Minecrafts Newest Snapshot Comes With A Brand New Cubemap And Random Quantity Generator

Once you hearth up Minecraft’s latest snapshot, you’ll be treated to a new cubemap gently revolving behind the sandbox game’s foremost menu. Chilling and killing ’s an enormous, huge open scene from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs: Part II patch, and it looks fairly nice. But that’s not the one thing that’s been changed on this replace: Java edition Minecraft’s random quantity generator has been swapped out, too.

“We’ve replaced the random number generator used for world era, which makes more seeds come out as totally different… however it additionally strikes every thing around in the world, so anticipate all worlds to look completely different in this snapshot,” Mojang explains within the snapshot’s changelog.

Snapshot 21W41A makes a couple of other key adjustments. Geodes can now solely generate up to height 30, and the frequency with which they spawn has been introduced again according to the place it was circa Minecraft 1.17. The opposite high-line change on this snapshot is that Mojang has increased the angle at which you can dash in opposition to a block without the collision breaking your spring.

You possibly can learn the total patch notes over at the official site.

In the meantime, Minecraft Live 2021 is set to air this weekend, October 16, at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST. In the course of the show, you’ll have the chance to vote for a brand new mob to be added to Minecraft, and the options embody the item-gathering allay or the glare, who would warn you about dangerous levels of darkness close by. So far as we’re involved, there are no bad choices right here: they’re each adorable, useful mates.