Last 12 months, Mojang announced {that a} large overhaul was deliberate for the hellish Nether dimension in Minecraft. The first playable have a look at that replace has landed in the present day in a game snapshot that Java Edition gamers can entry via their launcher. There’s quite a bit to look via already, together with spooky new bushes, stronger armor, and creepy music.
First factor’s first, if you wish to play the 1.16 replace snapshot you’ll have to be on the Java Edition of Minecraft and allow snapshots in your “installations” tab. If you wish to do issues the quaint means, roll up your sleeves and get mining for Obsidian blocks to create your Nether Portal. If you wish to skip the same old faff for now, change over to Snapshot 20W06A and begin a brand new artistic world like me.
After whipping up a portal, I instantly land myself in one of many Nether’s new biomes: the Warped Forest. It’s received large teal bushes, Shroomlights that gentle the place up like glowstone and a lot extra Endermen than appears intentional. Are there speculated to be this many Endermen? I’m truthfully asking. I haven’t mainlined Minecraft in a number of years now.
I needed to fly round for a bit—the Warped Forest simply went on and on—however I did finally spot the Nether’s two different new biomes: the Soulsand Valley and Crimson Forest. The authentic single biome for the Nether is now referred to as the Nether Wastes, Mojang say in in the present day’s replace notes. There are a piece of recent blocks to search out in every of the biomes, starting from Basalt blocks to Soul Soil to these Shroomlights I discovered. It’s quite a bit to work with, making me assume that I gained’t want a texture pack as of late to make a Nether fortress price taking a look at.
The large new materials of the day is Netherite, an ore that may be refined and made into weapons and armor stronger than diamond gear. Netherite instruments work sooner than diamond, last more, and provide you with knockback resistance. Mojang additionally add on this replace that knockback resistance not has an opportunity to succeed, however a scale of effectiveness as a substitute.
The greatest bit is that Netherite gear floats on high of lava as a substitute up getting wiped out. Ideally this protects you from shedding good gear to an unintentional lava dip however how do you get it again? I’m simply speculated to have an iron boat available, am I? Probably so. On high of that, Mojang say Netherite armor simply appears to be like cool. That’s me sporting it up high so that you could be the decide of that.
The new Hoglins are reportedly added as properly, although Mojang say “they don’t do much yet, but they have cute flappy ears!” Apparently they reside within the Crimson Forest biome so I didn’t occur to identify any, caught largely in limitless Warped Forest as I used to be.
Mojang have added a brand new command for finding biomes as properly. If you’re flying about in artistic in search of one thing explicit or in survival simply needing a sizzling tip on a course to discover, attempt the command “locatebiome <biome ID>”.
You can learn the remainder of the 1.16 snapshot notes with further particulars and bug fixes on Mojang’s website.
