Birch Forest
Birch Forests are lush temperate biomes, usually generating near other lush biomes. There are four variants in the biome family.
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Description[edit]
Birch forest biomes are quite hilly, featuring a vast amount of only birch trees across the landscape. They generate densely, but not densely enough to cast sufficient shadows to allow hostile mobs to spawn in daytime. Rose bushes, lily of the valleys, lilacs and peonies generate in these biomes commonly, as well as the usual dandelions and poppies.
Like almost every other land biome in the game, water and lava lakes can generate here, which may cause fast-spreading fires due to the density of flammable trees. Like forest, shallow lakes may also generate in here.
The grass and foliage color is turquoise, much like the rivers that often run across this biome, which makes them hard to distinguish from the main birch forest biome.
No unique mobs or structures are found in this biome.
These biomes provide a source of wood and animal food, much like the main forest. Building shelter here might be frustrating, due to having to clean up the zone before and because of the reduced block palette that this biome offers compared to other biomes.
Variants[edit]
There are a total of four distinct birch forest biome variants.
Birch Forest[edit]
| Type |
Temperate/Lush |
|---|---|
| Rarity |
Common |
| Temperature |
0.6 |
| Blocks |
Grass Block |
| Sky color |
? |
| Fog color |
? |
| Grass color |
|
| Foliage color |
? |
| Water color |
|
| Underwater fog color |
? |
| Underwater fog distance |
? |
| Water surface transparency |
? |
| Data value |
dec: 27 hex: 1B bin: 11011 |
| Biome ID |
birch_forest
|
Birch Forest is the standard and most common birch forest biome variant, with slightly hilly, forested terrain and normal-height birch trees.
Birch Forest Hills[edit]
| Type |
Temperate/Lush |
|---|---|
| Rarity |
Common |
| Temperature |
0.6 |
| Blocks |
Grass Block |
| Sky color |
? |
| Fog color |
? |
| Grass color |
? |
| Foliage color |
? |
| Water color |
? |
| Underwater fog color |
? |
| Underwater fog distance |
? |
| Water surface transparency |
? |
| Data value |
dec: 28 hex: 1C bin: 11100 |
| Biome ID |
birch_forest_hills
|
Birch Forest Hills features a hiller terrain than regular birch forests, being identical to them in every other aspect.
Tall Birch Forest[edit]
| Type |
Medium/Lush |
|---|---|
| Rarity |
Rare |
| Temperature |
0.7 |
| Blocks |
Grass Block |
| Sky color |
? |
| Fog color |
? |
| Grass color |
? |
| Foliage color |
? |
| Water color |
? |
| Underwater fog color |
? |
| Underwater fog distance |
? |
| Water surface transparency |
? |
| Data value |
dec: 155 hex: 9B bin: 10011011 |
| Biome ID |
The Tall Birch Forest features birch trees that generate significantly taller than normal. This makes harvesting wood more difficult, but allows more wood to be collected in the long run. This biome featuring taller hills terrain than in birch forest hills.
Tall Birch Hills[edit]
| Type |
Medium/Lush |
|---|---|
| Rarity |
Rare |
| Temperature |
0.7 |
| Blocks |
Grass Block |
| Sky color |
? |
| Fog color |
? |
| Grass color |
? |
| Foliage color |
? |
| Water color |
? |
| Underwater fog color |
? |
| Underwater fog distance |
? |
| Water surface transparency |
? |
| Data value |
dec: 156 hex: 9C bin: 10011100 |
| Biome ID |
Like the other hills biomes, the Tall Birch Hills biome has hillier, rougher terrain, along with the taller-than-normal birch trees of the Tall Birch Forest variant.
Data values[edit]
| Biome | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|
| Tall Birch Forest | tall_birch_forest
|
| Tall Birch Hills | tall_birch_hills
|
| Biome | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|
| Tall Birch Forest | birch_forest_mutated
|
| Tall Birch Hills | birch_forest_hills_mutated
|
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Added birch forests and flower forests, along with their variants and many other biomes. | |||
| 1.13 | 18w16a | "Birch Forest M" has now been renamed to "Mutated Birch Forest". | |||
| "Birch Forest Hills M" has now been renamed to "Mutated Birch Forest Hills". | |||||
| 18w19a | "Mutated Birch Forest" has now been renamed to "Tall Birch Forest". | ||||
| "Mutated Birch Forest Hills" have now been renamed to "Tall Birch Hills". | |||||
| pre5 | The ID has now been changed from mutated_birch_forest to tall_birch_forest.
| ||||
The ID has now been changed from mutated_birch_forest_hills to tall_birch_hills. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Added lilies of the valley, which can generate in birch forests. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Added birch and flower forests, along with many other biomes. | |||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Added Birch Forest M and Birch Forest Hills M. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added lilies of the valley, which can be found in birch forests. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Added birch and flower forests, along with many other biomes. | |
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