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@page biomeideas Biome Ideas

Basic

Plains

  • Regular
  • Floral
  • Windy with lots of boulders
  • Blood/Crimson plains
  • Wheat/Crop fields
  • Dead plains (lots of dead grass, gray ground)

Forest

Variants

  • Temperate
  • Cherry Blossom
  • Permanent Fall
  • Permanent Spring
  • Crystal
  • Taiga
  • Megatree (extra tall trees)
  • Overgrown (dense)
  • Mushroom
  • Jungle
  • Giant Frozen Taiga (supermassive snow covered pine trees, snow permanently on ground)

Rolling Hills

Rivers

Lakes

  • Magic Lake
  • Vortex Lake
  • Murky Lake
  • Dead Lake (full of undead beneath the surface)

Ponds

Mountains

  • Classic Mountain
  • Overgrown Mountain
  • Magnetic Mountain
  • Stormy Mountains

Hot Springs

Ruins

Light Valley

Valley with lights shooting around the sky from projectors placed sporadically around the valley, tie into lore and provide some kind of function (portal controller or something?)

Ocean

Oceans

Coral Reefs

Island

  • Tropical
  • Cursed
  • Snowy
  • Icy
  • Magma/Volcano/Volcanic
  • Hidden
  • Floating island JUST above the surface with spooky/unhinged stuff on top

Beach

  • Beach
  • Sand bar

Atolls

Cenote

Rainbow Ocean

Murky Ocean

Deep Sea Currents

Caves/Underground

Small Caves

  • Small clefts in the side of mountains or shallow tunnels into the earth

Mega Caves

  • Massive hollows deep underground variants:
  • Regular
  • Raised platform where the upper part is well lit and everything off the side of the cliffs is dark and not well visible (then hide dangeerous stuff in the dark parts)
  • False surface (has a fake light source, ceiling looks like a sky)

Catacombs

Crypts

Abandoned Dungeons

Mushroom/Fungal Caves

Magma Caverns

Underground Forest

Underground Lake/Ocean

Frozen/Icy Caverns

Very Dry

Deserts

Savanas

Badlands

Very Cold

Permafrost

Glacier

Swampy

Swamps

  • Regular
  • Poison :)

Mangroves

More Magical

Smoke Badlands

Blasted/Barren badlands with large, constant jets of smoke towering high into the air

Ashen Plains

Beneath the foot of an active volcano, permanent ash falling

Submerged Coastal Ruins

Ruins on a large beach that are partially submerged in the surf

Micro Mountain Range

Region with lots of very short, tall mountains with relatively flat ground around them

Flame Planes

Plains with lots of fire

Thunder Planes

Constant Thunderstorms and lots of lightning strikes

Sky Specific

Sky Reefs

Full of kelp dangling from island, lots of sea-themed flying creatures

Ghost Water in the Sky

Idk what this means but I just came up with it and it sounds cool

Resort Island

Extremely pretty and serene nature island perfect for building a resort

Fleshy Horror Island

A living sky island full of demons

Floating Ocean

Ocean contained within a floating island