Minecraft:Windswept Hills

Template:Infobox biome Windswept hills or extreme hills are cold mountainous biomes with shattered terrain covered by grass blocks and stone. Windswept hills generate in areas with high erosion close to Minecraft:swamps, often bordering their wooded and gravelly variants.

Generation

Windswept hills generate similarly to Minecraft:mountains, usually inland at elevated terrain, though only when the erosion is moderately high. This causes somewhat lower terrain, often rugged, jagged, or shattered with floating islands. Surrounding terrain is often very flat, or consists of Minecraft:swampland.

Windswept hills generate in cold to temperate climates with low to moderate humidity, commonly neighboring Minecraft:forests, Minecraft:plains, Minecraft:flower forests, and Minecraft:sunflower plains. In colder regions, Minecraft:snowy plains and Minecraft:snowy taigas are more likely to generate nearby.

When humidity increases, windswept hills can border the Minecraft:windswept forest variant. Near lower temperatures and humidities, Minecraft:windswept gravelly hills sometimes border, and near higher temperatures, Minecraft:windswept savannas sometimes generate.

Minecraft:Dripstone caves often generate beneath windswept hills located far inland. Minecraft:Sulfur caves may generate in areas with low weirdness, while Minecraft:ice caves can generate in particularly cold regions with high weirdness.Template:Upcoming

Description

In windswept hills, the Minecraft:grass and Minecraft:leaves are an aqua color. These are the only biomes, besides Minecraft:mountain biomes, where Minecraft:emerald ore is found. Like mountains, Minecraft:infested blocks with Minecraft:silverfish can be generated underground below the sea level.

The ground consists of many exposed Minecraft:stone blocks and Minecraft:ores, with some patches of Minecraft:grass blocks in between. Above Y=120±8, rainfall changes to Minecraft:snowfall, and the hills becomes snow-capped, along with Minecraft:water freezing into Minecraft:ice.

Template:IN, Minecraft:oak and Minecraft:spruce trees generate occasionally, while these are exclusive to the windswept forest Template:In. Minecraft:Bushes generate on the sparse grasslands, and Minecraft:llamas can spawn here together with cold Minecraft:animal variants.

With Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals, windswept hills use default environmental settings with a coolish color grading, making the biome appear colder blue. They use cold sunlight, which appears slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here: Template:Spawn table

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Sounds

Music

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

Data values

ID

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History

Gallery

Screenshots

• Windswept hills
  Windswept hills
• A windswept hills Minecraft:single biome world
  A windswept hills Minecraft:single biome world

Historical screenshots

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

Development images

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

See also

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External links

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