Breaking Down The New Minecraft 1.18 Mountain Biomes!

Hi everybody with first week beasts here it’s me shawn evans welcome back to another episode of hot ones surely you’ve heard by now minecraft 1.18 a preview is out and it has new mountains and these mountains oh man these mountains have views like really really good views these new mountains

Also have five separate biomes in today’s video we’re gonna talk all about the biomes in this one i’ll be going over everything that you need to know about the new mountain bombs from the meadow to the peaks i’ve got a couple of ideas i’ll talk about those too

And fun fact subscribing to this channel it’s great for your health before we break it down buy one by biome let’s talk about the mountains in general there are a couple things that we should get out of the way first things first experimental uh this update is definitely not even in snapshots yet

This is an experimental snapshot which means all of this stuff could change if you’re watching this video in like october yeah it might be wrong sorry about that these mountains are amazing they’re so good looking i found a good seed showing off every single biome i’ll show the seed off

Later once we actually start checking out the biomes we’re gonna go buy one by biome talk about the biomes some characteristics of them and then a few ideas that i had too these new mountain biomes and the mountains in general are amazing they look so good they’re they’re just they’re amazing

There are five biomes that make up the mountains the grove the meadow the lofty peaks the snow-capped peaks and the snowy slopes bomb we’re going to talk about all of them with the release of this experimental snapshot finally for their first time ever these mountains can actually be

Experienced on both bedrock and java today we’ll be experiencing them on java oh they’re pretty similar on both versions of the game but there are some minor differences this video is focused on java edition so uh these mountains generate with a base biome the base bomb is either going

To be the plane’s mount the desert bomb the forest the jungle the ocean or the snowy tundra uh this is a java thing i i think and i understand it but i don’t like it’s really really strange so over here we have a plane’s bomb right there clearly

Then we have a mountain like the plane goes up the mountain and then the mountain bombs start which is kind of uh strange but i think that’s how it works then we have a forest over here and mountains again i’m not sure if i’m interpreting that right

But that’s what it is but here’s the weird one uh we have flower forest we have birch forest i don’t know if that just counts as the forest and then that’s a river actually technically dark oak and a jungle but then we still have a mountain here so not sure

How that generation is actually working bottoms are really weird right now so maybe it works somehow but but yeah this 1.18 preview pack is amazing though generation has been completely changed uh there are five mountain biomes but because of how generation works now you could have mountains that are like

Other biome suits so we have the flower forest biome in here it looks like amazing with the waterfalls in there different aquifers yeah it’s so cool looking and if you can find one uh kind of like this one right here you might be looking at some of the

Coolest generation ever like this is amazing when it comes to minecraft biomes these five mountain bombs are all actually insanely unique these are the first biomes to require certain y levels to generate now today i’m going to throw out some numbers at you i got them from the

Minecraft wiki they seem incorrect at best sometimes but there are y-heights with these bottoms biome number one is going to be the meadow this is the lowest mountain bomb that you should be able to find the metal biome generates in between y-100 and y-140 this is what a metal looks like it’s

Literally like a peaceful meadow i see why they called it that it does make sense uh in the metal biome you’re gonna find a bunch of flower dead bush is a pretty common characteristic this cold grass tone and really not much else it’s just a really really peaceful feel

When these things lead up to a big giant mountain it is like amazing looking but sometimes they won’t now over here we have terra cotta in here uh it’s just because of the weird generation there’s not a terracotta metal biome same with the trees over there the trees

Actually shouldn’t be here meadows don’t have trees but yeah uh generation can get weird so that’s what’s up from my experience the meadow can have snow sometimes but usually it doesn’t the snow in here is actually uh not even the metal bomb this is the gravelly mountains bomb the meadow is over here

Where the snow isn’t like i said weird generation check that out mineshaft on the surface i don’t even know this is another meadow over here this time instead of the allium flowers it has poppies from what i’ve experienced on java the metal flower type can vary

On java it should be able to be any of the small flowers other than tulips the lilies of the valley and wither roses you will also uh consistently it seems always find dead bushes here dead bushes uh it was the only one but dead bushes the grass is usually exposed

In the meadow biome uh the grass color in tone is pretty similar to the tiger bomb or the old mountain biome in my opinion as you can see over here we have a plane sunflower plane a whole lot warmer uh colder in the meadow two final things

About the meadow so right now there isn’t any tree generation in here but one tree that i feel really would fit well here birch trees but not like a lot like like a few like a birch tree every once in a while kind of like an oak tree and a plane spell

I feel like it might kind of match the vibe and also uh the vibe so peaceful and calming like this meadow in particular because it’s kind of flat like this would be a great building spot like as it is pretty good view from up here and if it had like a

Taller mountain in the background this kind of does almost it would be an even better view i like the metal bomb it’s a nice bomb it’s very similar to the plains biome but a little bit more hilly and a whole lot more flowers you’ll be able to find

The next mountain biome the grove at about the same y level as the meadow the grove starts a little bit higher about y110 and goes up to y140 however uh like i said earlier these numbers are not always accurate because check this out a 72

And we’re in a grove biome now this is what the grove looks like a very very familiar looking biome to be honest this is the bottom that i’m least excited about when it comes to the mountain biomes there are some cool new characteristics we’ll talk about in a

Second but uh to be honest i feel like i’ve seen this biome for years in the game it’s just not exciting anymore it’s like tiger trees with snow on top snow on the ground snow all over the place uh maybe a little bit more hilly than before

Yeah it’s a mountain grove bomb not that exciting to me but it is here unlike the meadow you should be able to find some life in this bomb rabbits and polar bears will spawn here not a good combo together but yeah life i will say the one thing

That makes this biome a little bit more interesting spices it up a bit from the other snowy tiger biomes powder snow you’ll be able to find powdered snow generating in the grove the patches of powders known this biome seem infrequent they’re not insanely common from my experience

And they’re also usually not that deep at all like a block maybe two blocks uh powder stone gets a little bit deeper higher up which i really like but yeah it is something to watch out for in the spine i really like the powder snow on this place i feel like

The powder snow saves it kind of it makes the vial more interesting one big idea that i have for this bottom to make it way more interesting is uh change the tree type a little bit maybe more spruce trees like this in this bottom instead of like these ones

I said it in a different video i feel like it’s a nice idea it’s a good way to make this bottom a little bit more interesting looking because i mean let’s be honest right now like this is so familiar looking and it’s just kind of like i don’t know i’m

Kind of tired of it at this point now before we move on to the other three mountain biomes your mountain might stop at the grove or at the meadow depending on what you have so check this mountain out right here uh yeah it doesn’t really look like a mountain but apparently it is

And it stops at the group from what i’ve been seeing if the mountain can actually break past the grove for the metal biome it should have at least two more bombs but not always so yeah if you find a mountain that is just a group or a meadow the mountain just isn’t big

Enough you’re gonna have to find a different mountain for the other biomes and uh yeah again generation completely changed you might end up with a mountain with no mountain bombs at all basically like just a forest or a birch forest it’s pretty weird kind of confusing

But at the same time it’s amazing like it’s so cool just like this mountain so here’s the world seed these are the coordinates this is the perfect mountain this mountain actually has every single biome on it on the other side it has the grove over here we have a very very small

Metal but it is technically a meadow in this meadow we have corn flowers and dandelions all over the place but yeah gigantic mountain range in here with every single mountain bomb look there’s another growth biome right there yeah it’s got everything the apparent y levels of the next biome the snowy slopes biome

Are between y140 and y170 which is wrong just completely wrong this is 87 right here uh yeah and it’s the snowy slope spine so the snowy slopes biome is exactly what it sounds like slopes that are snowy uh check out this mountain right here definitely slopey absolutely snowy

Snowy slopes the snowy slopes is a cool biome it has a lot of snow snow is going to be the main thing that you can find here but you can also find ice here too if you’re in love with powder snow snowy slopes is the place for you by far

It starts in the grove but in the snowy slopes biome this is where it gets for real like really really deep like check this out in here if i keep moving around it’s probably because of the slope uh the powder snow though it gets like really really deep

Definitely dangerous at some point so so watch out for this stuff up here you see that right there that’s a minecraft 1.17 goat goats actually spawn in the snowy slope spike in terms of ideas for the snowy slopes biome really i don’t have any uh big props to

The devs i think this bottom is really thought out doesn’t need to be too much it isn’t too much it’s literally slopes that are snowy perfect so a mountain usually starts at a base biome then it’ll move up into a meadow or a grove it won’t always because generation is

Kind of weird right now but but usually that’s how it happens after that you’ll have snowy slopes and then after that you’ll have one of the next two biomes the next two bombs are the peak biomes now usually uh and i stress usually usually you will have one or the

Other if the generation works correctly which is really weird right now so it doesn’t always you’ll have either the lofty peaks or the snow-capped peaks we were just talking about snowy slopes so let’s talk about lofty peaks next the bottoms are so similar aside from a minor temperature difference the only difference between

The snowy slopes and the lofty peaks are no goats in the lofty peaks they don’t spawn here and no powder snow in the lofty peaks doesn’t generate here but that doesn’t mean you should stop caring about powder so you have to be careful for sure because if a patch of this stuff

Generates like right on the border it sometimes can actually cross into the lofty peaks bio but if it’s entirely a lofty peaks bomb you’re good when it comes to powder snow like up here lofty peaks we’re good now this mountain peaks at 162 according to the wiki the lofty peak

Starts at about 170 uh clearly not the case here the lofty peaks is a simple biome tons of snow lots of stone so no layers it’s a mountain peak okay let’s be honest it’s not even a competition at all the better peak biome is a snow-capped peaks biome ironically snow-capped peaks isn’t about

Snow instead it’s about packed ice snow-capped peaks are amazing by far the best mountain bomb i saved the best for last of course look at this place packed ice all over the place uh crazy generation yeah yeah yeah it’s not even look at room portal 2 i mean come on

It’s not even a competition the snow-capped peaks with all of the packed ice hands down the best mountain biome and the best way to end the mountains for sure like look at this place up close it looks amazing and from a distance it looks beautiful with the ice

Up at the top of the thing blending into the sky like that’s some impressive looking stuff right there now the snow capped peaks same thing y 170 doesn’t always happen like that that’s definitely not 170 up there even though it does look tall and oh man oh man all of this packed ice

Up here it’s so cool looking now the peak of this mountain right here the snow capped peaks 161 so it’s the same as that peak over there basically but this time there’s ice so it’s not the same at all it’s so much better looking the only idea that i have for the

Snow-capped peaks is maybe a little bit of blue ice in here as well uh sometimes there could be gigantic batches of packed eyes which is fine it does look good it’s completely different but i feel like maybe if the mountain gets tall enough and only if it gets tall enough

A little bit of blue ice could be kind of cool too this biome looks so good like already snow and stone it’s a really nice combination i think it looks good but look at the side of this thing because of the layers of ice too you have the stone layer then you have

The ice layer uh then you have the snow layer on top of it it looks so good i can’t stop saying it because it’s true this place looks amazing i mean how can you look at this thing and not think that it looks so good if i’m gonna make a mountain base

100 it’s got to be in the snow-capped peaks the meadow is really peaceful and nice snowy slopes it’s a simple place it’s beautiful we don’t talk about the groves lofty peaks is cool but come on come on snow capped peaks when we’re talking about a minecraft mountain update uh let’s be honest this

Is the mountain update that we’re talking about ice mountains like that like in the background like that’s amazing the perfect backdrop the perfect base location snow-capped peaks the superior peak biome not even close the best mountain biome those are the five new mountain biomes and how they

Work right now which one is your favorite there is one correct answer let me know down below uh now i want to wrap this video up with uh a reminder that this is all like subjective change it’s so experimental uh look at this so we have the river right here

Then the stone shore of course of course and then we have the ocean right there yeah generation is so weird right now maybe those y levels will actually become like adjusted and correct at one point uh maybe not maybe they’ll all change generation is weird right now and when we’re talking about generation

We just have to remember that it could change like what even is this i i don’t even know what’s going on here it’s so weird today huge thank you to bill geek and bill w thank you both so much for the support snow-capped peaks gang is big

Brain thank you all for watching hope you enjoyed like subscribe links in the description i’ll see you next time in the next episode of hot ones You