Lukewarm Ocean biome in Minecraft
The Lukewarm Ocean sits between temperate seas and warm ones. The water turns light blue, the floor becomes sand, and tropical fish and pufferfish mix with the cod. It has no coral yet, but its sandstone ocean ruins hide suspicious sand, the only place where you can find a sniffer egg.
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -424 85 936 0 25Climate
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Temperature
- 0.5
- Downfall
- 0.5
- Weather
- Rain
How to find a Lukewarm Ocean
/locate biome minecraft:lukewarm_oceanMap 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.
Lukewarm Ocean in numbers
- Share of the world
- 4.4%of the Overworld surface
- Rarity rank
- 47 / 521 = the rarest
- Distance from spawn
- ~1,170 blocksaverage, 1,000 worlds
- Within 1,000 blocks
- 50.3%of worlds
Deep Lukewarm Ocean30.4%
Warm Ocean3.7%
// 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 -424 53 920 180 10Mobs in the Lukewarm Ocean
Structures in the Lukewarm Ocean
Sand, seagrass and tropical fish
The floor of a Lukewarm Ocean is Sand instead of gravel. Kelp still grows, though not as thick as in colder seas, and seagrass covers the bottom in dense meadows. Squid, nautiluses and Dolphins swim in the open water. Feed a dolphin raw cod and it leads you to the nearest ruin or shipwreck.
The big change is the fish. Cod still spawn, but Tropical Fish in many colors and patterns and Pufferfish take over. Keep away from pufferfish: they puff up when you come close and poison you on contact. Don't eat them either: a pufferfish gives you Poison, Hunger and Nausea. Tropical fish are harmless and easy to catch with a water bucket. A Bucket of Tropical Fish is the food you use to feed and breed Axolotls.
Sandstone ruins and the sniffer egg
Lukewarm Oceans hold the warm type of Ocean Ruins: sandstone instead of stone brick, often in clusters. This type only appears here, in the Deep Lukewarm Ocean and in the Warm Ocean. Like the cold ones, their chests can contain a treasure map and emeralds. The real prize is in the Suspicious Sand around them. Work it with a Brush and you can get the Angler, Shelter and Snort pottery sherds and, rarely, a Sniffer Egg. Place the egg and a sniffer hatches from it, faster if the egg sits on a moss block.
Where the water warms up further, the coral begins: you have reached the Warm Ocean.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Lukewarm Ocean — FAQ
Is there coral in a Lukewarm Ocean?
No. Coral reefs only generate in the Warm Ocean. The Lukewarm Ocean has similar sand and fish, but no reef.
Where can I find a sniffer egg?
By brushing the suspicious sand of warm ocean ruins, found in Lukewarm, Deep Lukewarm and Warm Oceans. It is a rare result, so expect to brush a lot of blocks.
Which mobs spawn in the Lukewarm Ocean?
Spider, Skeleton, Creeper, Slime, Zombie, Enderman, Zombie Villager, Witch, Drowned, Bat, Squid, Nautilus, Dolphin, Glow Squid, Tropical Fish, Cod and Pufferfish.
Which structures generate in the Lukewarm Ocean?
Mineshaft, Ocean Ruins, Ruined Portal, Shipwreck, Stronghold and Trial Chambers.
How do you find the Lukewarm Ocean?
With cheats on, /locate biome minecraft:lukewarm_ocean gives the coordinates of the nearest one. Without cheats, a seed map of your world shows where it is.
