Taiga

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The taiga is a humid and cold biome comprising a grassland forested with small and large ferns, pale aquamarine-green grass, spruce and pine trees. Foxes and wolves commonly spawn here.

Taigas generate in the moderately high humidity zones of cold temperature areas, as well as the highest humidity zones of frozen areas. They commonly border old growth taigas, forests, and snowy taigas, and less frequently birch forests. In cold temperature areas, they can generate in any type of terrain; flatlands near shattered windswept forests and swamps, rolling slopes and plateaus, or mountains with groves on the slopes.

In the frozen temperature areas, however, they only generate in medium to high erosion as vast groves replace them in mountainous terrain. They can sometimes still generate replacing rivers in the highest mountain peaks. When generated in frozen temperature areas, they create a large contrast with the snowy environment, most notably frozen rivers and snowy beaches.

Because these generate in the highest humidity, they are almost guaranteed to have lush caves underground. Cold temperature zone taigas have a slightly lower chance of bordering lush caves.

The taiga's surface is a grassland with a large number of ferns and large ferns, and is forested with pine and spruce trees, which are the only trees that can generate in this biome. The vegetation also includes sweet berry bushes, and takes an aquamarine color tone. The water coloration has a unique dark turquoise tone in Bedrock Edition.

Cold animal variants spawn in the taiga, as well as foxes and pale wolves. Rainfall is common and changes to snowfall above the layer Y=160±8 within taigas due to the humid and cold climate.

Pillager outposts, villages, and trail ruins generate in taigas occasionally. These villages are made of spruce wood materials and often contain gardens with poppy and pumpkin farms. Abandoned camps sometimes generate in taigas.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

With Vibrant Visuals, taigas use a coolish humid volumetric fog setting, which slightly fades the distance in an orange tint. Taigas have coolish color grading tints the environment with a colder blue color, and cold sunlight which appears slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

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These music tracks play while the player is in a taiga:

In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

• 👁 An abandoned camp in a taiga
  
  An abandoned camp in a taiga
• 👁 The Taiga Village seed template thumbnail
  
  The Taiga Village seed template thumbnail
• 👁 The Taiga Bay seed template thumbnail
  
  The Taiga Bay seed template thumbnail
• 👁 The Outpost Ahead seed template thumbnail, a pillager outpost in a taiga
  
  The Outpost Ahead seed template thumbnail, a pillager outpost in a taiga
• 👁 A taiga single biome world
  
  A taiga single biome world

• 👁 A taiga biome before Java Edition Beta 1.2
  
  A taiga biome before Java Edition Beta 1.2
• 👁 A taiga biome before Java Edition 1.1
  
  A taiga biome before Java Edition 1.1
• 👁 An overview of the taiga biome before Caves & Cliffs
  
  An overview of the taiga biome before Caves & Cliffs
• 👁 Another view of taiga
  
  Another view of taiga
• 👁 A view of a pillager outpost in the taiga biome
  
  A view of a pillager outpost in the taiga biome
• 👁 A taiga village. Sweet berry bushes have spawned here and a villager has a taiga villager skin
  
  A taiga village. Sweet berry bushes have spawned here and a villager has a taiga villager skin
• 👁 Taiga and jungle biomes merging
  
  Taiga and jungle biomes merging
• 👁 A taiga single biome world before 1.18
  
  A taiga single biome world before 1.18
• 👁 A taiga with ray tracing
  
  A taiga with ray tracing
• 👁 A taiga biome in Bedrock Edition
  
  A taiga biome in Bedrock Edition

• 👁 Large mountain in a taiga biome
  
  Large mountain in a taiga biome
• 👁 A river in a taiga
  
  A river in a taiga
• 👁 A tall mountain in a taiga biome
  
  A tall mountain in a taiga biome
• 👁 Efe in a taiga
  
  Efe in a taiga

• 👁 Artwork of a taiga village.
  
  Artwork of a taiga village.
• 👁 Official logo of the Taiga biome used during the promotion of the 2018 Biome Vote.
  
  Official logo of the Taiga biome used during the promotion of the 2018 Biome Vote.

• 👁 Image
  Snowy Taiga
• 👁 Image
  Old Growth Pine Taiga
• 👁 Image
  Old Growth Spruce Taiga
• 👁 Image
  Grove
• 👁 Image
  Forest