Biome backgrounds

Biome backgrounds are images that appear behind objects and blocks in each biome. Each biome has its own set of backgrounds that usually show a landscape of the biome. In a world, each biome is randomly assigned a background from its own set, and can be changed by using a . Backgrounds can also be overridden using Monoliths. Backgrounds do not affect a biome in any way, except in The Hallow, where the current background affects the style of hallowed trees. Turning off backgrounds in Settings hides them, though ambient entities will still appear.
== Surface backgrounds ==
=== Forest ===
File:Forest background 1.png|Updated classic background with evergreens with distant, realistic mountains
File:Forest background 2.png|Forest blocking mountains
File:Forest background 3.png|Bushy trees blocking a mountain
File:Forest background 4.png| Hilly landscape with evergreens
File:Forest background 5.png|Pine trees blocking a hilly landscape
File:Forest background 6.png|Tall cliffs with an animated waterfall
File:Forest background 7.png|Tall cliffs with trees and grass.
File:Forest background 8.png|Tall cliffs with evergreens
File:Forest background 9.png|Large lake in a forest with a distant house and snowy mountains
File:Forest background 10.png| Hills with a plateau
File:Forest background 11.png| Evergreens blocking hills with plateau
File:Forest background 12.png| Forest blocking plateau hills
File:Forest background 13.png| Bushy forest blocking plateau hills
File:Forest background 14.png|Tall pillars with floating islands
File:Forest background 15.png| Pine forest with mountains in the distance
File:Forest background 16.png| Mountains with a lake
=== Desert ===
File:Desert background 1.png|Classic sand dunes
File:Desert background 2.png|Sand dunes with animal skeletons
File:Desert background 3.png| Sand dunes with rocks and buttes
File:Desert background 4.png| Sand dunes with cacti and a few ruins
File:Desert background 5.png| Dry flat desert over a cliff, with a few dead trees and bones
=== Infected Desert ===
File:Corrupt Desert background.png|Corrupt desert
File:Crimson Desert background.png|Crimson desert
File:Hallow Desert background.png|Hallowed desert
=== Snow biome ===
File:Snow biome background 1.png|Updated classic evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains
File:Snow biome background 2.png|Mountains with leafless trees
File:Snow biome background 3.png|Icy mountains with sparse trees
File:Snow biome background 4.png|Frozen tree forest blocking snowy mountains
File:Snow biome background 5.png|Evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains
File:Snow biome background 6.png|Icy mountains with snowy evergreens
File:Snow biome background 7.png|Frozen forest blocking mountains
File:Snow biome background 8.png|Evergreen forest blocking snowy mountains
File:Snow biome background 9.png|Icy mountains with evergreens
File:Snow biome background 10.png|Leafless forest blocking snowy mountains with evergreens
File:Snow biome background 11.png| Snowy fields with sparse evergreens.
File:Snow biome background 12.png| Snowy plains with sparse trees.
File:Snow biome background 13.png| Snowy plains with pine trees, a few piles of Snowballs and a snowman behind a frozen lake 
=== Jungle ===
Some Jungle backgrounds are combined with the current forest background.
File:Jungle background 1.png|Classic bushy green canopies
File:Jungle background 2.png|Grassy field with rich mahogany trees
File:Jungle background 3.png| Thorny hills
File:Jungle background 4.png| Bonsai-like tree jungle
File:Jungle background 5.png| Muddy jungle with dark textures over a cliff
File:Jungle background 6.png| Marsh-like field with sparse jungle trees and animated water bodies
=== The Corruption ===
File:Corruption background 1.png|Classic corrupt trees without leaves
File:Corruption background 2.png|More detailed corrupt trees on darker purple grass
File:Corruption background 3.png| Plains with chasms and thorny, organic-looking structures
File:Corruption background 4.png| Large spike structures emerging out of a thorny landscape
File:Corruption background 5.png| Jagged mountains with a single ebonwood tree and chasm
=== The Crimson ===
File:Crimson background 1.png|Classic background, consisting of crimson trees and a distant giant skull and bones
File:Crimson background 2.png|Similar to the previous image, but has a redder grass hue and different trees, skull and bones
File:Crimson background 3.png|Red hills with crimson trees and large brown arches
File:Crimson background 4.png| Red field with eyeballs and bones
File:Crimson background 5.png| Blood lake with dragon bones in a crimson field with many trees and more dragon bones.
File:Crimson background 6.png| Jagged, dark red rocky landscape with stone arches.
=== The Hallow ===
Every Hallow background has a rainbow in it.
File:Hallow background 1.png|Updated classic Hallow evergreen forest
File:Hallow background 2.png|Hallowed trees of several colors
File:Hallow background 3.png| Hallow field with a magenta river, a few hallowed trees, an extra rainbow and distant pink and blue crystals
File:Hallow background 4.png| Plateaus with sparse hallow trees
File:Hallow background 5.png| Hills with rocky formations, evergreen-like rainbow trees and crystals
=== Ocean ===
File:Ocean background 1.png|Classic distant mountains
File:Ocean background 2.png|Distant sandy islands with palm trees and 
File:Ocean background 3.png|Distant sandy islands without moʻai
File:Ocean background 4.png| Distant islets and sea stacks
File:Ocean background 5.png| Distant alternative islands
File:Ocean background 6.png| Distant mountains with s. Has different water color.
=== Glowing Mushroom biome ===
Glowing Mushroom backgrounds are combined with the current forest background.
File:Glowing Mushroom background 1.png|Classic Glowing Mushrooms
File:Glowing Mushroom background 2.png| Smaller mushrooms towering in groups
File:Glowing Mushroom background 3.png| Open mushroom field with a lake in the background
File:Glowing Mushroom background 4.png| Smaller mushrooms on a hilly landscape. Has a different grass color
== Underground backgrounds ==
These backgrounds consist of only one layer, unlike surface backgrounds, and cannot be changed with World Globes.
=== Underground ===
File:Underground background 1.png| Old rocky dirt background used pre-1.2 
File:Underground background 2.png| Rough dirt pattern with rocks 
File:Underground background 3.png| Rough dirt pattern without rocks 
File:Underground background 4.png| Bumpy dirt pattern with larger rocks 
File:Underground background 5.png| Crumbling dirt wall with rocks 
File:Underground background 6.png| Crumbling dirt wall without rocks 
File:Underground background 7.png| Circular dirt wall 
File:Underground background 8.png| Circular dirt wall with grass seeds 
File:Underground background 9.png| Cracked dirt wall revealing stone behind it 
=== Cavern ===
File:Cavern background 1.png| Old rocky stone background used pre-1.2 
File:Cavern background 2.png| Smooth stone wall with rocks 
File:Cavern background 3.png| Smooth stone wall without rocks 
File:Cavern background 4.png| Stone wall covered in larger rocks 
File:Cavern background 5.png| Stone wall covered in medium sized rocks 
File:Cavern background 6.png| Crumbling stone wall 
File:Cavern background 7.png| Rocky stone wall 
File:Cavern background 8.png| Rocky stone wall with orange moss 
File:Cavern background 9.png| Cracked stone wall, matching pattern revealed by matching underground layer background 
==== Pre-Underworld ====
File:Lava layer background 1.png| Old underworld background used pre-1.2, features very thin lava flow 
File:Lava layer background 2.png| Twisting lava flow 
File:Lava layer background 3.png| Thin lava flow with skulls in the rocks 
File:Lava layer background 4.png| Very thick lava flow around large rocks 
=== Glowing Mushroom biome ===
File:Underground glowing mushroom background 1.png| Small glowing mushrooms illuminating a rocky background 
File:Underground glowing mushroom background 2.png| Large glowing mushrooms illuminating a rocky background 
=== Ice biome (Underground) ===
File:Underground snow background 1.png| Multiple thin layers of ice stacked on top of each other 
File:Underground snow background 2.png| Smooth wall of ice 
File:Ice biome background 5.png|Bumpy ice wall
File:Ice biome background 3.png|Irregular ice layers stacked on top of each other
==== Ice biome (Cavern) ====
File:Ice biome background 1.png| Ice crystals 
File:Ice biome background 2.png| Darker ice wall 
File:Ice biome background 4.png| Bumpy ice wall with extra ice rocks 
File:Ice biome background 6.png| Smooth wall littered with ice rocks 
=== Underground Ocean ===
File:Underground ocean background.png|(Default) sand wall with different types of coral 
File:Corrupt underground ocean background.png|(Corrupt) Ebonsand wall with corrupt coral
File:Crimson underground ocean background.png|(Crimson) Crimsand wall with dying and crimson coral
File:Hallowed underground ocean background.png|(Hallowed) Pearlsand wall with hallowed, crystal-like corals
=== Underground Jungle (Underground layer) ===
File:Underground jungle background 1.png| Small vines growing on a dirt background 
File:Underground jungle background 2.png| Large leaves growing from rocks 
==== Underground Jungle (Cavern) ====
File:Cavern jungle background 1.png| Rocky wall with small vines spread across 
File:Cavern jungle background 2.png| Smooth stone wall with leaves growing from it 
=== Underground Corruption ===
On the , the following backgrounds are used. On the , the cavern layer background for any other biome the player is in is dynamically tinted purple.
File:Underground corruption background 1.png|Rocky ebonstone wall with green moss growing in the cracks 
File:Underground corruption background 2.png|Rocky ebonstone wall with small dots of moss placed around 
File:Underground corruption background 3.png|Jagged ebonstone wall 
File:Underground corruption background 4.png|Bumpy ebonstone wall 
File:Corrupt ice biome background 1.png|(Corrupt Ice) Smooth purple ice wall with normal stone rocks, or possibly claws or teeth. There appears to be a frozen eye to the right.
=== Underground Crimson ===
On the , the following backgrounds are used. On the , the cavern layer background for any other biome the player is in is dynamically tinted red.
File:Underground crimson background 1.png|Blistered crimstone wall 
File:Underground crimson background 2.png|Crimstone wall with red moss growing over the rocks 
File:Underground crimson background 3.png|Alternative moss arrangement 
File:Underground crimson background 4.png|Dark crimstone wall 
File:Underground crimson background 5.png|Gray stone wall with blisters scattered 
File:Crimson ice biome background 1.png|(Crimson Ice) Smooth red ice wall
File:Crimson ice biome background 2.png|(Crimson Ice) Bumpy red ice wall with Blood Jellies and eyeballs frozen within it
=== Underground Hallow ===
On the , the following backgrounds are used. On the , the cavern layer background for any other biome the player is in is dynamically tinted pink.
File:Underground hallow background 1.png|Large rocks blocking blue and pink crystals on a purple background 
File:Underground hallow background 2.png|Diagonal purple crystals. May cause confusion with underground corruption due to purple color 
File:Underground hallow background 3.png|Bumpy stone wall with blue and pink crystals growing out of it 
File:Hallowed ice biome background 1.png|(Hallowed Ice) Cracked purple ice wall with blue and pink dots. (May cause confusion with Corrupt ice due to purple color.)
File:Hallowed ice biome background 2.png|(Hallowed Ice) Smooth pink ice wall
File:Hallowed ice biome background 3.png|(Hallowed Ice) Bumpy multicolored ice wall
File:Hallowed ice biome background 4.png|(Hallowed Ice) Smooth multicolored ice wall
== Underworld backgrounds ==
Unlike the underground backgrounds, these have multiple layers like surface backgrounds do.
File:Underworld background 1.png| Original background from 1.3 with large pillars with lava pools
File:Underworld background 2.png| Large lava lake with islands and lava falls
File:Underworld background 3.png| Large mountain structures with caves
== Trivia ==
* The 3rd Hallow surface background features a large animated lake on its 3rd layer which cannot be easily seen in-game.
* The backgrounds of the Underground Corruption, Crimson, or Hallow biomes revert to the default caverns background just before the underworld, and they don't appear until the underground layer isn't visible anymore on the screen.
== History ==