Desert Lakes

The desert lakes or desert mutated biome is a rare variant of deserts that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and was removed in Java Edition.

The desert lakes featured slightly rougher and hillier terrain than the base desert biome, though not as much as the desert hills. This made them more likely to have oases of water across its landscape. These lakes were often surrounded by large amounts of sugar cane. Like regular deserts, the ground was completely covered with sand and no rain occurred here. Cacti, dead bushes, fossils, and desert wells generated here, but villages and desert pyramids did not.

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