Mangrove Swamp

Mangrove Swamp

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The mangrove swamp is a wetland biome populated with mud and mangroves where slimes, frogs, and bogged can spawn.

Mangrove swamp biomes are usually found in flat terrain near sea level in regions with very high erosion values, and they also replace rivers in these areas. Mangrove swamps never directly border the ocean, but their water bodies are often connected.

They generate replacing swamps in higher temperature zones, next to savannas, all jungles, and deserts, and less commonly forests and plains. Mangrove swamps are often surrounded by windswept savanna ranges. Within the biome, some higher patches of temperate land biomes may generate, allowing villages to touch them.

Mangrove swamp biomes are a variant of the swamp biome featuring dense mangrove trees which vary in height and sometimes contain a bee nest with bees. The floor is mainly composed of mud blocks with occasional grass block or dirt disks. Seagrass litters the bottom of flooded areas, and lily pads dot the water's surface.

In Java Edition, unlike most Overworld biomes, mushrooms do not generate here. The grass has the same color as the normal swamp, determined by a temperature gradient, but leaves and vines have a unique light green tint, and the water is teal rather than gray. Warm frogs and tropical fish are the only passive mobs that spawn in this biome.

Additional slimes may spawn in mangrove swamps during the night, exclusively between Y=50 and Y=70. Their spawn rate is affected by the moon phase, spawning most often during full moon and not spawning at all during new moon. Bogged add an additional threat to the night, thunderstorms, or caves.‌^{[JE only]}

Mangrove swamp biomes, alongside deserts and regular swamps, can generate fossils underground. However, swamp huts do not generate here.

Villagers that spawn in mangrove swamps get a unique swamp-themed look. While villages don't generate in swamps, they are commonly found bordering one with some houses in the biome. Otherwise, swamp villagers can only spawn by curing zombie villagers in this biome or breeding villagers here.

Underwater fog is thick here, making visibility lower underwater. With Vibrant Visuals, mangrove swamps use a strong humid volumetric fog setting similar to jungles, which fades the distance in an orange tint, and moonlight is colored more vibrant blue. Mangrove swamps have brighter blue daytime sky colors, and a slightly warmer color grading, but not as much as jungles.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄516	4
Skeleton	70⁄516	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄516	4
Spider	100⁄516	4
Zombie	95⁄516	4
Bogged	30⁄516	4
Enderman	10⁄516	1–4
Witch	5⁄516	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄516	1
Slime[note 1]	1⁄516	1
Creature category
Warm Frog	1	2–5
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Water ambient category
Tropical Fish	1	8
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	1
Bogged	40	1–2
Enderman	10	1–4
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	1
Creature category
Warm Frog	1	2–5
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	2–4
Water creature category
Tropical Fish[note 2]	25	3–5
Tropical Fish[note 2]	25	1–3
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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These music tracks play while the player is in the mangrove swamp:

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Mangrove Swamp	mangrove_swamp	biome.minecraft.mangrove_swamp

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	mangrove_swamp	191

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.

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  Mangrove swamp close to desert
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  A swamp and a mangrove swamp bordering each other
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  Monsters in a mangrove swamp at night
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  A view of the sky from inside a mangrove swamp
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  The interior of a mangrove swamp
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  A deeper lake in a mangrove swamp
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  The view of a mangrove swamp from an underwater perspective
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  A small mangrove swamp surrounded by a jungle
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  The occurrence of a mangrove swamp in a desert in a mangrove swamp
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  A mangrove swamp with the terrain from a windswept savanna
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  Screenshot of a savanna village leading into a mangrove swamp during rainfall
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  The above view of a mangrove swamp
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  The Mangrove Swamp seed template thumbnail
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  A mangrove swamp single biome world

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  A mangrove swamp in the Minecraft Live 2021 recap video
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  Development image of a mangrove swamp
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  Development image of a mangrove swamp
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  Development image of a mangrove swamp

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  A mangrove swamp as it appears on the key art for the Wild Update
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  Noor rowing through a mangrove swamp
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  Steve and Alex digging a hole in a mangrove swamp
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  An allay leading Noor through the biome
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  Swamp concept art
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  Ditto
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  Ditto
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  Artwork of a mangrove swamp from minecraft.net
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  Lego mangrove swamp

• Swamp
• Plains
• River
• Ocean
• Jungle

• "Around the Block: Mangrove Swamp" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, March 30, 2023.

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