Minecraft: MORE NEW TEXTURE & Cave Generation! – 1.17 Snapshot 21w08a

Hey guys what’s up jwisp here and welcome back to another video today we have a super exciting video i’m coming at you guys with minecraft 1.17 snapshot update 21w08a this is a relatively smaller snapshot however there are still lots of really interesting things they’ve added and lots of really cool things to go

Over so let’s get into it to start off we no longer have grimstone in the game that’s correct they have removed grimstone or at least the name grimstone we still have grimstone however it is now called deep slate and all variants of it deep slave brick here

Cobble deep slate so they have now called grimstone deep slate i’m not sure why they did the name change but i don’t know i kind of like it i think deep slate has a cool ring to it as well they have also added some new textures

So not only do we have the normal gold iron lapis diamond and redstone textures but now we also have those textures for deep slate so we have deep slave gold ore deep slate iron ore deep state lapis and you get the rest and i think

It looks really cool you know i have the actual regular textures here uh next to it just for quick comparison and you can see that the deep slate pretty much makes the aura look the exact same it just has a slightly darker background there’s also you know

The same normal sound effect for stone i’m not sure if you’ll be able to hear it in the video the deep slate has a slightly uh as mojing described it crunchier sound i kind of like the sound effect i think it sounds really cool it makes the block sound i don’t know

It makes it sound a little heavier i don’t know i think it sounds really cool but i really like these new textures i know a lot of people don’t like them but i don’t know let me know what you guys think down below about the textures i’m sure if enough

People you know show their support for or against the textures uh people will eventually you know get the memo and maybe people emoji will change them if a lot of people don’t like them or if a lot of people really like them i’m sure they’ll keep them

The same i’m at least glad they kept the diamond or texture the same just because diamond is such an iconic part of minecraft but overall i think i really like the new textures especially the new deep slate textures they look really good in the new caves and speaking of new

Caves we have some awesome new cave generation not only have they changed cave generation but they’ve added a new way caves can sort of spawn so i actually have you know this is the first seed i booted up in this snapshot i was really lucky but right here we have your typical

Normal ravine this looks you know very normal just like something in minecraft before the update looks totally normal but right here we actually have a new formation called a crack it is pretty much a very deep long crack in the earth a lot thinner than a ravine as you can see

Most of this is only one or two blocks thick but it goes down very far if we jump down here the view is absolutely amazing now right now i do have full bright turned on this isn’t what the caves normally look like normally they are a lot darker i do have

Fulbright turned on but if we look at our y level here we’re at negative y level 20 and here we have you know some of the deep slate diamonds the deep slate gold here we have some of the normal gold inside these tough blocks here as you

Can see we have the deep slate just surrounded everywhere but actually you know i thought diamonds were going to be a bit more rare but if i was to come up in a cave like this i’m actually seeing quite a few diamonds and i think these caves just look absolutely phenomenal as we

Can see maybe this is just a glitch here we have a random piece of normal lapis in the deep slate but i don’t know i think these caves look absolutely awesome now again take in mind that uh they’re gonna be a lot darker but there’s a lot of really cool things to

See here obviously we can see more fossils this is really cool because we don’t get to see fossils too often in minecraft there’s another fossil right over there we can look around these caves are really cool the lava will help add some light and if we just

Fly through here we can see that some of these caves are just super massive i mean this cave like goes for hundreds and hundreds of blocks and covers a very large vast area all the way you know from a very high y level

To a very low y level now to sort of go along with that they’ve also made further tweaks to what y levels certain ores spawn at so we’ll take a second to look at that but really quick i just want to show off what these caves look like

With normal brightness levels so here’s normal you know minecraft as bright as it can be i did turn up my gamma to about a hundred which makes pretty much permanent fulbright but this is how the caves will normally look so as you can see you know

You can still see a decent amount you know not everything’s super hard to see especially if you’re around lava but if you’re far away from a lava pool things can be pretty hard to see i mean i can’t really see much at least they have added this new glow-like and i

Really like it i like that it adds a very small amount of light not a lot of light but just a little bit it gives caves that you know really eerie feel which i think minecraft really wants to capture and actually i’m a huge fan of it i

Think this is really cool i still think caves are a tiny bit too dark especially for someone like me who’s a youtuber youtube tends to make videos a tiny bit darker than they are so i don’t really want to have to up the brightness on my game to

You know higher than it naturally would be i think they should just add new ways for caves to be a little bit brighter maybe make glow like in a tiny bit brighter or maybe they can add some glowing oars or other things that produce light but anyways we also have over here

One of the new mine shafts now all mine shafts will now be supported by fences or by chains no mine shafts will be floating and mine shafts just look a tiny bit better i’m sure they’ll get more updates in the future but for now they look pretty much the

Same now before we finish off this video let’s go really fast check out the snapshot page and look at where the new ores spawn so here we are on the snapshot update page the snapshot just came out and it might be hard to find so i’ll link it down below in case you

Want to check it out it talks about everything there is in the snapshot and then right here we have the actual new or a distribution chart actually it says click here for a full image let’s do this let’s see oh here this is a lot better than the picture i was going to

Use but uh here we have minecraft 1.16 which is pretty much where ore generation has always been we can see the y levels for coal iron diamonds lapis gold and also depending on how thick or thin these bars are it kind of shows the prevalence of these ores and how likely they respond

Obviously we have diamonds from y0 to y16 gold from y0 to about y level 30 you know we have iron gold coal all that stuff but here if i zoom out just a little bit more get the full image here we can see that they have drastically changed what y level or

Spawn at here’s iron here’s iron again here’s iron again here’s redstone here’s lapis here’s gold i think when they have these bars next to this triangle it just means at these specific negative y levels there’s a much more redstone spawning per chunk here we have you know emeralds all that stuff and what

Actually i like about this is diamonds now spawn at a greater y level depth so here we have they do start at y level 16 just like before but they go all the way down to y level negative 64 which i think is pretty crazy uh definitely in those

Big caves that’s why we saw a lot and a lot of um diamonds but i don’t know there are some things here we see like lapis says no air exposure reduced air exposure reduced air exposure smaller blobs i think the no air exposure next to the normal thing just kind of

Means that this is the prevalence for lapis to spawn inside actual blocks not inside caves where they’re exposed to air and this triangle right here may be where lapis would be exposed to air so for example in game this would be the lapis that is actually exposed to air so

The prevalence of this to spawn and then if we were digging through the ground this would be the lapis not exposed to air but anyways guys that’s all for this snapshot video i know this was a smaller snapshot but i’m still really enjoying it and i hope

Next week will be a bigger snapshot i’m really curious though what do you guys think of these snapshots particularly this one what do you think of the new textures and what do you think of the new cracks in the earth i think they’re really cool ravines we’re starting to get a little boring

You know they’ve been in minecraft for a while but these cracks are insane also we can just look here starting at y65 let’s go down this crack we can end at y level negative 33 so these cracks go insanely deep and obviously just look absolutely insane to mine through and look through

I’m super excited to start a survival series in these 1.17 snapshots or in the 1.17 release just to actually do some caving through these caves and to see what kind of ores we can get what kind of riches we can get to see if mining is easier see if it’s

Harder all that stuff but anyways like i said let me know what you guys think down in the comments below because i’m genuinely curious just to see the community’s reaction but that’s all for this video if you enjoyed and found it helpful please consider liking the video and subscribing on the channel

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