Beach (Minecraft)

Beaches are common technical biomes that serve as transition biomes from the mainland to an ocean. There are three variants of beach biome.

## Description

Beaches generate wherever a land biome meets and ocean, with some exceptions. The type of beach variant is determined by the specific biome bordering the ocean. Turtles may spawn on some beaches, and are the only passive mobs that can, though other passive mobs frequently wander into beaches from surrounding biomes.

Beaches do no surround every land biome, however. Exceptions include Swamp, Badlands, and Wooded Badlands Plateau, which just go straight into the ocean. Mushroom Fields do not generate beaches arund them either, as they have a unique beach-like variante known as Mushroom Field Shore that generate instead. This is the same for the Mountains biome, which generate Stone Shores.

Beaches are mostly harmless biomes, though don't have many resources of their own. Buried treasure often generates buried under most beaches, and shipwrecks occasionally generate on beaches. Players should be wary of drowned that often spawn in the wather surrounding beaches, however, as they could nake fighting hostile mobs more challanging. Underwater ruins generated in the ocean nearby may spread onto beaches, causing ruins to form on land. Small patches of ocean biomes sometimes generate in large beaches, forming deep lakes.

## Variants

There are a total of three different beach biomes in the biome family.

### Beach

The standart beach-type biome variant, Beaches are composed of mostly sand, with some gravel, dirt and clay patches under the water, similar to rivers. Like the sand in deserts, sandstone generates underneath it, preventing it from falling into caves below. Beach terrain is always a smooth descent into the water, though it can vary in steepness depending on the heights of the biomes they border. Turtles can spawn here, as well as buried treasure, shipwrecks, and very rarely underwater ruins.

Beach worlds generated through the Buffet world type appear as a barren, desert-like landscape of sand with shipwrecks being the only visible feature in the surface.

### Stone Shore

The **Stone Shore** variant generates wherever mountains or wooded mountains border an ocean. They are made entirely of stone, with some gravel patches, and are usually a steep drop into the water below. Stone shores may generate at high enough elevations to have snow on their peaks. Waterfalls and lavafalls frequently generate on the sides of stone shore. Unlike normal beaches, turtles cannot spawn here. Bured Treasure can sometimes generate at high altitudes and can even generate at y-90*(On Bedrock Edition only).* The steep drops into the ocean elow make this variant dangerous, especially if the player is unaware of their surrounding. Should gravelly mountains or gravelly mountains+ border and ocean, a regular beach is generated instead.

Stone shores have the same mob spawning chances as beaches. However, they do not spawn turtles.

### Snowy Beach

The **Snowy Beach** variant generates wherever snowy tundra, snowy taiga, or and of their variants border and ocean. Snowy beaches are similar to regular beaches terrain-wise, being made mostly of sand, though their landscape is covered entirely in snow layers.The water surrounding snowy beaches freezes into ice due to the cold tempuratures. Turtles cannot spawn here, but rabbits can(*BE only*). Shipwrecks and buried treasure may still generate in this variant.

Snowy beaches have the same mob spawning chanves as beaches. However, they do not spawn turtles.

In Bedrock Edition, snowy beaches use the same mob spawning chances as beaches for hostile and ambient categories, and villagers wear the snowy outfit.