Minecraft:River

Template:Infobox biome A river is a common aquatic Minecraft:biome that cuts through most land biomes. Rivers can serve as borders between various other biomes, and usually lead to Minecraft:oceans, although they are also able to form loops.

Generation

Rivers generate in land whenever the PV values are on their lowest; in the deepest part of valleys. River generation does not depend on temperature or humidity, meaning that they can cut through any type of land, but they are replaced by frozen rivers in the frozen temperature zones.

The shape of rivers is determined by the PV noise. They always twist around higher landmasses, sometimes they form loops that can be small enough to have no land inside.

Rivers do not generate in Minecraft:swamps or Minecraft:mangrove swamps, but their water bodies are often connected. The depth and width of a river strongly depends on the surrounding terrain; near Minecraft:oceans they are mostly wide, with some islands and flooded land biomes, further inland they often dry up with barely any water. Around Minecraft:mountains or elevated terrain, rivers form deep fjords with tall cliffs, and they abruptly end when the continentalness reaches the highest value. Here, no rivers generate and the valleys consist of elevated land biomes.

Rivers typically serve as a division between two different biomes, with one biome variant on one side, and a different variant on the other.

Description

A river biome on its own does not have many distinct features, most of its characteristics are created by the terrain generation or surrounding biomes. They are filled with still Minecraft:water up to the sea level, and the terrain below consists of default lakebed blocks, covered with Minecraft:seagrass. Specifically, it is separated into patches of Minecraft:dirt, Minecraft:clay, Minecraft:sand, and Minecraft:gravel.

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A river with some dry land in the wooded badlands biome, showing how trees generate on the edge

When a river generates land, it is just covered by grass blocks with some patches of Minecraft:bushes. However, features from bordering biomes often leak into the river biome. This happens most notably with wooded badlands, where the grass allows many Minecraft:oak trees and leaf litter to generate. Due to the extended coastlines, Minecraft:firefly bushes and sugar cane are often found near rivers, although they are no more common than in other biomes.

No fully-passive Minecraft:mobs spawn within river biomes themselves, but they frequently wander into them from the surrounding biomes if they can spawn there. Minecraft:Drowned can spawn underwater, as can Minecraft:salmon and Minecraft:squid.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

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Data values

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History

Data history

• The first image of a river released by Minecraft:Notch
  The first image of a river released by Minecraft:Notch

Trivia

• Rivers override Minecraft:canyons at or close to the surface level, causing the canyon to be abruptly cut off by a wall of stone. However, if the canyon is long enough, it may continue on the other side of the river.
  • Canyons can generate underground in river biomes without being cut off.

Gallery

Screenshots

• A circular river surrounding a small Minecraft:plains biome
  A circular river surrounding a small Minecraft:plains biome
• A big river
  A big river
• A weird "river" in the middle of badlands
  A weird "river" in the middle of badlands
• The Winding River Minecraft:seed template thumbnail
  The Winding River Minecraft:seed template thumbnail
• A river Minecraft:single biome world
  A river Minecraft:single biome world

Historical screenshots

• A river biome before Minecraft:The Update that Changed the World
  A river biome before Minecraft:The Update that Changed the World
• A typical river before 1.18
  A typical river before 1.18
• A narrow river
  A narrow river
• A river separating a Minecraft:desert and a Minecraft:plains
  A river separating a Minecraft:desert and a Minecraft:plains
• Rivers splitting and cutting through a taiga
  Rivers splitting and cutting through a taiga
• A river that failed to generate properly due to a nearby Minecraft:mountain
  A river that failed to generate properly due to a nearby Minecraft:mountain
• A river running through a swamp
  A river running through a swamp
• A river Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18
  A river Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18
• A river connected to a large lake in a Minecraft:jungle
  A river connected to a large lake in a Minecraft:jungle
• A river with Minecraft:ray tracing
  A river with Minecraft:ray tracing

Mojang screenshots

• A river in Minecraft:Java Edition 1.18 Experimental Snapshot 1
  A river in Minecraft:Java Edition 1.18 Experimental Snapshot 1
• A big river flowing past a village
  A big river flowing past a village
• A big river flowing past a village
  A big river flowing past a village
• A river flowing through a dark forest
  A river flowing through a dark forest
• Traveling by boat through a river
  Traveling by boat through a river
• A river next to a Minecraft:cherry grove
  A river next to a Minecraft:cherry grove
• Minecraft:Sunny and Minecraft:Makena riding Minecraft:horses over a river
  Minecraft:Sunny and Minecraft:Makena riding Minecraft:horses over a river

In other media

• A Minecraft:snifflet approaching a river
  A Minecraft:snifflet approaching a river

See also

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External links

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