Minecraft 1 18 Snapshot 21w37a

Minecraft 1.18 Snapshot 21w37a gets its first proper snapshot after a series of experimental ones. This snapshot introduces a variety of tweaks and changes to the game in preparation for bigger features.

This snapshot brings new biomes, an ore reshuffle, mob spawning changes, and so much more.

Features:

• Added noise caves and aquifers.
• Added Dripstone Caves underground biome.
• Added Grove biome.
• Added Lofty peaks biome.
• Added Lush Caves underground biome.
• Added Meadow biome.
• Added Snowcapped peaks biome.
• Added Snowy slopes biome.
• Added Stony peaks biome.
• New ore distribution and large ore veins.
• Overworld build and generation limits have been expanded.

Blocks:

• Enchanting Tables now emit a low amount of light.
• Using shears on the tip of a Cave Vine, Twisting Vine, Weeping Wine or Kelp now causes it to stop growing.

Dripstone Caves Biome:

• Contains plenty of Pointed Dripstone and Dripstone Block on the floors and ceilings, and small pools of water.
• In some places, you’ll find larger stalagmites, stalactites, and columns built from Dripstone Blocks.
• Contains extra copper ore.

Grove:

• Snowy terrain with big spruce trees and powder snow traps. Might want to wear leather boots.
• Tends to generate on high-altitude terrain beneath mountain peaks or on hilltops.
• Spawns wolfs, rabbits, and foxes.

Large Ore Veins:

• Ore veins are large, rare, snake-like underground ore formations.
• Copper veins form between y 0 and y 50 and are mixed with Granite.
• Iron veins form below y -60 and y -8 and are mixed with Tuff.

Lofty Peaks:

• Dramatic jagged mountain peaks with snow and stone.
• Spawns goats.

Lush Caves Biome:

• Moss covers the floors and ceilings.
• Spore Blossoms grow from the ceiling and drip particles.
• Contains Clay pools with Dripleaf plants growing out of them.
• Contains Azalea Bushes and Flowering Azalea Bushes.
• The Azalea Tree loves to have its roots in Lush Caves, so if you find an Azalea Tree (either overground or in a cave) you know there is a Lush Cave beneath you.
• Cave Vines with Glow Berries grow from the ceiling and light up the caves.

Meadow Biome:

• Large grassy and flowery biome that tends to generate high up on plateaus or next to large mountain ranges.
• Sometimes contains a lone tall oak or birch tree, often with a bee nest.
• Think Sound of Music.
• Spawns donkeys, rabbits, and sheep.

Mob Spawning:

• Monsters now only spawn in places where the light from blocks is 0 (skylight still prevents spawning like before).
• Fixed an issue where players in multiplayer can face more or far fewer enemies than intended, particularly when other players are flying.

New Ore Distribution:

• Changed ore generation to match the new world height, and to add more strategy to mining.
• There is no longer a single y level that is best for all ores, you need to make tradeoffs.
• Iron ore generates below y 72, with a strong bias towards y 16.
• Iron ore also generates above 112, with more iron ore as you go higher.
• Copper ore generates between y 0 and y 96, with a strong bias towards y 48.
• Copper ore generates in larger amounts in the dripstone caves biome.
• Lapis lazuli generates below y 64, with a strong bias towards y 0. However, Lapis below y -32 or above y 32 cannot generate exposed to air. It will either be buried or inside water.
• Coal generates above y 0, with a strong bias towards y 96 and above.
• Coal has reduced air exposure, so you will find more coal buried or underwater than exposed to air.
• Gold generates below y 32, with a strong bias towards y -16.
• Extra gold can (still) be found in badlands biomes.
• Redstone ore generates below y 16. Redstone ore generation gradually increases as you go below y -32 and further down.
• Diamond generates below y 16, with more diamond the lower you go.
• Diamonds have reduced air exposure, so you will find more diamonds buried or underwater than exposed to air.

Noise caves and Aquifers:

• Noise caves are a new way of generating caves, providing more natural variety. They can get really huge sometimes!
• Noise caves come in three flavors:
  • Cheese caves. Like the holes in swiss cheese. These often form caverns of various size.
  • Spaghetti caves. Long squiggly tunnels, sometimes wide like tagliatelle.
  • Noodle caves. Thinner, squigglier, and more claustrophobic variant of spaghetti caves.
• No, they aren’t loud. The “noise” part of noise caves is a technical term and has nothing to do with sound.
• The old cave carvers and canyons still generate, combining with the noise caves to form interesting cave systems.
• As with carvers, when noise caves intersect the surface they form cave entrances.
• An aquifer is an area with local water level, independent of sea level.
• Aquifers are used during world generation to generate bodies of water inside noise caves.
• This sometimes results in large underground lakes! They can also form inside mountains and on the surface.
• Aquifers below y0 will sometimes be lava aquifers instead of water aquifers.
• Magma Blocks sometimes generates at the bottom of underground bodies of water.
• Underwater cave carvers and underwater canyons have been removed, since aquifers are used to generate water in caves instead.

Options:

• Added an accessibility option to stop the sky flashing during thunderstorms.
• Added an option to specify the audio device used by the game.
• Added “Toggle Sprint” and “Toggle Sneak” to the Controls settings.
• Moved Keybinds out to their own settings screen, accessible from Controls.

Snowcapped Peaks:

• Smooth mountain peaks with ice and snow.
• Spawns goats and yeti. No actually just goats.

Snowy Slopes:

• Very snowy terrain that can hide powder snow traps. Might want to wear leather boots.
• Tends to generate on high-altitude terrain beneath mountain peaks or on hilltops.
• Spawns rabbits and goats.

Stony Peaks:

• Stony mountain peaks that may be jagged or smooth.
• Spawns goats.
• Contains strips of calcite sometimes.

World Generation:

• Generation range and build limits have been expanded by 64 blocks up and 64 blocks down, to a total range of 384 blocks.
• Underground features, structures, and caves generate all the way down to y-64.
• Exception: Diorite and Granite and Andesite and Dirt don’t generate below y0.
• Tweaked size and positioning of Diorite, Andesite & Granite generation.
• Dripstone clusters can no longer be found in normal caves, only in dripstone caves biome.
• Starting from y0 and below deepslate gradually replaces all stone.
• Deepslate blobs no longer generate above y0.
• The terrain shape and elevation varies dramatically, independently from biomes. For example, forests and deserts could form up on a hill without needing a special biome just for that.
• Less diorite/granite/andesite generates above y 60.
• Strips of gravel can generate in stony shores.
• Swamp trees can grow in water 2 blocks deep (instead of just 1 block deep).

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