Cold Ocean biome

Cold oceans have gravel floors and cold-variant ocean ruins.

Biome facts

Identifier
minecraft:cold_ocean
Dimension
Overworld
Category
aquatic
Climate
cold
Available since
Minecraft 1.13

What generates in a cold ocean

  • Gravel floor
  • Salmon

Structures in this biome

The following structures can generate in cold ocean:

  • Ocean Ruin — Ocean ruins come in warm sandstone and cold stone variants, and their chests can hold buried treasure maps.
  • Shipwreck — Shipwrecks hold up to three chests: supplies, treasure, and a map chest containing a buried treasure map.

Finding a cold ocean in your world

Biome placement depends on the world seed and the Minecraft version. Open your seed on the seed map, then pan around: biome shading shows where each biome sits, and structure layers show what generates inside it.

Note that biome rendering requires the WebAssembly generation engine described in the seed map documentation. Structure candidate positions, chunk geometry and slime chunks are computed exactly without it.