Old Growth Pine Taiga biome in Minecraft
The Old Growth Pine Taiga is a taiga variant full of giant spruces with long bare trunks and a small crown at the very top. Its floor of podzol and coarse dirt, its mossy boulders and its many mushrooms make it look older and wilder than a regular Taiga.
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s 584 110 552 0 25Climate
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Temperature
- 0.3
- Downfall
- 0.8
- Weather
- Rain
How to find an Old Growth Pine Taiga
/locate biome minecraft:old_growth_pine_taigaMap 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 Pine Taiga in numbers
- Share of the world
- 0.71%of the Overworld surface
- Rarity rank
- 23 / 521 = the rarest
- Distance from spawn
- ~1,520 blocksaverage, 1,000 worlds
- Within 1,000 blocks
- 33.1%of worlds
- Spawn biome
- 1.7%of worlds start here
Taiga30.3%
Cold Ocean5.4%
Old Growth Spruce Taiga3.3%
Stony Shore3.1%// 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 584 71 552 0 -8Mobs in the Old Growth Pine Taiga
Structures in the Old Growth Pine Taiga
Giant pines and bare trunks
Many trees here are giants with a 2 × 2 trunk. In this biome most of them are giant pines: long, bare trunks with only a short cone of leaves at the top, which gives the forest an open, high-ceilinged look. Ordinary spruces and pines fill the gaps, and fallen spruces lie on the ground. Under each giant tree the soil turns to Podzol, and the rest of the floor mixes podzol, Coarse Dirt and grass.
What to collect
- Spruce wood in bulk. One giant trunk holds dozens of Spruce Logs. Plant four Spruce Saplings in a 2 × 2 square to grow a giant tree yourself.
- Mushrooms. Brown and red mushrooms are far more common than in most biomes. Mushrooms can be planted on podzol whatever the light level, which makes this soil ideal for a mushroom farm.
- Undergrowth. A Sweet Berry Bush, Large Ferns and the occasional Dead Bush grow on the forest floor.
- Mossy boulders. Small rocks of Mossy Cobblestone sit on the ground, an easy source of this block without any crafting.
Zombie villagers and wolves
This biome stands out for its night mobs: a Zombie Villager spawns here much more often than in other forests. Cure one with a Splash Potion of Weakness and a Golden Apple to get a villager with discounted trades. A Wolf that spawns here has a black coat, a variant you won't find in any other biome, and foxes and rabbits live under the trees too. The biome has its own music, shared with the Old Growth Spruce Taiga.
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Old Growth Pine Taiga — FAQ
Why are there so many zombie villagers in the Old Growth Pine Taiga?
This biome gives Zombie Villagers a much higher spawn weight than other forests, so they show up often at night. That makes it a good place to cure a few for cheap trades.
Pine or spruce: how do you tell the two old growth taigas apart?
In the Old Growth Pine Taiga, most giant trees are bare-trunked pines with a small crown on top. In the Old Growth Spruce Taiga, the giants are spruces with a long, thick cone of leaves.
Which mobs spawn in the Old Growth Pine Taiga?
Sheep, Pig, Chicken, Cow, Wolf, Fox, Rabbit, Spider, Zombie, Skeleton, Creeper, Slime, Zombie Villager, Enderman, Witch, Bat and Glow Squid.
Which structures generate in the Old Growth Pine Taiga?
Abandoned Camp, Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Stronghold, Trail Ruins and Trial Chambers.
How do you find the Old Growth Pine Taiga?
With cheats on, /locate biome minecraft:old_growth_pine_taiga gives the coordinates of the nearest one. Without cheats, a seed map of your world shows where it is.
