Cobbled Together Deeply – Minecraft Snapshot 21w08a is out!

In this snapshot, our new beloved stone type has suffered a grim fate and has been renamed to Deepslate. How mysterious!

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker. You can also leave feedback on the Feedback site.

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

Fixed bugs in 21w08a

  • MC-213926 – Rooted dirt footstep sounds are considerably quieter than normal dirt footstep sounds
  • MC-214782 – Geodes can generate floating in caves
  • MC-214843 – Old style caves don't generate past Y=0

Get the Snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft Java Edition. To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

What else is new?

If you want to know what else is being added and changed in the Caves & Cliffs update, check out the previous snapshot post. For the latest news about the Nether Update, see the previous release post.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/lris4x/cobbled_together_deeply_minecraft_snapshot_21w08a/

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