Badlands

Badlands

Structures	Badlands mineshaft
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  #4E7F81‌
Underwater fog color	#050533‌  #4E7F81‌

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The badlands, formerly and commonly referred to as the mesa, are arid-land mountainuous biomes, featuring mounds of terracotta bands, coming in various colors.

Description

Badlands biomes feature large mounds of terracotta bands, in layers of various colors; specifically, red, orange, yellow, white, light gray, brown, and regular terracotta may all naturally generate. At high altitudes, the topmost layer of stained terracotta is often weathered into regular terracotta, most often on plateau tops. At low altitudes, the terrain surface is weathered into a layer of red sand (or red sandstone if floating), with orange terracotta under it extending to Y=63. The underwater surface is covered with a layer of orange terracotta, and in shallow water, sometimes interspersed with some white terracotta; in deep water, sometimes interspersed with some gravel.

Badlands biomes can usually be found bordering deserts, and they usually do not border oceans, but they can also generate by the ocean in areas with mountain peaks. Badlands biomes can border wooded badlands, savannas, savanna plateaus, forests, plains, and can generate close to jungles. Normal badlands and eroded badlands often appear on the two banks of a river, or on the two sides of a valley without a river. Badlands can also generate in mountain peaks, where they can elevate up to Y=256 and rarely border stony peaks.

Cacti and dead bushes generate frequently across the landscape, similarly to deserts, but dead bushes are more common than in deserts, and cacti are rarer. Sugar canes may generate along water. Cacti have a chance of generating a cactus flower on top.

Mineshafts generate at much higher elevations in these biomes, often exposed to fresh air. Their supporting planks and fences are made of dark oak rather than oak. Additionally, extra gold ore generates up to elevation Y=255 (rather than the normal Y=32), and at much higher rates than the rest of the world, making badlands tunnels excellent sources of gold. Ruined portals can generate as well.

While all badlands biomes are rich in unique building materials and gold ore, armadillos and warm animal variants are the only passive mobs that can spawn in it. The player should also be careful when exploring underground; as a highland biome, the deep dark can generate underneath badlands.

Badlands biomes never rain, meaning lightning strikes are impossible. The exceptions are the rivers that cut through the badlands, where it can still rain and cast lightning.

The colors of specific terracotta layers in these biomes are almost the same throughout all badlands biomes for any particular world. Each world seed generates 192 layers of terracotta for each Y-coordinate to pick from^[1]. At each horizontal coordinate, each layer may shift up and down by at most ±7 blocks based on a noise.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn 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
Warm Pig	10⁄56	1–3
Warm Cow	8⁄56	2–3
Armadillo	6⁄56	1–2
Glow Squid	10⁄56	2–4

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Sounds

Music

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Badlands	badlands	biome.minecraft.badlands

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	mesa	37

History

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• Regular oak mineshafts do not generate in the badlands biomes, but they can generate into one if a neighboring biome generates the mineshaft.
• Although dark oak mineshafts generate in badlands, dark oaks do not grow in this biome.
• If a badlands biome generates above y level 256, it generates orange terracotta as the default rather than undyed terracotta. This cannot be seen through normal gameplay as the game cuts off any terrain above y level 256, however it can be seen on Java Edition using an amplified world.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Ground-view of a badlands biome.
• 
  Badlands with a lake.
• 
  A badlands cave.
• 
  Beach in a badlands biome.
• 
  Jungle and badlands biome generated next to each other.
• 
  A ruined portal in a badlands biome.
• 
  A badlands mineshaft exposed on the surface.
• 
  A ruined portal in a badland.
• 
  A player riding a horse into an overpass, with several monsters nearby.
• 
  A badlands single biome world before 1.18. Plateaus did not generate here as they were a separate biome.
• 
  A badlands single biome world.
• 
  A large mountain in badlands.
• 
  A desert village bordering a badlands biome.
• 
  A pillager outpost next to a badlands biome.
• 
  An exposed cave spider spawner on a badlands cliff.
• 
  Side view of a large badlands mountain.
• 
  A lake in badlands with Vibrant Visuals.
• 
  Badlands with ray tracing.

Development images

• 
  The first image of the mesa.
• 
  Caves cutting through hardened clay in the mesa.
• 
  An extremely tiny badlands biome.
• 
  A river cave entrance in a badlands biome.

In other media

• 
  Noor looking out over a badland with several wolves.
• 
  Artwork of a creeper roaming in a badlands.
• 
  Artwork of a cave spider lurking in a badlands mineshaft.
• 
  Pixel art of Sunny, Steve and Ari building a nether portal in a badlands.
• 
  Crown Mesa, a badlands settlement from Minecraft: Story Mode.
• 
  A render of a badlands from Minecraft Earth.
• 
  Narrator and MARILLA confronting Jonathan Minecraft in a badland, a scene from Around the Minecraft World in 80 Biomes.
• 
  Durango and River in a badlands.

See also

• Eroded Badlands
• Wooded Badlands
• Badlands Plateau
• Modified Badlands Plateau
• Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau
• Desert
• Mountains
• Terracotta

References

External links

• "Around the Block: Badlands" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 8, 2021.

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