Java Edition guides/The Update that Changed the World

• Chicken Jockey and Zombie Villager Jockey spawn in Overworld, Zombie Pigman Jockey spawns in the Nether

Chickens drop:

• 0–2 Feather
• 1 Raw Chicken, when not killed by fire
• 1 Cooked Chicken, when killed while on fire
• 10 if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Baby zombies drop:

• 0–2 Rotten Flesh, and rarely carrots, potatoes and iron ingots.
• 12, plus 1–3 per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)
• Baby zombies also have a 8.5% chance each of dropping their
  • Iron Shovel
  • Iron Sword
  • or any equipped armor that they spawned with. The chance of each can be increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to 11.5% chance. The equipment is usually badly damaged, and may be enchanted.

If killed by a charged creeper, it drops a zombie head.

• Drop poppies instead of roses.

• Can be detonated using a flint and steel.

• Reduced the lag that zombies created by pathfinding.
• Can now spawn with and drop armor, bows and swords with the "Unbreaking" enchantment.

• Now drink a potion of water breathing, when they are trapped underwater.
• Can drop a potion of water breathing upon death, as a rare drop.
• Have been added to the mix of low light-level hostile mobs, spawning anywhere where the light level is below 7, including at night in every biome and in caverns.
• They have roughly the same spawn rate as endermen, and much like them they usually appear in groups of 2.

• Don't become hostile when attacking them in creative mode.

Any (only drops itself with Silk Touch.)

• Can be crafted into stained glass panes using the same recipe as normal glass panes.
• Can be used as decorative block.

• Can be used as decorative block.

• Unlike normal ice, does not turn into water when broken, and does not melt when exposed to heat, and is an opaque solid block.

• Can be smelted into glass and crafted into TNT.

• Can have plants placed on it, and can be turned into farmland by a hoe.

• Can be crafted into planks of the corresponding wood type.

• Can be crafted into Stairs and Slabs.

• Can be used as building blocks.

• Have a chance to drop their respective sapling types.
• Dark Oak Leaves also have a chance to drop an apple.
• Both have the same texture as Oak Leaves during this version.

• Can be placed in flower pots.
• Grows into their respective tree type if planted on dirt, given adequate space. (Dark Oak Saplings require a 2x2 square of saplings into order to grow into one tree.)

• Can be crafted into red dye.
• Can be placed in flower pots.
• Replaces the Rose.

• Can be crafted into light gray dye.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

• Can be crafted into light gray dye.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

• Can be crafted into light blue dye.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

• Can be crafted into magenta dye.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

• Can be crafted into red, orange, light gray and pink dyes.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

• Can be crafted into red dye.
• Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.

• Can be crafted into magenta dye.
• Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.

• Can be crafted into pink dye.
• Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.

• Can be crafted into yellow dye.
• Drops a duplicate of itself when right-clicked on by bone meal.
• Always faces east (toward positive X).

• Can be used decoratively.
• Have a chance of dropping Wheat Seeds when broken without Shears.

• Can be used decoratively.

• Spawn Silverfish when broken.

• Has the same appearance as normal dirt, but grass and mycelium cannot grow on it.

• Wooden logs have different textures for their top and bottom
  • Oak Wood remains the same, as if being the default.

• Cauldrons with water in them extinguish burning entities, taking away one water level each time.

• Color/shade is affected by the biome color (similar to leaves, grass and vines).

• Can be placed on hardened clay, stained clay, red sand and dirt.

• Show what command it ran recently in the GUI.
• Extended character limit past the 10,000 mark.

• Connect to each other and glass blocks.
  • This includes panes of different colors.

• Can be used for restoring hunger
  • Restores 1 () hunger.
  • If eaten, it inflicts
    • Poison IV (1:00)
    • Hunger III (0:15)
    • Nausea (0:15)
• Used to brew a water breathing potion.

• Can be eaten to restore 1 () hunger.

• Restores 2 () hunger.
• Can be cooked into Cooked Salmon.

• Restores 6 () hunger.

• Water Breathing

• Minecart

• Functions much like a command block, but is mobile, and can be activated by activator rails.

• Decreases the wait time for catching something.

• Increases luck while fishing.

• The most common trees in Savannas, and a source of Acacia wood.

• The most common trees in Roofed Forests, and a source of Dark Oak wood.

• The most common trees in Mega Taigas, and a source of Spruce wood.

• Found throughout the surface of Mega Taigas, and a source of Mossy Cobblestone.

• The most striking feature of Ice Spike biomes, and a source of Packed Ice blocks.

• Contains mountains composed of multiple types of colored hardened clay that are layered in a way that resembles sedimentary rock.
  • There are seven colors including normal, orange, red, yellow, white, light gray and brown.
• The flat lands below the mountains are similar to a desert biome, but made of red sand instead of sand.
• Dead bushes and cacti spawn in this biome.
• Occasional dying forests spawn on top of the clay mountains.

• Oak trees (in some variants)

• A flat and dry biome with a sparse covering of acacia trees, with plateaus and the occasional giant mountain.
• Inhabited by horses, and villagers in villages identical to those in plains.

• Villages
• Acacia trees
• Oak trees

• A jungle variant with much sparser vegetation and only small jungle trees.

• Jungle trees

• Exactly the same as plains, but contains a large amount of sunflowers.

• Villages

• Forest variant containing a dense ground covering of a wide variety of flowers.
• Contains the exclusive Allium flower, along with every other flower type, except Blue Orchids and Sunflowers.

• Oak trees
• Birch trees

• A dense forest of Dark Oak Trees containing oak and birch trees and giant mushrooms.
• The canopies of the trees form a mostly unbroken "roof" that blocks out sunlight.
• Monsters are often able to spawn during the day due to the darkness.

• Giant mushrooms
• Dark Oak trees
• Oak trees
• Birch trees

• A forest made entirely of birch trees.
• Has a variant with taller birch trees that cannot be grown from saplings.

• Birch trees

• A forest of spruce trees with bluish grass.
  • The previous snowy version of the Taiga biome is now called the "Snowy Taiga" instead.
• Contains a large amount of ferns.

• Spruce trees

• A forest of giant 2x2 spruce trees, which tower above the regular spruce trees that grow between them.
• Much of the ground is covered in podzol.
• Mossy cobblestone "boulders" are scattered around in this biome.
• Dead bushes, mushrooms and ferns cover the forest floor.

• Spruce trees
• Mossy cobblestone boulders

• An extreme hills variant with a surface largely composed of gravel.

• Oak trees
• Spruce trees

• An extreme hills variant with a much denser covering of trees.

• Oak trees
• Spruce trees

• A beach biome with terrain made of stone, which often generates between extreme hills and oceans.

• A snowy biome covered in large pillars of packed ice blocks.
• The surface is made out of snow blocks on top of dirt.

• Ice spikes

• Is about ten blocks deeper than normal oceans; the maximum depth is in the low 30s.
• Has a seafloor made entirely of gravel.

• Over 20 variants for new and existing biomes.
  • M – Biomes with an M variant are rarer than the normal version of that biome and contain some specific modification, such as taller trees or more water pools.
  • Plateau – Biomes with a plateau variant are like the hills technical biome, but flattened at the top.
  • Mesa (Bryce) – A rare variant of the mesa biome that works similar to ice spikes, with tall clay spikes generating from the sandy mesa floor.
  • Hills – More technical hills biomes have been added to fit with the new biomes.
  • Stone Beach – Generates between mountains and oceans to create rocky cliffs.

• Added Desert Lakes, a Desert variant containing water lakes.
  • Similar to pre-1.6 Deserts.

• Desert Wells
• Desert Temples
• Villages

• New variants include Modified Jungle, Jungle Edge, and Modified Jungle Edge.
• Melons now generate in Jungles.

• Jungle Temples
• Jungle trees
• Oak trees

• Added hilly variant.
• Changed grass color.
• Added Blue Orchids.

• Witch Huts
• Oak trees

• Contain multiple new flowers.

• Oak trees
• Birch trees

• Contain multiple new flowers.

• Villages

• New terrain generation for Extreme Hills
• Extreme Hills now have large amounts of exposed stone and gravel on their surface.
• Now contain spruce trees.
• New variants include Wooded Mountains and Gravel Mountains.
• Stone Cliffs now generate between Mountains and Oceans.

• Oak trees
• Spruce trees

• Renamed from "Taiga" to "Snowy Taiga".
• Added mountainous variant.

• Spruce trees

• It scales up all world generation rules, so it uses the entire world height.
  • Almost all biomes can generate huge mountains that can reach well above Y: 200.
    • Extreme Hills biomes frequently reach the world height limit at Y: 256.
    • Swampland and ocean biomes are unaffected by this world type.
• Extremely resource intensive and requires powerful computer to run.
• Ravines here can reach down to bedrock.
• Contains numerous various landforms that are very rare or non-existent in default generation.
  • Some examples include floating islands, overhangs, large water and lava falls and huge indents.
• Taiga biomes reach such altitudes that snow starts generating (about Y=130).