Snowy Taiga

A snowy taiga in Bedrock Edition.

Snowy taigas are uncommon snowy biomes, often generating adjacent to or within snowy tundra biomes. The biome family includes three individual biome variants.

Description

Snowy taigas are technically the coldest biomes in the game.

Snowy taigas are similar to their snowless variants, featuring large numbers of spruce trees, rabbits, white-coated foxes and wolves. Aqua-colored plants like ferns and sweet berry bushes are less common compared to snowless taigas.

The main distinction are the snow layers that cover almost the entire landscape, save for the ground protected by the leaves of spruce trees. The terrain is also less flat than regular taigas; the gelid temperatures of the snowy taiga means that any exposed water freezes into ice, though lakes that generate within the taiga are often partially protected by the leaves of the trees, meaning lakes aren't usually completely frozen.

Occasionally, igloos may generate within the trees as in snowy tundras. Villages and outposts can't generate here.‌^{[JE only]}

Bedrock Edition

Snowfall in Bedrock.

Most of the snow layers are stacked, the water has a purplish tone and the leaves of the trees become white as in Snowy Tundras during snowfalls. Villages and pillager outposts can generate as well.

Villages generated here use the same architecture as normal taiga villages, but all of the roofs are covered by stacked snow. The water in village farms is frozen, leading to the crops uprooting. Villagers wear the snowy tundra outfit.

Variants

There are a total of three different snowy taiga biome variants.

Snowy Taiga

Snowy Taiga

Data	dec: 30 hex: 1E bin: 11110
ID	§ Data values
Type	Snowy/Icy
Rarity	Uncommon
Temperature	-0.5
Structures	Igloos Villages‌[BE only] Pillager outposts‌[BE only]
Blocks	Grass Block Snow Grass Fern Sweet Berry Bush Large Fern Spruce Log Spruce Leaves
Grass color	aqua
Water color	indigo

This is the standard and most common snowy taiga variant. Igloos can generate here, as can villages and outposts In Bedrock Edition.

Mobs

In Java Edition:

Mob	Spawn chance	Group size
Passive category
Sheep	12⁄60	4
Pig	10⁄60	4
Chicken	10⁄60	4
Cow	8⁄60	4
Wolf	8⁄60	4
Rabbit	4⁄60	2–3
Fox	8⁄60	2–4
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:

Mob	Spawn chance	Group size
Passive category
Sheep	12⁄60	2–3
Pig	10⁄60	1–3
Chicken	10⁄60	2–4
Cow	8⁄60	2–3
Wolf	8⁄60	4
Rabbit	4⁄60	2–3
Fox	8⁄60	2–4
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

Snowy Taiga Hills

Snowy Taiga Hills

Data	dec: 31 hex: 1F bin: 11111
ID	§ Data values
Type	Snowy/Icy
Rarity	Uncommon
Temperature	-0.5
Structures	Villages‌[BE only] Pillager Outposts‌[BE only]
Blocks	Grass Block Snow Grass Fern Sweet Berry Bush Large Fern Spruce Log Spruce Leaves

Like all other hills biomes, Snowy Taiga Hills feature hillier, more erratic terrain. These hills are somewhat steeper than other hills biomes, making this variant difficult for survival mode. Pillager outposts and villages can generate in this biome‌^{[BE only]}, however, unlike the regular snowy taiga, igloos cannot generate here.

Snowy taiga hills use the same mob spawning chances as snowy taigas.

Snowy Taiga Mountains

Snowy Taiga Mountains

Data	dec: 158 hex: 9E bin: 10011110
ID	§ Data values
Type	Snowy/Icy
Rarity	Rare
Temperature	-0.5
Blocks	Grass Block Snow Grass Fern Sweet Berry Bush Large Fern Spruce Log Spruce Leaves

The rare Snowy Taiga Mountains feature much steeper terrain than the hills. Similarly to the taiga mountains, this variant can reach high elevations, but the snowy taiga mountains go higher than regular taiga mountains. The steep elevations make this biome difficult for survival. Buildings do not generate here.

Snowy taiga mountains use the same mob spawning chances as snowy taigas.

Data values

Java Edition:

Biome	Namespaced ID
Snowy Taiga	snowy_taiga
Snowy Taiga Hills	snowy_taiga_hills
Snowy Taiga Mountains	snowy_taiga_mountains

Bedrock Edition:

Biome	Namespaced ID
Snowy Taiga	cold_taiga
Snowy Taiga Hills	cold_taiga_hills
Snowy Taiga Mountains	cold_taiga_mutated

History

An old Snowy Taiga in Pocket Edition Alpha 0.7.0

Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		preview			Added biomes, including snowy taigas.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Due to bugs in the new terrain generator, taigas are now no longer snowy and therefore resemble the current snowless taigas.
Java Edition
1.1		11w48a			The bug in Beta 1.8 has been fixed, so taigas again generate with snow.
1.7.2		13w36a			A new snowless taiga biome has now been added, along with variants and many other biomes.
					The snowless taiga has now become the new default taiga, and the old snowy taiga has now been renamed "Cold Taiga" and are now much more rare.
1.13		18w16a			Renamed Cold Taiga M to Mutated Cold Taiga.
		18w19a			Renamed Cold Taiga to Snowy Taiga.
					Renamed Cold Taiga Hills to Snowy Taiga Hills.
					Renamed Mutated Cold Taiga to Snowy Taiga Mountains.
		pre5			Changed the ID taiga_cold to snowy_taiga.
					Changed the ID taiga_cold_hills to snowy_taiga_hills.
					Changed the ID mutated_taiga_cold to snowy_taiga_mountains.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added biomes, including snowy taigas.
0.9.0		build 1			Added snowless taiga and variants, making the snowy taiga much rarer.
					Added wolves, which spawn in snowy taigas.
0.13.0		build 1			Added rabbits, which can spawn in snowy taigas.
0.15.0		build 1			Villages now generate in snowy taigas.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added igloos that now generate in snowy taigas.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Added pillager outposts, which can generate in snowy taigas.
					Added sweet berry bushes, which rarely generate in snowy taigas.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Added illager patrols, which can spawn in snowy taigas.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Added foxes, which can spawn in snowy taigas.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	1.00	Patch 1		Biomes overhauled, removing taigas.
TU9					(Snowy) taigas have now been re-added.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added snowless taiga and variants, making the snowy taiga much rarer.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91					Added pillager outposts, which can spawn in snowy biomes.
					Added sweet berry bushes, which rarely generate in snowy taigas.

Gallery

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  An igloo in a snowy taiga, along with a begging wolf.

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  Another view of snowy taiga mountains.

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  A large overhang, with a cave and a frozen lake underneath it, that generated as part of snowy taiga mountains.

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  A snowy tundra village next to a snowy taiga during a blizzard in Bedrock Edition.

See also

• Taiga
• Snowy Tundra

References

Biomes

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