Swimming Bird – Minecraft 1.3 Snapshot: HUGE Biomes, Cocoa Bean Pods, New Sub-Biomes, & Cookies for Everyone!

Hey guys it’s adam ak swimming bird and we’re back again for another snapshot it is May tenth 2012 and this is snapshot 12w 19a and what the heck are those weird pumpkin gourd things behind me well i’m going to show you that’s one of the new features there’s only a handful

In this new snapshot but they’re pretty cool these are cocoa bean pods you can find cocoa bean pods in generated jungles it won’t grow on jungle trees that you spawn but this is the new way to get cocoa beans we’re not going to break jungle leaves any more like in the

Last snapshot so you plant these just basically by taking cocoa beans and clicking on the tree and there you go we got a little cocoa bean pod they start out as little pale green ones then they go to yellow and then finally these kind

Of big we just saw one grow they go into these big pumpkin II look in ones and when you break them the little ones will give you one the medium ones it could be two and the big ones I’ll give you three so this is going to be a very easy way

To get cocoa beans for brown sheep and also for cookies cookies you craft those obviously with the too full to eat sorry and the one cocoa bean but they give you eight and this is kind of a good watermelon alternative if you don’t have any watermelon seeds cookies will now

Restore one hunger icon one little meek shank for you so they’re pretty good source of food but yeah I think they look kind of cool and if you look over here I set up a little something-something we’re at the top there this row right here are Pistons

And then there’s also a bit of glow stone between them having a hard time flying just because I’m trying to record that op defined as always they see there’s a this is a little design i saw on reddit that they use the glowstone and because it can travel through

Pistons which I’ve used before it and some stuff but uh it will go through and kind of illuminate these little gourds as you can see here and they look pretty cool they’re a little brighter than these ones and they give off a little dim light like my mushrooms too but I don’t know

If they’re going to keep that in or not so yeah that’s kind of a cool little like chandelier design you can do or you can make sconces and so there other than just their normal function they can be used for decoration so what else is new well they did fix chesil spawning in

When you create a new world with chest but they also put torches around them so it’s a lot easier to find these because new players might not even see this chest if it generates in a weird spot so I’ve got all the standard stuff in there

You know I’ve got a few things in my inventory just from finding a village but if you look around me we have a huge ocean biome and that’s because ocean bottoms are huge normally but I’m also on the new large bio map which generates huge versions of biomes thousands and

Thousands of blocks long at times so I’m going to go over here and grab a few of the maps i made this cocoa plant here if you use the pic block command and creative on the cocoa plants you get this little block to place and i believe

It’s a full-grown cocoa plant here it looks a little odd but then o nosso makes a small one but it’s kind of strange it does the exact same thing as if you put a cocoa bean on there so but yeah we’re going to go over here and I

Will grab the maps that I made to show you guys that I made a couple maps just to kind of show they vary they really don’t do the large biomes justice now this is where we spawned here and this is all ocean but then if you look over

There there is a kind of some bits of a desert but then also a taiga biome started and then I went over and kind of mapped around there’s a little village up in the upper left you can see the brown and one red dot towards the top a

Little is some lava but yeah most of this is all snow this isn’t that much larger than the biomes that we have now it’s still pretty huge but i have seen pictures of like deserts and other will pretty much every biome that has spanned thousands and thousands of blocks so

This is if you want a world that doesn’t have a lot of like desert than snow and you know abrupt changes although this one still has a little bit of that but if you want a world where you can live in like a one biome and have a huge area

For that biome like a giant forest then this is the map type for you the only problem is oceans which I’m not a huge fan of because there’s not really much to do out in the oceans they will generate even bigger than they already are you know but it’s still pretty cool

You can make some some awesome giant worlds and it’s going to make materials harder to find because if you wanted to get a material from one specific volume you’d have to travel a lot to find it we have these new large bio maps you can create when you make a new world you

Select that instead of like normal or super flat and you can make them one other thing here they change though they are the tooltips the hieroglyphic which is actually misspelled sandstone here is actually called chiseled sandstone now and now this detailed stone brick is called chiseled stone brick but most of

Other than these new things the cocoa beans the large biomes there’s also sub biomes which I’m going to try to show you some clips of theirs desert hills now there’s ice mountains which sound cool and they are they’re kind of it’s basically both of those are like giant

Hills that are in those biomes now so it just kind of diversifies deserts and you know snow stuff so they’re not as flat as maybe they would be normally but those are cool i’m going to try get some clips for that at the end here after so

Keep watching and some other stuff that they got changed was mainly just fixes they’ve fixed a lot of stuff like the end and the nether working again enchantment all the stuff that worked before that got broken one single and multiplayer were combined have been fixed again mainly for the most part so

Yeah they’re still working on that that’s why there’s not too many features right now that have been added but i really like these cocoa beans and the way you get them now are pretty cool we could have another thing to farm basically and the large biomes definitely I I think that’s a really

Cool way to make a world map but yeah other than that stay tuned I’m going to get some clips of the desert hills and hopefully the ice mountains if I can find them and that’s pretty much it for this week thanks for watching guys leave a comment and all that stuff and a

Rating if you have the time but i’ll see you guys next week well after i do these little clip I’ll be back so thank you guys so much for watching and I’ll see you then here’s one of those desert hills of biomes they definitely get a lot bigger

Than this I’ve seen bigger this one’s a bit better it’s a little bigger and these seem to be pretty common in deserts now I’ve found a bunch of them this one’s a bit more piled high than the others that’s why you don’t want to put your spruce forest next to your

Desert as you can see in the upper corner this is technically ice mountains but not getting too big of a hill here so I’m going to keep looking see if we can find something more impressive but also one thing I forgot to mention too was that with bigger deserts that means

There is going to be more villages generated more often according to the developer dinner bone so yeah that’ll be pretty cool let’s keep searching for another Ice Mountain alright we got some weirdness going on here where the strip doesn’t have snow but turn around and there we are this is what I’m talking

About these are the ice mountains basically just extreme Hills with snow on them but still cool any diversity and volumes like this i really like you don’t see the ice Plains as much because i know that for a while there they weren’t put in the code right or

Something where only Tyga’s would spawn and not explain so it’s good to see these getting some new features and one last thing before i go i forgot to mention it but you’ll notice that the the little cocoa bean texture here has changed it used to look like a pile of

Poop but now it just kind of looks like little scatterings so there you go mr. pig leaving those behind as he walks all right on that note thanks for watching guys I really appreciate you guys tuning in every week what I do this and I’ll see you next time hopefully some more

Cool stuff to come in 1.3 goodbye