Minecraft:Dark Forest

Template:Infobox biome A dark forest or roofed forest is a forested Minecraft:biome with dense leaf canopies that block sunlight, allowing hostile Minecraft:mobs to spawn and hide from the sun during daytime. Dark forests are one of the two biomes that Minecraft:woodland mansions can generate in.

Generation

Dark forests generate at moderate temperatures with very high Minecraft:humidity. As a result, they frequently border birch forests, old growth birch forests, old growth taigas, and pale gardens. Less commonly, they can border windswept forests, jungles, bamboo jungles, swamps, and groves.

Dark forests can generate in a wide variety of terrains, including flatlands, plateaus, coasts, cliffs, or mountain valleys. However, dark forests on plateaus and mountain slopes will often transition to pale gardens instead.

Because of their high humidities, lush caves frequently generate beneath dark forests. Inland dark forests may generate dripstone caves underground instead.

Description

Dark forests feature a much higher density of trees compared to other forest biomes, which oftentimes blocks direct view of the sky entirely. Minecraft:Oak, Minecraft:dark oak, and sometimes Minecraft:birch trees generate in these biomes, with Minecraft:leaf litter covering the ground. Minecraft:Bee nests are not generated with trees. Additionally, both types of Minecraft:huge mushrooms generate among the trees, though the red variants are more common. Unlike regular forests, wolves do not spawn in dark forests.

Unique to dark forests are Minecraft:woodland mansions, enormous dungeon-like structures that rarely generate within the trees. Woodland mansions are home to the dangerous Minecraft:evoker and Minecraft:vindicator mobs and are one of the only places where said mobs spawn. Mansions contain many rooms and valuable loot.

The dark forest has a unique darker sky color and atmospheric effects with Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals. Sunlight is also less bright, and volumetric fog is slightly denser with stronger light shafts.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the dark forest:

Data values

ID

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History

Gallery

Screenshots

• Inside the dark forest biome
  Inside the dark forest biome
• The sky in a dark forest with Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals
  The sky in a dark forest with Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals
• A Minecraft:woodland mansion in a dark forest
  A Minecraft:woodland mansion in a dark forest
• The Forest Glade seed template thumbnail
  The Forest Glade seed template thumbnail
• The Spooky Mansion seed template thumbnail
  The Spooky Mansion seed template thumbnail
• A dark forest Minecraft:single biome world
  A dark forest Minecraft:single biome world

Historical screenshots

• A dark forest with a lake
  A dark forest with a lake
• A dark forest on a lake
  A dark forest on a lake
• A dark forest bordering a Minecraft:swamp
  A dark forest bordering a Minecraft:swamp
• Old dark forest biome from above
  Old dark forest biome from above
• A dark forest with Minecraft:ray tracing
  A dark forest with Minecraft:ray tracing
• A dark forest Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18
  A dark forest Minecraft:single biome world before Minecraft:1.18
• The Spooky Mansion (seed preset) discountinued in 1.17.40
  The Spooky Mansion (seed preset) discountinued in 1.17.40

Mojang images

• Image of a dark forest from Jeb on Instagram
  Image of a dark forest from Jeb on Instagram
• A creeper in a dark forest
  A creeper in a dark forest
• Minecraft:Ari in a dark forest
  Minecraft:Ari in a dark forest
• A dark forest in a mountain pass
  A dark forest in a mountain pass
• Shattered terrain in a dark forest
  Shattered terrain in a dark forest

In other media

• Narrator running through a dark forest
  Narrator running through a dark forest
• Mobbo lurking in the biome
  Mobbo lurking in the biome
• The crew of Minecraft:Villager News in a dark forest
  The crew of Minecraft:Villager News in a dark forest

See also

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External links

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