The second part of the Caves and Cliffs Update is all set to arrive very soon, and fans are quite curious to learn what it has to offer.
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Thankfully, the devs have made it easy for players by regularly releasing snapshots and updates giving players a chance to try out some of the stuff from the upcoming update. Here is all you need to know about the upcoming snapshot.
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What is the release date and time of Minecraft Update 1.18 Snapshot 21w44a?
Minecraft Update 1.18 Snapshot 21w44a is all set to release today, November 3rd. Usually, the snapshots are released every Wednesday, so we can expect the same today as well. When it comes to the timings, the snapshot usually goes live around 3 pm GMT.
Minecraft Update 1.18 Snapshot 21w44a – Patch Notes
As of now, the patch notes for Minecraft 1.18 Snapshot 21w44a have not been revealed. Once the update is live, we will update the article with all the information. Here are the patch notes of the last update in the meantime.
- The edge between old and new world generation is now adjusted when you upgrade a world
UPGRADING OF OLD WORLDS
- When generating close to old chunks hew terrain is adjusted to better match the existing terrain at the borders
- In old chunks, if there is Bedrock at y=0, the column below will be filled with Deepslate
- Worlds upgraded in this snapshot will permanently have this deepslate, so if you want new caves under height 0 later, make sure to keep a backup before upgrading
- The old Bedrock between y=0 and y=4 in old chunks gets replaced with Deepslate
- A new Bedrock layer is placed at y=-64
- The Priority Updates video setting has been renamed to Chunk Builder
- Reduced the amount of flooded caves near river and ocean coastlines
- Aquifer water levels change less often, so you’ll more often have larger areas with the same water level. This means slightly fewer underground waterfalls and slightly easier underground boat travel
- Lava aquifers are slightly less common
- Restricted Big Dripleaf placement to Clay, Grass, Dirt, Farmland, Moss, Rooted Dirt, Podzol and Mycelium
- Some internal details of block and fluid ticking have been changed to improve save times. While it should behave exactly as it was, it might be a good time to test your redstone contraptions (on a copy of a world or with a backup, of course)
- The Chunk format has been updated
WORLD DATA: CHUNK FORMAT
- Removed chunk’s Level and moved everything it contained up
- Chunk’s Level.Entities has moved to entities
- Chunk’s Level.TileEntities has moved to block_entities
- Chunk’s Level.TileTicks and Level.ToBeTicked have moved to block_ticks
- Chunk’s Level.LiquidTicks and Level.LiquidsToBeTicked have moved to fluid_ticks
- Chunk’s Level.Sections has moved to sections
- Chunk’s Level.Structures has moved to structures
- Chunk’s Level.Structures.Starts has moved to structures.starts
- Chunk’s Level.Sections[].BlockStates and Level.Sections[].Palette have moved to a container structure in sections[].block_states
- Chunk’s Level.Biomes are now paletted and live in a similar container structure in sections[].biomes
- Added yPos the minimum section y position in the chunk
- Added below_zero_retrogen containing data to support below zero generation
- Added blending_data containing data to support blending new world generation with existing chunks
- MC-131930 – Deep warm ocean generates without coral and sea pickles
- MC-156616 – Badlands layers not generating properly
- MC-217379 – Pufferfish don’t spawn in deep warm ocean
- MC-236624 – Deep Warm Oceans don’t count towards the “Adventuring Time” advancement
- MC-236970 – Badlands strata is covered by orange terracotta at Y=160 and above
- MC-238073 – Decorators are independent of world seed
- MC-238939 – Stone can generate in the Nether
- MC-239397 – Lava pockets generate in icebergs
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