Cold Taiga

minecraft:cold_taiga

Explore Cold Taiga 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

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

  • 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 Hills

Same forest family; grass block is its 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

animalcoldforestmonsteroverworldtaigahas_structure_trail_ruinsspawns_cold_variant_farm_animalshas_structure_abandoned_camp

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

taiga

Generation

Cold Taiga uses "taiga" terrain noise. It can transform into cold taiga hills at higher elevations. It may mutate into cold taiga mutated. It generates in frozen climate zones.

Hills Transformations

cold_taiga_hills

Mutate Transformation

cold_taiga_mutated

Generate for Climates

frozen