Grove in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Grove 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 Grove biome in Minecraft.

Supported Platforms

The Grove biome is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

Platform	Supported (Version*)
Java Edition (PC/Mac)	Yes (1.18)
Pocket Edition (PE)	Yes (1.18.0)
Xbox 360	No
Xbox One	Yes (1.18.0)
PS3	No
PS4	Yes (1.18.0)
Wii U	No
Nintendo Switch	Yes (1.18.0)
Windows 10 Edition	Yes (1.18.0)
Education Edition	Yes (1.18.32)

* The version that it was added or removed, if applicable.
NOTE: Pocket Edition (PE), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows 10 Edition are now called Bedrock Edition. We will continue to show them individually for version history.

Background

In Minecraft, the Grove is a biome in the Overworld that was introduced in the Caves & Cliffs Update: Part II. It has groves of spruce trees, frozen lakes, and hills that are covered in a layer of snow. The Grove looks a lot like a snowy taiga with hills. This is one of the biomes where you can find the sides of hills covered in powder snow that you sink right into.

grove biome

Let's explore the characteristics of the Grove biome.

Weather

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

Trees

In the Grove biome, you will find spruce trees covered in snow:

spruce tree

Vegetation

There is no vegetation in the Grove biome, as the ground is covered in snow.

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as ice, snow blocks, top snow, and powder snow:

Item	Description
	Ice
	Snow Block
	Snow Layer (Top Snow)
	Powder Snow

TIP: Powder snow must be collected with a bucket. When you stand on powder snow, you will begin to sink into the powder snow and experience a freeze effect (where your health hearts will turn blue and you begin to take damage), unless you are wearing leather armor such as leather boots.

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Grove 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 Grove biome, there is some wildlife such as snowy foxes, wolves and rabbits:

snowy fox wolf rabbit

Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

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

creeper enderman skeleton spider witch zombie