Minecraft 1.18 (Snapshot 21w42a)

Minecraft 1.18 Update: The New Generation Is Here! Minecraft’s newest update, the Minecraft 1.18 Snapshot 21w42a, is now available to download in your launcher for Minecraft version 1.18! This new snapshot adds a few features, including a new music disc and some changes to the overworld music. Read on below for more details about this exciting update!

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Additions and changes:

• Added 10 new music composed by Lena Raine and Kumi Tanioka. All available on Spotify.
  • They appear in the game (in survival mode) in the Overworld, as well as in the main menu.
    • Tall Stand: In the biomes“Snowy Slopes”,“Jagged Peaks”,“Frozen Peaks”,“Stony Peaks”.
    • Left to Bloom: In the“Meadow”and“Lush Caves”biomes.
    • One More Day: In the biomes“Meadow”,“Snowy Slopes”and“Lush Caves”.
    • Wending: In the biomes“Grove”,“Jagged Peaks”,“Stony Peaks”and “Cave caves”(Dripstone Caves).
    • Infinite Amethyst: In the biomes“Grove”and “Cave of Speleothems”(Dripstone Caves).
    • Floating Dream: In the biomes“Jagged Peaks”and“Lush Caves”.
    • Comforting Memories: In the biome“Grove”.
    • An Ordinary Day: In the biomes“Snowy Slopes”,“Cave of Speleothems”(Dripstone Caves)and “LushCaves” (Lush Caves).
  • Music named “Ancestry” is strangely not present in the game files. It is only present in the Spotify playlist.
  • Added a new music disc titled “Otherside” composed by Lena Raine.
    • It can rarely be found in the trunk of the corridors of the forts and even more rarely in the chest of the dungeons.

• The algorithm for selecting the point of appearance of worlds has been reworked.
  • Players now appear based on climate settings.

• Some improvements have been made to the natural generation.
  • Sources of lava can be generated in the mountains and in snowy areas.
  • Water sources are less bothered above layer 192 and are slightly rarer.
  • Badlands gold ore is now generated up to layer 256.

• Added an auto-save indicator for single-player worlds.

Technical:

• Replacement of particles and by .lightbarrierblock_marker
  • The texture is declared in the location of the template file assigned to a configured block state.particle
  • Invoked with the same syntax as the block particle (i.e. block_marker wheat[age=2])

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