Taiga in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Taiga 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 Taiga biome in Minecraft.

Background

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

taiga biome

Let's explore the characteristics of the Taiga biome.

Weather

The weather in the Taiga biome has average precipitation.

Trees

In the Taiga biome, you will find spruce trees:

spruce tree

Vegetation

The vegetation found in the Taiga biome consists of dandelions, poppies, sweet berries, ferns, and brown mushrooms:

Item Description
dandelion Dandelion
poppy Poppy
sweet berries Sweet Berries
fern Fern
large fern Large Fern
brown mushroom Brown Mushroom

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as grass blocks, dirt, and mossy cobblestone:

Item Description
grass block Grass Block
dirt Dirt
grass block Mossy Cobblestone

Other Standard Blocks

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

chicken cow sheep wolf rabbit

Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

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

creeper enderman skeleton spider witch zombie

Taiga Villages

Now in the Taiga biome, you can find a rare Taiga village like the one below:

village taiga

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 Taiga

Taiga Seeds

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