Minecraft:Windswept Forest: Difference between revisions

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The windswept forest or extreme hills plus trees biome is a more humid variant of the Minecraft:windswept hills filled with Minecraft:spruce and Minecraft:oak trees.

Generation

Windswept forests generate instead of windswept hills in areas with high Minecraft:humidity. They generate at medium to the coldest temperature ranges, bordering all types of Minecraft:forests and Minecraft:taigas. Commonly, they surround Minecraft:swamp biomes, and near higher temperatures they border Minecraft:windswept savannas. Windswept forests can generate close to, but never border Minecraft:windswept gravelly hills.

A lush cave may also generate under windswept forests due to its high humidity, but when the biome generates far inland, Minecraft:dripstone caves may generate beneath it instead.

Description

Windswept forests lack a stony terrain surface, but generate hilly and rugged terrain just like regular windswept hills.

Minecraft:Spruce and Minecraft:oak trees generate quite often, forming a sparse forest, and bushes occasionally spawn in patches around the biome. This is unlike the other windswept hills biomes, where noTemplate:Only/almost noTemplate:Only trees generate.

This biome is one of the few to contain Minecraft:emerald ore, and more Minecraft:coal ore along with Minecraft:iron ore generates at higher altitudes. Minecraft:Infested stone with Minecraft:silverfish may also be found here underground.

Minecraft:Abandoned camps sometimes generate in windswept forests.Template:Upcoming

Minecraft:Llamas inhabit windswept forests, along with the usual farm animals and hostile mobs. Minecraft:Pigs, Minecraft:cows and Minecraft:chickens appear as cold variants here.

With Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals, windswept forests use a coolish humid Minecraft:volumetric fog setting, which slightly fades the distance in an orange tint. Windswept forests have default coolish color grading tints the environment with a colder blue color, and cold sunlight which is slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

Mobs

The following mobs, excluding silverfish that spawn from infested blocks, naturally spawn here:

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in windswept forests:

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Data values

ID

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Achievements

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Advancements

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History

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Issues

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Gallery

Screenshots

A windswept forest with cold Minecraft:cows

A windswept forest with cold Minecraft:cows
An abandoned camp in a windswept forest

An abandoned camp in a windswept forest
A windswept forest Minecraft:single biome world

A windswept forest Minecraft:single biome world

Historical screenshots

The old mountains and wooded mountains shown side by side

The old mountains and wooded mountains shown side by side
Trees growing in a wooded mountains biome

Trees growing in a wooded mountains biome
A wooded mountains Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18

A wooded mountains Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18
Wooded mountains with Minecraft:ray tracing

Wooded mountains with Minecraft:ray tracing

External links

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Navigation

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 | dryfoliagecolor = #977752
 | watercolor = {{color|#3F76E4}}{{only|java|short=y}}<br>{{color|#0E63AB}}{{only|bedrock|short=y}}
-| structures =
+| structures = {{EnvLink|Abandoned Camp}}{{upcoming|Wilderness Bound}}
 | blocks = {{BlockLink|Grass Block}}<br>{{BlockLink|Snow}}<br>{{BlockLink|Stone}}<br>{{BlockLink|Emerald Ore}}<br>{{BlockLink|Coal Ore}}<br>{{BlockLink|Iron Ore}}<br>{{BlockLink|Infested Stone}}<br>{{BlockLink|Bush}}
-| features = {{EnvLink|Floating island}}<br>{{EnvLink|Spruce}}<br>{{EnvLink|Oak}}
+| features = {{EnvLink|Spruce}}<br>{{EnvLink|Oak}}
 | atmospherics = Default
 | lighting = Cold
 | volumetric = Semi-humid
-| colorgrading = Coolish}}
+| colorgrading = Coolish
+}}
 The '''windswept forest''' or '''extreme hills plus trees''' biome is a more humid variant of the [[Minecraft:windswept hills]] filled with [[Minecraft:spruce]] and [[Minecraft:oak]] trees.
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 Windswept forests lack a stony terrain surface, but generate hilly and rugged terrain just like regular windswept hills.
-[[Minecraft:Spruce]] and [[Minecraft:oak]] trees generate quite often, forming a sparse forest, and [[Minecraft:Bush|bushes]] occasionally spawn in patches around the biome. This is unlike the other windswept hills biomes, where no{{only|be|short=1}} almost no{{only|je|short=1}} trees generate.
+[[Minecraft:Spruce]] and [[Minecraft:oak]] trees generate quite often, forming a sparse forest, and [[Minecraft:Bush|bushes]] occasionally spawn in patches around the biome. This is unlike the other windswept hills biomes, where no{{only|be|short=1}}/almost no{{only|je|short=1}} trees generate.
 This biome is one of the few to contain [[Minecraft:emerald ore]], and more [[Minecraft:coal ore]] along with [[Minecraft:iron ore]] generates at higher altitudes. [[Minecraft:Infested stone]] with [[Minecraft:silverfish]] may also be found here underground.
+[[Minecraft:Abandoned camp]]s sometimes generate in windswept forests.{{upcoming|Wilderness Bound}}
 [[Minecraft:Llama]]s inhabit windswept forests, along with the usual farm animals and hostile mobs. [[Minecraft:Pig]]s, [[Minecraft:cow]]s and [[Minecraft:chicken]]s appear as cold variants here.
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 {{Spawn row|Bat|weight=10|size=2}}
 }}
+== Sounds ==
+=== Music ===
+These music tracks play while the player is in windswept forests:
+{{MusicTable/game}}
+{{MusicTable/creative}}
 == Data values ==
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 |{{HistoryLine||1.7.2|dev=13w36a|Added the Extreme Hills+ biome.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.13|dev=18w19a|"Extreme Hills+" has been renamed to "Wooded Mountains".}}
-|{{HistoryLine||1.18|dev=21w40a|Renamed "Wooded Mountains" to "Windswept Forest".}}
+|{{HistoryLine|||dev=pre5|The ID {{code|extreme_hills_with_trees}} has been changed to {{code|wooded_mountains}}.}}
+|{{HistoryLine||1.18|dev=21w37a|Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 34.}}
+|{{HistoryLine|||dev=21w40a|Renamed "Wooded Mountains" to "Windswept Forest".|The ID <code>wooded_mountains</code> has been changed to <code>windswept_forest</code>.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.20|dev=23w17a|"A Familiar Room" can now be played in the windswept forest.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.5|dev=25w02a|[[Minecraft:Pig]]s that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant.}}
 |{{HistoryLine|||dev=25w05a|Added [[Minecraft:bush]]es, which can generate in windswept forests.|[[Minecraft:Cow]]s that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant.}}
 |{{HistoryLine|||dev=25w06a|[[Minecraft:Chicken]]s that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant.}}
+|{{HistoryLine|java upcoming}}
+|{{HistoryLine||26.3|dev=snap1|Added [[Minecraft:abandoned camp]]s, which can generate in windswept forests.}}
 }}
 === ''Bedrock Edition'' ===
 {{HistoryTable
+|{{HistoryLine|pocket alpha}}
+|{{HistoryLine||v0.9.5|Added extreme hills+.}}
 |{{HistoryLine|bedrock}}
+|{{HistoryLine||1.2.0|dev=beta 1.2.0.2|Added [[Minecraft:snow]] layers to extreme hills+.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.18.0|dev=?|[[Minecraft:Snowfall]] now occurs above Y{{=}}120±8 instead of 90±8. This change causes most snow to melt in old terrain.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.60|exp=Drop 1 2025|dev=Preview 1.21.60.25|[[Minecraft:Pig]]s that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant.}}
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 |{{HistoryLine|||dev=Preview 1.21.70.22|[[Minecraft:Chicken]]s that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.90|dev=Preview 1.21.90.26|Added semi-humid volumetric fog, coolish color grading and cold lighting to windswept hills with [[Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals]].}}
+|{{HistoryLine||26.40|dev=Preview 26.40.27|exp=Drop 3 of 2026|Added [[Minecraft:abandoned camp]]s, which can generate in windswept forests.}}
+|{{HistoryLine|bedrock upcoming}}
+|{{HistoryLine||26.50|dev=Preview 26.50.22|All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.}}
 }}
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 }}
-=== Data history ===
+=== ''New Nintendo 3DS Edition'' ===
 {{HistoryTable
-|{{HistoryLine|java}}
+|{{HistoryLine|new3ds}}
-|{{HistoryLine||1.13|dev=pre5|The ID {{code|extreme_hills_with_trees}} has been changed to {{code|wooded_mountains}}.}}
+|{{HistoryLine||0.1.0|Added extreme hills+.}}
-|{{HistoryLine||1.18|dev=21w37a|Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 34.}}
-|{{HistoryLine|||dev=21w40a|The ID <code>wooded_mountains</code> has been changed to <code>windswept_forest</code>.}}
 }}
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 === Screenshots ===
 <gallery>
-File:ExtremeHillsComparison.png|Windswept hills and a windswept forest shown side by side.
+File:Windswept forest 1 21 5.png|A windswept forest with cold [[Minecraft:cows]]
-File:Extreme hills plus.png|Trees growing in a windswept forest biome.
+File:Camp in windswept forest.png|An abandoned camp in a windswept forest
-File:Wooded Mountains single biome pre-1.18.png|A wooded mountains [[Minecraft:single biome]] world before [[Minecraft:1.18]].
+File:Windswept Forest single biome.png|A windswept forest [[Minecraft:single biome]] world
-File:Windswept forest 1 21 5.png|A windswept forest with cold [[Minecraft:cows]].
+</gallery>
-File:Wooded Mountains RTX.png|Wooded mountains with [[Minecraft:ray tracing]].
+==== Historical screenshots ====
+<gallery>
+File:ExtremeHillsComparison.png|The old mountains and wooded mountains shown side by side
+File:Extreme hills plus.png|Trees growing in a wooded mountains biome
+File:Wooded Mountains single biome pre-1.18.png|A wooded mountains [[Minecraft:single biome]] world before [[Minecraft:1.18]]
+File:Wooded Mountains RTX.png|Wooded mountains with [[Minecraft:ray tracing]]
 </gallery>