River: Difference between revisions

| blocks = {{BlockLink|Water}}<br>{{BlockLink|Grass Block}}<br>{{BlockLink|Dirt}}<br>{{BlockLink|Clay}}<br>{{BlockLink|Sand}}<br>{{BlockLink|Gravel}}<br>{{BlockLink|Sugar cane}}<br>{{BlockLink|Seagrass}}<br>{{BlockLink|Bush}}<br> {{BlockLink|Firefly Bush}}

Rivers are thin, lengthy biomes that frequently generate across the world[[Overworld]], making up about 6.2% of the Overworld's area. They typically serve as a division between two different biomes, but can also split a single biome in two. They are filled with [[water]] up to sea level, though rivers may run dry in certain areas due to higher than usual elevation. Saddle valleys in [[mountains]] can generate rivers, but often too high so that there's not any water. Rivers can vary a lot in width and depth, in generally flat areas rivers are usually around 10 blocks deep but in mountainous regions rivers can reach over 30 blocks in depth which is comparable to deep oceans. Sometimes rivers can also generate as lakes with small islands. Rivers often make giant loops as well, due to a quirk in the terrain generator.

Exposed[[Salmon]] grassand in[[squid]] riversmay spawn here. Along the riverbanks, occasional [[Bush|bushes]] and [[Firefly Bush|firefly bushes]] can be found, and [[Sugar Cane|sugar cane]] grows adjacent to water. Exposed grass takes on a bluish-green hue, similar to the meadow and birch forest biomes, and oak trees can rarely generate alongwhere withthere spareis grassavailable space. Riverbeds consist of [[dirt]], [[sand]], [[gravel]], and [[clay]], and are one of the few places where clay generates, alongside lakes, [[swamp]] marshes, ocean hilltops, and [[lush caves]]. [[Sugar cane]] occasionally generates onAtop the riverbank.riverbed, [[Salmonseagrass]] andcommonly [[squid]] may spawn heregrows.

{{Spawn row|DrownedCreeper|weight=5100|size=2-41}}

{{Spawn row|Squid|weight=8|size=2-4}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine|java beta}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine||August 18, 2011|link={{tweet|notch|104187327949176833}}|Notch tweeted a screenshot of a revamped river biome.}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine||1.8|dev=Pre-release|Added rivers as a separate biome. Previously, were generated as part of the terrain generation algorithm.}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine|java}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine||1.13|dev=18w14a18w08b|Added [[Seagrasssalmon]], nowwhich generatesspawn in rivers.}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine|||dev=experimental snapshot 5|Rivers are less likely to be super deep or get choked off in flat areas.

|{{HistoryHistoryLine|pocket alpha}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine||v0.1.0|Added biomes, including rivers.}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine|bedrock}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine||1.42.013|dev=beta 1.2.13.8|Added [[drowned]], which spawn in river biomes.}}

|{{HistoryHistoryLine||1.4.0|dev=beta 1.2.14.2|Added [[salmon]], which spawn in rivers.

|{{HistoryHistoryLine||1.13.0|dev=beta 1.13.0.9|Squid can now spawn in rivers.}}

File:River (Withpre Correct Grass Hue)1.7.png|A river nearbiome before [[The Update that Changed twothe forestsWorld]].

Narrow File:River (With Correct Grass Hue).png|A narrow river near two forests.

MinecraftFile:Narrow River.png|A narrow river separating a [[desert]] and a [[forest]].

Desert RiverFile:DoubleRiver.png|ARivers splitting riverand runningcutting through a deserttaiga.

SunsetriverFile:Desert River.png|A river running betweenthrough a [[forest]] and [[windswept hills]], with a sunset in the backgrounddesert.

File:Worldgeneration-1.png|A river in [[Java Edition 1.18 Experimental Snapshot 1]].

CraterFile:Overwritten LakeRiver.png|A circular river surroundingthat failed to generate properly due to a smallnearby [[plainsmountain]] biome.

RiverFile:Crater through swampLake.png|A circular river running throughsurrounding a swampsmall [[plains]] biome.

Buffet RiverFile:Bigriver.png|A big river [[buffet]] world.

LargeFile:Buffet lake meets riverRiver.png|A river connected[[single tobiome]] aworld large lake in abefore [[jungle1.18]].

File:Big River 21.jpg|A big river flowing past a village.

KaiFile:Big StreamRiver 2.jpg|A big river nextflowing topast a [[cherry grove]]village.

DarkFile:River Forest RiverBoat.jpg|ATraveling riverby flowingboat through a dark forestriver.

WeirdFile:Dark Forest River.pngjpg|A weird "river" inflowing thethrough middlea of adark mesaforest.

File:Weird River Proof.png|Ditto,A weird "river" butin withthe f3middle screenof fora proofmesa.

*[https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/ {{Mcnet|around-block--river |Around the Block: River] – Minecraft.net on October|Oct 22, 2020|Duncan Geere}}