Frozen Ocean in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Frozen 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 Frozen Ocean biome in Minecraft.

Background

In Minecraft, the Frozen Ocean is a biome in the Overworld. It is known for its towering icebergs of packed ice and snow. In this biome, the water is more shallow than the Deep Frozen Ocean.

frozen ocean biome

Let's explore the characteristics of the Frozen Ocean biome.

Weather

The weather in the Frozen Ocean biome has average precipitation (but instead of rain drops, this biome has snow flakes).

Trees

There are no trees in the Frozen Ocean biome.

Vegetation

There is no vegetation in the Frozen Ocean biome.

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as ice, packed ice, blue ice, and snow block:

Item Description
ice Ice
packed ice Packed Ice
blue ice Blue Ice
snow Snow Block

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Frozen 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 Frozen Ocean biome, you can find wildlife such as salmon, squids and dolphins swimming in the water. You can also find polar bears on the ice:

salmon squid dolphin polar bear

Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

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

creeper enderman skeleton spider witch zombie

Biome ID for Frozen Ocean

Frozen Ocean Seeds

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

Videos

Watch this video to learn more about the Deep Frozen Ocean biome in the Minecraft Aquatic Update.

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