Stony Shore

A stony shore or stone beach is a coastal biome that is almost entirely made of stone and gravel. Stony shores replace beach biomes in some mountainous areas.

Generation

A stony shore replaces normal beaches in areas with mountainous terrain at low erosion values. This often (but not necessarily) occurs near mountains or plateau biomes. Stony shores can generate in any temperature zone, meaning that they create a high contrast with snowy or dry biomes.

Because of their low erosion values, stony shores generate close to deep dark. Stony shores are not to be confused with the oceanic cliffs that generate at higher continentalness and weirdness.

Description

Stony shores are made entirely of stone and variants, with long strips of gravel. They are usually a steep drop into the water they border. Stony shores may generate at high enough elevations to have snow on their peaks (above Y=120±8), even when bordering warm biomes.^[1] However, most of the surface is too warm for snowfall and ice, resulting in a large contrast with snowy biomes.

In Bedrock Edition, buried treasure can sometimes generate at high altitudes; In Java Edition, it doesn't generate here.^[2] Ores are often exposed in stony shores.

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
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	1	2–4

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is on a stony shore:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
Title	Preview	Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
A Familiar Room		1	2.70%	—	—
Below and Above		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Broken Clocks		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Clark		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Comforting Memories		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Danny		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Dry Hands		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Ebb		2	5.41%	2	5.56%
Featherfall		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Fireflies		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Floating Dream		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Haggstrom		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Home		2	5.41%	2	5.56%
Key		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
komorebi		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Left to Bloom		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Lilypad		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Living Mice		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Memories		2	5.41%	2	5.56%
Mice on Venus		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Minecraft		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Nightly		2	5.41%	2	5.56%
One More Day		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
O's Piano		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Oxygène		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Puzzlebox		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Shores		2	5.41%	2	5.56%
Subwoofer Lullaby		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Sweden		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Watcher		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
Wet Hands		1	2.70%	1	2.78%
yakusoku		1	2.70%	1	2.78%

In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
Title	Preview	Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
Aria Math		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Biome Fest		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Blind Spots		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Dreiton		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Haunt Muskie		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Taswell		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Key		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Subwoofer Lullaby		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Living Mice		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Haggstrom		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Minecraft		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Oxygène		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Mice on Venus		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Dry Hands		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Wet Hands		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Clark		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Sweden		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Danny		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Left to Bloom		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
One More Day		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Floating Dream		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Comforting Memories		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
A Familiar Room		1	3.03%	—	—
Featherfall		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Watcher		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Puzzlebox		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
komorebi		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
yakusoku		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Lilypad		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Below and Above		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
O's Piano		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Broken Clocks		1	3.03%	1	3.13%
Fireflies		1	3.03%	1	3.13%

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier
Stony Shore	`stony_shore`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	`stone_beach`

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

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.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.7.2	13w36a	Added the stone beach biome.
1.13	18w19a	"Stone Beach" has been renamed to "Stone Shore".
1.13	1.13-pre5	Changed the ID `stone_beach` to `stone_shore`.
1.18	experimental snapshot 2	Beaches are now generally wider.
	experimental snapshot 2	Beaches no longer generate in some areas to provide more variation.
	experimental snapshot 3	Stone shores are less common.
	experimental snapshot 4	Strips of andesite, diorite, granite, and gravel sometimes generate in stone shores.
	21w37a	The strips of gravel are now wider.
		Strips of andesite, diorite, and granite no longer generate in stone shores.^[3]
		Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 25.
	21w40a	"Stone Shore" has been renamed to "Stony Shore".
	21w40a	The ID `stone_shore` has been changed to `stony_shore`.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added the stone beach biome.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.40 Experiment Caves and Cliffs	beta 1.17.40.21	Strips of gravel sometimes generate in stone shores.
1.18.0	?	Snowfall now occurs above Y=120±8 instead of 90±8. This change causes most snow to melt in old terrain.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added the stone beach biome.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added stone beach biome.

Issues

Issues relating to "Stony Shore" or "Stone Beach" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

A stony shore single biome world

Historical screenshots

A single biome stone shore world before 1.18. The terrain is made almost entirely of stone and its variants, with only occasional dirt patches
A stone shore with ray tracing

Mojang images

First image of a stony shore, intitially referred to as the "Cliff Biome"
A ring-shaped stony shore biome

References

↑ MC-240697 – It snows in the stony shore biomes from Y = 118 and above
↑ MC-127290 – Shipwrecks and buried treasure will not generate in stony shore biomes – resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ MC-236816 – Granite, andesite and gravel strips no longer generate in stony peaks, as well as diorite, granite and andesite strips for stone shores – resolved as "Works As Intended".

External links

"Around the Block: Stony Shore" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 7, 2022.

[Slime-3] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[Slime-4] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[1] MC-240697 – It snows in the stony shore biomes from Y = 118 and above

[2] MC-127290 – Shipwrecks and buried treasure will not generate in stony shore biomes – resolved as "Works As Intended".

[5] MC-236816 – Granite, andesite and gravel strips no longer generate in stony peaks, as well as diorite, granite and andesite strips for stone shores – resolved as "Works As Intended".