NETHER BIOMES
A hellish dimension accessed through Nether Portals. Features unique biomes with dangerous mobs and valuable resources. 5 biomes in this dimension.
What the Nether is
The Nether is five biomes, and all five behave in ways nothing in the Overworld does. There is no weather, so nothing falls from the sky, and all five sit at temperature 2, the top of the scale, which is why water placed here disappears instead of flowing. Every one of the five is common: once you are through a portal you are always in one of them, and none is a lucky find.
Nether Wastes goes back to Alpha 1.2.0 and was the whole dimension for years. The other four, Soul Sand Valley, Crimson Forest, Warped Forest and Basalt Deltas, arrived together in 1.16, which is the single largest thing that ever happened to this dimension.
Nether
(5 biomes)The original and most common Nether biome. Nether Fortresses and Bastion Remnants generate here. Nether quartz and gold ore are abundant.
A haunting biome with blue soul fire and massive basalt pillars. Ghasts spawn at very high rates. Fossils made of bone blocks dot the landscape. Soul speed enchantment helps traverse soul sand.
A red-themed fungal forest. Hoglins are the only hostile mob that drops food in the Nether. Piglins can be bartered with for various items. Shroomlights provide excellent light.
The safest Nether biome. Only Endermen and Striders spawn here, making it ideal for Nether bases. Warped fungus repels hoglins. The teal color scheme provides a surreal atmosphere.
Volcanic biome with basalt columns and blackstone. Very difficult to traverse due to uneven terrain and lava pockets. Magma cubes spawn at extremely high rates. Ash particles fall from the sky.
Mobs across these 5 biomes
Eight mobs spawn across the five biomes and six of them exist only here: zombified piglin, ghast, magma cube, piglin, strider and hoglin. Nether Wastes has the longest list with six, and unlike the Overworld there is no biome here without spawns.
- Endermanspawns in 3 of the 5, strongest in Warped Forest at 100 percent of the draw
- Ghastonly in this dimensionspawns in 3 of the 5, strongest in Soul Sand Valley at 70 percent of the draw
- Strideronly in this dimensionspawns in 3 of the 5, strongest in Nether Wastes at 100 percent of the draw
- Magma Cubeonly in this dimensionspawns in 2 of the 5, strongest in Basalt Deltas at 71 percent of the draw
- Piglinonly in this dimensionspawns in 2 of the 5, strongest in Crimson Forest at 33 percent of the draw
- Zombified Piglinonly in this dimensionspawns in 2 of the 5, strongest in Nether Wastes at 60 percent of the draw
- Hoglinonly in this dimensionspawns in 1 of the 5, strongest in Crimson Forest at 60 percent of the draw
- Skeletonspawns in 1 of the 5, strongest in Soul Sand Valley at 28 percent of the draw
Structures in the Nether
Two structures generate in the Nether, the Nether Fortress and the Bastion Remnant, and both are exclusive to it. Every one of the five biomes can carry them, so there is no dead biome in this dimension.
- Nether Fortressonly in this dimensiongenerates in 5 of the 5, among them Nether Wastes and Soul Sand Valley
- Bastion Remnantonly in this dimensiongenerates in 4 of the 5, among them Nether Wastes and Soul Sand Valley
How the 5 compare
- Temperature, all 5 at 2
- no warm or cold end to this dimension
- Most mobs, 6 of them
- Nether Wastes
- Rarest
- every biome here is common
- Longest in the game, since Alpha 1.2.0
- Nether Wastes
- Newest, added in 1.16
- Soul Sand Valley
Comparing the five on climate gets you nowhere, because temperature, rarity and rainfall are identical across all of them. What separates them is what grows and what walks: a crimson forest is full of hoglins and a warped forest has none, and basalt deltas trade animals for terrain. That is the comparison to make here, and it is the one on each of the five pages.
Twenty-nine blocks are named across the five, and almost all of them are found in no other dimension: netherrack, soul sand, soul soil, basalt, blackstone, the two nylium types, the two fungus types and the two kinds of wart block.