Windswept Gravelly Hills

Windswept Gravelly Hills

Features	Floating island Spruce‌[JE only] Oak‌[JE only]
Blocks	Gravel Grass Block Snow Oak Log‌[JE only] Oak Leaves‌[JE only] Spruce Log‌[JE only] Spruce Leaves‌[JE only] Stone Emerald Ore Coal Ore Iron Ore Infested Stone Bush
Climate
Temperature	0.2
Downfall	0.3
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#8AB689
Foliage color	#6DA36B
Water color	#3F76E4‌[JE only]  #0E63AB‌[BE only]

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The windswept gravelly hills, formely known as extreme hills M or gravelly mountains, is a slightly altered and more desolate variant of the windswept hills covered with gravel. It is the second rarest biome in the Overworld, after the pale garden, covering only about 0.103% of the world terrain.

Description

True to its name, windswept gravelly hills contain large amounts of gravel that replace the top few layers of stone, grass blocks, and dirt across its landscape. Due to the gravel replacing most of the grass, spruce trees and oak trees generate far less often, along with reduced amounts of dandelions, poppies, bushes, and short grass, making this variant relatively barren. In Bedrock Edition, no trees generate here at all, and almost 100% of the biome is covered with gravel, with only a few 1-block wide strips of grass blocks generating inside, allowing far fewer bushes to generate. Players should be careful when surfacing from underground in this biome, as the top layers of gravel can pose a suffocation hazard.

In other aspects, however, windswept gravelly hills resemble their regular counterpart: the terrain is still elevated and full of falling hazards, and generates hilly and shattered in some areas, often resulting in floating islands. Above Y=120±8, rainfall converts to snowfall, and snow begins to cover the ground. Water also begins to freeze into ice starting at that height.

Windswept gravelly hills share their foliage, grass and water color with windswept hills and windswept forests. Emerald ore generates here. On the biome's surface, coal ore and iron ore is found frequently exposed to broad daylight. Underground, occasional infested stone with silverfish can be encountered. The deep dark cannot generate beneath windswept gravelly hills, despite being a highland biome.

Farm animals spawn their cold variants in this biome when possible, and llamas generate in herds around the biome.

This variant rarely generates in lower humidity values and colder temperature ranges than regular windswept hills and windswept forests. Because of this, windswept gravelly hills often appear next to plains, snowy plains, ice spikes, snowy taigas, and uncommonly forests, sunflower plains, and flower forests. As the biome is a variant of the windswept hills, additional requirements for locating the biome are high PV and high erosion values. On top of that, all windswept hills biomes are more likely to generate in higher continentalness.

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	12⁄45	4
Cold Chicken	10⁄45	4
Cold Pig	10⁄45	4
Cold Cow	8⁄45	4
Llama	5⁄45	4–6
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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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
Llama	5	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

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Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Windswept Gravelly Hills	windswept_gravelly_hills	biome.minecraft.windswept_gravelly_hills

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	extreme_hills_mutated	131

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

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventuring Time	Discover every biome	Visit all of these 54 biomes: Badlands Bamboo Jungle Beach Birch Forest Cherry Grove Cold Ocean 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 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 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

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Windswept Gravelly Hills", "Gravelly Mountains", or "Extreme Hills M" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  View of windswept gravelly hills biome.
• 
  Windswept gravelly hills.
• 
  Windswept gravelly hills cliffside.
• 
  Gravelly windswept hills.
• 
  An extreme windswept hills biome.
• 
  A gravelly mountains single biome world before 1.18.
• 
  Gravelly mountains in Bedrock Edition before 1.18. Trees did not generate here.
• 
  Gravelly mountains with ray tracing.

See also

• Windswept Hills
• Windswept Forest
• Taiga
• Snowy Taiga
• Windswept Savanna
• Gravelly Mountains+

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