Java Edition 21w08a
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21w08a is the eleventh snapshot for Java Edition 1.17, released on February 24, 2021,[1] which renames grimstone to deepslate, adds deepslate ores, and makes changes to cave generation.
Additions
Blocks
- Drops from deepslate when mined with a pickaxe without Silk Touch.
- Functions identically to cobblestone and blackstone in that it can be used to craft basic tools, furnaces, and brewing stands.
- Is used to craft all the deepslate variant blocks instead of regular deepslate.
- Renamed regular deepslate stairs, slabs and walls to cobbled variants.
Deepslate ores
- Added deepslate variants of diamond, iron, gold, lapis lazuli, and redstone ores.
- Take twice as long to mine as normal ores.
- Have the texture of deepslate replacing the normal stone texture.
- Take place of ores that generate in deepslate.
- Normal stone ores may still generate deep underground if they replace a different block, such as tuff.
- Can be used in blasting and smelting recipes like normal ores.
- These recipes can be unlocked in the recipe book with deepslate ores as well.
- Generates in place of the tuff layer on amethyst geodes.
- Can be obtained by smelting basalt.
World generation
- Deep, long cracks in the ground that are thinner and straighter than canyons.[2]
- Can reach over 90 blocks in depth.
- They are very similar to canyons in Bedrock Edition.
General
- Added the
deepslate_ore_replaceablesblock tag.- Contains deepslate.
- Added the
diamond_ores,iron_ores,lapis_ores, andredstone_oresblock and item tags.- Contain the normal and deepslate variants of each ore type.
- Added the
stone_ore_replaceablesblock tag.- Contains stone, granite, diorite, andesite, and tuff.
Changes
Blocks
Blackstone, deepslate, polished deepslate, chiseled deepslate, deepslate bricks, deepslate tiles and stair, slab and wall variants
- Textures have been tweaked slightly.
- Tweaked texture.
- Is now once again unique from nether gold ore.
Coal ore, copper ore, emerald ore, iron ore, lapis lazuli ore, redstone ore
- Tweaked texture.
- Renamed from "Grimstone".
- Is no longer used to craft or repair any blocks or items.
- Has new unique breaking, placing, and footstep sounds.
- Can only be mined with a Silk Touch pickaxe.
- Now replaces air below Y=-55.
- Particles now appear in the air around the block.
World generation
- Can no longer generate fully in midair.
- The tuff layer has been replaced with smooth basalt.
- No longer generates below Y=0.
- Tweaked cave sizes.[3]
- Ravines and regular cave carvers now generate below Y=0.
- Added more variation to carvers.[4]
- Caves are now more filled with water.
- Generates almost twice as often.[5]
- Once again generates at the bottom of the world starting at Y=-54.
- Lava springs can now generate below Y=0.
- Water springs can now generate below Y=0.
Mineral distribution
- Ore distribution has been changed again.
- Iron now generates below Y=0, but in smaller blobs and not as frequently.
- This was determined to be a bug, which was fixed in snapshot 21w08b.
- Gold is a little more common, but with 50% of blocks exposed to air skipped.
- Diamond is the same, but with 50% blocks exposed to air skipped as well.
- Increased frequency of buried lapis.
- Copper is now less common.
- Iron now generates below Y=0, but in smaller blobs and not as frequently.
- Now generate again in the open air in caves.
- No longer appear floating.
- Now generates in ore blobs below Y=0.
General
- Slime blocks and honey blocks have been moved to the "Redstone" tab.
- The categories of the recipes for these blocks in the recipe book have moved as well.
- Lectern position within the "Redstone" tab has been moved out of the "essential" group.
- Added tuff to the
base_stone_overworldblock tag. - Added deepslate gold ore to the
gold_oresblock and item tags.
Fixes
From the 1.17 development versions
- MC-213926 – Rooted dirt footstep sounds are considerably quieter than normal dirt footstep sounds.
- MC-214782 – Geodes can generate floating in caves.
- MC-214843 – Old-style caves do not generate past Y=0.
Videos
Videos made by slicedlime:
References
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 21w08a" – Minecraft.net, February 24, 2021.
- ↑ "We've also introduced crack carvers, which are like ravines but very narrow and very deep." – @henrikkniberg on X (formerly Twitter), February 24, 2021
- ↑ "Snapshot time! Mostly cave tweaks. We've increased the cave sizes again, tweaked ore distribution, and renamed Grimstone (among other things). Unfortunately we accidentally messed up iron ore spawning, it is basically missing. Will fix ASAP." – @henrikkniberg on X (formerly Twitter), February 24, 2021
- ↑ "Oh forgot to mention in the changelog: we also added some more variation to the old cave carvers (width, heigh, floor cutoff, etc). Just to make them blend in a bit better with the noise caves instead of being instantly recognizable." – @henrikkniberg on X (formerly Twitter), February 24, 2021
- ↑ https://youtu.be/f6o1Bz0cwdI?t=225
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- Java Edition 21w08a — Minecraft Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, revision 3543124.