Natural Philosophy
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An abandoned mineshaft threads through the terracotta and coarse dirt surface of a Wooded Badlands, exposing old rail tracks to the stunted trees that have reclaimed it.
Peering out into the forest of giant bamboo that colonizes the Bamboo Jungle, the understory in front is clear from the shade as orchids grow in the foreground.
In the open Birch Forest, a grassy clearing contains several flower patches, including a patch of nearby peony bushes.
A meadow of seagrass in the middle of a coral reef in a Warm Ocean.
A fern-filled clearing in the vegetation-filled Dark Forest.
An open Flower Forest flows into some Sunflower Plains before a Cherry Grove on a ridge, with mountain peaks visible in the distance.
Looking into the kelp forests dominating Cold Ocean biomes, shared with Oceans, and to a lesser degree, Frozen Oceans.
On an island in the middle of a coral reef, mushrooms have started colonizing the basaltic cliffs and sand.
Towering trees shade the floor of an Old Growth pine taiga, their roots reaching deep into the soil to anchor their immense height.
The hot Savanna stretches as far as the eye can see, the only shade other than a copse of acacia trees near the river a few lone trees.
An igloo sits outside of a snowy village, the sparse copses on the snow-blasted plain barely enough to hide it from the weather.
A clearing among the dense vegetation of the Sparse Jungle demonstrates that shorter forests are not often the easiest to traverse with an impenetrable wall of foliage on the other side.
In the middle of a large swamp, a murky pool is ringed by thriving rushbeds and stands of sugarcane, the wet environs supporting dense growth.
An alpine Meadow leads into a Taiga clearing, the trees forming a thicket further down the mountain.
The short, stout trees of a Windswept Forest hang onto the hardy cliffs of their wind-sculpted home, growing amidst grasses which can tolerate the weather.