Snowy Mountains

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For the current snow-topped mountains, see Frozen Peaks and Jagged Peaks.

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Snowy Mountains

👁 Snowy Mountains.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Snowy Mountains'

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

Climate
Features	👁 Image Spruce
Blocks	👁 Image Snow 👁 Image Grass Block 👁 Image Ice
Temperature	0.0
Downfall	0.5
Precipitation	Yes
Snow accumulation‌^{[BE only]}	0.125-0.25
Colors
Grass color	#80B497
Foliage color	#60A17B
Dry foliage color	#8F7A5A
Water color	#3F76E4‌^{[JE only]} #1156A7‌^{[BE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Cold
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Cold

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The snowy mountains or ice mountains biome is a hills variant of the snowy plains 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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These hills were no taller than most other hill biomes in the game, despite the name "mountains". As a hills variant, the biome was almost similar to the snowy plains. However, rivers generated inside this biome were not replaced by frozen rivers. No structures generated in this biome, though polar bears, rabbits and strays spawned. Caves frequently generated on the sides of the mountains. In Bedrock Edition, no hostile mobs other than strays, skeletons and slimes spawned here.

Current

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In Bedrock Edition, snowy mountains 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 old snowy mountains, with the difference that zombie horsemen can spawn at night.

With Vibrant Visuals, snowy mountains use default atmospherics with a strong cold color grading, making the biome appear icy blue. They have cold sunlight, which appears slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

Mobs

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Snowy mountains use the same mob spawning chances as snowy plains.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
👁 Image Rabbit^{[note 1]}	¹⁰⁄₁₁	2–3
👁 Image Polar Bear	¹⁄₁₁	1–2
Monster category
👁 Image Spider	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Zombie	⁹⁵⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Stray	⁸⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Creeper	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Slime^{[note 2]}	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Skeleton	²⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Enderman	¹⁰⁄₅₁₅	1–4
👁 Image Witch	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	8

↑ 80% of spawned rabbits are white and 20% are black and white.
↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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In **Bedrock Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
👁 Image Slime^{[note 1]}	100	1
👁 Image Stray	96	1–2
👁 Image Skeleton	24	1–2
👁 Image Zombie Horse^{[note 2]}	5	1
Creature category
👁 Image Glow Squid	10	2–4
👁 Image Rabbit	4	2–3
👁 Image Polar Bear	1	1–2

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
↑ Always spawns ridden by a zombie with an iron spear.

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Data values

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ID

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Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite snowy-mountains.png: Sprite image for snowy-mountains in Minecraft [No displayed name]	`ice_mountains`	`13`

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.0.0	Beta 1.9 Prerelease	Added frozen biomes, including ice mountains.
1.3.1	12w19a	Changed height scale and height depth of hills biomes, including ice mountains, to make hill biomes slightly taller.
1.7.2	13w36a	Ice mountains are now required for the new "Adventuring Time" achievement.
1.13	18w19a	Renamed "Ice Mountains" to "Snowy Mountains".
1.18	Experimental Snapshot 1	Snowy mountains no longer generate naturally.
1.18	21w40a	Removed snowy mountains.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added many biomes, including ice mountains.
Bedrock Edition
1.18.0	beta 1.18.0.22	Ice mountains no longer generate naturally.
1.21.90	Preview 1.21.90.26	Added cold color grading and lighting to snowy mountains with Vibrant Visuals.
1.21.100	Preview 1.21.100.20	Trees now generate more frequently.

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 Ice Mountains variant.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.13			pre5				The ID `ice_mountains` has been changed to `snowy_mountains`.
1.18			21w37a				Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 13.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Ice Mountains" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

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👁 Rivers in snowy mountains are not frozen.

Rivers in snowy mountains are not frozen.
👁 A village that generated right next to a snowy mountains biome.

A village that generated right next to a snowy mountains biome.
👁 Snowfall in a snowy mountains biome in Bedrock Edition.

Snowfall in a snowy mountains biome in Bedrock Edition.
👁 A snowy mountains single biome world.

A snowy mountains single biome world.
👁 Snowy mountains with ray tracing.

Snowy mountains with ray tracing.

Navigation

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Biomes

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Landforms	👁 Image Beach 👁 Image Snowy 👁 Image Stony Shore 👁 Image River 👁 Image Frozen
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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]}
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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

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The End

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

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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 👁 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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Contents

Description

Old

Current

Mobs

Data values

ID

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

Data history

Issues

Gallery

See also

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