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This article is about fossils found in soul sand valley. For the similar features generated in the Overworld, see Fossil.
Nether Fossil
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Soul Sand Valley
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Nether fossils are fossils that generate in soul sand valleys that can sometimes contain dried ghasts.

Generation

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Nether fossils generate randomly throughout the Nether in soul sand valleys.

Due to a bug, Nether fossils in Bedrock Edition have been seen generating in existing chunks.[citation needed]

Structure

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Main article: /Structure

Nether fossils are composed of 5 to 27 bone blocks. Unlike regular fossils, they do not have a lowered structure integrity and no blocks are replaced with coal or diamond ore. They are made with the NBT structure block format and the NBT files for each fossil are stored in the folder minecraft.jar/data/minecraft/structures/nether_fossils.

Nether fossils have a 13 (~33.3%) chance of generating a dried ghast adjacent to them.

There are 14 different variants of Nether fossils:

Structure name Description Consists of Images
nether_fossils/fossil_1 Small ribs.

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Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_2 A horizontal sternum.

10 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_3 Small partial ribcage.

6 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_4 Small ribcage structure.

6 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_5 One medium rib.

5 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_6 Large ribcage structure.

21 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_7 Three sets of large ribs.

18 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_8 One large rib.

6 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_9 Three ascending sets of medium ribs.

15 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_10 One large rib.

8 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_11 Medium ribcage structure.

24 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_12 Medium ribcage structure.

11 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_13 Three large ribs.

17 👁 Image
Bone Block

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nether_fossils/fossil_14 Large ribcage structure.

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Bone Block

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Data values

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Java Edition:

Structure typeIdentifier
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Nether Fossil
nether_fossil
StructureIdentifier
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Nether Fossil
nether_fossil

In Bedrock Edition, Nether fossils are not a structure.

Config

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Java Edition:

History

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Announcement

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September 28, 2019Nether fossils shown unnamed as part of soul sand valley biome at Minecon 2019.
March 22, 2025Dried ghasts are shown to generate as part of Nether fossils at Minecraft LIVE - March 2025

Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.1620w06aAdded Nether fossils.
20w11aNether fossils can now be located with /locate.
1.21.625w15aNether fossils can now contain dried ghasts.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.57Added Nether fossils.

Issues

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

Trivia

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Gallery

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See also

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