xisumavoid – Minecraft 1.17 The New Blocks Of The Caves & Cliffs Update [Minecraft Myth Busting 130]

These my friends are all of the new blocks and items added in the 1.17 update there certainly is a lot of them and that means that it’s time for some myth busting we got a whole bunch of new blocks to run through our tests and we’ll start with the classic

Does it spawn question however for this video i want to breeze through this part and just show you the results of all of my testing we’ve seen it many times before where we put the new blocks into darkness and then see if the mobs are able to spawn on top of them

Or not so let’s go ahead and see the results of this testing you can tell by the way that i’ve labeled these chests that they’re not able to spawn on candles this also includes candle cakes i made sure to test for that they can’t spawn on the amethyst

Crystals and because the glow like in emits light that prevents them from spawning anyway and this chest is full of the self-explanatory stuff because we’ve got blocks that aren’t a full block tinted glass is glass and and then we have other shaped blocks which they are simply unable to spawn on

And so as you might suspect all of the full-size blocks are in this chest but also the hanging roots and the spool blossom i actually put some blocks above to see if these would interact with the space mobs can spawn in at all and the answer is that they can’t so

Therefore mobs can spawn in hanging roots and spore blossoms and that leaves us with one curious block that doesn’t appear as a block in this chest it is powdered snow bucket and so the problem here is that we won’t get anything spawning on top of this powdered snow

But i believe that might have something to do with the biome that we’re in so what i’ve decided to do is create a flat world that has powder snow in it but also we’re going to set the biome here to snowy tandra and in this world at night time with night vision

You can see absolutely nothing is spawning here and now my friends i am starting to freeze and then again i’m in creative mode so it’s okay so this one was a curiosity for me because i’d seen a bug fix saying that they could in fact spawn on these

Powder snow blocks but we’ve seen that it is not so so anyway now we move on to the next thing and that is the beacon beam test to find out what blocks will let a beacon beam shine through it and once again i’ve gone ahead and actually done all of

This already every block has been placed one by one on top of the beacon beam and i’ve taken note of if it could shine through or not there is a couple of exceptions though i had to get creative of a couple of these placing hanging roots and spore blossom

Below the glass above and sometimes i’d have to get creative as you can’t place the block on top of the beacon i am indeed clicking but to get around this i just used a command to find out so all of the things in these chests are placeable with the beacon beam going

Through this one i found to be particularly curious i kind of expected it not to be able to go through and over on this side obviously all the other blocks however this one i found to be rather curious as regular glass lets the beacon beam through

Tinted glass not the same though and i reckon that is probably quite intentional and as is tradition i’ve added all the blocks that the beacon doesn’t shine through to this big old lump here you know these ideas are kind of outdated now back when we started the myth busting

World moyang didn’t tend to add a lot of blocks but now they do each update and areas look like this just look like a uh a complete mess but over on this side are all the ones that the beacon can go through and also the spore blossom like it

Spreads out its particle blocks so far it’s kind of messy i wish it was a little more contained anyway i’m getting distracted again so next i will simply say that if you’re enjoying the video then please do leave a like to support the channel and consider subscribing if you haven’t done

So already you’ve got another myth busting video coming out in the future for 1.17 before a new series starts on my channel so anyway subscribe and you’ll catch those videos so in this game enderman can pick up blocks and we want to know which ones and that’s why i

Built the enderman block picking up testing facility what a catchy name no but we used to have to painstakingly put down all the blocks and wait friend of them to pick them up but now there are actually tag lists in the game and the sad news is that this update

The tag list hasn’t changed so what is going on here then well that tag list i mentioned actually refers to another tag list that has been changed to include the moss block and rooted dirk so the endermen will be able to pick up these two and i

Believe at one point in development they are also able to pick up the azalea and the flowering azalea however those have now been removed from the tag list so they can’t pick up these ones and on the subject of tag lists it occurred to me that the

Dragon immune tag list might have been updated but it hasn’t but i don’t think i showed this last time around we did myth busting with the nether update and it turns out there were two added to this list so crying obsidian and respawn anchor can’t be destroyed by the ender dragon

And that means you can use them decoratively in this dimension and it makes me think it would be nice if moyang would add a few more blocks to this list right so you could decorate the area where you also fight the ender dragon so now it’s time for the classic

Instant mind test where i put down all of the new blocks and figure out what tools we can use to instantly mine them and this is how we used to do it my friends just rows upon rows of blocks but there are so many in the game now

That we’ve resorted to just bundling down piles of them and i’ve actually teared through a lot of the blocks already by finding out which ones can’t be instant mind with the efficiency five netherright pick and paste two this is the most that you can do in survival

And so all of the deep slate blocks all of the copper blocks slabs and stairs variants deep slate ores and these blocks here none of them can be instant mined in survival but there is one exception to this and that is the infested deep slate so what we do with

These tests is we pick out like a bunch of different tools to find out where the instant mine is for this one though i’m just gonna do it with the efficiency five near the right pick and as you can see we can insta mine it and then we’re getting attacked by the silverfish

And it is rather interesting to note that as soon as i lower this down to haste one that’s when we actually lose the instant mind ability on the infested deep slate and so like before after testing the blocks i’d simply write the result onto the signs so i’ve written down the first one

And now i’ve got a bunch more testing to do so i’ve added two blocks that can’t be instant mined the budding amethyst doesn’t even drop anything when you break it i was a little surprised by the moss block which brings us to the shovel rooted dirt will require efficiency free with just diamond

And also with diamond tools efficiency 4 for calisthe and tuft and then when it comes to these ones i find it interesting that it works with both diamond and netherite but it needs the same combination of efficiency and haste then we have powder snow which the shovel doesn’t actually make a difference to

I think you could say that bucket is the tool to instant mine it i don’t know if that counts as instant mine that’s more like creative speed for or breaking blocks but yes that would be the way to pick this one up so for these four blocks shears is the

Tool of choice no need for haste or anything like that there is just one difference between the two of them and that is with the azalea bushes you can actually just punch them to instant mine you don’t even need to use your tools and here’s another little fun fact you

Can’t actually place signs onto these blocks look if i right click on the top nothing happens if i click here it’s technically placing it off the side of the next sign so next we have the glow like in and all you need is efficiency 2 on your shears

You’re probably thinking about a farm in survival where you can just chuck it loads of shears crafted from your iron farm the haste effect doesn’t actually make a difference here which i find rather unusual so the moss carpet and drip stone leaf can’t be instant mined as well as the candle

There’s no tool for this it always breaks at the same speed regardless of haste or not then over here with the small drip leaf it’s actually instant by default with any tool and then the same goes for the hanging roots and the spool blossom and rather unsurprisingly the pointed

Drip stone has the same requirements as the drip stone block and same goes for the lightning rod which is made out of copper that can’t be instant mind and then you probably guessed it these are consistent with the mfs block but actually you’d be incorrect it requires haste to an efficiency 5

To instant mine all of the different buds that was a lot of blocks to get through but we’ve tested all of the ones added in 1.17 and we shall be doing that for this next test which will be one of my favorites where we see what blocks enderman can teleport to

This is bound to yield some derpy results but what i’ve done here is just picked out the ones i thought would be most interesting to test and that’s all of these and the one of these i think they are very likely to teleport to is the tinted glass but because it’s slightly

Different than regular glass i thought it would be worth checking out so if you haven’t seen this before this is how it works we create some endermen we put them in water to encourage them to teleport and look at that they may all make their way over so next up

We’ll do the flowering azalea there is grass directly below it and look at that they don’t want to go to it and no surprise to anyone the same is true of the regular azalea bush then we have moss carpets which they have no problem at all teleporting to

Now here we have a platform of the glow lighting block and what’s interesting about this one is that it’s not hacky it can actually kind of just sit out here in the open unsupported by anything when we give it a block date to a neighboring block they don’t all

Pop off but the question is can enderman teleport to it and i think the answer is a resounding no we’ve got some candles and for a second there i thought it teleported to it nope that looks like another one it won’t and how about with a full set of candles

So it has a bigger collision box still they don’t want to teleport here we are probably going to see the same result with the lightning rod right no they actually try and teleport to this one that’s brilliant look at that now this one will be interesting for

Two reasons one is that the drip leaf can actually just kind of hang out there and be a floaty block like it is the second one is that if they did teleport to this they would then moments later fall through which would have been really fun to see

But they didn’t teleport over so i had to get creative for this one i think that’ll work for a test something i’ve observed here though is that the drip leaf can have both a sort of random position within the block and also a random rotation although it seems to be that

One rotation is way more common than the other ones a curious observation but let’s now go and observe what happens with these endermen ah and yeah they’re not gonna teleport across now when it comes to the drip stone block it’s not gonna have water directly below it so they might actually

Teleport to the platform itself yeah that could be what’s happening here ah but if we use water logging again then our tests can be different so here we go yeah they’re gonna teleport to the pointed drip stone interesting and that leaves us with one more test which will be my favorite the

Powder snow i think it’s gonna be so funny if they teleport into it and then sink through ah but they’re not even gonna teleport i’m gonna have to force the issue yeah i was really hoping they’d teleport over here and then just drop through oh well and that my friends brings us to

The end of another wonderful episode of myth busting if you have enjoyed it be sure to leave a like and check out the videos linked on your end screen if you want some more myth-busting action that is it from me and i’ll see you in the next one my friends bye-bye