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|Firefly Bush}}<br> {{upcomingBlockLink|JEFirefly 1.21.5Bush}}

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.

File:River pre 1.7.png|A river biome before [[The Update that Changed the World]].

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

File:Narrow River.png|A narrow river.

File:Minecraft River.png|A river separating a [[desert]] and a [[forest]].

File:DoubleRiver.png|Rivers splitting and cutting through a taiga.

File:Desert River.png|A river running through a desert.

File:Sunsetriver.png|A river running between a [[forest]] and [[windswept hills]], with a sunset in the background.

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

File:Overwritten River.png|A river that failed to generate properly due to a nearby [[mountain]].

File:Crater Lake.png|A circular river surrounding a small [[plains]] biome.

File:River through swamp.png|A river running through a swamp.

File:Bigriver.png|A big river.

File:Buffet River.png|A river [[buffetsingle biome]] world before [[1.18]].

File:Large lake meets river.png|A river connected to a large lake in a [[jungle]].

File:Big River 1.jpg|A big river flowing past a village.

File:Big River 2.jpg|A big river flowing past a village.

File:Kai Stream.jpg|A river next to a [[cherry grove]].

File:River Boat.jpg|Traveling by boat through a river.

File:Dark Forest River.jpg|A river flowing through a dark forest.

File:Weird River.png|A weird "river" in the middle of a mesa.

File:Weird River Proof.png|Ditto, but with f3 screen for proof.