Plains Biome Wiki Guide

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.

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
	Dandelion
	Oxeye Daisy
	Sunflower
	Cornflower
	Pumpkin

Blocks

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

Item	Description
	Grass Block
	Gravel
	Lapis Lazuli Ore
	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:

Mobs

In the Plains biome, there is lots of wildlife. You will find chickens, cows, horses, donkeys, pigs, sheep, bees, and villagers.

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:

Villages

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

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

Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

In Minecraft, the Plains biome has the following Minecraft ID values:

Minecraft ID	Dimension	Platform	Version(s)
minecraft:plains	Overworld	Java Edition (PC/Mac)	1.16 – 1.19.2

See a complete list of Biome IDs that is interactive and searchable.

• Minecraft ID is the biome’s Internal ID that is used in game commands such as /locatebiome command.
• Dimension is the dimension that the biome can be found (such as the Overworld, Nether, or End).
• Platform is the platform that applies.
• Version(s) is the Minecraft version numbers that the Minecraft ID is valid for.

Plains Seeds

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

Plains Seeds (Java Edition)

Plains Seeds (Bedrock Edition)

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