Windswept Hills

Windswept Hills

Features	Floating island
Blocks	Grass Block Oak Log‌ Oak Leaves‌ Spruce Log‌ Spruce Leaves‌ Snow Stone Emerald Ore Coal Ore Iron Ore Infested Stone Bush
Climate
Temperature	0.2
Downfall	0.3
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#8AB689
Foliage color	#6DA36B
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #007BF7‌

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Windswept hills, formerly also known as extreme hills or mountains, are uncommon biomes. There are three variants in the biome family.

Description

Windswept hills generate in areas with high erosion, high PV and high continentalness. The terrain is usually flat, but sometimes hilly and shattered. They generally peak at roughly Y-level 140. Above Y=120±8, rainfall changes to snowfall, and the hills becomes snow-capped, along with water freezing into ice. Despite windswept hill biomes being highland biomes, deep dark doesn't generate under windswept hills biomes.

The grass and leaves are an aqua color. These are the only biomes, besides mountain biomes, where emerald ore is found. Like mountains, infested blocks with silverfish can be generated underground below the sea level. Oak trees and spruce trees occasionally generate here, with a bit of grass, poppies, dandelions and bushes on the ground. Llamas can spawn in these biomes.

Survival in windswept hills can be challenging to beginners, due to the heights often risking heavy fall damage and higher elevations bringing snow and ice, but can be fairly easy once the player has acclimated to the area and found or made a flat-enough space for shelter. Llamas can also serve as useful pack animals when tamed. Water must be protected by light or a roof to prevent it from freezing when above the snowfall line, however, and the player must be aware of their surroundings to avoid falling off steep cliffs, especially when fighting hostile mobs. Care should also be taken when mining in windswept hills, due to infested stone occasionally generating; the player might get swarmed with silverfish if they're not prepared.

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	12⁄45	4
Cold Chicken	10⁄45	4
Cold Pig	10⁄45	4
Cold Cow	8⁄45	4
Llama	5⁄45	4–6
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	12⁄55	2–3
Cold Chicken	10⁄55	2–4
Glow Squid	10⁄55	2–4
Cold Pig	10⁄55	1–3
Cold Cow	8⁄55	2–3
Llama	5⁄55	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Windswept Hills	windswept_hills	biome.minecraft.windswept_hills

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	extreme_hills	3

History

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Data history

Issues

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Gallery

Screenshots

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  Windswept hills.
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  An extremely narrow windswept hills biome.
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  Mountains with ray tracing.
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  Another view of a mountains biome before Caves & Cliffs.
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  An example of an overhang generated within mountains.
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  A stacked mountains biome.
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  Mountains and a wooded mountains shown side by side.
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  Huge cliffside generated in mountains biome.
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  A tree which generated under a cliff in a mountains biome.
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  Heart-shaped hole in a mountains cliff.
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  Large chunk of floating mountains creating some sort of skybridge.
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  A ruined portal in a mountains biome.
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  Mountains next to a lake.
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  A mountains single biome world before 1.18.
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  An extreme hills biome before The Update that Changed the World.

Development images

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  The old look of the extreme hills biome.
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  Yet another example.
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  First screenshot of spruce trees generating in the biome.

See also

• Windswept Forest
• Windswept Gravelly Hills
• Taiga
• Snowy Taiga
• Windswept Savanna
• Mountains
• Mountain Edge
• Gravelly Mountains+

External links

• "Around the Block: Windswept Hills" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, December 9, 2021.

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