ZiNG's Biomes

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ZiNG's Biomes

By ZiNGStudios

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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.