Minecraft’s new snapshot features spooky sculk sensors and a new biome

The Minecraft 1.17 Caves and Cliffs release date isn't due until summer 2021, but Mojang has just released a other snap for the building game's Java edition to collapse you an idea of what's to come with the new update. A snap that is "full of tasty Caves and Cliffs features" was also released last week, and showed off some very coolheaded stalactite and stalagmite features.

Snapshot 20w49a introduces the excitable sculk sensing element. This tendril-covered sensor detects vibrations inside an Eight-block radius and puts out a Redstone signal. As luck would have it, you're able to stalker by undetected if you don't want to activate it. The sculk sensor can live waterlogged, which has led to people calling it an underwater version of Redstone. The most efficacious joyride to mine sculk is a hoe.

You can also see the inexperient Hoodmould biome, though do preserve in mind that it doesn't generate course yet. If you want to project IT in action you'll need to make over a single-biome world with dripstone caves.

The new snapshot also has numerous bug fixes for stalactites, stalagmites, and copper, as well equally stableness and performance improvements to keep things running smoothly. Most of the specialised changes you will find in the snapshot notes relate to the addition of sculk sensors to make a point they sense game events correctly.

You can watch a full walkthrough of Snapshot 20w49a down on a lower floor, thanks to Slicedlime.