Plains in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Plains 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 Plains biome in Minecraft.

Background

In Minecraft, the Plains is a biome in the Overworld. It is relatively flat land with dull green grass. It has lots of streams, lakes, caves, and wildlife.

plains biome

Let's explore the characteristics of the Plains biome.

Weather

The weather in the Plains biome has average precipitation.

Trees

There are no trees in the Plains biome.

Vegetation

The vegetation found in the Plains biome is azure bluets, dandelions, oxeye daisies, sunflowers and pumpkins:

Item Description
azure bluet Azure Bluet
dandelion Dandelion
oxeye daisy Oxeye Daisy
sunflower Sunflower
cornflower Cornflower
pumpkin Pumpkin

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as grass blocks, gravel, lapis lazuli ore, and bee nests:

Item Description
grass block Grass Block
gravel Gravel
lapis lazuli ore Lapis Lazuli Ore
bee nest Bee Nest

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Plains 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 Plains biome, there is lots of wildlife. You will find chickens, cows, horses, donkeys, pigs, sheep, bees, and villagers.

chicken cow horse donkey pig sheep bee villager

Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

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

creeper enderman skeleton spider witch zombie

Villages

If you look carefully in the Plains biome, you will sometimes find a village like the one below:

village

Inside this village, you will find a group of small buildings with gardens of vegetables. Villagers naturally spawn inside of these villagers and grow gardens of potatoes, carrots, and wheat. When you are running low on food, you can harvest their vegetables for yourself. You can also trade with villagers to get rare items.

Biome ID for Plains

Plains Seeds

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