Ranking EVERY BIOME in Minecraft 1.20 (PART 1)

From its early Beginnings all the way to the present day biomes have always been a fundamental part of the Minecraft experience ever since they were first coded in we’ve been continually getting more and more unique environments to spice up our worlds but let’s be real these biomes are not created equally

Which biomes are fantastic which ones are in desperate need of an upgrade do any classic Minecraft biomes stand the test of time stay tuned and find out and while you’re at it don’t forget to like the video because it really helps out smaller channels like mine alright let’s

Get right into the rankings first up here we got the snowy planes and real quick just to tell you guys how we’re going to be ranking all these different biomes I’m going off of three different criteria here we’re going to be ranking all these biomes based off of Vibes you

Know how pretty it is survival friendliness how enjoyable it is to actually live and build your base here in survival and content utility which is basically how worthwhile is it to explore here like later in the the game are you going to be coming back to this biome to find something unique and

Special or are you just going to kind of gloss over it but yeah so snowy planes I mean it’s definitely not the most interesting or diverse biome you know we don’t really get any unique wood or unique blocks here so I can’t really give it to any points for the content

Utility it’s a decently pretty looking biome I gotta say I do like the Vibes here but it’s not my favorite it’s kind of just a whole lot of white and brown you know it’s like basically kind of the same everywhere and TBH because there’s so few trees it’s a little block variety

It’s probably not very fun to build your house here in survival so I’m gonna be giving this guy a three on the vibe score a two on the survival friendliness and a one on the content utility next up ice spikes and honestly like people really like the ice bikes biome and and

I get it it looks kind of cool but there’s nothing here like literally in my notes I have nothing written down for ice mics because there’s just nothing here like yeah you got what snow ice and uh polar bears like cool you can get all of those in other biomes that are more

Common Ice is like in every Frozen biome so honestly two for Vibes one for a survival friendliness because let’s be honest nobody is building their house here and I’m gonna be giving this a zero for Content utility there is literally nothing here that you could not find in

A different biome it’s kind of messed up they should really add something here snowy tigers on the other hand are pretty fantastic I gotta say there’s a good variety of unique stuff here I mean we got igloos we got snow villages and we’ve got foxes and wolves naturally

Spawning foxes and igloos in particular are only unique to a couple biomes the snowy Taiga being one of them survival friendliness is pretty up there too you know the snow is gonna be kind of annoying but like if you want snow in oh my God look at that baby wolf oh my gosh

Stupid head if you want a snowy landscape like this is pretty much your best bet and honestly because there’s so many tree freeze and not that much stuff on the ground besides snow like you know you can melt away the snow with a torch it’s pretty easy to survive here and of

Course this is pretty subjective but in my opinion the snowy foresty landscape is absolutely beautiful so I’m gonna be giving this guy a four in The Vibes a three in survival friendliness and a four in content utility alright it’s time to talk about the mountains now of course there are three different kinds

Of snowy mountains we have the jagged Peaks Frozen peats and snowy slopes but because they’re all pretty similar functionally speaking and because you often find them all kind of lumped together I’m going to be reading them as one this place is not fun to survive in

I know it seems really cool to build your base on the top of a mountain but if you have to Trek up there day to day just all the time climbing up the stupid Mountain it’s going to be such a massive pain this place is getting a zero in

Survival friendliness The Vibes however on the other hand I mean this place looks pretty freaking fantastic I’m still not into entirely over how much cooler the new mountains are that they added in 1.18 so I’m going to be giving these guys a four they are pretty great

For finding like coal and iron ores especially the ones that get up really high and you got like powdered snow and goats which are not entirely unique to these areas but they are pretty hard to find otherwise so we’re gonna have a solid four for the Vibes a zero for

Survival friendliness and a three for Content utility much like the snowy Taiga the regular Tyga is a pretty great place to survive in I would say it’s actually even better than the snowy tiger you really can’t go wrong with building your house in a tiger as for

The looks it’s pretty cool I mean it’s kind of bland on the ground the ferns are pretty nice but like that’s only just one unique block I really think they should add something else that really will you know spice up the Tiger Biome and in terms of content utility I

Mean we’ve got tiger Villages we’ve got rabbits foxes wolves and sweet berries which you cannot find in the snowy tiger I believe so I’m gonna be giving the regular old Taiga A3 in The Vibes a five in survival friendliness and A4 and content utility and speaking of tigers

Oh yes it’s time to talk about the old growth Tigers I know there is technically two but because they’re basically the same I’m kind of just lumping them in together and oh man these biomes are so cool I mean first of all content utility we got Mossy Cobble

We got pods we got chorister we got mushrooms and that’s on top of all the other things you normally find in a regular Taiga The Vibes here are absolutely fantastic it’s a beautiful gorgeous biome and it’s pretty easy to survive in too you know we got so much

Wood here you got pretty easy Landscapes to terraform not the easiest definitely buy a long shot but it’s you know pretty easy and you know you got a lot of surface caves and stuff around here too so I’m gonna be giving this a five on The Vibes a four on the survival

Friendliness and a four on the content utility fantastic mile Windswept Hills are a weird one these used to be like the OG Extreme Hills Mountain biomes and then they’ve been definitely overshadowed by the proper mountains it was even kind of like hard to find one here like this is a pretty lame example

Of Windswept Hills it was genuinely very hard to find like actual Windswept Hills you can see it’s kind of blending into another biome here I don’t think it’s very fun to live here in survival I don’t think it’s very fun to look at this place the floating islands and

Stuff are kind of neat and of course if you find a Windswept Gravelly Hills you can get a lot of gravel and apparently llamas spawn here naturally which I think is pretty cool I don’t see any llamas around here but I’m gonna take the Minecraft Wiki’s word for it I

Really think this biome needs an overhaul gonna give it a one on The Vibes a two on these survival friendliness and then a three for the content utility which maybe is a little bit high but we do have the gravel and the llamas going for it so yeah Stoney Shore

Unlike the other uh Rocky mountainous Stony places you can’t really use this kind of landscape to get a lot of good ores like you know you can get a little bit of iron and copper but you’re not going to be going here to mine unfortunately and let’s be honest this

Thing is phenomenally ugly like I know it serves a purpose as like a beach equivalent for a colder biome but yeesh like I don’t think anybody’s really trying to live here or spend any time here it’s kind of just like an in-between area from one place to

Another you know but then we get to uh content utility and let’s be real there is nothing here that you specifically need to go to a Stony Shore for so we’re once again gonna give it a zero in that field as well so grand total zero three

And zero not looking so good for the Stony Shore ah yes the planes biome the most classic most generic most common Minecraft biomes and well it certainly is plain let’s be honest here not the most fun thing to look at however it is incredibly easy to survive here in terms

Of content utility you’ve got horses here which frankly don’t spawn in too many biomes other than planes you’ve got a lot of villages you know the classic Plains Village and because it’s so wide open and flat it’s pretty easy to find lava pools here if you’re into that kind

Of you know cheating nether portly speedrunning tactic kind of stuff you’re going to want to be looking in a plane’s biome so yeah two for The Vibes five for the survival friendliness and uh probably only a two for the content utility besides horses and Villages and lava there really isn’t anything going

For it and speaking of OG Minecraft biomes the temperate forest yep well it doesn’t get more generic than this unfortunately everyone and their mom has been in a forest biome in Minecraft before not too much uniqueness going for it I mean it hasn’t been changed in a very very long time so you

Know those decent fives here and of course like the planes biome it’s incredibly easy and enjoyable to survive here you got plenty of wood you’ve got different kinds of wood but yeah content utility besides wolves there isn’t really much that you would specifically come to a forest biome four solid three

On The Vibes five for the survival friendliness and a one for Content utility I mean really what is there to say about the flower Forest that hasn’t already been said maxed out 5 out of 5 in every category let me explain first category Vibes I mean that self-explanatory flower forests are

Beautiful we got the nice vibrant green of the regular Forest plus so much color from the flowers you just can’t go wrong with it survival friendliness I mean it’s like a regular Forest pretty much there’s so much wood there’s so much variety it’s really easy to build a

House here gonna have to give it a five there as well and in terms of content utility I mean just look at all the different flowers this is literally like a biome built to have basically every flower in the game just like naturally spawning in it so if you need dyes or if

You need specific foliage or you really need anything you’re probably going to be coming here at the least to pick some flowers if not to build an entire flower farm which many people do by the way so yeah flower 4 is gonna get a five in

Content utility as well this is just a fantastic biome the Birch Forest is a little bit of an interesting one I’m gonna kind of like lump in the old growth Birch forest with the regular Birch Forest yeah in case you didn’t know there’s actually two different

Kinds of birch Forest the vibe of the Birch Forest is okay there’s like not really too much going on here but just by themselves I really like the birch wood and the Birch leaves I know controversial take don’t sue me but as much as I like the trees on their own

There’s not really much going on here it is pretty easy to survive here I mean you’ll have to use only Birchwood which is a little bit unfortunate but you have nice open spaces and some very easy trees to kind of cut down but in terms of content utility

Uh nothing really going on here you know you can get birch wood from other biomes like the forest so yeah it’s gonna be a hot zero in content utility a two for The Vibes and a four four survival friendliness the dark oak forest is not

Bad I gotta say we have a unique wood type here which is really cool plus you got those giant mushrooms so I don’t know if you’re looking for mushroom blocks this is also kind of a place to be you know it’s definitely not the most visually appealing biome in my opinion I

Do really love the mixture of the mushrooms and the trees the fact that Hostile Mobs spawned here during the day definitely makes it annoying to survive here let alone the fact that the dark oak trees just are so annoying to cut down the leaves never go away this is

Like one of the few biomes that people will regularly come back to in the late game because of the possibility of finding a mansion you know you got that whole gimmick with the Villager where you can like get a map to try and find the nearest mansion and stuff so people

Will actually be returning back here which I think is pretty great always nice to have a reason to come back to a pretty basic biome later in the game so I’m gonna be giving this place a two for The Vibes a 2 for survival friendliness and a five for Content utility hmm swamp

Biomes in my opinion this biome has not aged particularly well objectively this biome is not pretty I mean like not only is it a swamp but you got just dead bushes and like regular generic oak wood and Vines everywhere I don’t like Vines and survival friendliness is actually surprisingly okay here like admittedly

Because it’s so flat and the trees are so easy to get rid of it is not that hard to survive here you got plenty of trees got plenty of passive mobs spawning here for food and stuff like it’s not bad content utility I mean back

In the day this used to be like the place to go to get clay but of now nowadays of course you have Lush caves but I will say it is nice to be able to come back here for like witch Huts for witches and slimes especially will spawn

Here at night so it’s not so bad for the content utility I’d say a solid 3 for Content utility three first of all friendliness and a one for fives on the other hand the mangrove swamp is pretty cool I mean of course we got frogs don’t

Let me get started on the Frog you know how much I love those guys but on top of that we got so much like unique foliage and blocks you know we got an entirely unique wood type we got the manga of roots we got the mud we got the Muddy

Roots we got the mangrove leaves and the propagules and just so many really cool things here that are very hard to find if not impossible to find outside of a mangrove swamp but of course if you want to live here man that’s gonna be a very atrociously difficult time to build a

House and survive here so I’m thinking a solid three for the Vibes like it’s got a cool look to it but it’s kind of just a lot of brown and green uh one for survival friendliness because oh man what kind of masochist would do that it had a five for Content utility because

You bet a whole lot of people are going to be seeking out the mangrove swamp and right next door we’ve got the jungle and the bamboo Jungle which I’m kind of lumping in together because they usually spawn right next to each other I love this place it’s really pretty to be here

It feels really cool I love the fact that the trees come in different sizes I love the fact that you can get Oakwood here as well as jungle and of course bamboo is just really cool looking in terms of survival friendliness I mean it’s kind of annoying to build your

Place on the ground but that’s what the jungle trees are for man let’s go ahead and build a tree house and in terms of content utility it somehow gets even better I mean just look around we’ve got podzel bamboo unique wood ocelots Paris melons cocoa beans pandas jungle temples

And probably some other things that I’ve forgotten there’s just so many unique things here I absolutely love the variety it’s just really really amazing how many unique things are in Jungle biomes so I’m gonna be giving this place a perfect 5 out of 5 apply for Content

Utility a 4 out of 5 for survival friendliness because of course if you’re not making a treehouse it’s probably going to be a hard time and a four four fives as well many people don’t really realize this is a biome at first because they kind of added it recently but the

Sparse jungle is surprisingly cool it’s really just a jungle but like with more open space and no like giant jungle trees like the one growing out of my head over there I really like how the grass is still like densely covered with you know the ferns and the tall grass

And whatnot the grass color is really Lush and vibrant here I really like how it looks and I would really like to build a survival house here sometime everything that you could get here you could already get in a regular jungle biome so I’m gonna be giving this place

A one for Content utility a 5 out of 5 for survival friendliness and a two for Vibes it’s it’s okay as lovely as beaches are in real life let’s be real here Minecraft beaches leave a lot to be desired they’re not very pretty looking so Revival friendliness I mean you could

Build a house here like a beach house is kind of cool however if you have to do any like digging or mining all the sand constantly falling on your face is going to get pretty annoying pretty quick in terms of content utility it’s okay I mean like some people want to find

Turtles you know they’re not the most useful mob but they are kind of cool and of course you can find some buried treasure here usually if you’re like doing some shipwreck hunting and whatnot but honestly peaches are a little underwhelming I give them a one for Vibes a three for a survival

Friendliness and a two for Content utility the mushroom biome oh man what are the classic OG Minecraft biomes it’s always just been like these weird little Islands in middle of nowhere the terrain generation for this is so weird this place in general is just so wacky and

I’ve got a lot of thoughts on it I mean first of all just talking about The Vibes it’s an atmosphere unlike anything else in Minecraft let’s be honest there is nothing that comes close to the weird alien nature of the mushroom biome and I absolutely love that about this place

However it’s pretty Barren I mean look we got my celium we got mushrooms and we got mushrooms that’s it it was a little bit unfortunate I know now survival friendliness you might be thinking oh well Hostile Mobs don’t spawn here so that’s an immediate five and well I mean

That is true you’re right Hostile Mobs don’t spawn here but also you know what else doesn’t spawn here trees wood everything you need to survive that’s not just mushrooms you know like as cool as it is to have a refuge from the zombies and whatnot if you want to live

Here long term you’re going to be importing everything and the fact that these are always on very remote Islands means you’re gonna have a really hard time ferrying all that stuff across the ocean or through the nether the content utility is of course phenomenal just because they’re so rare and out of the

Way you know you got the mushrooms and the brown mushrooms and the mycelium and whatnot but overall I’m gonna give this place a two for The Vibes A4 for the survival friendliness and a five for Content utility Meadows are interesting you know they’re kind of just like snuck into the game I

Didn’t really see very many people talking about them I believe they’re added around the same time as the giant Mountains from caves and cliffs so like I really like the grass texture I really like the sheer variety of flowers you can find here and I really like the fact

That you can actually guarantee to find a bee nest I believe because there’s so few um what do you call a trees in The Meadows if you do find a tree it’s I think guaranteed to have a penis which is pretty cool if you ask me it’s a

Pretty good looking biome you know a solid three on The Vibes here and I would enjoy probably building house and surviving here because it’s so flat and open so I’m gonna give it a four there too there’s not too much here besides flowers and bees so I’m gonna go ahead

And give it a two the Stony Peaks are a weird one this is kind of like the odd one out of the four different kinds of mountain biomes added in caves and cliffs right like the previous three are entirely snowy mountains but these Stony Peaks on the other hand are always found

In hot biomes think that’s really cool but let’s be real here what you see behind me is pretty ugly Stoney peaks in general are not very pretty I don’t like the way they look survival friendliness I mean they generally don’t go as high up as the snowy mountains and of course

There’s no snow and powder snow which means it’s going to be a little bit easier to survive here but you’re still going to be trekking up giant slopes all the time however this place does kind of make up for it in the content utility and you can see why on screen right here

Calcite and ores if you could find a really high up Stony Peaks like you know not this one there’s going to be so much coal and so much iron same thing applies if you’re going to be building with a lot of calcite this stuff is everywhere

Gonna have to give it A4 for the content utility a two for the survival friendliness and just a one for the Vibes and of course we cannot forget the newest biome on this list the 1.20 cherry tree Grove I mean let’s be honest as the newest biome added to the game as

Of the time of recording this video is going to be the most up-to-date it’s gonna have the most well thought out like biome design principles put into it and it really shows we’ve got an amazing unique wood color we’ve got this amazing pink Petals on the ground we’ve got a

Really nice green grass color it’s not too like oppressively neon green but it’s still really nice and vibrant they just put a lot of thought into this biome and I really appreciate that you know the addition of pigs rabbits sheep and bees in the area is pretty phenomenal too overall I’m gonna be

Giving this place a 5 out of 5 for the Vibes because I mean honestly literally what else would I possibly give it survival friendliness admittedly is only going to be a three I mean there’s only one kind of wood type if you’re building something on the ground you’re gonna

Have to constantly be destroying the pink petals which might get pretty annoying pretty fast and yeah they’re just kind of hard to find you know content utility is going to be a four though because I think people if they haven’t found a Cherry Grove by the time

They settle down are going to want to go out and get some of that amazing new wood and leaves and foliage so yeah people are going to be returning to this so like I said five out of five for Vibes three out of five four survival friendliness and four out of five for

Content utility deserts are interesting right like on one hand they’re one of the OG Minecraft biomes it’s been around for forever and they’ve got a good amount of unique stuff going for them but on the other hand as much as they keep adding new stuff to deserts it kind

Of just feels like the underlying biome is still not that fun to be in I mean first of all talking about The Vibes here unless you really like the feeling of being stranded in a wasteland you’re probably not gonna enjoy being in a desert very much surviving in a desert

Is obviously not a good time I mean you can find desert Villages and ruin portals and stuff which is gonna help you a little bit but like you need trees you need wood you need water you need all that stuff and if you’re going to be

Going mining you have to deal with sand constantly falling on you which is not a good time either content utility however has increased dramatically in recent updates with the addition of Nether Portals which are very easy to find in deserts because of how open they are you’ve got the husk camels you got

Desert Villages you’ve got of course the suspicious sand and all the archeology stuff which is basically exclusive to deserts as far as I know there is a lot of reasons to come back to a desert which I really appreciate because this biome wouldn’t really have that much

Else going for it otherwise gonna do two out of five for Vibes two out of five for survival friendliness and a hot five out of five four content utility savannahs are weird I mean not my favorite biome to look at you know the unique grass color is cool but like I

Don’t think anyone really likes the Savannah grass collar or The Acacia Leaf color it’s so like yellowish Brown and just because sepia it’s like it’s literally not my favorite kind of thing you know survival friendliness is definitely really good you know you got horses you got tons of passive mobs

Spawning all over the place in the savannah of course you got a good bit of flat land not so much here because we’re right next to some mountains but in general savannas are pretty flat and that’s pretty great we’ve got a unique wood type which is fantastic and of

Course there’s a quite a lot of villages here and mobs and you get melons if you’re really lucky and that kind of stuff and that’s all great but besides that there isn’t really any reason to seek out a Savannah Biome so I’m gonna be giving this place just a two for The

Vibes and a two for the content utility however we’re going to be giving it a four for the survival friendliness and last but definitely not least the Badlands if you’ve been following this channel for a while you’ll already know that I absolutely love the Badlands by whether it’s the red sand the Terracotta

And the walls or maybe the uh the giant spiers you can occasionally find in the eroded Badlands or maybe even the little tiny foresty Groves in the wooded Badlands which I can’t seem to find right now unfortunately survival friendliness is not nearly as great I

Mean you can get a lot of sticks but wood is often hard to come by and of course if if you want stone or want to do anything underground you’re gonna have to dig through a whole lot of terracotta Badlands do have a lot of content utility I mean if you’re trying

To build with terracotta like you’re trying to make some sort of big terracotta project you have to go to a badlands there’s basically nowhere else to go you gotta go find a mining Mesa as they call it gold spawns a lot more commonly in the Badlands as do abandoned

Mine shafts so if you’re gonna be seeking out mine shaft loot or you’re just trying to farm up a lot of Gold without a gold Farm the Badlands is the place to be gonna be giving this place a maximum 5 out of 5 for the Vibes a three

Out of five for survival friendliness and a four out of five four content utility and with that guys that is every biome that I’m going to be ranking in this video now I know I forgot some let me just explain that for you real quick I’m not including any of the underground

Or the ocean biomes because they’re simply just too different to properly compare to the other biomes in this list and then obviously I didn’t include the Nether and End biome for obvious reasons but yeah guys I really hope you enjoyed today’s video if you did then please consider subscribing down below and

Until next time Gamers this has been Leon and I’ll see you all in the next Minecraft ranking video take care my friends