The tide is coming in at last! That's sea-faring speak for 'Java Players! Today you get the full Update Aquatic!'

There's a whole new ocean of features, impatiently waiting for you to dive in! Take a delightful swim with dolphins and tropical fish. Explore mysterious ruins and tragic shipwrecks while hunting for new deep-sea treasures. Meet turtles on the shore and defend their eggs from mobs with the new trident!

Trust us, you'll want that new weapon. Because our biggest ocean update ever has also made these seas much more dangerous places to explore. Get too distracted by the colourful coral, and you might get dragged down to the ocean floor by bubble columns. Which could result in introducing yourself to the Drowned. What are the Drowned? Why not swim down to the ocean floor and find out? After you!

Still, at least you're safe on land! Well, as long as you get enough sleep. Otherwise, you might meet The Phantom, the mob you voted into Minecraft last year. Be careful what you wish for, and enjoy the update!

The Update Aquatic changelog

General

All undead mobs now sink

Changed underwater visibility Your vision will gradually increase the longer you're underwater

Overhauled world generation

Overhauled command parser

Added new world type "Buffet" Allows you to create worlds with a unique biome More features will come to the Buffet world type in later updates

Added a bunch of new sounds

Added three new pieces of music

Added underwater ambience sounds

Added a swimming animation Press your sprint key underwater to start swimming

Added data packs Allows you to edit recipes, tags, loot tables, functions, and advancements

Added new advancements

Some blocks can now be waterlogged Use a water bucket on a block to surround it with water

Added an "Optimize World" button (singleplayer -> edit world -> optimize world), which upgrades an entire world from older version to the latest version in one go

Blocks

Added blue ice Found in icebergs

Added coral blocks

Added coral fans

Added coral

Added conduit Combine 1 heart of the sea together with 8 nautilus shells to create the conduit Makes your life underwater a lot easier

Added dried kelp block Combine 9 dried kelp to create a kelp block

Added kelp and seagrass

Normal pumpkins no longer have a face

Added carved pumpkin Use a shear on a pumpkin to carve it

Added sea pickles

Added bubble columns Use either magma blocks or soul sand to create a bubble column

Added wood block Combine 4 logs of any type to create a wood block

Added stripped wood Right click with an axe on either logs or wood to create stripped wood

Added prismarine stairs and slabs

Added variantes for all 6 types of woods for pressure plates, trapdoors and buttons

Added turtle eggs Be sure to protect them from hostile mobs



Mobs

Added tropical fish

Added turtles A friendly mob that lays eggs on beaches

Added dolphins A neutral mob that will lead you to treasure if you feed it fish Make sure to not hit them unless you want an entire pod after you

Added the Drowned Hostile mob that can be found naturally in oceans and rivers Can spawn with tridents Zombies will convert into Drowned if they're underwater for too long

Added Phantoms Get a good nights sleep if you don't want these coming swooping at you Drops phantom membrane

Added cod, salmon, and pufferfish as mobs

Changed the horse model to be more consistent with other mobs

Removed Herobrine

Items

Added tridents The newest weapon in Minecraft Drops from the Drowned Works as both a melee and a ranged weapon

Added trident enchantments

Added the ability to catch fish with buckets

Added map markers Hold a map in your hand and right click on a banner to create a marker

Added heart of the sea Found in buried treasure

Added nautilus shells Drops from Drowned and can be found from fishing

Added phantom membrane Dropped by Phantoms and gives you the ability to repair elytra and used for Potion of Slow Falling

Added scutes Dropped by baby turtles when they grow up

Added Potion of the Turtle Master Gives you Slowness IV and Resistance III

Added Potion of Slow Falling

Added dried kelp

Added spawn eggs for all the new mobs

Biomes

Added multiple ocean biomes

Added coral reefs

Added underwater caves

Added underwater ravines

Structures

Added shipwrecks

Added underwater ruins

Added icebergs

Get the release

To install the release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and click play!

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