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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Bountiful Update (Java Edition 1.8.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with The Update that Changed the World (Java Edition 1.7.x releases).

Mobs

New

Name Image Habitat Drops Note
Endermite
Endermite Revision 2
Chance to spawn when a player or enderman teleports using an ender pearl.
  • Usually despawns within 2 minutes after they spawn.
Guardian
Guardian Revision 1
Spawns in ocean monuments.
  • Attacks squids and players with a beam.
  • When on land it flops around but remains hostile.
  • The player will also get damaged with a thorns-like effect if it damages the guardian while their spikes are deployed (as if it's being prickled).
Elder Guardian
Elder Guardian Revision 1
A boss-like variant of Guardians, with greater health, greater size and different appearance.
  • There are 3 elders in each ocean monument.
  • When on land it flops around but remains hostile.
  • A flashing boss guardian will appear on screen when close to the boss guardian, and Mining Fatigue III will be inflicted on the player for 5 minutes.
Rabbit Brown Rabbit Revision 1Albino Rabbit Revision 1Black Rabbit Revision 1Gold Rabbit Revision 1Salt & Pepper Rabbit Revision 1Black & White Rabbit Revision 1Toast Rabbit Revision 1 Spawns in the same biomes passive mobs spawn in.
  • Rabbits have the same AI as the most other passive mobs, and jump around randomly.
  • Makes little squeaky sounds when hurt or killed.

Blocks

New

Name Image Obtaining Tool Required Uses
Diorite
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Cobblestone +
Nether Quartz
* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
  • Decoration block.
Andesite
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Diorite +
Cobblestone
* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
  • Decoration block.
Granite
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Nether Quartz +
Diorite


* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
  • Decoration block.
Prismarine
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard

Prismarine
  • Prismarine generate in ocean monuments.
* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
  • The cracks in prismarine appear to slowly change color between brown, blue, gray and purple.
Prismarine bricks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard

  • Prismarine bricks generate in ocean monuments.
* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
  • Decoration block.
Dark prismarine
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard +
Ink Sac

  • Dark prismarine generate in ocean monuments.
* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
  • Decoration block.
Red sandstone File:Red Sandstone Revision 1.pngFile:Cut Red Sandstone Revision 1.pngFile:Chiseled Red Sandstone Revision 1.png
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Red Sand

* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
  • Decoration block.
Iron trapdoor
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot

* Can be broken with any pickaxe.
Sea Lantern
Sea Lantern
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard +
Prismarine Crystals

Sea Lantern
  • Decoration block.
  • Used as a light source.
Wet Sponge
  • Dropped by Elder Guardians
  • Generates in ocean monuments
* Can be broken with any tool.
  • Can be dried in a furnace.
Slime block
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Slimeball

* Can be broken instantly
  • Slime blocks will push and pull each other, along with adjacent blocks, when at least one of them is moved by a sticky piston.
    • Allows for moveable contraptions.
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Ingredients Crafting recipe
Matching Wool +
Stick

* Can be broken with any tool, but an axe is the fastest
  • Crafted like signs, but with one color of wool instead of planks.
  • Stacks up to 16.
Barrier
  • /give @s barrier
Cannot be broken in survival
  • Acts like bedrock, but is completely transparent.
  • Can be used to create impenetrable boundaries.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Coarse Dirt
Coarse Dirt
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Dirt +
Gravel

Items

New

Name Image Obtaining Uses
Prismarine Crystals File:Prismarine Crystals Revision 1.png
  • Drop from guardians.
  • Used to craft sea lanterns.

Prismarine shard

File:Prismarine Shard Revision 1.png
  • Drops from guardians.
  • Used to craft all three kinds of prismarine blocks and sea lanterns.
Raw Mutton File:Raw Mutton Revision 2.png
  • Drops from sheep.
  • Restores 2 (🍗) and 1.2 saturation.
  • Can be cooked into cooked mutton.
Cooked Mutton File:Cooked Mutton Revision 2.png
Ingredients Smelting recipe
Raw Mutton +
Any fuel


  • Restores 6 (🍗🍗🍗) and 9.6 saturation.
Raw rabbit Raw Rabbit
  • Drops from rabbits.
  • Restores 3 (🍗🍗) and 1.8 saturation.
  • Can be cooked into cooked rabbit.

Cooked rabbit:

  • Restores 5 (🍗🍗🍗) and 6 saturation.
Rabbit stew File:Rabbit Stew Revision 1.png
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Cooked Rabbit +
Carrot +
Baked Potato +
Any Mushroom +
Bowl


  • Restores 10 (🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗) and 12 saturation.
Rabbit hide File:Rabbit Hide Revision 2.png
  • Drops from rabbits.
  • Can be crafted in a 2×2 arrangement to produce leather.
Rabbit's foot File:Rabbit's Foot Revision 2.png
  • Drops from rabbits.
  • Brewed to make a Potion of Leaping.

Spawn egg (Guardian, Endermite and Rabbit)

  • Can be obtained only via creative inventory.

Biomes

New

To be added

Structures

New

To be added

World types

New

Name Image Description Structures
Customized world type Customized Biome
  • Highly customizable terrain generation.
  • There are 4 pages to customize the world.
    • Page 1: customizes generation of structures, chance of lake generation, size of certain structures, biome type and size, and sea level.
    • Page 2: customizes the ore distribution for dirt, gravel, granite, diorite, andesite, coal, iron, gold, redstone, diamond and lapis.
    • Page 3 & 4: Expert customization of the terrain generation.
Customized on pages 1 and 2
Debug mode world type Debug World Type 14w26b
  • Useful for resource pack makers. Hold Shift and cycle through "World Type" option to select it.
  • Other world options are not available.
  • Only Spectator mode can be enabled upon spawn, but it can be reverted through commands once inside.
  • All possible blocks with all possible data values (not IDs), are generated throughout a single plane.
  • Every block state generates only once.
  • Blocks may not be placed or destroyed.
None
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