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On October 3, 2020, Mojang held a Minecraft Live conference and after the show announced The “Caves and Rocks” update.

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<h2>Biomes</h2>
<p>New biomes revealed during broadcast:</p>
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<li><strong>Lush caves</strong>(Lush Caverns) – A new underground world that is always under the Azalea trees. The caves are completely covered with vegetation: green vines and old moss.</li>
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  • Deep Dark (Dark Depths) – found in the farthest places in the world, closer to the bedrock. Here you can find the plant Skalk – a family of blocks that respond to sounds and vibrations. Also in this biome there is a new mob “Warden” (Warden) is a completely blind NPC that picks up movement.

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  • Dripstone caves (Stalactite caves) – an additional zone in which there will be nothing but stalagmites and stalactites.

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  • Amethyst Geode (Amethyst Geode) – another new area, and to be precise, these are closed caves that consist of special blocks . On the surface of the latter amethyst crystals grow. They are in the Nether.

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  • Mountains (Mountains) is an old biome. It didn't get much time, but it looks like the rocks have been reworked as they got taller and bigger.

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Mobs

The Axolotl is a new NPC that lives in the Lush Caves lakes. It can be caught with a bucket, just like a fish.

Axolotls have five colors (albino, yellow, green, brown and purple/pink). When they take damage, they pretend to be dead and regenerate health, and attacking mobs ignore them in this state. The new character is hostile to drowned, guards, ancient guards, octopuses and fish.

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The Overseer – He can be found in the Dark Depths. He is completely blind, but he senses the player's movements. Moves slowly, but when it senses a prey, it speeds up a lot.

Maximum damage dealt is32.5 HP. That is, in Netherite Armor, he defeats the player in two hits. The Warden has a lot of health (42 health).

He can be fooled by creating vibrations and sounds, for example, by throwing a snowball or an arrow.

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<p><strong>Luminous Octopus</strong>– First appeared in Minecraft Earth. It lives in underground lakes, glows like lava cubes, ifrits, endermen, drowned and spider eyes.</p>
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Mountain Goat– came into the game along with the updated mountains, only there he can be found. Avoiding obstacles, jumps high up. Knocks back mobs far away when attacking. Little kids were shown at the conference, so most likely they can be bred.

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Items

Telescope is a new item crafted from amethyst and copper shards. Allows the player to see farther when used.

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Bags – also appeared with the update, they allow you to store a stack of any type of item. If you hover over this item, you can see its contents.

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Brush– used to clean debris from archaeological items. Removes one pixel layer of dirt or gravel with each use. Alas, getting a special block by deleting several layers will not work. It is destroyed when cleaning is interrupted.

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Ceramic Shards – mined with a brush at archaeological sites. There are only a few drawings on them: a champion, an Ender dragon, Alex, a skeleton and a tree. They can be placed on clay pots, and then burned on fire to get a finished block. It is not yet clear whether it is decorative or whether it will be possible to store things in it.

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Blocks

Azalea Leaves is part of a new exclusive tree that marks the location of Lush Caverns.

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Azalea Roots – Looks like a block of dirt, but with roots interspersed.

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Svetolians – found in Lush Caverns, they emit light, and you can also find edible lightberries on them.

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Spore Flower– has two variations (closed and open). In the second case, it releases disputes. It's not yet clear if they do damage.

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Dripleaf Plant is a vine-like plant. You can stand on it for a few seconds, but after that the leaf that acts as a platform will tilt and you will fall through.

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Roots – it is not yet clear whether it is a block or a plant, but they sprout from the surface of the earth.

Snow powder is a new type of snow that Agnes and Jens talked about in last year's promotional video with the update of the mountains. This block is similar to a snow block and sucks the player in. Unfortunately, they didn’t show how it works and how it looks.

Amethyst Geode – generates amethyst crystals for a certain time, it cannot be obtained in survival and transferred using pistons. Extremely rare block.

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Amethyst Crystals— geodes grow on top of blocks, when broken, fragments fall out, which are used in crafting a telescope.

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Skull blocks — A new type of blocks that can be used in redstone mechanisms. They emit a redstone signal when they sense sounds or vibrations near them. Found in the Dark Depths.

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Candles – whether they are craftable or not remains a secret. It may be exclusive to the Dark Depths block, but it has two variants, dark and light.

Stalactite– an object falling from above can damage the mob or the player. Water will drip from the stalactites. If you place a cauldron under them, it will fill up.

Stalagmite — a block that can cause damage if you fall on it. It also affects mobs when they fall.

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Copper Ore– it can be found underground. Drops as blocks when destroyed, smelted into ingots.

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Copper Blocks– They oxidize over time and weather conditions. The time required for a block to fully oxidize is 16 in-game days, the occurrence of corrosion is accelerated by rain.

Lightning Rod– a new block, created from copper. Its task is to attract lightning to itself, so you can avoid burning a house if it is wooden.

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Gameplay and generation

Archaeology– the player can find various items in gravel and earth blocks using a brush. Items can include valuable blocks and ceramic shards.

Dark Blink – While in the Dark Depths biome, the screen will begin to darken, limiting visibility. The developers do not say what will create such an effect.

Water level in caves is a new game mechanic that allows you to create underground lakes and oceans, as well as create many underground waterfalls.

Generation of caves – the zones that were shown on the broadcast – this is only a small part of what awaits us. They will have many different variations.

Wireless Redstone – a new ability to create mechanisms using skull sensors that sense sound vibrations. They are generated in the Dark Depths.

To drown out the sounds, it is enough to furnish this block with wool.

The developers promised that the update will be released in the summer of 2021, but now only spanshots are available. We will keep our fingers crossed so that the process does not drag on until autumn.