Since the start of 2021, players have been eagerly waiting for the new mountain and cave biomes. As Mojang had announced earlier, the Minecraft Caves & Cliffs update part 1 came out on June 8th.
Sadly, the update was not that exciting because the most interesting features announced at Minecraft Live 2020 were not part of it.
The update was divided into two different segments to release all the new features as smoothly as possible. Even though the 1.17 update did not have many exciting features, some useful items and blocks such as spyglass, tinted glass, and dripstone were added to the game.
Minecraft 1.18 Caves & Cliffs update part-2
Release date
Sadly, no specific date of release of the Caves & Cliffs part 2 update has been revealed. However, in one of their articles, Mojang announced that the update would arrive in late 2021.
Minecrafters are expecting the update to be released during the winter holidays.
Main features of the 1.18 update
There are alot of new updates, coming in Minecraft new update (1.18) In which the main features are following:-)
1.Caves And Mountain (New Biome)
2.Sculk (New Block)
3. New Mob (Warden)
Cave and mountain biomes
Lush caves biome next to dripstone caves (Image via Minecraft)
Three new cave biomes are making their way to the game through the 1.18 update. These biomes are lush caves, dripstone caves, and the deep dark. Apart from biomes, new noise cave generations are also coming in the update, named cheese, spaghetti, and noodle.
The world height is being increased both upwards and downwards. The maximum height that the player can build will be Y 320, and the world will generate downwards till Y -64. Caves will generate as low as level -59, and mountains can reach up to Y level 260.
Six new sub biomes of the mountains will also be added: mountain meadows, lofty peaks, snowy slopes, snow-capped peaks, mountain groves, and stony peaks.
Sculk New Block
Sculk sensor (Image via Minecraft)
Sculks are mysterious blocks growing in the deep dark cave biomes. Sculk sensors are sculk blocks currently present in the 1.17 version and can be obtained using the "/give" command.
The sculk sensors are redstone blocks that can detect vibrations and emit redstone signals. These vibrations could be anything, such as a player's footsteps or a block being placed.
A new mob called the Warden is going to be introduced in the update. The Warden will be the first-ever blind mob in the game, but it can detect vibration like the sculk sensors.
They will be hostile towards players and are expected to be found in the deep dark caves
Warden (New Mob)
The Warden is an upcoming hostile mob in the 1.17 - Caves and Cliffs update. The Warden will be the first blind mob to be added to Minecraft. Instead of following the player normally, it uses the sculk-like sensors on its head to detect vibrations.
A good defense to use in order to avoid fighting the Warden is to sneak or throw projectiles such as snowballs or arrows to distract it, which was shown during the Minecraft Live 2020 event. It was shown in the reveal that the Warden will be attracted to projectiles that produce a sound. However, fighting the Warden is not recommended, as it does a lot of damage. Mojang developers also stated that this mob is not meant to be fought, but rather is meant to scare players.
The Warden seems like it gets faster when attacked, and it deals so much damage that it can kill a player wearing full netherite armor in two hits (any weaker armor or no armor will result in the player being killed in 1 hit).
The Warden won't hear the player if the they sneak past it, but if the player attacks it enough, it will lock onto them and won't get distracted by other noises. At this point, it will begin charging at the player significantly faster than before.
If a player gets near to it or tries to attack it with poison, wither, or other similar status effects, then the warden will still attack the player.
Its heartbeat is audible as well as visible, and the more it is attacked, the stronger it gets, and the stronger it gets, the more its soul-filled heart flashes.
Snapshots and other details
Snapshots are testing versions of the game released before every major update. Once released, gamers can try out the upcoming features and report any glitches in the game.
Mojang has announced that normal snapshots for version 1.18 will be released somewhere around September. For now, players can test some of the world generation changes in the experimental snapshots and beta versions of Minecraft