Minecraft’s Latest Snapshot Comes With A New Cubemap And Random Quantity Generator

If you fireplace up Minecraft’s latest snapshot, you’ll be handled to a brand new cubemap gently revolving behind the sandbox game’s most important menu. It’s an enormous, vast open scene from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs: Half II patch, and it looks quite good. But that’s not the only factor that’s been changed in this replace: Java edition Minecraft’s random number generator has been swapped out, too.

“We’ve replaced the random quantity generator used for world era, which makes extra seeds come out as completely different… nevertheless it also strikes the whole lot round on the planet, so anticipate all worlds to look completely different in this snapshot,” Mojang explains in the snapshot’s changelog.

Snapshot 21W41A makes a few other key changes. MINECRAFT NEWS can now solely generate as much as peak 30, and the frequency with which they spawn has been introduced back in keeping with where it was circa Minecraft 1.17. The other prime-line change on this snapshot is that Mojang has increased the angle at which you can dash towards a block without the collision breaking your spring.

You can learn the total patch notes over on the official site.

In the meantime, Minecraft Live 2021 is ready to air this weekend, October 16, at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST. Throughout the present, you’ll have the chance to vote for a brand new mob to be added to Minecraft, and the options embrace the merchandise-accumulating allay or the glare, who would warn you about dangerous ranges of darkness nearby. So far as we’re concerned, there are no bad choices right here: they’re each adorable, helpful pals.