River

River

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A river is a common aquatic biome that cuts through most land biomes. Rivers can serve as borders between various other biomes, and usually lead to oceans, although they are also able to form loops.

Rivers generate in land whenever the PV values are on their lowest; in the deepest part of valleys. River generation does not depend on temperature or humidity, meaning that they can cut through any type of land, but they are replaced by frozen rivers in the frozen temperature zones.

The shape of rivers is determined by the PV noise. They always twist around higher landmasses, sometimes they form loops that can be small enough to have no land inside.

Rivers do not generate in swamps or mangrove swamps, but their water bodies are often connected. The depth and width of a river strongly depends on the surrounding terrain; near oceans they are mostly wide, with some islands and flooded land biomes, further inland they often dry up with barely any water. Around mountains or elevated terrain, rivers form deep fjords with tall cliffs, and they abruptly end when the continentalness reaches the highest value. Here, no rivers generate and the valleys consist of elevated land biomes.

Rivers typically serve as a division between two different biomes, with one biome variant on one side, and a different variant on the other.

A river biome on its own does not have many distinct features, most of its characteristics are created by the terrain generation or surrounding biomes. They are filled with still water up to the sea level, and the terrain below consists of default lakebed blocks, covered with seagrass. Specifically, it is separated into patches of dirt, clay, sand, and gravel.

When a river generates land, it is just covered by grass blocks with some patches of bushes. However, features from bordering biomes often leak into the river biome. This happens most notably with wooded badlands, where the grass allows many oak trees and leaf litter to generate. Due to the extended coastlines, firefly bushes and sugar cane are often found near rivers, although they are no more common than in other biomes.

No fully-passive mobs spawn within river biomes themselves, but they frequently wander into them from the surrounding biomes if they can spawn there. Drowned can spawn underwater, as can salmon and squid. In Bedrock Edition, no hostile mobs spawn above water.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄615	4
Drowned	100⁄615	1
Skeleton	100⁄615	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄615	4
Spider	100⁄615	4
Zombie	95⁄615	4
Enderman	10⁄615	1–4
Witch	5⁄615	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄615	1
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Water creature category
Squid	1	1–4
Water ambient category
Salmon	1	1–5
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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In Bedrock Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Drowned	100	1
Slime[note 1]	100	1
Creature category
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Squid	8	2
Water creature category
Salmon	1	3–5

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These music tracks when the player is underwater in a river:

These music tracks play while the player is not underwater in a river:

In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
River	river	biome.minecraft.river

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	river	7

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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  The first image of a river released by Notch

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

• Rivers override canyons at or close to the surface level, causing the canyon to be abruptly cut off by a wall of stone. However, if the canyon is long enough, it may continue on the other side of the river.
  • Canyons can generate underground in river biomes without being cut off.

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  A circular river surrounding a small plains biome
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  A big river
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  A weird "river" in the middle of badlands
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  Rivers separate biomes with positive and negative weirdness.
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  The Winding River seed template thumbnail
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  A river single biome world

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  A river biome before The Update that Changed the World
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  A typical river before 1.18
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  A narrow river
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  A river separating a desert and a plains
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  Rivers splitting and cutting through a taiga
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  A river that failed to generate properly due to a nearby mountain
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  A river running through a swamp
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  A river single biome world before 1.18
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  A river connected to a large lake in a jungle
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  A river with ray tracing
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  The old Winding River (seed preset) discountinued in Pocket Edition

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  A river in Java Edition 1.18 Experimental Snapshot 1
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  A big river flowing past a village
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  A big river flowing past a village
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  A river flowing through a dark forest
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  Traveling by boat through a river
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  A river next to a cherry grove
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  Sunny and Makena riding horses over a river

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  A snifflet approaching a river

• Frozen River
• Mushroom Field Shore
• Swamp
• Beach
• Ocean

• "Around the Block: River" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 22, 2020.