Tutorials/Best biomes to play

In Minecraft, there are many biomes to play in, but there are better biomes to play in than others. Taiga biomes are recommended for beginners since there are diamonds in the weaponsmith chests in a taiga village, tons of trees for wood, and lots of wolves and foxes to tame. Mushroom Island biomes are recommended for players who want a peaceful Minecraft without the peaceful mode. Dark forest and Jungle biomes are for players who want to build something with a lot of wood. Ocean biomes are the best biome to get fish.

Starting
When you enter your world in Minecraft, your spawn will be in a random biome. There are better biomes to play in than others, as some have lots of trees, some have no hostile mobs, and some have a greater chance of generating a village.

Biomes best for you
There are many biomes below that are good for you, depending on what you want to do in Minecraft. Exploring, fishing, building, watching mobs fight each other, it's all up to you!

The Overworld
The sections below talks about the biomes best for you in the overworld.

The easiest biomes to play in
Read on to find the easiest biome to play in Minecraft if you're a beginner or want a easier version of Minecraft.

Taiga biomes are recommended for beginners or players that want a easy version of Minecraft since there are diamonds or obsidian in the weaponsmith chests in a taiga village, and a weaponsmith house has a greater chance of generating in a taiga village than any other village in Bedrock Edition, meaning you might get iron tools in the first day if you manage to find a weaponsmith chest. Lots of trees generate in this biome, so it's super easy to get wood. Wolves can be tamed if you have bones, which can be obtained from Skeletons and other generated structures around this biome. Taming a wolf can make it be your body guard and if you tame two wolves you can breed them to make a wolf army! Foxes are also in this biome, which can be tamed if you breed two foxes and steal the baby fox, which can also protect you after the baby fox grows up. The disadvantage of this biome is having lots of trees, making it easy to get lost in the night. A easy way to prevent this is looking for forest rocks, marking the rocks with a different block for each rock, and remembering the path between each rock. Lighting the ground with torches will also work, or using a shovel to carve an one block wide path so you can follow the path to come back to your base.

Plains biomes are also a good choice of a easy biome, because of the large spaces, you can see any animals or mob you want from a higher ground (you can pillar jump or find a hill). Villages also have a bigger chance of generating in this biome, making it easy to find a bed and food if you're a beginner. The plains biome also have some variants, flower forests, birch forests, oak forests, and wooded hills. The forests are not too cramped and have just enough wood you need. Flower forests can be good if you want some honey or dyes. The plains biome has a negative side, since the area is so large, zombies and skeletons can see you during the night because it is so open compared to a forest, where you can hide behind a tree to avoid being seen.

The best biomes for wood
If you're planning to build a wooden house but can't find enough wood, these biomes are for you!

Dark Forest and Jungle biomes are good for wood, since both biomes have more trees than taiga biomes. The dark forest has so many two block wide trees that the leaves cover the roof of the forest, causing shade and other hostile mobs like zombies and skeletons to survive in day time. It is even more easier to get lost in these biomes than any other biome, since there are lots of trees and thin spaces to walk. Woodland mansions also generate in the dark forest biome, making it difficult if a beginner player wanders into a mansion with tough mobs like vindicators and evokers inside. It's rare for the world spawn to generate in a jungle biome, and jungle biomes are rare anyways. Bamboo jungles are even more rarer, as pandas spawn in this biome. The jungle biome has tall two block wide trees towering the canopy, making tons of wood for the player to collect. The bad part about this biome is having lots of trees, although not as much as the dark forest biome. This biome can also be bad if a beginner play wanders into a jungle temple, which has traps that most beginner players don't know, such as arrow traps and sometime hostile mobs can go inside the temple and attack the player by surprise.

If you're building a giant wooden mansion or a wooden village, you can even build it in these biomes. You just need to remove some trees (well, if you do then you're basically getting wood!) and build the structure if you don't want the Mine and Move technique.

The best biome for diamonds
Everyone loves diamonds before 1.16, and full diamond gear and tools are recommended to defeat the ender dragon and the wither, in which the killing the ender dragon is the only way to end the game!

The best biome for diamonds is based on playstyle, since there are a lot of different sources you can get diamonds from. The best bet in most cases however is probably the swamp biome since it has a lot of clay patches, and clay patches can be used to predict where diamonds will spawn. Be sure to find some wood to upgrade your pickaxe until an iron pickaxe or else when you mine the diamonds with a stone pickaxe or a wooden pickaxe it will drop nothing!

If you want to find a biome that generates both fossils and diamonds, the desert biome is your bet! This biome doesn't have trees, but you can get a iron pickaxe somewhere else. Be careful of the spiky cactuses!

The best biome for gold
Piglins love gold! If you need some survival items in the nether, bartering with piglins can get you crying obsidian to fire resistance potions, and most other items for surviving in the nether. The only problem is that you need gold to barter with them, as they don't accept anything else to barter for.

The best biome to find gold is the badlands biome, also known as the mesa biome. Mineshafts are very common in this biome, and they can generate more above than a normal mineshaft. Sometimes, a badlands mineshaft can be exposed to the ground, and the mineshafts can hide a lot of gold inside. Mining or finding a cave in this biome also have gold inside, though it's not as safe as mineshafts. Gold can also be crafted into golden apples other than bartering with piglins, which the apple gives you a brief regeneration by eating it if you ever lose a lot of health.

The most peaceful biome play in
Ugh! Attacked by zombies, slain by skeleton arrows, or blown up by creepers again? This biome can be just for you if you don't want to change your difficulty to peaceful because it might ruin your hostile mob loot farms or because Minecraft will be too easy.

A rare spawn in a mushroom fields biome is very lucky, since no hostile mobs spawn here, and its peaceful. Hostile mobs may wander into this biome, such as drowned from the surrounding oceans and if the biome is connected with other biomes, more hostile mobs will wander into this biome. Mooshrooms also spawn regularly, meaning they keep spawning even when some mooshrooms are killed. Mooshrooms make beef and mushrooms easy to get, as they are passive, and you can also milk it like a normal cow and use a bowl on it to get mushroom stew.

One of the problems for this biome is there are no trees, so you can't craft a crafting table and more items using the table, such as bowls, buckets, and your tools. And since this biome is in the middle of an ocean, you need a boat to get to the other biomes, which means you can be trapped on this island for a long time unless you swim over the ocean to other biomes and to get wood. A mineshaft might generate under the island, so you need to go down underground and get wood from the mineshaft if there is one. Watch out for cave spiders if you're mining!

The hardest biomes to play in
Looking for a challenge but all the other biomes are just too easy? Here, you'll find biomes that will cause death quickly if you aren't prepared for the night!

Swamp biomes are hard to play in, since witches spawn in swamp huts around this biome and slimes can spawn in the night. Witches can give beginner players a hard time if they ever run into one, as the potions are nasty and witches are immune to poison. Villages don't generate in this biome, which means you need to travel to other biomes to find a shelter if you can't craft a bed to sleep in during the night. Slimes will spawn frequently in the night, so if you run into one, even when you kill it, it breaks into more smaller chunks and could be really annoying and hostile. Animals don't spawn here, making it hard for food, although some animals might wander into this biome.

Desert biomes are also hard, since there are not too many passive mobs here except rabbits, making it hard for food, and if the player runs into a husk it can pursuit the player in daylight, since the husk can survive in daylight and inflict you with the hunger effect, so that the player cannot sprint if their hunger points are too low. The desert biome also doesn't generate too many villages, and it has no trees. There are desert temples, that have treasures inside, which you can loot. You can spawn next to desert temples, that is just about the only advantage of the desert biome.

Snowy Tundra biomes are as hard as the desert biome since there isn't many trees around and not too many animals spawn in this biome, except for polar bears, which you can kill for fish. Strays spawn in the night time, and they have arrows that inflict the player with slowness so the stray can hit the player more accurately. If you're lucky, you might come by an igloo, which has a bed, a crafting table, a furnace, plus some igloos even have a ladder that descents to an old looking basement. The basement also has a brewing stand with a splash potion of weakness in it, a cauldron with some water, a potted cactus, a chest with basic loot and an golden apple, and a villager plus a zombie villager in the cells which you can heal using the weakness potion and the golden apple and you can move villagers to a nearby village.

The best biome for fish
Tired of chasing and killing animals, waiting for your crops to grow, or eating rotten flesh all day? Here, you can catch a fish to eat in less than 30 seconds just with a simple fishing rod: two pieces of string and three sticks!

Going to the ocean biome can be good, as there are fish everywhere and you can even take a dive to catch fish so you can get bones if the fish is large enough! Fishing here can get you fish lot quicker than other biomes. If you're lucky and stumbled across a coral reef (warm ocean), there is tropical fish everywhere, and you don't need to cook them when you catch them. The chance of catching a tropical fish using a fishing rod is pretty rare, but if you find a warm ocean biome, you can dunk into the water and grab a nice tropical fish to eat without cooking it!

Be careful of drowned when fishing, which is a hostile mob that lurks below the waves, throws tridents, and can swim as quick as the player. They can be pretty bad to unsuspecting players who are so into fishing that a trident hit them and they ended dying because they can't swim away fast enough.

A way to avoid drowned is staying away from large groups of them, as getting chased isn't fun. You can also kill them if you want, since they drop copper ingots and any item they are holding, including rotten flesh. If you're fishing in the river, go back to the riverbanks (the sides of the river) since drowned don't venture out during daytime, although in the night time they might pop out and follow you. Don't use iron golems, since the are horrible swimmers and move really slow underwater, plus they even sink in water, making drowned able to attack from the top with a trident. Use a conduit if possible, then destroy it and bring it to another location.

Another precaution when catching fish in water is looking out for your oxygen bar (the bubbles that appear on your hunger bar whwn you're underwater), because if they run out, you will take drowning damage in water and eventually die in water. It's important to float up to the surface to get some air if your oxygen bar is low, and don't explore underwater caves or ravines if you don't have the water breathing effect or else you might get lost in the caves and drown. Bring water breathing potions if you want to catch a lot of fish at once or go exploring underwater, but don't drink a potion if you're only catching a fish, as it wastes the majority time of your water breathing time.

Although fish generate in river biomes, there isn't too much fish to dive and and catch, and drowned also spawn in rivers. Rivers are pretty thin, making drowned cornering you if you don't be careful. An advantage of the river biome is the depth of the water, and most rivers are not too deep, so you can pop back up to get some fresh air without being afraid that you can't get to the surface in time to refill the oxygen bar.

If you run into a ocean monument while catching fish, write down the coordinates (either on any app you can write it down, on a piece of paper in your house, or in a book and quill) and find a dry island immediately. Put your fish into a chest and get into your combat gear. Read here for the full guide on how to defeat ocean monuments.

The Nether
In the hot abyss of the underworld, the nether is home to many treasures. With hostile mobs and fire everywhere, you'll die in lava if you're not prepared. If you're looking for some nether biomes to play in, read on to find out what nether biome you want to play in and which nether biome matches your playstyle!

Easiest biome to play in (Nether)
Man! Everywhere you look, there are hostile mobs everywhere! Where will it be peaceful in this dimension?

Warped forest biomes are good for you because no hostile mobs spawn here, except for endermen. Endermen are not hostile unless looked in the face or attacked, which it will be nastier than a wither skeleton. Bring a carved pumpkin and wear it, and all of your endermen problems will be over!

If you go here, try to find a warped fungus so you can craft a warped fungus on a stick and ride a strider over the lava seas with ease!

There isn't a single biome in the nether that spawns without any mobs that attack the player (either on sight on provoked), but the warped forest is the best option for the peaceful players.

Hardest/dangerous biomes to play in (Nether)
The nether is already hard enough for most players, but not for players who are brave enough to get into the depths of the nether. The biomes below will tell you the hardest biomes in the nether and whether if you dare to try it or not.

Basalt deltas are the #1 most dangerous biome in the nether, as magma cubes are everywhere, lava pits are under you, and there are a lot of high cliffs. Turning on /gamerule keepInventory is recommended in case you die in lava and the lava burns up everything in the your inventory. If you want to go here, bring at least full iron armor, weapons, tools, and a bow and some arrows to get rid of the magma cubes without them knocking you off into the lava.

Crimson forests are the #2 most dangerous biome in the nether, since piglins spawn everywhere and attack you if you don't wear gold armor, and hoglins attack you on sight. The nether funguses are also pretty thick in this biome, which the piglins and hoglins can corner you and end up killing you if you don't kill all of them in time. If you're lucky, you can climb up a weeping vine connected to a nether fungus and shoot the mobs from above.

Soul sand valleys are the #3 most dangerous biome, because of the soul sand and the soul soil everywhere, they can slow you down and cause the skeletons and ghasts that generate in this biome to hit you more accurately. Any fire in this biome ends up as soul fire, which does 2 times as much damage than normal fire. If you don't bring good armor than this biome can cause death pretty quickly. There are also nether fossils in this biome, so if you find one you can grind the bone blocks into bone meal for your crops.

Nether wastes are the #4 most dangerous biome, because of the lava seas, zombified piglins, ghasts and piglins everywhere, which getting attacked can knock you into the lava seas below the mass of land. Zombified piglins are neutral unless hit, which isn't a problem compared to other hostile nether wastes mobs. Because of the netherrack everywhere, if a fire from a blaze or a ghast starts, it burns on netherrack forever but does not spread. Striders also spawn in the lava seas, which allows you to cross the seas more quickly as boats burn in lava and swimming over the lava with the fire resistance effect can take a long time.

The #5 most dangerous biome is the warped forest biome, but only endermen can get you if you don't watch out and stare them in the face. This biome is also the most peaceful biome in the nether, as you learned above.

Best biomes for wood (Nether)
Planning to build a wooden survival house in the nether using overworld wood but the house keeps burning down? Use nether wood, as they never burn!

The crimson forest and the warped forest are the only biomes in the nether that has wood, which can be grown from using bone meal on a fungus on either type of nylium. If you're venturing into the crimson forest, be careful, as piglins and hoglins attack you. The warped forest is a better idea for a more peaceful biome for wood but if you anger an enderman by staring at it directly on the face or hitting it, they can deal more damage than a piglin or a hoglin.

Depending on the type of color (crimson or teal) you want your house to be, you can build it using wood from the biome that supports it.

Best biomes for food (Nether)
Looking hungry in the nether and looking for food? It can be annoying sneaking into a bastion remnant and robbing hoglin stable chests for food while getting hit by a piglin or piglin brute or getting bucked into the air by a hoglin. Don't worry, read on for more info for foods you can obtain in the nether whether by killing mobs or looting chests from generated structures!

Getting food from mobs
You best bet is the nether wastes, as finding a bastion remnant or a ruined portal can take a while. Kill zombified piglins that spawn here commonly for 0-1 rotten flesh and eat it, but it might cause the hunger effect for 30 seconds. You can also get gold nuggets from killing it and killing a zombified piglin does not anger piglins around the zombified piglin, although they might want your gold nuggets. Remember, hitting a zombified piglin causes other zombified piglins in that area to attack you unless killed one in one hit and angering one can possibly trigger an army of hostile zombified piglins to kill the player.

Hoglins spawn in crimson forests in groups of 3-4. and killing one drops 2-4 raw porkchop (if killed by fire, it drops cooked porkchop) and 0-1 leather, making food really obtainable in the nether. Don't bother killing baby hoglins for food, as they only drop experience when killed.

Getting food from generated structures
If you don't want to kill mobs for food then you can look in chests in some nether structures and find food there.

Nether fortresses only supply nether wart, which cannot be eaten by the player. Don't bother looking in nether fortress chests for food.

Bastion remnants can supply a lot of porkchop (raw or cooked) in hoglin stable chests, but killing piglin brutes are necessary to get to the chests safely with gold armor, and killing or hitting a piglin brute causes the piglins and piglin brutes around it to be hostile to the player. Try to use iron golems as an distraction or use it to assist you in a fight, and using more than one iron golem is always better than using only one iron golem. Tamed wolves also work, but they are not as strong as iron golems and they can fall into 1x1 block holes of lava and possibly die, unlike iron golems.

Ruined portals can supply enchanted golden apples and golden apples in the chests, but eating one isn't necessary as it's meant to be eaten when the player is engaged in combat. They can still provide lots of gold and ruined portals do not generate any hostile mobs around it, making it peaceful to loot the chest, although hostile mobs from other areas around the portal can still attack the player while the player is looting the chest.

Using piglins to get porkchops from hoglins
If your weapon keeps on breaking because of attacking hoglins for porkchops, consider this: with piglins being your enemy, and hoglins also being your enemy, why not make them fight each other? If you're interested in this risky way to get food, read on for the steps! Don't worry, piglins don't care if they're doing your dirty work (they only care about gold)!

Piglins and hoglins both spawn in crimson forests, making it a dangerous place. There are two ways to make your enemies fight each other. Make sure your difficulty is not peaceful before trying the second way!

Way 1 - Using a Hunt:

First, calm down your piglin enemies and make them join you by putting on at least a piece of gold armor and prevent opening or breaking containers right in front of them in order to keep them as your friends. Second, go find some piglins once you're wearing 'piglin-style gear' and befriended them. The more piglins you have in your army, the better (hold a gold item to make any piglins follow you around and get a large group of piglins by making more follow you around).

Next, go find some hoglins, if you want a lot of porkchop then find more hoglins or the number of hoglins you desire and lead them back to your piglin army. Make the hoglins chase you around or really near (less than 32-16 blocks away from the piglins) the piglins until a piglin member in your mini-army starts a hunt. After that, every piglin in the army will attack a random hoglin, and the other hoglins will fight back once that hoglin is damaged.

Join the fight by killing any hoglins, but be careful and don't hit any of your piglin warriors and avoid using a sweeping edge weapon. Finally, pick up the porkchop before the piglins pick them up (unless you have /gamerule mobGriefing set to false). Enjoy eating the porkchops with your piglin friends while they do the victory dance!

Way 2 - Make Them Fight:

First, go find some piglins, but don't wear any gold armor this time and make them chase you until your angry piglin patrol has at least one crossbow piglin. Second, go find some hoglins and lead them back to your tiny piglin patrol (grab the amount of hoglins you want to kill, but don't grab too much so the piglins are outnumbered and don't go too far or your piglins will despawn).

Next, stand in the middle of a crossbow piglin and a hoglin, and move once the piglin shoots, which will hit the hoglin. The hoglin that got shot will fight back, of course, and after the sacrificing crossbow piglin has been damaged by the hoglin, the other piglins will join the fight against the hoglins!

Finally, finish any remaining hoglins from the fight with your weapons and pick up the porkchops before the piglins pick them up. You can now pay the piglins gold ingots for their "hard work" after putting on some gold armor!