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 a relatively rare biome in the Minecraft:Overworld.

Generation

This variant rarely generates in lower Minecraft:humidity values and colder temperature ranges than regular windswept hills and Minecraft:windswept forests. Because of this, windswept gravelly hills often appear next to Minecraft:plains, Minecraft:snowy plains, Minecraft:ice spikes, Minecraft:snowy taigas, and uncommonly Minecraft:forests, Minecraft:sunflower plains, and Minecraft:flower forests. As the biome is a variant of the windswept hills, additional requirements for locating the biome are high PV and high erosion values. On top of that, all windswept hills biomes are more likely to generate in higher Minecraft:continentalness.

Description

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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:trees Template: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.