Minecraft’s Newest Snapshot Comes With A Brand New Cubemap And Random Quantity Generator

When you fire up Minecraft’s latest snapshot, you’ll be handled to a brand new cubemap gently revolving behind the sandbox game’s essential menu. It’s a big, extensive open scene from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs: Part II patch, and it looks quite good. But that’s not the one thing that’s been replaced on this replace: Java edition Minecraft’s random number generator has been swapped out, too.

“We’ve replaced the random quantity generator used for world era, which makes more seeds come out as different… nevertheless it additionally moves every thing round on this planet, so expect all worlds to look different on this snapshot,” Mojang explains in the snapshot’s changelog.

Snapshot 21W41A makes a number of other key changes. fake it till you make it can now solely generate as much as peak 30, and the frequency with which they spawn has been introduced back in line with the place it was circa Minecraft 1.17. The opposite high-line change on this snapshot is that Mojang has elevated the angle at which you'll be able to sprint in opposition to a block without the collision breaking your spring.

You possibly can read the complete patch notes over at the official site.

Meanwhile, Minecraft Dwell 2021 is about to air this weekend, October 16, at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST. Through the present, you’ll have the possibility to vote for a new mob to be added to Minecraft, and the options include the item-gathering allay or the glare, who would warn you about harmful ranges of darkness nearby. So far as we’re involved, there are not any bad choices right here: they’re each adorable, useful associates.