Wooded Badlands

Terracotta with a green top. The plateaus here carry oak trees and coarse dirt where the ordinary badlands has bare rock, which makes this the only badlands with shade and wood.

That greenery is the whole difference and it matters: an oak forest growing on terracotta gives you both building materials in one place, with red sand and dead bushes between the trunks. World generation allows a 4% animal chance, so it is quiet but not empty, and surface mineshafts run through it on dark oak beams.

Temperature 2, humidity 0, an extremely hot and arid climate that stays permanently dry, so no rain and no snow, and a snow golem melts on arrival. minecraft:wooded_badlands is rare, was added in 1.7.2 as Wooded Badlands Plateau, and 26.2 generates it under the shorter name.

Overworld badlands with trees on top. Badlands, Eroded Badlands and Savanna border it, so a warm dry region with any green in it is the place to check.

Look for terracotta plateaus whose flat tops are unexpectedly green with oak trees and coarse dirt.

Rare, and it hides in plain sight: from below it reads as ordinary terracotta, and the oak only shows once you are up on the plateau. Coarse dirt underfoot means you have arrived. Plan the trip, because distance is what stands between you and one: no commands, no shortcuts, just the most reliable way there is. Following the badlands rim will do more than any signposts, and it often ends here.

The oak on top changes the look and not the spawning. No mobs spawn naturally here: terracotta and coarse dirt under those trees cannot serve as a valid spawn block for passive animals, and the open, well lit plateau keeps hostile mobs away too, shade and nightfall aside.

In practice the creatures you meet under these oaks wander in from the badlands, the eroded badlands or the savanna, so the wood you came for is quieter than any other wood on this site.

Wooded badlands is one of 5 biomes with its own animal chance at world generation: 4.0%.

Terracotta and Red Sand under Oak Log and Coarse Dirt: this is the only place in the game where oak grows out of terracotta, and the trees stand on the plateau tops rather than in the valleys.

The harvest is wood from its trees, which sounds ordinary until you notice it is the only wood for a long way in any direction, and the same extra gold that runs through the rest of the badlands runs under these trees.

The wood is planted by a rule of its own instead of the forest one, which is why the oaks come in scattered clumps with coarse dirt around their feet. A snow golem melts up here as well.

Worth knowing before you settle up here: badlands rules apply, no rain ever falls on the plateau, so any farm you build needs water you carry in yourself.

Terracotta

Oak Log

Coarse Dirt

Red Sand

Oak on top of terracotta, and a mineshaft between the two. The surface level abandoned mineshaft is the single structure tied to wooded badlands, and it brings dark oak supports, exposed cobwebs and minecart chests up to a level where you can walk into them.

The trees are what set this variant apart otherwise, since they put wood in a biome that is short of it. Underneath, the world carries on with dungeon rooms and the odd stronghold, neither of them tied to the trees above. Finding those rails is the main reason to seek the wooded plateaus out, and the oak on top is the other, so the reasons to visit come down to wood and rails.

Five oaks per chunk, six on one chunk in ten, from the only tree pass any badlands runs. The rest of the list is shared with its two neighbours: 50 extra gold tries per chunk, dry grass on one chunk in six, sugar cane on one in five, cactus on one in thirteen. Forty nine passes, one more than the bare badlands, and that one is the trees.

The oaks on the plateau do not bring animals with them: the wooded badlands spawn none, while still being classed warm for farm animals and frogs.

It is the third badlands page on this site with the same rule and the same silence, and it is on the stronghold list.

Even with oaks on top the wooded badlands builds nothing on its surface, and the mineshaft under it is the mesa version rather than the ordinary one.

The mountain portal and the chambers in their -40 to -20 band complete a list that is identical to its two neighbours.

The wooded badlands are the only badlands with trees on top: oak logs grow on the terracotta plateaus, which makes this the one place in the badlands group where you can build without hauling wood in from another biome.

Terracotta, coarse dirt and red sand come off the same plateau, surface mineshafts generate in the open, and no animal spawns here. If you want a badlands base rather than a badlands trip, this is the one to pick.

On Bedrock this biome is mesa_plateau_stone, the id behind Wooded Badlands Plateau, which is what Java itself called it until 1.18 shortened the name.

Temperature 2 and downfall 0 are shared. Bedrock also has mesa_plateau_stone_mutated, once Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau on Java, and fixes the grass at #aea42a with water at #55809e.

Wooded Badlands has not always been called that. Java used the name Wooded Badlands Plateau for 19 releases, from 1.13 through 1.17.1, and switched to Wooded Badlands in 1.18. Both names describe the same biome, the same blocks and the same spawns, so a guide written before 1.18 still applies here.

The name Wooded Badlands has stood for 31 releases since then, and the biome itself is older than either name: it dates back to 1.7.2.

Adventuring Time is the one advancement Wooded Badlands feeds into. It tracks 55 of the 66 biomes in the game, and the warm group contributes 11 of them, Wooded Badlands included.