Minecraft:Windswept Gravelly Hills

Template:Infobox biome The windswept gravelly hills or extreme hills mutated biome is a more desolate variant of the Minecraft:windswept hills covered with Minecraft:gravel. It is the rarest surface biome in the Minecraft:Overworld, making up less than 0.1% of the map.

Generation

Windswept gravelly hills most often generate inland at elevated terrain. The biome requires moderately high erosion, low temperatures, and low humidities, resulting in strict generation conditions that limits its size and frequency. When temperatures or humidity increase, the Minecraft:windswept hills variant often generates nearby. Other biomes that may border windswept gravelly hills include Minecraft:plains, Minecraft:snowy plains, Minecraft:dappled forests, Minecraft:swamps, and Minecraft:ice spikes.

The terrain ranges from generally flat landscapes to rugged, rolling hills, steep cliffs, and floating islands.

Minecraft:Dripstone caves frequently generate beneath windswept gravelly hills in regions far inland. Minecraft:Sulfur caves may generate in areas with low weirdness, while Minecraft:ice caves are less common and tend to occur closer to oceans in regions with high weirdness.Template:Upcoming

Description

File:Windswept Gravelly Hills BE.png

Windswept gravelly hills in Bedrock Edition

True to its name, windswept gravelly hills contain large amounts of Minecraft:gravel that replace multiple layers Minecraft:stone, Minecraft:grass blocks, and Minecraft:dirt across its landscape.

Due to the gravel replacing most of the grass, vegetation like Minecraft:bushes and Minecraft:treesTemplate:Only is sparser, making this variant relatively barren. Template:IN, no trees generate here at all as the unused Minecraft:gravelly mountains+ biome serves this purpose, and almost 100% of the biome is covered with gravel, with only a few 1-block wide strips of grass blocks generating inside, allowing far fewer bushes to generate. Underwater, the terrain is similar with only the strips containing the regular lakebed blocks (Minecraft:sand and Minecraft:dirt).

In other aspects, however, windswept gravelly hills resemble their regular counterpart: the terrain is still elevated and full of falling hazards, and generates hilly and shattered in some areas, often resulting in Minecraft:floating islands. Above Y=120±8, rainfall converts to Minecraft:snowfall, and Minecraft:snow begins to cover the ground. Minecraft:Water also begins to freeze into Minecraft:ice starting at that height.

Windswept gravelly hills share their foliage, grass and water color with windswept hills and Minecraft:windswept forests. Minecraft:Emerald ore generates here, but this and other ores are rarely exposed due to the gravel. Underground, occasional Minecraft:infested stone with Minecraft:silverfish can be encountered.

Farm animals spawn their cold variants in this biome when possible, and llamas spawn in herds around the biome.

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

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

Sounds

Music

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

Data values

ID

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History

Gallery

Screenshots

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

Historical screenshots

• View of the old gravelly mountains
  View of the old gravelly mountains
• Gravelly mountains near an ocean
  Gravelly mountains near an ocean
• Gravelly mountains
  Gravelly mountains
• A gravelly mountains Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18.
  A gravelly mountains Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18.
• Gravelly mountains in Bedrock Edition before 1.18. Trees did not generate here.
  Gravelly mountains in Bedrock Edition before 1.18. Trees did not generate here.
• Gravelly mountains with Minecraft:ray tracing
  Gravelly mountains with Minecraft:ray tracing

See also

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