Proposal for adding old-growth forests

I think Minecraft is good at celebrating and inspiring players to the beauty of the natural world. However a cool biome that could be added in a future update would be old-growth forests, with multiple horizontal layers of vegetation, snags, woody debris, pits and mounds. Showing a biome that is in decay with rotted trees, decomposers such as mushrooms and fungus, lichens and bryophytes, and animals like Owls, woodpeckers (Minecraft does not have many birds), insects like ants and perhaps Moose.

 

I think this is not only a very engaging environment for exploring which needs more recognition in the real world, but is also great educational material for what happens with climax communities (ecological succession), adding more temporal elements to Minecraft (very aged terrains), and educating players to the consequences of logging (perhaps even adding clear-cut areas). An update like this could also lean in to experimenting with sounds like the woodpecker, the calls of an owl, flapping wings overhead, crunching branches etc.