ZiNG's Biomes
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ZiNG’s Biomes is a large-scale world overhaul mod that reimagines Minecraft’s biomes from the ground up while introducing a wide variety of brand-new, handcrafted biomes across the Overworld, Nether, and End.
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Description
This mod focuses on stronger atmosphere, biome identity, new materials, and biome-specific mobs—while staying true to vanilla-style exploration and progression.
🌍 Biome Reworks
These biomes have been fully reworked with new visuals, terrain features, and unique identity:
- Swamp
- Mangrove Swamp
- Jagged Peaks
- Snowy Peaks
- Frozen Peaks
- Mushroom Fields
- Crimson Forest
- Basalt Deltas
- Pale Garden
- Dark Forest
- Grove
- Lush Caves
- End Highlands
- Flower Forest
- Old Growth Pine Taiga
- Taiga
- Old Growth Spruce Taiga
- Grove
- Snowy Taiga
- Jungle
- Sparse Jungle
- Meadow
- Desert
- Badlands
- Savanna
- Ocean
- Deep Ocean
- Lukewarm Ocean
- Deep Lukewarm Ocean
- Warm Ocean
- Cold Ocean
- Deep Cold Ocean
- Frozen Ocean
- Deep Frozen Ocean
- Beach
- Stony Shore
- Forest
- Birch Forest
- Old Growth Birch Forest
- Bamboo Jungle
- Soul Sand Valley
- Plains
- River
- Frozen River
🧭 New Biomes
Explore entirely new environments, each with its own theme and materials:
- Berry Grove
- Dusty Peaks
- Frozegrove Swamp
- Dusk Desert
- Desert Oasis
- Old Growth Baobab Savanna
- Mossbark Forest
- Grazed Taiga
- Red Beach
- Starlight Ocean
- Sweet Ocean
- Ultraviolet Garden
- Shamrock Glade
- Fungi Caves
- Volcanic Caves
- Icicle Caves
- Flooded Caves
- Redstone Mines
- Geode Clusters
- Amaranth Ocean
- Deep Amaranth Ocean
- Blossom Valley
- Sunshine Woods
- Hoarfrost Timber
Nether
- Yolked Forest
- Wither Forest
- Tear Sand Valley
- Fire Sand Valley
- Quartz Sand Valley
The End
- End Wilds
🌲 New Wood Types
ZiNG’s Biomes adds a massive selection of new wood sets for building and crafting:
- Blueberry
- Frozegrove
- Palm
- Baobab
- Mossbark
- Grazed Spruce
- Driftwood
- Red Driftwood
- Blue Driftwood
- Ultraviolet Oak
- Yolked
- Kapok
- Blackwood
- Chorus
- Fir
- Shamrock Willow
- Willow
- Heartwood
- End Spruce
- Raspberry
- Gooseberry
- Glow Berry
- Blackberry
- Strawberry
- Goldenberry
- Sweet Berry
- Wither
⛏️ New Ores & Minerals
- Tin
- Silver
- Pale Resin
- Ultraviolet Resin
- Amber/Amberstone
- Ice Crystal
- Arctic Pearl
- Ruby
- Citrine
- Blue Apatite
- Amazonite
- Carnelian
- Enderite
- Blue Gold
Used for crafting, building blocks, and future progression systems.
🐾 New Mobs
- Wooden Birdzing
- Pronghorn
- Fennec Fox
- Meerkat
- Vulture
- Prarie Dog
- Coyote
- Giraffe
- Hippo
- Zebra
- Termite
- Ostrich
- Scorched Ostrich *a undead variant that spawns naturally being ridden by Scorched
- Muskox
- Water Buffalo
- Elk
- Caribou
- Caribou Stray *a undead variant that spawns naturally being ridden by Stray
- Duck
- Swan
- Fly
- Dragonfly
- Lynx
- Ladybug
- Black Bear
- Piranha
- Sardine
- Tuna
- Sea Urchin
- Starfish
- Swordfish
- Seahorse
- Sunfish
- Shrimp
- Jellyfish
- Penguin
- Manta Ray
- Barreleye
- Lightfish
- Anglerfish
- Jawfish
- Deer
- Butterfly
- Boar
- Moth
- Ender Moth
- Capybara
- Lemur
- Red Panda
- Iguana
- Seabunny
- Fire Salamander
- Tuff Golem
- Glare
- Lava Squid
- Bleatshroom
- Trout
- Koi
- Ultrabbit
- Badger
- Chorus Snail
- Springtail
Mob Variants
Each biome brings its own dangers with specialized hostile mobs:
Zombies
- Scorched
- Thawed
- Tangled
Spiders
- Drenched Spider
- Poison Spider
- Burned Spider (has Soul variant)
- Sandy Spider
- Icy Spider
- Spidershroom *spawns naturally being ridden by Bogged (which wields a blowgun in hand)
- Bone Spider *spawns naturally being ridden by Wither Skeleton (which wields a stone spear in hand)
- Creak Spider
- Sun Spider *the only tameable variant
Creepers
- Anchor
- Firecracker
- Sandy
- Frosted
- Poisoner
- Shrieker
- Sporeeper
- Creaker
Illagers
- Mountaineer
- Sand Witch
Skeletons
- Castaway
Ghasts
- Seaghast
Guardians
- Ash Guardian
Silverfish
- Redstone Bug
- Crystalfish
- Icefish
- Lavafish
- Dripperfish
- Mossiverfish
- Sculkfish
- Fungifish
- Floodfish
Elementals
- Graze
- Waves
Slimes
- End Cube
🔮 Planned Updates
- 1.20.1 Forge port
- Seasons dimension
- Thawed having a different purpose to be different from the Frozen Zombie mob
- Sifterite
- Fish mob improvements
- Amberstone having a new block model and new loot tables
- Continious support updates involving reworks on newer and upcoming vanilla biomes such as Sulfur Caves, Dappled Forest, and Ice Caves
- More Trial Towers and Abandoned Shacks
- Undead or monster variants/mobs being ridden by Thawed and Castaway
- 1.12.0 being the final major update
- Beach & Ocean improvements
- Compatibility with ZiNG's Birdzing, ZiNG's Ores & Tiers, ZiNG's Project Red-Horn. and ZiNG's Creatures 2
✨ ZiNG’s Biomes is designed to make exploration feel fresh, dangerous, and rewarding again—without losing the soul of Minecraft.
Bugs can be reported on Github
ZiNG's Biomes Team
