Ocean biome
Oceans cover most of a Minecraft world and hold shipwrecks, ocean ruins and drowned.
Biome facts
- Identifier
- minecraft:ocean
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Category
- aquatic
- Climate
- temperate
- Available since
- Minecraft 1.13
What generates in a ocean
- Open water
- Kelp and seagrass
Structures in this biome
The following structures can generate in ocean:
- Shipwreck — Shipwrecks hold up to three chests: supplies, treasure, and a map chest containing a buried treasure map.
- Ocean Ruin — Ocean ruins come in warm sandstone and cold stone variants, and their chests can hold buried treasure maps.
- Buried Treasure — Buried treasure always contains a heart of the sea, and always generates nine blocks in from the chunk corner.
Finding a 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.