CriticalPrime9 – Minecraft 1.17: Snapshot 21w06a! New Cave Generation, World Height Increase, and more!

Hello ladies and gentlemen it’s critical and welcome back to another minecraft snapshot video this is for 21w06a and this is it this is the one this is the one that they’re officially adding in some of the new cave generation into the world which we’re going to take

A look at in just a second but i want to let you know about two uh little caveats of this that they’ve stated number one you’re not going to be able to open old worlds in this snapshot as a matter of fact if we back out of this world

Real quick i made this new one for this snapshot if we back out we had in here you’ll see loading of old worlds is temporarily disabled this is due to the fact that the height generation or the world height has been changed and they don’t currently have a

Way to update this in old worlds uh the second thing is that all of the new cave types between y31 and y63 are currently filled with water you can see here um this is entirely flooded all the way down through here and it looks pretty cool

Honestly um just the shape of the cave already so back to world height though if you look at this check this out here’s some of the caves here’s just like a sneak peek of some of what we’re looking at there’s no optifine or anything so it is a little choppy

Um at the moment and i’m loading all of this in new so uh bear with me for a second here but you’ll notice we’re going way way far down like those trees up there in the top of the world everything extends down to right here uh that’s so far away and that is

Because we are currently at negative 62 y um the reason for this is the world height has been extended up by 64 blocks and down by 64 blocks so let’s switch to creative real quick for a second because i want to explain the or i want to show off the top world

Height so if i play stuff through here we can see we’re currently in the 80s because we’re on top of a mountain but if we keep placing blocks all the way up to the world height i’m very excited about this by the way this is probably one of the things i’m

Most excited about in this update is the world height changes because it just allows us to do so many more things um my finger hurts from clicking let’s get up here we’re about to hit 256. so right here was the previous block that you could place you

Would not be able to place above this but now look at this look at this we’re looking right here 269 we can keep going up an extra i think they said 64 blocks at the moment so right there height limit for building is 320. now that being said the total height

Is 384 blocks of the world and the reason for that is that it starts dipping into the negatives so rather than having zero be pushed down a little further they actually extended in the negative direction so if we dig all the way down here uh you’ll see once we hit zero we’re not

Gonna break through bedrock we’re actually just gonna hit negative numbers and we’re gonna be able to keep going down all the way until we hit negative 64 which will probably be the bottom block of bedrock yes so that’ll be 64 that we’re looking at right there

This is crazy this is going to allow for so many new builds and things that are just going to be crazy ridiculous i imagine this is not just for um let’s go back into spectator mode i imagine this is not just for the sake of the caves either but also for the

Mountains i imagine the mountains are going to be extending very very high up um looking around at the cave generation a little bit a couple things that are notable um or noticeable right off the bat it’s still there’s still a lot of stuff that looks like the old caves which i’m

Happy about like you still like this right here looks like a classic like minecraft ravine like that doesn’t necessarily look um any different than the normal minecraft terrain but as you kind of start going into some of these other areas we end up with some of these larger caves

Uh with some more twists and turns like these ones right here that do like this cool twist looking thing um these are awesome i think these are really really cool uh and then we get into some of these huge areas like this right here look at all this water

And this isn’t even part of the whole um they said all the caves between 31 and 63 i think are water this isn’t even part of that this is actually how this is supposed to look and there’s like waterfalls cascading down below i don’t know if or generation has been adjusted to

Um to different heights like i don’t know where diamond spawns now i don’t know if diamond now spawns only like you know way down below i don’t even know if they’ve messed with any of that yet i suppose we will find out uh in the future

But this is just so cool all of this just looks so awesome like i can totally imagine someone coming in here and building like a whole little town in here like a city across all this and there is some diamond actually right there and we are at negative 32 so it’s

Possible that diamond will now be from 16 all the way down yeah because look it’s up here as well which this is negative eight um so it’s possible that the that either diamond is going to be extended to a larger range or i don’t know there could be there

Could be some other things in play there um but this is just so so cool and i absolutely love what they’ve done with this you can tell they put a lot of work into uh getting all of this working and stuff there are two classifications of caves at the moment so there’s the

Spaghetti ones which is kind of the more minecraft looking ones all of these things i believe are all the spaghetti ones right here and they kind of twist and wind around and then the other ones are the swiss cheese ones which are these larger ones um holy crap this one’s huge

Oh my goodness this is cool as well you can actually get down to the bedrock um and have exposed bedrock which in in previous versions of the game i don’t think bedrock is ever naturally exposed on um in the overworld like that so that’s pretty cool as well

But this is so so cool i love this very much i noticed that not all of the caves are flooded like they said i wonder if it’s just a certain type of cave um because this should theoretically be flooded as well but it seems to only affect the swiss

Cheese type of caves maybe is what the deal is um yeah because you can see here this is all cave and this is all flooded so that’s pretty cool um there’s a couple of other small changes uh first of all i saw a mine shaft earlier i want to go look at that

Slash locate mine shaft let’s teleport here right here it said mine shafts have been adapted to work with the new ooh okay that’s definitely new they never had logs like that before um i wonder if that’s the only difference yeah these seem to be mostly mostly vanilla mine shafts as they were

Before but they seem to have added some support pillars that come down off of this so that which is pretty cool that’s a pretty cool little addition um yeah that’s pretty awesome there’s also it says no floating cobwebs i guess normally there were floating cobwebs in

Them but now they’re all on the roof specifically which is kind of nice i feel like this is an excuse just to update the mine shafts a little bit which i’m fine with i think that’s pretty cool i think that adds a little bit to it it also says they won’t

Generate fully floating anymore so if it can’t add a support beam then it’s not going to spawn uh there does seem to be some glitchiness with it though right here you can see there’s this extra little just plank that sticks out which i think is supposed to be three

Wide but it seems to have not generated so obviously still some stuff to work out but this is um this is pretty cool as well but some of the other things that were changed are due to or rather are in regards to drip leaves so if we grab a drip leaf real quick

And i’m actually going to set it today real quick if we grab a drip leaf here there’s a couple of changes so previously you could and i saw them discussing this on twitter previously you could crouch to avoid causing these to fall that is no longer the case um but i believe

No you can’t jump to do it either so they’ve decided that these are now going to be um it’s impossible to stand on these for a long period of time so it makes makes them a little more um precarious because like before you could just crouch and it kind of eliminated the uh

The risk of using these to like bounce around uh also there is something that i missed last snapshot which is that apparently you can bone meal these yeah and they grow heights which i didn’t realize but that’s pretty cool and it looks like you always have to click on the actual drip leaf

For that to occur they grow pretty tall i wonder how they grow oh seemingly infinitely okay that’s cool um so that is something that you can do as well uh taking a brief look at the um everything that seems to be most of what is in the snapshot

Obviously the main focus of the snapshot is the cave so these are looking super cool though i’m so happy with this and i think like i can’t wait to get in here and start mining like i can’t imagine what trying to actually like go through and clear a

Cave is gonna be like because they’re so much bigger now also lighting up areas is going to be well it could it could go either way because i guess now you don’t have to light all the way down you don’t have to light every k if you could go

Higher up in the world and build your farms but um there’s definitely going to be some really cool stuff built with the world height changes again that’s what i’m like most excited about as the world height changes like it’s just crazy now that we’ve increased the world height by a third like that’s

Awesome um but that is gonna do it for this snapshot video i hope you guys enjoyed be sure to download this and check it out for yourselves it’s available in the minecraft uh minecraft launcher so you can go ahead and check it out uh link in the

Description to the full change live if you’d like to read any bugs or anything that they found as well i don’t usually go for those but uh it will be down there in the description so hope you guys enjoyed thank you all so much for watching if you did be sure to

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