We'll forgive you if you think we're making this one up. Wasn't Podzol one of the goblin chieftans slain at the Battle of the Five Armies? Well, possibly. But it's also the weird-sounding name for one of Minecraft's rarer blocks - and probably a more important part of the natural world than you know!
Added in patch 1.7.2, podzol spawns in vast quantities in only one biome - mega taiga. Taiga is itself an unusual word (you can trace it back to Mongolian!) and refers to the vast forests of spiky, cone-bearing trees that cover huge portions of the Earth. Other than the ocean, there's no biome bigger in the real world, but the so-called mega taiga variant found in Minecraft is rather rare. There, podzol replaces grass on the floors of the enormous forests of skyscraping spruce trees, and the lack of grass means there aren't a whole lot of passive mobs around.
What you will find enormous quantities of in a mega taiga biome is the world's best pizza topping - brown mushrooms - as well as mossy cobblestone boulders, which are handy for prettying up builds. The ample supply of unusual building materials, and relatively flat terrain, make it a pretty good biome to set up home in - you'll end up with a rather unusual-looking base!
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