Giant Spruce Taiga Hills

Giant Spruce Taiga hills
Structures	Forest rock
Blocks	Grass Block; Podzol; Coarse Dirt; Mossy Cobblestone; Spruce Log; Spruce Leaves; Fern; Large Fern; Dead Bush; Sweet Berry Bush; Mushrooms; Vines‌[BE only]
Climate
Temperature	0.25‌[JE only]; 0.3‌[BE only]
Colors
Grass color	; #86B783‌[JE only]; ; #86B87F‌[BE only]
Foliage color	; #68A464‌[JE only]; ; #68A55F‌[BE only]
Water color	; #3F76E4‌[JE only]; ; #2D6D77‌[BE only]

This page describes content that has been removed from the game.

This feature was present in earlier versions of Java Edition, but has since been removed.

This article describes content that has been officially made unobtainable in Bedrock Edition.

It can still be obtained using third-party software. However, this can cause unexpected behavior such as bugs and crashes.

The giant spruce taiga hills was a modified hills variant of the old growth pine taiga that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and has been removed in Java Edition.

Description

The giant spruce taiga hills was a variant intended to be a more mountainous version of the giant spruce taigagiant spruce taiga, like all other hills biomes. However, both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition had generation issues.

In Java Edition, due to a likely error in the way terrain height is calculated, there was no difference in the terrain between giant spruce taiga and giant spruce taiga hills. Specifically, the game used internal values known as setBaseHeight and setHeightVariation when generating hills biomes, but these values were the same for both giant spruce taiga and giant spruce taiga hills, resulting in no actual difference between the two. This was the only hills biome in the game with this issue.^[1]

In Bedrock Edition, this biome generated as a much hillier version of the giant spruce taiga, even more mountainuous than regular hills biomes.^[verify] The hills often reached the generation limit, and the tall trees made this the biome with the second highest blocks (up to Y=158), after the shattered savanna plateau. However, this biome generated the same trees as the giant tree taiga hills (not giant spruce trees, but giant pine trees), making this biome hardly distinctable from the giant tree taiga hills.

Mobs

Giant spruce taiga hills used the same mob spawning chances as giant spruce taigas.

The following mobs naturally spawned here:

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

↑ 50% of spawned rabbits are brown, 40% are salt and pepper, and 10% are black.
↑ The foxes are red foxes.
↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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

↑ The foxes are red foxes.
↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

Data values

ID

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	`redwood_taiga_hills_mutated`	`161`

History

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				Redwood Taiga Hills M biome added, along with many other biomes.
1.13			18w16a				Renamed "Redwood Taiga Hills M" to "Mutated Redwood Taiga Hills".
1.13			18w19a				Renamed "Mutated Redwood Taiga Hills" to "Giant Spruce Taiga Hills".
1.15			pre2				Foxes and berry bushes can now spawn in Giant Spruce Taiga Hills.
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				Giant Spruce Taiga Hills no longer generates naturally.
1.18			21w40a				The giant spruce taiga hills biome has been removed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added redwood taiga hills, 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 redwood taiga hills.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Added illager patrols, which can spawn in giant spruce taiga hills.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.1				Added foxes, which can spawn in giant spruce taiga hills.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.51				Wolves can now spawn in giant spruce taiga hills.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.22				Giant spruce taiga hills no longer generates naturally.
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 redwood taiga hills, along with many other biomes.
			1.91				Added illager patrols, which can spawn in giant spruce taiga hills.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added redwood taiga hills, along with many other biomes.
1.5.25							Added coarse dirt, which can generate in redwood taiga hills.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			pre5				Changed the ID `mutated_redwood_taiga_hills` to `giant_spruce_taiga_hills`.
1.18			21w37a				Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 161.

Gallery

Giant spruce taiga hills in Bedrock Edition.
An island completely covered with giant spruce taiga hills in Bedrock Edition.
Another view of the island, with exposed ocean ruins.
A comparison of the four giant tree taiga biomes before 1.18.
A giant spruce taiga hills single biome world.
A regular giant spruce taiga single biome world, with the same seed and position, showing that it is exactly the same.
Giant spruce taiga hills with ray tracing.

References

↑ MC-140690 — Giant Spruce Taiga Hills has no difference with Giant Spruce Taiga — resolved as "Fixed".

Navigation

[Rabbit-2] 50% of spawned rabbits are brown, 40% are salt and pepper, and 10% are black.

[Fox-3] The foxes are red foxes.

[Slime-4] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[Fox-5] The foxes are red foxes.

[Slime-6] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[1] MC-140690 — Giant Spruce Taiga Hills has no difference with Giant Spruce Taiga — resolved as "Fixed".

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Climate
Structures	Forest rock
Blocks	Grass Block Podzol Coarse Dirt Mossy Cobblestone Spruce Log Spruce Leaves Fern Large Fern Dead Bush Sweet Berry Bush Mushrooms Vines‌^{[BE only]}
Temperature	0.25‌^{[JE only]} 0.3‌^{[BE only]}
Colors
Grass color	#86B783‌^{[JE only]} #86B87F‌^{[BE only]}
Foliage color	#68A464‌^{[JE only]} #68A55F‌^{[BE only]}
Water color	#3F76E4‌^{[JE only]} #2D6D77‌^{[BE only]}