Snowy Beach

This article is about the snowy beach. For the regular variant of the beach, see Beach.
Snowy Beach

Snowy Beach.png: Infobox image for Snowy Beach the biome in Minecraft

Snowy Beach Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Snowy Beach the biome in Minecraft

Structures

Buried Treasure
Shipwreck

Blocks

Water
Snow
Ice
Sand
Sandstone
Gravel
Dirt
Clay

Climate

Temperature

0.05

Downfall

0.3

Precipitation

Yes

Colors

Grass color


 #83B593

Foliage color


 #64A278

Water color


 #3D57D6


 #1463A5

A snowy beach is a variant of the beach biome that replaces it in snowy regions.

Description

A snowy beach often generates around snowy plains, snowy taigas, or any of their variants. Because taiga biomes have the ability to generate in the same temperature as snowy plains, ice spikes, and snowy taigas, snowy beaches can sometimes generate next to taiga biomes, resulting in incorrect, weird, albeit intentional terrain generation.[1] Snowy beaches are the same to regular beaches terrain-wise, being made mostly of sand, though their landscape is covered entirely in snow layers. The water surrounding snowy beaches freezes into ice due to the cold temperatures and these beaches often lead to frozen oceans.

Turtles cannot spawn here, but in Bedrock Edition rabbits can. Shipwrecks and buried treasure may still generate in this beach variant.

Mobs

Snowy beaches have the same mob spawning chances as stony shores in Java Edition.

In Java Edition
MobSpawn weightGroup size
Monster category
Creeper1005154
Skeleton1005154
Slime[note 1]1005154
Spider1005154
Zombie955154
Enderman105151–4
Witch55151
Zombie Villager55151
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid14–6
Ambient category
Bat18
  1. Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
In Bedrock Edition
MobSpawn weightGroup size
Monster category
Creeper1004951
Slime[note 1]1004951
Spider1004951
Zombie954952–4
Skeleton804951–2
Enderman104951–2
Witch54951
Zombie Villager54952–4
Creature category
Glow Squid10142–4
Rabbit4142–3
  1. Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
BiomeSprite snowy-beach.png: Sprite image for snowy-beach in Minecraft Snowy Beachsnowy_beachbiome.minecraft.snowy_beach

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID
BiomeSprite snowy-beach.png: Sprite image for snowy-beach in Minecraft [No displayed name]cold_beach26

History

Java Edition
1.7.213w36aAdded the cold beach biome.
1.1318w19aRenamed "Cold Beach" to "Snowy Beach".
Buried Treasure now generate in snowy beaches
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0build 1Added the cold beach biome.
v0.13.0build 1Added rabbits, which spawn in snowy beaches.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2Added shipwrecks, which generate in snowy beaches.
1.21.90Preview 1.21.90.26Added cold atmospherics, color grading, fog, and lighting to snowy beaches in Vibrant Visuals.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 3 Added the cold beach biome.

Data history

This section is missing information about: The page for 1.13-pre5 implies that the biome ID was changed in that version.
 
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Java Edition
1.1317w47aIf numeric IDs for biomes were ever deprecated, it was most likely in this version.
1.18pre5Changed the ID cold_beach to snowy_beach.

Issues

Issues relating to "Snowy Beach" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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