Have you ever tried to add birthday candles to your cake because nobody showed up to your birthday party? Well, now you can! In the Minecraft 1.17/1.17.1 updates, an abundance of new features were added to the beloved game of 2009.
1.17.1
Some fixtures that were made during the 1.17.1 update:
Cauldrons in a snowy biome collect falling snow at 2x the speed
Blue axolotls are only obtainable through breeding
‘Drowneds’ (Zombies found underwater) have a higher chance of dropping copper ingots
Players can now get screaming goats through breeding
Classical Chinese is a new addition to the language section (accessible when pressing the “esc” key).
Zombies, husks (sand biome zombies), villager zombies, and ‘drowneds’ (zombies underwater) do not pick up glow ink sacs anymore
Axolotls don’t try to leave the water
Emerald and diamond ore generations are reverted back to how they were in 1.16.5. For Java, the glitch in the spawning of the diamonds in 1.17 was fixed. For the Bedrock edition, the bug that made diamonds rarer was also fixed. For the Java edition, mining emerald ore would get a player 6 to 24 emerald ore per chunk. Now, the ratio has changed back to 3 to 8 emerald ore per chunk. However, the changes aren’t applicable to already loaded chunks. Players will have to explore new chunks of their worlds to be able to find diamonds the old way.
Many bugs related to mobs are fixed
1.17
1.17 was a huge update in minecraft as it started including a plethora of new blocks and mobs.
Goats were added into the game; they spawn near cliffs and can jump up to two full blocks. Goats can be milked and become screaming goats. also ram into blocks resulting in the loss of a goat horn, which is currently unstackable and of no use so far
Axolotls were also added into minecraft. Axolotls are underwater mobs that are currently found in narrow underwater paths but will soon be found in lush caves as well. These creatures can be put in buckets. A player can breed two axolotls using a bucket of tropical fish. Axolotls will also fight enemies underwater, as they are more agile underwater.
Some new blocks that were added in the 1.17 update include: copper ore, dripstone, pointed dripstone, amethyst geodes, glow lichen, deepslate, moss, glow berries, azalea, and the dripleaf plant.
Dripleaf can “shrivel” when a player stands on the block causing the player to fall through
In the 1.17 updates, many variations of the copper block were added including: stairs, slabs, and cut copper blocks.
Candles were also added in this update. A player is able to stack up to four candles on the same block. They can be placed on cakes, but they will break once a player starts “eating” the cake.
The last item to be added was the spyglass. A spyglass can magnify a player's vision, like optifine. When a player uses optifine with the spyglass they can “super zoom” anywhere they desire.