Birch Forest

A birch forest.

Birch Forests are lush temperate biomes, usually generating near other lush biomes. There are four variants in the biome family.

Description

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, making them hard to distinguish from rivers, which often run across this 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

There are a total of four distinct birch forest biome variants.

Birch Forest

Birch Forest

Data	dec: 27 hex: 1B bin: 11011
ID	birch_forest
Type	Temperate/Lush
Rarity	Common
Temperature	0.6
Blocks	Grass Block Birch Log Birch Leaves Bee Nest‌[JE only]‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.0] Rose Bush Lilac Peony Lily of the Valley
Grass color	#88bb67
Water color	#0677ce

Birch Forest is the standard and most common birch forest biome variant, with slightly hilly, forested terrain and normal-height birch trees.

In Java Edition :

Birch forest mobs
Mob	Spawn chance	Group size
Passive category
Sheep	12⁄40	4
Pig	10⁄40	4
Chicken	10⁄40	4
Cow	8⁄40	4
Hostile category
Spider	100⁄515	4
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Slime	100⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Ambient category
Bat	10⁄10	8

In Bedrock Edition :

Birch forest mobs
Mob	Spawn chance	Group size
Passive category
Sheep	12⁄40	2–3
Pig	10⁄40	1–3
Chicken	10⁄40	2–4
Cow	8⁄40	2–3
Hostile category
Spider	100⁄495	1
Zombie	95⁄495	2–4
Zombie Villager	5⁄495	2–4
Skeleton	80⁄495	1–2
Creeper	100⁄495	1
Slime	100⁄495	1
Enderman	10⁄495	1–2
Witch	5⁄495	1
Ambient category
Bat	10⁄10	2

Birch Forest Hills

Birch Forest Hills

Data	dec: 28 hex: 1C bin: 11100
ID	birch_forest_hills
Type	Temperate/Lush
Rarity	Common
Temperature	0.6
Blocks	Grass Block Birch Log Birch Leaves Bee Nest‌[JE only]‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.0] Rose Bush Lilac Peony Lily of the Valley

Birch Forest Hills features a hiller terrain than regular birch forests, being identical to them in every other aspect.

Birch forest hills use the same mob spawning chances as birch forests.

Tall Birch Forest

Tall Birch Forest

Data	dec: 155 hex: 9B bin: 10011011
ID	§ Data values
Type	Medium/Lush
Rarity	Rare
Temperature	0.7
Blocks	Grass Block Birch Log Birch Leaves Bee Nest‌[JE only]‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.0] Rose Bush Lilac Peony Lily of the Valley

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 forests use the same mob spawning chances as birch forests.

Tall Birch Hills

Tall Birch Hills

Data	dec: 156 hex: 9C bin: 10011100
ID	§ Data values
Type	Medium/Lush
Rarity	Rare
Temperature	0.7
Blocks	Grass Block Birch Log Birch Leaves Bee Nest‌[JE only]‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.0] Rose Bush Lilac Peony Lily of the Valley

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.

Tall birch hills use the same mob spawning chances as birch forests.

Data values

Java Edition:

Biome	Namespaced ID
Birch Forest	birch_forest
Birch Forest Hills	birch_forest_hills
Tall Birch Forest	tall_birch_forest
Tall Birch Hills	tall_birch_hills

Bedrock Edition:

Biome	Namespaced ID
Birch Forest	birch_forest
Birch Forest Hills	birch_forest_hills
Tall Birch Forest	birch_forest_mutated
Tall Birch Hills	birch_forest_hills_mutated

History

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.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Bee nest now has small chance to generate in birch forest biome and variants.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added birch and flower forests, along with many other biomes.

See also

• Biome
• Forest
• Dark Forest
• Taiga
• Giant Tree Taiga

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