Desert Hills Biome Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Desert Hills biome 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 Desert Hills biome in Minecraft.

Background

In Minecraft, the Desert Hills is a biome in the Overworld. It is made up of lots of hills that are covered in sand, cacti, and dead bushes. You may find rivers running along the edges of this biome where there will be sugar canes growing. Starting in Minecraft 1.18, the Desert Hills is no longer a unique biome, but has become part of the Desert biome.

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Let’s explore the characteristics of the Desert Hills biome.

Weather

The weather in the Desert Hills biome is very dry with little precipitation.

Trees

There are no trees in the Desert Hills as this biome consists mostly of sand.

Vegetation

The vegetation found in the Desert Hills biome is dead bush, cactus and sugar canes:

Item Description
Desert Hills Biome - Wiki Guide 2 Dead Bush
Desert Hills Biome - Wiki Guide 3 Cactus
Desert Hills Biome - Wiki Guide 4 Sugar Canes

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as sand:

Item Description
Desert Hills Biome - Wiki Guide 5 Sand

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Desert Hills biome, you will find the standard Minecraft building blocks such as stone, coal ore, gold ore:

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Mobs

In the Desert Hills biome, there is very little wildlife. But you will find squids swimming in the rivers as well as gold-colored rabbits and husks wandering around:

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Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

You will still find the usual Overworld mobs that spawn at night in the Desert Hills biome, such as creepers, endermen, skeletons, spiders, witches and zombies:

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Pyramids

If you look carefully in the Desert Hills biome, you will sometimes find a pyramid like the one below:

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The pyramid is made out of sandstone, smooth sandstone, chiseled sandstone, and orange terracotta. Inside, you will find a pattern of colored terracotta in the center of the pyramid. Tunnel down to the bottom of the pyramid to find 4 chests filled with loot. Avoid the stone pressure plate in the center that will set off 9 blocks of TNT.

Desert Villages

Now in the Desert Hills biome, you can find a rare village like the one below:

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Inside this village, you will find a group of small buildings with gardens of vegetables. Villagers naturally spawn inside of these villagers and grow gardens of potatoes, carrots, and wheat. When you are running low on food, you can harvest their vegetables for yourself. You can also trade with villagers to get rare items.

Biome ID for Desert Hills

Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

In Minecraft, the Desert Hills biome has the following Minecraft ID values:

Minecraft ID Version
minecraft:desert_hills 1.16 – 1.17.1

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.

Desert Hills Seeds

You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a Desert Hills biome:

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