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Mangrove Swamp

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Mangrove Swamp

👁 Mangrove Swamp.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Mangrove Swamp'

👁 Mangrove Swamp Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Mangrove Swamp'

Climate
Features	👁 Image Mangrove tree 👁 Image Fossil
Blocks	👁 Image Mud 👁 Image Grass Block 👁 Image Dead Bush 👁 Image Water 👁 Image Lily Pad 👁 Image Seagrass 👁 Image Firefly Bush
Temperature	0.8
Downfall	0.9
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#6A7039 #4C763C
Foliage color	#8DB127
Dry foliage color	#7B5334
Water color	#3A7A6A
Water fog color	#4D7A60
Water fog distance	30‌^{[BE only]} Decreased‌^{[JE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Mangrove Swamp
Lighting	Warmish
Volumetric fog	Humid
Color grading	Mangrove Swamp

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The mangrove swamp is a wetland biome populated with mud and mangroves where slimes, frogs, and bogged can spawn.

Generation

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Mangrove swamp biomes are usually found in flat terrain near sea level in regions with very high erosion values, and they also replace rivers in these areas. Mangrove swamps never directly border the ocean, but their water bodies are often connected.

They generate replacing swamps in higher temperature zones, next to savannas, all jungles, and deserts, and less commonly forests and plains. Mangrove swamps are often surrounded by windswept savanna ranges. Within the biome, some higher patches of temperate land biomes may generate, allowing villages to touch them.

Description

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Mangrove swamp biomes are a variant of the swamp biome featuring dense mangrove trees which vary in height and sometimes contain a bee nest with bees. The floor is mainly composed of mud blocks with occasional grass block or dirt disks. Seagrass litters the bottom of flooded areas, and lily pads dot the water's surface.

In Java Edition, unlike most Overworld biomes, mushrooms do not generate here. The grass has the same color as the normal swamp, determined by a temperature gradient, but leaves and vines have a unique light green tint, and the water is teal rather than gray. Warm frogs and tropical fish are the only passive mobs that spawn in this biome.

Additional slimes may spawn in mangrove swamps during the night, exclusively between Y=50 and Y=70. Their spawn rate is affected by the moon phase, spawning most often during full moon and not spawning at all during new moon. Bogged add an additional threat to the night, thunderstorms, or caves.‌^{[JE only]}

Mangrove swamp biomes, alongside deserts and regular swamps, can generate fossils underground. However, swamp huts do not generate here.

Villagers that spawn in mangrove swamps get a unique swamp-themed look. While villages don't generate in swamps, they are commonly found bordering one with some houses in the biome. Otherwise, swamp villagers can only spawn by curing zombie villagers in this biome or breeding villagers here.

Underwater fog is thick here, making visibility lower underwater. With Vibrant Visuals, mangrove swamps use a strong humid volumetric fog setting similar to jungles, which fades the distance in an orange tint, and moonlight is colored more vibrant blue. Mangrove swamps have brighter blue daytime sky colors, and a slightly warmer color grading, but not as much as jungles.

Mobs

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The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
👁 Image Creeper	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₆	4
👁 Image Skeleton	⁷⁰⁄₅₁₆	4
👁 Image Slime^{[note 1]}	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₆	4
👁 Image Spider	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₆	4
👁 Image Zombie	⁹⁵⁄₅₁₆	4
👁 Image Bogged	³⁰⁄₅₁₆	4
👁 Image Enderman	¹⁰⁄₅₁₆	1–4
👁 Image Witch	⁵⁄₅₁₆	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	⁵⁄₅₁₆	1
👁 Image Slime^{[note 1]}	¹⁄₅₁₆	1
Creature category
👁 Image Warm Frog	1	2–5
Underground water creature category
👁 Image Glow Squid	1	4–6
Water ambient category
👁 Image Tropical Fish	1	8
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	8

↑ ^a ^b Slimes are spawned twice, once for slime chunks and once for the surface.

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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	1
👁 Image Bogged	40	1–2
👁 Image Enderman	10	1–4
👁 Image Witch	5	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	5	1
Creature category
👁 Image Warm Frog	1	2–5
Underground water creature category
👁 Image Glow Squid	1	2–4
Water creature category
👁 Image Tropical Fish^{[note 2]}	25	3–5
👁 Image Tropical Fish^{[note 2]}	25	1–3
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	2

↑ Slimes are spawned once, for both slime chunks and the surface.
↑ ^a ^b Tropical fish are spawned twice.

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Sounds

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Music

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These music tracks play while the player is in the mangrove swamp:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
Title	Preview	Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
Ebb	2	40%	—	—
Shores	—	—	2	40%
Aerie	1	20%	1	20%
Firebugs	1	20%	1	20%
Labyrinthine	1	20%	1	20%

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
👁 BiomeSprite mangrove-swamp.png: Sprite image for mangrove-swamp in Minecraft Mangrove Swamp	`mangrove_swamp`	`biome.minecraft.mangrove_swamp`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite mangrove-swamp.png: Sprite image for mangrove-swamp in Minecraft [No displayed name]	`mangrove_swamp`	`191`

Achievements

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Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	Adventuring Time	Discover 17 biomes.	Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.	40	Silver

Advancements

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Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	Adventuring Time	Discover every biome	Visit all of these 55^{[until: Third Drop 2026]}/56^[upcoming] biomes: 👁 Image Badlands 👁 Image Bamboo Jungle 👁 Image Beach 👁 Image Birch Forest 👁 Image Cherry Grove 👁 Image Cold Ocean 👁 Image Dark Forest 👁 Image Deep Cold Ocean 👁 Image Deep Dark 👁 Image Deep Frozen Ocean 👁 Image Deep Lukewarm Ocean 👁 Image Deep Ocean 👁 Image Desert 👁 Image Dripstone Caves 👁 Image Eroded Badlands 👁 Image Flower Forest 👁 Image Forest 👁 Image Frozen Ocean 👁 Image Frozen Peaks 👁 Image Frozen River 👁 Image Grove 👁 Image Ice Spikes 👁 Image Jagged Peaks 👁 Image Jungle 👁 Image Lukewarm Ocean 👁 Image Lush Caves 👁 Image 👁 Image Meadow 👁 Image Mushroom Fields 👁 Image Ocean 👁 Image Old Growth Birch Forest 👁 Image Old Growth Pine Taiga 👁 Image Old Growth Spruce Taiga 👁 Image Pale Garden 👁 Image Plains 👁 Image River 👁 Image Savanna 👁 Image Savanna Plateau 👁 Image Snowy Beach 👁 Image Snowy Plains 👁 Image Snowy Slopes 👁 Image Snowy Taiga 👁 Image Sparse Jungle 👁 Image Stony Peaks 👁 Image Stony Shore 👁 Image Sunflower Plains 👁 Image Sulfur Caves 👁 Image Swamp 👁 Image Taiga 👁 Image Warm Ocean 👁 Image Windswept Forest 👁 Image Windswept Gravelly Hills 👁 Image Windswept Hills 👁 Image Windswept Savanna 👁 Image Wooded Badlands The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

Videos

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History

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Announcement

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October 16, 2021							The Wild Update was announced at Minecraft Live 2021, showing in-game clips of previously-announced Biome Vote content, along with new features such as mud, fireflies, tadpoles, and frogs.

Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.19	22w14a	Added mangrove swamps.
	22w15a	Mud now generates all the way from the surface down to stone in mangrove swamps.
		Large mangrove trees are much more common than smaller ones, making navigation through mangrove swamps much easier overall.
		Tropical fish now spawn in mangrove swamps.
		Moss carpets can generate on top of mangrove roots.
		The water fog color has been changed to match the color of the water of mangrove swamps.
	Pre-release 1	Reduced the amount of trees in the mangrove swamp.
1.20	23w17a	"A Familiar Room" can now be played in swamp and mangrove swamp.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21	24w07a	Bogged now spawn in mangrove swamps.
1.21.5	25w09a	The Firefly Bush can now generate near water in mangrove swamps, like other biomes with water.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.19.0	Preview 1.19.0.21	Added mangrove swamps.
	Preview 1.19.0.25	Mangrove swamp biome size and placement now matches Java Edition.
		Mud generates all the way from the surface down to stone in mangrove swamps.
		Large mangrove trees are much more common than smaller ones, making navigation through mangrove swamps much easier overall.
		Tropical fish now spawn in mangrove swamps.
		Moss carpets can generate on top of mangrove roots.
		Water color in mangrove swamp is now cyan instead of yellow like in the normal swamp.
1.20.70 Experiment Update 1.21	Preview 1.20.70.24	Bogged now spawn in mangrove swamps.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.21	Monsters that normally spawn in the Overworld (e.g. zombies, endermen, creepers etc, with the exception of skeletons) now spawn in mangrove swamps.
	Preview 1.21.60.23	Mangroves are now sparser.
		Mangroves now generate over water.
		Lily pads now generate more frequently.
1.21.90	Preview 1.21.90.26	Added humid volumetric fog, unique color grading and atmospherics, and warmish ligthing to mangrove swamps with Vibrant Visuals.

Issues

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

Gallery

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External links

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"Around the Block: Mangrove Swamp" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, March 30, 2023.

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 👁 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
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The End

👁 BiomeSprite sky.png: Sprite image for sky in Minecraft
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JE only	👁 Image The Void

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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

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Description

Mobs

Sounds

Music

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ID

Achievements

Advancements

Videos

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