Are Old Worlds BETTER Than 1.18 Worlds Now?

Hello i’m mjx toy cad and one of the constant rules of minecraft development has always been that existing builds and existing worlds should not be changed just because of a new update this is something they’ve decided to change with 1.18 though because all of the bedrock at the bottom of your existing worlds

Will be changing into deep slate and below that new caves will generate that’s right you can find 1.18 caves below all 1.17 worlds it looks like right now and this means there are going to be two types of new caves in the update there are going to be new caves

That generate in a fresh brand new world and there are going to be new caves that generate below your existing ones effectively giving you a 1.17 cave 1.18 cave hybrid and the question is which do you want do you want to wait to explore chunks or do you actually want to

Explore some chunks right now just to get these weird hybrid caves let’s find out with today’s video which i hope you’ll enjoy did you know greater than 99.9 of housefly deaths happen people who don’t subscribe to the channel and did you also know that needless statistics make more people subscribe i

Bet you didn’t know that one but i also bet you didn’t know that minecraft is a game okay so this is going to be my control seed this is the seed everything loaded up with 1.17 generation which you can do in betas in case you’re curious by just not enabling caves and cliffs

And this is the exact same seed but loaded up with 1.18 generation or caves and cliffs part two however you want to say it it’s very clear that the overworld is being updated the thing that is on top of the rest of your game however it’s also the caves below it as

You can see there’s this giant brand new cave right here and uh so yeah this means that the caves below everything i explore will also be entirely different i mean it does basically go without saying that this is not something that you would find in the 1.17 world but if

You want a direct comparison here’s what’s at those coordinates as you can see a much sadder technically cave you could call it that’s underwater um but yeah today’s question isn’t about the surface generation though i definitely do want to show you what happens with that it’s about what’s below the surface

Because uh let’s take for instance uh some coordinates right now let’s dig down and we’ll find a cave no doubt right i mean i imagine we’ll find a cave who knows if we will apparently we don’t find a cave um so as you can see we dig

Down and then we hit bedrock at about layer zero and this means uh that there is nothing below that point and you can’t even break bedrock because it’s literally unbreakable accepting creative okay here we go we found a decent cave system i’m assuming if we really wanted

To we could follow this all the way down to bedrock this is current cave generation and it’s pretty interesting in a lot of ways but you can’t expect to find this all the time post update in fact here we are deep down where the deep slate is and if we break any blocks

Below this you’ll notice that eventually we’ll find that very same bedrock okay here is the bedrock below the world and as we all know after the update this will be changing into deep slate but the question is will the cave look better if we find something like this or will a

Cave look better if you just you know generate all new caves all together and that’s what i wanted to find out by doing a little bit of a fair comparison okay so i’ve just applied the update to this exact world which means when we generate it despite previously oh it

Actually takes a while to generate and make that change despite previously having been bedrock it’s now deep slate which means we can go down deeper than we could before and now a lot of caves will effectively you know with a layer of deep sleep between them be able to

Explain a span deeper if you have a mining system a k you know like a a way to get down there uh that will also change up this update and so now the question is would do caves look better with that weird ceiling in between them

Or do they not here is a cave that generated naturally in minecraft 1.18 it goes all the way from what is this at the sky right here 47 blocks up all the way down past you know negative zero where the bedrock level would be and down so what is this minus 48 it’s

Pretty crazy actually even before you consider the deep sleep diamonds and the formations of the cave what does this exact same cave looked like after the update let’s say despite the fact that i’ve been within 10 blocks of this place i hadn’t been specifically here and so

As a result new caves can generate this close to where i previously had been in fact if we follow the cave long enough we might find the specific point where new generation hits old we do actually yeah you’ll find weird walls in your cave uh actually this could be

Generation i’m not too sure but you should start to find places where you’ve been that create weird walls in your cave that don’t make any real sense and don’t seem like they should be there um because of this blurring of the chunks i guess which i i think this is pretty cool this

Means you can effectively have certain caves from your current chunks that blend into the new caves if you do it just right okay let’s go to that exact point but in 1.17 uh as you can see we dig down and we get not too much of anything there’s no

Caves down or anything uh we should just eventually find okay here’s a a deep slate cave and then eventually below that we’ll find the bedrock lair it’s as simple as that boom wow magic and then if you break below the bedrock again as you’d expect there’s nothing down here

Because this is what minecraft looks like right now however if we take the same world actually just for fun let’s take the same world and let’s actually um convert it to 1.18 while i’m below the bedrock just to see how that looks the answer is it looks like this i

I think it oh the answer is that it forces you above the bedrock lair if you were below the bedrock player below the up before the update happened it kind of forces you above it and so the answer about what the cave looks like is it’s like this

Actually again you know it looks surprisingly similar oh no there we go here’s okay this is what we were looking for as you can see the exact same cave from 1.18 that previously expanded all the way up there has this big kind of layer on top of it but otherwise again

This is previous 1.17 caves you can mine straight down from one and find yourself facing a 30 block uh gap in immediate death so probably be careful actually when mining below your bedrock but it’s really really cool to see this look at this wow there is just a ceiling to this

Cave now and then below that height you’ll find all of the new exciting spicy ores and so now that means we kind of have the best of both worlds if you like prior to 1.18 generation because you’ve got all of this new stuff which again later on will include things like

The deep dark biome and the warden below your existing world should you ever want to mine down there but if you don’t want to mine down there then all you got to do is break your way up oh actually this is interesting this is a little cave

Just below the main layer um if you don’t like that stuff you just mine up a little bit and you find yourself in your existing 1.17 lack of caves in this case but um yeah it’s very interesting right also very interesting i have to do this

Just for fun um bear in mind that if you do keep your existing worlds then new generation will start in very weird places around where you’ve explored so for instance i didn’t explore much of this mountain at spawn and so the mountain’s been replaced with the forest

That should be here instead um i didn’t explore much past this village and so where the village ends there is this magic ravine and then on the other side that ravine is a jungle that wasn’t there before and what it does uh what this world generation does is it takes

Your existing blocks and kind of blurs them into the new generation so as you can see this right here blends the plane’s biome with the much higher jungle biome by taking some jungle blocks some planes blocks and then kind of like making a hill to make it work

And obviously this raises the question of what if you’ve built something at the very edge obviously um of minecraft tries to go a few blocks beyond where you’ve explored but if we did have a long string of let’s say a very valuable block in survival never right and we

Placed a long line of it would we be able to get some of that neverite to accidentally duplicate or be moved around or something like that that’s what i want to find out so let’s go back to the 1.17 version of this world and now let’s explore this mountain a little

More fully just for the fun of it oh it actually is just a very tiny mountain uh but again it extends much further that way and now let’s do something fun and make a long string of never right right where the terrain is going to uh you

Know go up and down and make some weird stuff happen by the way this is what it should like look like in 1.17 before that actually over here’s a better example because this is the jungle we’ve all seen it do crazy stuff let’s place a string of 100 neverright blocks here and

See what happens to them as you can see we’ve now got a lovely long strip of these and just for fun just to make sure that it doesn’t work at just a certain height we’ll place another one over here and let’s see if i end up okay so 78

Blocks and 78 blocks i should now have 156 never write blocks let’s see if maybe we end up with a few more by accident or if they just get moved which it would be still interesting to look at right the answer might just shock you because apparently

Uh having any blocks from your existing terrain there will stop it from moving uh for the most part as you can see this is weirdly been interrupted um except this kind of contradicts that because each of the never right blocks as you can see has been moved up a different

Height so they’re all going in a straight line none of them are interrupted and uh then once we go past that point you can see how like okay one goes up one block that’s fine and then one goes up two blocks from there that’s weird another two blocks actually it’s

Three blocks then two blocks then three blocks then four blocks and then that’s the end of the nevereight sequence and that is very interesting because it looks like we’ve accidentally torn a hole in this jungle by doing it over here i have no idea how or why or what

Is actually going on there but it’s very interesting that you can and even more interesting is over here unlike before the village now expands on both sides of that okay so minecraft’s world general engine is very very strange to say the least because this this this ravine clearly came from

After the update but then there’s still more village on the other side so it kept the village from prior to this update but then put a ravine in the middle of it for some reason i guess for it probably goes on like a square basis so it doesn’t like have

Weird uh blocks going out by themselves but it doesn’t know how to deal with that and ravines at the same time this is this is very interesting to look at to say the least and um i don’t know what the lesson to even learn from this is you definitely can’t duplicate blocks

It seems as you can see this line stops there which is a few blocks before this line stops it might even be removing blocks from being honest because i don’t see where the rest of those and have rights are um and uh again the the real reason to explore existing worlds and

Then come to a wall is because of how interesting the uh the engine will be when a new world hits an old world and how many weird things will happen which is maybe worth exploring all by itself like look at this for instance this mountain transitions i’d say seamlessly

But not really at all into a birch hill and a a roof forest and then there’s a cave entrance just beyond your old world it’s very very interesting and definitely worth checking out yeah look at that can go straight into a lush cave from the existing chunks and in some

Cases also look at this there’s yeah see here’s a weird example there’s just random floating water it was probably there in the old caves and they just decided to keep some uh where where your caves hit new generation are also going to have weird things this birch

Tree in the middle of nowhere um this lush cave i’m sure if we go this way far enough we actually yeah here’s the interesting thing you can explore from new caves under your existing chunks because as long as they connect down under there it will work just fine

Which is so interesting to me yeah look at this this is a new cave that i’m exploring in my new world but then it goes underneath my previous world and so i’m exploring a cave that has an artificial ceiling and that’s so interesting to me if this obviously this

Is uh i think this is very nerdy i’m playing around world generation i’m a big seed person so i love seeing how minecraft generates this is probably the the nerdiest most niche video that no one cared about but i find this to be so so so interesting and uh let me know if

You do too so and i’m not alone in finding the this it’s not even a bedrock ceiling it’s a deep slate ceiling that generates above your world this is what we were hoping for this is the best solution uh to the problem and some number of people are

Going to lose out i want to spend a second to note here that this is the best decision i think mojang could have made i’m impressed that they could have done it at last minute but i’ve seen a few people be like actually yeah i don’t

Like that the chunks below my world are gonna change without my permission and that’s why um again not that i know if they can do this with just a month and a half or two months left to go but um i would recommend that this new feature of

New generation going below your existing one should be behind a toggle like you know um if uh unless you uh hit the toggle then your bedrock should stay it should be a brand new world option in my opinion of like should it replace new things just like how expanding the world

Borders and minecraft uh console edition was behind a toggle uh but that’s my opinion again i think in reality if they don’t do it 99.9 of players will be happy with the fact that they can dig below their existing worlds again anywhere in your existing world you can

Dig right down or you cannot dig right down it’s your choice but you can dig right down and then once you hit y0 you’ll be able to find new caves isn’t that exciting the answer is yes that is exciting by the way hate to spoil it for

You and then now the new bedrock player just in case you still want bedrock at the bottom of your world it does still exist it’s just down here at minus 64. speaking of things that are down at minus 64. i hope you all enjoyed this

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