Taiga

Taiga

Structures	Taiga village Pillager outpost Trail ruins
Blocks	Grass Block Grass Fern Large Fern Sweet Berry Bush Spruce Log Spruce Leaves Vines‌
Climate
Temperature	0.25
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#86B783
Foliage color	#68A464
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #287082‌

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The taiga is a humid and cold biome comprising a grassland forested with small and large ferns, pale aquamarine-green grass, spruce and pine trees. Foxes commonly spawn here.

Description

The taiga's surface is a grassland with a large number of ferns and large ferns, and is forested with pine and spruce trees, which are the only trees that can generate in this biome. The vegetation also includes short grass, dandelions, poppies and sweet berry bushes, and takes an aquamarine color tone. The water coloration has a unique dark turquiose tone in Bedrock Edition.

Rainfall is common and changes to snowfall above the layer Y=160±8 within taigas due to the humid and cold climate.

Pillager outposts, villages, and trail ruins generate in taigas occasionally. These villages are made of spruce wood materials and often contain gardens with poppy and pumpkin farms.

Generation

The taiga biome borders old growth taigas, forests, birch forests, snowy taigas, groves, plains, and swamps, or it's often separated from a meadow by a river. In additions to the taiga generation, the taiga may generate in the same temperature range as snowy plains, ice spikes, and snowy taiga biomes, resulting in frozen rivers, snowy beaches and frozen oceans generating next to the taiga.^[1] Taigas that generate in the same temperature range as snowy plains, ice spikes, and snowy taiga biomes are almost guaranteed to have lush caves underground, although taigas that generate in temperatures of -0.150 to -0.450 are not guaranteed to have lush caves underneath them, though it's still possible. In addition, when taigas generate far inland, dripstone caves may generate underneath them instead.

Mobs

Wolves, red foxes, rabbits, sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows spawn in taigas.

The following mobs are naturally spawned 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	12⁄60	4
Cold Chicken	10⁄60	4
Cold Pig	10⁄60	4
Cold Cow	8⁄60	4
Fox	8⁄60	2–4
Pale 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
Pale Wolf	13⁄75	4
Sheep	12⁄75	2–3
Cold Chicken	10⁄75	2–4
Glow Squid	10⁄75	2–4
Cold Pig	10⁄75	1–3
Cold Cow	8⁄75	2–3
Fox	8⁄75	2–4
Rabbit	4⁄75	2–3
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Taiga	taiga	biome.minecraft.taiga

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	taiga	5

History

Data history

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A taiga biome before Java Edition 1.1.
• 
  An overview of the taiga biome.
• 
  Another view of taiga.
• 
  A view of a pillager outpost in the taiga biome.
• 
  A taiga village. Sweet berry bushes have spawned here and a villager has a taiga villager skin.
• 
  Taiga and jungle biomes merging.
• 
  An occurrence of a hilly terrain in a taiga biome.
• 
  Large mountain in a taiga biome.
• 
  A river in a taiga.
• 
  A taiga single biome world before 1.18.
• 
  The Taiga Village seed template thumbnail.
• 
  The Taiga Bay seed template thumbnail.
• 
  The Outpost Ahead seed template thumbnail, a pillager outpost in a taiga.
• 
  A tall mountain in a taiga biome.
• 
  A taiga with ray tracing.

In other media

• 
  Artwork of a taiga village.

See also

• Snowy Taiga
• Old Growth Pine Taiga
• Old Growth Spruce Taiga
• Grove
• Forest

References

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