Eroded Badlands

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The eroded badlands or mesa bryce biome is a variant of the badlands notable for its hoodoos.

Eroded badlands generate in place of regular badlands in positive weirdness when humidity values are low, which often results in eroded badlands getting separated from badlands by a river or dry valley.

Biomes that often border eroded badlands include deserts near lower terrain and oceans, regular badlands, savannas, savanna plateaus, plains, and uncommonly forests. Badlands can also generate in mountain peaks, where they can elevate up to Y=256 and border stony peaks. The deep dark and dripstone caves might generate beneath eroded badlands.

The biome generates similar to regular badlands, with red, orange, yellow, white, light gray, brown, and regular terracotta forming the landscape. Lower grounds are mostly made of red sand and red sandstone, with brown terracotta underneath. Dead bushes grow on terracotta and red sand, while cacti along with occasional cactus flowers only appear on red sand. Like all badlands biomes, gold ore generates more frequently and closer to the surface, and mineshafts made out of dark oak can also be found, often exposed to air.

Rainfall never occurs in eroded badlands, as the biome is arid, and lightning never strikes here.

Eroded badlands feature unique formations of terracotta hoodoos, narrow spires that rise up from the red sand floor of the biome's drainage basins. The hoodoos only generate at lower elevations. At higher elevations, the biome is indistinct from the regular badlands. The biome is intended to resemble the famous Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA, which features hoodoos across its landscape.

Mobs found within eroded badlands are the same as regular badlands: Farm animals can only spawn on player-created grass blocks in this biome, and generate their warm variants. Armadillos also inhabit eroded badlands.

With Vibrant Visuals, eroded 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 following mobs naturally spawn here:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Before Caves & Cliffs, eroded badlands were a mutation of the badlands biome, both having flat terrain and no plateaus. It generated similarly to badlands as an edge around rare dry temperature zone or as small spots within badlands plateaus, but surrounding biomes were often mutated as well into modified badlands plateaus and modified wooded badlands plateaus. Unlike regular badlands, no desert border generated next to temperate biomes, and beaches did generate next to oceans.

The hoodoos in eroded badlands often lined up with the larger badlands plateaus, although they could extend much higher.

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

• 👁 A river flowing through eroded badlands
  
  A river flowing through eroded badlands
• 👁 An eroded badlands single biome world
  
  An eroded badlands single biome world

• 👁 A rare occurrence of eroded badlands and ice spikes touching, which is no longer possible
  
  A rare occurrence of eroded badlands and ice spikes touching, which is no longer possible
• 👁 Eroded badlands as an edge biome between a modified badlands plateau and swamp hills
  
  Eroded badlands as an edge biome between a modified badlands plateau and swamp hills
• 👁 Hoodoos reaching higher altitudes than the usual badlands plateaus
  
  Hoodoos reaching higher altitudes than the usual badlands plateaus
• 👁 A beach biome separating eroded badlands from oceans
  
  A beach biome separating eroded badlands from oceans
• 👁 A jungle biome bordering eroded badlands
  
  A jungle biome bordering eroded badlands
• 👁 An eroded badlands single biome world before 1.18
  
  An eroded badlands single biome world before 1.18
• 👁 Eroded badlands with ray tracing
  
  Eroded badlands with ray tracing
• 👁 Eroded badlands generation prior to Pocket Edition v0.9.5 alpha
  
  Eroded badlands generation prior to Pocket Edition v0.9.5 alpha

• 👁 Eroded badlands next to an ocean
  
  Eroded badlands next to an ocean
• 👁 Eroded badlands at night
  
  Eroded badlands at night
• 👁 Development of eroded badlands
  
  Development of eroded badlands
• 👁 Sunny hopping across eroded badlands
  
  Sunny hopping across eroded badlands
• 👁 Eroded badlands in development
  
  Eroded badlands in development

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  Badlands
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  Wooded Badlands
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  Desert
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  Mountains
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  Terracotta

• "Around the Block: Eroded Badlands" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, November 14, 2022.