Birch Forest

A birch forest is a lush temperate biome, usually generating near other lush biomes. There are two variants in the biome family.

Description
Birch forest biomes feature a vast amount of birch trees across the landscape. They generate densely, but not densely enough to cast sufficient shadows to allow hostile mobs to spawn in daytime. Rose bushes, lily of the valleys, lilacs and peonies generate in these biomes commonly, as well as the usual dandelions and poppies. Like most biomes, birch forest can generate in almost any type of terrain, including flat areas near sea level, hills and small mountains.

Like almost every other land biome in the game, lava lakes can generate here, which may cause fast-spreading fires due to the density of flammable trees.

The grass and foliage color is turquoise, making them hard to distinguish from rivers, which often run across this biome and meadows which can form clearings when this biome generates in very hilly areas.

No unique mobs or structures are found in this biome.

These biomes provide a source of wood and animal food, much like the main forest. Building shelter here might be frustrating, due to having to clean up the zone before and because of the reduced block palette that this biome offers compared to other biomes.

Variants
There are two birch forest biome variants (birch forest and old growth birch forest), with two removed variants (birch forest hills and tall birch hills) in previous versions.

Birch Forest
Birch forests are the default biome variant.

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Old Growth Birch Forest
The old growth birch forest features birch trees that generate significantly taller than normal, with their trunks being up to 14 blocks tall. This makes harvesting wood more difficult, but allows more wood to be collected in the long run. In Bedrock Edition, this biome has the same grass and foliage colors as the forest.

Old growth birch forests use the same mob spawning chances as birch forests.

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