What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 21w07a?

Time for new a brand new ore distribution and the addition of a new stone type - Grimstone! Check out all the news and changes in Snapshot 21w07a in this complete guide! #minecraftemployee

slicedlime works as a Tech Lead for Minecraft at Mojang, but the YouTube and Twitch channels are personal projects run entirely in his spare time. This is an unofficial update video that aims to be the most comprehensive guide possible. Official announcement: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/artic...

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Timestamps:
Introduction: 0:00
Blocks & Items: 0:20
World Generation: 1:05
Gameplay: 6:51
Visuals: 7:30
UI: 8:09
Stability & Performance: 8:44
Getting This Version: 9:12
Outro: 9:23

Change Highlights in this version:
Blocks & Items:
- New stone family: Grimstone
- Can be found in the deepest parts of the underground, and is slightly tougher to mine than normal Stone
- Like Blackstone, Grimstone can be used to craft basic tools, furnaces and brewing stands.
- Comes in Grimstone, Polished Grimstone, Grimstone Bricks and Grimstone Tiles - all with full blocks, stairs, slabs and walls
- Also: Chiseled grimstone

World Generation:
- Tweaked huge caves to be more rare and decreased the chance that caves are filled with water
- Changed ore generation to match the new world height and to add more strategy to mining
- Coal: spread in a triangular distribution between y=0 and 192, most common at y=96
- Coal: also found in a uniform distribution between y=136 and the top of the world
- Copper: now found in a triangular distribution between y=0 and y=96, most common at y=48
- Iron: spread in a triangular distribution between -16 and 80, most common at 32
- Iron: also found in a triangular distribution between 128 and 384 (or top of the world), most common at 256
- Gold: found in a triangular distribution between -64 and 32, most common at -16.
- The extra gold found in badlands still generates like it used to
- Emerald ore now generates higher up in mountains, in a triangular distribution between 32 and 480 (or the top of the world), most common at 256
- Lapis ore can now be found in two sections, spread in a triangular distribution between -32 and 32, most common at 0.
- In a uniform distribution between the bottom of the world and 64 but always buried like ancient debris
- Redstone can now be found uniformly distributed between the bottom of the world and 15
- More Redstone can also be found in a triangular distribution between the bottom of the world and -32, most common at the bottom of the world
- Diamonds can now be found in a triangular distribution between the bottom of the world and 16, more common the deeper you go.
- Tweaked size and positioning of diorite, andesite & granite generation - fewer splotches but larger
- Exception: Diorite and Granite and Dirt no longer generate below y = 0
- Strongholds are now mostly encased in stone
- Mineshaft corridors are now supported by log pillars below or chains above when needed

Visuals:
- Ores without unique shapes have been given new textures for accessibility reasons, so that each ore is distinguishable by shape alone
- Blackstone, Polished Blackstone Bricks, and Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks have had some minor touch ups
- Fixed MC-214885 - Beacon beam only render 256 blocks from source

UI:
- The Redstone Tab has been reordered to prioritize highly-used blocks
- Redstone items/blocks have been grouped and ordered in the following way:
- Essentials
- Unique activators
- Miscellaneous
- Common activators
- Openables
- Improved error messages when chat is disabled, now lists the reason chat is not accessable

Stability & Performance:
- Fixed MC-214082 - Crash after placing soul sand or magma under 2032 tall water

Some camera sequences rendered using the ReplayMod: https://replaymod.com

Music: "Pathstrider", "Pieces of a Memory" and "Wherever the Path May Lead" by Vindsvept (https://vindsvept.se/) licensed CC-BY 4.0
Outro music: "The Fire" by Amarante (http://amarante.bandcamp.com) licensed CC-BY 3.0

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