Cold Taiga Hills

minecraft:cold_taiga_hills

Explore Cold Taiga Hills for its dirt below surface. Follow the material links to plan a building palette, or check the mob conditions before making a resource trip.

Surfacegrass block
Belowdirt
Basestone
Surface material guide

Find the exact biome

/locate biome minecraft:cold_taiga_hills

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

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  • Chicken

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  • Cow

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  • Creeper

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  • Enderman

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  • Fox

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  • Phantom

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  • Pig

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  • Rabbit

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  • Sheep

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  • Skeleton

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  • Slime

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  • Spider

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  • Witch

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  • Wolf

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  • Zombie

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Compare another destination

Birch Forest

Same forest family; grass block is its surface material.

Birch Forest Hills

Same forest family; grass block is its surface material.

Cold Taiga

Same forest family; grass block is its surface material.

Technical biome reference

Tags

animalcoldforesthillsmonsteroverworldtaigaspawns_cold_variant_farm_animalsspawns_cold_variant_frogsspawns_white_rabbits

Climate

Temp
-0.5
Downfall
0.4
Snow0.125 – 0.5

Surface Materials

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

Top
grass_block
Mid
dirt
Foundation
stone
Sea
water
Sea floor
gravel
Floor depth
7

Noise Type

mountains

Generation

Cold Taiga Hills uses "mountains" terrain noise.