NEW Cave Generation OVERHAUL is Breathtaking! Minecraft 1.17 Caves and Cliffs Snapshot 21w06a

Hey what’s going on folks paulie jr here and welcome to minecraft java edition latest snapshot this is uh 21w06a that landed on february 11th 2021 and i’m recording this one day later so yeah a day late dollar short story of my life but better nathan lever right that’s

What they say so let’s jump in and have a look at this it shows off the new cave generation as it stands currently it’s still in development so it’s not going to be perfect apparently some of the uh the caves are flooded right now because of the new water generation underground

Which looks and sounds really really cool but it’s still a little buggy so some of these caves are going to be flooded but anyway let’s jump in and have a look caves are cool let’s use that seed right there if you guys want to follow along you certainly can gives a cool

All right let’s go the default we’re going to do a well let’s go to creative mode because we want to give ourselves some night vision and we can fly around we’ll probably slip into spectator mode actually to cut right through the earth to find these new caves because i think they’re going be

Uh difficult to locate without cheating so let’s uh let’s create a new world and check it out oh boy so excited so excited indeed okay great looking seed uh we’re here on the edge of a desert and a river and apparently we now have um more blocks to play with up and down

64 more blocks up 64 more blocks down so we’re gonna be able to go down to like y uh the y coordinate there which you can see where sea level right here 64 is sea level and then we can go all the way down now to negative 64.

So zero was roughly where you’d bump into we’re gonna have to slip into spectator mode to get through here um yeah so zero y zero used to be where you’d run into bedrock right and here’s about where you start finding diamonds and all the uh expensive ores and that kind of thing

But now we’re going to be able to go even lower lower and lower how low can you go i don’t know bat you tell me down here and here we go negative 33 even and we’re in a cave right here and we’re gonna have to slip back into

Let’s go back whoops no no no let’s go back into creative mode and give ourselves some night vision eight minutes of night vision should be enough drink it down and here we are this is a cave um i don’t think this is one of the new

Caves so let’s let’s see if we can find one of the big new caves they’re supposed to be enormous and beautiful um we’re not gonna get the new biomes yet that is something that’s not in this particular snapshot but we’re gonna at least be able to see the formation of the caves

And their general their general formation and structure let’s go back to spectator mode i keep messing this up i’m a survivor man you know i don’t do this creative inspectation stuff it’s cheating but we’re gonna need it to find what we’re looking for so let’s go up a little higher here

Wow check it out this is really cool look at the amethyst nodes well i’ve got one here but it’s flooded that’s going to be fixed it’s going to be fixed in the future we want to find one that’s not flooded here we go here we go oh

Oh yeah this is nice let’s get rid of that menu there it’s not bad this isn’t a an enormous cave but you can see the the open uh the open architecture here very very nice i like it so we’re gonna have underwater underground lakes underground water that will lead to some very interesting

Designs and check it out you can see the diamonds right there yeah that’s one of the benefits of this having these huge wide open caves you’ve got more surface space to find ores now it’s my understanding that the ore generation under zero isn’t working properly right now and where are we right now

Yeah we’re negative 20. so this this might change um according to what they said on twitter the developers had mentioned that the old generation will change they say or placement will change i don’t know what that means but it remains to be seen we’ll find out but

It’s going to be awesome to come down here and look for ores especially diamonds you don’t have to get into branch mining and all that other nonsense you’ll be able to see it right in the walls and then get it the old school style way which is the way i prefer it

Frankly all right check it out this just keeps going and going and going so apparently there’s two different kinds of these new they call them noise caves based on the development process it’s not because they’re noisy there’s two kinds one’s like a spaghetti design and i think this one might be

More of the spaghetti design so there’s like tunnels more long um branching tunnels like this one and then the other one is going to be more open like a big piece of swiss cheese is what they’re saying at least on the reddit um changelog notes that somebody posted up on reddit rather

And that’s what i’m basing all my information on and i’ll put that link down below and you can check it out yeah this this might seem more like the big swiss cheese one right with big holes stamped in it and then the other one’s more like spaghetti

The of course the old generation is still available um so we’re going to run into old old style caves too mixed in with the new style caves and they will of course intersect sometimes so that you can follow the old school caves into the new school caves

And it’s going to be glorious oh i love it i especially love the underground water so they’re using uh something called an aquifier and i guess that’s kind of like a local independent water source with water level like an independent water level um so we can have these under underground lakes

And that’s going to be fantastic for building and uh getting creative down here making i don’t know docks with boats and that kind of thing so this is not a huge cave i’ve seen larger and some pictures so let’s um let’s go look around a little bit more

And see what else we can find this one’s very nice but i have seen better okay here’s another example this one’s flooded obviously because the water generation isn’t working properly i mean i know there’s going to be some caves with water in them look at all the diamonds that’s driving me crazy

Um but they’re not all going to be flooded like this or not many of them i’m sure there will be some flooded but not all of these are supposed to be flooded right now but they are because of the the way the generation works the aquafire generation which isn’t working perfectly

Just yet so these will hopefully be drained and you’ll be able to uh walk around down here and do your spelunking as usual so this is giving us a pretty good idea of how spelunking is going to be it’s going to be going to be pretty difficult i mean

These are big big caverns laying them up is going to be a challenge you know the typical old caves were easy to light up because they were more narrow and you could put torches on your right or your left and easy to find your way out just follow

The torches out on the opposite side right you know the old one side rule the torch on one side rule um losing my lost my night vision there we go um yeah so what was i saying i don’t remember i’m just so excited oh yeah navigating navigating these caves is gonna be a

Challenge let’s find a non-flooded can’t do it in this mode we’re gonna go to spectator mode there we go um let’s see if we can find one that’s not flooded oh man look at this one this one is beautiful it goes on and on forever we’ve got waterfalls and lava falls and big

Wide caves and look at this water flowing down here here comes the lava yeah yeah navigating these are really going to be difficult but fun it’s going to be a challenge and that’s what we like right as survivors we like a little challenge whoop get back up there

Let’s see how far this thing goes and man the oars are just insane they’re everywhere diamonds uh diamonds look at this diamonds like i said that is going to change i don’t know how they’re going to change it but they did they did actually mention that on twitter oh what’s down here

Let’s follow the lava to a little lake oh look at this under water oh hey buddy how are we doing i tried punching him and now i’ve become the uh the drowned okay i don’t want to spectate you anymore that’s pretty funny so yeah we’ll be able to navigate underwater here

Too i’m gonna need some kind of water breathing or other means of getting around down there yeah this is really really nice look how high it goes too wow yeah one fall from up here and it’s kitens so again navigating these is going to be quite a challenge

And i’m very much looking forward to it hey creeps we have this new like in here too which is actually uh glows in the dark does provide a little bit of light here’s one a bunch of spiders or diamonds this one seems really really deep let’s

See how deep we are yeah negative 58 we’re practically at the end ah end of the world this is really low ceiling here yeah there’s the bedrock push down another 64 blocks more diamonds everywhere just amazing look at that get a little claustrophobic under there let’s go to the higher ceiling oh check

This out this is a great example of the aquafire thingamabob that they’re using to generate underground bodies of water at independent levels so we’ve got one right here obviously and that level is right there about negative 22 23 and then this one down here that generates independently of that one at negative

28. really really nice i love it this would be a fantastic place for a little house right with that little plateau with water there water down there got a little water flowing down from above and then this over here as well wow it’s beautiful yeah the possibilities are endless it’s

Going to be amazing once the biomes are uh are generating too because obviously right now there are no biomes here it’s just the structural generation they’re showing off but yeah look at that that is just really really sweet i’m loving it can’t wait how high does

This thing go it’s water flowing all the way down from up here i am just blown away by this i can’t wait to get started on a let’s play a survival let’s play underground we’re gonna do an underground living series and uh i don’t know if we’re gonna start underground but we’re

Definitely gonna end up underground and try to survive down here it’s gonna be a glorious i can’t wait but i do want to wait until the the whole thing is done i don’t know if i want to start during the snapshots because they’re going to get tweaked i’m just

Blown away by this little terrace of water here and you can actually get through by going underneath where the water meets that is really very well done oh check this out look at this water flowing down this seems to be like one of these spaghetti caves they were describing in the

Changelog notes doesn’t it it’s more of a tunnel a very wide tunnel that just goes on and on and twists and turns it’s like a giant worm tunnel through here diamonds everywhere amazing i love it and it just keeps going on and on and on let’s go up this way

And see where it ends if it ever does and oh yeah check it out doesn’t really end it just opens up into another massive cavern with lava and mine shaft isn’t that amazing wow and check this out so the mine shafts now have these uh oak pillars holding them up the

Uh the platforms right so that’s something new i’m not sure how else the mine shafts have changed but that is really nice i mean look how high these columns are of course they’re going to burn anytime now wow i love it look how far this thing goes down okay i just lost my

Night vision and i want to show the caves off in their natural lighting state so check it out this is how dark they’re going to be and this one actually has a lot of lava so it’s adding quite a bit of brightness to it but if you’re down here and you don’t

Have night vision it’s going to be really difficult to see so not only is it going to be a challenge and maneuvering and navigating around these caves but lighting them up and keeping the monsters at bay is going to add to the challenge and that will be glorious let’s go back

Down to that cave over here with all that lava so when you find a cave with lava it’s going to be nice because it’s lighting it up for you you don’t have to do as much work wow yeah they’re really dark huh although these uh this like in here does provide a tiny

Bit of light but maybe they need more liking because this is going to be impossible to light the stuff up without the lava or night vision they did a really nice job and i’m looking forward to the biomes being generated and the new mobs and

That kind of thing it’s going to be fun oh yeah here goes the column it’s burning all right so i think what we’ll do is call it quits here for now what i’d like to do is maybe do some exploring in survival mode but man you’re gonna have to get decked

Out before you come down here so maybe i’ll start up a little lp and we’ll do some exploring in survival mode and see how long we can survive at least the way they are now but obviously we’ll do a full let’s play um when the game is released fully

And it’s not a snapshot anymore but i don’t want to don’t really want to get too committed during the development because it changes it can change at any time and uh it’s going to be tweaked a lot and let’s get back to the cyphus oh it’s right here it’s not even that

Far so that cave right there wasn’t too deep all right and here we are back on the surface we have a village right here i’m gonna go rent a room for the night and we’ll catch up with you all in the next episode so let me know if

You want to see more of the caves snapshot and we’ll come up with some kind of a plan otherwise we’ll just wait until the next snapshot and see what else they throw in here i’m really hoping the biomes come in soon that we can start up an actual lp

All right well without my friends we’re gonna call it quits i hope you enjoyed have a nice day goodbye i’m gonna spectate as a bunny uh do something do something come on buddy do something i think this bunny’s a statue well let’s go spectate as a villager

Just what are you dreaming about here pal you can’t spectate a dreaming villager but i can spectate as a big frank on patrol scouting scanning the horizon looking for threats okay anyway that’s it for now hope you enjoyed we’ll see you next time have a good day bye [Applause] You