Badlands

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The badlands or mesa are arid-land mountainous biomes, featuring red sand and mounds of terracotta bands, coming in various colors. Badlands generate in arid lands next to deserts and their eroded and wooded variants.

Badlands biomes generate at the highest temperature and lower erosion, meaning they border deserts near oceans with stony shores at lower altitudes. Badlands biomes often border their wooded and eroded variants. Near lower temperature zones, they border savannas, forests, and plains.

Badlands generate from mid-altitude plateaus and valleys up to the highest mountain peaks where they can elevate up to Y=256 and border stony peaks. Rivers are often in deep fjords, wide valleys with almost no water, or they do not generate at all.

Because badlands generate in mountainous terrain, they often border dripstone caves and deep dark underground.

On the higher grounds, badlands biomes feature large mounds of terracotta bands, in layers of various colors; specifically, red, orange, yellow, white, light gray, brown, and regular terracotta may all naturally generate. The topmost layer of stained terracotta is often weathered into regular terracotta.

At low altitudes, the terrain surface is weathered into one layer of red sand (rarely red sandstone if floating),‌^{[JE only]} with orange terracotta under it extending to Y=63. In Java Edition, the underwater surface is covered with a layer of orange terracotta, and in shallow water, sometimes interspersed with some white terracotta, while in Bedrock Edition, it is composed entirely of stone. Deeper water bodies generate gravel like in any other biome.

Cacti and dead bushes generate frequently across the landscape, similarly to deserts, but dead bushes are more common than in deserts, and cacti are rarer, as they may only generate on the red sand valleys. Sugar canes may generate along water. Cacti have a chance of generating a cactus flower on top.

Mineshafts generate at much higher elevations in these biomes, often exposed to fresh air. Their supporting planks and fences are made of dark oak rather than oak. Additionally, extra gold ore generates up to elevation Y=255 (rather than the normal Y=32), and at much higher rates than the rest of the world.

As badlands are arid-land biomes, rainfall never occurs here, but dry thunderstorms still allow hostile mobs to spawn.

Armadillos spawn in badlands, as well as warm animal variants, but the latter can only spawn on player-created grass blocks.

With Vibrant Visuals, 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.

The colors of specific terracotta layers in these biomes are almost the same throughout all badlands biomes for any particular world. Each world seed generates 192 layers of terracotta for each Y-coordinate to pick from^[1]. At each horizontal coordinate, each layer may shift up and down by at most ±7 blocks based on noise.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

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These music tracks play while the player is in the badlands:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Before Caves & Cliffs, the badlands biome generated only as an edge around all wooded badlands plateaus and badlands plateaus, or as small spots within those biomes. It had mostly flat terrain at the red sand levels, occasionally topped with terracotta layers, but when next to the plateau biomes, steep eroded cliffs formed. Beaches did not generate next to oceans, and the biome was separated from other land biomes by a thin desert border. It was often replaced by eroded badlands as a mutation.

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

• Regular oak mineshafts do not generate in the badlands biomes, but they can generate into one if a neighboring biome generates the mineshaft.
• Although dark oak mineshafts generate in badlands, dark oaks do not grow in this biome.
• If a badlands biome generates above y level 256, it generates orange terracotta as the default rather than undyed terracotta. This cannot be seen through normal gameplay as the game cuts off any terrain above y level 256, however it can be seen on Java Edition using an amplified world.

• 👁 Ground-view of a badlands biome
  
  Ground-view of a badlands biome
• 👁 Badlands with a lake
  
  Badlands with a lake
• 👁 A badlands cave
  
  A badlands cave
• 👁 Jungle and badlands biome generated next to each other
  
  Jungle and badlands biome generated next to each other
• 👁 A badlands mineshaft exposed on the surface
  
  A badlands mineshaft exposed on the surface
• 👁 A ruined portal in badlands
  
  A ruined portal in badlands
• 👁 A player riding a horse into an overpass, with several monsters nearby
  
  A player riding a horse into an overpass, with several monsters nearby
• 👁 A large mountain in badlands
  
  A large mountain in badlands
• 👁 Side view of a large badlands mountain
  
  Side view of a large badlands mountain
• 👁 A badlands single biome world
  
  A badlands single biome world

• 👁 A very small old badlands clearing
  
  A very small old badlands clearing
• 👁 Older badlands bordering an ocean, with no beaches
  
  Older badlands bordering an ocean, with no beaches
• 👁 Transition layers between temperate biomes and badlands plateaus
  
  Transition layers between temperate biomes and badlands plateaus
• 👁 A relatively large badlands clearing with a river
  
  A relatively large badlands clearing with a river
• 👁 A badlands single biome world before 1.18
  
  A badlands single biome world before 1.18
• 👁 A village in the desert border surrounding badlands
  
  A village in the desert border surrounding badlands
• 👁 A pillager outpost next to a badlands biome
  
  A pillager outpost next to a badlands biome
• 👁 An exposed cave spider spawner on a badlands cliff
  
  An exposed cave spider spawner on a badlands cliff
• 👁 Badlands with ray tracing
  
  Badlands with ray tracing

• 👁 The first image of the mesa
  
  The first image of the mesa
• 👁 Caves cutting through hardened clay in the mesa
  
  Caves cutting through hardened clay in the mesa
• 👁 An extremely tiny badlands biome
  
  An extremely tiny badlands biome
• 👁 A river cave entrance in a badlands biome
  
  A river cave entrance in a badlands biome
• 👁 A lake in badlands with Vibrant Visuals
  
  A lake in badlands with Vibrant Visuals

• 👁 Official logo of the Badlands biome used during the promotion of the Biome Vote 2019
  
  Official logo of the Badlands biome used during the promotion of the Biome Vote 2019
• 👁 Noor looking out over a badland with several wolves
  
  Noor looking out over a badland with several wolves
• 👁 Artwork of a creeper roaming in a badlands
  
  Artwork of a creeper roaming in a badlands
• 👁 Artwork of a cave spider lurking in a badlands mineshaft
  
  Artwork of a cave spider lurking in a badlands mineshaft
• 👁 Pixel art of Sunny, Steve and Ari building a nether portal in a badlands
  
  Pixel art of Sunny, Steve and Ari building a nether portal in a badlands
• 👁 Crown Mesa, a badlands settlement from Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  Crown Mesa, a badlands settlement from Minecraft: Story Mode
• 👁 A render of a badlands from Minecraft Earth
  
  A render of a badlands from Minecraft Earth
• 👁 Narrator and MARILLA confronting Jonathan Minecraft in a badland, a scene from Around the Minecraft World in 80 Biomes
  
  Narrator and MARILLA confronting Jonathan Minecraft in a badland, a scene from Around the Minecraft World in 80 Biomes
• 👁 Durango and River in a badlands
  
  Durango and River in a badlands
• 👁 The badlands as seen in Minecraft Legends.
  
  The badlands as seen in Minecraft Legends.

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

• "Around the Block: Badlands" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 8, 2021.