Old Growth Pine Taiga

Old Growth Pine Taiga

Structures	Trail ruins
Features	Forest rock
Blocks	Grass Block Podzol Coarse Dirt Mossy Cobblestone Spruce Log Spruce Leaves Fern Large Fern Dead Bush Mushrooms Sweet Berry Bush
Climate
Temperature	0.3
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#86B87F
Foliage color	#68A55F
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #2D6D77‌

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Old growth pine taigas are forested biomes covered with both large 2×2 and normal-sized spruce trees, with the tall trees being mostly arrow shaped with few leaves at the top.

Description

As the name implies, an old growth pine taiga includes trees that have attained a great age, and therefore great height.

Pine grows all over the landscape, and most of them are the large 2×2 trees that grow significantly taller than regular trees. Much of the grass blocks are replaced by large swaths of podzol and coarse dirt. Additionally, rocks made of mossy cobblestone frequently generate on the ground and dead bushes generate alongside the sweet berry bushes, ferns, large ferns and short grass on the ground. Mushrooms are more common here than most Overworld biomes. Trail ruins may generate here. Black wolves, foxes and rabbits‌ may spawn here. As the climate here is cold, rainfall changes to snowfall above layer Y=200±8.

There are overall more trees in old growth pine taigas compared to normal taigas, leading to increased foliage density. This makes wood more abundant, though as a large portion of it grows as part of tall 2×2 spruce trees, it may be more difficult to obtain. Old growth pine taigas are slightly more difficult for survival than regular taigas for this reason, though aren't so bad once acclimated and strategies are used to clear the tall trees; they may offer more unique views compared to regular taigas as well.

Old growth pine taigas generate at moderately low temperature, very high humidity and positive weirdness. They border groves, normal taigas, dark forests, windswept forests and swamps. Old growth pine taigas can also border snowy taigas, meadows and pale gardens at the tops of a plateau. At higher elevations they transition to groves and frozen peaks. Due to their very high humidity values, old growth pine taigas are almost guaranteed to have lush caves generate beneath them, however, if the old growth pine taiga generated far inland, dripstone caves may generate under the old growth taiga instead. They are often separated by rivers from old growth spruce taigas. In coastal areas they border cold oceans.

Mobs

The following mobs are naturally spawned here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄540	4
Skeleton	100⁄540	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄540	4
Spider	100⁄540	4
Zombie	100⁄540	4
Zombie Villager[note 2]	25⁄540	1
Enderman	10⁄540	1–4
Witch	5⁄540	1
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄60	4
Cold Chicken	10⁄60	4
Cold Pig	10⁄60	4
Cold Cow	8⁄60	4
Fox	8⁄60	2–4
Black Wolf	8⁄60	4
Rabbit	4⁄60	2–3
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
Black Wolf	13⁄71	2–4
Sheep	12⁄71	2–3
Cold Chicken	10⁄71	2–4
Glow Squid	10⁄71	2–4
Cold Pig	10⁄71	1–3
Cold Cow	8⁄71	2–3
Fox	8⁄71	2–4
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the old growth pine taigas

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Old Growth Pine Taiga	old_growth_pine_taiga	biome.minecraft.old_growth_pine_taiga

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	mega_taiga	32

History

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Old Growth Pine Taiga" or "Mega Taiga" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The name “Old Growth Pine Taiga” may be misleading and is inaccurate as there are no pine trees in the game and they have spruce trees; there are currently no plans to add pines to the game. This is similar to Flint and Steel, as there is a lack of steel in the game and it is crafted with Iron. In real life, Iron can’t be used as a fire striker, so they had to use steel so it makes more sense.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  The first image released of the old growth pine taiga.
• 
  Side-by-side comparison of an old growth tree taiga (left) with an old growth spruce taiga (right).
• 
  A sunset in an old growth pine taiga.
• 
  Old growth pine taiga.
• 
  Old growth pine taiga.
• 
  A bay in an old growth pine taiga.
• 
  A river in an old growth pine taiga.
• 
  A lake in an old growth pine taiga.
• 
  A small lake in an old growth pine taiga.
• 
  A comparison of the four different giant tree taiga biomes before 1.18.
• 
  A giant tree taiga single biome world before 1.18.
• 
  A giant tree taiga with ray tracing.

See also

• Taiga
• Old Growth Spruce Taiga
• Snowy Taiga
• Grove

External links

• "Around the Block: Old Growth Pine Taiga" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, November 2, 2023.

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