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Minecraft 1.21: Forests and Fossils Update

The Minecraft 1.21 Forests and Fossils Update would focus primarily upon expanding forests and archaeology. Forests are some of the most common biomes in the game, and as a result, most of players time will be spent in some sort of forest biome. Likewise, players love mining and discovering new things, which would play perfectly into the archaeology theme of this update.

As for content added,

The forests aspect of the update would primarily introduce one or two new forests biomes, or one new forest biome plus improvements to existing forest biomes. If I had to choose a perfect biome to be compatible with the archaeology aspect, I'd choose Maple Forests for reasons I will discuss later. Maple Forests would add Maple Trees, which are lovely for builders as they are the only way to get orange, autumnal leaves, and they introduce a beautiful new type of wood. Within Maple Forests would be the new mob, the Grizzly Bear, who loves nothing more than honey.

The archaeology aspect of the update would introduce the long-awaited system of digging up shards of clay to turn them into pottery. This is nice enough on its own, but wait, we have grizzly bears who love honey. Why don't we store honey in a pot to feed it to the bears? What a lovely idea. Other archaeological improvements could be made, perhaps new features with the newly announced Sniffer mob.

There is a character limit so I can't go any more in depth, but these would be the fundamental pieces of content added by the update.

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    Being an update based on forestry, there would also be multiple minor changes to trees throughout other biomes.

    This includes possibilities like: (note: adding everything in this list would be absurd, it's just a list of potential fun ideas)

    • Palm trees spawning in beach biomes, and/or in a new oasis minibiome that spawns within deserts (Planks would be colored almost orange, with the bark being a pale brown/yellow)
    • Fruit trees rarely spawning around the world that grow fruit from under their leaves (Based off of oak trees) Possibly within respective biomes, such as banana trees in the jungle, apple trees in forests, cherry trees in the cherry blossom forest, lemon trees in mesas, orange trees around beaches, etc.
    • Hardwood trees spawning in badlands, they are more resistant to destruction than all other wood (takes longer to mine, more blast resistant, more fire-resistant, etc.) (Wood would be a deep red/brown)
    • This ones a bit of a stretch, but a possible new Spooky biome that has dead, rotting trees with a gray/purple wood. Ghosts may spawn here and spook the player, giving them blindness. Ghosts drop ectoplasm, which can be crafted together with common building blocks like planks, cobblestones, and bricks to create variations of those blocks (called "Phase (Block)") that appear normal but you can walk through. Can also be brewed to create a Potion of Phase Vision, which puts a white outline around Phase Blocks so that they aren't impossible to identify and to avoid traps.
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    If palm trees were added, they could occasionally spawn with 1-3 coconut blocks hanging from the part where the leaves meet the logs. When broken, they will drop 2 coconut slices, which can be cooked into Baked Coconut and eaten, or if not cooked, can be drank from (because coconut milk exists) to remove all potions effect like cow milk does. Some people enjoy playing the game in a way where they don't use animal products, so this would be a fun little touch to add (mildly related: PLEASE let us smelt rotten flesh into leather!). Coconut slices can be crafted back into full coconuts by placing 2 in a crafting grid, because they'd presumably have good potential for builders. It'd be funny if you could create a coconut helmet from coconut slices, but that'd be a rather obsolete feature unless it came with something special like the the ability to resist damage from heavy falling objects (stalactites and anvils). Coconuts can be harvested with silk touch to avoid the process of harvesting and recrafting them.

    Of course, not all of these things would be added. Just potential ideas.

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    Add please jade and more thing to do with the ancient city please if you ar not sure please contact me and get me a job for minecraft

     

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    This sounds like a great update and I would love Minecraft even more than I do if it happens!

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    When will the end update be coming? We got a nether update which was amazing but when will we be getting a end update. Like I think the end should get more than 3 mobs and more places to explore. Since the nether update came out I've been wondering when the end update is gonna come out because it really need an update.

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    Yo this sounds amazing.. !! Idk about a spooky forest but a dead or burnt forest would work and the oasis would be a good time to add the quick sand into the game . All that + some archeology and the terracotta/concrete slabs and stairs would make a very nice update

    The fruits could be like coco beans re texture like apples or coconuts and break into them. the dev,s could even add like candy apples or banana bread lol but that maybe asking to much hehe 

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    One thing I would love to see the Sniffer get an update with is it can sniff out new crop seeds that would work functionally the same as wheat, carrots, beetroot, and potatoes but with more variety such as cabbage, cotton (possibly makes a better bed that restores a heart or two), and/or tomatoes. The only reason I would love to see this is because the Sniffers can only sniff out a couple of seeds and there are only a handful of crops. That paired with the other user's palm tree idea (coconuts) and the possible new maple syrup from maple trees could make many new food recipes I would love to see! Maybe even adding a chef villager would be kinda cool...

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    You should do the updates how do you say some more like trees in beautiful pieces of wood you’re amazing ideas

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    I think that adding updates to forests to make them less empty is a great idea!

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    Please add junglins and a jungle treehouse village which is described on the Minecraft fanon wiki.

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    Naman

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    awesome I hope this vote wins its so smart interesting and it would be a great new edition to minecraft the name is sooooooo cool and I love grizzly bears who ever thought about this you have great imagination girl / boy. what ever gender you are are or it you might be? hmmmmm 

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    Podľa mňa by sa tam hodila nová jaskyňa plná podozrivého kameňa alebo štrku.

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    pavels

     

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    Needs to be some sort of loom that can create block patterns, would be good to be able to create letters that can be placed on blocks. I think this would be a game changer especially it you can create the existing loom patterns as block patterns to be able to add more details into our builds

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    i would like if this update could make suspicious sand more visible for example making it a different colour

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    - please add a swamp/mangrove swamp village

    - add more mobs to the forest like birds or deers

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    New

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    Yeah I think forests and fossils update is a good idea cuz I'm want new fossils to explore

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    I need this

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    Yes! It would also be cool to find abandoned cabins.

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    Mojing Please Add a Grappling hook

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    This would allow minecraft to have the more in depth and fantasy type feel that I feel as though everyone would be happy with.

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    To piggyback off this idea, it would be a really easy and fantastic way to add in all the mobs we haven't gotten in the previous mob votes, which started in 2017 and now we could get all them back. And Minecraft did say we would get them and its 5 years later and they had lots of opportunity do do so and they have not.

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    A maple biome would be great. Maybe yellowish orange leaves? And grizzly bears who love honey.
    Adding a grappling hook that can be crafted with 2 string and 1 arrow that can be fired out of a bow and you can be pulled to it.
    Maybe make more types of wolf variants.
    This is just a suggestion, it’s probably a no, but can you add Emerald armor?
    Can you add an enchantment that makes it so that when you chop down a tree it entirely breaks.

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    I love the idea for ghosts, but it might be better to have them in the soul sand valleys. That biome needs it own mob but not just skeletons.

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    Forgot to add, tuff blocks need to be able to be cut with a stone cutter. The designs would look interesting especially with mossy variations.

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    Hardwood trees aren’t necessarily hard though. Trees are sorted into hardwood and softwood, sure. But it doesn’t actually measure hardness. It’s about the seeds. Also, fruit trees should be in the jungle.

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    Mojang we need a wood cutter, we have stone cutters to get different stones easily we should have that for wood

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    I agree with this since maple would be a nice touch but maybe not only that but maybe Mojang and the other could add maple syrup, gaining it from the tree by maybe right clicking it or whatever control it used to place blocks with a bottle.