Minecraft Windswept Hills Finder
Highlight every Windswept Hills patch on your Minecraft seed — Java 26.2 & Bedrock 1.26.40, 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. 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 do I find Windswept Hills on my seed?
Enter your seed and the map highlights every Windswept Hills patch - click any highlighted patch to read its coordinates. 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.
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 the easiest 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 26.2 on Java and 1.26.40 on Bedrock. This is one of the game's original biomes, 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 - one of the more widespread mountain biomes, so a patch is usually not too far | Java 1.0 · 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.
