Old Growth Birch Forest biome in Minecraft
The Old Growth Birch Forest is a variant of the Birch Forest where about half the birches grow far taller than usual. The result is a tall, airy forest of white trunks, with wildflowers below and, sometimes, Trail Ruins buried under the ground, waiting for a player with a brush.
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s 8 110 152 0 25Climate
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Temperature
- 0.6
- Downfall
- 0.6
- Weather
- Rain
How to find an Old Growth Birch Forest
/locate biome minecraft:old_growth_birch_forestMap 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.
Old Growth Birch Forest in numbers
- Share of the world
- 2.1%of the Overworld surface
- Rarity rank
- 35 / 521 = the rarest
- Distance from spawn
- ~770 blocksaverage, 1,000 worlds
- Within 1,000 blocks
- 68.9%of worlds
- Spawn biome
- 3.9%of worlds start here
Dark Forest11.2%Birch Forest10.7%
// 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 -20 87 152 0 -8Mobs in the Old Growth Birch Forest
Structures in the Old Growth Birch Forest
Giant birches
The trees are the same species as in a Birch Forest, but here one birch in two shoots up into a much longer trunk before its crown. Walking between them feels like walking through a hall of white columns. Fallen trunks lie here and there, some of them from these tall birches. On the ground grow Wildflowers, tall flowers such as the Rose Bush, a few Bush clumps and, near water, the Firefly Bush.
Digging up Trail Ruins
This is the only birch forest where Trail Ruins generate. They are mostly buried, so look for a few blocks of old walls poking out of the grass. Dig around them carefully: they hide Suspicious Gravel that you clean with a Brush to uncover pottery sherds, armor trims and other finds. Mining suspicious gravel with a shovel destroys what it holds, so brush every block you are not sure about.
Wood and building
A single tall birch gives far more Birch Logs than a normal one, which makes this biome a good stop when you need a lot of light wood. Keep in mind that a Birch Sapling grows into a regular birch, wherever you collected it: the giant ones only appear when the world generates. Like other birch forests, the biome spawns no wolves or rabbits, only farm animals. The tall trunks make it a striking setting for a treehouse or a lookout tower, as long as you light the ground below, where hostile mobs gather at night.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Old Growth Birch Forest — FAQ
Can you grow the tall birches from saplings?
No. A Birch Sapling always grows into a regular birch. The tall ones only appear when the world generates.
Where can you find Trail Ruins near birches?
Only in the Old Growth Birch Forest: a regular Birch Forest never has them. Look for ruined blocks sticking out of the ground and bring a Brush.
Which mobs spawn in the Old Growth Birch Forest?
Sheep, Pig, Chicken, Cow, Spider, Skeleton, Creeper, Slime, Zombie, Enderman, Zombie Villager, Witch, Bat and Glow Squid. Bee: Lives in Bee Nests generated on some trees (2 to 3 bees per nest).
Which structures generate in the Old Growth Birch Forest?
Abandoned Camp, Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Stronghold, Trail Ruins and Trial Chambers.
How do you find the Old Growth Birch Forest?
With cheats on, /locate biome minecraft:old_growth_birch_forest gives the coordinates of the nearest one. Without cheats, a seed map of your world shows where it is.
