Thus, there will be lakes in caves and even underground waterfalls. The time spent in caves to mine ores or explore the Minecraft world will be much more varied with the new 1.17 update. The long-time wish of the Minecraft community for improved caves is finally being fulfilled. The name of the update Caves & Cliffs refers to new features in the area of caves and mountains.

For the 1.17 update, a release date (for Java and Bedrock) is now known: June 8, 2021! With Caves and Cliffs, underground exploration is even more fun, since you’ll be able to explore new caves and biomes. The two updates are the (series) successors of the small 1.16 Nether update, but only purely numerically. This results in the updates 1.17 (early summer) and 1.18 (pre-Christmas). In addition, Mojang has the desire to create a high-quality update. The division has several reasons, both technical (size and scope of the update), and related to the pandemic. The first Minecraft update would release in early summer and the second in the pre-Christmas period. It was then announced that this update would be split into two release dates. In October 2020, during Minecraft Live 2020, it was announced that there would be such an update in the following year, called Caves and Cliffs. Minecraft players have been waiting for many years for Mojang to finally release a new updated version of the basic version of Minecraft (Vanilla).

Finally a new update: 1.17 and 1.18 are coming! It is divided into two updates and contains a large number of changes. Minecraft Caves and Cliffs is the new update for the vanilla version of Minecraft.

Minecraft version 1.18