Minecraft’s Mountain Technology Is Getting Revamped With Five New Biomes

The newest Minecraft developments have mostly focused on the ‘caves’ side of the Caves and Cliffs update, however now we’re finally getting some more cliff action - or quite, a big revamp to how mountains get generated, with the addition of 5 new sub biomes to spice up your tall, rocky terrain.

The newest Bedrock Edition beta introduces five new mountain sub biomes, referred to as lofty peaks, snow capped peaks, snowy slopes, mountain grove, and mountain meadow. These will work alongside the existing mountain types to create a more different selection of alpine areas to discover.  Cats  look impressive within the official image above, however scroll down a bit to see a fan-made comparison of recent and previous mountains. It’s an enormous change.

While it is a Bedrock beta, these modifications should come to Java as nicely - because 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 players are getting their very own early seems at some new features, too. (This replace, by the way, also adds glow squids and the ore textures to the Bedrock beta.)

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

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

The Minecraft 1.17 launch date is coming this summer. You can find much more detail on what to count on at that link.