Snowy Plains

minecraft:ice_plains

Explore Snowy Plains 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:ice_plains

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

  • Polar Bear

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Slime

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Stray

    Check drops and spawn requirements

  • Zombie Horse

    Check drops and spawn requirements

Compare another destination

Cherry Grove

Same main terrain material; grass block is its surface material.

Deep Dark

Same main terrain material; grass block is its surface material.

Flower Forest

Same main terrain material; 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.

Version history

Minecraft Bedrock v1.26.0.2: Breeding Rewrite, Biome Types

Major jump 1.21 to 1.26. Breeding rewrite, offspring component, baby_undead family, biome village types, spear audio, and 50+ entity updates.

Technical biome reference

Tags

frozeniceice_plainsoverworldspawns_cold_variant_farm_animalsspawns_cold_variant_frogsspawns_snow_foxesspawns_white_rabbits

Climate

Temp
0
Downfall
0.5
Snow0.25 – 1

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

lowlands

Generation

Ice Plains uses "lowlands" terrain noise. It can transform into ice mountains at higher elevations. It may mutate into ice plains spikes. It generates in frozen climate zones.

Hills Transformations

ice_mountains

Mutate Transformation

ice_plains_spikes

Generate for Climates

frozen