i want a biome witha river around it like LDshadowlady but i cant find one :(

This is old an old blog, but it came up in a related Google search. Just FYI: ice plains suck. It seems that only monsters spawn there, so good luck finding a quick food source. I'm currently stuck on waiting for wheat to grow, to make bread.

I like swamps and I HATE ocean biomes.

Two words. Extreme Hills.

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Forest: I agree with you. There are lots of trees.
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Desert: I also agree with you on that one. Its hard to survive there. It does, however, contain a lot of cactuses. Mobs take damaga when they come in contact with cactuses, thats why they are good for making traps.
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Plains: I disagree with you one that one. The tall grass will sometimes be useful because destroying the grass will sometimes give you seeds, which can be used to either breed chickens, or start a wheat farm. So the "annoying grass" can be converted into a food source.
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Swamp: I agree with you. The swamp is a pretty decent place to survive.
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Jungle: I disagree with you. The jungle is a good place to survive because it contains cocoa beans, And when you craft cocoa beans with wheat in your crafting table, you'll get a large supply of cookies.
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Snow and Taiga Biomes: The Snow is good because if you have some pumpkins, you'll be able to create a couple of snow golems that will temporarily defend you and your shelter during the night.
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Extreme Hills: I think I can agree with you on that.
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Ocean: I dont even think thats a biome.
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Mushroom: I can also agree with you on that.

My personal opinion (Some of it may be a restate, as there are +100 comments as of now.):
Forests: I agree with your opinion on forests, could even be a 4.5 in my book. I mainly build homey-looking wood houses, so forests are a great place to be, as they have lots of wood, and after you chop it down, reveal a nice flat landscape.
Deserts: I would have rated them a little lower, as they are hard to survive in due to their lack of wood.
Plains: I will also disagree with your very low rating of plains, although I guess tall grass doesn't bother me. It's an ideal place to build a castle, farm, etc. due to their large size and flat nature, and are often next to forests.
Swamps: While I do love swamps for their frequent great cave systems, I dislike the quantity of shallow water everywhere, as it makes it hard to travel. For woodcutting purposes, normal forests are better because their trees are more condensed, so you don't have to dry your clothes off every quarter stack of logs.
Jungles: I agree with you on pretty much everything for jungles, except I can't resist a nice tree fort once in a while.
Snowy plains: I have mixed feelings about these. They do have lone trees dotted around, allowing an industrious player to make a tree farm, however they are pretty empty, and while dogs and ice mining are nice, the former doesn't affect this very much, and the latter is only for the occasional player who gets a lucky enchantment. Also, something about everything being covered in snow is both pleasing and irritating at times.
Taiga: Much of the above statement is true for this biome, except a high density of pine trees can help a new player build their house, assuming they like pine wood and are willing to put in more effort to chop the entire tree.
Extreme hills: These are not really suitable for every construction project, and don't have many trees. I sometimes like to look down on one of them, and falling is not much of a problem for an experienced players, who knows that the safest place to be hit by a zombie is not at the edge of a cloud-layer-high sheer drop. They are easier to navigate than jungles!
Oceans: Can't really rate these...
Mushroom: I actually like mushroom biomes a lot. Free food, as well as the advantage (In some cases) of being on a faraway island make these a nice attraction for me.

There might be some others

Dude taiags have no trees and normal forest biomes have trees.
Derp

AND you can grow trees or anything else (exept warts ofcourse) in Mushroom biome.
Have you ever playd around the mushroom biome?

Yo ucan just box in a area whit a block (cobble, wood other like that) and inside the box you get youre dirt. It wont turn into mycelium and you can easily farm anything.

And yeah my fav biome is Mushroom biome.
You can get brown mushroom for isntant dmg (if you play on pvp server :3 )
And moohsrooms... Oh boy-Infinite milk and mushroom stew. And you can breed them for big amount of beef and leather.

The only downside is that usually mushroom biomes are a island and they are quite far from mainland but other that that they are great!