Minecraft 1.17 Snapshots | STUNNING Cave Generation! | February 2021

Hello everyone this is ollie creates and uh as you guys might know minecraft is my favorite video game and today i’m very excited to talk about some of the snapshots from minecraft 1.17 now i’ve been playing minecraft java a lot more recently and uh part of that is because i’m getting very

Excited to uh you know start playing on my on my pc that i’m still building now the pc is not finished yet and so for that reason i cannot give you guys any actual game footage today of the new snapshots and that’s why i’m instead doing a slideshow but i was

Playing some job edition recently and i took some screenshots with the of some of the features of the new minecraft 1.17 snapshot and they’re really exciting and really cool and i can’t wait to show you guys them i’m gonna go through each photo and just explain what what each one is and

What the feature is and you know just give a little context for each one and i hope you guys enjoy this video and yeah let’s get into these pictures so for anyone that does not keep up with minecraft news or minecraft snapshots the 1.17 update is coming out in

Summer of 2021 and it’s going to be the 1.17 the caves and cliffs update now it’s going to be updating cave generation and mountain generation slash hills generation it’s adding some new features such as greater world depth and greater world height things like that and some of

These things are going to be showcased in these following photos so for the first one right here we have one of these amazing new caves now as you can you can clearly see the stalactites in it the slag tights and the slag mites the caves are some of the caves are very

Massive they’re still retaining some of the older cave shapes uh the small spaghetti shaped ones but this is one of the huge caverns that i found and the the generation is just incredible as you can see there’s that really cool waterfall coming down from the ceiling and uh there’s the ore generation at

This point is still kind of messed up so you can see like diamond ore generating on the walls not at very particular depths but uh this is one of the new caves that you’ll see uh by the way there’s so much variation in the caves uh you’re not

You might not find any caves that look specifically like this one but you’ll find some things that are very similar have some uh similar designs and things like that so and then this next one this is an amethyst geode so this is one of the new generated structures that’s coming to

Minecraft in the caves and cliffs update these are actually pretty common right now but this is how you get amethyst which is uh the crystal that you can use to craft the uh spyglass which we’ll get into later and the only way to collect it is from these budding amethyst sources as you

Can see the budding amethyst are the ones that have little x’s on them that’s where the amethyst grows off of and that’s where you can collect it now it’s made of three new blocks uh the well i mean there’s three main new blocks that these are made out of so

You have the tough on the outside and then the calcite was the white layer in the middle and then the inside are the amethyst blocks themselves and like i said i don’t think you can collect them uh you can only grow amethyst on the source blocks themselves but that’s how

You get it this is an underwater cave now these are actually pretty common as well in the new snapshots uh these are like i said they’re very common and it’s gonna be interesting to do some cave diving and stuff in these and maybe some underwater mining i think

It’d be really cool to go in these caves with uh some water breathing potions and just check it out and i have a couple pictures of underwater caves here’s another one this one’s in a swamp biome as you can see and so because it’s in a swamp biome

That’s that the water is all yellow and murky and it’s swampy you know uh there’s other it also appears there’s a magma block right over there that’s where the bubbles are coming from but uh this one is another massive cave and i’ll i might have some pictures of

Smaller caves in here i’ll make sure to show you guys those if i do have them uh and here’s another picture of the same thing as you can see more diamond or generating on the side it’s it’s weird generation uh and here we have another underwater cave

Now this one is just a bit a bit of a different shape it kind of goes down it’s pretty deep and like i said the world generation has changed so the depth of the world is greater the depth of the world has actually been doubled and uh when you go really deep you’re

Gonna find some grimstone which is the uh kind of denser form of stone and i’ll get into that later we’ll talk about that later once i get to it you can also see some a new block called glow lichen which is on the side now glow lichen does glow and it is a

New block that is kind of a small very dim light source in caves it’s very interesting and yeah again or generation is messed up but we’ll get to that later this one is a really cool underwater cave that i found i thought it was really interesting this generation because you

Kind of have a two you have a fork there’s a large fork in it where to one side it goes deeper and then the other side it kind of rises and it looks like the surface might be there some of these caves are actually accessible from the surface and you can

Also see them there’s there’s copper ore uh some kind of oxidized copper ore on the side there which is a new ore that’s in this uh in this new uh update and you can use it for some certain things that i will show you later here’s another underwater cave not

Much to explain here and then i also turned off night vision for this one just to give you the effect of how dark these caves are so as you can see pretty terrifying when you do when you do have the water off when you have the night vision off

Um and then here’s another one with the night vision off here is another cave with the night vision off this is one of those huge stalactite caves and there’s aquifers that you’re in right now which are these large underwater lakes and underwater pools uh again my render sense was kind of low

Which is why you can see that there is some cave fog which i do think looks pretty cool combined with these stalactites and the stalagmites this one is even cooler and set own game mode of spectator mode i guess you can see that right there here you can really see the uh detail

That goes into the cave generation now with the uh huge stink hanging slag tights and slide mites and next we have uh another one this is this one had a huge underwater pool in it i thought this one was really cool looking uh this isn’t this was an

Example of an aquifer this one is a huge this is a huge aquifer and i like how there’s kind of like a little stone pathway that allows you to traverse across the surface of the river there’s a little almost natural rock bridge i think it’s pretty cool another one

Here these all have night vision on this one had some cool waterfalls and some more cool slag tights and you can see some mobs down there not not much else to see here aside from that okay so this is a new feature that i was talking about this is the spy

Glass this is what you can craft uh with copper and amethyst and it allows you to essentially telescope in hone in on certain things you can also see some other things in my hotbar that i will explain in a second so this is the view from the spyglass when

You’re zoomed in it allows you to basically pier you can peer through the spyglass and see things that are farther away and it’s overall a really really cool feature uh and the uh you know a little the little interface inside the uh peephole is really really cool looking

Uh and then here’s me holding a bundle this bundle actually had an elytra in it i think i’m wearing an elite right now but uh this bundle i believe had an elytra in it and that’s why it’s full uh you can see it’s a brown bundle it’s a new feature

That’s coming i don’t remember how you craft it i think it’s with a rabbit hide so finally giving a use to rabbit hide pretty cool and then there’s another view of the bundle so this is copper now this copper is completely oxidized and you can copper is a mostly a decoration block uh

You can mine it and then smelt it and you can get ingots and then you can craft blocks out of it now copper does tarnish over time as you guys know real life copper does oxidize over time and you can prevent it from oxidizing if you

Uh wax it which is if you use beeswax to wax it in minecraft and uh this one is not waxed so this is a bunch of very tarnished copper it’s like the same thing if you live in the united states or you know even if you don’t live in the united states you

Might know the statue of liberty is made out of copper and it’s very green it used to be you know the color of copper now it’s it’s very green oxidized and next to me you can see some uh candles which are another new feature that’s coming which is just made of

Beeswax and string nice little feature they do look cool the copper is very cool and here is a okay that one that one actually i didn’t get the lightning striking on it but here is lightning striking a lightning rod a lightning rod is a copper item copper-based item that you

Can now craft in the new in the new update that uh basically redirects any lightning uh that’s near that strikes near your house or wherever you’re and there’s a certain this in in the vicinity of the lightning rod uh any lightning will be redirected to strike the lightning rod so it kind of

It just i guess it could protect your house from being struck by lightning or anything like that now these are the skulk sensors the skulk sensors are these these blue fungal growths that grow in the deep dark which is basically the super dark cave the super dark depths of the world

Uh where you get to the negative y values because like i said the world depth has been uh doubled and these are essentially wireless redstone they do they do detect sound so if you walk near them without crouching they will light up and they will emit a wireless redstone signal

Uh that can trigger redstone uh near them so it’s they’re really cool they basically have this this cool sound effect and this is me standing in some powder snow which is another new feature you can see there’s a bucket of powder snow in my hot bar at this moment

You can only get it in bucket form you cannot get the blocks themselves but you can place it or you can step in it and you will begin to freeze to death and that’s how we get this little uh the little snowy frozen icons on uh well

You know your the screen kind of closes and your fov gets decreased and you have these sort of snow effects on all sides of your screen and uh yeah i’ll talk about that a little bit i think i have a feature a picture of me with uh

You know like with the my hearts which your heart your hearts turn blue if you step in it for too long and you will begin to freeze to death and you’ll lose hearts this is one of the largest caves i’ve ever seen this is why i want to put this up here

Uh it’s just incredible you got some huge waterfalls some huge uh you get some huge kind of sinkholes and some almost like under under uh underground mountains and just incredible generation i wanted to feature this one as well and then here’s a creeper me and my little creeper friend and we’re standing

Looking at these stalactites that didn’t really render improperly uh admittedly but again really interesting generation very lots of variation in the underground uh generation and i’m really excited for this to come to the main game and here is me with some axolotls and i feel like i should clear this up

What axolotls actually are not everyone knows i don’t think so axolotls are these salamanders they’re essentially salamanders that do not pupate they’re also known as mexican walking fishes extremely uh endangered species if you will and they are native to like a single lake in mexico however

Uh lum lumbering or mining or some sort of industry i think silver mining near that lake has caused them to go to near extinction and most of them live in captivity nowadays but they are a incredible uh creature that has a natural ability to regenerate limbs and that’s why they’re often

The subject of many scientific studies and as you can see i’m pictured here with them i’m pictured with about nine or so uh in this little you know uh water lake in ice biome it’s actually starting to freeze uh that water is starting to freeze it froze pretty soon after

But the axolotls are your friends in minecraft and you can befriend them if you will and they will help you attack other creatures like guardians and whatnot and yeah they’re pretty hardy and this is me demonstrating the new height limit which is 320 blocks so the world limit uh the depth

Uh increased so by 64 and then the height also increased by 64. so essentially the height limit increased by 50 and the depth limit increased by hundred percent this is me demonstrating the height limit which is now 320 blocks and i do it with drip stone because why not show

Off another new block and hit two birds with one stone get it okay whatever i’m gonna move on from that so now this is just me saying hey i hope you’re all as pumped as i am for the 1.17 update uh and i was that was going to be the

Last picture uh just me next to this huge ice spike bomb that was really pretty but then i was like another snapshot came out so after i took that screenshot another snapshot came out and this one introduced uh some of the new ore textures and one of the coolest parts is the the

Deep dark so uh in the new in the new 1.17 update when you go when you travel to where bedrock would have originally been that’s that’ll become y level zero and below level zero that’s when uh you get to the negative y levels and at the negative y levels

Uh instead of stone the walls are composed of grimstone which is a it’s a denser form of stone it takes longer to mine don’t know too much about it right now um there’s it has all its polished forms and steps and you know chiseled and it has all its different forms of any

That any other stone would have in the game but uh and here’s me standing next to the junction where uh you can see above me is the normal stone and then below me is the deep dark or grimstone and uh this is a really cool transition zone i would say

And i’m holding a trident because tridents look really cool sorry if you could hear a bunch of people yelling in the background my brothers are playing a video game right now and they’re going crazy with it uh this is these are the new ore textures as you

Can see they did change the ore textures now i believe this was to uh this was for accessibility reasons to help colorblind people be able to differentiate between the different ores because originally they are just uh they just all had the same texture but with different colors but now they actually have different

Distinct textures so as you can see gold changed iron changed redstone changed coal changed diamond did not change uh neither did emerald or lapis lazuli i believe and there’s some more grim stone there again i was thinking i think i was near another transition zone from stone to grimstone

And then this is the last picture this is me with some of the new blocks from the lush caves so as you can see i’m standing on top some moss and there’s also some drip leaves next to me and then some azalea plants now

The way it’ll work uh in the in the full release of the update is when you’re up top on the surface if you run into a azalea cave you will see or if you run into an azalea tree i’m sorry you will be able to dig underneath it and find a

Lush cave underneath it so it’s a really cool uh mechanic and all in all these blocks are really pretty i should also mention that you can bone meal moss and it will grow more moss around it’ll actually replace some of the stone blocks near it which is another very interesting

Feature and it kind of i think it might allow you to break bedrock not too sure about that yet but we’ll see in the future so those are all the pictures i would call it my 1.17 snapshot slideshow well i hope you guys enjoyed this quick little video that i’m calling a

Minecraft 1.17 update snapshot slideshow a lot of words uh it was this was really fun to make i love playing with new snapshots and stuff and i promise as soon as i finish building my pc i will be able to bring you guys some more uh mod content and snapshot content that’s

All available on the java version of minecraft but not the bedrock edition uh and the thing that’s mainly holding me back right now is just graphics cards gpus are in high demand right now and it’s hard to get i have everything else but just not the

Gpu yet uh so anyways hope you guys enjoyed this video and i cannot wait to bring you guys more videos and i will see you all for the next video in a week or so whenever whenever that might be and yeah goodbye thank you you