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Revision as of 23:34, 6 December 2020
This guide is a simplified overview of all changes in the Caves and Cliffs update (Java Edition 1.17.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Nether Update (Java Edition 1.16.x releases).
Mobs
New
Name
Image
Habitat
Drops
Note
Changed
Name
Image
Changed
Shulker
If a shulker is hit by another shulker's projectile, it now has a chance of spawning a new shulker.
Blocks
New
Name
Image
Obtaining
Tool Required
Uses
Amethyst Cluster
Grows on top of Budding Amethyst Blocks.
Fully Grown Amethyst Clusters drop Amethyst Shards.
Iron Pickaxe or better.
Block of Amethyst
Generates inside of Amethyst Geodes.
Iron Pickaxe or better.
Budding Amethyst
Generates inside of Amethyst Geodes.
Cannot be obtained.
None
Calcite
Generates in the 2nd Layer of Amethyst Geodes.
Any type of pickaxe.
Tuff
Generates on the Outer Layer of Amethyst Geodes.
Any type of pickaxe.
Copper Ore
File:Copper Ore JE1.png
Found in the Overworld from Y=4 to Y=63.
Stone Pickaxe or Better.
Copper Block
File:Copper Block JE1.png File:Semi-Weathered Copper Block JE1.png
Stone Pickaxe or better.
Used for decoration.
Advances to the next stage of Weathering every 50-82 In game days.
Can crafted together with Honeycomb to become waxed, which will stop it from weathering.
Cut Copper
File:Cut Copper JE2.png File:Semi-Weathered Cut Copper JE1.png
Stone Pickaxe or better.
Used for decoration.
Advances to the next stage of Weathering every 50-82 In game days.
Can crafted together with Honeycomb to become waxed, which will stop it from weathering.
Cut Copper Stairs
Stone Pickaxe or Better.
Used for decoration.
Advances to the next stage of Weathering every 50-82 In game days.
Can crafted together with Honeycomb to become waxed, which will stop it from weathering.
Cut Copper Slab
File:Semi-Weathered Cut Copper Slab JE1.png
Stone Pickaxe or better.
Used for decoration.
Advances to the next stage of Weathering every 50-82 In game days.
Can crafted together with Honeycomb to become waxed, which will stop it from weathering.
Lightning Rod
Stone Pickaxe or better.
Used to absorb/attract lightning , possibly to avoid fires or for use in farms.
Tinted Glass
Any tool.
Glass that doesn't allow light to pass through.
Candle
Any tool.
Can be used as a light source but it needs to be lit with flint and steel.
Can be placed in groups of four
Can be placed on top of a cake to make a candle cake.
Powder Snow
Can be placed using a Powder Snow Bucket.
Shovel.
Mobs and players will sink into it and take freezing damage.
Dripstone Block
Any Pickaxe.
Pointed Dripstone
Generates in dripstone cave biomes.
Anything.
Pointed Dripstone Stalagmites deal damage to any entity that falls or jumps on top of it.
Pointed Dripstone Stalactites fall when the block above it is broken, dealing damage to any entity it hits.
Pointed Dripstone Stalactites drip water, or lava if a lava is above the Stalactite. These drips will slowly fill up cauldrons with either water or lava.
Pointed Dripstone can be broken with Tridents.
Sculk Sensor
Is currently unobtainable.
Anything, but a hoe does it the fastest.
Detects vibrations made from nearby entites or blocks and emits a redstone signal.
Can only detect certain things, such as entites walking or flapping or blocks being placed or broken.
Will not detect vibrations made behind a block of wool .
Changed
Items
New
Name
Image
Obtaining
Uses
Amethyst Shard
File:Amethyst Shard JE2.png
Obtained by breaking fully grown Amethyst Clusters.
Can be used to create Spyglasses and Tinted Glass.
Four Amethyst Shards can create an Amethyst Block
Bundle
Can be used to carry a stack's worth of items in one slot of the player's inventory.
Copper Ingot
Can be used to create Copper Blocks, Lightning Rods
Can also be used to create the Spyglass.
Spyglass
File:Spyglass JE2.png
When used it zooms in, which allows the user to see long distances.
Powder Snow Bucket
Obtained by using a bucket on a snow cauldron.
Can be used to place Powder Snow.
Changed
Name
Image
Changed
Clock
Has been given a new Texture.
Compass
Has been given a new Texture.
Structures
New
Name
Image
Generates
Chests
Mobs
Description
Amethyst Geode
File:Amethyst Geode.png
A round chamber consisting of an amethyst and budding amethyst inner wall, a tuff outer wall, and a layer of calcite in between.
Biomes
New
Name
Image
Description
Structures
Dripstone caves
Does not generate in normal worlds, it is only available in buffet worlds with "Single Biome" and "Dripstone caves" enabled.
Contains lots of dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone on the floor and ceiling.
There are large columns made of dripstone blocks extending from the ceiling to the floor of the cave.
Also contains many pools of water .