Windswept Savanna

Windswept Savanna

Features	Floating island
Blocks	Grass Block Coarse Dirt Stone Tall Grass‌ Acacia Log Acacia Leaves Oak Log Oak Leaves
Climate
Temperature	2.0
Downfall	0.0
Precipitation	No
Colors
Grass color	#BFB755
Foliage color	#AEA42A
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #2590A8‌

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Windswept savanna (formerly and colloquially known as shattered savanna) is a variant of savanna that generates in areas with high erosion and weirdness.

Description

The extraordinarily rare windswept savanna variant generates in areas with high erosion and weirdness, as well as medium continentalness and temperate to high temperatures. It is full of extremely steep mountains, enormous overhangs, floating islands, and huge waterfalls and lavafalls, with higher and rougher terrain than the windswept hills biome, and can peak at Y=256. Acacia trees can peak up to Y=264. Large and deep lakes often form on the bases of the mountains.

Windswept savanna biomes can often generate standalone bordering other biomes that aren't just the default savanna, with these biomes usually being temperate or warm. Windswept savannas can't generate in regions with cold or snowy biomes which means that these biomes can be found in extreme terrain. Despite being a highland biome, the deep dark doesn’t generate under windswept savanna.

Farm animals spawn as warm variants in this biome. Armadillos, horses and donkeys still appear like in regular savannas, making this the only windswept hills biome to contain them. In Bedrock Edition, llamas also live here.

The terrain is covered with a mixture of grass block patches and coarse dirt patches, with a large amount of exposed stones. Tall grass doesn't generate here in Java Edition. Villages and pillager outposts cannot generate in this biome.^[1]

The steep generated mountains make this variant almost unsuitable for shelter and even just exploring quite hazardous, due to the sharp cliffs often risking fatal fall damage if not above water. Additionally, the giant overhangs often reduce skylight on the terrain below them, not only enough to spawn hostile mobs in daylight, but to produce complete darkness similar to caves, further adding to the difficulty of this biome.

Mobs

The following mobs 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	12⁄52	4
Armadillo	10⁄52	2–3
Warm Chicken	10⁄52	4
Warm Pig	10⁄52	4
Warm Cow	8⁄52	4
Donkey	1⁄52	1
Horse	1⁄52	2–6
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	12⁄70	2–3
Armadillo	10⁄70	4
Warm Chicken	10⁄70	2–4
Glow Squid	10⁄70	2–4
Warm Pig	10⁄70	2–3
Warm Cow	8⁄70	2–3
Llama	8⁄70	4
Donkey	1⁄70	1
Horse	1⁄70	2–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Windswept Savanna	windswept_savanna	biome.minecraft.windswept_savanna

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	savanna_mutated	163

History

Data history

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Issues

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Gallery

Screenshots

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  Extreme windswept savanna terrain.
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  More windswept savanna terrain.
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  Another windswept savanna biome.
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  Yet another windswept savanna biome.
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  A lake that generated within a shattered savanna before 1.18.
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  A shattered savanna biome, noted by the coarse dirt and exposed stone, bordering a river.
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  An old view of a shattered savanna in Bedrock Edition, with a lush green grass and foliage color.
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  A large shattered savanna biome.
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  A shattered savanna biome next to an ocean.
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  A comparison of the old Bedrock Edition and Java Edition biome colors for shattered savannas.
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  Ditto.
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  A village in a shattered savanna.
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  Another view.
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  Old appearance of Bedrock Edition shattered savannas.
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  A shattered savanna single biome world before 1.18, with mountains passing the terrain generation limit of 128 blocks.
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  A shattered savanna with ray tracing.

In other media

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  Artwork of a savanna village.
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  Noor flying through a savanna in a cinematic.
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  A dry savanna as it appears in Minecraft Legends.

See also

• Savanna
• Savanna Plateau
• Plains
• Desert
• Windswept Hills

References

External links

• "Around the Block: Windswept Savanna" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 4, 2023.

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