Taiga

The taiga is a cold biome forested with ferns and spruce trees.

Description
Taiga biomes are grasslands with ferns, large ferns and spruce trees, a kind of pine. Taigas are essentially a colder counterpart to the temperate forest biomes. Only spruces are natural to taigas, compared to oak and birch trees in forests. Due to the structure of spruce trees, more tall than wide, the foliage is somewhat less dense than in forests, but still dense enough to possibly get players lost. The vegetation takes an aqua hue, albeit it is dull. Tall grass, dandelions, poppies and sweet berry bushes generate fairly commonly in taigas. Pumpink and red or brown mushroom patches are also possible to be found as well in small proportions. In Bedrock Edition, the water coloration has an unique dark-turquiose tone. Due to the cold climate, rainfall changes to snowfall above layer 150 within taigas; however, this rarely happens outside of amplified worlds, as this biome gets replaced by mountain groves in large mountains and rarely generates in steep terrain.

Wolves, foxes and rabbits spawn in taigas, though rabbits are not often seen due to wolves chasing after them and killing them. Outposts and villages generate in taigas ocasionally; villages are made of spruce wood appropriately and contain pumpink farms.

Like forest, taigas are one of the most preferred biomes to start out in survival mode. The abundance of wood, grassy terrain and useful passive mobs make this biome easy for players. Generated villages can also serve as a handy refuge and as a trading post should one be found. Taigas share the same dangers of forests, however; a player can get lost within the trees easily if they don't mark their trails and the foliage can lead to obstructed vision, especially at night. Taigas are most commonly found next to forests, snowy taigas and old growth taigas.

Variants
Although this biome currently has only a single variant, two removed variants (taiga hills and taiga mountains) could be found in previous versions.

Taiga
This is the standard taiga variant.

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