Dark Forest biome
Dark forests have a thick dark oak canopy that blocks sunlight, allowing hostile mobs to spawn during the day. They are the only biome where woodland mansions generate.
Biome facts
- Identifier
- minecraft:dark_forest
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Category
- temperate
- Climate
- temperate
- Available since
- Minecraft 1.13
What generates in a dark forest
- Dark oak canopy
- Low light level
- Mushrooms
Structures in this biome
The following structures can generate in dark forest:
- Woodland Mansion — Woodland mansions are the rarest surface structure and the only place vindicators, evokers and totems of undying generate naturally.
Finding a dark forest 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.