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Grove

Grove.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Grove'

Grove Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Grove'

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A grove is a snowy forest biome that often generates on the sides of mountains. Similar to the snowy taiga, it is filled with spruce trees but the ground is covered with snow blocks and occasional powder snow patches.

Generation

Groves generate as mountain slope biomes, similar to meadows and cherry groves, but at higher altitudes and not as plateaus. They can also generate standalone on smaller peaks, sometimes measuring only a few blocks in size.

They can generate in the coldest to medium temperature zones with higher humidity. They often border jagged peaks and frozen peaks as mountain biomes and meadows in valleys, and they are replaced by snowy slopes in lower humidity. Groves commonly border medium forested biomes like forests, birch forests, taigas, dark forests, and old growth taigas.

In the coldest temperature zones, groves extend to entire valleys and hills around mountains, replacing snowy taigas and taigas, and also bordering frozen rivers and frozen oceans with tall cliffs or stony shores. Snowy taigas and regular taigas can sometimes generate as thin strips replacing rivers in highland snowy slopes.

Because groves are mountain biomes, they are almost guaranteed to have deep dark underneath, and commonly also dripstone caves or lush caves.

Description

A grove creates a forest of spruce trees on the sides of a mountain, reminiscent of a snowy taiga but the surface is covered snow blocks above a dirt ground, with snow layers on top. All spruce trees grow on a single block of dirt replacing snow blocks, with a slightly lower density than in snowy taigas.

Strips of powder snow occasionally replace snow blocks and the dirt below, where trees do not generate. Fallen trees and dying trees do not generate here.

Rabbits, snowy wolves and snow foxes can spawn in this biome. Like other mountain biomes, emerald ore and infested stone can generate in stone under the ground. Pillager outposts are the only structures that generate here.

With Vibrant Visuals, groves use default environmental settings with a coolish color grading, making the biome appear colder blue. They use cold sunlight, which is slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition
MobSpawn weightGroup size
Monster category
Creeper100⁄5154
Skeleton100⁄5154
Slime[note 1]100⁄5154
Spider100⁄5154
Zombie95⁄5154
Enderman10⁄5151–4
Witch5⁄5151
Zombie Villager5⁄5151
Creature category
Snow Fox4⁄132–4
Snowy Wolf1⁄131
Rabbit8⁄132–3
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid14–6
Ambient category
Bat18
  1. ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks. 
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In Bedrock Edition
MobSpawn weightGroup size
Monster category
Creeper1001
Slime[note 1]1001
Spider1001
Zombie952–4
Skeleton801–2
Enderman101–2
Witch51
Zombie Villager52–4
Creature category
Glow Squid102–4
Snow Fox82–4
Rabbit82–3
Snowy Wolf81
  1. ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks. 
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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in a grove:

TitlePreviewJava EditionBedrock Edition
WeightProbabilityWeightProbability
Shores214.29%214.29%
Clark17.14%17.14%
Comforting Memories17.14%17.14%
Eld Unknown17.14%17.14%
Endless17.14%17.14%
Infinite Amethyst17.14%17.14%
Lilypad17.14%17.14%
Mice on Venus17.14%17.14%
Minecraft17.14%17.14%
Oxygène17.14%17.14%
pokopoko17.14%17.14%
Sweden17.14%17.14%
Wending17.14%17.14%

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifier
BiomeSprite grove.png: Sprite image for grove in Minecraft Grovegrove

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifier
BiomeSprite grove.png: Sprite image for grove in Minecraft [No displayed name]grove

Achievements

IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
Adventuring TimeDiscover 17 biomes.Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.40Silver

Advancements

IconAdvancementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)
Adventuring TimeDiscover every biome The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.
Light as a RabbitWalk on Powder Snow... without sinking in itWalk on powder snow while wearing leather boots.
The Whole PackTame one of each Wolf variantTame each of these 9 wolf variants:

History

Announcement

September 28, 2019During MINECON Live 2019, the mountains won the community biome vote; additions were improved terrain generation, powder snow, and goats.
October 3, 2020The Caves & Cliffs update was announced at Minecraft Live 2020, showing a sneak peek at goats and the new mountain generation.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.18Experimental Snapshot 1Added grove, along with the other new mountain biomes.
experimental snapshot 2Infested stone and emerald ore now generate in the new mountain biomes.
experimental snapshot 3Pillager outposts now generate in groves.
Goats now spawn in groves.
experimental snapshot 6Groves are less likely to generate on mountain peaks.
Groves start generating lower down in cold areas and higher up in warmer areas.
21w37aPrior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 178.
Spruce trees no longer generate in groves.[1]
21w38aSpruce trees once again generate in groves.
21w41aThe sky color of groves has been changed from
 #79a6ff to
 #81a0ff.
21w44aPowder snow strips are now exposed to the surface, instead of covering by a layer of snow blocks.[2]
Grove is now required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.
1.2023w17a"A Familiar Room" can now be played in groves.
1.20.524w10aRabbits, wolves, and foxes are now the only passive mobs spawning in the grove biome.
Wolves that spawn in groves are now the snowy variant.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.220
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs		beta 1.16.220.50Added the grove.
1.17.30
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs		beta 1.17.20.23Hostile mobs can now spawn in groves.
1.17.40
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs		beta 1.17.40.20Foxes can now spawn in groves.
1.18.0beta 1.18.0.20Groves can now generate by default without enabling experimental gameplay.
beta 1.18.0.24Changed the biome ID mountain_grove to grove.
1.19.40Preview 1.19.40.20The grove is now classified as "Cold".
Villagers spawning in groves are the snowy variant.
1.20.80Preview 1.20.80.21Foxes now spawn less frequently in groves.
Rabbits now spawn more frequently in groves.
1.21.90Preview 1.21.90.26Added cold lighting and coolish color grading to groves in Vibrant Visuals.
1.21.100Preview 1.21.100.20Trees now generate more sparsely.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.18.321.18.10.04Added the grove.

Issues

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

Screenshots

  • A grove as seen from a frozen river
    A grove as seen from a frozen river
  • A grove bordering a snowy taiga. Notice how the grove uses snow blocks as its top layer, while the snowy taiga uses grass blocks with snow layers.
    A grove bordering a snowy taiga. Notice how the grove uses snow blocks as its top layer, while the snowy taiga uses grass blocks with snow layers.
  • An extremely small grove
    An extremely small grove
  • A grove single biome world
    A grove single biome world

See also

References

  1. ↑ MC-236698 – Big Spruce Trees don't generate in Groves – resolved as "Fixed".
  2. ↑ MC-238912

Sources