River
River — biome.
Obtaining
Natural generation
Rivers generate as water corridors through the Overworld with sand, gravel, clay, sugar cane, seagrass, and river vegetation. Their feature list also includes underground and surface lava springs, amethyst geodes, ores, and water-side plants. The biome uses cave, extra-underground-cave, and canyon carvers, so river banks can open into the same underground network as nearby terrain.
The non-frozen river path adds a dedicated river seagrass pass after the common Overworld features. Its generation builder also adds default soft disks, water trees, bushes, flowers, grass, mushrooms, and extra vegetation, which explains why a river bank can contain more than its exposed sand and gravel edge.
| Temperature | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Downfall | 0.5 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Water colour | #3f76e4 |
| Sky colour | #7ba4ff |
| Carvers | Caves, extra underground caves, and canyons |
| Special features | Amethyst geodes, lava springs, underwater magma, and disks of sand, clay, and gravel |
| Vegetation | Water trees, river seagrass, sugar cane, mushrooms, pumpkins, and firefly bushes |
| River-specific pass | Seagrass river placement in non-frozen rivers |
Sounds
Rivers use the normal game track above water, creative music in creative mode, and underwater music while submerged. Each background track uses the same 12,000–24,000 tick delay range from the biome record.
| Default music | minecraft:music.game |
|---|---|
| Creative music | minecraft:music.creative |
| Underwater music | minecraft:music.under_water |
| Delay | 12,000–24,000 ticks |
Climate and environment
Rivers have a water-ambient salmon spawn, squid in the water-creature group, glow squids underground, and drowned in the monster group. The biome is tagged as an Overworld river and can host trial chambers and mineshafts.
The regular river uses drowned with weight 100 and a group size of one. Common Overworld spawns are added beside that entry, while the frozen river variant uses a separate low drowned weight and is not this page's published variant.
| Water color | #3f76e4 |
|---|---|
| Sky color | #7ba4ff |
| Salmon | 1–5 per group, weight 5 |
| Squid | 1–4 per group, weight 2 |
| Glow squid | 4–6 per group, weight 10 |
| Drowned | 1 per group, weight 100 |
| Ambient | Bat: 8, weight 10 |
| Monster group | Spider 4, zombie 4, zombie villager 1, skeleton 4, creeper 4, slime 4, enderman 1–4, witch 1 |
Data values
The biome uses the stable `minecraft:river` identifier and belongs to the river and overworld tags. Its feature list exposes water-side vegetation, ores, geodes, and surface springs.
| Identifier | minecraft:river |
|---|---|
| Version | Minecraft 26.2 |
| Local source | Riverriver |
| Biome tags | River, overworld |
| Features | Seagrass, sugar cane, ores, geodes, springs |
| Background music | Game, creative, and underwater tracks; 12,000–24,000 tick delay |
| Fire burnout | Increased-fire-burnout gameplay attribute |
| Structure tags | is_river, is_overworld, has_mineshaft, required_ocean_monument_surrounding |
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See also
References
The page combines the local river biome JSON with `OverworldBiomes.river`, the river structure tags, and the dedicated seagrass placement used by the Java snapshot.
| Local source | Riverriver |
|---|---|
| Biome record | data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/river.json |
| Biome builder | net/minecraft/data/worldgen/biome/OverworldBiomes.java |
| River tags | net/minecraft/data/tags/BiomeTagsProvider.java |
| Seagrass placement | net/minecraft/data/worldgen/placement/AquaticPlacements.java |
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Data and provenance
minecraft:river
Snapshot digest verified.
Facts
| Temperature | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Downfall | 0.5 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Biome effects | {"waterColor":"#3f76e4","skyColor":"#7ba4ff"} |
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- Readiness
- Pending
- Snapshot
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- Source set
- 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
- Entity identifier
- minecraft:river
- Digest
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- Missing locales
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