Feature

For other uses, see Feature (disambiguation).

This article is about generated features in the world. For the structures, see Structure.

Features (also known as generated features) are small decorators generated in each chunk after terrain generation. This page lists generated features in a Minecraft world.

Feature	Description
Forest rock	A boulder made entirely of mossy cobblestone found in old growth taiga biomes.
Iceberg	A small island-like ice feature made out of blue ice or packed ice, and snow, found in frozen oceans and deep frozen oceans.
Blue ice	Small blobs of blue ice adjacent to packed ice blocks, generating at or below the ocean surface.
Freeze top layer	Ice on water and snow on blocks. In Bedrock Edition, it is technically not a feature.
Ice spike	Tall spires made of packed ice found in the ice spikes biome. In order to generate using the /place command, the position given is required to be on a snow block and in an ice spikes biome.
Ice patch	Disk-like feature of packed ice.
Lava lake	A small, widespread feature that contains a volume of lava.
Disk	Small circular patches of clay, sand (sandstone if above air), grass (dirt if under solid-material block or water), and gravel found throughout the world.
Bonus Chest	A chest surrounded by torches generated near the player's spawn if the "Bonus chest" option is toggled on.
Void start platform	A 33 by 33 platform of stone centered on a block of cobblestone. Only generates in the void biome or the Void superflat preset at the bottom of the world.
Desert Well	A structure-like feature made of sandstone blocks and slabs which contains water source blocks and suspicious sand inside.
Spring	A water or lava source block that generates on the side of a hill, cave or ravine.
Pile	A pile of blocks that only generate in villages. There are 5 variants of pile: Hay, Ice, Melon, Pumpkin and Snow.
Sulfur Spring	A pool of sulfur, sulfur spikes and potent sulfur surrounded with tuff, granite, and cinnabar, used to indicate the sulfur caves biome.

Feature	Description
Lava lake	A small, widespread feature that contains a volume of lava.
Monster room	A structure-like feature made of cobblestone and mossy cobblestone that contains a monster spawner and several loot chests.
Fossil	A rarely-occurring skeletal feature composed of bone blocks and sometimes also coal ore or diamond ore.
Dripstone cluster	Some pointed dripstone blocks generated hanging from the ceiling.
Large dripstone	Stalagnate composed entirely of dripstone blocks.
Pointed dripstone	A single stalagmite or stalactite composed of pointed dripstone blocks.
Underwater magma	Group of magma blocks found underwater.
Amethyst geode	Large geodes consisting of amethyst and budding amethyst blocks surrounded by a layer of calcite and an outer layer of smooth basalt.
Ore	A feature consisting of a natural deposit of ores or other blocks.
Sulfur Pool	A body of water surrounded by sulfur blocks with potent sulfur at the bottom in the sulfur caves biome.
Sulfur Spike	A small feature of sulfur blocks with one or multiple sulfur spikes in the sulfur caves biome.

Feature	Description
Delta	One-block-deep sheets of constrained lava.
Basalt column	Vertical clusters of basalt blocks found within basalt delta biomes
Basalt pillar	Tall features made up of basalt block.
Glowstone blob	Piles of glowstone.
Ore	A feature consisting of a natural deposit of ores or other blocks.
Blob‌[Java Edition only]	A feature consisting of a natural deposit of basalts or blackstones.
Spring	A single lava source block that generates inside blocks or open to air.
Fire patch	A patch of fire or soul fire.

Feature	Description
Exit portal	The exit portal in the End.
End spike	Tall spikes made of obsidian.
End gateway	End gateway block surrounded with bedrock.
Small island	Hemispherical clusters of End stone blocks.
End platform	Square of obsidian at the entity spawnpoint in the End.

Feature	Description
Vines	A single vine block found in jungle biomes and lush cave biomes.
Bamboo	Bamboo plant with optional podzol found in jungle biomes.
Glow lichen	A single glow lichen block found underground.
Sculk patch	A feature that places sculk catalysts and sculk shriekers.
Huge mushroom	Tree-like features that consist of mushroom blocks.
Tree	A feature consisting of logs and appropriate leaves.
Coral reef	Coral reefs are features that consist of coral, coral fans, coral blocks and sea pickles. In Bedrock Edition, the coral reefs can also consist of dead coral, dead coral fans and dead coral blocks.
Chorus plant	A plant-like feature of chorus flower in the End. In Bedrock Edition, it is technically not a feature.
Vegetation	Patches of vegetation like flowers and grass.

The following features are composed of multiple plant-like features mentioned above.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Features are generated for a given chunk after the terrain has been formed. When features are generated, they can spill over into neighboring chunks that have been previously generated. Thus, a tree at the edge of the generated world may be overwritten by a village before the player reaches it. It is also theoretically possible for two worlds generated with the same seed, from the same version of Minecraft, to differ slightly depending on the players' travel routes, because the chunk generation order may determine which of two conflicting features overwrite or suppress the other.

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Structures Overworld Ruined Portal Surface Desert Pyramid Igloo Jungle Pyramid Pillager Outpost Swamp Hut Village Farm Woodland Mansion Abandoned Camp​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026] Underwater Ocean Monument Ocean Ruins Cold Warm Shipwreck Underground Ancient City Buried Treasure Mineshaft Stronghold Trail Ruins Trial Chambers The Nether Bastion Remnant Nether Fortress Nether Fossil Ruined Portal The End End City Utility Jigsaw Joke 9x9.nbt Bonus barrel Bridge Colosseum command.com.nbt content.nbt desire.nbt house_of_bob.nbt library.nbt llama.nbt Lunar Base Potato Mineshaft Potato Village Ruined Portatol Shapes Removed Village (old) Java Edition only Brick Pyramid Glass Pillars Obsidian Wall Starting House
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