Frozen Ocean
For other variants, see Ocean (disambiguation).
Frozen Ocean
| Structures | |
|---|---|
| Features | |
| Blocks | |
|
Climate | |
| Temperature |
0.0 (In Java Edition, 0.2 in some ocean areas) |
| Downfall |
0.5 |
| Precipitation |
Yes |
|
Colors | |
| Grass color |
|
| Foliage color |
|
| Water color | |
| Underwater fog color | |
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The frozen ocean is a cold variant of oceans covered icebergs. The water's surface is partially covered with ice, where snowfall may occur and polar bears can spawn.
Description
The frozen ocean has low temperature and often borders snowy beaches. They generate next to snowy plains, ice spikes, and snowy taigas usually, but they can also generate next to regular taiga biomes, resulting in incorrect and weird generation. Like the standard and cold oceans, it has a gravel seabed, though the water's surface is mostly frozen. Neither seagrass nor kelp generates on the seafloor, leaving it entirely barren and reminiscent of pre-Update Aquatic oceans. Large icebergs made of snow blocks, packed ice and a bit of blue ice frequently generate on the surface.
Frozen oceans have varying temperatures across their landscapes, and have a more noticeable effect in that colder patches have snowfall and ice sheets, while warmer patches have rainfall (up to a certain height) and unfrozen water. See also Biome#Temperature.
Mobs
The following mobs naturally spawn here:
| Mob | Spawn weight | Group size |
|---|---|---|
| Monster category | ||
 Creeper | 100⁄520 | 4 |
 Skeleton | 100⁄520 | 4 |
 Slime[note 1] | 100⁄520 | 4 |
 Spider | 100⁄520 | 4 |
 Zombie | 95⁄520 | 4 |
 Enderman | 10⁄520 | 1–4 |
 Drowned[note 2] | 5⁄520 | 1 |
 Witch | 5⁄520 | 1 |
 Zombie Villager | 5⁄520 | 1 |
| Creature category | ||
 Polar Bear | 1 | 1–2 |
| Underground water creature category | ||
 Glow Squid | 1 | 4–6 |
| Water creature category | ||
 Nautilus[note 3] | 3⁄6 | 1 |
 Squid | 3⁄6 | 1–4 |
| Water ambient category | ||
 Salmon | 1 | 1–5 |
| Ambient category | ||
 Bat | 1 | 8 |
- ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
- ↑ In Mounts of Mayhem[upcoming], adult drowned wielding a trident have a 50% chance of spawning mounted on a zombie nautilus.
- ↑ [upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]
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| Mob | Spawn weight | Group size |
|---|---|---|
| Monster category | ||
| Creeper | 100 | 1 |
| Drowned[note 1] | 100 | 2–4 |
| Slime[note 2] | 100 | 1 |
| Spider | 100 | 1 |
 Stray | 96 | 1–2 |
| Zombie | 95 | 2–4 |
| Skeleton | 24 | 1–2 |
| Enderman | 10 | 1–2 |
| Witch | 5 | 1 |
| Zombie Villager | 5 | 2–4 |
| Creature category | ||
| Glow Squid | 10 | 2–4 |
| Nautilus[note 3] | 8 | 1 |
| Squid | 8 | 2–4 |
| Polar Bear | 5 | 1–2 |
 Rabbit | 4 | 2–3 |
| Water creature category | ||
 Cod | 75 | 4–7 |
| Salmon | 26 | 3–5 |
- ↑ In Mounts of Mayhem[upcoming], adult drowned wielding a trident have a 50% chance of spawning mounted on a zombie nautilus.
- ↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
- ↑ [upcoming Mounts of Mayhem]
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Sounds
When in any ocean biome, unique ocean ambience play randomly. Normal overworld tracks also play, alongside "Axolotl", "Dragon Fish" and "Shuniji", as the requirements for those are merely to be underwater rather than biome-determined.
Ambience
| Name | Sound | Group |
|---|---|---|
| Underwater Ambience | Loop | |
| Bubbles 1 | Loop Additions | |
| Bubbles 2 | ||
| Bubbles 3 | ||
| Bubbles 4 | ||
| Bubbles 5 | ||
| Bubbles 6 | ||
| Water 1 | ||
| Water 2 | ||
| Animal 1 | Rare Loop Additions | |
| Bass Whale 1 | ||
| Bass Whale 2 | ||
| Crackles 1 | ||
| Crackles 2 | ||
| Driplets 1 | ||
| Driplets 2 | ||
| Earth Crack | ||
| Animal 2 | Ultra Rare Loop Additions | |
| Dark 1 | ||
| Dark 2 | ||
| Dark 3 | ||
| Dark 4 |
Music
Previews of tracks in Minecraft have been shortened to 30 seconds on this wiki in accordance with fair use rationale. "11" and "Magnetic Circuit" are exempt from this.
| Filename in Minecraft |
Gameplay | Soundtrack Title | Soundtrack | Track preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| axolotl.ogg | Underwater | "Axolotl" | — | |
| dragon_fish.ogg | Underwater | "Dragon Fish" | — | |
| shuniji.ogg | Underwater | "Shuniji" | — |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
 Frozen Ocean | frozen_ocean | biome |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| [No displayed name] | frozen_ocean | 10 |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
 |  | Adventuring Time | Discover 17 biomes. | Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world. | 40 | Silver | |
 |  | Sail the 7 Seas | Visit all ocean biomes | Visit all ocean biomes except the deep warm ocean/legacy frozen ocean (as they are unused). | 40 | Gold | |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
  | Adventuring Time | Discover every biome | Visit all of these 54 biomes:
|
Video
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Added FrozenOcean. At this time, it generates as an ocean with a solid layer of ice at the surface. It also generates in small patches alongside the shore of the new snowy biomes. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Frozen ocean no longer generates naturally. | |||||
| Frozen ocean is now required for the new "Adventuring Time" achievement. | |||||||
| 1.8 | 14w17a | Frozen ocean is no longer required for the "Adventuring Time" achievement, making it possible to obtain in normal gameplay. | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w08a | Frozen ocean biome now generates naturally again, though differently from before. | |||||
| 18w09a | Added underwater ruin structures, which generate in all oceans. | ||||||
| 18w11a | Added shipwrecks, which generate in all oceans. | ||||||
| 18w15a | Added icebergs, which generate in frozen oceans. | ||||||
| Ocean variants now have their own water colors. | |||||||
| 18w16a | Renamed "FrozenOcean" to "Frozen Ocean". | ||||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Underwater ruins and shipwrecks are now rarer. | |||||
| 1.17 | 21w06a | Frozen ocean biomes generate with a stone floor below Y=50 instead of a gravel floor.[1] | |||||
| 21w15a | Frozen oceans generate with a gravel floor once again. | ||||||
| 1.18 | 21w44a | Frozen ocean is once again required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Added the frozen ocean biome, although it remained unused like in Java Edition 1.7.2. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Added the new frozen oceans as a separate biome. The old biome remains unused. | |||||
| Added shipwrecks, and icebergs. | |||||||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Added underwater ruins. | ||||||
| 1.17.0 Experiment | beta 1.16.230.56 | Frozen oceans generate with a stone floor below Y=51 instead of a gravel floor behind the Caves & Cliffs experimental gameplay toggle.[2] This does not occur in the Old world type. | |||||
| 1.17.30 Experiment | beta 1.17.30.23 | Frozen oceans generate with a gravel floor once again. | |||||
| 1.18.0 | beta 1.18.0.20 | Frozen oceans now generate near snowy biomes. | |||||
| 1.21.60 | Preview 1.21.60.23 | Frozen ocean no longer generate seagrass. | |||||
| 1.21.100 | Preview 1.21.100.20 | The surface is no longer entirely covered by ice and now features patches of open water. | |||||
| Icebergs now generate with a shape and frequency that more closely matches Java Edition. | |||||||
Legacy Console Edition
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU7 | Frozen ocean biome added. At this time, it generates as an ocean with a solid layer of ice at the surface. It also generates in small patches alongside the shore of the new snowy biomes. | ||||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Frozen oceans no longer generate. | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | Frozen ocean biome now generates naturally again, though differently from before. | ||
| Added shipwrecks, underwater ruins, and icebergs. | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.18 | 21w37a | Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 10. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Frozen Ocean" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- Before 1.18, regular and deep frozen oceans could generate near any kind of biome. It was somewhat common to see an iceberg bordering a desert, savanna or badlands in Bedrock Edition. Until 1.18, frozen oceans had a rough regular ocean border to minimize this effect in Java Edition.
Gallery
Screenshots
-
View of an old pre-Java Edition 1.13 frozen ocean. -
Another view of a frozen ocean. -
An example of the random temperature variation within frozen oceans. The darker areas are colder, and have snowfall and ice sheets; the lighter areas are warmer, have rainfall and unfrozen water. -
Same as the previous image, edited for better visibility. -
A wrecked ship in an iceberg at a frozen ocean. -
A frozen ocean biome. -
A frozen ocean near a forest. -
Salmon beneath icebergs. -
A frozen ocean single biome world before 1.18. -
A frozen ocean with ray tracing.
See also
References
- ↑ MC-214783 — Oceans generate with stone floors — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MCPE-125235 — Ocean floors are generated with stone floors
External links
- "Around the Block: Frozen Ocean" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 28, 2021.
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