Minecraft Nether Update: New Biomes, Blocks, and Mobs

Minecraft Nether Updates

New Biomes

• Warped Nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation
• Huge Warped Fungi make up the "trees" of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor
• Warped Wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe
• A dark blue fog covers the forest!
• Warped spores swirl through the air
• Twisting Vines grow from the cave floor and fungi
• The Warped Forests are strange, but also the least hostile place of Nether

• Crimson Nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation
• Huge Crimson Fungi make up the "trees" of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor
• Nether Wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe
• Weeping Vines grow from the cave ceilings and fungi
• Hoglins wander these forests
• Crimson spores swirl through the air

• An open space made mostly of Soul Sand and Soul Soil
• Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling
• Fossile remains of unknown creatures from the past litter the valley
• Ash falls through the air
• A light blue glow envelopes the valley
• Beware of Skeletons here

• Remnants of volcanic eruptions, this biome sports a high concentration of Basalt columns and lava deltas
• Walking through, you will be surrounded by flakes of flowing white ash
• Magma Cubes finally have a place to call home, spawning very frequently
• A new block, Blackstone, can be found in large patches here

• The original Nether biome is now called Nether Wastes

New Mobs

• Piglins are an aggressive civilization that live in the Nether
• They mostly hang around in the Crimson Forest, but you might find some in the Nether Wastes, too
• They think of players as target practice and will attack on sight
• However, if you dress appropriately, they will see you as a respectable figure, or tolerable at least
• Piglins are suspicious of strangers and if they see you opening a chest or mining a block of gold, they will assume that you're stealing and will treat you accordingly
• Piglins LOVE gold and get very distracted by gold items
• Gold ingots are currency to piglins, and you can throw ingots at them or interact with them while holding an ingot to barter for various goods
• Piglins sometimes get hungry and hunt hoglins for food. Or they try at least. The results... vary
• Piglins prefer to hunt and fight in groups and when a fight is happening, everyone wants in
• Piglins that somehow end up in the overworld become zombified fairly quickly
• Piglins are creeped out by soul fire and zombified piglins, and will stay clear whenever possible
• Wither skeletons are a historic enemy and piglins will attack on sight
• Baby piglins are not as dangerous but they can be mischievous, so watch your back
  • ... and they like to play with baby hoglins

• Hoglins are big aggressive beasts that live in Crimson Forests
• They attack players on sight so be careful, they can easily knock you off a ledge!
• Hoglins drop pork and sometimes leather, but not willingly
• You can breed hoglins by feeding them crimson fungi, but do so at your own risk
• Hoglins get hunted by piglins sometimes, but they don't go down without a fight!
• Despite this, hoglins and piglins aren't enemies - they are more like an ecosystem
• Baby hoglins like to pretend they are tough - but don't worry, they are more like angry puppies with no teeth
• Want to keep hoglins off your back? Pro tip: Hoglins hate the smell of warped fungi!

• Striders are neutral mobs that stride the Nether, preferably through lava
• Striders can be mounted if they first get a saddle placed on them
• Similar to pigs, they can be controlled by the player, using mushroom-on-a-stick!
• They are not hostile
• They spawn in lava, and are fire immune
• When they are not in lava, they freeze, shiver, and move slower
• You can breed striders by feeding them warped fungus
• Baby striders follow their parents

• Zombie pigmen are now known as zombified piglins, and they now have ears... well, at least one ear

• Zoglins are zombified hoglins - the result of bringing a hoglin into the overworld
• Unlike hoglins, they can't be bred or fed, and they don't care about warped fungus
• Beware - these beasts are raving mad and attack just about everything they see!

New Blocks

• Two new non-flammable wood-like materials - Crimson Stems and Warped Stems
• Hyphae of Crimson and Warped Stems, including their stripped versions, can be crafted. Similar to wood from the Overworld
• Basalt blocks - you can find them as pillars, but they can be placed in any direction
• New ground surface blocks: Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium
• Using bone meal on Netherrack can spread Nylium
• New vegetation: Nether Sprouts, Crimson Roots, and Warped Roots
  • Warped and Crimson roots and fungi can be placed into pots
• Two types of Fungi: Crimson and Warped - try using bone meal to grow them!
• Warped Wart blocks
• Weeping Vines that grow from the bottom of a block downwards!
  • Weeping vines are climbable!
• A new natural light source: Shroomlights
• Added Soul Soil! Whenever fire burns on Soul Soil, it burns with a blue flame!
• Soul Soil can be used to craft Soul Torches - and those can be crafted into Soul Lanterns!
• Soul Campfire - A campfire with blue flames craftable with Soul Soil or Soul Sand
• Added patches of Blackstone and Gravel to all Nether biomes at and below lava level
• Nether gold ore can now spawn in the nether!
• Nether gold ore can be mined with any pickaxe and will drop gold nuggets
• Added Chiseled Nether Bricks, Cracked Nether Bricks, and Quartz Bricks blocks

New Gameplay Features

• Remains of ancient Nether portals can now be found in the Nether and Overworld!

• Added 4 separate Bastion Remnant types: Bridge, Hoglin Stable, Housing Units, and Treasure Room
• You can find these sizable structures in all biomes in the Nether, except for the ashy cliffs of Basalt Deltas
• Explore, loot, and conquer a Bastion Remnant to call it your home...but beware, Piglins don't take kindly to intruders stealing their things
• Added a new music disc from Lena Raine titled 'Pigstep', which can only be found in Bastion chests

• Added a new set of stone blocks with regular, polished, and polished brick variants!
• Added Gilded Blackstone - Blackstone which has been imbued with gold and has a chance of dropping gold nuggets when broken
• You can find these new blocks in Bastion Remnants
• Blackstone can be used to craft a Furnace
• Blackstone can be used to craft stone tools

• Added the respawn anchor that can set your respawn point in the Nether
• Use while holding Glowstone to charge to a maximum of four charges - each respawn depletes one charge
• You can charge the Respawn Anchor using a Dispenser

• Netherite items float in lava so you don't lose all your gear after that unplanned lava bath
• Netherite tools work faster and last longer than diamond
• Netherite weapons do more damage than diamond
• Netherite armor have higher toughness and durability than diamond
• Netherite items have higher enchantment value than diamond (but not as high as gold)
• Netherite armor gives you knockback resistance, so you barely get knocked back at all when hit by arrows and such- Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon and netherite ingots can be used as the fuel for a beacon. Weird flex but ok
• And it looks cool!

• Mine ancient debris in the lower depths of the Nether. At own risk. No insurance coverage for that
• Refine it into netherite scrap in a furnace or blast furnace
• Combine 4 netherite scrap with 4 gold ingots in a crafting table to make a netherite ingot

• Add one of your diamond tools or armor pieces into a Smithing Table with a netherite ingot
• The Smithing Table will preview your new netherite item in the right slot. Take it out to craft!

• The closer you hit to the center, the larger the redstone signal!
• You will need one hay block and four redstone for this recipe

• Shine your boots of choice with this soul-sucking enchantment to speed around on Soul Sand and Soul Soil!
• There's a downside: Enchantments will slowly degrade your boots each Soul block you walk on
• Can only be obtained by bartering with those pesky Piglins

• Crafted from a netherite ingot and chiseled stone bricks
• Use a compass on a lodestone to point the compass to that lodestone

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