Windswept Forest biome in Minecraft
The Windswept Forest is the wooded version of the Windswept Hills: the same steep, rocky terrain, but with a dense cover of spruce and oak trees. It combines a good supply of wood with the emerald ore and infested stone of the windswept biomes, and is the only one of them with an abandoned camp.
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -2312 135 1048 0 20Climate
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Temperature
- 0.2
- Downfall
- 0.3
- Weather
- Rain
How to find a Windswept Forest
/locate biome minecraft:windswept_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.
Windswept Forest in numbers
- Share of the world
- 0.2%of the Overworld surface
- Rarity rank
- 7 / 521 = the rarest
- Distance from spawn
- ~1,980 blocksaverage, 1,000 worlds
- Within 1,000 blocks
- 20.4%of worlds
- Spawn biome
- 0.5%of worlds start here
Taiga24.6%
Windswept Hills9.2%
Old Growth Spruce Taiga4.2%// 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 -2328 109 1064 0 -10Mobs in the Windswept Forest
Structures in the Windswept Forest
A forest on the cliffs
Where the Windswept Hills have a tree here and there, the Windswept Forest has several per chunk. About two trees in three are spruces, the others oaks, including some large branching oaks. Now and then a fallen trunk lies on the ground. Between the trees, the slopes show grass, bushes, poppies, dandelions and bare stone.
It is a good place to stock up on spruce logs for dark wooden builds, with oak logs on the side. The summits are cool enough for snow, so the higher trees can stand in a white landscape.
Ores under the trees
The stone under the forest holds the same treasures as the other windswept biomes. Emerald ore appears in very small veins, often single blocks, and needs an iron pickaxe. Below Y 63, some stone is infested stone that releases a Silverfish when you mine it. Mine with a sword at hand.
Animals, camp and dangers
Llamas spawn here along with sheep, pigs, chickens and cows, which use their cold variant. The forest is also the only windswept biome that hosts the Abandoned Camp, a tent left behind in the woods, worth a look when you cross the hills.
The dense trees hide the edges of the cliffs, so watch your step and keep a water bucket ready. At night the ground under the trees is pitch dark, so torches along your paths make travel much safer.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Windswept Forest — FAQ
Is the Windswept Forest good for wood?
Yes. It has several trees per chunk, mostly spruces with some oaks, unlike the bare Windswept Hills. It is a reliable source of spruce logs in hilly terrain.
Where is the Abandoned Camp in the Windswept Forest?
It generates on the surface of the biome, among the trees. Use a high point or a spyglass to spot it, as the forest cover can hide it until you are close.
Which mobs spawn in the Windswept Forest?
Sheep, Pig, Chicken, Cow, Llama, Spider, Skeleton, Creeper, Slime, Zombie, Enderman, Zombie Villager, Witch, Bat and Glow Squid.
Which structures generate in the Windswept Forest?
Abandoned Camp, Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Stronghold and Trial Chambers.
How do you find the Windswept Forest?
With cheats on, /locate biome minecraft:windswept_forest gives the coordinates of the nearest one. Without cheats, a seed map of your world shows where it is.
