Mesa Plateau in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Mesa Plateau 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 Mesa Plateau biome in Minecraft.

Background

In Minecraft, the Mesa Plateau is a biome in the Overworld and is very rare to find. It is a high area of land that is made up of red sand, and various colors of terracotta. Starting in Minecraft 1.18, the Mesa Plateau is no longer a unique biome, but has become part of the Mesa biome.

mesa biome plateau

Let's explore the characteristics of the Mesa Plateau biome.

Weather

The weather in the Mesa Plateau biome is very dry with little precipitation. It is very similar to a desert biome, but it is made up of beautiful red, orange, and yellow colors.

Trees

There are no trees in the Mesa Plateau biome (the oak trees are found in the nearby Wooded Badlands biome).

Vegetation

The vegetation found in the Mesa Plateau biome consists of dead bushes:

Item	Description
	Dead Bush

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as terracotta, yellow terracotta, red terracotta, orange terracotta, white terracotta, and light gray terracotta:

Item	Description
	Terracotta
	Yellow Terracotta
	Red Terracotta
	Orange Terracotta
	White Terracotta
	Light Gray Terracotta

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Mesa Plateau 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 Mesa Plateau biome, there is very little wildlife with only squids found swimming in the rivers:

squid

Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

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

creeper enderman skeleton spider witch zombie