How Many Biomes are actually present in this Game?

[VIRONGAR]

I checked everywhere and there is no definitive answer anywhere. There are answers for this question maybe a complete answer but not in a single place all together.
I want to know all possible major biomes (purity,tundra,desert,jungle,crimson/corruption,hallowed,ocean) with layers(space sky surface underground caverns); mini biomes (mushroom,granite,gemstone,marble,sky lake,hive,spider/skeleton caves,temple,dungeon); all biomes' underground and cavern variants(I don't know if there are 3 variants for each biome as I read all biomes only have 2 variants surface and underground but I am guessing there 3 due to the layer variants); finally all the hybrid biomes that can be formed after hardmode (crimson/corrupt/hallow desert/tundra/jungle. I don't have any answer for the hybrid biomes at all as I don't know if the spreading of corruption/hallow/crimson causes new biomes for either all existing biomes or only some).

[Shinden]

you forgot the banned biome.

[VIRONGAR]

Originally posted by ShindenEX:

you forgot the banned biome.

I frankly didn't know about the banned biome, I still don't have the answer to my question and want to find it.

[Shinden]

Originally posted by VIRONGAR:

Originally posted by ShindenEX:

you forgot the banned biome.

I frankly didn't know about the banned biome, I still don't have the answer to my question and want to find it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1129752396

[Saver Sigonith]

"Biome" is poorly defined.
What do you consider a biome? Do you just mean any area where different kind of blocks spawn? How small can a biome spawn? Do the tiny shrines in the jungle count? If so, is every path of rock or dirt a different biome?

I don't think it's a meaningful distinction. I would consider a full list of surface biomes to be:
Forest, (Corrupt Forest, Crimson Forest, Hallowed Forest),
Tundra, (Corrupt Tundra, Crimson Tundra, Hallowed Tundra)
Desert, (Corrupt Desert, Crimson Desert, Hallowed Desert)
Jungle
Ocean
Followed by the underground biomes:
Underground, (Underground Corruption, Underground Crimson, Underground Hallow)
Caverns, (Corrupt Caverns, Crimson Caverns, Hallowed Caverns)
Underground Tundra, (Corrupt Ice Caverns, Crimson Ice Caverns, Hallowed Ice Caverns)
Underground Desert, (Corrupt Desert Caverns, Crimson Desert Caverns, Hallowed Desert Caverns)
Underground Jungle
Hell

[VIRONGAR]

Originally posted by Saver Sigonith:

"Biome" is poorly defined.
What do you consider a biome? Do you just mean any area where different kind of blocks spawn? How small can a biome spawn? Do the tiny shrines in the jungle count? If so, is every path of rock or dirt a different biome?

I don't think it's a meaningful distinction. I would consider a full list of surface biomes to be:
Forest, (Corrupt Forest, Crimson Forest, Hallowed Forest),
Tundra, (Corrupt Tundra, Crimson Tundra, Hallowed Tundra)
Desert, (Corrupt Desert, Crimson Desert, Hallowed Desert)
Jungle
Ocean
Followed by the underground biomes:
Underground, (Underground Corruption, Underground Crimson, Underground Hallow)
Caverns, (Corrupt Caverns, Crimson Caverns, Hallowed Caverns)
Underground Tundra, (Corrupt Ice Caverns, Crimson Ice Caverns, Hallowed Ice Caverns)
Underground Desert, (Corrupt Desert Caverns, Crimson Desert Caverns, Hallowed Desert Caverns)
Underground Jungle
Hell

yes I agree there isn't a proper distinction but the distinction what I am trying to make comes from enemy spawns, music, background change and overall spawns things that are unique to these biomes. The biomes you mentioned are correct and distinct completely.
Also I didn't know jungle biomes don't have a hallowed/crimson/corrupt version.

[Saver Sigonith]

Originally posted by VIRONGAR:

yes I agree there isn't a proper distinction but the distinction what I am trying to make comes from enemy spawns, music, background change and overall spawns things that are unique to these biomes. The biomes you mentioned are correct and distinct completely.
Also I didn't know jungle biomes don't have a hallowed/crimson/corrupt version.

Fair enough. I think the distinction's pretty vague, so I never worried about it much.
As for the jungle - yep. It can be corrupted, but that just converts it to a normal corruption/crimson biome. The mud turns to dirt and it can't be converted back without mining and replacing the blocks. It's also immune to hallow.

[Ninshu]

I don’t think anybody mentioned the oceans hallowed, corrupt, or crimson form.

[Saver Sigonith]

Originally posted by ✨DekuScrub✨:

I don’t think anybody mentioned the oceans hallowed, corrupt, or crimson form.

That doesn't have unique spawns/music. It counts as a corrupt/crimson/hallowed desert.

[Ninshu]

It has a different background, so yes it is a different biome

[Nelots]

...have you tried the wiki page that lists all the biomes, mini-biomes, and micro-biomes?
https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Biomes

[VIRONGAR]

Originally posted by Nelots:

...have you tried the wiki page that lists all the biomes, mini-biomes, and micro-biomes?
https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Biomes

I have tried it still doesn't have a complete list. I have read multiple wikis and almost all of them have a half list of biomes, I got to know about those above mentioned biomes using those wikis as ingame I have still not reached plantera.
Edit: I read the wiki again and it is actually very good and nicely placed but now I have multiple biome based questions, I will search for them and maybe put up another discussion if not found, I am marking your post as Answer for now.