Minecraft:Desert

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A desert is an expansive arid Minecraft:biome mainly consisting of Minecraft:sand.

Description

The surface is made entirely of Minecraft:sand, with Minecraft:sandstone generating underneath the sand. The terrain is usually flat, but with occasional hills.

Desert biomes are quite barren. Among the animals that can spawn in the desert, only Minecraft:rabbits and Minecraft:camels spawn in the wild, while Minecraft:villagers, Minecraft:cats, Minecraft:cows, Minecraft:sheep, Minecraft:pigs and Minecraft:camels appear in desert Minecraft:villages. Minecraft:Cactus and Minecraft:dead bushes generate frequently across the landscape, with cacti sometimes featuring a cactus flower on top of them. Minecraft:Sugar canes may generate along water. Minecraft:Lava ponds may still generate; water may still generate if the altitude dips low enough. Deserts make up for their barrenness by featuring a relatively large number of structures, such as pillager outposts, villages, Minecraft:desert pyramids, Minecraft:fossils, and Minecraft:desert wells. Villages and desert pyramids may offer refuge and valuable loot, desert wells may serve as a rare source of water, and fossils can provide large numbers of Minecraft:bone blocks and Minecraft:bone meal, or simply a neat paleontological find, while Minecraft:pillager outposts are the only source of wood on the desert surface. Deserts are uncommon, making up around 3% of the Overworld by area. However, they tend to be large when they do occur.

Despite the structures, survival in deserts can still be difficult if one does not bring sufficient resources, as the desert has virtually no resources of its own. Wood Minecraft:logs can be obtained only from Minecraft:pillager outposts, Minecraft:mineshafts, or Minecraft:azalea trees if there's a lush cave underground, though Minecraft:dead bushes provide a source of Minecraft:sticks. Tree saplings can be obtained by trading with a Minecraft:wandering trader. The only desert water sources are Minecraft:villages, Minecraft:desert wells, Minecraft:rivers, and aquifers. At night or thunderstorms, most Minecraft:zombies and Minecraft:zombie villagers that spawn in deserts are replaced by Minecraft:husks, variants of zombies that inflict the Hunger effect, while most Minecraft:skeletons are replaced by Minecraft:parched, variants of skeleton that shoot Minecraft:arrows of weakness, and uncommonly, these two can spawn riding Minecraft:camel husks, undead variants of camels. These three Minecraft:monsters do not burn in the sun, resulting in more hostile mobs present during daytime.

With Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals, deserts have unique atmospherics, the sky is tinted turquoise-green at daytime and much brighter during the night. Moonlight is much more vibrant blue than in any other biome. Deserts use the warmest color grading temperature of all biomes, tinting everything yellow/orange.

Deserts generate in areas with very high temperatures and are more likely to generate in areas with high erosion values. They can generate in lower erosions, but usually as a separation between a badlands biome and the oceans. Somewhat contrary to intuition, deserts can generate at any humidity value.

Deserts are often found bordering Minecraft:badlands (all variants) or Minecraft:mangrove swamps. Other biomes they can border include Minecraft:jungles (all variants), Minecraft:savannas, Minecraft:windswept savannas, Minecraft:plains and Minecraft:forests (regular variant only).

In coastal areas, deserts border Minecraft:warm oceans. Unlike most biomes, they do not generate Minecraft:beach biomes along the coastline, though Minecraft:stony shores do generate if erosion is low.

At high humidity values, Minecraft:lush caves can sometimes generate underneath deserts, making deserts the only non-forested biomes where lush caves can generate. Because deserts have a high erosion value, the Minecraft:deep dark cannot generate underneath them.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the desert.

Filename in Minecraft	Minecraft:Gameplay	Soundtrack Title	Soundtrack	Track preview
hal1.ogg	Minecraft:Overworld	"Minecraft:Subwoofer Lullaby"	Template:Sort	File:Subwoofer lullaby.ogg
hal2.ogg	Minecraft:Overworld	"Minecraft:Living Mice"	Template:Sort	File:Living mice.ogg
hal3.ogg	Minecraft:Overworld	"Minecraft:Haggstrom"	Template:Sort	File:Haggstrom.ogg
hal4.ogg	Minecraft:Overworld	"Minecraft:Danny"	Template:Sort	File:Danny.ogg
nuance1.ogg	Minecraft:Overworld	"Key"	Template:Sort	File:Key.ogg
nuance2.ogg	Minecraft:Overworld	"Minecraft:Oxygène"	Template:Sort	File:Oxygene.ogg
one_more_day.ogg	Minecraft:The Overworld, further emphasized in Minecraft:Snowy Slopes, Minecraft:Meadow, Minecraft:Forest, Minecraft:Old Growth Taiga, Minecraft:Lush Caves, Minecraft:Desert, Minecraft:Badlands, Minecraft:Eroded Badlands, and Minecraft:Wooded Badlands	"Minecraft:One More Day"	Template:Sort	File:One more day.ogg
crescent_dunes.ogg	Minecraft:Desert, Minecraft:Badlands, Minecraft:Eroded Badlands, Minecraft:Wooded Badlands	"Minecraft:Crescent Dunes"	Template:Sort	File:Crescent Dunes.ogg
fireflies.ogg	Minecraft:Desert, the Minecraft:Overworld and Minecraft:Main menu	"Fireflies"	Minecraft: Chase the Skies (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 5	File:Fireflies.ogg