Giant Spruce Taiga 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.

Giant Spruce Taiga Hills

Features	Spruce Pine Mega Spruce‌[JE only] Mega Pine‌[BE only] Forest rock
Blocks	Grass Block Podzol Coarse Dirt Fern Large Fern Dead Bush Mushrooms Sweet Berry Bush
Climate
Temperature	0.25‌[JE only] 0.3‌[BE only]
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#86B783‌[JE only]  #86B87F‌[BE only]
Foliage color	#68A464‌[JE only]  #68A55F‌[BE only]
Dry foliage color	#9C754D
Water color	#3F76E4‌[JE only]  #44AFF5‌[BE only]
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Cold
Volumetric fog	Semi-humid
Color grading	Coolish

The giant spruce taiga hills or redwood taiga hills mutated biome is a modified hills variant of the giant tree taiga that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and has been removed in Java Edition.

Description

Old

The giant spruce taiga hills was a variant intended to be a more mountainous version of the giant spruce taiga, like all other hills biomes. However, both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition had generation issues.

In Java Edition, due to a likely error in the way terrain height is calculated, there was no difference in the terrain between giant spruce taiga and giant spruce taiga hills. Specifically, the game used internal values known as setBaseHeight and setHeightVariation when generating hills biomes, but these values were the same for both giant spruce taiga and giant spruce taiga hills, resulting in no actual difference between the two. This was the only hills biome in the game with this issue.^[1]

In Bedrock Edition, this biome generated as a much hillier version of the giant spruce taiga, even more mountainous than regular hills biomes. The hills often reached the generation limit, and the tall trees made this the biome with the second highest blocks (up to Y=158), after the shattered savanna plateau. However, this biome generated the same trees as the giant tree taiga hills (not giant spruce trees, but giant pine trees), making this biome hardly distinctable from the giant tree taiga hills.

Current

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

The appear almost identical to the regular old growth pine taiga. Cold animal variants spawn as well as the rare chestnut wolf variants. The snowfall height is increased to Y=200±8, covering only the highest mountain peaks in snow, unlike regular old growth spruce taigas, where the snowfall height is 160. Trail ruins do not generate.

With Vibrant Visuals, giant spruce taiga hills use a coolish humid volumetric fog setting, which slightly fades the distance in an orange tint. Giant spruce taiga hills have coolish color grading tints the environment with a colder blue color, and cold sunlight which appears slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

Mobs

Giant spruce taiga hills use the same mob spawning chances as old growth spruce taigas.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄60	4
Pig	10⁄60	4
Chicken	10⁄60	4
Cow	8⁄60	4
Wolf	8⁄60	4
Rabbit[note 1]	4⁄60	2–3
Fox[note 2]	8⁄60	2–4
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 3]	100⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Rabbit": "50% of spawned rabbits are brown, 40% are salt and pepper, and 10% are black.", "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "Fox": "The foxes are red foxes." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 60, "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 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Wolf", "weight": 8 }, { "note": "50% of spawned rabbits are brown, 40% are salt and pepper, and 10% are black.", "mob": "Rabbit", "weight": 4, "notename": "Rabbit", "size": "2-3" }, { "note": "The foxes are red foxes.", "mob": "Fox", "weight": 8, "notename": "Fox", "size": "2-4" } ], "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	2–4
Skeleton	80	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Sheep	12	2–3
Cold Chicken	10	2–4
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Cold Pig	10	1–3
Cold Cow	8	2–3
Fox	8	2–4
Chestnut Wolf	8	2–4
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

{ "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": 66, "mobs": [ { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Cold Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1-3", "mob": "Cold Pig", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Cold Cow", "weight": 8 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Fox", "weight": 8 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Chestnut Wolf", "weight": 8 } ], "category": "creature" }, "3": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "8", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }

Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the giant spruce taiga hills.

Data values

ID

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	redwood_taiga_hills_mutated	161

History

Reveal

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Redwood Taiga Hills Mutated" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

• 
  Giant spruce taiga hills in Bedrock Edition
• 
  An island completely covered with giant spruce taiga hills in Bedrock Edition
• 
  Another view of the island, with exposed ocean ruins
• 
  A comparison of the four giant tree taiga biomes before 1.18
• 
  A giant spruce taiga hills single biome world
• 
  A regular giant spruce taiga single biome world, with the same seed and position, showing that it is exactly the same
• 
  Giant spruce taiga hills with ray tracing

See also

• Old Growth Pine Taiga
• Old Growth Spruce Taiga
• Giant Tree Taiga Hills
• Taiga
• Biome/Before 1.18

References