Wooded Badlands biome in Minecraft
Wooded Badlands are Badlands whose high plateaus are covered with grass, coarse dirt and oak trees. You get the terracotta, red sand and extra gold of the other badlands, plus the only real wood supply of the region, Wolves with a striped coat and an abandoned camp to explore.
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -4328 155 -2952 90 25Climate
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Temperature
- 2
- Downfall
- 0
- Weather
- None
- Grass / water
- #90814d
How to find Wooded Badlands
/locate biome minecraft:wooded_badlandsMap 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.
Wooded Badlands in numbers
- Share of the world
- 0.62%of the Overworld surface
- Rarity rank
- 18 / 521 = the rarest
- Distance from spawn
- ~3,030 blocksmedian, 1,000 worlds
- Within 1,000 blocks
- 12.6%of worlds
- Spawn biome
- 0.8%of worlds start here
Desert26.9%Badlands21.6%
Bamboo Jungle1.2%
// 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 -4360 121 -2960 -90 0Mobs in the Wooded Badlands
Structures in the Wooded Badlands
Groves on top of the mesas
Lower down, the biome looks like the other badlands: bands of terracotta, red sand, cacti and dead bushes. Climb above Y 97 and the ground changes: the tops of the mesas are covered with coarse dirt and grass, and oaks grow there in small groves. Leaf litter lies on the ground around their trunks. Like the rest of the badlands, the grass and leaves have a brownish tint.
These oaks matter: in the other badlands biomes, wood is almost impossible to find. Plant a few oak saplings near your base to keep a supply.
Gold, mineshafts and a camp
The Wooded Badlands share the extra gold ore of the Badlands, generated in the stone between Y 32 and Y 256, and their Mineshafts built from dark oak, placed between sea level and the surface. The biome also hosts its own version of the Abandoned Camp, a deserted tent left on the land.
Wildlife and dangers
This is the only badlands biome where Wolves spawn. Wolves take their look from the biome, and badlands give them a striped coat. Tame one with bones, and craft its armor from the scutes of the Armadillos that live here too. Pigs, cows and chickens appear in their warm variant, but few animals are placed when the land generates. It never rains, and a Snow Golem melts in the heat.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Wooded Badlands — FAQ
Where are the trees in the Wooded Badlands?
Only high up. Above Y 97 the ground turns into coarse dirt and grass, and oaks grow there. Lower down you find the usual terracotta and red sand with no trees.
What Wolf variant spawns in the Wooded Badlands?
The striped wolf. All badlands biomes give wolves a striped coat, and the Wooded Badlands are the only one of them where wolves spawn naturally.
Which mobs spawn in the Wooded Badlands?
Sheep, Pig, Chicken, Cow, Armadillo, Wolf, Spider, Skeleton, Creeper, Slime, Zombie, Enderman, Zombie Villager, Witch, Bat and Glow Squid.
Which structures generate in the Wooded Badlands?
Abandoned Camp, Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Stronghold and Trial Chambers.
How do you find the Wooded Badlands?
With cheats on, /locate biome minecraft:wooded_badlands gives the coordinates of the nearest one. Without cheats, a seed map of your world shows where it is.
