Wooded Badlands

Wooded Badlands

Structures	Badlands mineshaft
Blocks	Red Sand Red Sandstone Terracotta Stained Terracotta Cactus Cactus Flower Short Dry Grass Tall Dry Grass Dead Bush Leaf Litter Grass Coarse Dirt Oak Log Oak Leaves Gold Ore
Climate
Temperature	2.0
Downfall	0.0
Precipitation	No
Colors
Grass color	#90814D
Foliage color	#9E814D
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #55809E‌

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The wooded badlands is a more humid variant of the badlands covered by oak trees, grass blocks, and coarse dirt.

Description

Wooded badlands generate groves of trees at high altitudes, and therefore are the forest variant of the badlands. The uppermost layers of terrain consist of both grass blocks and coarse dirt, with oak trees and grass growing on them, the former always appearing as small variants. Leaf litter and dead bushes commonly cover the ground under the trees. In wooded badlands, the grass and oak leaves take on a dull greenish-brown color darker than that of the savanna biome, giving it a droughted and weathered appearance.

This variant is a rare source of wood in the otherwise barren badlands. The coarse dirt and grass layer on top begins generating above Y=97. Beneath, wooded badlands generate similar to regular badlands, with red sand, red sandstone, stained terracotta, dead bushes and cacti making up the landscape. Cacti might bloom with a single cactus flower on top. Additionally, gold ore has a higher chance of generating, like in other badlands biomes, and mineshafts made of dark oak planks generate much more elevated and exposed than regular mineshafts. The deep dark biome can spawn under this biome, although not as common as beneath mountains and plateaus.

Despite being more lush, wooded badlands still count as arid biomes and never experience rainfall unless divided by a river, in which case rain appears in the river biome only.

Armadillos live in wooded badlands, and the warm variants of farm animals can spawn. Striped wolves exclusively spawn in here.

Wooded badlands generate at higher humidity values compared to the default badlands, which means that they can often be found bordering jungles. Wooded badlands also border deserts, badlands, forests, and plains, and they usually do not border oceans, but they can also generate by the ocean in areas with mountain peaks. They can also generate in mountain peaks, where they can elevate up to Y=256 and rarely border stony peaks. Because of this, the wooded badlands is the highest biome with trees, that may peak at Y=263.

Due to their high humidity values, wooded badlands are almost guaranteed to have lush caves beneath them, although dripstone caves may generate instead when they're far inland. Due to their low erosion value, wooded badlands have a high chance to generate the deep dark beneath them, but only when they are far inland.

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	12⁄48	4
Warm Chicken	10⁄48	4
Warm Pig	10⁄48	4
Warm Cow	8⁄48	4
Armadillo	6⁄48	1–2
Striped Wolf	2⁄48	4–8
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	12⁄58	2–3
Warm Chicken	10⁄58	2–4
Glow Squid	10⁄58	2–4
Warm Pig	10⁄58	1–3
Warm Cow	8⁄58	2–3
Armadillo	6⁄58	1–2
Striped Wolf	2⁄58	4–8
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the Wooded Badlands.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Wooded Badlands	wooded_badlands	biome.minecraft.wooded_badlands

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	mesa_plateau_stone	38

History

Data history

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Issues

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Gallery

• 
  A wooded badlands biome, as seen from the sky.
• 
  A wooded badlands biome.
• 
  Inside a wooded badlands biome.
• 
  A wooded badlands plateau single biome world before 1.18. Because this was a plateau biome, the surface was roughly 20 blocks higher than sea level.
• 
  The Mesa Plateau seed template thumbnail, a wooded badlands biome.
• 
  A river forming a canyon inside a wooded badlands biome.
• 
  A large cliff in wooded badlands.
• 
  A warm pig inside a wooded badlands biome at sunset.
• 
  A large valley in wooded badlands.
• 
  A large floating island covered with wooded badlands.
• 
  A ruined portal in a wooded badlands plateau.
• 
  A large cheese cave with aquifers under a wooded badlands biome.
• 
  View of a wooded badlands biome.
• 
  A wooded badlands plateau biome next to a regular badlands biome before 1.18, forming a steep cliff.
• 
  A wooded badlands plateau with ray tracing.

See also

• Badlands
• Eroded Badlands
• Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau
• Desert
• Mountains
• Terracotta

External links

• "Around the Block: Wooded Badlands" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, August 11, 2023.

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