Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w07a Grimstone & New Ore Generation

Last week’s snapshot was one of the biggest in minecraft history the world height was increased the world depth was increased and caves were transformed forever however in this one it’s changing all over again and we can expect that from snapshot to snapshot there are going to be tons of tweaks and changes

To the way that things generate underground as moyang listen to the community and get feedback but in this snapshot you can see not only are there changes there are new blocks as well so welcome back to another minecraft update video it is snapshot21w07a and if my audio sounds slightly echoey

I’m currently redoing my recording studio so it is what it is let’s talk about this new block that’s been added we’ve seen it generating in the bottom of the world it is known as grimstone and it can be turned into some of these variants over here we have polished grimstone

Grimstone bricks and something a little new over here grimstone tiles and finally chiseled grimstone now the first four of those can then be crafted into slabs stairs and walls and when it comes to crafting i’m not sure if all of the recipes has been added yet if we search for grim

Inside of here you can see that polish grimstone has a recipe soda’s chiseled as well but the tiles and the bricks don’t appear in here even though you can see that you can craft the slabs and the stairs for example and it’s kind of the same dealio

Here inside of the stone cutter you can make the bricks for example but the regular grimstone it only converts into chiseled grimstone so it’s my guess that we’ll probably see those recipes added in a future snapshot and as far as i can tell these are your regular building blocks with no special

Properties they can be moved by pistons and the regular texture actually has a bit of a bug when you move it you can see the texture kind of jitters for a moment and this reminds me that there’s no rotation with any of these textures you can’t rotate them to

A different axis which i’m not sure is a good or a bad thing i kind of feel like with the polished ones and tiles if i were building i’d want to be able to rotate this and i was kind of expecting some cool new sounds when you walk on them because

This game has a lot of great sound design going on but nothing so far they can also be waterlogged as you might suspect but other than that there’s not too much else to say about it actually that’s not true there are a couple more things to

Mention first of all when it comes to crafting this is interchangeable with the other types of stone like cobble and black stone and so for crafting basic tools and furnaces and brewing stands you can use this new material and when it comes to mining it’s ever so slightly harder to mine than regular

Stone so it takes a little bit longer as you can see though those variants are actually easier to mine and this means if you had efficiency 5 and a haste beacon you would be able to instant mine a couple types of these so grimstone is the new block that

Generates in place of stone at the bottom of the world you first see it at y equals minus one and then for about eight blocks down it becomes more and more common creating a bit of a gradual transition with stone and also with this change you’re going to find that during

Granite and dirt no longer generate down at this level interestingly the one other texture that does is andersite and of those materials andesite is probably the most popular one for building so it makes sense that you’d be able to find this one proportionately more than the other stone variants and in the

Patch notes it does say that they’ve tweaked the size and positioning of dury andesite and granite generation and from my experience they seem to be larger blobs more spherical in shape that now generate in the typical sorts of places maybe even a little bit more common as well but the general thing

Seems to be that they are bigger patches and yes you might have noticed it so i’ll say it the all textures are different and we will get to that very soon first of all i just want to mention that everything will look a little different from how it was last time because there

Are changes to the way these new cave types generate the huge caves are going to be rarer they’re not as frequent as they were last time and there’s less chance of them being filled up with water and in my experience having flown around in spectator mode trying to get a feel

For how these caves now generate the more traditional minecraft style caves seem to generate closer to the surface and then as you head further down that’s where you find the big underwater lakes and giant caves which i think makes a lot of sense as you go further down

In the world the challenge changes the terrain becomes different and so far it’s all looking pretty good now before we continue i quickly want to say that according to youtube a lot of you watching aren’t subscribed and if you’re enjoying these snapshot videos you want to stay up to date

You know what i’m going to tell you to do right hit that subscribe button and also take in the view i’ve just lit this up with some torches and i gotta say the grimstone it’s pretty grim yeah that that was that was too easy and a quick note before we do continue

When you see it like this the grimstone actually fits in pretty well it’s dark and gloomy down here exploring this in survival placing your torches will feel a little more menacing and once you’re using night vision that effect immediately goes away and the texture doesn’t look quite as

Natural i got to say this almost looks like some sort of puffed cobblestone more than it does look like a natural rocky texture but of course everything is up for change and maybe we’ll see this texture change too so how about those ore texture changes

On the left we have the ores that have remained unchanged and on the right we have the new ones for coal redstone iron and gold they are no longer uniform with the classic diamond texture this one’s been chosen as the one to be preserved because diamonds are kind of classic

Right and so the idea here is that the game can be more accessible if you’re able to distinguish the alls not just on color alone which i think is a smart move and i like now how each and every one of these are unique from one another

Now i’m sure some of you would have noticed that these ores don’t fit in with grimstone very well and hemrick has tweeted out a confirmation that mo young actually working on this jasper is coming up with textures for the blocks that will appear at the bottom of the world with the grimstone

This probably means that for some of the all blocks there’s going to be two types of them so not only are the textures changing but the way the all generates in the world is changing too and i found this cave down here at the very bottom of the world and i realized

If you chug a night vision potion in survival you’ll probably spot quite a few diamonds nice and easy as they generate more commonly the further you go down in the world but for this we actually have some visualization from mowing themselves so let’s go and check out

How alls are now going to generate in this snapshot now as you can see here it says not final so things are subject to change and we need to understand what exactly is we’re looking at here so as it says here the height of these blocks of color

Show us where in the world we’re going to find that particular ore and the width is how common it is so the narrower it is like diamonds the less common it is to find at these levels and you can see over here we have emerald gold copper iron redstone diamond and lapis

And for some reason coal wasn’t included on the list but this is how things used to generate in 1.16 and so this tells us how alls are going to generate in this snapshot and something really important to pay attention to is how iron emerald and coal

Generate this high up in the world this is why 256 and remember this is the caves and cliffs update i think this might just be a sneak preview as what’s to come cliffs might go as high as this because ores can generate and this used to be the old world limit

So it kind of makes sense if you go to the top of a mountain that you’ll be able to build on top of it so this might just be a confirmation that mountains are going to get really big in 1.17 now if we focus on what’s going on down

The bottom here gold can generate from 96 to zero and iron will be from 80 to -16 and in the middle of that range is where they will be most common so at 32 for iron at 48 for gold and i probably corrected myself with an annotation there that is actually copper

Gold is over on this side and it can generate all the way down to the bottom of the world but is most common at -16. now lapis actually has two charts here it’s got from 32 to -32 and then it’s got this one here which is buried and i believe that means that

There’ll be some lapis generating that you won’t see on the surface like of a cave i’m just reading into that a little bit though anyway if we focus on diamond and redstone you can see it’s business as usual from 16 to zero but then the lower down into the world

You go they become more and more common so if you go branch mining down at the very bottom of the world you are far more likely to find diamonds and that’s based on the assumption that this width is comparable to that width over there right it might not be but anyway none of

This is final mojang will be taking feedback from the community and changing things from snapshot to snapshot and so mojang added a note saying they wanted to add more strategy to mining so if you think about how there are optimal levels for different materials then you go to a different height to

Obtain those rather than just sort of mining at one level to get everything however the drawback to that is that then you have to split your time going to different locations in the world but it seems like the odds generate more abundantly at those different levels so

It might end up balancing itself out anyway what do you think of these changes leave a comment down below also i’m calling it now we’re gonna get cliffs that go as high as y256 what do you think do you agree am i right i think mo young might have given

It away with that chart they shared with us there are a few more changes to talk about this snapshot and this is a great example this stronghold here is now surrounded by stone blocks so notice how the caves around it actually get cut off

And if you played this game a lot like i have often you can find strongholds with like a ravine running through the middle of it which i actually think was kind of a good thing but maybe it kind of broke the strongholds in some regard but anyway the change now

Is that they will be surrounded by solid blocks and a change to mine shafts if you watch the last video you’ll be aware of the log support beams there are now going to be chains that actually hang from the ceiling to hold these up i think that is a really nice detail

That fits in ever so easily and inside of the creative menu the redstone tab has been reordered mojang described this as having the essentials first then the unique activators miscellaneous common activators and openables at the very end there is also a patch note that says that blackstone polished blackstone and cracked polished

Blackstone bricks have had a minor texture touch up i’m not sure i can really spot anything here i think if anything the textures are slightly softer than before when it comes to bugs they were just free worth mentioning the beacon beam will now extend up beyond 256 blocks from

Its source so up here at the top of the world you’ll be able to see your beacon beam and beyond also with your game rule for players sleeping percentage set to zero just right clicking on a bed would uh skip the night you now see that you do actually have to

Sleep in the bed to pass the night it’s also been noted as a bug that vines stop generating with jungles on the side of leave blocks up the top here i’m not sure if reintroducing that is the best of ideas also i couldn’t help but notice over here there’s now like vines generating

On the sides of the blocks they’ll just simply spread and grow over time so although it looks cool now they’ll end up looking a bit odd at some point and this third bunk was related to how vines generate in jungle bombs i don’t know if this right here is different but

Apparently they didn’t generate on the edge of blocks when i went into the hermitcraft world and found that they were generating on the edge of blocks so i’m not really sure what that was about but anyway that’s it from me this snapshot video if you enjoyed it leave a

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