Minecraft’s Mountain Era Is Getting Revamped With Five New Biomes

The newest Minecraft developments have principally centered on the ‘caves’ aspect of the Caves and Cliffs update, but now we’re finally getting some extra cliff motion - or reasonably, a big revamp to how mountains get generated, with the addition of 5 new sub biomes to spice up your tall, rocky terrain.

The latest Bedrock Version beta introduces five new mountain sub biomes, referred to as lofty peaks, snow capped peaks, snowy slopes, mountain grove, and mountain meadow. These will work alongside the present mountain sorts to create a extra assorted collection of alpine places to discover. minecraft servers look impressive within the official picture above, but scroll down a bit to see a fan-made comparison of recent and old mountains. It’s a massive change.

While this can be a Bedrock beta, these adjustments should come to Java as well - as the Java snapshots have given us early appears to be like at options like deepslate, glow squids, and the new ore textures, it appears like Bedrock beta players are getting their very own early appears to be like at some new features, too. (This replace, by the way, also provides glow squids and the ore textures to the Bedrock beta.)

You can get full patch notes on Reddit, and a better look at the brand new mountains on the official site.

Old Extreme Hills vs New 1.17 Mountains (Bedrock Version Beta) from Minecraft

The Minecraft 1.17 launch date is coming this summer. You can find a lot more detail on what to expect at that link.