Snowy Beach

minecraft:cold_beach

Explore Snowy Beach for its sand surface / below surface. Follow the material links to plan a building palette, or check the mob conditions before making a resource trip.

Surfacesand
Belowsand
Basestone
Surface material guide

Find the exact biome

/locate biome minecraft:cold_beach

Requires cheats. Searches the current dimension; legacy definitions may not generate in your world.

Materials to plan around

Plan around these terrain materials. Check each block's acquisition details before expecting a particular mining drop.

Mobs to investigate here

These definitions satisfy a complete biome filter. Follow a mob to check its drops, required light, blocks, height and runtime conditions. A matching biome alone does not guarantee a spawn.

  • Bat

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Creeper

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Enderman

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Phantom

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Skeleton

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Slime

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Spider

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Witch

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Zombie

    Check drops and spawn requirements

Compare another destination

Beach

Same main terrain material; sand is its surface / below surface material.

Go a little deeper

Put it to use

Minecraft Bedrock Biome IDs and What They're Called Now

Bedrock commands still use cold_taiga for Snowy Taiga and mesa for Badlands. Match legacy biome IDs to the names shown in the game.

Technical biome reference

Tags

beachcoldmonsteroverworldspawns_cold_variant_farm_animalsspawns_cold_variant_frogsspawns_snow_foxesspawns_white_rabbits

Climate

Temp
0.05
Downfall
0.3
Snow0.125 – 0.25

Surface Materials

The surface is composed of sand, with sand below, built on a foundation of stone. Water bodies use water. The sea floor uses gravel at a configured depth of 7.

Top
sand
Mid
sand
Foundation
stone
Sea
water
Sea floor
gravel
Floor depth
7

Noise Type

beach

Generation

Cold Beach uses "beach" terrain noise.