Biomes: Complete Biome Roadmap & Block Assignments

# Biomes: Complete Biome Roadmap & Block Assignments

Comprehensive biome checklist with block assignments for each biome. Links to #138 for block implementation status.

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## 📋 Overview

Each biome defines:
- **Surface blocks** - Top and filler layers
- **Vegetation** - Trees, flowers, grass
- **Special features** - Unique structures or blocks
- **Climate** - Temperature and humidity ranges

Checked biomes are already implemented.

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## 🌊 Ocean Biomes

### Deep Ocean
- [x] Implemented
- **Depth:** 30+ blocks below sea level
- **Surface:** `gravel`
- **Floor blocks:** `gravel`, `clay`, `sand`
- **Vegetation:** `kelp`, `seagrass`, `tall_seagrass`
- **Features:** Ocean monuments, shipwrecks
- **Mobs:** Squid, drowned, guardians

### Ocean
- [x] Implemented
- **Depth:** 10-30 blocks below sea level
- **Surface:** `sand`, `gravel`
- **Floor blocks:** `sand`, `clay`, `dirt`
- **Vegetation:** `kelp`, `seagrass`
- **Features:** Shipwrecks, ruins

### Warm Ocean
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Depth:** Shallow (5-15 blocks)
- **Surface:** `sand`
- **Vegetation:** `seagrass`, `coral_fan`
- **Special blocks:**
  - `coral_block_tube` (blue)
  - `coral_block_brain` (pink)
  - `coral_block_bubble` (purple)
  - `coral_block_fire` (red)
  - `coral_block_horn` (yellow)
  - `sea_pickle` (light source)
- **Features:** Coral reefs, tropical fish

### Lukewarm Ocean
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `sand`
- **Vegetation:** `kelp`, `seagrass`
- **Special:** Some coral, less dense than warm

### Cold Ocean
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `gravel`, `sand`
- **Vegetation:** `kelp`
- **Features:** Icebergs at surface (borders frozen)

### Frozen Ocean
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `ice`, `packed_ice`, `blue_ice`
- **Floor:** `gravel`, `sand`
- **Features:** Icebergs, frozen surface
- **Special blocks:** `ice`, `packed_ice`, `blue_ice`, `snow_layer`

### Deep Frozen Ocean
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Depth:** 30+ blocks
- **Surface:** `ice`, `blue_ice`
- **Floor:** `gravel`
- **Features:** Large icebergs, ocean monuments

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## 🏝️ Coastal Biomes

### Beach
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `sand`
- **Filler:** `sand`, `sandstone`
- **Vegetation:** None (sparse)
- **Features:** Buried treasure, shipwrecks
- **Mobs:** Turtles

### Stony Shore
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `stone`, `gravel`
- **Features:** Cliffs, no sand
- **Vegetation:** None

### Snowy Beach
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `sand`, `snow_layer`
- **Filler:** `sand`
- **Features:** Cold variant of beach

### Coastal Plains
- [x] Implemented (transition biome)
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Vegetation:** `tall_grass`, sparse trees

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## 🌲 Forest Biomes

### Forest
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:** `wood` (oak), `leaves`, `birch_log`, `birch_leaves`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `tall_grass` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `fern` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `flower_red` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `flower_yellow` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `brown_mushroom` *(cross-billboard)*
- **Features:** Forest rocks, fallen logs

### Birch Forest
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:** `birch_log`, `birch_leaves` (exclusive)
- **Vegetation:** `tall_grass`, `lily_of_the_valley`
- **Variant:** Tall Birch Forest (taller trees)

### Dark Forest
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`, `rooted_dirt`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:** `dark_oak_log`, `dark_oak_leaves` (2x2 trunk)
- **Vegetation:**
  - `red_mushroom` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `brown_mushroom` *(cross-billboard)*
  - Giant mushrooms (`mushroom_stem`, `red_mushroom_block`, `brown_mushroom_block`)
- **Features:** Dense canopy, low light, woodland mansions
- **Special:** Mushrooms generate on surface due to darkness

### Flower Forest
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Trees:** Oak, birch (sparse)
- **Vegetation:** (all *cross-billboard*)
  - `flower_red` (poppy)
  - `flower_yellow` (dandelion)
  - `tulip_red`, `tulip_orange`, `tulip_white`, `tulip_pink`
  - `blue_orchid`
  - `allium`
  - `azure_bluet`
  - `oxeye_daisy`
  - `cornflower`
  - `lily_of_the_valley`
  - `sunflower`
  - `lilac`
  - `rose_bush`
  - `peony`
- **Features:** Extremely high flower density

### Old Growth Forest (Giant Tree)
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`, `podzol`, `coarse_dirt`
- **Trees:** 2x2 spruce or oak with vines
- **Vegetation:** `fern`, `large_fern`, `dead_bush`
- **Features:** Fallen logs with mushrooms

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## 🌲 Taiga Biomes

### Taiga
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:** `spruce_log`, `spruce_leaves`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `fern` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `large_fern` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `sweet_berry_bush` *(cross-billboard)*
- **Features:** Villages, pillager outposts
- **Mobs:** Foxes, wolves

### Snowy Taiga
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass` with `snow_layer`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:** `spruce_log`, `spruce_leaves` (snow-capped)
- **Vegetation:** `fern`, sparse
- **Features:** Igloos

### Old Growth Spruce Taiga
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `podzol`, `coarse_dirt`
- **Trees:** 2x2 giant spruce (`spruce_log`, `spruce_leaves`)
- **Vegetation:** `fern`, `large_fern`, `dead_bush`
- **Features:** Mossy boulders (`mossy_cobblestone`)

### Old Growth Pine Taiga
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `podzol`, `coarse_dirt`
- **Trees:** Tall thin spruce
- **Vegetation:** `fern`, `dead_bush`

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## 🏔️ Mountain Biomes

### Mountains
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `stone`, `grass` (lower elevations)
- **Filler:** `stone`
- **Features:** Emerald ore, infested stone
- **Vegetation:** Sparse `tall_grass`
- **Snow:** Above Y=95

### Snowy Mountains
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `snow_block`, `stone`
- **Filler:** `stone`
- **Features:** Snow-capped peaks
- **Vegetation:** None

### Meadow
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Vegetation:** (high density *cross-billboard*)
  - `tall_grass`
  - `flower_yellow`
  - `azure_bluet`
  - `oxeye_daisy`
  - `cornflower`
- **Trees:** Single oak or birch (rare)
- **Features:** Gentle mountain slopes, villages

### Grove
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `snow_block`, `dirt` (under snow)
- **Trees:** `spruce_log`, `spruce_leaves`
- **Features:** Snowy forest on mountains
- **Vegetation:** `snow_layer` coverage

### Snowy Slopes
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `snow_block`, `stone`
- **Features:** Goat spawns, powder snow
- **Special blocks:** `powder_snow`

### Jagged Peaks
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `stone`, `snow_block`
- **Features:** Dramatic mountain spires
- **Vegetation:** None

### Frozen Peaks
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `ice`, `packed_ice`, `snow_block`
- **Features:** Ice spikes, frozen waterfalls
- **Special blocks:** `ice`, `packed_ice`, `blue_ice`

### Stony Peaks
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `stone`, `calcite`, `gravel`
- **Features:** Warm mountain variant (no snow)

### Foothills
- [x] Implemented (transition biome)
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`, `stone`
- **Trees:** Oak (sparse)
- **Vegetation:** `tall_grass`
- **Features:** Hilly terrain between plains and mountains

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## 🌾 Plains & Grassland Biomes

### Plains
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:** Oak (rare, single)
- **Vegetation:**
  - `tall_grass` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `flower_yellow` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `flower_red` *(cross-billboard)* (rare)
- **Features:** Villages, horses, bee nests

### Sunflower Plains
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Trees:** None
- **Vegetation:**
  - `sunflower` *(double cross-billboard)* (high density)
  - `tall_grass`
- **Features:** Only place sunflowers generate naturally

### Dry Plains
- [x] Implemented (transition biome)
- **Surface:** `grass` (yellower tint)
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Vegetation:** `dead_bush`, sparse `tall_grass`
- **Features:** Transition to desert

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## 🏜️ Desert & Arid Biomes

### Desert
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `sand`
- **Filler:** `sand`, `sandstone`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `cactus` *(special inset cube)*
  - `dead_bush` *(cross-billboard)*
- **Features:** Desert temples, villages, wells
- **Structures:** Pyramids, fossil sites

### Badlands (Mesa)
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `red_sand`, `terracotta`
- **Filler:** `terracotta` (layered colors)
- **Special blocks:**
  - `terracotta`
  - `orange_terracotta`
  - `yellow_terracotta`
  - `brown_terracotta`
  - `red_terracotta`
  - `white_terracotta`
  - `light_gray_terracotta`
- **Vegetation:** `dead_bush`, `cactus`
- **Features:** Abandoned mineshafts at surface, gold ore

### Wooded Badlands
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `red_sand`, `terracotta`, `coarse_dirt`
- **Trees:** Oak (on plateau tops)
- **Vegetation:** `dead_bush`, sparse `tall_grass`

### Eroded Badlands
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `terracotta` (dramatic spires)
- **Features:** Tall terracotta pillars, hoodoos
- **Vegetation:** None

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## 🌿 Swamp Biomes

### Swamp
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `grass` (dark green tint)
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Water:** Murky green tint
- **Trees:** Swamp oak with `vine`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `lily_pad` *(flat quad)*
  - `blue_orchid` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `brown_mushroom` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `red_mushroom` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `seagrass`
- **Features:** Witch huts, slime spawns, fossils

### Mangrove Swamp
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `mud`
- **Filler:** `mud`
- **Trees:** `mangrove_log`, `mangrove_leaves`, `mangrove_roots`
- **Special blocks:**
  - `mangrove_roots`
  - `muddy_mangrove_roots`
  - `mud`
  - `moss_carpet`
- **Vegetation:** `tall_grass`, bee hives
- **Features:** Warm swamp variant, frogs

### Marsh
- [x] Implemented (transition biome)
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Water:** Shallow pools
- **Vegetation:** `tall_grass`, `lily_pad`, `seagrass`
- **Features:** Transition between swamp and other biomes

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## 🌴 Tropical Biomes

### Jungle
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:**
  - `jungle_log`, `jungle_leaves` (2x2 giants)
  - Small jungle trees
  - `vine` on everything
- **Vegetation:**
  - `tall_grass` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `fern` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `large_fern` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `melon` *(full cube)*
  - `bamboo` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `cocoa_beans` (on trees)
- **Features:** Jungle temples, ocelots, parrots

### Sparse Jungle
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Trees:** Smaller, less dense jungle trees
- **Vegetation:** `fern`, `tall_grass`
- **Features:** Edge variant with more visibility

### Bamboo Jungle
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`, `podzol`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `bamboo` *(cross-billboard)* (extremely dense)
  - `fern`
- **Trees:** Sparse jungle trees
- **Features:** Pandas spawn, high bamboo density

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## 🌵 Savanna Biomes

### Savanna
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `grass` (yellow-green tint)
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Trees:** `acacia_log`, `acacia_leaves` (flat-topped)
- **Vegetation:**
  - `tall_grass` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `dead_bush` *(cross-billboard)* (sparse)
- **Features:** Villages, pillager outposts

### Savanna Plateau
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`
- **Features:** Elevated flat savanna
- **Trees:** Acacia (on top)

### Windswept Savanna
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `grass`, `stone`, `coarse_dirt`
- **Features:** Dramatic cliffs, erratic terrain
- **Trees:** Twisted acacia on cliffs

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## ❄️ Frozen Biomes

### Snowy Plains (Ice Plains)
- [x] Implemented (as snow_tundra)
- **Surface:** `snow_block`, `grass` under snow
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Vegetation:** None (or dead_bush)
- **Features:** Villages, igloos
- **Mobs:** Polar bears, strays

### Ice Spikes
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `snow_block`, `packed_ice`
- **Features:** `packed_ice` pillars (up to 50 blocks tall)
- **Special blocks:** `packed_ice`, `blue_ice`
- **Vegetation:** None

### Frozen River
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `ice`
- **Floor:** `sand`, `gravel`
- **Features:** Frozen water surface

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## 🍄 Special Biomes

### Mushroom Fields
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `mycelium`
- **Filler:** `dirt`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `red_mushroom` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `brown_mushroom` *(cross-billboard)*
  - Giant mushrooms:
    - `mushroom_stem`
    - `red_mushroom_block`
    - `brown_mushroom_block`
- **Features:** No hostile spawns, mooshrooms
- **Special:** Only biome with mycelium

### River
- [x] Implemented
- **Surface:** `sand`, `gravel`
- **Floor:** `sand`, `clay`, `gravel`
- **Vegetation:** `seagrass`, `lily_pad` (edges)
- **Features:** Connects biomes, salmon spawns

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## 🌋 Nether Biomes (Future)

### Nether Wastes
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `netherrack`
- **Features:** Nether fortresses, glowstone clusters
- **Vegetation:** None
- **Mobs:** Zombified piglins, ghasts

### Crimson Forest
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `crimson_nylium`
- **Trees:** `crimson_stem`, `nether_wart_block`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `crimson_fungus` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `crimson_roots` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `weeping_vines`
- **Features:** `shroomlight` light sources

### Warped Forest
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `warped_nylium`
- **Trees:** `warped_stem`, `warped_wart_block`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `warped_fungus` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `warped_roots` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `twisting_vines`
  - `nether_sprouts`
- **Features:** No hostile mob spawns (except endermen)

### Soul Sand Valley
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `soul_sand`, `soul_soil`
- **Features:**
  - `soul_fire` (blue flames)
  - `basalt` pillars
  - Fossil structures (`bone_block`)
- **Mobs:** Skeletons, ghasts

### Basalt Deltas
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `basalt`, `blackstone`
- **Features:** Volcanic terrain, magma
- **Special blocks:** `basalt`, `smooth_basalt`, `blackstone`
- **Lava lakes:** Common

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## 🌌 End Biomes (Future)

### The End
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `end_stone`
- **Features:** Central island, obsidian pillars
- **Mobs:** Ender dragon, endermen

### End Highlands
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `end_stone`
- **Trees:** Chorus plants
- **Vegetation:** `chorus_flower`, `chorus_plant`
- **Features:** End cities, end ships

### End Midlands
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `end_stone`
- **Features:** Transition to highlands

### End Barrens
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `end_stone`
- **Features:** Outer edges, nothing spawns

### Small End Islands
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `end_stone`
- **Features:** Tiny floating islands

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## 🕳️ Cave Biomes (Future)

### Lush Caves
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Ceiling:** `moss_block`, `hanging_roots`, `spore_blossom`
- **Floor:** `moss_block`, `moss_carpet`, `clay`
- **Vegetation:**
  - `glow_berries` / `cave_vines` *(cross-billboard)*
  - `azalea` *(full cube)*
  - `flowering_azalea` *(full cube)*
  - `dripleaf` *(special)*
  - `spore_blossom` *(cross-billboard)*
- **Water:** `clay` pools
- **Features:** Axolotl spawns

### Dripstone Caves
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Ceiling/Floor:** `dripstone_block`, `pointed_dripstone`
- **Features:**
  - Stalactites (ceiling)
  - Stalagmites (floor)
  - Dripping water
- **Special blocks:** `dripstone_block`, `pointed_dripstone`

### Deep Dark
- [ ] Not implemented
- **Surface:** `sculk`, `sculk_veins`
- **Features:** Ancient cities, sculk sensors
- **Special blocks:**
  - `sculk`
  - `sculk_veins`
  - `sculk_catalyst`
  - `sculk_shrieker`
  - `sculk_sensor`
  - `reinforced_deepslate`
- **Mobs:** Warden

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## 📊 Summary

| Category | Implemented | Planned | Total |
|----------|-------------|---------|-------|
| Ocean Biomes | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Coastal Biomes | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Forest Biomes | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Taiga Biomes | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Mountain Biomes | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Plains Biomes | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Desert/Arid Biomes | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Swamp Biomes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Tropical Biomes | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Savanna Biomes | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Frozen Biomes | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Special Biomes | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| **Nether Biomes** | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| **End Biomes** | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| **Cave Biomes** | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| **TOTAL** | **22** | **42** | **64** |

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## Priority Recommendations

### Phase 1: Core Overworld (High Priority)
- [ ] Warm Ocean (coral reefs!)
- [ ] Frozen Ocean (icebergs)
- [ ] Birch Forest
- [ ] Dark Forest
- [ ] Flower Forest
- [ ] Snowy Taiga
- [ ] Meadow
- [ ] Sunflower Plains
- [ ] Bamboo Jungle

### Phase 2: Variety & Polish (Medium Priority)
- [ ] Old Growth forests
- [ ] Mountain variants (peaks, slopes)
- [ ] Badlands variants
- [ ] Sparse Jungle
- [ ] Ice Spikes
- [ ] Stony Shore

### Phase 3: Other Dimensions (Future)
- [ ] Nether biomes (5 total)
- [ ] End biomes (5 total)
- [ ] Cave biomes (3 total)

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## Related Issues

- #138 - Block Types: Terrain, Vegetation & Building Roadmap

Category	Implemented	Planned	Total
Ocean Biomes	2	5	7
Coastal Biomes	2	2	4
Forest Biomes	1	4	5
Taiga Biomes	1	3	4
Mountain Biomes	3	6	9
Plains Biomes	3	1	4
Desert/Arid Biomes	2	2	4
Swamp Biomes	3	0	3
Tropical Biomes	1	2	3
Savanna Biomes	1	2	3
Frozen Biomes	1	2	3
Special Biomes	2	0	2
Nether Biomes	0	5	5
End Biomes	0	5	5
Cave Biomes	0	3	3
TOTAL	22	42	64

Biomes: Complete Biome Roadmap & Block Assignments #139

Description

Biomes: Complete Biome Roadmap & Block Assignments

📋 Overview

🌊 Ocean Biomes

Deep Ocean

Ocean

Warm Ocean

Lukewarm Ocean

Cold Ocean

Frozen Ocean

Deep Frozen Ocean

🏝️ Coastal Biomes

Beach

Stony Shore

Snowy Beach

Coastal Plains

🌲 Forest Biomes

Forest

Birch Forest

Dark Forest

Flower Forest

Old Growth Forest (Giant Tree)

🌲 Taiga Biomes

Taiga

Snowy Taiga

Old Growth Spruce Taiga

Old Growth Pine Taiga

🏔️ Mountain Biomes

Mountains

Snowy Mountains

Meadow

Grove

Snowy Slopes

Jagged Peaks

Frozen Peaks

Stony Peaks

Foothills

🌾 Plains & Grassland Biomes

Plains

Sunflower Plains

Dry Plains

🏜️ Desert & Arid Biomes

Desert

Badlands (Mesa)

Wooded Badlands

Eroded Badlands

🌿 Swamp Biomes

Swamp

Mangrove Swamp

Marsh

🌴 Tropical Biomes

Jungle

Sparse Jungle

Bamboo Jungle

🌵 Savanna Biomes

Savanna

Savanna Plateau

Windswept Savanna

❄️ Frozen Biomes

Snowy Plains (Ice Plains)

Ice Spikes

Frozen River

🍄 Special Biomes

Mushroom Fields

River

🌋 Nether Biomes (Future)

Nether Wastes

Crimson Forest

Warped Forest

Soul Sand Valley

Basalt Deltas

🌌 End Biomes (Future)

The End

End Highlands

End Midlands

End Barrens

Small End Islands

🕳️ Cave Biomes (Future)

Lush Caves