Desert Hills

The desert hills biome is a variant of the desert that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II and was removed in Java Edition.

Like all other hills biomes, desert hills featured hillier terrain with occasional overhangs, cliffs, and floating islands. Sand often generated floating here, providing a risk of suffocation when the sand fell down. Desert hills were comprised mostly of sand and sandstone like the rest of the desert, decorated with dead bushes and more sugar cane near water. Unlike the regular desert, desert villages and pillager outposts didn't generate here, but fossils, desert pyramids,‌[Bedrock Edition only] and desert wells did. Desert hills didn't generate in the thin desert border around a badlands biome.

In Bedrock Edition, desert hills in older worlds still received updates. When generated through single biome or behavior packs, they can also generate new blocks.