Desert

Desert

Structures	Desert Pyramid Desert village Pillager Outpost
Features	Desert Well Fossil
Blocks	Sand Sandstone Cactus Cactus Flower Short Dry Grass Tall Dry Grass Dead Bush
Climate
Temperature	2.0
Downfall	0.0
Precipitation	No
Colors
Grass color	#BFB755
Foliage color	#AEA42A
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #32A598‌

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There is a related tutorial page for this topic!

 

See Tutorial:Survival in an infinite desert.

A desert is an expansive arid biome mainly consisting of sand.

Description

The surface is made entirely of sand, with sandstone generating underneath the sand. The terrain is usually flat, but with occasional hills.

Desert biomes are quite barren. Among the animals that can spawn in the desert, only rabbits and camels spawn in the wild, while villagers, cats, cows, sheep, pigs and camels appear in desert villages. Cactus and dead bushes generate frequently across the landscape, with cacti sometimes featuring a cactus flower on top of them. Sugar canes may generate along water. Lava ponds may still generate; water may still generate if the altitude dips low enough. Deserts make up for their barrenness by featuring a relatively large number of structures, such as pillager outposts, villages, desert pyramids, fossils, and desert wells. Villages and desert pyramids may offer refuge and valuable loot, desert wells may serve as a rare source of water, and fossils can provide large numbers of bone blocks and bone meal, or simply a neat paleontological find, while pillager outposts are the only source of wood on the desert surface. Deserts are uncommon, making up around 3% of the Overworld by area, and they are around as uncommon as snowy plains.

Despite the structures, survival in deserts can still be difficult if one does not bring sufficient resources, as the desert has virtually no resources of its own. Wood logs can be obtained only from pillager outposts, mineshafts, or azalea trees if there's a lush cave underground, though dead bushes provide a source of sticks. Tree saplings can be obtained by trading with a wandering trader. The only desert water sources are villages, desert wells, rivers and aquifers. At night or thunderstorms, most zombies and zombie villagers that spawn in deserts are replaced by husks, variants of zombies that inflict the Hunger effect and do not burn in the sun, resulting in more hostile mobs present during daytime.

Deserts generate in areas with very high temperature and are more likely to generate in areas with high erosion values. They can generate in lower erosions but usually as a separation between a badlands biome and the oceans. Somewhat contrary to intuition, deserts can generate at any humidity value.

Deserts are often found bordering badlands (all variants) or mangrove swamps. Other biomes they can border include jungles (all variants), savannas, windswept savannas, plains and forests (regular variant only).

In coastal areas, deserts border warm oceans. Unlike most biomes, they do not generate beach biomes along the coastline, though stony shores do generate if erosion is low.

At high humidity values, lush caves can sometimes generate underneath deserts, making deserts the only non-forested biomes where lush caves can generate. Because deserts have a high erosion value, the deep dark cannot generate underneath them.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn in deserts:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄515	4
Spider	100⁄515	4
Husk	80⁄515	4
Zombie	19⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Zombie Villager	1⁄515	1
Creature category
Rabbit	4⁄5	2–3
Camel	1⁄5	1
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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In Bedrock Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Husk	240⁄735	2–4
Creeper	100⁄735	1
Slime[note 1]	100⁄735	1
Spider	100⁄735	1
Zombie	95⁄735	2–4
Skeleton	80⁄735	1–2
Enderman	10⁄735	1–2
Witch	5⁄735	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄735	2–4
Creature category
Glow Squid	10⁄15	2–4
Rabbit	4⁄15	2–3
Camel	1⁄15	1

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the desert.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Desert	desert	biome.minecraft.desert

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	desert	2

Videos

History

Data history

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

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  An example of a normal desert.
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  Naturally generated vines and azalea trees in a desert biome, indicating lush caves underground.
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  The Desert Village seed template thumbnail.
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  The Abandoned Village seed template thumbnail.
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  An extremely small desert biome in Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.
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  A desert with an interesting mountain in the distance.
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  Shattered terrain in a desert.
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  A desert with ray tracing.
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  Another example of a desert before Caves & Cliffs.
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  A desert village with a partially buried desert pyramid.
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  A desert well.
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  A sunrise in a desert.
• 
  A floating sand block in a desert.
• 
  A river running through a desert biome.
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  A plains village reaching into a jungle and a desert.
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  A sunset over a desert village.
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  An unusually large cactus in a desert.
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  A flat desert, with plains in the distance.
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  A desert single biome world before 1.18.
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  A desert biome before The Update that Changed the World.

In other media

• 
  Artwork of a desert village.
• 
  A camel and fox resting together in a desert.^[1]
• 
  Alex and a camel in a desert biome.
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  Ari admiring a decorated pot in a desert, with a desert pyramid visible behind her.
• 
  Same image as before, but as a phone background.
• 
  Ari standing in front of a desert pyramid in a desert.
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  A phone wallpaper of Steve and Alex riding a camel through a desert.
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  Alex and Steve on a camel with husks trying to attack them.
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  Steve running from some husks in a desert.
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  A desert as it appears on the key art for the Wild Update.

See also

• Badlands
• Savanna
• Desert Hills
• Desert Lakes

References

External links

• "Around the Block: Desert" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 22, 2024.
• "Around the Block: Desert Lakes" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, March 30, 2021.

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