Minecraft:Windswept Hills

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Windswept hills or extreme hills are cold mountainous biomes with shattered terrain covered by grass blocks and stone. Windswept hills generate in areas with high erosion close to Minecraft:swamps, often bordering their wooded and gravelly variants.

Generation

Windswept hills generate in areas with high erosion, high PV and high Minecraft:continentalness. The terrain is usually flat, but sometimes hilly and shattered. They generally peak at roughly Y-level 140. Above Y=120±8, rainfall changes to Minecraft:snowfall, and the hills becomes snow-capped, along with Minecraft:water freezing into Minecraft:ice. Despite windswept hill biomes being highland biomes, Minecraft:deep dark doesn't generate under windswept hills biomes.

Description

In windswept hills, the Minecraft:grass and Minecraft:leaves are an aqua color. These are the only biomes, besides Minecraft:mountain biomes, where Minecraft:emerald ore is found. Like Minecraft:mountains, Minecraft:infested blocks with Minecraft:silverfish can be generated underground below the sea level. Minecraft:Oak Minecraft:trees and Minecraft:spruce trees occasionally generate here, with a bit of Minecraft:grass, Minecraft:poppies, Minecraft:dandelions and bushes on the ground. Minecraft:Llamas can spawn in these biomes.

With Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals, windswept hills use default environmental settings with a coolish color grading, making the biome appear colder blue.

Minecraft:Survival in windswept hills can be challenging to beginners, due to the heights often risking heavy fall damage and higher elevations bringing snow and ice, but can be fairly easy once the player has acclimated to the area and found or made a flat-enough space for shelter. Minecraft:Llamas can also serve as useful pack animals when tamed. Minecraft:Water must be protected by light or a roof to prevent it from freezing when above the snowfall line, however, and the Minecraft:player must be aware of their surroundings to avoid falling off steep cliffs, especially when fighting Minecraft:hostile mobs. Care should also be taken when mining in windswept hills, due to infested stone occasionally generating; the player might get swarmed with silverfish if they're not prepared.