Snowy Taiga biome
A frozen taiga variant where water freezes and igloos generate.
Biome facts
- Identifier
- minecraft:snowy_taiga
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Category
- cold
- Climate
- frozen
- Available since
- Minecraft 1.13
What generates in a snowy taiga
- Snow cover
- Spruce trees
- Igloos
Structures in this biome
The following structures can generate in snowy taiga:
- Igloo — Igloos sometimes hide a basement holding a zombie villager, a cleric villager and the ingredients needed to cure them.
- Trail Ruins — Trail ruins are buried archaeology sites holding suspicious gravel with pottery sherds and armour trim templates.
Finding a snowy taiga 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.