Minecraft Windswept Hills Finder
Highlight every Windswept Hills patch on your Minecraft seed — Java 26.3 & Bedrock 1.26.62, any seed, free, no sign-up.
Quick answer: Windswept Hills, long known as Extreme Hills, are the classic grass-and-stone mountains where emeralds hide in the rock and llamas roam the slopes. Half of worlds have one within 1,500 blocks of the world centre. This finder highlights every Windswept Hills patch on your seed, free, Java & Bedrock.
Where do Windswept Hills generate?
Windswept Hills generate on the Overworld surface as cold, jagged terrain of grass blocks and broad stretches of exposed stone, peaking around Y 140. High erosion keeps them flatter than the newer peak biomes, and above about Y 120 rain turns to snow while standing water freezes into ice. They commonly border the Windswept Forest and Windswept Gravelly Hills variants and often wrap around swamps, with plains, forests and taigas on the outer edges.
How far away are the nearest Windswept Hills?
Often more than 1,000 blocks. Across 200 random worlds, half had Windswept Hills within 1,500 blocks of the world centre (0, 0), and 9 in 10 had them within 2,800. Enter your seed above and click any highlighted patch to read its coordinates, then travel there to mine emeralds out of the exposed stone and to tame llamas, keeping an eye out for silverfish hidden in infested stone below sea level.
| How close | Java and Bedrock |
|---|---|
| Half of worlds have one within | 1,500 blocks |
| 9 worlds in 10 have one within | 2,800 blocks |
| Worlds with one within 1,000 blocks | 3 in 10 |
Measured with this finder on 200 random worlds, from the centre of the world (0, 0). A seed puts its biomes in the same places on Java and Bedrock, so one column covers both. Distances are rounded.
Why are Windswept Hills worth finding?
Windswept Hills are the classic emerald biome - emerald ore generates only in mountain biomes, and these widespread hills are a good place to find it. Many players still call them Extreme Hills, the name they carried before the 1.18 rename. Llamas spawn here to tame as pack animals, scattered oak and spruce trees grow across the slopes in Java Edition (Bedrock keeps its trees in the Windswept Forest variant), and you will meet cold variants of chickens, pigs and cows suited to the chilly climate.
Does the Windswept Hills finder work on Bedrock?
Yes - both editions, Minecraft 26.3 on Java and 1.26.62 on Bedrock. This is a long-standing biome, renamed from Extreme Hills to Windswept Hills in the 1.18 update. It runs the same world-generation maths Minecraft uses and highlights every patch on your seed, free and with no sign-up.
Windswept Hills at a glance
| Bedrock name | Generates in | Climate | How common | Version added |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Hills | Overworld surface, on cold, jagged hill terrain that often rings swamps and lowland forests | Temperature 0.2 Precipitation Rain | Fairly common - half of worlds have one within 1,500 blocks of 0, 0 | Java Beta 1.8 · Bedrock 1.0 |
Notable for: Emerald ore, llamas, broad exposed stone, infested stone with silverfish, scattered oak and spruce trees, and cold animal variants
What spawns here
Higher weight means a mob is more likely to spawn. Weights only compare within the same category.
Monster
Slime Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.
