Windswept Forest
| Structures |  Abandoned Camp
|
|---|---|
| Features |  Spruce Oak
|
| Blocks |  Grass Block Snow Stone Emerald Ore Coal Ore Iron Ore Infested Stone Bush
|
|
Climate | |
| Temperature | 0.2 |
| Downfall | 0.3 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
|
Colors | |
| Grass color | #8AB689 |
| Foliage color | #6DA36B |
| Dry foliage color | #977752 |
| Water color | #3F76E4[JE only] #0E63AB[BE only] |
|
Vibrant Visuals | |
| Atmospherics | Default |
| Lighting | Cold |
| Volumetric fog | Semi-humid |
| Color grading | Coolish |
The windswept forest or extreme hills plus trees biome is a more humid variant of the windswept hills filled with spruce and oak trees.
Generation
Windswept forests generate instead of windswept hills in areas with high humidity. They generate at medium to the coldest temperature ranges, bordering all types of forests and taigas. Commonly, they surround swamp biomes, and near higher temperatures they border windswept savannas. Windswept forests can generate close to, but never border windswept gravelly hills.
A lush cave may also generate under windswept forests due to its high humidity, but when the biome generates far inland, dripstone caves may generate beneath it instead.
Description
Windswept forests lack a stony terrain surface, but generate hilly and rugged terrain just like regular windswept hills.
Spruce and oak trees generate quite often, forming a sparse forest, and bushes occasionally spawn in patches around the biome. This is unlike the other windswept hills biomes, where no[BE only]/almost no[JE only] trees generate.
This biome is one of the few to contain emerald ore, and more coal ore along with iron ore generates at higher altitudes. Infested stone with silverfish may also be found here underground.
Abandoned camps sometimes generate in windswept forests.
Llamas inhabit windswept forests, along with the usual farm animals and hostile mobs. Pigs, cows and chickens appear as cold variants here.
With Vibrant Visuals, windswept forests use a coolish humid volumetric fog setting, which slightly fades the distance in an orange tint. Windswept forests have default coolish color grading tints the environment with a colder blue color, and cold sunlight which is slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.
Mobs
The following mobs, excluding silverfish that spawn from infested blocks, naturally spawn here:
| 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 |
| Creature category | ||
 Sheep | 12⁄45 | 4 |
 Cold Chicken | 10⁄45 | 4 |
 Cold Pig | 10⁄45 | 4 |
 Cold Cow | 8⁄45 | 4 |
 Llama | 5⁄45 | 4–6 |
| Underground water creature category | ||
 Glow Squid | 1 | 4–6 |
| Ambient category | ||
 Bat | 1 | 8 |
- ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
{ "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": 45, "mobs": [ { "size": "4", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Cold Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Cold Pig", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Cold Cow", "weight": 8 }, { "size": "4-6", "mob": "Llama", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "creature" }, "3": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "4-6", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "underground" }, "4": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "8", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }
| 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 |
| Llama | 5 | 4–6 |
| Ambient category | ||
| Bat | 1 | 2 |
- ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
{ "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": 55, "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": "4-6", "mob": "Llama", "weight": 5 } ], "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 windswept forests:
| Title | Preview | Java Edition | Bedrock Edition | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | Probability | Weight | Probability | ||
| A Familiar Room | 1 | 2.70% | — | — | |
| Below and Above | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Broken Clocks | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Clark | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Comforting Memories | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Danny | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Dry Hands | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Ebb | 2 | 5.41% | 2 | 5.56% | |
| Featherfall | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Fireflies | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Floating Dream | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Haggstrom | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Home | 2 | 5.41% | 2 | 5.56% | |
| Key | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| komorebi | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Left to Bloom | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Lilypad | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Living Mice | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Memories | 2 | 5.41% | 2 | 5.56% | |
| Mice on Venus | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Minecraft | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Nightly | 2 | 5.41% | 2 | 5.56% | |
| One More Day | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| O's Piano | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Oxygène | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Puzzlebox | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Shores | 2 | 5.41% | 2 | 5.56% | |
| Subwoofer Lullaby | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Sweden | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Watcher | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| Wet Hands | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
| yakusoku | 1 | 2.70% | 1 | 2.78% | |
In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:
| Title | Preview | Java Edition | Bedrock Edition | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | Probability | Weight | Probability | ||
| Aria Math | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Biome Fest | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Blind Spots | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Dreiton | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Haunt Muskie | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Taswell | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Key | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Subwoofer Lullaby | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Living Mice | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Haggstrom | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Minecraft | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Oxygène | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Mice on Venus | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Dry Hands | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Wet Hands | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Clark | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Sweden | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Danny | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Left to Bloom | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| One More Day | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Floating Dream | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Comforting Memories | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| A Familiar Room | 1 | 3.03% | — | — | |
| Featherfall | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Watcher | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Puzzlebox | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| komorebi | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| yakusoku | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Lilypad | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Below and Above | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| O's Piano | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Broken Clocks | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
| Fireflies | 1 | 3.03% | 1 | 3.13% | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
 Windswept Forest | windswept_forest |
biome |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| [No displayed name] | extreme_hills_plus_trees | 34 |
Biome definition
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Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
 |  | Adventuring Time | Discover 17 biomes. | Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world. | 40 | Silver |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
  | Adventuring Time | Discover every biome |
|
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Added the Extreme Hills+ biome. | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w19a | "Extreme Hills+" has been renamed to "Wooded Mountains". | |||||
| pre5 | The ID extreme_hills_with_trees has been changed to wooded_mountains. | ||||||
| 1.18 | 21w37a | Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 34. | |||||
| 21w40a | Renamed "Wooded Mountains" to "Windswept Forest". | ||||||
The ID wooded_mountains has been changed to windswept_forest. | |||||||
| 1.20 | 23w17a | "A Familiar Room" can now be played in the windswept forest. | |||||
| 1.21.5 | 25w02a | Pigs that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant. | |||||
| 25w05a | Added bushes, which can generate in windswept forests. | ||||||
| Cows that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant. | |||||||
| 25w06a | Chickens that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant. | ||||||
| 26.3 | snap1 | Added abandoned camps, which can generate in windswept forests. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.9.5 | Added extreme hills+. | ||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Added snow layers to extreme hills+. | |||||
| 1.18.0 | ? | Snowfall now occurs above Y=120±8 instead of 90±8. This change causes most snow to melt in old terrain. | |||||
| 1.21.60 Experiment | Preview 1.21.60.25 | Pigs that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant. | |||||
| 1.21.70 Experiment | Preview 1.21.70.20 | Added bushes, which can generate in windswept forests. | |||||
| Cows that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant. | |||||||
| Preview 1.21.70.22 | Chickens that spawn in windswept forests are now the cold variant. | ||||||
| 1.21.90 | Preview 1.21.90.26 | Added semi-humid volumetric fog, coolish color grading and cold lighting to windswept hills with Vibrant Visuals. | |||||
| 26.40 Experiment | Preview 26.40.27 | Added abandoned camps, which can generate in windswept forests. | |||||
| 26.50 | Preview 26.50.22 | All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented. | |||||
Legacy Console Edition
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | 1.0.1 | Added the Extreme Hills+ biome. |
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | Added extreme hills+. | ||||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Windswept Forest" or "Extreme Hills Plus Trees" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Screenshots
-
A windswept forest with cold cows -
An abandoned camp in a windswept forest -
A windswept forest single biome world
Historical screenshots
-
The old mountains and wooded mountains shown side by side -
Trees growing in a wooded mountains biome -
A wooded mountains single biome world before 1.18 -
Wooded mountains with ray tracing
See also
External links
- "Around the Block: Windswept Forest" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, April 27, 2023.
