Birch Forest Hills

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This feature was present in earlier versions of Java Edition, but has since been removed.

Birch Forest Hills

👁 Birch Forest Hills.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Birch Forest Hills'

👁 Birch Forest Hills Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Birch Forest Hills'

Climate
Features	👁 Image Birch 👁 Image Birch with Bee Nest
Blocks	👁 Image Grass Block 👁 Image Bush 👁 Image Rose Bush 👁 Image Lilac 👁 Image Peony 👁 Image Lily of the Valley
Temperature	0.6
Downfall	0.6
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#88BB67
Foliage color	#6BA941
Dry foliage color	#A37246
Water color	#3F76E4‌^{[JE only]} #0A74C4‌^{[BE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Default
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Default

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

Description

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Old

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Like all hills biomes, the birch forest hills featured hillier terrain than regular birch forests, being identical to them in every other aspect. It was fairly common due to its wide spread.

Current

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

They appear similarly to the old birch forest hills. Unlike regular birch forests, wildflowers do not generate here, although bushes do.

Mobs

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Birch forest hills use the same mob spawning chances as birch forests.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

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

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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In **Bedrock Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
👁 Image Creeper	100	1
👁 Image Slime^{[note 1]}	100	1
👁 Image Spider	100	1
👁 Image Zombie	95	2–4
👁 Image Skeleton	80	1–2
👁 Image Enderman	10	1–2
👁 Image Witch	5	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
👁 Image Sheep	12	2–3
👁 Image Chicken	10	2–4
👁 Image Glow Squid	10	2–4
👁 Image Pig	10	1–3
👁 Image Cow	8	2–3
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	2

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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Sounds

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Music

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

Filename in Minecraft	Gameplay	Soundtrack Title	Soundtrack	Track preview
piano1.ogg	Overworld	"Dry Hands"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 12	3
piano2.ogg	Overworld	"Wet Hands"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 13	3
piano3.ogg	Overworld	"Mice on Venus"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 11	3
hal1.ogg	Overworld	"Subwoofer Lullaby"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 3	3
hal2.ogg	Overworld	"Living Mice"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 5	3
hal3.ogg	Overworld	"Haggstrom"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 7	3
hal4.ogg	Overworld	"Danny"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 21	3
calm1.ogg	Overworld	"Minecraft"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 8	3
calm2.ogg	Overworld	"Clark"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 14	3
calm3.ogg	Overworld	"Sweden"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 18	3
nuance1.ogg	Overworld	"Key"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 1	3
nuance2.ogg	Overworld	"Oxygène"	Minecraft - Volume Alpha No. 9	3
left_to_bloom.ogg	Lush Caves, Meadow, and the Overworld	"Left to Bloom"	Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 4	3
one_more_day.ogg	Lush Caves, Meadow, Snowy Slopes, Frozen Peaks, and the Overworld	"One More Day"	Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 6	3
comforting_memories.ogg	Grove and the Overworld	"Comforting Memories"	Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 9	3
floating_dream.ogg	Lush Caves, Jagged Peaks, and the Overworld	"Floating Dream"	Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 8	3
aerie.ogg	Lush Caves, Forest, Dark Forest, Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest, Jungle, Swamp, Old Growth Taiga	"Aerie"	Minecraft: The Wild Update (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 2	1
firebugs.ogg	Lush Caves, Forest, Dark Forest, Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest, Jungle, Swamp, Old Growth Taiga	"Firebugs"	Minecraft: The Wild Update (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 1	1
labyrinthine.ogg	Lush Caves, Forest, Dark Forest, Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest, Jungle, Swamp, Old Growth Taiga	"Labyrinthine"	Minecraft: The Wild Update (Original Game Soundtrack) No. 3	1

Data values

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ID

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Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite birch-forest-hills.png: Sprite image for birch-forest-hills in Minecraft [No displayed name]	`birch_forest_hills`	`28`

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.7.2	13w36a	Added birch forest hills, along with many other biomes.
1.14	18w43a	Added lilies of the valley, which can generate in birch forest hills.
1.15.2	Pre-Release 1	Birch forest hills now generate with bee nests.
1.16.2	20w28a	Birch trees now do not spawn correctly in the birch forest hills biome.
1.16.2	20w29a	Birch trees now spawn correctly in the birch forest hills biomes.
1.18	Experimental Snapshot 1	The birch forest hills no longer generates naturally.
1.18	21w40a	The birch forest hills biome has been removed.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added birch forest hills, along with many other biomes.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0	beta 1.9.0.0	Added lilies of the valley, which can be found in birch forest hills.
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.57	Bee nests now have a small chance to generate in birch forest hills.
1.17.30 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.17.30.23	The birch forest hills biome no longer generates naturally.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.20	Added bushes, which can generate in birch forest hills.

Legacy Console Edition

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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 birch forest hills, along with many other biomes.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.18			21w37a				Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 28.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Birch Forest Hills" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

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👁 A birch forest hills in Bedrock Edition.

A birch forest hills in Bedrock Edition.
👁 Ditto.

Ditto.
👁 A birch forest hills single biome world.

A birch forest hills single biome world.
👁 Birch forest hills with ray tracing.

Birch forest hills with ray tracing.

Navigation

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Biomes

👁 Image Overworld
Landforms	👁 Image Beach 👁 Image Snowy 👁 Image Stony Shore 👁 Image River 👁 Image Frozen
Snowy	👁 Image Frozen Peaks 👁 Image Grove 👁 Image Jagged Peaks 👁 Image Snowy Plains 👁 Image Ice Spikes 👁 Image Snowy Slopes 👁 Image Snowy Taiga
Cold	👁 Image Taiga 👁 Image Old Growth Pine 👁 Image Old Growth Spruce 👁 Image Windswept Hills 👁 Image Forest 👁 Image Gravelly 👁 Image Dappled Forest^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}
Temperate	👁 Image Birch Forest 👁 Image Old Growth 👁 Image Cherry Grove 👁 Image Dark Forest 👁 Image Pale Garden 👁 Image Forest 👁 Image Flower 👁 Image Meadow 👁 Image Mushroom Fields 👁 Image Plains 👁 Image Sunflower 👁 Image Swamp
Warm	👁 Image Badlands 👁 Image Eroded 👁 Image Wooded 👁 Image Desert 👁 Image Jungle 👁 Image Bamboo 👁 Image Sparse 👁 Image Mangrove Swamp 👁 Image Savanna 👁 Image Plateau 👁 Image Windswept 👁 Image Stony Peaks
Ocean	👁 Image Frozen Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Cold Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Lukewarm Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Warm Ocean
Caves	👁 Image Deep Dark 👁 Image Dripstone Caves 👁 Image Lush Caves 👁 Image Sulfur Caves

👁 Image The Nether
👁 Image Basalt Deltas 👁 Image Crimson Forest 👁 Image Nether Wastes 👁 Image Soul Sand Valley 👁 Image Warped Forest

👁 Image
The End

Central	👁 Image The End
Outer	👁 Image End Barrens 👁 Image End Highlands 👁 Image End Midlands 👁 Image Small End Islands

👁 Image
The End

👁 BiomeSprite sky.png: Sprite image for sky in Minecraft
Other

Specialized

JE only	👁 Image The Void

Unused/removed

Hills	👁 Image 👁 Image Desert Hills 👁 Image Jungle Hills 👁 Image Bamboo 👁 Image Snowy Mountains 👁 Image Taiga Hills 👁 Image Giant Tree 👁 Image Snowy 👁 Image Wooded Hills
Modified	👁 Image Dark Forest Hills 👁 Image Desert Lakes 👁 Image Modified Badlands Plateau 👁 Image Wooded 👁 Image Modified Jungle 👁 Image Edge 👁 Image Swamp Hills 👁 Image Taiga Mountains 👁 Image Snowy
Modified hills	👁 Image Giant Spruce Taiga Hills 👁 Image Gravelly Mountains+ 👁 Image Shattered Savanna Plateau 👁 Image Tall Birch Hills
Other	👁 Image Badlands Plateau 👁 Image Deep Warm Ocean 👁 Image Mountain Edge 👁 Image Mushroom Field Shore
BE only	👁 Image Legacy Frozen Ocean

Proto-biomes

Removed	👁 Image Ice Desert 👁 Image Rainforest 👁 Image Seasonal Forest 👁 Image Shrubland 👁 Image Tundra
Unimplemented	👁 Image Sky

Joke

20w14∞	👁 Image `_generated:id` 👁 Image Between 👁 Image Biome For Player With No Time For Nonsense 👁 Image Shapes
24w14potato	👁 Image Arboretum 👁 Image Corruption 👁 Image Fields 👁 Image Hash 👁 Image Wasteland
Others	👁 Image Hub 👁 Image The Moon

Unused features

Items

JE only	👁 Image Uncraftable Potion 👁 Image Splash 👁 Image Lingering 👁 Image Arrow 👁 Image Potion of Luck 👁 Image Splash 👁 Image Lingering 👁 Image Arrow
LCE only	👁 Image debug_fourj_item

Blocks

👁 Image
Petrified Oak Slab

BE only	👁 Image Chalkboard
BE & Edu only	👁 Image Camera 👁 Image Chiseled Purpur 👁 Image Deprecated Anvil 👁 Image Glowing Obsidian 👁 Image Nether Reactor Core 👁 Image tile.deprecated_purpur_block_2.name 👁 Image Old Stonecutter 👁 Image Unknown 👁 Image tile.reserved6.name 👁 Image tile.info_update.name 👁 Image tile.info_update2.name

Entities

JE only	👁 Image Giant 👁 Image Illusioner 👁 Image Killer Bunny 👁 Image Minecart with Monster Spawner
BE only	👁 Image Elder Guardian Ghost 👁 Image Old Villager 👁 Image Zombie 👁 Image Tripod Camera

Biomes

BE only

Effects

👁 Image
Health Boost

JE only	👁 Image Luck 👁 Image Bad Luck

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