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The Caves & Cliffs official logo.
1.17[1], the first release of the Caves & Cliffs update, is a major update to Java Edition set to release in the summer of 2021. It was first announced during Minecraft Live 2020 on October 3, 2020. Most things are unconfirmed.
Planned additions
Blocks
- Make bell-like sounds
- Are very rare
- Grow from another unobtainable block
- Drop crystal shards, which can be crafted into a Telescope
- Turns green over time, like real copper.
Clay Pots
- customizable
- designed fixed by lighting fire under the pots
- Light source
- Sculk sensor
- Can be used for wireless redstone
- Stalactites can drip water to fill cauldrons
- Stalagmites can deal damage
Lightning Rod
- crafted with copper
Items
- Crafted from crystal shards and copper
- when held, allows the player to see far away in a small circle
- can hold multiple different types of items in one slot
- displays the items inside when hovered over in the inventory
- intended to address the inventory clogging up with small numbers of different items
Mobs
- Aquatic creature found in bodies of water within the Lush Caves.
- Can be caught in a bucket like fish.
- Comes in different colours.
- This mob appears deep underground and will attack the player when they sense movement.
- Blind but follows sources of noise such as snowballs hitting blocks.
- It is incredibly strong and is able to kill you very easily even if wearing netherite armor.
- It is blind and won’t attack you straight away.
- Spawn in mountainous biomes.
- Part of Minecon Live 2019's mountain features.
- Can jump very high into the air to avoid obstacles.
- Attacks some animals and knocks them very far away.
- Was voted into the game by the community.
- Originates from Minecraft Earth.
- has bright texture
World generation
- Generate below Azalea trees.
- contain glow berries.
- Contain stalactites and stalagmites
Excavation sites (structure)
- Improved general cave generation
Gameplay
General
Planned changes
Blocks
Items
Mobs
World generation
Gameplay
General
Planned fixes
- 16 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.17
- MC-130449 – Cartographer villager freezes or crashes the game when unlocking explorer maps
- MC-130584 – When a structure loads, water sources in the structure spread into waterloggable blocks
- MC-133691 – Blocks can't be placed normally on a full cauldron
- MC-169945 – Skeletons don't burn in minecarts while being exposed to daylight
- MC-174685 – Drowned arm texture is reversed by the model
- MC-189565 – Some entities do not render inside of spawners and producing error log spam in console, potentially causing lag
- MC-190896 – Lag when opening a shipwreck chest containing buried treasure map
- MC-195351 – Comparator in compare mode can schedule unneeded tileticks
- MC-196542 – Small cleanup for skylight propagation code
- MC-197009 – Referencing empty item tag in recipe can crash client
- MC-197140 – Jack o'Lantern doesn't come after Carved Pumpkin in Creative Inventory
- MC-197179 – Baby piglins that pick up leather don't despawn, cluttering the Nether with unnecessary baby piglins
- MC-197524 – Border chunks do not enforce neighbors to be loaded, causing light updates to get stuck
- MC-198129 – ReplaceBlobsFeature changed from 1.16.1 to 1.16.2, affecting Basalt Delta generation
- MC-198414 – if the angle in /spawnpoint is set to +-infinity, and the player dies, it will kick the player, and upon rejoin will crash the game
- MC-198807 – Making piglins and piglin brutes angry at certain entities (like dropped items) crashes the game
Trivia
- The axolotl was added after the track of the same name by C418
References
- ↑ "Future Version - 1.17+" – Mojira Bug Tracker.