Snowy Beach
Snowy Beach — biome.
Obtaining
Natural generation
Snowy beaches form where a cold land biome meets the ocean. The shore keeps the broad, walkable shape of a beach, but snow layers and ice replace much of the usual warm shoreline palette. The local worldgen enables underground features, amethyst geodes, monster rooms, ore veins, vegetation and a freeze-top-layer pass.
The biome profile also opts into the beach tag, so systems that target beaches can treat the snowy variant as a beach without duplicating a second rule. Its feature list includes a final freeze-top-layer placement pass for shoreline icing.
| Temperature | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Downfall | 0.3 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Surface | Sand with snow and ice |
| Terrain feature | Freeze top layer |
| Structure tag | Trial chambers |
Travel and building
The flat shoreline is convenient for a small landing, while the cold surface supplies sand, snow, and ice for early construction. Check the edge before launching a boat: shallow frozen patches can hide the open-water channel.
Sounds
Snowy beaches use the ordinary beach, snow and water sound context; the biome itself does not define a separate sound set.
Climate and environment
The validated spawn table has bats in the ambient group, glow squids below water, and the regular hostile group including spiders, zombies, skeletons, creepers, endermen and witches. Creature spawns are intentionally empty in this biome profile.
| Water color | #3d57d6 |
|---|---|
| Sky color | #7fa1ff |
| Ambient | Bat |
| Underground water | Glow squid |
| Hostile | Spider, zombie, zombie villager, skeleton, creeper, slime, enderman, witch |
| Ambient weights | Bat 10; group size 8 |
| Underground-water weights | Glow squid 10; group size 4–6 |
| Hostile weights | Spider 100; zombie 95; zombie villager 5; skeleton 100; creeper 100; slime 100; enderman 10; witch 5 |
Data values
The biome uses the stable `minecraft:snowy_beach` identifier and a cold climate profile. Its surface is assembled from beach sand with snow and ice near the waterline rather than from a separate solid “snow beach” block.
| Identifier | minecraft:snowy_beach |
|---|---|
| Version | Minecraft 26.2 |
| Local source | Snowy Beachsnowy_beach |
| Temperature | 0.05 |
| Downfall | 0.3 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Carvers | cave, cave_extra_underground, canyon |
| Underground features | Lava lakes, amethyst geodes, monster rooms, ore veins |
| Sky color | #7fa1ff |
| Water color | #3d57d6 |
| Surface | Sand, snow, and ice |
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See also
References
| Local source | Snowy Beachsnowy_beach |
|---|---|
| Biome record | data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/snowy_beach.json |
| Freeze placement | data/minecraft/worldgen/placed_feature/freeze_top_layer.json |
| Beach biome tag | data/minecraft/tags/worldgen/biome/is_beach.json |
Navigation
Data and provenance
minecraft:snowy_beach
Snapshot digest verified.
Facts
| Temperature | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Downfall | 0.3 |
| Precipitation | Yes |
| Biome effects | {"waterColor":"#3d57d6","skyColor":"#7fa1ff"} |
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