Forest in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Forest 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 Forest biome in Minecraft.

Background

In Minecraft, the Forest is a biome in the Overworld. It is covered in green grass and has lots of spruce, birch, and oak trees. This is one of the biomes where you can find wolves.

forest biome

Let's explore the characteristics of the Forest biome.

Weather

The weather in the Forest biome has average precipitation.

Trees

In the Forest biome, you will find spruce trees, birch trees, and oak trees:

spruce tree birch tree oak tree

Vegetation

The vegetation found in the Forest biome consists of dandelions, poppies, lilacs, and rose bushes:

Item Description
dandelion Dandelion
poppy Poppy
lilac Lilac
rose bush Rose Bush

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as grass blocks:

Item Description
grass block Grass Block

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Forest 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 Forest biome, there is some wildlife such as chickens, cows, sheep and wolves:

chicken cow sheep wolf

Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

You will still find the usual Overworld mobs that spawn at night in the Forest biome, such as creepers, endermen, skeletons, spiders, witches and zombies:

creeper enderman skeleton spider witch zombie

Biome ID for Forest

Forest Seeds

You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a Forest biome: