Download Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w08a, Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w08a is the last of 2021 (No More Easy Diamonds?).
Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w08a gives us a new name for grimestone, deepslate! deepslate ores have been added too alongside smooth basalt.
How to install:
- To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the “Launch Options” tab.
- Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w08a Download Links:
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Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w08b Download Links:
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Obfuscation Maps:
Features:
- Tweaked cave sizes further.
- Canyon and cave carvers now apply below y=0.
- Cracks can now be found carved into the ground.
- Grimstone has been changed into Deepslate.
- Added Deepslate ores.
- The distribution of ores has been further tweaked.
- Andesite no longer generates under y=0.
- Tuff now sometimes generates under y=0.
- The Tuff layer of amethyst geodes has been replaced with now a new type of stone called Smooth Basalt.
- Smooth Basalt is now obtained from smelting Basalt.
- Another round of tweaking has been done to the new textures of ores and Blackstone.
- Emerald and Lapis Lazuli ore textures have had some touch-ups.
- Mineshafts now once again generate in the open air in caves.
- Particles now appear in the air around spore blossoms.
- Slime Blocks and Honey Blocks have been moved to the Redstone tab of the creative inventory.
Deepslate:
- Grimstone is now called Deepslate.
- Deepslate now has a top texture, and a new block called Cobbled Deepslate drops from Deepslate.
- The cobbled variant is the same but without the top texture, and is used to craft all Deepslate variants instead.
- Deepslate now has a unique set of sounds! Very crunchy indeed.
Deepslate Ores:
- Added Deepslate versions of Iron, Gold, Lapis, Redstone, and Diamond ores that generate wherever those ores replace Deepslate.
- Twice as tough to mine as normal ores.
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