Minecraft:Old Growth Spruce Taiga

Template:Infobox biome The old growth spruce taiga or redwood taiga mutated is a forested Minecraft:biome covered with tall 2×2 Minecraft:spruce trees that grow leaves around the trunk. The ground, made of Minecraft:podzol and Minecraft:coarse dirt, occasionally features Minecraft:mossy cobblestone rocks.

Generation

Old growth spruce taigas generate where weirdness is negative, temperatures are moderately low, and humidity is very high. They often border Minecraft:old growth pine taigas, a variant with trees that have few leaves only near the top, either directly or separated by a Minecraft:river.

Old growth spruce taigas commonly border regular Minecraft:taigas and Minecraft:dark forests. Less commonly, they border Minecraft:windswept forests, Minecraft:swamps, Minecraft:pale gardens, or rising Minecraft:groves and Minecraft:jagged peaks.

Minecraft:Lush caves are very common beneath old growth spruce taigas due to their high humidities.

Description

As the name implies, old growth spruce taigas include trees that have attained a great age, and therefore great height. These spruces grow all over the landscape, while most of them are tall with 2×2 trunks, regular pine and spruce trees can also generate.

Much of the grass blocks are replaced by large swaths of Minecraft:podzol and Minecraft:coarse dirt. Additionally, rocks made of Minecraft:mossy cobblestone frequently generate on the ground and dead bushes generate alongside the sweet berry bushes, ferns, and large ferns. Mushrooms are more common here than in most Overworld biomes.

Minecraft:Trail ruins may generate here, but Minecraft:villages and Minecraft:pillager outposts cannot. Chestnut Minecraft:wolves, Minecraft:foxes and Minecraft:rabbits Template:Only may spawn here. The climate is cold and allows Minecraft:snowfall above layer Y=160±8, which is notably lower than in the old growth pine taiga.

Minecraft:Abandoned camps sometimes generate in old growth spruce taigas.

With Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals, old growth spruce taigas use a coolish humid volumetric fog setting, which slightly fades the distance in an orange tint. Old growth spruce taigas have coolish color grading which tints the environment with a colder blue color, and cold sunlight which appears slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.