Meadow

The meadow is an elevated grassy mountain slope and plateau biome filled with patches of flowers, turquoise-green grass and tall grass, where sheep, donkeys and rabbits spawn.

Generation

Meadows generate on the slope of mountains, standalone on plateaus, or as valleys inside mountain rings, in the medium and cold temperature zones. This allows for a wide variety in shapes and terrain; they can often generate as "microbiomes" of only a few blocks wide; as plateaus stretching hundreds of blocks; or a thin slope surrounding massive mountains. Meadow biomes can also form mountain rings on their own.

On the valley side of meadows, they border flower forests, plains, forests, birch forests, and taigas while they border jagged peaks, snowy slopes, and groves on the mountain side. They can border cherry groves, savanna plateaus, or any snowy biome when the temperature changes, and forests or pale gardens when humidity increases.

Mountains with meadows are often separated from cherry grove and frozen peaks mountains or sunflower plains by rivers or dry valleys.

Description

The meadow is a high altitude counterpart to the plains biome. It is covered by most flowers controlled by a gradient, meaning that it can continue for hundreds of blocks with the same type of flower. In addition to this, the ground is covered by lots of short grass and wildflowers, along with some tall grass.

Rarely, a lone oak or birch tree of any size can generate and always has a bee nest. Both pillager outposts and plains villages can generate in this biome, making this the only mountain biome where villages can generate. In Java Edition, unlike most overworld biomes, sugar canes and pumpkin patches cannot generate here. Abandoned camps sometimes generate in meadows.^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

Just like other mountain biomes, emerald ores can be found in meadows, especially at higher altitudes, and both coal and iron ores are commonly found here. Infested block blobs also naturally generate in meadows.

In Bedrock Edition, meadows are cold and allow snowfall above Y=200±8, however, this never occurs on natural terrain.

The only passive mobs that can spawn here are rabbits, sheep, and occasionally donkeys.

Mobs

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
Rabbit	²⁄₅	2–6
Sheep	²⁄₅	4
Donkey	¹⁄₅	1–2
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Rabbit	2	2–6
Sheep	2	2–3
Donkey	1	1–2

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in meadows:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
Title	Preview	Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
Home		2	22.22%	2	22.22%
One More Day		2	22.22%	2	22.22%
Danny		1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Haggstrom		1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Left to Bloom		1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Living Mice		1	11.11%	1	11.11%
Subwoofer Lullaby		1	11.11%	1	11.11%

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Meadow	`meadow`	`biome.minecraft.meadow`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	`meadow`	`186`

Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Adventuring Time	Discover 17 biomes.	Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.	40	Silver
		Sound of Music	Make the Meadows come alive with the sound of music from a jukebox.	Use a music disc on a jukebox in the Meadow biome.	10	Bronze

Advancements

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.
	Sound of Music	Make the Meadows come alive with the sound of music from a Jukebox	Use a music disc on a jukebox that stands within a meadow biome.

History

Announcement

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

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.18	Experimental Snapshot 1	Added meadow. Currently, blue orchids generate on meadows.
	experimental snapshot 2	Blue orchids no longer spawn in meadows.
	experimental snapshot 2	Oaks and Birches can now have a small chance of generating in meadows, often with a bee nest on them.
	experimental snapshot 3	Meadows are less likely to generate in flat, low elevation areas.
		Pillager outposts now generate in all the new mountain biomes, including meadows.
		Villages now generate in meadows.
	21w37a	Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 177.
	21w39a	Trees in mountain meadows now always contain a bee nest.
	21w41a	The sky color of meadows changes from #79a6ff to #7ba4ff.
	21w44a	Meadow is now required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.
1.20	23w17a	"A Familiar Room" can now be played in meadows.
1.21.5	25w02a	Short grass now generates slightly sparser in meadows.
1.21.5	25w02a	Added wildflowers, which can generate in meadows.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3	snap1	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in meadows.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.200 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.16.200.52	Added the meadow biome.
1.17.30 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.17.20.23	Hostile mobs can now spawn in the meadow biome.
1.17.40 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.17.40.20	Villages now generate in meadows.
		Meadows now spawn a lone oak or birch tree, often with bee nests.
		Rabbits can now spawn in meadows.
		Donkeys and sheeps can now spawn in the meadow biome.
1.18.0	beta 1.18.0.20	The meadow biome can now generate by default without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.18.0	beta 1.18.0.24	Changed the biome ID to `meadow` from `mountain_meadow`.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.23	Short grass now generates more frequently.
		Tall grass now generates more frequently.
		Flowers now generate in patches instead of being homogeneously spread across the biome.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.20	Short grass now generates slightly sparser in meadows.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.20	Added wildflowers, which can generate in meadows.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026	Preview 26.40.27	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in meadows.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.50	Preview 26.50.22	All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.18.32			1.18.10.04				Added the meadow biome.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

A vast meadow plateau
An abandoned camp in a meadow
An example of the gradients that control flower generation
A meadow single biome world

Development images

A meadow full of poppies
A lone birch tree in a meadow
A ring of meadow mountains around a forest
A village in a valley surrounded by meadows
A meadow with mountains in the distance

In other media

Artwork of Steve and Alex in a meadow biome.
A meadow as seen in Minecraft Legends.

External links

"Around the Block: Meadow" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, April 14, 2022.

[Slime-1] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[Slime-2] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.