Forest

Forest

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The forest is a lush biome densely wooded with oak and birch trees. Woods wolves spawn here. The forest is the most common surface biome in Minecraft, making up about 12% of the Overworld's area.

Forest biomes generate in temperate, warm, and cold zones with a medium humidity. In mountainous jungles, forests generate more commonly as slope or plateau biomes bordering stony peaks.

This means that forests can border almost any other biome. Most commonly, they border plains and birch forests.

Forests feature dense trees compared to other biomes. Lilies of the valley, rose bushes, peonies and lilacs generate in this biome. Bushes generate here in small patches, and leaf litter is scattered on the ground underneath trees.

Wolves spawn commonly in forest and use their woods variant. Bees from bee nests on trees are found as well.

Abandoned camps sometimes generate in forests.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄515	4
Spider	100⁄515	4
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄45	4
Chicken	10⁄45	4
Pig	10⁄45	4
Cow	8⁄45	4
Woods Wolf	5⁄45	4
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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In Bedrock Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100	1
Slime[note 1]	100	1
Spider	100	1
Zombie	95	2–4
Skeleton	80	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Sheep	12	2–3
Chicken	10	2–4
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Pig	10	1–3
Cow	8	2–3
Woods Wolf	5	4
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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These music tracks play while the player is in the forest:

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Forest	forest	biome.minecraft.forest

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	forest	4

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Adventuring Time	Discover 17 biomes.	Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.	40	Silver

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventuring Time	Discover every biome	Visit all of these 55​[until: Third Drop 2026]/56​[upcoming] biomes: Badlands Bamboo Jungle Beach Birch Forest Cherry Grove Cold Ocean Dappled Forest Dark Forest Deep Cold Ocean Deep Dark Deep Frozen Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Deep Ocean Desert Dripstone Caves Eroded Badlands Flower Forest Forest Frozen Ocean Frozen Peaks Frozen River Grove Ice Spikes Jagged Peaks Jungle Lukewarm Ocean Lush Caves Mangrove Swamp Meadow Mushroom Fields Ocean Old Growth Birch Forest Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Pale Garden Plains River Savanna Savanna Plateau Snowy Beach Snowy Plains Snowy Slopes Snowy Taiga Sparse Jungle Stony Peaks Stony Shore Sunflower Plains Sulfur Caves Swamp Taiga Warm Ocean Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Hills Windswept Savanna Wooded Badlands The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

Issues relating to "Forest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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  Inside a forest
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  Ground view of a forest in Bedrock Edition
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  Inside a forest, facing a river
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  A forest biome as seen from above
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  Another view of the forest biome
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  An abandoned camp in a forest
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  The Winding River seed template thumbnail, many different forest biomes with rivers
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  A forest single biome world

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  The old Survival Island seed template, an island covered with a forest
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  A forest with ray tracing
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  Forested valley, surrounded by mountains before Caves & Cliffs
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  Small forest biome, consisting of only few trees
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  The Survival Island (seed preset) discountinued before 1.18. You spawn in a mini forest. The island covered in the ocean.
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  A small forest surrounded by plains
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  The old Forest Glade (seed preset) discountinued in 1.18.30
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  A forest biome before Update Aquatic, with mountains, swamps, plains, and dark forests around it
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  A forest single biome world before 1.18
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  The Survival Islands (seed preset) discountinued in Pocket Edition. A multiple islands covered in the ocean
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  A forest biome before The Update that Changed the World

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  A lake with several forest biomes visible in the distance
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  A forest mountain ridge
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  A tiny forest island

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  Noor running through a forest.
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  Creeper Woods, a forest featured in Minecraft Dungeons.
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  The forest biome at night in Craft Your Path
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  A forest as seen in Minecraft Legends.

• Wooded Hills
• Birch Forest
• Dark Forest
• Taiga
• Old Growth Taiga
• Jungle
• Meadow
• Rainforest
• Seasonal Forest

• "Around the Block: Forest" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, January 25, 2024.