Tall Birch Hills

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Tall Birch Hills

👁 Tall Birch Hills.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Tall Birch Hills'

👁 Tall Birch Hills Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Tall Birch Hills'

Climate
Features	👁 Image Birch 👁 Image Super Birch 👁 Image Birch with Bee Nest 👁 Image Super Birch with Bee Nest
Blocks	👁 Image Grass Block 👁 Image Bush 👁 Image Rose Bush 👁 Image Lilac 👁 Image Peony 👁 Image Lily of the Valley
Temperature	0.6‌^{[JE only]} 0.7‌^{[BE only]}
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#88BB67‌^{[JE only]} #79C05A‌^{[BE only]}
Foliage color	#6BA941‌^{[JE only]} #59AE30‌^{[BE only]}
Dry foliage color	#A36D46
Water color	#3F76E4‌^{[JE only]} #44AFF5‌^{[BE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Default
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Default

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The tall birch hills or birch forest hills mutated biome is a rare variant of the birch forest that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and was removed in Java Edition.

Description

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Old

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Like the other hills biomes, the tall birch hills biome had hillier, rougher terrain, along with the taller birch trees of the tall birch forest variant. The hills were steep in this biome, comparable to the windswept hills biome.

Unlike most hills biomes, this biome used to generate as a "modified hills" biome, making it much rarer but also bigger in size.

Current

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In Bedrock Edition, tall birch hills in older worlds still received updates. When generated through single biome or behavior packs, they can also generate new blocks.

They appear similarly to the old tall birch hills. Unlike regular old growth birch forests, wildflowers do not generate here, although bushes do. Trail ruins do not generate either, and no birch forest music tracks play.

Mobs

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Tall birch hills use the same mob spawning chances as birch forests.

The following mobs spawn naturally here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
👁 Image Sheep	¹²⁄₄₀	4
👁 Image Pig	¹⁰⁄₄₀	4
👁 Image Chicken	¹⁰⁄₄₀	4
👁 Image Cow	⁸⁄₄₀	4
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
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 Zombie	95	2–4
👁 Image Skeleton	80	1–2
👁 Image Enderman	10	1–2
👁 Image Witch	5	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
👁 Image Sheep	12	2–3
👁 Image Chicken	10	2–4
👁 Image Glow Squid	10	2–4
👁 Image Pig	10	1–3
👁 Image Cow	8	2–3
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	2

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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Data values

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ID

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Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite tall-birch-hills.png: Sprite image for tall-birch-hills in Minecraft [No displayed name]	`birch_forest_hills_mutated`	`156`

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.7.2	13w36a	Added Birch Forest Hills M, along with many other biomes.
1.13	18w16a	"Birch Forest Hills M" has been renamed to "Mutated Birch Forest Hills."
1.13	18w19a	"Mutated Birch Forest Hills" has been renamed to "Tall Birch Hills."
1.14	18w43a	Added lilies of the valley, which can generate in tall birch hills.
1.15.2	Pre-Release 1	Tall birch hills now generate with bee nests.
1.18	Experimental Snapshot 1	The tall birch hills no longer generates naturally.
1.18	21w40a	The tall birch hills biome has been removed.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0	build 1	Birch Forest Hills M.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0	beta 1.9.0.0	Added lilies of the valley, which can be found in tall birch hills.
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.57	Bee nests now have a small chance to generate in tall birch hills.
1.17.30 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.17.30.23	The tall birch hills biome no longer generates naturally.
?	?	Changed the water color from #0A74C4 to the default.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.20	Added bushes, which can generate in tall birch hills.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added tall birch hills, along with many other biomes.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.13			pre5				The ID has been changed from `mutated_birch_forest_hills` to `tall_birch_hills`.
1.18			21w37a				Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 156.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Birch Forest Hills Mutated" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

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👁 Terrain in tall birch hills can be very rough.

Terrain in tall birch hills can be very rough.
👁 A sunset in a tall birch hills biome in Bedrock Edition.

A sunset in a tall birch hills biome in Bedrock Edition.
👁 A comparison of the grass colors in a tall birch hills biome (left), and a regular birch forest (right) in Bedrock Edition.

A comparison of the grass colors in a tall birch hills biome (left), and a regular birch forest (right) in Bedrock Edition.
👁 A very long fallen tree in a tall birch hills biome.

A very long fallen tree in a tall birch hills biome.
👁 A tall birch hills single biome world.

A tall birch hills single biome world.
👁 Tall birch hills with ray tracing.

Tall birch hills with ray tracing.

Navigation

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The End

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The End

👁 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
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

Unused features

Items

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LCE only	👁 Image debug_fourj_item

Blocks

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Petrified Oak Slab

BE only	👁 Image Chalkboard
BE & Edu only	👁 Image Camera 👁 Image Chiseled Purpur 👁 Image Deprecated Anvil 👁 Image Glowing Obsidian 👁 Image Nether Reactor Core 👁 Image tile.deprecated_purpur_block_2.name 👁 Image Old Stonecutter 👁 Image Unknown 👁 Image tile.reserved6.name 👁 Image tile.info_update.name 👁 Image tile.info_update2.name

Entities

JE only	👁 Image Giant 👁 Image Illusioner 👁 Image Killer Bunny 👁 Image Minecart with Monster Spawner
BE only	👁 Image Elder Guardian Ghost 👁 Image Old Villager 👁 Image Zombie 👁 Image Tripod Camera

Biomes

BE only

Effects

👁 Image
Health Boost

JE only	👁 Image Luck 👁 Image Bad Luck

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Contents

Description

Old

Current

Mobs

Data values

ID

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

Data history

Issues

Gallery

See also

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