Windswept Hills

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Windswept hills or extreme hills are cold mountainous biomes with shattered terrain covered by grass blocks and stone. Windswept hills generate in areas with high erosion close to swamps, often bordering their wooded and gravelly variants.

Windswept hills generate as mountains in high PV and continentalness, but at far higher erosion. Because of this, the terrain is usually elevated but flat, sometimes hilly and shattered. They generally peak at Y-level 140. Despite windswept hill biomes being highland biomes, deep dark doesn't generate under windswept hills biomes.

Windswept hills generate at medium to the lowest temperature zones at medium humidity. They commonly border windswept forests and windswept gravelly hills as well as windswept savannas at higher temperatures. Large ranges of windswept hills often surround swamps with flatland biomes on the other side, including plains, most forests, taigas, and snowy plains.

In windswept hills, the grass and leaves are an aqua color. These are the only biomes, besides mountain biomes, where emerald ore is found. Like mountains, infested blocks with silverfish can be generated underground below the sea level.

The ground consists of many exposed stone blocks and ores, with some patches of grass blocks in between. Above Y=120±8, rainfall changes to snowfall, and the hills becomes snow-capped, along with water freezing into ice.

In Java Edition, oak and spruce trees generate occasionally, while these are exclusive to the windswept forest in Bedrock Edition. Bushes generate on the sparse grasslands, and llamas can spawn here together with cold animal variants.

With Vibrant Visuals, windswept hills use default environmental settings with a coolish color grading, making the biome appear colder blue. They use cold sunlight, which appears 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" } }

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

In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

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

• 👁 An extremely narrow windswept hills biome in early Caves & Cliffs development
  
  An extremely narrow windswept hills biome in early Caves & Cliffs development
• 👁 Mountains with ray tracing
  
  Mountains with ray tracing
• 👁 Another view of a mountains biome before Caves & Cliffs
  
  Another view of a mountains biome before Caves & Cliffs
• 👁 An example of an overhang generated within mountains
  
  An example of an overhang generated within mountains
• 👁 A stacked mountains biome
  
  A stacked mountains biome
• 👁 Mountains and a wooded mountains shown side by side
  
  Mountains and a wooded mountains shown side by side
• 👁 Huge cliffside generated in mountains biome
  
  Huge cliffside generated in mountains biome
• 👁 A tree which generated under a cliff in a mountains biome
  
  A tree which generated under a cliff in a mountains biome
• 👁 Heart-shaped hole in a mountains cliff
  
  Heart-shaped hole in a mountains cliff
• 👁 Large chunk of floating mountains creating some sort of skybridge
  
  Large chunk of floating mountains creating some sort of skybridge
• 👁 A ruined portal in a mountains biome
  
  A ruined portal in a mountains biome
• 👁 Mountains next to a lake
  
  Mountains next to a lake
• 👁 A mountains single biome world before 1.18
  
  A mountains single biome world before 1.18
• 👁 An extreme hills biome before The Update that Changed the World
  
  An extreme hills biome before The Update that Changed the World

• 👁 The old look of the extreme hills biome.
  
  The old look of the extreme hills biome.
• 👁 Yet another example.
  
  Yet another example.
• 👁 First screenshot of spruce trees generating in the biome.
  
  First screenshot of spruce trees generating in the biome.

• 👁 Image
  Windswept Forest
• 👁 Image
  Windswept Gravelly Hills
• 👁 Image
  Taiga
• 👁 Image
  Mountain Edge
• 👁 Image
  Gravelly Mountains+

• "Around the Block: Windswept Hills" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, December 9, 2021.