Tall Birch Hills
This article is about the removed tall birch hills variant. For the current biome, see Old Growth Birch Forest. For the regular birch forest, see Birch Forest.
This page describes content that has been removed from the game.
This feature was present in earlier versions of Java Edition, but has since been removed.
This article describes content that has been officially made unobtainable in Bedrock Edition.
It can still be obtained using third-party software. However, this can cause unexpected behavior such as bugs and crashes.
The tall birch hills was a rare variant of the birch forest that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and was removed in Java Edition.
Tall Birch Hills
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Description
Like the other hills biomes, the tall birch hills biome had hillier, rougher terrain, along with the taller birch trees of the old growth birch forest variant. The hills were steep in this biome, comparable to the windswept hills biome.
Unlike most hills biomes, this biome used to generate as a 'modified hills' biome, making it much rarer but also bigger in size.
Mobs
Tall birch hills used the same mob spawning chances as birch forests. In Java Edition:
| Mob | Spawn weight | Group size |
|---|---|---|
| Creature category | ||
 Sheep | 12⁄40 | 4 |
 Pig | 10⁄40 | 4 |
 Chicken | 10⁄40 | 4 |
 Cow | 8⁄40 | 4 |
| Monster category | ||
 Spider | 100⁄515 | 4 |
 Zombie | 95⁄515 | 4 |
 Zombie Villager | 5⁄515 | 1 |
 Skeleton | 100⁄515 | 4 |
 Creeper | 100⁄515 | 4 |
 Slime[note 1] | 100⁄515 | 4 |
 Enderman | 10⁄515 | 1–4 |
 Witch | 5⁄515 | 1 |
| Ambient category | ||
 Bat | 1 | 8 |
- ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
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| Mob | Spawn weight | Group size |
|---|---|---|
| Creature category | ||
| Sheep | 12⁄40 | 2–3 |
| Pig | 10⁄40 | 1–3 |
| Chicken | 10⁄40 | 2–4 |
| Cow | 8⁄40 | 2–3 |
| Monster category | ||
| Spider | 99⁄493.25 | 1 |
| Zombie | 94.25⁄493.25 | 2–4 |
| Zombie Villager | 5⁄493.25 | 2–4 |
| Skeleton | 80⁄493.25 | 1–2 |
| Creeper | 100⁄493.25 | 1 |
| Slime[note 1] | 100⁄493.25 | 1 |
| Enderman | 10⁄493.25 | 1–2 |
| Witch | 5⁄493.25 | 1 |
| Ambient category | ||
| Bat | 1 | 2 |
- ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
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Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
 [No displayed name] | birch_forest_hills_mutated | 156 |
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Added Birch Forest Hills M, along with many other biomes. | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w16a | "Birch Forest Hills M" has been renamed to "Mutated Birch Forest Hills." | |||||
| 18w19a | "Mutated Birch Forest Hills" has been renamed to "Tall Birch Hills." | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Added lilies of the valley, which can generate in tall birch hills. | |||||
| 1.15.2 | Pre-Release 1 | Tall birch hills now generate with bee nests. | |||||
| 1.18 | Experimental Snapshot 1 | The tall birch hills no longer generates naturally. | |||||
| 21w40a | The tall birch hills biome has been removed. | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Birch Forest Hills M. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added lilies of the valley, which can be found in tall birch hills. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Bee nests now have a small chance to generate in tall birch hills. | |||||
| 1.17.30 Experiment | beta 1.17.30.23 | The tall birch hills biome no longer generates naturally. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | 1.0.1 | Added tall birch hills, along with many other biomes. |
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | If numeric IDs for biomes were ever deprecated, it was most likely in this version. | |||||
| pre5 | The ID has been changed from mutated_birch_forest_hills to tall_birch_hills. | ||||||
Gallery
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Terrain in tall birch hills can be very rough. -
A sunset in a tall birch hills biome in Bedrock Edition. -
A comparison of the grass colors in a tall birch hills biome (left), and a regular birch forest (right) in Bedrock Edition. -
A very long fallen tree in a tall birch hills biome. -
A tall birch hills single biome world. -
Tall birch hills with ray tracing.
