Eroded Badlands

Eroded Badlands

Structures	Exposed badlands mineshaft Ruined portal
Blocks	Red Sand Red Sandstone Terracotta Stained Terracotta Cactus Cactus Flower Short Dry Grass Tall Dry Grass Dead Bush Gold Ore
Climate
Temperature	2.0
Downfall	0.0
Precipitation	No
Colors
Grass color	#90814D
Foliage color	#9E814D
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #497F99‌

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The eroded badlands, formely known as bryce canyon mesa, is a variant of the badlands notable for its hoodoos.

Description

The biome generates similar to regular badlands, with red, orange, yellow, white, light gray, brown, and regular terracotta forming the landscape. Lower grounds are mostly made of red sand and red sandstone, with brown terracotta underneath. Dead bushes grow on terracotta and red sand, while cacti along with occasional cactus flowers only appear on red sand. Like all badlands biomes, gold ore generates more frequently and closer to the surface, and mineshafts made out of dark oak can also be found, often exposed to air. Terrain underwater in lakes is coated with a layer of orange terracotta, with shallow areas occasionally featuring white terracotta too. Deeper bodies of water may contain scattered gravel.

Rainfall never occurs in eroded badlands, as the biome is arid, and lightning never strikes here. Exception to both rules are rivers that cut through eroded badlands, which still experience both.

Eroded badlands feature unique formations of terracotta hoodoos, narrow spires that rise up from the red sand floor of the biome's drainage basins. Thanks to these hoodoos, eroded badlands provide a more accessible source of terracotta, allowing players to gather it without digging into the terrain. The hoodoos only generate at lower elevations. At higher elevations, the biome is indistinct from the regular badlands. The biome is intended to resemble the famous Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA, which features hoodoos across its landscape.

Mobs found within eroded badlands are the same as regular badlands: Farm animals spawn normally in this biome, and generate their warm variants if possible. Armadillos also inhabit eroded badlands.

Eroded badlands generate in place of regular badlands in positive weirdness when humidity values are low, which often results in eroded badlands getting separated from badlands by a river. Biomes that often border eroded badlands include deserts, regular badlands (which can sometimes generate adjacent), savannas, savanna plateaus, plains, and uncommonly forests and stony peaks. Badlands can also generate in mountain peaks, where they can elevate up to Y=256. The deep dark might generate beneath eroded badlands. Lush caves, however, never generate under eroded badlands.

Mobs

The following mobs generate here:

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
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄46	4
Warm Pig	10⁄46	4
Warm Chicken	10⁄46	4
Warm Cow	8⁄46	4
Armadillo	6⁄46	1–2
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
Creeper	100⁄495	1
Slime[note 1]	100⁄495	1
Spider	100⁄495	1
Zombie	95⁄495	2–4
Skeleton	80⁄495	1–2
Enderman	10⁄495	1–2
Witch	5⁄495	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄495	2–4
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄56	2–3
Warm Chicken	10⁄56	2–4
Glow Squid	10⁄56	2–4
Warm Pig	10⁄56	1–3
Warm Cow	8⁄56	2–3
Armadillo	6⁄56	1–2
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the Eroded Badlands.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Eroded Badlands	eroded_badlands	biome.minecraft.eroded_badlands

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	mesa_bryce	165

History

Data history

Issues

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

Gallery

• 
  A rare occurrence of eroded badlands and ice spikes touching.
• 
  Eroded badlands near world border.
• 
  An eroded badlands in "Nothingness" part of the Far Lands.
• 
  Eroded badlands generation prior to Pocket Edition v0.9.5 alpha.
• 
  Eroded badlands near a beach.
• 
  An eroded badlands single biome world before 1.18.
• 
  A river flowing through eroded badlands.
• 
  Sunny hopping across eroded badlands.
• 
  Development of eroded badlands.
• 
  Eroded badlands next to an ocean.
• 
  Eroded badlands at night.
• 
  A beach generated next to eroded badlands.
• 
  Eroded badlands in the Stripe Lands.
• 
  A jungle biome bordering eroded badlands.
• 
  Eroded badlands with ray tracing.

See also

• Badlands
• Wooded Badlands
• Desert
• Mountains
• Terracotta

External links

• "Around the Block: Eroded Badlands" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, November 14, 2022.

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