Tall Birch Hills

This article describes content that has been officially made unobtainable in Bedrock Edition.

 

It can still be obtained using third-party software. However, this can cause unexpected behavior such as bugs and crashes.

This page describes content that has been removed from Java Edition.

 

This feature was present in earlier versions of Java Edition, but has since been removed.

Tall Birch Hills

Features	Birch Super Birch Birch with Bee Nest Super Birch with Bee Nest
Blocks	Grass Block Bush Rose Bush Lilac Peony Lily of the Valley
Climate
Temperature	0.6‌[JE only] 0.7‌[BE only]
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#88BB67‌[JE only]  #79C05A‌[BE only]
Foliage color	#6BA941‌[JE only]  #59AE30‌[BE only]
Dry foliage color	#A36D46
Water color	#3F76E4‌[JE only]  #44AFF5‌[BE only]
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Default
Lighting	Default
Volumetric fog	Default
Color grading	Default

The tall birch hills or birch forest hills mutated biome is a rare variant of the birch forest that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and was removed in Java Edition.

Like the other hills biomes, the tall birch hills biome had hillier, rougher terrain, along with the taller birch trees of the tall birch forest variant. The hills were steep in this biome, comparable to the windswept hills biome.

Unlike most hills biomes, this biome used to generate as a "modified hills" biome, making it much rarer but also bigger in size.

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

They appear similarly to the old tall birch hills. Unlike regular old growth birch forests, wildflowers do not generate here, although bushes do. Trail ruins do not generate either, and no birch forest music tracks play.

Tall birch hills use the same mob spawning chances as birch forests.

The following mobs spawn naturally here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
Sheep	12⁄40	4
Pig	10⁄40	4
Chicken	10⁄40	4
Cow	8⁄40	4
Monster category
Spider	100⁄515	4
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

In Bedrock Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100	1
Slime[note 1]	100	1
Spider	100	1
Zombie	95	2–4
Skeleton	80	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Sheep	12	2–3
Chicken	10	2–4
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Pig	10	1–3
Cow	8	2–3
Ambient category
Bat	1	2

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	birch_forest_hills_mutated	156

Issues relating to "Birch Forest Hills Mutated" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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  Terrain in tall birch hills can be very rough.
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  A sunset in a tall birch hills biome in Bedrock Edition.
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  A comparison of the grass colors in a tall birch hills biome (left), and a regular birch forest (right) in Bedrock Edition.
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  A very long fallen tree in a tall birch hills biome.
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  A tall birch hills single biome world.
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  Tall birch hills with ray tracing.

• Old Growth Birch Forest
• Birch Forest
• Birch Forest Hills
• Biome/Before 1.18

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