What is the minimum height for snowfall in a Taiga biome?
The wiki states that in Extreme Hills biomes, snow falls above 95m, because they have a temperature of 0.2. Given that Taiga biomes have a temperature of 0.25, at what height does snow fall and water freeze?
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Please note the water pools are of different dimensions, which skewed your results. Water in Minecraft freezes only if next to a solid block. The smaller pools in your test had many more edges per water block compared to the larger ones. If the test were conducted properly, you should find the ice forming at roughly the same rate from height 123 upwards.
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Do taiga biomes have snow?
The taiga is characterized by a cold, harsh climate, low rate of precipitation (snow and rain), and short growing season. Long, severe winters last up to 6 months, with average temperatures below freezing. Summers are short, lasting maybe 50 to 100 days without frost. Winters in the taiga are long and cold.What is the maximum temperature value a biome can have to allow snowfall?
Biomes have a temperature value that determines if the water freezes, and if it precipitates as snowfall or rain. The required temperature values for snow and rain are less than 0.15 for snow and above 0.15 for rain.At what y level does it snow?
The exact height of the snow line is randomized: take taiga for example, the lowest possible snow layer forms at y level 153, and the minimum height where snow forms at all locations is y level 168, with snow lines ranging between y levels 153 and 168 across different locations.How high do you need to be to make ice in Minecraft?
If the highest adjacent light level is 12, an ice block alternately melts and re-freezes when it receives a block tick. Water also freezes into ice in cold biomes, as long as the altitude is high enough for snowfall.Why does vegetation size decrease with altitude?
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I had som weird experiences with my Etho style Ice Farm and had to research this further.
My farm was initially built with the water source blocks at height level 124. And as you can tell from the picture above my farm was consistently producing ice on only some of the water blocks, giving a rather slow rate and yield.
I first thought this was just due to the randomness algorithm being buggy, but the real explanation revealed itself once it started raining:
It seems snowfall is very sporadic all the way up to height level 137. Only at height 138 was there no sign of rain around me:
I will try to rebuild my farm so that the water source blocks are at this height and report back with the results.
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