Minecrafts Mountain Generation Is Getting Revamped With 5 New Biomes

The most recent Minecraft developments have largely targeted on the ‘caves’ aspect of the Caves and Cliffs replace, but now we’re finally getting some extra cliff motion - or rather, a giant revamp to how mountains get generated, with the addition of five new sub biomes to spice up your tall, rocky terrain.

The latest Bedrock Edition beta introduces five new mountain sub biomes, called lofty peaks, snow capped peaks, snowy slopes, mountain grove, and mountain meadow. These will work alongside the present mountain types to create a extra varied collection of alpine locations to discover. Minecraft servers The brand new peaks look impressive in the official picture above, but scroll down a bit to see a fan-made comparability of new and outdated mountains. Minecraft servers It’s a large change.

While this is a Bedrock beta, these adjustments ought to come to Java as properly - as the Java snapshots have given us early appears to be like at features like deepslate, glow squids, and the brand new ore textures, it appears like Bedrock beta gamers are getting their own early seems at some new features, too. (This update, by the way, additionally adds glow squids and the ore textures to the Bedrock beta.)

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

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

The Minecraft 1.17 release date is coming this summer time. You will discover much more detail on what to expect at that hyperlink.