Desert Lakes Biome Wiki Guide

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

Background

In Minecraft, the Desert Lakes is a biome in the Overworld. It is an area that is made up of sand, cacti, and dead bushes with many rivers flowing through it. Along the sides of the rivers, you can sometimes find sugar canes growing. Starting in Minecraft 1.18, the Desert Lakes 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 Lakes biome.

Weather

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

Trees

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

Vegetation

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

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

Blocks

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

Item Description
Desert Lakes Biome - Wiki Guide 5 Sand

Other Standard Blocks

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

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Mobs

In the Desert Lakes 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 Lakes biome, such as creepers, endermen, skeletons, spiders, witches and zombies:

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Biome ID for Desert Lakes

Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

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

Minecraft ID Version
minecraft:desert_lakes 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.

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