Talk:Biomes

Ruins

• Are ruins really a biome? Or are they a generated structure? TheTopazRobot (talk) 12:48, 5 November 2017 (CST)
  • I'd call them a biome, they are as big as one and made from the seed. Injinji (talk) 11:28, 30 November 2017 (CST)
  • They are treated as a biome in the code, so yes. Dungeons and the skyhold are both considered as structures because they are generated mostly after the world is generated. - Zanzlanz (talk) 20:40, 30 November 2017 (CST)
    • Thanks :)! TheTopazRobot (talk) 05:14, 3 December 2017 (CST)

Do trees really grow only in forests?

The Forest section makes very clear trees only grow in forests, but on starting a game yesterday, I found trees on top of a large mountain. I'm new to the game, I didn't know this was so weird! :) The seed is 904742. To see the trees, go left from spawn. you will come to a cliff where, if you jump, you will see the trunk of a tree. This one may be excused by the land next to the cliff being lower than normal, a cave on the surface. However, if you climb the cliff, you will find more trees on a hump which is not very plains-like, then a much bigger rise with more trees again, and finally a very tall vertical cliff down to the normal-level land on the other side. If I'd read the wiki first, I don't think I would ever have climbed that mountain, which is a shame because it's a lovely place. (Another curiosity: the other side features an "ocean" 4 blocks wide, containing 1 block of coral! Is it really only oceans which can contain coral?) Eekee (talk) 11:01, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Cliff or Mountain?

I have come across steep inclines in between biomes on a lot of maps, but I ran into a peculiar one today. It looked like 4 cliffs lined up and the blocks added up to be 38 blocks tall. I want to say it was a cliff because there was higher land on the other side, but it also had 10 blocks above that side. It also had a tree on it. Whether it was a cliff of mountain, it goes against what this site says. I also don't know if it was made from a bug or if it spawned from the normal coding. It was on Hard mode seed 754730.

Nether and End Biomes

Are there biomes that spawn in the nether or the end? In the nether, there are caves, but I don't know if it is considered a biome. The end only has an island with no plans or terrain variation. If there are biomes in the nether or the end, please add it to the wiki!