Deep Frozen Ocean
Overworld (water)
The strangest deep ocean: frozen-zone water whose surface never freezes. Icebergs drift between open waves, the floor is barren gravel and stone, and monuments hide under the bergs.
Resources
- Icebergs: packed ice and blue ice (Silk Touch needed to collect them)
- Ocean monument loot: sponges, gold, prismarine
- Salmon under the open water
- Snow and packed ice on rare stony islands
Mobs
- Salmon, squid, glow squid and nautiluses - few aquatic mobs overall
- Polar bears on icebergs (rare); strays and rabbits in Bedrock
- Guardians and elder guardians at monuments; drowned in the dark water
Structures
- Icebergs of packed and blue ice
- Ocean monuments hidden under the bergs
- Shipwrecks and frozen ocean ruins
Why go
- Blue ice and packed ice straight off the icebergs with Silk Touch
- Monuments in a biome where the surface stays open water
- One of the most photogenic seascapes in the game
Tips
- Unlike the shallow frozen ocean, the surface here never ices over - boats work everywhere.
- Temperature varies inside the biome: cold pockets get snowfall above Y=120 while warm pockets get rain.