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Dark Forest

Biomes

Dark Forest — biome.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Dark forest is a wet forest biome with a dense dark-oak canopy. Its snapshot record uses temperature 0.7, downfall 0.8, precipitation, and the dark-forest grass modifier.

Data: Natural generation
Temperature0.7
Downfall0.8
PrecipitationYes
Grass modifierdark_forest
Water color#3f76e4

Sounds

The biome uses the normal forest overworld music with a delay window of 12,000–24,000 ticks between tracks.

Data: Sounds
Background musicmusic.overworld.forest
Minimum delay12,000 ticks
Maximum delay24,000 ticks

Climate and environment

Dark forests host common woodland creatures and hostile mobs. The biome record also places dark-forest vegetation, flowers, grass, brown and red mushrooms, pumpkins, sugar cane, glow lichen, and leaf litter; underground generation keeps the normal cave, ore, geode, and monster-room features.

Data: Climate and environment
Dry foliage color#7b5334
Water color#3f76e4
Sky color#79a6ff
Grass color modifierdark_forest
Vegetation placement16 attempts on the ocean floor heightmap
Underground carverscave, cave_extra_underground, canyon
Creature examplesSheep 4–4 (weight 12), pig 4–4 (weight 10), cow 4–4 (weight 8)
Monster examplesSpider, skeleton, and creeper groups of 4
Ambient entryBat, 8, weight 10
Water creature entryGlow squid, 4–6, weight 10

Data values

The biome registry identifier is `minecraft:dark_forest`. Its sky color is #79a6ff and its dry-foliage color is #7b5334.

Data: Data values
Identifierminecraft:dark_forest
VersionMinecraft 26.2
Local sourceDark Forestdark_forest
Sky color#79a6ff
Dry foliage color#7b5334
Water color#3f76e4
Dark Forest biome visual
Dark Forest biome visual · Local Minecraft asset
Dark oak log
Forest trees · Local Minecraft asset
Dark oak leaves
Dense canopy · Local Minecraft asset
Dark oak sapling
Sapling · Local Minecraft asset

References

Data: References
Local sourceDark Forestdark_forest
Biome recorddata/minecraft/worldgen/biome/dark_forest.json
Vegetation placementdata/minecraft/worldgen/placed_feature/dark_forest_vegetation.json

Navigation

Data and provenance

minecraft:dark_forest

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Facts

Temperature0.7
Downfall0.8
PrecipitationYes
Biome effects{"dryFoliageColor":"#7b5334","grassColorModifier":"dark_forest","waterColor":"#3f76e4","skyColor":"#79a6ff"}
Data sourcede2e043c79fd6598115f966dc646a4a46a24739c7386c828b7ff00ea4bcd61be

Provenance and publication

Readiness
Pending
Snapshot
918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Source set
918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Entity identifier
minecraft:dark_forest
Digest
de2e043c79fd6598115f966dc646a4a46a24739c7386c828b7ff00ea4bcd61be
Missing locales
ru, en