Coinciding with Minecraft Live 2020, the authors of Mojang Studios have confirmed the rumors of the last few weeks and officially presented Caves & Cliffs, the next free expansion of Minecraft.
The Swedish software house linked to Xbox Game Studios discussed the news of this huge update and showed clips that testify to the goodness of the work done. As the name of this expansion suggests, after installing Cave & Cliffs the sandbox dimension of Minecraft will be overturned by the arrival of a new procedural generation engine for caves and mountains, with many additional elements that will contribute to giving uniqueness to each setting created, be it on the surface or underground.
The caves, for example, will assume even more complex and original structures, with the presence of new elements such as underground vegetation, stalactites and stalagmites; such innovations will also span the exploration of hills and mountains, with additional biomes and animals such as goats. The novelties foreseen by the next update therefore promise to enrich the playful experience of Minecraft fans, whether they are explorers, warriors The builders. The crafting system, for example, will greatly benefit from the entry of additional blocks and objects to create, with many items of equipment to be used in battle against the new Warden mobs or to be used to become archaeologists and search for artifacts buried in the most hidden areas of the caves.
According to the European developers themselves, it is one of the largest expansions they ever made, or perhaps the largest removing the intermediate updates that led to the achievement of version 1.0 of the blockbuster by Markus “Notch” Persson. Caves & Cliffs of Minecraft is expected to launch insummer of 2021, even if the Mojang team plans to organize alpha and beta testing phases with the involvement of an ever-increasing number of fans.
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Formed over thousands of years deep underground – but brought to you in one update – the stalagmites and stalactites of the dripstone cave biome are as beautiful as they are spikey.
Did we mention spikey? Ouch – sorry zombie!
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Speaking of mountains and books by Max Brooks, that brings us to mobs that live on mountains and like to eat books (we suspect).
As promised, we’ve added goats – the hugely-anticipated mob from last year’s biome vote. Jumping goats! Ramming goats! Baby goats! So many goats! pic.twitter.com/Wf5LWdHHgk
– Minecraft (@Minecraft) October 3, 2020
Down in the deep dark, every flailed limb, every opened chest or every thrown snowball can be sensed by this terrifying new mob: the Warden!
You can try running away… Oh, but they’ll sense that movement too!
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– Minecraft (@Minecraft) October 3, 2020
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