Lush Caves
Lush Caves — biome.
Natural resources
Gather moss, flowering azalea, glow berries, glow lichen, and clay while exploring the cave. Bone meal can spread moss across nearby stone and help turn the biome's plants into a renewable building palette.
Natural generation
Lush Caves are underground biomes with moss, azalea growth, glow berries, cave vines, clay, and spore blossoms. Their ceiling vegetation turns an ordinary cave into a layered garden, while ordinary cave carvers, geodes, ore, and underground lakes remain possible nearby. Azalea trees on the surface are the main above-ground clue that a lush cave may be below.
| Temperature | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Downfall | 0.5 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Surface clue | Azalea tree |
| Vegetation | Moss, azalea, cave vines, glow berries, spore blossom |
| Underground features | Geodes, ores, clay disks, water pockets |
| Carvers | Cave, extra-underground cave, canyon |
| Climate preference | Humid surface biomes |
| Moss patch placement | 125 attempts on the cave floor |
| Ceiling vegetation placement | 125 upward scans |
| Clay placement | 62 attempts |
Exploration and building
The biome combines a renewable moss source with hanging vegetation, clay, water pockets, and bright glow berries. It is useful for underground gardens, axolotl habitats, decorative paths, and safe staging areas where the vegetation makes cave shapes easy to read.
Sounds
Lush Caves use a dedicated overworld background music event. The source keeps the track delay bounded between 12,000 and 24,000 game ticks, so the music remains atmospheric without starting continuously.
| Music event | music.overworld.lush_caves |
|---|---|
| Minimum delay | 12,000 ticks |
| Maximum delay | 24,000 ticks |
Climate and environment
Lush Caves support axolotls, bats, glow squids, and tropical fish. Axolotls and tropical fish use the water pockets, while the cave remains dark enough for the normal underground monster spawns. The local Java spawn table gives axolotls and tropical fish dedicated ambient entries in addition to the normal monster and bat groups.
| Water color | #3f76e4 |
|---|---|
| Sky color | #7ba4ff |
| Axolotl | Weight 10, groups of 4–6 |
| Tropical fish | Weight 25, groups of 8 |
| Bat | Weight 10, groups of 8 |
| Glow squid | Weight 10, groups of 4–6 |
| Monster spawns | Creeper, skeleton, zombie, slime, spider, witch, enderman |
Data values
The biome uses the `minecraft:lush_caves` identifier, has temperature 0.5, downfall 0.5, and precipitation enabled. Its water colour is `#3f76e4`.
| Identifier | minecraft:lush_caves |
|---|---|
| Version | Minecraft 26.2 |
| Local source | Lush Caveslush_caves |
| Temperature | 0.5 |
| Downfall | 0.5 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Water color | #3f76e4 |
| Sky color | #7ba4ff |
| Background music | music.overworld.lush_caves |
History
Lush Caves were introduced as a subterranean biome whose surface azalea trees reveal the underground feature. Natural generation, tropical-fish spawning, and the dedicated music event were added as the biome moved from an experimental showcase into the regular world-generation pipeline.
| Surface indicator | Azalea tree |
|---|---|
| Natural generation | Enabled |
| Aquatic expansion | Tropical fish and axolotls |
| Audio identity | Dedicated lush-caves music |
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References
Climate, carvers, features, spawners, and music are read from `data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/lush_caves.json`. The three bounded placement counts come from the local lush-caves placed-feature records.
| Local source | Lush Caveslush_caves |
|---|---|
| Biome record | worldgen/biome/lush_caves.json |
| Moss vegetation | worldgen/placed_feature/lush_caves_vegetation.json |
| Ceiling vegetation | worldgen/placed_feature/lush_caves_ceiling_vegetation.json |
| Clay feature | worldgen/placed_feature/lush_caves_clay.json |
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Data and provenance
minecraft:lush_caves
Snapshot digest verified.
Facts
| Temperature | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Downfall | 0.5 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Biome effects | {"waterColor":"#3f76e4","skyColor":"#7ba4ff"} |
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