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Jagged Peaks

Jagged Peaks 1.18.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Jagged Peaks'

Jagged Peaks Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Jagged Peaks'

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The jagged peaks are one of the tall mountain peak biomes. These tall and jagged mountains are completely made out of stone covered by a layer of snow blocks.

Generation

Jagged peaks only generate on high mountain peaks in the coldest to medium temperature ranges. Depending on the continentalness, erosion, and weirdness, jagged peaks can take on many different shapes; small hilltops not much higher than Y=160, large singular mountain peaks, rings of peaks surrounding a valley, or extreme mountainous terrain with rugged terrain up to the generation limit of Y=256.

As mountain peaks, they are often surrounded by layered slope biomes, bordering groves and snowy slopes with plateau biomes like meadows and pale gardens underneath, but they may also directly border medium biomes.

Jagged peaks are separated from frozen peaks by river valleys and usually have slightly more rugged terrain.

They never generate close to swamps or windswept hills. When near an ocean, the surrounding terrain gets cut off into massive cliffs. River valleys are either deep fjords, or have no river biome and consist of elevated land biomes.

Deep dark is guaranteed below jagged peaks, generating up to higher altitudes. Above this, dripstone caves are common, although lush caves may also generate.

Description

The blocks that make up the jagged peaks are almost entirely raw terrain blocks like stone with many exposed ores. Notably, emerald ore, iron ore, and coal ore is more common and infested stone generates deeper underground.

The terrain is covered by one layer of snow blocks which are covered by snow layers. Just like the snowy slopes, stone cliffs can generate in steep sides to the east or north with only a layer of snow covering them.

Pillager outposts are the only structures that can generate here, and they often form large foundations of cobblestone due to the tall cliffs. Goats can spawn frequently in this biome, and in Bedrock Edition, rabbits and polar bears can also spawn here.

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

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition
MobSpawn weightGroup size
Monster category
Spider100⁄5154
Zombie95⁄5154
Zombie Villager5⁄5151
Skeleton100⁄5154
Creeper100⁄5154
Slime[note 1]100⁄5154
Enderman10⁄5151–4
Witch5⁄5151
Creature category
Goat11–3
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
Stray961–2
Zombie952–4
Skeleton241–2
Enderman101–2
Witch51
Zombie Villager52–4
Creature category
Glow Squid102–4
Goat51–3
Rabbit42–3
Polar Bear11–2
  1. ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks. 
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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in jagged peaks:

TitlePreviewJava EditionBedrock Edition
WeightProbabilityWeightProbability
Ebb211.76%211.76%
Nightly211.76%211.76%
Dry Hands15.88%15.88%
Eld Unknown15.88%15.88%
Endless15.88%15.88%
Floating Dream15.88%15.88%
Key15.88%15.88%
Living Mice15.88%15.88%
Mice on Venus15.88%15.88%
Oxygène15.88%15.88%
pokopoko15.88%15.88%
Stand Tall15.88%15.88%
Subwoofer Lullaby15.88%15.88%
Wending15.88%15.88%
Wet Hands15.88%15.88%

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifier Translation key
BiomeSprite jagged-peaks.png: Sprite image for jagged-peaks in Minecraft Jagged Peaksjagged_peaks biome.minecraft.jagged_peaks

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID
BiomeSprite jagged-peaks.png: Sprite image for jagged-peaks in Minecraft [No displayed name]jagged_peaks182

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.

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 lofty peaks.
experimental snapshot 2Infested stone and emerald ore now generate in lofty peaks.
experimental snapshot 3Pillager outposts now generate in lofty peaks.
Goats now spawn in the lofty peaks.
experimental snapshot 5Mountain tops are now more jagged and pointy.
Mountain areas and peak biomes are now slightly larger on average.
Raised the average mountain height.
Fixed an unintentional change from snapshot 4 that made mountains lower and smoother.
21w37aPrior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 181.
21w40a"Lofty Peaks" has been renamed to "Jagged Peaks".
The ID lofty_peaks has been changed to jagged_peaks.
21w41aThe jagged peaks surfaces have been fixed to work like they did in the experimental snapshots, where steep sides of the peaks that facing the east or north are exposed stone.[1]
The sky color of jagged peaks has been changed from
 #79a6ff to
 #859dff.
21w44aJagged peaks are now required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.
1.2023w17a"A Familiar Room" can now be played in jagged peaks.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.220
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs		beta 1.16.220.50Added the jagged peaks.
beta 1.16.220.52The terrain of the new mountains is now cut off at Y=256.
1.17.30
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs		beta 1.17.20.22Goats no longer spawn in jagged peaks.
beta 1.17.20.23Hostile mobs can now spawn in jagged peaks.
1.17.40
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs		beta 1.17.40.20Infested stone now generates in the jagged peaks.
Goats now spawn in jagged peaks.
1.18.0beta 1.18.0.20Jagged peaks can now generate by default without enabling experimental gameplay.
Villagers, rabbits, and foxes spawned in the Jagged Peaks biome now spawn as their respective snowy variants.[2]
beta 1.18.0.24Changed the biome ID lofty_peaks to jagged_peaks.
1.21.90Preview 1.21.90.26Added cold lighting and coolish color grading to jagged peaks in Vibrant Visuals.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.18.321.18.10.04Added the jagged peaks.

Issues

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

Screenshots

Development images

  • Jagged peaks and ice spikes
    Jagged peaks and ice spikes
  • A jagged peaks biome in Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
    A jagged peaks biome in Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
In other media

See also

References

  1. ↑ MC-237457
  2. ↑ MCPE-119561

Sources