How many biomes are in Minecraft (2025)

Modified Jan 31, 2025 19:16 GMT

There are loads of biomes in Minecraft (Image via Mojang Studios)

Every Minecraft world a player generates has three different dimensions: Overworld, Nether, and End. Each of these dimensions is further divided into various biomes. Biomes are regions that have a certain type of terrain generation, temperature, block composition, vegetation, mob spawns, structures, and generation methods set by the game's code. These biomes can offer different resources to players to help them progress further in the game.

Minecraft Java Edition has a total of 65 biomes: 54 in the Overworld, five in the Nether, and five in the End. On the other hand, Minecraft Bedrock Edition has only 61 biomes: 54 in the Overworld, five in the Nether, and one in the End.

To this day, Mojang continues to add new biomes to Minecraft and is likely to add more in the future. Here is a list of all the biomes in each dimension present in the game as of 2025.

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Complete list of biomes in Minecraft (2025)

Overworld

The Overworld has, by far, the most amount of biomes in Minecraft. It is the first dimension in which players spawn and spend the most amount of time. In recent times, Mojang has been hard at work and released loads of new biomes to the Overworld like all three cave biomes, new highland biomes, and also one woodland biome. Here is the entire list of Overworld biomes:

Non-land biomes

Ocean
Deep Ocean
Warm Ocean
Lukewarm Ocean
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Cold Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Frozen Ocean
Deep Frozen Ocean
Mushroom Fields

Highland Biomes

Jagged Peaks
Frozen Peaks
Stony Peaks
Meadow
Cherry Grove
Grove
Snowy Slopes
Windswept Hills
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Forest

Woodland biomes

Forest
Flower Forest
Taiga
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Snowy Taiga
Birch Forest
Old Growth Birch Forest
Dark Forest
Pale Garden
Jungle
Sparse Jungle
Bamboo Jungle

Wetland biomes

River
Frozen River
Swamp
Mangrove Swamp
Beach
Snowy Beach
Stony Shore

Flatland biomes

Plains
Sunflower Plains
Snowy Plains
Ice Spikes

Arid-land biomes

Desert
Savanna
Savanna Plateau
Windswept Savanna
Badlands
Wooded Badlands
Eroded Badlands

Cave biomes

Lush Caves
Dripstone Caves
Deep Dark

The Nether

Nether only has five biomes (Image via Mojang Studios)

The Nether is the next dimension which players usually enter after the Overworld. It is a hellish realm filled with lava lakes, irregular terrain, and dangerous mobs. Most mobs present here are either neutral or hostile in nature. In 2020, Minecraft received the Nether Update, in which Mojang added four of the five biomes mentioned in the list. Here are all the Nether biomes:

Nether Wastes
Soul Sand Valley
Crimson Forest
Warped Forest
Basalt Deltas

The End

The End is the last dimension players enter to defeat the Ender Dragon. It consists of one main End island and other smaller islands located a few hundred blocks away from the main island. These smaller islands are floating in the air and have nothing but the void underneath them. Some of them can also spawn End Cities which have some of the best loot in the game.

While the End is divided into five biomes in Java Edition, the entire dimension is counted as one biome in Bedrock Edition:

The End
Small End Islands (JE only)
End Midlands (JE only)
End Highlands (JE only)
End Barrens (JE only)

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Edited by Virat Fumakia