What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 21w10a?

Snapshot 21w10a is here, with Lush Caves, even more new deepslate blocks and big rendering technology update... as well as many other fixes and changes. Check them out in this comprehensive 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
World Generation: 0:23
Blocks & Items: 3:49
Gameplay: 4:58
Mobs: 5:35
Visuals: 5:54
UI: 6:39
Sounds: 7:05
Stability & Performance: 7:43
Getting This Version: 8:50
Technical News: 9:03
Outro: 9:27

Change Highlights in this version:
World Generation:
- The Lush Caves underground biome now exists for use in single-biome worlds. It does not yet generate in other world types
- Moss covers the floors and ceilings
- Spore Blossoms grow from the ceiling and drip particles
- Contains clay pools with dripleaf plants grow out of them
- Contains azalea bushes and flowering azalea bushes
- The azalea tree loves to have its roots in lush caves, so if you find an azalea tree (either overground or in a cave) you know there is a lush cave beneath you
- Cave vines with glow berries grow from the ceiling and light up the caves
- Crack carvers are much less common, will appear only in one of four places it previously would
- Fixed MC-214836: Water caves cause land to be excessively flooded
- Fixed MC-214781: Lava does not generate at the very bottom of noise caves
- Fixed MC-216736: Lava lakes generate exposed in caves
- Fixed MC-214844: Bedrock can be exposed to the air at the very bottom of the new caves

- Fixed MC-214784: Fossils can generate floating in caves
- Fossils in the deepest part of the underground generate with deepslate diamond ore instead of coal ore
- Tweaks to ore distribution

Blocks & Items:
- Deepslate versions of copper, emerald and coal ores that never generate by default
- Added Cracked Deepslate Bricks and Cracked Deepslate Tiles
- Deepslate bricks and tiles now have crafting recipes
- There is now an Infested variant of Deepslate found in the underground
- Cobbled Deepslate can now be smelted into Deepslate
- Deepslate can now be placed along any axis
- Lightning rods can now be waterlogged (or not)

Gameplay:
- Fixed MC-29318: Client misses inventory updates while player is manipulating items - causes invisible items
- Fixed MC-207818: Placing a sign from the offhand closes the sign UI immediately
- Fixed MC-212168: Ctrl + Pick Block doesn't copy block state "lit"

Mobs:
- Fixed MC-211666: Guardians attack invisible axolotls
- Fixed MC-212236: Cannot visually critical-hit a glow squid (No sound/particles)

Visuals:
- Texture updates:
- Deepslate & Cobbled Deepslate, Deepslate ores: iron, gold, diamond, lapis, redstone
- Stone ores: coal, iron, gold diamond
- The spyglass now has a new inventory icon, but looks the same when held in your hand
- Fixed MC-214629: FOV decreases when underwater regardless of FOV Effects accessibility setting

UI:
- Fixed MC-212127: Normal ink sac and glow ink sac are not grouped in the creative inventory
- Fixed MC-215850: Deepslate Tile Wall comes before Deepslate Brick Wall but Deepslate Bricks come before Deepslate Tiles in creative inventory
- Fixed MC-216136: Polished deepslate slab isn't grouped with the other deepslate slabs in creative inventory
- Splash text "OpenGL 2.1 (if supported)!" has been replaced with "Now on OpenGL 3.2 core profile!"

Sounds:
- Fixed MC-214970: Phantoms continously make too much flapping sounds
- New sounds for: glow item frames: placing, breaking, adding items, removing items, rotating items
- Fixed MC-212144: Subtitles refer to Glow Item Frame as "Item Frame"

Stability & Performance:
- The game now runs using OpenGL 3.2 core profile

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

Music: "Warp" and "Push" by Crinkles (https://crinklesmusic.bandcamp.com) licensed CC-BY 3.0
Outro music: "The Fire" by Amarante (http://amarante.bandcamp.com) licensed CC-BY 3.0

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