Windswept Gravelly Hills

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The windswept gravelly hills or extreme hills mutated biome is a more desolate variant of the windswept hills covered with gravel. It is a relatively rare biome in the Overworld.

This variant rarely generates in lower humidity values and colder temperature ranges than regular windswept hills and windswept forests. Because of this, windswept gravelly hills often appear next to plains, snowy plains, ice spikes, snowy taigas, and uncommonly forests, sunflower plains, and flower forests. As the biome is a variant of the windswept hills, additional requirements for locating the biome are high PV and high erosion values. On top of that, all windswept hills biomes are more likely to generate in higher continentalness.

True to its name, windswept gravelly hills contain large amounts of gravel that replace multiple layers stone, grass blocks, and dirt across its landscape.

Due to the gravel replacing most of the grass, vegetation like bushes and trees‌^{[JE only]} is sparser, making this variant relatively barren. In Bedrock Edition, no trees generate here at all as the unused gravelly mountains+ biome serves this purpose, and almost 100% of the biome is covered with gravel, with only a few 1-block wide strips of grass blocks generating inside, allowing far fewer bushes to generate. Underwater, the terrain is similar with only the strips containing the regular lakebed blocks (sand and dirt).

In other aspects, however, windswept gravelly hills resemble their regular counterpart: the terrain is still elevated and full of falling hazards, and generates hilly and shattered in some areas, often resulting in floating islands. Above Y=120±8, rainfall converts to snowfall, and snow begins to cover the ground. Water also begins to freeze into ice starting at that height.

Windswept gravelly hills share their foliage, grass and water color with windswept hills and windswept forests. Emerald ore generates here, but this and other ores are rarely exposed due to the gravel. Underground, occasional infested stone with silverfish can be encountered.

Farm animals spawn their cold variants in this biome when possible, and llamas spawn in herds around the biome.

With Vibrant Visuals, windswept gravelly hills 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.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 515, "mobs": [ { "size": "4", "mob": "Creeper", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 100 }, { "note": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "mob": "Slime", "weight": 100, "notename": "Slime", "size": "4" }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Spider", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "1-4", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 45, "mobs": [ { "size": "4", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Cold Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Cold Pig", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Cold Cow", "weight": 8 }, { "size": "4-6", "mob": "Llama", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "creature" }, "3": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "4-6", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "underground" }, "4": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "8", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 495, "mobs": [ { "size": "1", "mob": "Creeper", "weight": 100 }, { "note": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "mob": "Slime", "weight": 100, "notename": "Slime", "size": "1" }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Spider", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 80 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 55, "mobs": [ { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Sheep", "weight": 12 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Cold Chicken", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1-3", "mob": "Cold Pig", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Cold Cow", "weight": 8 }, { "size": "4-6", "mob": "Llama", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "creature" }, "3": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "2", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }

These music tracks play while the player is in gavelly hills:

In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Issues relating to "Windswept Gravelly Hills", "Gravelly Mountains", or "Extreme Hills M" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 Windswept gravelly hills cliffside
  
  Windswept gravelly hills cliffside
• 👁 A windswept gravelly hills single biome world
  
  A windswept gravelly hills single biome world

• 👁 View of the old gravelly mountains
  
  View of the old gravelly mountains
• 👁 Gravelly mountains near an ocean
  
  Gravelly mountains near an ocean
• 👁 Gravelly mountains
  
  Gravelly mountains
• 👁 A gravelly mountains single biome world before 1.18.
  
  A gravelly mountains single biome world before 1.18.
• 👁 Gravelly mountains in Bedrock Edition before 1.18. Trees did not generate here.
  
  Gravelly mountains in Bedrock Edition before 1.18. Trees did not generate here.
• 👁 Gravelly mountains with ray tracing
  
  Gravelly mountains with ray tracing

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  Windswept Hills
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  Windswept Forest
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  Taiga
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  Gravelly Mountains+
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  Mountain Edge