Soul Sand Valley

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Soul Sand Valley

👁 Soul Sand Valley.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Soul Sand Valley'

👁 Soul Sand Valley Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Soul Sand Valley'

Climate
Structures	👁 Image Nether fortress 👁 Image Nether fossil 👁 Image Bastion remnant 👁 Image Ruined portal
Features	👁 Image Basalt pillar 👁 Image Glowstone blob 👁 Image Lava sea
Blocks	Standard Nether blocks plus: 👁 Image Gravel 👁 Image Soul Sand 👁 Image Soul Soil 👁 Image Basalt 👁 Image Bone Block 👁 Image Crimson Roots 👁 Image Soul Fire 👁 Image Dried Ghast
Temperature	2.0
Downfall	0.0
Precipitation	No
Colors
Fog color	#1B4745
Grass color	#BFB755
Foliage color	#AEA42A
Dry foliage color	#A38046
Water color	#3F76E4‌^{[JE only]} #905957‌^{[BE only]}
Water fog distance	15‌^{[BE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Soulsand Valley
Lighting	Nether
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Default

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A soul sand valley is a dry biome located in the Nether. It is formed of large caverns with Nether fossils and different blocks, mainly including soul sand and soul soil.

Description

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The soul sand valley makes up around 17% of the Nether by volume, making it the third most common biome in the dimension. It can generate next to any other Nether biome except for the warped forest.

The soul sand valley is mostly composed of soul sand and soul soil, with gravel found on its coastlines. Soul fire is scattered throughout the biome and Nether fossils poke out of the terrain. Near these fossils are dried ghasts. It lacks a diverse set of plants, with the only native vegetation being crimson roots and mushrooms, although crimson fungi and huge fungi may spawn where the biome borders a crimson forest. Its fog is cyan and the air particles are gray as the sounds of winds and the voices of ghosts fill the air. Giant columns of basalt called basalt pillars can be found stretching from the floor to the ceiling. Caverns, Nether fortresses and even bastion remnants can also be found in the soul sand valley.

Glowstone blobs can be found in this biome, although they are significantly rarer than in other Nether biomes,^[1] since the ceiling of this biome is made of soul sand or soul soil below which glowstone blobs cannot generate; they can still occasionally generate in caves and canyons in this biome,^[2] because the ceiling is made of netherrack.

Mobs

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The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size	Charge^{[note 1]}	Budget^{[note 1]}
Monster category
👁 Image Skeleton	²⁰⁄₇₁	4	0.7	0.15
👁 Image Ghast^{[note 2]}	⁵⁰⁄₇₁	4	0.7	0.15
👁 Image Enderman	¹⁄₇₁	1–4	0.7	0.15
Creature category
👁 Image Strider^{[note 3]}	1	2–4	0.7	0.15

↑ ^a ^b When spawning a mob with a budget, take the sum of the charge of each existing mob divided by the distance to that mob. If the total times the new mob's charge is greater than the new mob's budget, the spawn fails. See Mob spawning § Spawn costs for details.
↑ Only 5% of spawn attempts succeed.
↑ Adult striders have a 3.3% chance to spawn being ridden by a zombified piglin holding a warped fungus on a stick.

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In **Bedrock Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
👁 Image Skeleton	80	1–2
👁 Image Ghast	40	1
👁 Image Enderman	6	1
Creature category
👁 Image Strider^{[note 1]}	1	2–4

↑ Adult striders have a 3.3% chance to spawn with a saddle. They are supposed to spawn with a zombified piglin with a warped fungus on a stick but they don’t due to MCPE-236161.

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Strider": "Adult striders have a 3.3% chance to spawn with a saddle. They are supposed to spawn with a zombified piglin with a warped fungus on a stick but they don’t due to <span class=\"bug plainlinks\" data-id=\"MCPE-236161\">[[Mojira:MCPE-236161|MCPE-236161]]</span>." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 126, "mobs": [ { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 80 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Ghast", "weight": 40 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 6 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 20, "mobs": [ { "note": "Adult striders have a 3.3% chance to spawn with a saddle. They are supposed to spawn with a zombified piglin with a warped fungus on a stick but they don’t due to <span class=\"bug plainlinks\" data-id=\"MCPE-236161\">[[Mojira:MCPE-236161|MCPE-236161]]</span>.", "mob": "Strider", "weight": 20, "notename": "Strider", "size": "2-4" } ], "category": "creature" } }

Sounds

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Music

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These music tracks play while the player is in the soul sand valley:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
Title	Preview	Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
So Below	7	63.64%	7	63.64%
Ballad of the Cats	1	9.09%	1	9.09%
Concrete Halls	1	9.09%	1	9.09%
Dead Voxel	1	9.09%	1	9.09%
Warmth	1	9.09%	1	9.09%

Ambience

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Nether ambience plays while the player is in the Nether.


Name	Sound	Group
Soulsand Valley Ambience	Loop
Soulsand Valley Sand 1	Loop Additions
Soulsand Valley Sand 2
Soulsand Valley Sand 3
Soulsand Valley Voices 1
Soulsand Valley Voices 2
Soulsand Valley Voices 3
Soulsand Valley Voices 4
Soulsand Valley Voices 5
Soulsand Valley Whisper 1
Soulsand Valley Whisper 2
Soulsand Valley Whisper 3
Soulsand Valley Whisper 4
Soulsand Valley Whisper 5
Soulsand Valley Whisper 6
Soulsand Valley Whisper 7
Soulsand Valley Whisper 8
Soulsand Valley Wind 1
Soulsand Valley Wind 2
Soulsand Valley Wind 3
Soulsand Valley Wind 4
Soulsand Valley With 1
Soulsand Valley Mood 1	Mood
Soulsand Valley Mood 2
Soulsand Valley Mood 3
Soulsand Valley Mood 4

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
👁 BiomeSprite soul-sand-valley.png: Sprite image for soul-sand-valley in Minecraft Soul Sand Valley	`soul_sand_valley`	`170`	`biome.minecraft.soul_sand_valley`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite soul-sand-valley.png: Sprite image for soul-sand-valley in Minecraft Soul Sand Valley	`soulsand_valley`	`178`

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
👁 Image	👁 Image	Hot tourist destination	Visit all Nether biomes	Note: Can be completed if the player visits the biomes in different worlds.	30	Silver

Advancements

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Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	Hot Tourist Destinations	Explore all Nether biomes	Visit all of the 5 following biomes: 👁 Image Basalt Deltas 👁 Image Crimson Forest 👁 Image Nether Wastes 👁 Image 👁 Image Warped Forest The advancement is only for Nether biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

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Announcement

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September 28, 2019							The soul sand valley is announced at MINECON Live 2019.

Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.16	20w06a	Added the soul sand valley.
	20w10a	Added soul sand valley ambience.
	20w15a	Added the music track "So Below", which plays in the soul sand valley biome.
	20w18a	Mobs in soul sand valleys no longer spawn near each other.
	20w19a	Blobs of soul sand now generate in soul sand valleys at level of the lava ocean.
	Pre-release 4	The spawning weight of skeletons was changed from 2 to 10.
	Pre-release 4	Increased the overall amount of hostile mob spawns. Each mob's chance was changed from 0.08 to 0.15.
	Pre-release 7	The spawning weight of skeletons was changed from 10 to 20.
	Pre-release 7	The biome's total spawning energy was changed from 1.0 to 0.7.
1.21.6	25w15a	Dried ghasts now generate in soul sand valleys near Nether fossils.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.51	Added the soul sand valley.
	beta 1.16.0.57	Added ambience.
		Added music.
		Added Nether fossils in the soul sand valley.
		Soul sand now generates below lava level in the soul sand valley.
1.21.80 Experiment Drop 2 2025	Preview 1.21.80.25	Dried ghasts now generate in soul sand valleys near Nether fossils.

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 170.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Soul Sand Valley" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

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Despite its name, the soul sand valley isn’t actually a valley due to its cave-like generation.
In the official artwork of the Nether Update, a wither skeleton can be seen in the soul sand valley instead of normal skeletons, despite wither skeletons not naturally spawning there.

Gallery

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References

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↑ MC-171520 – Glowstone clusters cannot generate in Soul Sand Valley biomes – resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ MC-192936 – Glowstone clusters generate on netherrack in Soul Sand Valley – resolved as "Works As Intended".

External links

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Around the Block: Soul Sand Valley – Minecraft.net on July 23, 2020

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Soul Sand Valley

Contents

Description

Mobs

Sounds

Music

Ambience

Data values

ID

Achievements

Advancements

History

Announcement

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Data history

Issues

Trivia

Gallery

Screenshots

Historical screenshots

Mojang screenshots

In other media

References

External links

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