Desert Lakes

Desert Lakes

Features	Fossils Desert Wells
Blocks	Sand Sandstone Cactus Dead Bush
Climate
Temperature	2.0
Colors
Grass color	#BFB755
Foliage color	#AEA42A
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #44AFF5‌

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The desert lakes were a rare variant of the desert that no longer generates since Caves & Cliffs: Part II, and was removed in Java Edition.

Description

The desert lakes featured slightly rougher and hillier terrain than the base desert biome, though not as much as the desert hills. This made them more likely to have oases of water across its landscape. Like regular deserts, the ground was completely covered with sand and no rain occured here. Cacti, dead bushes, fossils, and desert wells generated here, but villages and desert pyramids did not generate here.

Mobs

Desert lakes used the same mob spawning chances as deserts. In Java Edition:

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
Rabbit	1	2–3
Monster category
Spider	100⁄515	4
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Slime	100⁄515	4
Husk	80⁄515	4
Zombie	19⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Zombie Villager	1⁄515	1
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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In Bedrock Edition:

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Creature category
Rabbit	1	2–3
Monster category
Spider	100⁄735	1
Zombie	95⁄735	2–4
Zombie Villager	5⁄735	2–4
Husk	240⁄735	2–4
Skeleton	80⁄735	1–2
Creeper	100⁄735	1
Slime	100⁄735	1
Enderman	10⁄735	1–2
Witch	5⁄735	1

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Data values

ID

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	[hide]Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	desert_mutated	130

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.7.2			13w36a				Desert M variant has been added, along with many other biomes.
1.10			16w20a				Added husks, which replace most zombies in deserts.
							Added fossils, which may generate in deserts.
1.13			18w16a				"Desert M" has been renamed to "Mutated Desert".
			18w19a				"Mutated Desert" has been renamed to "Desert Lakes".
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				The desert lakes biome no longer generates naturally.
			21w40a				The desert lakes biome has been removed.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added Desert M variant, along with many other biomes.
v0.11.0			build 1				Added desert wells to deserts.
v0.13.0			build 1				Added rabbits, which can spawn in deserts.
v0.15.0			build 1				Added husks, which replace most zombies in deserts.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.3			alpha 1.1.3.0				Added fossils, which may generate in deserts.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.20				The desert lakes biome no longer generates naturally.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				If numeric IDs for biomes were ever deprecated, it was most likely in this version.
			pre5				The ID mutated_desert has been changed to desert_lakes.

Gallery

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  A desert lakes biome in Bedrock Edition.

• 

  Desert lakes next to badlands.

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  Shattered savannas often border desert lakes.

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  A desert lakes single biome world.

See also

• Desert
• Desert Hills
• Biome/Before 1.18