Frozen Peaks biome in Minecraft
Frozen Peaks are high mountain tops glazed with packed ice and ice under a layer of snow, smoother than the spiky Jagged Peaks. They are almost empty of life apart from goats. For builders, they are a free source of packed ice. For miners, the stone inside hides emerald ore.
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -600 195 -664 90 25Climate
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Temperature
- -0.7
- Downfall
- 0.9
- Weather
- Snow
How to find Frozen Peaks
/locate biome minecraft:frozen_peaksMap by Chunkbase, shown as a companion to this guide. Without your seed, it shows an example world. Results depend on the edition and version you pick.
Frozen Peaks in numbers
- Share of the world
- 0.16%of the Overworld surface
- Rarity rank
- 5 / 521 = the rarest
- Distance from spawn
- ~1,890 blocksaverage, 1,000 worlds
- Within 1,000 blocks
- 22.3%of worlds
- Spawn biome
- 0.4%of worlds start here
Grove53.6%Snowy Slopes28.5%
// 1,000 random seeds, normal world. Java 26.2 world generation computed with cubiomes, plus the 26.3 Dappled Forest rule. Estimates, not exact 26.3 values.
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -632 164 -648 180 -5Mobs in the Frozen Peaks
Structures in the Frozen Peaks
Ice on the mountain
The steep faces of Frozen Peaks are covered in packed ice instead of stone, and more packed ice and patches of ice break up the snow block surface. Packed ice stays solid in daylight and next to torches, so the summits never melt. No trees, flowers or grass grow up here. They often sit above Snowy Slopes and can stand right next to Jagged Peaks.
Collecting packed ice
Ice and packed ice only drop themselves when mined with Silk Touch, and a Silk Touch pickaxe is the fastest way to harvest whole ice walls. Use them for ice roads, or craft nine packed ice into one blue ice, the fastest surface for boats. Normal ice is less useful for building: it melts near torches and turns into water when broken over solid ground.
Surviving the peaks
- Goats are the only animals. They ram you off ledges, and when they hit packed ice or stone instead of you they can drop a goat horn.
- Bring food: goats drop nothing when killed, and nothing else spawns here to hunt. You can milk goats with a bucket, though.
- Small lava springs can pour out of snow and packed ice.
- Fire burns out faster than in most biomes, so do not rely on it to clear the area.
- The stone inside holds emerald ore and infested stone, as in the other mountain peaks.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Frozen Peaks — FAQ
Do goats drop meat in Frozen Peaks?
No. Goats drop nothing when killed, so bring your own food. You can still milk them with a bucket.
How do you mine packed ice in Frozen Peaks?
Use a Silk Touch tool, preferably a pickaxe. Without Silk Touch, packed ice breaks and drops nothing.
Which mobs spawn in the Frozen Peaks?
Goat, Spider, Skeleton, Creeper, Slime, Zombie, Enderman, Zombie Villager, Witch, Bat and Glow Squid. Frostbite: Coming in 26.4.
Which structures generate in the Frozen Peaks?
Mineshaft, Pillager Outpost, Ruined Portal, Stronghold and Trial Chambers.
How do you find the Frozen Peaks?
With cheats on, /locate biome minecraft:frozen_peaks gives the coordinates of the nearest one. Without cheats, a seed map of your world shows where it is.