Old Growth Spruce Taiga Biome – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome (formerly called the Giant Spruce Taiga) with screenshots.
In Minecraft, you will spawn into worlds with unique weather, animals, and plants. These regions are known as biomes. Let’s explore the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome in Minecraft.
Background
In Minecraft, the Old Growth Spruce Taiga is a biome in the Overworld. It has lots of spruce trees and ground is covered in coarse dirt and podzol. In this biome, you will also find shallow lakes of water that have blocks of mossy cobblestone showing just above the surface of the water (almost like stepping stones).
Let’s explore the characteristics of the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome.
Weather
The weather in the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome has average precipitation.
Trees
In the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome, you will find spruce trees:
Vegetation
The vegetation found in the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome consists of dandelions, poppies, ferns, grass, brown mushrooms, red mushrooms and dead bushes:
Item | Description |
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Dandelion | |
Poppy | |
Fern | |
Grass | |
Brown Mushroom | |
Red Mushroom | |
Dead Bush |
Blocks
In this biome, you will find blocks such as podzol, coarse dirt and mossy cobblestone:
Item | Description |
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Podzol | |
Coarse Dirt | |
Mossy Cobblestone |
Other Standard Blocks
If you dig down far enough in the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome, you will find the standard Minecraft building blocks such as stone, coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, diamond ore, redstone ore, copper ore:
Mobs
In the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome, there is some wildlife such as cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, foxes and wolves:
Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night
You will still find the usual Overworld mobs that spawn at night in the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome, such as creepers, endermen, skeletons, spiders, witches and zombies:
Biome ID for Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)
In Minecraft, the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome has the following Minecraft ID values:
Minecraft ID | Dimension | Platform | Version(s) |
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minecraft:giant_ |
Overworld | Java Edition (PC/Mac) | 1.16 – 1.17.1 |
minecraft:old_ |
Overworld | 1.18 – 1.19.2 |
See a complete list of Biome IDs that is interactive and searchable.
- Minecraft ID is the biome’s Internal ID that is used in game commands such as /locatebiome command.
- Dimension is the dimension that the biome can be found (such as the Overworld, Nether, or End).
- Platform is the platform that applies.
- Version(s) is the Minecraft version numbers that the Minecraft ID is valid for.