Snowy Taiga Hills

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Snowy Taiga Hills

👁 Snowy Taiga Hills.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Snowy Taiga Hills'

👁 Snowy Taiga Hills Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Snowy Taiga Hills'

Climate
Structures	👁 Image Taiga Village‌^{[BE only]} 👁 Image Pillager Outpost‌^{[BE only]}
Features	👁 Image Spruce 👁 Image Pine
Blocks	👁 Image Grass Block 👁 Image Snow 👁 Image Fern 👁 Image Sweet Berry Bush 👁 Image Large Fern
Temperature	-0.5
Downfall	0.4
Precipitation	Yes
Snow accumulation‌^{[BE only]}	0.125-0.5
Colors
Grass color	#80B497
Foliage color	#60A17B
Dry foliage color	#8F7A5A
Water color	#3D57D6‌^{[JE only]} #245B78‌^{[BE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Cold
Volumetric fog	Semi-humid
Color grading	Cold

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The snowy taiga hills or cold taiga hills biome is a hills variant of the snowy taiga 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 other hills biomes, snowy taiga hills featured hillier, more erratic terrain. These hills were somewhat steep, making this variant difficult for survival. Although this was a snowy biome, rivers generated inside snowy taiga hills were not replaced by frozen rivers. Pillager outposts and villages generated in this biome,‌^{[BE only]} however, unlike the regular snowy taiga, igloos didn't generate here.

Current

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

They appear similar to the current snowy taiga. Animals spawn here with their cold variants and wolves use their ashen variant. Unlike regular snowy taigas, trail ruins do not generate. A higher snow accumulation value causes most snow to generate stacked.

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

Mobs

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Snowy taiga hills use the same mob spawning chances as snowy taigas.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
👁 Image Sheep	¹²⁄₆₀	4
👁 Image Pig	¹⁰⁄₆₀	4
👁 Image Chicken	¹⁰⁄₆₀	4
👁 Image Cow	⁸⁄₆₀	4
👁 Image Wolf	⁸⁄₆₀	4
👁 Image Rabbit^{[note 1]}	⁴⁄₆₀	2–3
👁 Image Fox^{[note 2]}	⁸⁄₆₀	2–4
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 3]}	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Enderman	¹⁰⁄₅₁₅	1–4
👁 Image Witch	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	8

↑ 80% of spawned rabbits are white and 20% are black and white.
↑ The foxes are snowy foxes.
↑ 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 Ashen Wolf	13	4
👁 Image Sheep	12	2–3
👁 Image Cold Chicken	10	2–4
👁 Image Glow Squid	10	2–4
👁 Image Cold Pig	10	1–3
👁 Image Cold Cow	8	2–3
👁 Image Snow Fox	8	2–4
👁 Image Rabbit	4	2–3
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	2

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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Data values

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ID

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Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite snowy-taiga-hills.png: Sprite image for snowy-taiga-hills in Minecraft [No displayed name]	`cold_taiga_hills`	`31`

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.7.2	13w36a	Added cold taiga hills.
1.13	18w19a	Renamed Cold Taiga Hills to Snowy Taiga Hills.
1.14	18w49a	Sweet berry bushes are now rarely generated in snowy taiga hills.
1.14	19w07a	Added foxes, which may spawn in snowy taiga hills and have white fur.
1.18	Experimental Snapshot 1	Snowy taiga hills no longer generates.
1.18	21w40a	Snowy taiga hills have been removed.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added cold taiga hills, along with many other biomes.
v0.9.0	build 1	Added wolves which may spawn in cold taiga hills.
v0.13.0	build 1	Added rabbits which may spawn in cold taiga hills.
v0.15.0	build 1	Villages now may generate in cold taiga hills.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Added pillager outposts which can generate in snowy taiga hills.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Added sweet berry bushes which rarely generate in snowy taiga hills.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Added patrols which may spawn in snowy taiga hills.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.1	Added foxes which may spawn in snowy taiga hills.
1.18.0	beta 1.18.0.22	Snowy taiga hills no longer generates naturally.
1.20.80	Preview 1.20.80.21	Wolves that spawn in snowy taiga hills are now the ashen variant.
1.21.60 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.60.25	Pigs that spawn in snowy taiga hills are now the cold variant.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.20	Cows that spawn in snowy taiga hills are now the cold variant.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.22	Chickens that spawn in snowy taiga hills are now the cold variant.
1.21.90	Preview 1.21.90.26	Added semi-humid volumetric fog, cold color grading, and cold lighting to snowy taiga hills with Vibrant Visuals.

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		Added cold taiga hills, along with many other biomes.
			1.91				Added pillager outposts, which can spawn in snowy taiga hills.
			1.91				Added sweet berry bushes, which rarely generate in snowy taiga hills.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.13			pre5				Changed the ID `taiga_cold_hills` to `snowy_taiga_hills`.
1.18			21w37a				Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 31.

Issues

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

Gallery

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👁 Snowy taiga hills.

Snowy taiga hills.
👁 A pillager outpost in snowy taiga hills.

A pillager outpost in snowy taiga hills.
👁 A village in snowy taiga hills during snowfall, in Bedrock Edition.

A village in snowy taiga hills during snowfall, in Bedrock Edition.
👁 Snowfall in snowy taiga hills in Bedrock Edition.

Snowfall in snowy taiga hills in Bedrock Edition.
👁 A snowy taiga hills single biome world.

A snowy taiga hills single biome world.
👁 Snowy taiga hills with ray tracing.

Snowy taiga 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 Birch Forest Hills 👁 Image Desert Hills 👁 Image Jungle Hills 👁 Image Bamboo 👁 Image Snowy Mountains 👁 Image Taiga Hills 👁 Image Giant Tree 👁 Image 👁 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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