What's New in Minecraft Java Edition 1.16 - The Nether Update?

Today, The Nether Update - Minecraft Java Edition 1.16 is releasing! This video is the most comprehensive guide around to all of the news and changes in this update. #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...

Timestamps:
Introduction: 0:00
The Nether Biomes: 2:31
Netherite: 4:50
Nether Blocks & Items: 7:34
Piglins: 16:30
Zombified Piglins: 20:17
Hoglins: 20:53
Zoglins: 22:02
Striders: 22:29
Structures: 23:33
Advancements: 30:57
Blocks & Items: 32:44
Hostile Mobs: 33:40
Passive and Neutral Mobs: 34:30
Villagers: 35:45
Spawning & Despawning: 36:46
Worlds: 38:42
Gameplay: 40:37
Game Rules: 45:16
Redstone: 45:57
Creative Mode: 48:57
Sounds: 49:28
Visuals: 58:20
User Interface: 1:00:18
Outro & How To Get the Update: 1:02:28

More information:
- The Nether Structures:    • How Bastion Remnants and Ruined Porta...  
- Technical Changes in Minecraft Java Edition 1.16:    • Technical News in Minecraft Java Edit...  
- Minecraft Java Edition 1.16 Server Options: (coming shortly)
- Custom World Generation: (coming shortly)

The new soundtrack by Lena Raine:
- Rubedo:    • Nether Update Soundtrack: Lena Raine ...  
- So Below:    • Nether Update Soundtrack: Lena Raine ...  
- Chrysopoeia:    • Nether Update Soundtrack: Lena Raine ...  
- Pigstep:    • Nether Update New Music Disc: Lena Ra...  

Change Highlights:
4 New Biomes:
- Crimson Forest
- Warped Forest
- Soulsand Valley
- Basalt Deltas

Nether Blocks & Items:
- Netherite - upgrades diamond gear
- Crimson/Warped Stems - Wood-like blocks, don't burn
- Nylium, Nether Sprouts, Roots
- Fungi - bone meal on nylium
- Weeping/twisting vines - Climbable & Bonemealable
- Shroomlights
- Basalt blocks, Polished basalt
- Blackstone - a new stone set
- Soul soil, Soul fire, Soul torch, Soul lantern, Soul campfire
- Nether gold ore
- Crying Obsidian
- Respawn anchor
- Lodestone - Lodestone compass pointing to lodestone
- Snout banner pattern
- Pigstep music disc

Piglins:
- Attack players not wearing any gold armor
- Barter for loot using gold ingots
- Zombify in the overworld

Zombified Piglins:
- Renamed and remodeled zombie pigmen

Hoglins:
- Beasts, live in crimson forests
- Zombify in the overworld

Zoglin:
- Attack everything they see

Strider:
- Ridable mob in the lava lakes
- Steerable using warped fungus on a stick

Structures:
- 4 Bastion Remnant types: Bridge, Hoglin Stable, Housing Units, Treasure Room
- Ruined portals

New Advancements:
- Hidden in the Depths
- Cover Me in Debris
- Country Lode, Take Me Home
- Who Is Cutting Onions?
- Not Quite "Nine" Lives
- This Boat Has Legs
- Hot Tourist Destinations
- Those Were the Days
- War Pigs
- Oh Shiny
- Bullseye

Blocks & Items
- Chain blocks
- Walls now connect vertically
- Food can now be placed on unlit campfires

Villagers:
- Farmer villagers put seeds in composters, use bone meal to grow crops
- Villagers no longer try to work at the same workstation

Spawning & despawning:
- Patrols no longer spawn when the player is close to any village
- Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of profession

Worlds:
- Difficulty, game rules and data packs can now be selected before world is created
- Shipwrecks, ocean ruins less common

Gameplay:
- Hoes are now digging tools
- Soul Speed enchantment - levels 1-3
- Mending now always consumes xp if any item needs mending
- Can no longer clip through the ground when exiting a minecart
- When fishing, treasure loot can now only be obtained by fishing in open waters
- Plants no longer grow when 0-ticked

Game rules:
- Added gamerule universalAnger
- Added gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers

Redstone:
- Target block added - The closer you hit to the center, the larger the redstone signal
- Redstone wire functionality now matches its visuals better
- Added the ability to toggle redstone wire between a cross and a dot

Visuals:
- Added new "Fabulous" graphics option - uses per-pixel blending layers for some transparent elements
- Added an Entity Distance scale option ranging from 50% to 500%

User Interface:
- Game Mode Switcher

Music by Approaching Nirvana (   / approachingnirvana  )
- "Moving Mountains" - https://spoti.fi/2V9Tfz1a
- "Bloom" - https://spoti.fi/3hRjqV6
- "Breathe Again" - https://spoti.fi/31a8X0T
- "Grand Lake" - https://spoti.fi/2Nnj36p
- "Trails" - https://spoti.fi/31d44Ea
- "Glide" - https://spoti.fi/2zUpw5T
- "Lost the Signal (Instrumental)" - https://spoti.fi/2V2xQI7
- "Avila" - https://spoti.fi/2B2nG3p
- "Spark" - https://spoti.fi/317Jaqm
- "Lapse" - https://spoti.fi/37Tvcd2
- "Frontier" - https://spoti.fi/2Z2LBrg
- "Madeira" - https://spoti.fi/37Tujkz
- "Ethereal" - https://spoti.fi/31968NA

Outro music: "The Fire" by Amarante (http://amarante.bandcamp.com) licensed under CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

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