Old Growth Spruce Taiga

Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Structures	Abandoned Camp; Trail Ruins
Features	Spruce; Pine; Mega Spruce; Forest Rock
Blocks	Grass Block; Podzol; Coarse Dirt; Fern; Large Fern; Dead Bush; Mushrooms; Sweet Berry Bush
Climate
Temperature	0.25
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	; #86B783
Foliage color	; #68A464
Dry foliage color	; #9A764F
Water color	; #3F76E4‌[JE only]; ; #44AFF5‌[BE only]
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Cold
Volumetric fog	Semi-humid
Color grading	Coolish

The old growth spruce taiga or redwood taiga mutated is a forested biome covered with tall 2×2 spruce trees that grow leaves around the trunk. The ground, made of podzol and coarse dirt, occasionally features mossy cobblestone rocks.

Generation

Old growth spruce taigas generate where weirdness is negative, temperatures are moderately low, and humidity is very high. They often border old growth pine taigas, a variant with trees that have few leaves only near the top, either directly or separated by a river.

Old growth spruce taigas commonly border regular taigas and dark forests. Less commonly, they border windswept forests, swamps, pale gardens, or rising groves and jagged peaks.

Lush caves are very common beneath old growth spruce taigas due to their high humidities.

Description

As the name implies, old growth spruce taigas include trees that have attained a great age, and therefore great height. These spruces grow all over the landscape, while most of them are tall with 2×2 trunks, regular pine and spruce trees can also generate.

Much of the grass blocks are replaced by large swaths of podzol and coarse dirt. Additionally, rocks made of mossy cobblestone frequently generate on the ground and dead bushes generate alongside the sweet berry bushes, ferns, and large ferns. Mushrooms are more common here than in most Overworld biomes.

Trail ruins may generate here, but villages and pillager outposts cannot. Chestnut wolves, foxes and rabbits‌^{[JE only]} may spawn here. The climate is cold and allows snowfall above layer Y=160±8, which is notably lower than in the old growth pine taiga.

Abandoned camps sometimes generate in old growth spruce taigas.

With Vibrant Visuals, old growth spruce taigas use a coolish humid volumetric fog setting, which slightly fades the distance in an orange tint. Old growth spruce taigas have coolish color grading which tints the environment with a colder blue color, and cold sunlight which appears slightly brighter at dusk and dawn.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Skeleton	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Slime^{[note 1]}	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Spider	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Zombie	⁹⁵⁄₅₁₅	4
Enderman	¹⁰⁄₅₁₅	1–4
Witch	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Zombie Villager	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Creature category
Sheep	¹²⁄₆₀	4
Cold Chicken	¹⁰⁄₆₀	4
Cold Pig	¹⁰⁄₆₀	4
Cold Cow	⁸⁄₆₀	4
Fox	⁸⁄₆₀	2–4
Chestnut Wolf	⁸⁄₆₀	4
Rabbit	⁴⁄₆₀	2–3
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

In **Bedrock Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100	1
Slime^{[note 1]}	100	1
Spider	100	1
Zombie	95	2–4
Skeleton	80	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Sheep	12	2–3
Cold Chicken	10	2–4
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Cold Pig	10	1–3
Cold Cow	8	2–3
Fox	8	2–4
Chestnut Wolf	8	2–4
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the old growth spruce taiga:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
Title	Preview	Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
Shores		2	9.52%	2	9.52%
Aerie		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Clark		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Comforting Memories		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Danny		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Dry Hands		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Firebugs		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Floating Dream		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Haggstrom		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Key		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Labyrinthine		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Left to Bloom		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Living Mice		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Mice on Venus		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Minecraft		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
One More Day		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Oxygène		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Subwoofer Lullaby		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Sweden		1	4.76%	1	4.76%
Wet Hands		1	4.76%	1	4.76%

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Old Growth Spruce Taiga	`old_growth_spruce_taiga`	`biome.minecraft.old_growth_spruce_taiga`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	`redwood_taiga_mutated`	`160`

Biome definition

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    "minecraft:canyon"
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  "downfall": 0.8,
  "effects": {
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  "features": [
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    [
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    [
      "minecraft:monster_room",
      "minecraft:monster_room_deep"
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    [
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      "minecraft:ore_gravel",
      "minecraft:ore_granite_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_granite_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_diorite_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_diorite_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_andesite_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_andesite_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_tuff",
      "minecraft:ore_coal_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_coal_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_iron_upper",
      "minecraft:ore_iron_middle",
      "minecraft:ore_iron_small",
      "minecraft:ore_gold",
      "minecraft:ore_gold_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_redstone",
      "minecraft:ore_redstone_lower",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond_medium",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond_large",
      "minecraft:ore_diamond_buried",
      "minecraft:ore_lapis",
      "minecraft:ore_lapis_buried",
      "minecraft:ore_copper",
      "minecraft:underwater_magma",
      "minecraft:disk_sand",
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      "minecraft:trees_old_growth_spruce_taiga",
      "minecraft:flower_default",
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      "minecraft:patch_dead_bush",
      "minecraft:brown_mushroom_old_growth",
      "minecraft:red_mushroom_old_growth",
      "minecraft:brown_mushroom_normal",
      "minecraft:red_mushroom_normal",
      "minecraft:patch_pumpkin",
      "minecraft:patch_sugar_cane",
      "minecraft:patch_firefly_bush_near_water",
      "minecraft:patch_berry_common"
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  "temperature": 0.25
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Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Adventuring Time	Discover 17 biomes.	Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.	40	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventuring Time	Discover every biome	Visit all of these 56^{[until: Fourth Drop 2026]}/57^[upcoming] biomes: Badlands Bamboo Jungle Beach Birch Forest Cherry Grove Cold Ocean Dappled Forest Dark Forest Deep Cold Ocean Deep Dark Deep Frozen Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Deep Ocean Desert Dripstone Caves Eroded Badlands Flower Forest Forest Frozen Ocean Frozen Peaks Frozen River Grove Ice Caves Ice Spikes Jagged Peaks Jungle Lukewarm Ocean Lush Caves Mangrove Swamp Meadow Mushroom Fields Ocean Old Growth Birch Forest Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Pale Garden Plains River Savanna Savanna Plateau Snowy Beach Snowy Plains Snowy Slopes Snowy Taiga Sparse Jungle Stony Peaks Stony Shore Sunflower Plains Sulfur Caves Swamp Taiga Warm Ocean Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Hills Windswept Savanna Wooded Badlands The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.7.2	August 7, 2013	Jens tweeted the first image of a mega taiga, unofficially dubbed the redwood forest. The name was changed following 1.7's release.
1.7.2	13w36a	Added mega spruce taiga and its variant, along with many other biomes.
1.13	18w19a	Renamed "Mega Spruce Taiga" to "Giant Spruce Taiga".
1.13	pre5	Changed the ID `mutated_redwood_taiga` to `giant_spruce_taiga`.
1.15	pre2	Foxes and berry bushes can now spawn in Giant Tree Taigas.
1.18	experimental snapshot 6	Giant Tree Taigas and their variants are no longer considered cold biomes in terms of biome placement.
	21w37a	Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 160.
	21w40a	"Giant Spruce Taiga" has been renamed to to "Old Growth Spruce Taiga".
	21w40a	The ID `giant_spruce_taiga` has been changed to `old_growth_spruce_taiga`.
	21w44a	Old growth spruce taiga is now required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.
1.20	23w12a	Added trail ruins, which can generate in old growth spruce taigas.
1.20	23w17a	"A Familiar Room" can now be played in old growth spruce taigas.
1.20.5	24w10a	Wolves that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the chestnut variant.
1.21.5	25w02a	Pigs that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the cold variant.
	25w05a	Cows that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the cold variant.
	25w06a	Chickens that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the cold variant.
26.3	snap1	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in old growth spruce taigas.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added mega taiga and variants, along with many other biomes.
v0.9.0	build 1	A block named "grassless dirt" generates in place of the current coarse dirt.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0	beta 1.2.0.2	Added coarse dirt, which can generate in Old Growth Tree Taiga biomes.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Added illager patrols, which can spawn in Old Growth Tree Taiga biomes.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.1	Added foxes, which can spawn in Old Growth Tree Taiga biomes.
1.16.0	beta 1.15.0.51	Wolves can now spawn in Old Growth Tree Taiga biomes.
1.20.80	Preview 1.20.80.21	Wolves that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the chestnut variant.
?	?	Changed the water color from #2D6D77 to the default.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.23	Mushrooms now generate in larger and more cohesive patches.
		Ferns now generate more frequently.
		Sweet berry bushes patches now generate.
1.21.60 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.60.25	Pigs that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the cold variant.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.20	Cows that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the cold variant.
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1 2025	Preview 1.21.70.22	Chickens that spawn in old growth spruce taigas are now the cold variant.
1.21.90	Preview 1.21.90.26	Added semi-humid volumetric fog, cold lighting, and coolish color grading to old growth spruce taigas with Vibrant Visuals.
1.21.100	Preview 1.21.100.20	Increased the size of the podzol patches generated beneath mega pines and mega spruces.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026	Preview 26.40.27	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in old growth spruce taigas.
26.50	Preview 26.50.22	All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added mega taiga and variants, along with many other biomes.
			1.91				Added illager patrols, which can spawn in Old Growth Tree Taiga biomes.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added mega taiga and variants, along with many other biomes.
1.5.25							Added coarse dirt, which can generate in old growth spruce taiga biomes.

Issues

Issues relating to "Old Growth Spruce Taiga" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

An abandoned camp in an old growth spruce taiga
An old growth spruce taiga single biome world

Historical screenshots

Side-by-side comparison of an old growth tree taiga (left) with an old growth spruce taiga (right)
A bay in the old growth spruce taiga. The old Taiga Bay (seed preset) discountinued in Pocket Edition.
Sunset in an old growth spruce taiga
In Bedrock Edition
Old growth spruce taiga with a river
A comparison of the four different giant tree taiga biomes before 1.18
A giant spruce taiga single biome world before 1.18
A giant spruce taiga with ray tracing

Development images

An old growth spruce taiga on an island

External links

"Around the Block: Old Growth Taiga" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 28, 2022.

[Slime-1] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[Slime-2] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[note 1]

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Old Growth Spruce Taiga

Contents

Generation

Description

Mobs

Sounds

Music

Data values

ID

Biome definition

Achievements

Advancements

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Issues

Gallery

Screenshots

Historical screenshots

Development images

See also

External links

Navigation

Navigation menu

Climate
Structures	Abandoned Camp Trail Ruins
Features	Spruce Pine Mega Spruce Forest Rock
Blocks	Grass Block Podzol Coarse Dirt Fern Large Fern Dead Bush Mushrooms Sweet Berry Bush
Temperature	0.25
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#86B783
Foliage color	#68A464
Dry foliage color	#9A764F
Water color	#3F76E4‌^{[JE only]} #44AFF5‌^{[BE only]}
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Cold
Volumetric fog	Semi-humid
Color grading	Coolish