Deep Cold Ocean in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Deep Cold Ocean biome with screenshots.

In Minecraft, you will spawn into worlds with unique weather, animals, and plants. These regions are known as biomes. Let's explore the Deep Cold Ocean biome in Minecraft.

Background

In Minecraft, the Deep Cold Ocean is a biome in the Overworld. It is a water world with a large cold ocean. In this biome, there is very little vegetation or wildlife. However, if you dive to the bottom, you can see lots of exposed ores to mine.

deep cold ocean biome

Let's explore the characteristics of the Deep Cold Ocean biome.

Weather

The Deep Cold Ocean biome is under water, so weather does not apply.

Trees

There are no trees in the Deep Cold Ocean biome.

Vegetation

The vegetation found in the Deep Cold Ocean biome consists only of seagrass growing in the water:

Item	Description
	Seagrass

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as gravel, sand, and dirt:

Item	Description
	Gravel
	Sand
	Dirt

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Deep Cold Ocean biome, you will find the standard Minecraft building blocks such as stone, coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, diamond ore, redstone ore, copper ore:

stone coal ore iron ore gold ore diamond ore redstone ore copper ore

Mobs

In the Deep Cold Ocean biome, there is not much wildlife swimming in the water.

Ocean Monuments

In the Deep Cold Ocean, you can find Ocean Monuments like the one below:

ocean monument

The Ocean Monument is made up of prismarine, prismarine bricks and dark prismarine and it is lit with sea lanterns. The monument is held up by 23 large pillars made of prismarine bricks. The Ocean Monument is protected by two types of underwater mobs - guardians and elder guardians. Both of these mobs are hostile and will attack you. As you approach either, you will hear an eerie noise.

guardian elder guardian