Minecraft – Are there thunderstorms in Minecraft: XBox 360 Edition

Minecraft for Xbox 360 is based on an older version of Minecraft¹, and because of this, breeding is not available in it.

^{Note 1: specifically, Beta 1.6 with some additional backported features. Breeding was introduced in Beta 1.9.}

I tested this myself once I got to the Nether. In the Nether on Minecraft-XBox, maps do not show terrain, but they do report your position's coordinates. I went from one side of the Nether to the other (it is bounded by walls of bedrock). One one side, I was at coordinate Z = +140, On the other side, I was at coordinate Z = -140.

The Nether is therefore approximately 280x280.

This corresponds to the idea that the overworld is less than 1024x1024, since the Nether-to-Overworld distance multiplier is 1:3 in Minecraft-XBox, and 3 times 280 is 840.

If the Overworld is in fact 864x864, then the Nether is actually 288x288. This would match my observation, as there are probably 2-4 layers of bedrock on each edge of the map, to ensure there are no gaps.