Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 2:38 PM
Minecraft Snapshot 21w08a
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In this snapshot, our new beloved stone type has suffered a grim fate and has been renamed to Deepslate. How mysterious!
Changes in 21w08a
- Tweaked cave sizes further
- Canyon and cave carvers now apply below y=0
- Cracks can now be found carved into the ground
- Grimstone has been changed into Deepslate
- Added Deepslate ores
- The distribution of ores has been further tweaked
- Andesite no longer generates under y=0
- Tuff now sometimes generates under y=0
- The Tuff layer of amethyst geodes has been replaced with now a new type of stone called Smooth Basalt
- Smooth basalt is now obtained from smelting basalt
- Another round of tweaking has been done to the new textures of ores and blackstone
- Emerald and Lapis Lazuli ore textures have had some touch ups
- Mineshafts now once again generate in the open air in caves
- Particles now appear in the air around spore blossoms
- Slime blocks and honey blocks have been moved to the redstone tab of the creative inventory
Deepslate
- Grimstone is now called Deepslate
- Deepslate now has a top texture, and a new block called Cobbled Deepslate drops from Deepslate
- The cobbled variant is the same but without the top texture, and is used to craft all Deepslate variants instead
- Deepslate now has a unique set of sounds! Very crunchy indeed
Deepslate ores
- Added Deepslate versions of iron, gold, lapis, redstone and diamond ores that generate wherever those ores replace Deepslate
- Twice as tough to mine as normal ores
Ore Distribution Tweaks
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