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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in The Update that Changed the World (Java Edition 1.7.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Horse Update (Java Edition 1.6.x releases).

Mobs

New

Name Image Habitat Drops Note
Chicken jockey Zombie and zombie villager jockey spawn in Overworld, zombie pigman jockey spawns in the Nether.

Chickens drop:

Baby zombies drop:

If killed by a charged creeper, it drops a zombie head.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Iron golems Drop poppies instead of roses.
Creepers Can be detonated using a flint and steel.
Zombies
  • Reduced the lag that zombies created by pathfinding.
  • Can now spawn with and drop armor, bows and swords with the "Unbreaking" enchantment.
Witches
  • Now drink a potion of Water Breathing, when they are trapped underwater.
  • Can drop a potion of Water Breathing upon death, as a rare drop.
  • Have been added to the mix of low light-level hostile mobs, spawning anywhere where the light level is below 7, including at night in every biome and in caverns.
  • They have roughly the same spawn rate as endermen, and much like them they usually appear in groups of 2.
Spiders, cave spiders & endermen Don't become hostile when attacking them in creative mode.

Blocks

New

Name Image Obtaining Tool Required Uses
Stained glass
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Glass +
Matching Dye
Any (only drops itself with Silk Touch)
  • Can be crafted into stained glass panes using the same recipe as normal glass panes.
  • Can be used as decorative block.
Stained glass panes
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Matching Stained Glass
Any (only drops itself with Silk Touch) Can be used as decorative block.
Packed ice Generates in ice spikes biomes. Pickaxe (only drops itself with Silk Touch) Unlike normal ice, does not turn into water when broken, does not melt when exposed to heat, and is an opaque solid block.
Red sand Generates in mesa biomes. Shovel Can be smelted into glass and crafted into TNT.
Podzol Generates in mega taiga biomes. Shovel (drops dirt unless collected with Silk Touch) Can have plants placed on it, and can be turned into farmland by a hoe.
Acacia and dark oak logs Found naturally as part of their corresponding tree types, which generate in savanna and roofed forest biomes, respectively. Axe Can be crafted into planks of the corresponding wood type.
Acacia and dark oak wood planks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Acacia Log or 
Dark Oak Log
Axe Can be crafted into stairs and slabs.
Acacia and dark oak stairs and slabs

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Acacia Planks or 
Dark Oak Planks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Acacia Planks or 
Dark Oak Planks
Axe Can be used as building blocks.
Acacia and dark oak leaves Found naturally on their respective tree types. Shears
  • Have a chance to drop their respective sapling types.
  • Dark oak leaves also have a chance to drop an apple.
  • Both have the same texture as oak leaves during this version.
Acacia and dark oak saplings Drop from their respective leaf types. Any
  • Can be placed in flower pots.
  • Grows into their respective tree type if planted on dirt, given adequate space. (Dark Oak Saplings require a 2×2 square of saplings into order to grow into one tree.)
Poppy Generates in any biome. Any
  • Can be crafted into red dye.
  • Can be placed in flower pots.
  • Replaces the rose.
Azure bluet Generates in plains and flower forests. Any
  • Can be crafted into light gray dye.
  • Can be placed in flower pots.
Oxeye daisy Generates in Plains and Flower Forests. Any
  • Can be crafted into light gray dye.
  • Can be placed in flower pots.
Blue orchid Generates in Swamps. Any
  • Can be crafted into light blue dye.
  • Can be placed in flower pots.
Allium Generates in flower forests. Any
  • Can be crafted into magenta dye.
  • Can be placed in flower pots.
Tulips Red, orange, white and pink tulips can be found in plains and flower forest biomes. Any
  • Can be crafted into red, orange, light gray and pink dyes.
  • Can be placed in flower pots.
Rose bush Generates in forests, birch forests, flower forests and roofed forests. Any
  • Can be crafted into red dye.
  • Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.
Peony Generates in forests, birch forests, flower forests and roofed forests. Any
  • Can be crafted into magenta dye.
  • Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.
Lilac Generates in forests, birch forests, flower forests and roofed forests. Any
  • Can be crafted into pink dye.
  • Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.
Sunflower Generates in sunflower plains. Any
  • Can be crafted into yellow dye.
  • Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.
  • Always faces east (toward positive X).
Double tallgrass Generates in numerous biomes, and can be created by applying bone meal to tall grass. Shears
  • Can be used decoratively.
  • Have a chance of dropping wheat seeds when broken without shears.
Large fern Generates in numerous biomes, and can be created by applying bone meal to ferns. Shears Can be used decoratively.
Infested variants of mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks and chiseled stone bricks Generate in strongholds, and form when silverfish infest the respective normal block type. Pickaxe (drops nothing) Spawns silverfish when broken.
Grassless dirt Generates naturally in certain savanna biome variants and is obtainable only through commands. Shovel (drops normal dirt) Has the same appearance as normal dirt, but grass and mycelium cannot grow on it.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Wood
  • Logs have different textures for their top and bottom.
    • Oak wood remains the same, as if being the default.
Cauldrons Cauldrons with water in them extinguish burning entities, taking away one water level each time.
Sugar canes Color/shade is affected by the biome color (similar to leaves, grass and vines).
Dead bushes Can be placed on hardened clay, stained clay, red sand and dirt.
Command blocks
  • Show what command it ran recently in the GUI.
  • Extended character limit past the 10,000 mark.
Iron bars & glass panes
  • Can connect to each other and glass blocks.
    • This includes panes of different colors.

Items

New

Name Image Obtaining Uses
Pufferfish Can be obtained from fishing.
  • Can be used for restoring hunger
    • Restores 1 (🍖) hunger.
    • If eaten, it inflicts:
      • Poison IV (1:00)
      • Hunger III (0:15)
      • Nausea (0:15)
  • Used to brew a Water Breathing potion.
Clownfish Can be obtained from fishing. Restores 1 (🍖) hunger.
Raw salmon Can be obtained from fishing.
  • Restores 2 (🍗) hunger.
  • Can be cooked into cooked salmon.
Cooked salmon
Ingredients Smelting recipe
Raw Salmon +
Any fuel
Invicon Raw Salmon.png: Inventory sprite for Raw Salmon in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Raw Salmon with description: Raw Salmon
Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: CoalInvicon Charcoal.png: Inventory sprite for Charcoal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Charcoal with description: CharcoalInvicon Oak Log.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Log in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Log with description: LogInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Overworld PlanksInvicon Lava Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Lava Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lava Bucket with description: Lava BucketInvicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Block of Coal with description: Block of Coal
Invicon Cooked Salmon.png: Inventory sprite for Cooked Salmon in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cooked Salmon with description: Cooked Salmon0.35
 Restores 6 (🍗🍗🍗) hunger.

Potions

New

Name Obtaining Effects
Potion of Water Breathing
Ingredients Brewing recipe
Pufferfish +
Awkward Potion

Invicon Pufferfish.png: Inventory sprite for Pufferfish in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Pufferfish with description: Pufferfish

Invicon Awkward Potion.png: Inventory sprite for Awkward Potion in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Awkward Potion with description: Awkward Potion No Effects


Invicon Potion of Water Breathing.png: Inventory sprite for Potion of Water Breathing in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Potion of Water Breathing with description: Potion of Water Breathing Water Breathing (03:00)
 Water Breathing

Non-mob entities

New

Name Image Creation Drops Note
Minecart with command block Can be obtained only through commands. Functions much like a command block, but is mobile, and can be activated by activator rails.

Enchantments

New

Enchantment Max level Applicable items Notes
Lure III Decreases the wait time for catching something.
Luck of the Sea III Increases luck while fishing.

Structures

New

Name Image Generates Chests Mobs Description
Acacia tree Generate in savanna biomes and when grown from acacia saplings. No None The most common trees in savannas, and a source of acacia wood.
Dark oak tree Generate in roofed forest biomes and when grown from a square of 4 dark oak saplings. No None The most common trees in roofed forests, and a source of dark oak wood.
Mega spruce tree Generate in mega taiga biomes and when grown from a square of 4 spruce saplings. No None The most common trees in mega taigas, and a source of spruce wood.
Forest rock Generate in mega taiga biomes. No None Found throughout the surface of mega taigas, and a source of mossy cobblestone.
Ice spike Generate in ice spikes biomes. No None The most striking feature of ice spikes biomes, and a source of packed ice blocks.

Biomes

New

Name Image Description Structures
Biome variants/technical biomes
  • Over 20 variants for new and existing biomes.
    • M – Biomes with an M variant are rarer than the normal version of that biome and contain some specific modification, such as taller trees or more water pools.
    • Plateau – Biomes with a plateau variant are like the hills technical biome, but flattened at the top.
    • Mesa (Bryce) – A rare variant of the mesa biome that works similar to ice spikes, with tall clay spikes generating from the sandy mesa floor.
    • Hills – More technical hills biomes have been added to fit with the new biomes.
    • Stone Beach – Generates between mountains and oceans to create rocky cliffs.
Mesa
  • Contains mountains composed of multiple types of colored hardened clay that are layered in a way that resembles sedimentary rock.
    • There are seven colors including normal, orange, red, yellow, white, light gray and brown.
  • The flat lands below the mountains are similar to a desert biome, but made of red sand instead of sand.
  • Dead bushes and cacti spawn in this biome.
  • Occasional dying forests spawn on top of the clay mountains.
 Oak trees (in some variants)
Savanna
  • A flat and dry biome with a sparse covering of acacia trees, with plateaus and the occasional giant mountain.
  • Inhabited by horses, and villagers in villages identical to those in plains.
Jungle edge A jungle variant with much sparser vegetation and only small jungle trees. Jungle trees
Sunflower plains Exactly the same as plains, but contains a large amount of sunflowers. Villages
Flower forest
  • Forest variant containing a dense ground covering of a wide variety of flowers.
  • Contains the exclusive Allium flower, along with every other flower type, except Blue Orchids and Sunflowers.
Roofed forest
  • A dense forest of dark oak trees containing oak and birch trees and giant mushrooms.
  • The canopies of the trees form a mostly unbroken "roof" that blocks out sunlight.
  • Monsters are often able to spawn during the day due to the darkness.
Birch forest
  • A forest made entirely of birch trees.
  • Has a variant with taller birch trees that cannot be grown from saplings.
 Birch trees
Taiga
  • A forest of spruce trees with bluish grass.
    • The previous snowy version of the taiga biome is now called the "snowy taiga" instead.
  • Contains a large amount of ferns.
 Spruce trees
Mega taiga
  • A forest of giant 2×2 spruce trees, which tower above the regular spruce trees that grow between them.
  • Much of the ground is covered in podzol.
  • Mossy cobblestone "boulders" are scattered around in this biome.
  • Dead bushes, mushrooms and ferns cover the forest floor.
Gravelly mountains An extreme hills variant with a surface largely composed of gravel.
Wooded mountains An extreme hills variant with a much denser covering of trees.
Stone shore A beach biome with terrain made of stone, which often generates between extreme hills and oceans.
Ice spikes
  • A snowy biome covered in large pillars of packed ice blocks.
  • The surface is made out of snow blocks on top of dirt.
 Ice spikes
Deep ocean
  • Is about ten blocks deeper than normal oceans; the maximum depth is in the low 30s.
  • Has a seafloor made entirely of gravel.

Changed

  • Each biome now has a "temperature" value. Biomes with similar temperature values are more likely to generate next to each other.
  • Biomes can be divided roughly into 4 categories based on how their temperature affects precipitation:
    • In hot biomes, it never rains.
    • In warm biomes, it rains at all altitudes.
    • In cool biomes, it rains at low altitudes and snows at high altitudes.
    • In snowy biomes, it snows at all altitudes.
  • Many existing biomes have been updated, and some have received slightly different variants where some key aspect of the generation is different:
Name Image Description Structures
Desert
  • Added desert lakes, a desert variant containing water lakes.
    • Similar to pre-1.6 deserts.
Jungle
  • New variants include modified jungle, jungle edge, and modified jungle edge.
  • Melons now generate in jungles.
Swamp
  • Added hilly variant.
  • Changed grass color.
  • Added blue orchids.
Forest Contain multiple new flowers.
Plains Contain multiple new flowers. Villages
Extreme hills
  • New terrain generation for extreme hills.
  • Now have large amounts of exposed stone and gravel on their surface.
  • Now contain spruce trees.
  • New variants include wooded mountains and gravel mountains.
  • Stone cliffs now generate between mountains and oceans.
Snowy taiga
  • Renamed from "Taiga" to "Snowy Taiga".
  • Added mountainous variant.
 Spruce trees

World types

New

Name Image Description Structures
Amplified
  • It scales up all world generation rules, so it uses the entire world height.
    • Almost all biomes can generate huge mountains that can reach well above Y=200.
      • Extreme hills biomes frequently reach the world height limit at Y=256.
      • Swampland and ocean biomes are unaffected by this world type.
  • Extremely resource intensive and requires powerful computer to run.
  • Ravines here can reach down to bedrock.
  • Contains numerous various landforms that are very rare or non-existent in default generation.
    • Some examples include floating islands, overhangs, large water and lava falls and huge indents.
  • Taiga biomes reach such altitudes that snow starts generating (about Y=130).
 All structures

Music tracks

Note: these track previews have been shortened to 30 seconds on the wiki due to an agreement with the author to allow them on the wiki

New

Filename Gameplay Soundtrack Title Track Preview
creative1.ogg Creative mode "Biome Fest"
creative2.ogg Creative mode "Blind Spots"
creative3.ogg Creative mode "Haunt Muskie"
creative4.ogg Creative mode "Aria Math"
creative5.ogg Creative mode "Dreiton"
creative6.ogg Creative mode "Taswell"
nether1.ogg The Nether "Concrete Halls"
nether2.ogg The Nether "Dead Voxel"
nether3.ogg The Nether "Warmth"
nether4.ogg The Nether "Ballad of the Cats"
boss.ogg Ender dragon battle "Boss"
end.ogg The End "The End"
menu1.ogg Main menu "Mutation"
menu2.ogg Main menu "Moog City 2"
menu3.ogg Main menu "Beginning 2"
menu4.ogg Main menu "Floating Trees"
credits.ogg End Poem "Alpha"

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Identifier
Adventuring TimeDiscover all biomes\Discover 17 of the 40 different biomesThe End?Visit these 36 biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for the achievement. Biomes are counted as visited even before The End? is achieved. Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.exploreAllBiomes\
The Beginning?Spawn the WitherThe End.Be within a 100.9×100.9×103.5 cuboid centered on the Wither when it is spawned.spawnWither
The Beginning.Kill the WitherThe Beginning?Be within a 100.9×100.9×203.5 cuboid centered on the Wither when it drops the nether star.killWither
BeaconatorCreate a full beaconThe Beginning.Be within a 20×20×14 cuboid centered on the pyramid when the beacon block realizes it is fully powered.fullBeacon
RepopulationBreed two cows with wheatCow TipperBreed two cows or two mooshrooms.breedCow
Diamonds to you!Throw diamonds at another playerDIAMONDS!Drop a diamond. Another player or a mob must then pick up this diamond.diamondsToYou

See also

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