Snowy Plains biome
Snowy plains are flat, snow-covered grassland hosting snowy villages and igloos.
Biome facts
- Identifier
- minecraft:snowy_plains
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Category
- cold
- Climate
- frozen
- Available since
- Minecraft 1.13
What generates in a snowy plains
- Snow layer
- Frozen water
- Rabbits and polar bears near ice
Structures in this biome
The following structures can generate in snowy plains:
- Village — Villages are the most common inhabited structure. They generate in plains, desert, savanna, taiga, snowy and (since 1.19) meadow biomes, and their building style follows the biome underneath them.
- Igloo — Igloos sometimes hide a basement holding a zombie villager, a cleric villager and the ingredients needed to cure them.
- Pillager Outpost — Pillager outposts are watchtowers guarded by pillagers, with a caged allay in newer versions. They never generate within a few hundred blocks of a village.
Finding a snowy plains 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.