Better Terrain, Wilder Mountains, Crazier Caves! | Minecraft 1.18 Preview (experimental snapshot 1)

So today we’re dipping into the earliest version of minecraft 1.18 which will be the second caves and cliffs update that actually does add the proper caves and cliff stuff generally overhauling how worlds generate and this is experimental snapshot 1 released on the 13th of july um with the actual update is gonna be

Slated for the end of the year apparently i mean this video will explore the completely overhauled caves some different styles of random caves now generate among um alongside the existing types cheese caves spaghetti caves and noodle caves all these they all sound delicious and they all like them the cheese caves

Are like huge with stone towers and things spaghetti caves are long thin caves and noodle caves are thinner squiggly and more claustrophobic variants of spaghetti caves this landscapes are already a bit peculiar i mean this has got this randomly generated thing here um overlooking what i’m guessing is one

Of the new cave systems it’s maybe a cheese cave there’s all kinds of weirdness here and there’s also i think i’m not quite sure what is going on with this thing but i think i saw it because i’ve got a little base near here but

I think i did see a little bit of a chesty poo down here somewhere there it is it seems to be very peculiar place with but we got some rotten oh we got a fishing rod we look at the sea too holy all right well probably won’t be doing

Any fishing in this video but i’m very happy to find that and there are now five new mountain sub biomes all based on their height mounted meadow a mountain grove snowy slopes lofty peaks and snow-capped peaks and the game’s height limit has been expanded and to add six to

64 blocks both upwards and downwards and all generates differently so they are almost abundant to particular heights so for instance copper peaks at 48 y and coal peaks 96 why and possibly the most interesting thing in general for the for the whole just look at the game a terrain

Generation is now independent from biomes with biomes adapting to whatever terrain they happen to generate throughout this seed is actually quite cool there’s somewhere around it there’s a jungle really close by uh otherwise we are just in regular i think it’s planes but a bit of a bit of hot sandy action here

Does someone double check where actually are we at the moment we are this is technically just a little bit of a desert just a little deserty poos so i’m hoping oh i’m hoping just to be able to ride the waves down this curtain’s waterfall holy the entire ocean’s coming down

Into this cave this might be one of the new oh my god this is spectacular i love the sun oh ooh dangerous ooh this definitely feels different and also very very dangerous i’m a bit nervous let’s um let’s create a little hidey hole here whilst we have a look

I feel like there’s gonna be oh there’s copper down here um what’s the y level at the moment so yes y equals 34 it goes down to minus 64 these days oh oh oh so of course there might be some wackiness with the whole generation around here is that lapis already huh

This is insane this this place this is huge it’s very dark so it’s hard to see but little spots of light i think possibly from the the glow fiber that now and i think they added to the game the 1.17 also look at this little stone stalactite

I think something’s going to push me off i can see enderman down there well not anymore i’m not sure where they were they were somewhere down there oh look those might be the stone columns and that’s i think that’s yeah those are those this is the that’s a cheese caves thing

Oh there’s i can see the enderman oh god i’m not quite sure i can really get down there i think that might be a bit rich for my blood at the moment although having said that i could just go i could ride the water this is actually not selling tight

Either it turns into different things so it’s actually a yeah it’s actually one of these continual columns right so we’re deep enough now to get i think it’s deep slates i can’t remember so i’m not oh god i’ve been out of coal oh it just spied a hell down there but i

Think i can see you you might not be able to see this because of the um limitations of capture but i think i can see some emeralds directly where my cursor is that’s very low down apparently diamonds now are most abundant to the very lowest possible plays like y equals minus 64.

I don’t even i don’t know how low that is but that looks incredibly low it might actually be minus 64 down there might actually be getting close to bedrock mate oh he’s still there mate i’ve only got a wooden sword less than ideal get rid get rid

Oh hang on it looks like we can emerge into the ocean there’s the sun all big bollocks up there i could do with exploring those caves a bit more but at the moment i’m a bit weak honestly though these um these caves are just so insane now

It they just look like they go so far down it really gives you vertigo i think the height limit has made a big difference i’m just uh taking shots like this i mean i’m just going to be very careful not to walk over the edge

There look at that so i think it’s time to go on a journey in this direction oh wow oh they’re all over the bloody place these things so i’m guessing this is this um in the previous versions of the game this this is just a regular forest biome i

Think i’m just able to check there yeah forest but it’s um the hill has generated in this biome we might not necessarily always previously have done that and so we’ve got nice like interesting more hilliar sort of thing and there’s the there’s the big ass jungle which is also up a hill

So yeah i think you’re definitely going to get a lot more biomes up in the air now i think that’s the best way of putting it always also oh we’ve got a little bamboo forest as well oh look i think we’ve got a um painted hills type biome whatever the

Hell that was called we’re still totally in the forest biome i think we might need to get a bit closer well it’s there but look also holy another oh my god just underneath that mountain the the weird terracotta mountain is another cheese cave or whatever it is columns of death once again spiders

Abundant oh gold first gold i don’t think i can actually mine this though nope i still haven’t got my iron pickaxe so this is a badlands plateau is this by um what a remarkable place oh oh oh yeah just wandering around him in this um particularly interesting seed

Um it just feels different and the caves do i mean at the moment there seems to be caves absolutely everywhere also look holy um cloud we are very high indeed fairly high anyway we are at 125 that’s actually not that tall apparently it’s some i think you can build

Quite a lot higher than this this is the most mountainous place but it’s not actually a mountain biome or one of the new sub biomes i’m looking for like a i think there’s like rare fairly rare like really um snow-capped peaks which i think only only generate with the very tallest mountains

So maybe it’s just the seed but everything just feels so much more epic the landscapes are just big impressive landscapes and there’s just caves everywhere and some of them big buggers and all oh there’s a cave here’s not a cave ah drip cave just a little bit of just a little bit

Of one damage these everything’s so cavula oh i suspect this is gonna be crammed full of skellies you want a piece of my lunch so we’re still in uh the badland type area i’ve just come up out of those caves donkey so different um animals do spawn in different

Elevations of the uh the mountain biome type stuff here’s where the cloud level already again so these are i mean this is uh according to the volume thing snowy slopes so those are i think quite high up snowy slopes are about yeah about the mid level and so we’re currently below lofty peaks

And snow-capped peaks but this may this area may not actually go that high if i can just get higher up that’d be andy making a meal of this here we go i’ve just changed into lofty peaks from snowy slopes so we’re high enough for that and we don’t think we’re gonna

Get oh my god i don’t think we’re gonna get the um the highest snow-capped beaks i think they’re apparently fairly rare i’m going to go to the very top of this just in case the biome does change right at the very oh iron finally i’ve got some a decent source of

Iron in the highest possible place please excellent grab go go go grab nice so this is officially still i think lofty peaks so not quite the highest but bloody high nonetheless oh goats oh yeah apparently goats do i think goats now only do spawn in the mountain sub biomes

So whenever it be there’s gonna be some wackiness apparently there’s some the transitions between um terrains are supposed to be smoother and everything but it seems very odd seeing cactus appear but fodio what she what’s that oh it’s some oh it’s sunflowers yes there we go now we can see the boogers

So i guess previously would you’d only find sunflower biome really low down in the game not right not actually literally kissing the cloud see i’m not going very far at all but i’m just finding crazy ass um landscape after crazy ass landscape there’s another great big bloody

Mountain that looks it’s got a cave at the bottom a cute little cave as well i’m also starting to run out of food so oh also looks like we found a little nether portal or half another portal i think that was a 1.17 edition peculiar things but this is actually

Almost this is a small one and almost complete normally whenever and the limited amount of time i’ve seen one of these it’s always been a bloody massive thing that only requires a couple of extra blocks of obsidian and listening won’t blimey well i’ve just jumped into creative mode

Just so um we can actually appreciate this quickly i guess just appreciate the landscape a little bit more oh look at this huh frozen lake right up here in the mountain of dreams also i know again behind me this is quite impressive oh look at that little kind of mountainy

Thing a little hill a little hillock surrounded by mountains and oh a lush cave i think ah wow this is gorgeous all dripping away i could do with some food out of them but don’t know if they actually give anything oh this just keeps on going as well this is gorgeous

Oh wow look at this i like the lighting as well listen redstone we are now quite deep by the seams of it we are let’s have a look um -18 so because we’re below zero everything’s a bit more uh always something creative aren’t i well theoretically harder to mine but

Little trigger as well oh i’m pretty oh piss don’t piss yeah downside of being creative um you can still die if you go too far down oof so yes that was at minus 64 when things went a bit south anyway i’m going to return home and now i’ve spawned back

Close to home and that is um the first experimental snapshot of minecraft 1.18 you have to do a bit of fiddly stuff to actually get it to run you have to download a thing and then put in a thing and stuff like that thanks for watching do check out the

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