Nether Wastes – Biome | 9Minecraft Wiki

Contents (3)

Mobs that spawn here
Climate
Data

Mobs that spawn here

Category	Mob	Weight	Group size
creature	Strider	60	random 1–2
monster	Ghast	50	4
monster	Zombified Piglin	100	4
monster	Magma Cube	2	4
monster	Enderman	1	4
monster	Piglin	15	4

Climate

Temperature	2
Downfall	0
Precipitation	False
Water colour	#3f76e4

Data

From data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/nether_wastes.json.

attributes

audio/ambient_sounds	`{"additions": {"sound": "minecraft:ambient.nether_wastes.additions", "tick_chance": 0.0111}, "loop": "minecraft:ambient.nether_wastes.loop", "mood": {"block_search_extent": 8, "offset": 2.0, "sound": "minecraft:ambient.nether_wastes.mood", "tick_delay": 6000}}`
audio/background_music	`{"default": {"max_delay": 24000, "min_delay": 12000, "sound": "minecraft:music.nether.nether_wastes"}}`
gameplay/natural_mob_spawns	`{"argument": {"spawn_costs": {}, "spawns_by_category": {"creature": [{"type": "minecraft:strider", "count": {"type": "minecraft:uniform", "max_inclusive": 2, "min_inclusive": 1}, "weight": 60}], "monster": [{"type": "minecraft:ghast", "count": 4, "weight": 50…`
visual/fog_color	#330808

carvers minecraft:nether_cave

downfall 0.0

effects {"water_color": "#3f76e4"}

features ], [], [], [], [], [], [], ["minecraft:spring_open", "minecraft:patch_fire", "minecraft:patch_soul_fire", "minecraft:glowstone_extra", "minecraft:glowstone", "minecraft:brown_mushroom_nether", "minecraft:red_mushroom_nether", "minecraft:ore_magma", "minecra…

has_precipitation false

temperature 2.0

Extracted from Minecraft 26.4-snapshot-5 on 22 October 2026. 9Minecraft is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Identifier	`minecraft:nether_wastes`
Kind	Biome
Source	`worldgen/biome/nether_wastes.json`