Snowy Slopes

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Snowy Slopes

👁 Snowy Slopes 1.18.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Snowy Slopes'

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

Climate
Structures	👁 Image Pillager Outpost 👁 Image Igloo
Blocks	👁 Image Snow 👁 Image Snow Block 👁 Image Powder Snow 👁 Image Stone 👁 Image Emerald Ore 👁 Image Infested Stone
Temperature	-0.3
Downfall	0.9
Precipitation	Yes
Snow accumulation‌^{[BE only]}	0.125-0.5
Colors
Grass color	#80B497
Foliage color	#60A17B
Dry foliage color	#8F7A5A
Water color	#3F76E4‌^{[JE only]} #44AFF5‌^{[BE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Cold
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Coolish

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Snowy slopes are snowy biomes that often generate on the sides of mountains. Unlike the snowy plains, this biome is made out of stone covered with one or more layers of snow blocks and occasional powder snow patches.

Generation

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Snowy slopes generate as mountain slope biomes, similar to meadows and cherry groves, but at higher altitudes and not as plateaus. They can also generate standalone on smaller peaks, sometimes measuring only a few blocks in size.

They can generate in the coldest to medium temperature zones with lower humidity. They often border jagged peaks and frozen peaks as mountain biomes and meadows and cherry groves in valleys, and they are replaced by groves in higher humidity. Snowy slopes can also border medium biomes when they generate on plateaus, like plains, sunflower plains, and flower forests.

In the coldest temperature zones, snowy slopes extend to entire valleys and hills around mountains, replacing snowy plains and ice spikes, and also bordering frozen rivers and frozen oceans with tall cliffs or stony shores. Ice spikes and snowy plains can sometimes generate as thin strips replacing rivers in highland snowy slopes.

Because snowy slopes are mountain biomes, they are almost guaranteed to have deep dark underneath, and commonly also dripstone caves.

Description

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Snowy slopes are similar to groves except that no trees generate. It is a mostly barren biome covered in snow, multiple layers of snow blocks and strips of powder snow, with steep sides to the north or east also having stone cliffs covered with snow layers.

Infested stone generates underground as well as emerald ore.

Goats spawn in this biome alongside snowy rabbits and polar bears.‌^{[BE only]} At nighttime, strays may also spawn alongside common hostile mobs.

This is the only mountain biome where igloos can generate. Pillager outposts also generate.

With Vibrant Visuals, snowy slopes use default environmental settings with a coolish color grading, making the biome appear colder blue. They use cold sunlight, which is slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

Mobs

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The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
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 1]}	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Enderman	¹⁰⁄₅₁₅	1–4
👁 Image Witch	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Creature category
👁 Image Goat	⁵⁄₉	1–3
👁 Image Rabbit	⁴⁄₉	2–3
Underground water creature category
👁 Image Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	8

↑ 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 Stray	96	1–2
👁 Image Zombie	95	2–4
👁 Image Skeleton	24	1–2
👁 Image Enderman	10	1–2
👁 Image Witch	5	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
👁 Image Glow Squid	10	2–4
👁 Image Rabbit	8	2–3
👁 Image Goat	5	1–3
👁 Image Polar Bear	1	1–2

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Sounds

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Music

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These music tracks play while the player is in snowy slopes:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
Title	Preview	Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
Nightly	2	22.22%	2	22.22%
An Ordinary Day	1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Haggstrom	1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Living Mice	1	11.11%	1	11.11%
One More Day	1	11.11%	1	11.11%
pokopoko	1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Stand Tall	1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Subwoofer Lullaby	1	11.11%	1	11.11%

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
👁 BiomeSprite snowy-slopes.png: Sprite image for snowy-slopes in Minecraft Snowy Slopes	`snowy_slopes`	`biome.minecraft.snowy_slopes`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite snowy-slopes.png: Sprite image for snowy-slopes in Minecraft [No displayed name]	`snowy_slopes`	`184`

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 Mangrove Swamp 👁 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 👁 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.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Light as a Rabbit	Walk on Powder Snow... without sinking in it	Walk on powder snow while wearing leather boots.

History

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Announcement

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September 28, 2019							During MINECON Live 2019, the mountains won the community biome vote; additions were improved terrain generation, powder snow, and goats.
October 3, 2020							The Caves & Cliffs update was announced at Minecraft Live 2020, showing a sneak peek at goats and the new mountain generation.

Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.18	Experimental Snapshot 1	Added snowy slopes.
	experimental snapshot 2	Infested stone and emerald ore now generate in snowy slopes.
	experimental snapshot 3	Snowy slopes no longer generate with dirt under snow layer.
		Pillager outposts now generate in snowy slopes.
		Goats now spawn in snowy slopes.
	experimental snapshot 4	Snowy slopes no longer generate with dirt under the surface layer.
	experimental snapshot 6	Snowy slopes are less likely to generate on mountain peaks.
	experimental snapshot 6	Snowy slopes start generating lower down in cold areas and higher up in warmer areas.
	21w41a	The snowy slopes surfaces have been fixed to work like they did in the experimental snapshots, where steep sides of the peaks that face the east or north have exposed stone.^[1]
	21w41a	The sky color of snowy slopes has been changed from #79a6ff to #829fff.
	21w44a	Powder snow strips are now exposed to the surface, instead of covering by a layer of snow blocks.^[2]
	21w44a	Snowy slopes are now required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.
1.20	23w17a	"A Familiar Room" can now be played in snowy slopes.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.16.220.50	Added the snowy slopes.
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.16.220.50	Goats now spawn in the snowy slopes biome.
1.17.30	beta 1.17.20.23	Hostile mobs can now spawn in snowy slopes.
1.17.40 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.17.40.20	Rabbits can now spawn in snowy slopes.
1.18.0	beta 1.18.0.20	Snowy slopes now generate by default without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.21.90	Preview 1.21.90.26	Added cold lighting and coolish color grading to snowy slopes in Vibrant Visuals.

Minecraft Education

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Minecraft Education
1.18.32			1.18.10.04				Added the snowy slopes.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.18			21w37a				Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 179.

Issues

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

Gallery

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Screenshots

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👁 A snowy slopes single biome world

A snowy slopes single biome world

References

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External links

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"Around the Block: Snowy Slopes" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 6, 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 👁 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

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👁 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 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

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Contents

Generation

Description

Mobs

Sounds

Music

Data values

ID

Achievements

Advancements

History

Announcement

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Minecraft Education

Data history

Issues

Gallery

Screenshots

See also

References

External links

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