Trydar – Minecraft Mountain Update – my new biome ideas for the 1.17 Caves and Cliffs update

Hello my name is trider and today i want to give you my thoughts on the upcoming caves and cliffs update because as you no doubt saw mojang is going to be adding a cave update finally but however all the information i’ve seen is like 99 cave and like one screenshot for the mountains

And as a terraformer myself i have a few things to say about that so i’m going to hop around my world here and give you a tour of mountain biomes and everything i have already constructed that i would like to see added in some form to the game so the first

Biome here are your traditional mountains we have our a greystone here with patches of darker in my texture pack and a site around here we also have heavy snow and realistic terraforming and textures up here for the mountain peaks themselves as you can see the snow of course gathers in

The lower regions and the steeper ones are of course free of snow but depending on how you sculpt these you can get these to come out in very interesting and nice shapes and actually based on what we’ve seen the screenshot that was posted doesn’t actually look too far off from this so i

Am very hopeful that they will be able to do something similar to all the terraforming here that i did by hand in world painter to finally give us a realistic mountains and mountain ranges because as you can see one of the things i hope they do with these mountains is

Just not make them isolated peaks of course those would be nice to have like a lonely mountain biome but i would really like to have a big expansive mountain ranges like this that we can build uh bases and cities in now the next biome i would like to see are the frozen tundra

Type mountains sort of like the tiger biomes we already have but colder and of course with mountains i think if these were added it would give us a nice sort of a skyrim biome up here which would be very nice to have if you like to build in a viking style

The next biome i would like to see are of course the ice mountains and i would make these mountains primarily out of diorite with patches of normal stone and andesite because that when paired with the layered snow behind us here gives us a very nice effect

And of course around those i would also add some frozen trees made entirely of ice they’re sort of like a nice spikes biome but instead the spikes are trees it would also be nice if the ice mountains themselves were extra tall and vertical having these sheer faces and everything so you could

Have a nice place to put a base straight into a cliff wall up there and have it be relatively protected from all of the surrounding terrain i would also like to see some sort of ice cliff biome as you can see i have a rendition of

That behind me these are my polar ice caps i think a biome that has some sheer walls of ice with at the top there some sort of ice planes on the top of it giving a flat area up there to build on would be a very nice addition and over

Here you can see a bit of a contrast we of course have a frozen ocean biome but we have our polar ice caps up here but if this is too tall we could have something a little bit shorter and have the ice planes hanging down over these sheer cliffs that fall into

The water here and of course on top of those i would expect that we would have an ice plains biome perhaps something similar to this around here another type of mountain biome i would like to have are the red mountains these are of course made of mostly

Granite in contrast with the diorite ice mountains and their texture with patches of normal stone and andesite and i think these would be in warmer biomes like the jungle area and i would think they would be too warm to have snow form on them so they would just be

Sheer peaks of red mountain rock possibly covered with vegetation at the top instead of snow because if we’re going to be getting new mountain land forms it would also be nice if we got new mountain materials on them as well and i think having some red granite mountains around the

Jungle biomes would be a nice addition to have to the game to break up the terrain around those areas a bit more another biome i would like to see would be the impact crater biome the existing mesa textures can be used to create sort of layers in the

Ground here that were scoured out by the asteroid impact and we can also have in the middle of some of them a little uh mountain peak that comes up as well we could have lakes in the bottom of it also uh this one would be kind of a wild card

Outlier but i personally think having something like an impact crater biome would be really neat another obvious candidate for mountain biomes would be the desert mountain biome which are of course covered with sand instead of snow and i can imagine the desert mountains being either a variant of the biome of the red

Granite mountains or they could be grave mountains also or they could be a mixture of both might look nice as well i imagine these sorts of mountains would be a bit lower in elevation being more eroded and of course not having any snow covering them and

As an aside it would be also quite nice if we had gotten some palm trees that we could have in these types of biomes also so we could have like a nile river a biome that would cut through a flat expansive desert another biome i would like to see

Are the mushroom islands being redone to add mountains to them as well so instead of snow on the tops of the mountains they can be covered with mycelium instead and while they were added it would also be nice if they would update the mushrooms themselves a little to

Redo them a bit like they did with the biomes in the nether that would be pretty cool i think but if they just ended up keeping these standard mushrooms and adding mountains to the mushroom islands i think it would be a pretty good change another type of nether biome i would

Like to see them have would be the nether mountains as you can see behind me here the sort of a piece of the nether that has poked up through the surface and has all kinds of nether features with a lava lake so we even have some lava waterfalls coming out of the active

Volcano behind me there and i think it would be an excellent addition to add since they have just done the nether update since we’re going to be having new mountains i think it’s only right that we have an active volcano with a big lava river spilling out of it and on the

Top for this my idea is that is of course not covered with snow but it is instead covered with volcanic ash that being a netherrack and soul sand and maybe a bit of obsidian although maybe not the obsidian perhaps some a basalt and black stone would look nice there instead of that

But i would also imagine some spikes with magma blocks and everything as well and related to the lava biomes i would also expect that we would have extinct volcanoes as well that is volcanoes that were formerly active but currently no longer spill out water and have a nice little

Caldera lake down there in the center where the lava pool used to be something else i hope to see added on the cliffs portion of the update are going to be waterfalls like you see behind me here especially when they would be attached to lakes or rivers i think these would be

An excellent addition to have to the game so then hopefully you could make use of them by boating down a river here and then you would meet a waterfall and then fall down into the lake below also something else i would expect to see on the cliffs is to have them be eroded

When they meet the ocean because that way it would be quite nice if we could have these nice rock spikes and everything coming off of sheer cliffs falling into the ocean and have some spikes and islands out here be a very nice biome to put a seaside base in

And finally the last type of mountain i would like to see added are the mountainous islands and the idea is that in large bodies of water we would have uh mountainous islands here and there perhaps uh entire island chains with mountains covered with palm trees and lush

Vegetation be a really nice place to make a base so this concludes my suggestions for the caves and cliffs update it’s just sort of my personal wish list of all the terrain types i wish they would consider adding to the game but if they don’t then that’s fine you

Can always terraform your world to be exactly how you want it anyway so thank you very much for watching and i will see you next time You