Badlands Plateau

This article describes content that has been officially made unobtainable in Bedrock Edition.

It can still be obtained using third-party software. However, this can cause unexpected behavior such as bugs and crashes.

This page describes content that has been removed from Java Edition.

This feature was present in earlier versions of Java Edition, but has since been removed.

Badlands Plateau

Structures	Badlands mineshaft
Blocks	Red Sand Terracotta Cactus Cactus Flower Short Dry Grass Tall Dry Grass Dead Bush Gold Ore Stained Terracotta: Orange Terracotta Red Terracotta Yellow Terracotta White Terracotta Brown Terracotta Light Gray Terracotta
Climate
Temperature	2.0
Downfall	0.0
Precipitation	No
Colors
Grass color	#90814D‌[JE only]  #BFB755‌[BE only]
Foliage color	#9E814D‌[JE only]  #AEA42A‌[BE only]
Dry foliage color	#A38046
Water color	#3F76E4‌[JE only]  #55809E‌[BE only]
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Mesa
Lighting	Warmish
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Mesa

The badlands plateau or mesa plateau is a variant of the badlands that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and was removed in Java Edition.

Description

Old

Badlands plateaus covered 1/3 of rare dry areas of the world next to wooded badlands plateaus. Within the badlands plateau, some clearings of regular badlands generated that had a lower altitude, as well as surrounding the climate zone. A thin desert border surrounded this on land biomes, beaches did not generate next to oceans. Their mutation was the modified badlands plateau.

The badlands plateau featured large flat-topped hills composed of stratified colors of terracotta ranging in warm colors. Bordering regular badlands, plateaus had steep edges that rose to within 20-30 blocks above sea level, where they quickly flatten. The top of these plateaus typically had scattered dead bushes. Occasional ponds appeared on plateau tops. The sides of the plateau occasionally revealed caves and mineshafts. Rivers that passed through badlands plateau biomes cut steep grooves, giving off the appearance of narrow canyons. These posed a fall damage hazard if the player was not careful. Canyons would also generate here.

Current

In Bedrock Edition, badlands plateaus in older worlds still received updates. When generated through single biome or behavior packs, they can also generate new blocks.

They appear similar to badlands. Armadillos can spawn, and farm animals use their warm variants but can only spawn on player-created grass blocks. Short dry grass and tall dry grass generates in patches between the dead bushes, and some cacti have cactus flowers.

With Vibrant Visuals, badlands plateaus have unique atmospherics, the sky is tinted turquoise-green at daytime and much brighter during the night, while the daytime horizon is tinted brown. Moonlight is more vibrant blue, and the warm color grading tints the environment more yellow, although color saturation is slightly lower.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄515	4
Spider	100⁄515	4
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 515, "mobs": [ { "size": "4", "mob": "Creeper", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 100 }, { "note": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "mob": "Slime", "weight": 100, "notename": "Slime", "size": "4" }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Spider", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "1-4", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "8", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }

In Bedrock Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100	1
Slime[note 1]	100	1
Spider	100	1
Zombie	95	2–4
Skeleton	80	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Sheep	12	2–3
Warm Chicken	10	2–4
Warm Pig	10	1–3
Warm Cow	8	2–3
Armadillo	6	1–2
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 495, "mobs": [ { "size": "1", "mob": "Creeper", "weight": 100 }, { "note": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "mob": "Slime", "weight": 100, "notename": "Slime", "size": "1" }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Spider", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 80 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 56, "mobs": [ { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Warm Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1-3", "mob": "Warm Pig", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Warm Cow", "weight": 8 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Armadillo", "weight": 6 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "creature" }, "3": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "2", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }

Sounds

Music

Badlands plateaus use the same music as badlands, in the latest version.

Data values

ID

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	mesa_plateau	39

History

Reveal

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Mesa Plateau" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Overview of a badlands plateau
• 
  The side of a badlands plateau
• 
  The view atop a badlands plateau
• 
  A river cutting through a badlands plateau
• 
  A narrow, curving river in the badlands plateau
• 
  A badlands mineshaft peaking out of the cliffs in a river canyon
• 
  A badlands plateau next to badlands
• 
  A badlands plateau single biome world
• 
  The Mesa Plateau seed preset (discontinued)
• 
  A badlands plateau with ray tracing

Mojang images

• 
  The first image of the mesa, tweeted by Jeb

See also

• Badlands
• Wooded Badlands
• Modified Badlands Plateau
• Desert
• Mountains
• Terracotta
• Biome/Before 1.18
• Biome