Siberian Taiga and Grove

The Siberian Taiga and Siberian Grove are two cold forest biomes added by Terralith. Both are dense conifer forests with the same hostile mob pool and a similar set of ores and plants. The grove is a mountain biome that receives snowfall, while the taiga is a lowland forest with no precipitation. Both cover only a small share of the pack's land surface.

Description

Siberian Grove

The Siberian Grove sits on mountain terrain and is the snowier of the two biomes. It has the mountain and slope tags used by other mountain biomes, and it uses the vanilla freeze-top-layer feature, which covers exposed surfaces with snow and ice. Its grass is a muted green-teal (#4d836d), while its foliage is orange (#eb8540), so the trees stand out against the snow. The fog is pale grey-blue and the sky is a cold grey.

Siberian Taiga

The Siberian Taiga is the lowland counterpart. It shares the same temperature and the same orange foliage colour, but its grass is greener (#629e77) and it does not receive precipitation. Its sky and fog colours match the grove, so the two biomes look similar from a distance and are easiest to tell apart by snowfall and terrain shape.

Both biomes use the same ambient cave sound and the same water colour (#617b90).

Generation

The Siberian Grove has a temperature of 0.13 and a downfall of 0.8. It receives snow as precipitation. The Siberian Taiga has the same temperature of 0.13 but a downfall of 1.2 and no precipitation. Because both share the same cold temperature, they sit in the same climate band and are placed next to each other by the biome table.

Their share of the pack's land surface is small. The grove covers about 0.01% of land, and the taiga covers about 0.15%. Both biomes are therefore far less common than the forests and taigas around them. The grove is the rarer of the two.

The grove carries the vanilla tag that biases stronghold placement toward it, so strongholds are more likely to generate near grove terrain.

Fear Nightfall changes

Neither biome is in the pack's list of 6× weighted horror biomes. The pack's biome table does, however, concentrate horror content in temperate-to-cool humid forests and taigas, which is where these biomes sit. Horror structures across the pack are placed about 30% closer together, and the structure lists of both biomes include several of them.

Features

Both biomes generate tall conifer trees from their tree features. The Siberian Taiga's tall trees use spruce logs and spruce leaves, and the orange variant uses dark oak logs and dark oak leaves in a mega-pine shape. The two tree types use opposite signs of the same placement noise, so they tend to occupy separate patches rather than mixing evenly.

Both biomes share the same underground ore set. It includes coal, iron, copper, gold, redstone, lapis lazuli, and diamond, including buried and large diamond variants. Pack mods add their own ores here as well. These are infected diamond ore from Born in Chaos, mithril ore from Iron's Spellbooks, and sulfur ore from Butchery. Plant features include large ferns, berry bushes, pumpkin patches, sugar cane, and wild potatoes from Farmer's Delight.

The grove also runs a Terralith feature that removes some of the snow from its mountain terrain.

Mobs and structures

The hostile mob pool is the same in both biomes. Spiders, skeletons, creepers, and slimes are the most common, followed by zombies, ghouls, and revenants. Among the rarer entries are dread hounds and nightmares (weight 7 each), while Krampus has a weight of 1. Passive mobs are sheep, pigs, chickens, cows, wolves, foxes, and rabbits. Many of the hostile entries come from the pack's horror mods, so the monster list is considerably more dangerous than a vanilla taiga.

The grove has 231 structures that can generate in it, and the taiga has 210. Notable structures include the Catacombs, the Clown Caravan, and the igloo. The full list appears in the table below.

Siberian Grove (Terralith)

Monster

Creature

Ambient

Underground Water Creature

Water Creature

Water Ambient

Structures (231)

Igloo, Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Ruined Portal Mountain, Stronghold, Trail Ruins, Trial Chambers, Village Snowy, Village Taiga, Spruce House Large 1, Spruce House Medium 1, Spruce House Small 1, Spruce House Small 2, Spruce House Small 3, Mountain Mine 1, Mountain Mine 2, Prison Large 1, Prison Small 1, Village Mountain Alpine, Village Mountain Alpine, Village Mountain Alpine, Skeleton Dungeon, Small Dungeon, Spider Dungeon, Zombie Dungeon, Mineshaft Ice, Mineshaft Overgrown, Mineshaft Spruce, Stronghold, Catacombs, Village Christmas, Village Christmas, Village Christmas, Clown Caravan Taiga, Shrine Combat Tier 1, Shrine Combat Tier 2, Shrine Combat Tier 3, Shrine Combat Tier 4, Shrine Combat Tier 5, Shrine Tower, Undead Crypt, Dark Tower Taiga, Bunker, Deepslate Camp, Ruin Town, Wild Ruin, Underground House, Well Spruce, Evoker Fort, Mausoleum, Campsite, Firewatch Tower Taiga, Firewell, Campsite, Hobbit Hole, Log Shelter, Small House, Tiny House, Wagon, Cobble Hole, Copper Spire, Log Spikes, Meteor, Stone Ore Spikes, Fountain, Graveyard, Offering, Small Statue, Stone Tower, Tower Remnant, Well, Witch Tower, Village Taiga Fortified, Village Taiga Fortified, Village Taiga Fortified, Dead Tree, Ruins, Small Grave, Small Mountain Grave, Haunted House, Village Snowy Igloo, Village Snowy Igloo, Village Snowy Igloo, Illager Hideout, Impaled Icebreaker, Village Snowy, Village Taiga, Campsite, Fire Camp, Horse Campsite, Mine With Campsite, Barn, Duck, Haystack, Horse Pen, Shed, Wheat Grain Bin, Windmill, Wooden Wheat Farm, Floating Islands, Large Floating Island, Azelea House, Deepslate House, Diorite And Deepslate House, Fox Hut, House, Lil House, Medium Igloo 1, Medium Igloo 2, Small Igloo, Snowy Dog Hut, Tall House, Warped House, Small Oak Lantern, Small Spruce Lantern, Blue Stall, Cart, Cartographer Tower, Large Cart 1, Large Cart 2, Orange Stall, Pink Stall, Red Stall, Boulder, Castle Ruins, Crystal, Log Ruin, Ruined Beacon, Small Ruin, Statue Ruins, Stone Pillars, Stone Rock, Arena, Calcite House, Castle Ruin, Castle Tower, Diorite House, Large Tower, Nether Portal, Small Deepslate House, Small Oak House, Small Tower, Spruce Huts, White House, Frozen Pond, Leaf Hollow, Small Pond, Taiga, Tree 1, Tree 2, Tree 3, Tree 4, Tree 5, Tree 6, Tree 7, Tree 8, Volcano, Diorite Tower, Large Warped Tower, Red Tower, Small Pillager Tower, Dead Tree Oak, Dead Tree Spruce, Spruce Log Pile, Spruce Tree, Tree Monument, Bench, Cathedral, Gallows, Lamp Chest, Lecturn Garden, Mushroom Pond, Paths, Pile, Railway, Small Oak Pond, Snowy Fossil, Sunzi Gate, Villager Statue, Rare Well, Rocky Well, Small Copper Well, Small Tower Well, Small Well, Snowy Well, Spruce Well, Stone Fountain, Well, Mountain Tower, Village Mountain, Village Mountain, Village Mountain, Village Taiga, Village Taiga, Village Taiga, Illager Camp, Pillager Outpost Grove, Pillager Outpost Mountain, Pillager Outpost Old Growth Taiga, Pillager Outpost Snowy, Pillager Outpost Taiga, Pillager Outpost, Pillager Outpost, Pyromancer Tower, Remnant Big Remnant 2, Remnant Big Remnant 3, Remnant Big Remnant, Remnant Bridge Remnant, Remnant Graveyard, Remnant Medium Remnant 2, Remnant Medium Remnant, Remnant Miner Hut, Remnant Sawmill, Remnant School Remnant, Remnant Taiga Castle, Remnant Zombie Horse Ranch, Rubble Mountain, Rubble Taiga, Foraging Outpost, Taiga Outpost, Ancient Temple, Pillager Lookout, Wizard Tower, Taiga, Tavern Spruce, Grave Derivas, Village Grove, Village Old Growth Taiga, Guide Post Cold, Taiga, Road Sign

Siberian Taiga (Terralith)

Monster

Creature

Ambient

Underground Water Creature

Water Creature

Water Ambient

Structures (210)

Igloo, Mineshaft, Ruined Portal, Stronghold, Trail Ruins, Trial Chambers, Village Snowy, Village Taiga, Spruce House Large 1, Spruce House Medium 1, Spruce House Small 1, Spruce House Small 2, Spruce House Small 3, Prison Large 1, Prison Small 1, Skeleton Dungeon, Small Dungeon, Spider Dungeon, Zombie Dungeon, Mineshaft Spruce Snowy, Mineshaft Spruce, Stronghold, Catacombs, Village Christmas, Village Christmas, Village Christmas, Clown Caravan Taiga, Shrine Combat Tier 1, Shrine Combat Tier 2, Shrine Combat Tier 3, Shrine Combat Tier 4, Shrine Combat Tier 5, Shrine Tower, Creeping Crypt, Undead Crypt, Dark Tower Taiga, Bunker, Deepslate Camp, Ruin Town, Wild Ruin, Underground House, Well Spruce, Mausoleum, Campsite, Firewatch Tower Taiga, Firewell, Hobbit Hole, Igloo, Log Shelter, Small House, Tiny House, Wagon, Copper Spire, Meteor, Stone Ore Spikes, Fountain, Small Statue, Tower Remnant, Well, Witch Tower, Village Taiga Fortified, Village Taiga Fortified, Village Taiga Fortified, Dead Tree, Ruins, Large Graveyard, Small Grave, Ice Spider Den, Village Snowy Igloo, Village Snowy Igloo, Village Snowy Igloo, Illager Hideout, Infernal Pumpkin, Lone Citadel, Village Snowy, Village Taiga, Campsite, Fire Camp, Horse Campsite, Mine With Campsite, Barn, Duck, Haystack, Horse Pen, Shed, Wheat Grain Bin, Windmill, Wooden Wheat Farm, Floating Islands, Large Floating Island, Azelea House, Deepslate House, Diorite And Deepslate House, Fox Hut, House, Lil House, Medium Igloo 1, Medium Igloo 2, Small Igloo, Snowy Dog Hut, Tall House, Warped House, Small Oak Lantern, Small Spruce Lantern, Blue Stall, Cart, Cartographer Tower, Large Cart 1, Large Cart 2, Orange Stall, Pink Stall, Red Stall, Boulder, Castle Ruins, Crystal, Log Ruin, Ruined Beacon, Small Ruin, Statue Ruins, Stone Pillars, Stone Rock, Arena, Calcite House, Castle Ruin, Castle Tower, Diorite House, Large Tower, Nether Portal, Small Deepslate House, Small Oak House, Small Tower, Spruce Huts, White House, Frozen Pond, Leaf Hollow, Small Pond, Taiga, Tree 1, Tree 2, Tree 3, Tree 4, Tree 5, Tree 6, Tree 7, Tree 8, Volcano, Diorite Tower, Large Warped Tower, Red Tower, Small Pillager Tower, Dead Tree Oak, Dead Tree Spruce, Spruce Log Pile, Spruce Tree, Tree Monument, Bench, Cathedral, Gallows, Lamp Chest, Lecturn Garden, Mushroom Pond, Paths, Pile, Railway, Small Oak Pond, Snowy Fossil, Sunzi Gate, Villager Statue, Rare Well, Small Copper Well, Small Tower Well, Small Well, Snowy Well, Spruce Well, Stone Fountain, Well, Mountain Tower, Village Taiga, Village Taiga, Village Taiga, Illager Camp, Pillager Outpost Old Growth Taiga, Pillager Outpost Snowy Taiga, Pillager Outpost Snowy, Pillager Outpost Taiga, Pillager Outpost Taiga, Pillager Outpost, Pillager Outpost, Remnant Big Remnant 2, Remnant Big Remnant 3, Remnant Big Remnant, Remnant Bridge Remnant, Remnant Medium Remnant 2, Remnant Medium Remnant, Remnant Miner Hut, Remnant School Remnant, Remnant Taiga Castle, Rubble Taiga, Stray Fort, Taiga Outpost, Pillager Lookout, Wizard Tower, Taiga, Tavern Snowy, Tavern Spruce, Grave Petasi, Village Old Growth Taiga, Village Snowy Taiga, Taiga, Road Sign

Tips

• Carry a light source and a sword through the grove at night. The hostile pool is weighted toward zombies, skeletons, and spiders, and the rare horror mobs appear in the same spawn tables.
• The grove is the snowy biome of the pair. The taiga receives no precipitation, so weather there is clear.
• Strongholds are biased toward the grove, so searching for one near grove terrain is more productive than searching the taiga.
• Expect the horror mob weights of the pack to apply in both biomes equally, since the hostile lists are identical.