Dark Forest Hills

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.

Dark Forest Hills

Structures	Woodland mansion
Features	Huge Mushroom Dark Oak Oak Birch
Blocks	Grass Block Leaf Litter Rose Bush Peony Lilac Lily of the Valley
Climate
Temperature	0.7
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#507A32
Foliage color	#59AE30
Dry foliage color	#7B5334
Water color	#3F76E4‌[JE only]  #44AFF5‌[BE only]
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Roofed Forest
Lighting	Roofed Forest
Volumetric fog	Roofed Forest
Color grading	Default

The dark forest hills or roofed forest mutated biome is a rare variant of the dark forest that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and was removed in Java Edition.

Description

Old

The mountains and cliffs of the dark forest hills broke the leaf canopy, increasing visibility and decreasing the chance of daytime hostile mob spawning, though the hills were steeper compared to other hill biomes. Hills generated near rivers led to cliffs. Small plains biome clearings did not generate within the dark forest hills variant. The foliage was the same as in regular dark forests, with a high density of dark oak trees, oak trees, birch trees, and huge mushrooms. The ground was covered with different flowers. Woodland mansions also generated here, often with a very high base due to the high elevation.

Although this biome is called "dark forest hills", it did not actually generate as a "hills" variant, but as a "modified" variant of the dark forest, making it slightly rarer.

Current

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

It appears exactly the same as regular dark forests, with leaf litter covering the ground beneath trees.

The dark forest hills has a unique darker sky color and atmospheric effects with Vibrant Visuals. Sunlight is also less bright, and volumetric fog is slightly denser with stronger light shafts.

Mobs

Dark forest hills use the same mob spawning chances as dark forests.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄40	4
Pig	10⁄40	4
Chicken	10⁄40	4
Cow	8⁄40	4
Monster category
Spider	100⁄515	4
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 40, "mobs": [ { "size": "4", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Pig", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Cow", "weight": 8 } ], "category": "passive" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 515, "mobs": [ { "size": "4", "mob": "Spider", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Creeper", "weight": 100 }, { "note": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "mob": "Slime", "weight": 100, "notename": "Slime", "size": "4" }, { "size": "1-4", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "hostile" }, "3": { "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	4
Skeleton	80	2
Enderman	10	2–3
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Sheep	12	2–3
Chicken	10	2–4
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Pig	10	1–3
Cow	8	2–3
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": "4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "2", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 80 }, { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 50, "mobs": [ { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1-3", "mob": "Pig", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Cow", "weight": 8 } ], "category": "creature" }, "3": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "2", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }

Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the dark forest hills.

Data values

ID

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	roofed_forest_mutated	157

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

Data history

Gallery

• 
  A dark forest hills in Bedrock Edition
• 
  A dark forest hills with bugged trees caused by MCPE-11908
• 
  A dark forest hills with a floating island
• 
  Dark forest hills with a lava spring in Java Edition
• 
  A dark forest hills single biome world
• 
  Standardized Dark Forest Hills in 1.17.1
• 
  Dark forest hills with ray tracing

References

See also

• Dark Forest
• Pale Garden
• Biome/Before 1.18