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Minecraft 1.18 → 1.21 & Create 6.0

1.18 · CAVES 1.19 · THE WILD 1.20 · TRAILS 1.21 · TRIALS CREATE 6.0

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Java Edition 1.18 · November 2021

CAVES & CLIFFS
PART II

The world grew taller — and much, much deeper.

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    NEW WORLD GENERATION The entire overworld was rebuilt. The map is now 384 blocks tall — 64 blocks deeper (Y=−64 bedrock) and 64 higher (Y=320 ceiling). Every newly generated chunk is completely transformed from what you remember.
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    DRAMATIC NEW MOUNTAINS New biomes: Jagged Peaks, Frozen Peaks, Stony Peaks, Meadows, and Snowy Slopes. Mountains can now pierce cloud level. World generation is genuinely cinematic.
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    LUSH CAVES Hidden underground biomes filled with glow berries, dripleaf, and moss. Axolotls spawn here. Azalea trees on the surface grow roots straight down to the cave — a natural treasure map hiding in plain sight.
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    DRIPSTONE CAVES Vast caverns filled with stalagmites and stalactites of pointed dripstone. Falling onto them deals massive damage. Stalactites drip water or lava into cauldrons over time — a reliable source of renewable lava.
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    ORE DISTRIBUTION COMPLETELY CHANGED The old Y=12 diamond level is gone. Diamonds peak around Y=−57. Copper peaks at Y=48. Iron also generates near the surface now. Ore veins are much larger but distributed differently.
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    AXOLOTLS Adorable amphibians in lush caves. Scoop one into a bucket to carry it. Release during aquatic combat — they attack all hostile underwater mobs and grant you Regeneration I whenever they score a kill.
⚠ TIP Strip mine at Y=−57 for best diamonds. Coal is near the surface now. Copper is everywhere around Y=48. The old Y=12 strategy is completely obsolete.
Axolotl AXOLOTL LUSH CAVES
Java Edition 1.19 · June 2022

THE WILD
UPDATE

Into the dark. Don't make a sound.

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    THE DEEP DARK BIOME A vast underground biome blanketed in glowing sculk, found only deep below Y=0. The only place Ancient Cities generate — massive buried structures with incredible loot, including the exclusive Swift Sneak enchantment and echo shards.
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    SCULK — THE NERVOUS SYSTEM Sculk Sensors detect vibrations and emit redstone. Sculk Shriekers count activations — 3 total triggers summons the Warden. Wool blocks absorb vibrations entirely. Bring them every time.
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    THE WARDEN Do NOT fight this. 500 HP, detects through walls by sound and smell, kills through full Netherite armour in two hits. It is designed to be avoided. Sneak. Use wool. Throw projectiles to distract it. Leave quietly.
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    MANGROVE SWAMP A gorgeous biome with towering mangrove trees whose roots hang above water. Mud blocks pack into mud bricks — a warm-toned building material. Completely distinct from regular swamps.
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    FROGS & FROGLIGHTS Three variants by biome temperature: Temperate (orange), Cold (green), Warm (white). Frogs eat slimes and magma cubes, dropping Froglights — glowing decorative blocks in matching colours, unobtainable any other way.
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    THE ALLAY A fairy-like mob that collects items for you. Give it an item, and it searches nearby for matching ones, delivering them to a Note Block it's dancing near. Perfect for auto-collecting farm drops. Duplicates with Amethyst Shards while dancing.
DEEP DARK TIP Always sneak. Stuff wool into corridors before walking through. If a Shrieker goes off, freeze. If the Warden appears — don't fight, don't sprint — sneak slowly away. Three total Shrieker activations summon it, not per-visit.
Warden THE WARDEN
Allay ALLAY
Frog FROG
Java Edition 1.20 · June 2023

TRAILS &
TALES

Archaeology, an ancient giant, and a very charming camel.

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    CAMEL Spawns in desert villages. Two players can ride the same camel at once — great for exploring together. Tall enough that most mobs can't reach you. Can dash forward. Breed with cactus.
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    THE SNIFFER An ancient revived mob hatched from Sniffer Eggs in warm ocean ruins. It sniffs the ground and digs up seeds for extinct plants — Torchflower and Pitcher Plant — obtainable no other way. Purely cosmetic and absolutely charming.
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    ARCHAEOLOGY Use a Brush on Suspicious Sand or Gravel to carefully unearth pottery sherds, emeralds, and treasures. Collect four sherds to craft a Decorated Pot with scenes on each face. A whole new treasure-hunting loop.
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    COPPER AGING & WAXING Copper oxidizes through four stages: Copper → Exposed → Weathered → Oxidized. Right-click with a Honeycomb to permanently lock any stage in place. Axe scrapes it back. Incredibly versatile for builders.
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    CHERRY GROVE BIOME A pastel-pink mountain biome with cherry blossom trees and drifting petal particles. Cherry wood is its own full type. Widely considered the most visually beautiful biome in the game.
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    BAMBOO WOOD & CHISELED BOOKSHELVES Bamboo is now a complete wood type with the unique Bamboo Mosaic pattern block and open-top rafts. Chiseled Bookshelves let you place and remove individual books — a Comparator tracks which slot was last used. Perfect for secret doors and puzzle rooms.
WHERE TO DIG Suspicious Sand is under desert temples, desert wells, and warm ocean ruins. Trail Ruins — new structures — are buried diagonally into hillsides. Look for gravel patches sticking out of slopes.
Camel CAMEL
Sniffer SNIFFER
Java Edition 1.21 · June 2024

TRICKY
TRIALS

New dungeons. A brutal weapon. An automated crafting table.

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    TRIAL CHAMBERS New underground structures of copper and tuff with procedural rooms, traps, and spawners. Trial Spawners produce a fixed number of mobs per player, then lock for the day. Clear a room → Trial Key → open a Vault chest (once per player, ever). Best loot outside End cities.
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    THE BREEZE Leaps constantly, fires Wind Charges that knock everyone back violently — including other mobs into you. Deflects projectiles. You must get close to kill it. It will knock you into mobs, trigger dispensers, and send you flying across rooms.
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    THE BOGGED A mossy skeleton in swamps and Trial Chambers that fires Slowness-tipped arrows. Being slowed inside a room full of other mobs is genuinely punishing. More dangerous than it looks.
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    THE MACE A weapon from Trial Vaults with a unique mechanic: smash attack scales with fall distance. Throw a Wind Charge to launch yourself up, swing on the way down — 15 blocks of fall can one-shot most enemies. Cancels your fall damage on a successful hit. Add the Density enchantment for boss-killing territory.
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    THE CRAFTER The first automated crafting block in vanilla Minecraft. Pipe items in via hoppers, configure the recipe, fire a redstone pulse to craft. Pairs beautifully with Create for advanced automation chains.
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    COPPER & TUFF BLOCK VARIANTS Copper Grates (semi-transparent — light passes through!), Copper Bulbs (light source that dims as it oxidizes), Chiseled Copper, full Tuff Brick family. Dozens of new decorative blocks for builders.
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    WOLF ARMOR & ARMADILLO The Armadillo spawns in Savannas, drops Scutes when brushed. Craft Scutes into Wolf Armor to protect tamed wolves. The Armadillo curls into a ball when detecting sprinting or undead. Extremely cute.
MACE TRICK Throw a Wind Charge upward, swing the Mace on the way down. Even 12–15 blocks of fall can one-shot most enemies. The hit cancels all fall damage so you land safe. Add Density enchantment to push this into boss-fight territory.
Breeze THE BREEZE
Bogged BOGGED
Armadillo ARMADILLO
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Create 6.0.9 · NeoForge 1.21.1 · January 2026

CREATE MOD
6.0

Trains, logistics, and a whole factory in a box.

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    TRAINS — THE BIG ONE Build a train by placing blocks in a train shape, attaching a Train Controls block, and assembling it with a wrench into a live vehicle. Trains navigate via a global path graph — routing across the entire world through unloaded chunks. Add Stations, automated Schedules, and Signals for a full rail network. The interior is fully rideable.
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    DISPLAY BOARDS & NIXIE TUBES Display Links read live data from in-world blocks — item counts, train arrivals, speeds — and output to big in-world Display Boards and Nixie Tubes. Great for factory dashboards and train station departure signs.
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    PACKAGING & LOGISTICS (NEW IN 6.0) The Packager wraps items into addressed Cardboard Packages. Frogports launch them through a logistics network. Postboxes receive them. The Stock Ticker monitors your whole factory's inventory levels from one screen. Think: an in-game postal warehouse layered on top of your belts and trains.
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    CHAIN CONVEYOR (NEW IN 6.0) A new belt-like transport made of linked chains. Moves items and players over distances — great for vertical shafts or awkward gaps. You can ride it: stand on a running chain conveyor and it carries you along with it.
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    QUALITY OF LIFE (6.0) Basins can hold more than 16 items per slot. A radial wrench menu speeds up block rotation. Filters, Clipboards, and Schedules can all be duplicated in a crafting table. Copper components now match all four vanilla oxidation stages.
▸ NEW IN CREATE 6.0
Chain Conveyor
Chain Conveyor Transport items and players along chains over any distance or angle
Package Frogport
Package Frogport Picks up and delivers addressed packages to and from Chain Conveyors
Packager
Packager Wraps items from any adjacent inventory into addressed Cardboard Packages
Stock Ticker
Stock Ticker View and request items from your whole logistics network from one screen
BEST TIP Hover over any Create block and press W to open its Ponder scene — a gorgeous animated in-game tutorial for that exact machine. It's the single best onboarding feature of any mod ever. Confused by something? Ponder it first.