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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.
The game calls that snow-covered pine forest a Snowy Taiga, but /locate biome still expects cold_taiga. The name on screen changed years ago. The command ID did not.
Many Bedrock identifiers retain older biome names. Use the biome atlas to search common names and read the exact ID alongside them. The examples below help connect those names; check your target version before writing a command or add-on.
The renames worth knowing
| Bedrock ID | What the game calls it |
|---|---|
ice_plains | Snowy Plains |
ice_plains_spikes | Ice Spikes |
cold_taiga | Snowy Taiga |
cold_beach | Snowy Beach |
extreme_hills | Windswept Hills |
extreme_hills_mutated | Windswept Gravelly Hills |
extreme_hills_plus_trees | Windswept Forest |
stone_beach | Stony Shore |
mesa | Badlands |
mesa_bryce | Eroded Badlands |
mesa_plateau_stone | Wooded Badlands |
mega_taiga | Old Growth Pine Taiga |
redwood_taiga_mutated | Old Growth Spruce Taiga |
birch_forest_mutated | Old Growth Birch Forest |
roofed_forest | Dark Forest |
swampland | Swamp |
jungle_edge | Sparse Jungle |
savanna_mutated | Windswept Savanna |
mushroom_island | Mushroom Fields |
hell | Nether Wastes |
hell is the oldest survivor on that list. The Nether has had a real name since 2011 and the biome ID never caught up.
Older IDs may not appear in new worlds
Suffixes such as _mutated and _hills distinguish older biome variants. A newly created world may not generate them, while a world upgraded from an older version can retain older terrain.
For a destination, use a seed finder with the correct Bedrock version or try the supported locate command in a copy of the world. For an add-on, check the identifier and the specific component’s expected input.
Where the IDs actually matter
Commands take the ID, not the display name. /locate biome minecraft:cold_taiga finds the nearest Snowy Taiga. Typing snowy_taiga gets you nothing on Bedrock. Add-on components may instead ask for tags or other filters; check the field before copying an ID.
Spawn rules commonly test biome tags, which are a different input from a biome ID. For example, has_biome_tag with ocean asks whether the biome carries that tag. It does not accept every display name or biome ID as a synonym. Keep the type of filter and its expected value together when following an example.
The biome-filter reference lists tags, while the locate command reference documents commands.