Wooded Badlands

Wooded Badlands

Structures	Abandoned Camp Badlands Mineshaft
Features	Oak
Blocks	Red Sand Red Sandstone‌[JE only] Terracotta Cactus Cactus Flower Short Dry Grass Tall Dry Grass Dead Bush Leaf Litter Grass Coarse Dirt 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
Foliage color	#9E814D‌[JE only]  #AEA42A‌[BE only]
Dry foliage color	#9E814D‌[JE only]  #A38046‌[BE only]
Water color	#3F76E4‌[JE only]  #55809E‌[BE only]
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Mesa
Lighting	Warmish
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Mesa

The wooded badlands or mesa plateau stone biome is a more humid variant of the badlands covered by grass blocks and coarse dirt on their plateaus, vegetated by small oak trees.

Generation

Wooded badlands generate at higher humidity values compared to the default badlands, which means that they can often be found bordering jungles and bamboo jungles. Near lower altitudes or oceans with stony shores, wooded badlands change to deserts.

They can also generate in mountain peaks, where they can elevate up to Y=256 and rarely border stony peaks.

Due to their high humidity values, wooded badlands almost always have lush caves beneath them, although dripstone caves may generate instead when they are far inland. Due to their low erosion value, wooded badlands have a high chance to generate the deep dark beneath them.

Description

Wooded badlands generate groves of trees at their plateaus, and therefore are the forest variant of the badlands. The uppermost layers of terrain consist of both grass blocks and coarse dirt, with oak trees and short grass growing on them, the former always appearing as small variants. Leaf litter and dead bushes commonly cover the ground under the trees. In wooded badlands, the grass and oak leaves take on a dull greenish-brown color darker than that of the savanna biome, giving it a droughted and weathered appearance.

The coarse dirt and grass layer on top begins generating above Y=97. Beneath, wooded badlands generate similar to regular badlands, with red sand, stained terracotta, dead bushes, and cacti making up the landscape. Additionally, gold ore has a higher chance of generating, like in other badlands biomes, and mineshafts made of dark oak planks generate much more elevated and exposed than regular mineshafts.

Abandoned camps sometimes generate in wooded badlands.

Despite being more lush, wooded badlands still count as arid biomes and never experience rainfall.

Armadillos live in wooded badlands, and the warm variants of farm animals can spawn on top of the wooded plateaus. Striped wolves exclusively spawn in here.

When a river cuts through wooded badlands and generates dry terrain with grass blocks, the wooded badlands biome will spawn oak trees in this river biome, even though it is not on a plateau and surrounded by red sand.

With Vibrant Visuals, wooded badlands 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
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄48	4
Warm Chicken	10⁄48	4
Warm Pig	10⁄48	4
Warm Cow	8⁄48	4
Armadillo	6⁄48	1–2
Striped Wolf	2⁄48	4–8
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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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
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Warm Pig	10	1–3
Warm Cow	8	2–3
Armadillo	6	1–2
Striped Wolf	2	4–8
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": 58, "mobs": [ { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Warm Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Glow Squid", "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": "4-8", "mob": "Striped Wolf", "weight": 2 } ], "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 wooded badlands:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Wooded Badlands	wooded_badlands	biome.minecraft.wooded_badlands

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	mesa_plateau_stone	38

Biome definition

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    "minecraft:gameplay/snow_golem_melts": true,
    "minecraft:visual/sky_color": "#6eb1ff"
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    "minecraft:canyon"
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  "downfall": 0.0,
  "effects": {
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    "grass_color": "#90814d",
    "water_color": "#3f76e4"
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  "features": [
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    [
      "minecraft:lake_lava_underground",
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    [
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    [
      "minecraft:monster_room",
      "minecraft:monster_room_deep"
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    [],
    [],
    [
      "minecraft:ore_dirt",
      "minecraft:ore_gravel",
      "minecraft:ore_granite_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_granite_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_diorite_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_diorite_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_andesite_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_andesite_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_tuff",
      "minecraft:ore_coal_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_coal_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_iron_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_iron_middle",
      "minecraft:ore_iron_small",
      "minecraft:ore_gold",
      "minecraft:ore_gold_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_redstone",
      "minecraft:ore_redstone_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond_medium",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond_large",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond_buried",
      "minecraft:ore_lapis",
      "minecraft:ore_lapis_buried",
      "minecraft:ore_copper",
      "minecraft:underwater_magma",
      "minecraft:ore_gold_extra",
      "minecraft:disk_sand",
      "minecraft:disk_clay",
      "minecraft:disk_gravel"
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    [],
    [
      "minecraft:spring_water",
      "minecraft:spring_lava"
    ],
    [
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      "minecraft:trees_badlands",
      "minecraft:patch_grass_badlands",
      "minecraft:patch_dry_grass_badlands",
      "minecraft:patch_dead_bush_badlands",
      "minecraft:brown_mushroom_normal",
      "minecraft:red_mushroom_normal",
      "minecraft:patch_sugar_cane_badlands",
      "minecraft:patch_pumpkin",
      "minecraft:patch_cactus_decorated",
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  "has_precipitation": false,
  "temperature": 2.0
}

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	Visit all of these 56​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/57​[upcoming] biomes: Badlands Bamboo Jungle Beach Birch Forest Cherry Grove Cold Ocean Dappled Forest Dark Forest Deep Cold Ocean Deep Dark Deep Frozen Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Deep Ocean Desert Dripstone Caves Eroded Badlands Flower Forest Forest Frozen Ocean Frozen Peaks Frozen River Grove Ice Caves Ice Spikes Jagged Peaks Jungle Lukewarm Ocean Lush Caves Mangrove Swamp Meadow Mushroom Fields Ocean Old Growth Birch Forest Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Pale Garden Plains River Savanna Savanna Plateau Snowy Beach Snowy Plains Snowy Slopes Snowy Taiga Sparse Jungle Stony Peaks Stony Shore Sunflower Plains Sulfur Caves Swamp Taiga Warm Ocean Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Hills Windswept Savanna Wooded Badlands The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Development

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Data history

Old generation

Before Caves & Cliffs, the wooded badlands plateau took up 2/3 of the rare dry temperature zones, alongside badlands plateaus which had no forest. Wooded badlands plateaus formed almost perfectly flat plateaus about 30 blocks above sea level, exposing different stained terracotta layers altered by its forest vegetation. When rivers cut through wooded badlands plateaus, they formed steep and narrow canyons exposing all terracotta layers.

The rare dry climate zone was surrounded by a regular badlands biome at lower altitudes, mostly covered by red sand, which had a thin desert border. Regular badlands or eroded badlands also generated as small spots inside wooded badlands plateaus, creating curved cliffs and much variation. No beaches generated next to oceans. Their mutation was the modified wooded badlands plateau.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A wooded badlands biome, as seen from the sky
• 
  A wooded badlands biome
• 
  Inside a wooded badlands biome
• 
  The Mesa Plateau seed template thumbnail, a wooded badlands biome
• 
  A river forming a canyon inside a wooded badlands biome
• 
  A large cheese cave with aquifers under a wooded badlands biome
• 
  An abandoned camp in wooded badlands
• 
  A wooded badlands single biome world

Historical screenshots

• 
  The view atop an old wooded badlands plateau
• 
  A wooded badlands plateau single biome world before 1.18. Because this was a plateau biome, the surface was roughly 20 blocks higher than sea level.
• 
  A ruined portal in an old wooded badlands plateau
• 
  A wooded badlands plateau biome next to a regular badlands biome before 1.18, forming a steep cliff
• 
  A wooded badlands plateau with ray tracing

Mojang images

• 
  A large cliff in wooded badlands
• 
  A warm pig inside a wooded badlands biome at sunset
• 
  A large valley in wooded badlands
• 
  A large floating island covered with wooded badlands

See also

• Badlands
• Eroded Badlands
• Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau
• Desert
• Mountains
• Terracotta

External links

• "Around the Block: Wooded Badlands" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, August 11, 2023.