has a 100% chance of generating birch trees that are significantly taller than normal.
Fully affected by the seasons. |
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Boreal Forest
| A cold biome containing pine trees. |
Plains
| A flat biome with lots of grass and flowers.
Pumpkins can occasionally spawn here. Trees are rare, often generates tall grassy hills with a lot of relatively flat surfaces. Fully affected by the seasons. |
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Desert
| It's a normal desert from Beta 1.7.3, generates with cactus and dead bush.
It will not rain or snow in the desert. |
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Grasslands
| Barren landscapes that generate without trees, flowers or tall grass. |  |
Shrubland
| Often generates flat grassy hills with a few shrubs scattered in. |  |
Swampland
| Wet biome that often generates near large bodies of water.
Trees that are generated or grown inside the biome turn into moss trees. Swamplands also generate with mud and pumpkins, and are fully affected by the seasons, in addition the only biome that generates with algae. |
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Outback
| A red wasteland with scorched dirt, spinifex and occasional oak trees. A rare variant of scorched dirt called rich scorched dirt can also generate in patches.
Often generates near deserts and grassy outbacks. It will not rain or snow in the outback. |
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Grassy Outback
| A grassy outback variant that generates groves of eucalyptus trees.
Often generates near deserts and outbacks. It will not rain or snow in the grassy outback. |
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Meadow
Glacier
Special World Types
| World types can be selected when creating a world.
Or edited retroactively using a 3rd party NBT Editor. |
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Classic
| Terrain generation similar to Classic, but infinite.
This world type has "No Season" and only one biome. |
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Retro
| Terrain generation as close as possible to Minecraft Alpha 1.1.2_01.
This world type has "No Season" and only one biome, the world generation was ported from Minecraft Alpha, complete with neon green retro grass and retro leaves. |
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Hell
| This world ended long ago - survive it.
An inhospitable wasteland of nothing but dirt, darkness, and lava oceans. Rain has also been affected by this hellscape; it's now blood red and rains upward. |
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History
| History | ||
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| Minecraft Beta 1.7.6 | ||
| Prerelease 1 | ||
| Added outback. | ||
| Added meadow. | ||
| Added boreal forest. | ||
| Added hell. | ||
| Added retro. | ||
| Better than Adventure! 1.7.7.0 | ||
| Pre-1 | ||
| Added birch forest. | ||
| Added glacier. | ||
| Better than Adventure! 1.7.7.0 | ||
| Added mud to swamps. | ||