Snowy Taiga

Snowy Taiga

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A snowy taiga or cold taiga is an icy biome that comprises a snow-covered forest of pine and spruce trees, ferns and large ferns, and sweet berry bushes, usually generating adjacent to or within snowy plains.

Snowy taiga biomes generate at the coldest temperature zones, in medium to high humidity. They commonly border snowy plains and are often separated from them by frozen rivers. In higher humidity, as well as in higher temperature zones, they are replaced by warmer taigas without snow.

Because snowy taigas generate in the frozen temperature zone, they border snowy beaches and frozen oceans, although stony shores can also generate. Near mountains, snowy taigas are widely replaced by groves, although they can still generate as narrow river valleys.

Because of their slightly high humidity, lush caves can possibly generate under snowy taigas, although, when the snowy taiga generate far inland, dripstone caves may generate under the snowy taiga instead.

Snowy taigas are similar to regular taigas, featuring large numbers of spruce trees, ferns, and rabbits. Animals in this biome spawn with their cold variants, foxes spawn as snow foxes, and wolves use a unique ashen variant.

Sweet berry bushes generate, but are less common compared to regular taiga. The main distinction are the snow layers that cover almost the entire landscape, save for the ground protected by the leaves of spruce trees. The gelid temperature of the snowy taiga means that any exposed water freezes into ice, though lakes that generate within the taiga are often partially protected by the leaves of the trees, meaning lakes aren't usually completely frozen.

Igloos and trail ruins may generate here, as well as villages and pillager outposts in Bedrock Edition only. Villages generated here use the same architecture as normal taiga villages, but all of the roofs are covered by stacked snow. The water in village farms is frozen, leading to the crops uprooting. Villagers wear the snowy plains outfit. Abandoned camps sometimes generate in snowy taigas.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

In Bedrock Edition the water has a unique tone, and during snowfall snow layers build up and the leaves of the trees become white.

With Vibrant Visuals, snowy taigas use a coolish humid volumetric fog setting, which slightly fades the distance in an orange tint. Snowy taigas have strong cold color grading which tints the environment with an icy blue color, and cold sunlight which appears slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

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
Sheep	12⁄60	4
Cold Chicken	10⁄60	4
Cold Pig	10⁄60	4
Cold Cow	8⁄60	4
Snow Fox	8⁄60	2–4
Ashen Wolf	8⁄60	4
Rabbit	4⁄60	2–3
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
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	2–4
Skeleton	80	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Ashen Wolf	13	4
Sheep	12	2–3
Cold Chicken	10	2–4
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Cold Pig	10	1–3
Cold Cow	8	2–3
Snow Fox	8	2–4
Rabbit	4	2–3
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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These music tracks play while the player is in a snowy taiga:

In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Snowy Taiga	snowy_taiga	biome.minecraft.snowy_taiga

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	cold_taiga	30

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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  An old snowy taiga in Pocket Edition v0.7.0 alpha.
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  A snowy taiga in Java Edition Alpha v1.2.6. It uses oak trees as spruce trees didn't exist in this version.
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  A snowy taiga in Java Edition Beta 1.7.3.
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  A snowy taiga in Java Edition 1.2.1.

Issues relating to "Snowy Taiga" or "Cold Taiga" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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  A snowy taiga that generated bordering a grove. Notice how the snowy taiga uses grass blocks with snow layers as its top layer, while the grove uses snow blocks.
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  An abandoned camp in a snowy taiga
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  A snowy taiga single biome world

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  After a snowfall
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  The start of a snowfall
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  An igloo
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  More hilly terrain in a snowy taiga biome
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  A snowy taiga single biome world before 1.18
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  A snowy taiga with ray tracing

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  A view at snowy taig
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  A spruce cabin in a snowy taiga
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  Snowfall beginning in a snowy taiga
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  Shattered terrain in a snowy taiga
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  An artwork from Mojang Studios.
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  A fox resting beside a campfire while an allay and snow golems lurk behind them.

• Taiga
• Old Growth Spruce Taiga
• Snowy Taiga Hills
• Snowy Taiga Mountains
• Snowy Plains
• Grove

• "Around the Block: Snowy Taiga" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, May 24, 2023.