Peakier Peaks, Better Swamps, and More! | Minecraft 1.18 Experimental Snapshot 5

This is experimental snapshot 3 and this is experimental snapshot 4. well experimental snapshot 5 is out and we’re going to be taking a look at what it looks like right now and you notice there’s an ocean monument right behind me ah so they said that they’ve kind of fixed

Things well let’s take a look oh there’s the mountain it’s it’s a looking pretty tall but well a lot has changed as you can see there is no more stony peaks it’s all snow-capped peaks which is interesting if we go up here we have of course can

See that this has become very very jagged and in fact that is one of the things that has changed the mountains have become more jagged but how tall is this mountain i’ve determined that the peak is right here before we had a 256 block tall mountain it was 240 in

In the snapshot number four this is snapshot number five and we are at if i can not slide over we’re at 240. it’s not taller again but it does look a lot more jagged that’s for sure i mean let’s look what is this it looks like we have a new cave

Entrance yeah it looks like it okay we still have this crater appearance i’m i guess i’m i’m fine with this it does look a lot more more jagged more mountainy you know but it’s still shorter than it was in experimental snapshot 3. and a few other changes i’ve noticed around

Here is the savannah has shrunk a lot we’ve got meadow over here once again and it looks like the plains has increased in size so you can see that is meadows just look at the color of the grass it has shrunk and that is planes and we still do have that snow there

So not a huge amount has changed but it is interesting to see how the changes are coming about but i want to see if i can find some other changes around this world now i’m back over by spawn now in experimental snapshot 3 i spawned in a

Swamp and this was a fairly flat area now we’ve got mountains and we’ve got some fairly sharp cliffs which is interesting but swamps are a thing that have been tweaked a bit so swamps are less coastal although we’ve got it right here it’s along the coast but it’s not supposed to go right

Out into the ocean any longer and this swamp is actually a pretty good size pretty nice but yeah it is somewhat coastal it looks like also we used to have some shattered terrain right here it’s been brought down it’s no longer shattered it looks more like it’s extreme hills but yeah no more

Shattered there but we got shattered terrain over there uh one thing that they mentioned is a lot of the shattered terrain is being toned down especially along the coast where it’ll be replaced by some beach areas another thing they’ve done is made swamps a little bit deeper as you can see right here

And the trees can also grow in deeper water now look at this one right here you can see this one’s in two block deep water so it is growing at a deeper depth and that kind of reminds me of mangroves really i think that is looking pretty good because

You got the deeper depth and also the integration with rivers is improved if i can find a river that would be great i don’t believe this is a river i think this is an aquifer or some kind of i don’t know could be a ravine but um we got floating blocks of gravel

I don’t think this is supposed to be intended um but yeah this looks like a ravine in in in the swamp and it’s it is definitely flooded which is good i like that uh but one thing uh with the floating blocks there was an issue in snapshot number i

Believe it was number four with the uh floating red sand in badlands well that’s apparently been fixed now as has floating calcite speaking of shattered terrain this certainly does not look like a beach now this looks very very shattered and very very irregular looking lakes have been reduced uh so we will

Should not see them in hot dry biomes like savannah badlands and desert this is a river actually this is not a lake and the badlands are supposed to be a little bit smaller on average but uh they say not to worry there’s still huge badlands now this is an interesting village here

It’s kind of got a mix of red sand and regular sand but yeah it’s a desert village all right but i i saw something over here that looks really interesting we got some Fairly big badlands uh mountains areas looks like a big valley here and i’m always interested in seeing these valleys i’m wondering if this is a river because if it is oh we got huge caves in here too this is a river that’s a very strange looking river right

Let’s see what we’ve got here it is it is a river it doesn’t look like a river to me it looks like a lake because there’s no river shape here is there huh and anyways uh let’s take a look in here because this is looking a little interesting they have added springs

So you can see well added more spring so you can have a lot more water coming out of various blocks and it will look uh very interesting in mountains because you’ll have streams now this is an incredible cave oh i love this we got this local water level here and then waterfalls go

Even deeper down that is that is amazing oh this is a massive cave system ah hello uh creeper kind of stuck there but this is odd this is a huge just huge lava lake with lava falls coming down here i wonder if this was ever intended to generate like this minecraft devs henrik

This is normal this is crazy this is amazing but this this whole cave system is massive and we’ve got more hanging uh oh god we got this again we got so many freaking chains through here let’s just quickly look at it in uh with night vision because this is massive humongous

And this is a big drip stone cave it keeps on going it goes on in that direction for quite a long distance so yeah this is the big the big lake down there we entered somewhere up there but if we go this way i just want to take a look here um

It’s it’s great to find things like this and i think it does help a lot of the devs with with the generation but um it’d be nice to find lush caves because their uh lush caves have uh they now have springs so that is nice so water springs of course

But yeah this cave system just keeps going and going wow but most of the stuff that we want to see is above ground not underground speaking of drip stone caves the cave entrances will now be less grassy and more stoney uh although this is a terrible example here because well

This isn’t a grassy bile and the jungle edge biome is back for now isn’t that beautiful i love this grass color getting back to the rivers the depth and the banks have been tweaked a bit so it’s not as deep and it’s not as steep

But it’ll it’ll be a lot more natural so you can see here this is a fairly decent looking river gets a little narrow here and then comes and wow becomes quite large are there other rivers coming through here just wondering if this is a lake or is it just a big you know

They always call them rivers but this is actually an entrance to a cave what is this this is a river okay i guess they just call it rivers but it looks more like a lake doesn’t it back to our original mountain i just want to look at the springs aspect so

These water springs they just come right out of the mountain here and this one seems to just stop right there yeah it does stop but that’s that’s a limitation with the water physics in the game i’ve got another one here this one seems to come out comes out of one spot

Right in there and uh sorry we got a bit of lag here because you know it does lag quite a bit and it comes down splits and then it stops right there that again looks kind of weird oh but that’s neat that’s neat it goes through there and out here

I guess uh one thing that you can do is fix this up and make it look like it’s going all the way down to the water down here i guess that’s something that you can do but yeah it would be nice if they could actually go all the way

But i’m not sure if that would even be possible in the code of minecraft oh and uh floaty snow we don’t just have floaty gravel we got floaty snow here i’m really loving the work that the developers are doing to make this even better i love that we’ve got these

Jagged mountains now it’s so much more difficult to climb and it’s really it’s a lot more realistic and we don’t have these plateaus that are cut off at 260 at least here uh but i would love i i think i would prefer these mountains to be up to 260 wouldn’t you

I’m kind of missing a snapshot three in that case oh and yeah this one doesn’t have any calcite over there anymore oh i guess we’ll have to find some other place to find some stony peaks but i’d like you to let me know in the comment section below what you think of

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