Nether Update

Official logo for the Nether Update.

The Nether Update is an upcoming major update themed around revamping the Nether. This update was announced at MINECON Live 2019. The update is to be released on Java Edition as version 1.16.

Notable features

Main article: Java Edition 1.16

Additions

• New blocks:
  • Soul Fire
    • Generates naturally in the soul sand valley biome in the Nether .
    • Deals damage at a rate of 2 per second as opposed to the 1 per second of regular fire. Blue fire generates only on soul soil, a block found exclusively in the soul sand valley. It can be made by igniting soul soil as with any other fire, for example with flint and steel.
  • Soul Fire Torch
    • Has a luminance level of 10 instead of the usual 14 and emits a blue glow.
  • Soul Fire Lantern
    • Has a luminance level of 10.
  • Crimson and Warped fungi
    • Generate in crimson and warped forests, respectively.
  • Crimson and warped stems
    • Blocks that comprise the trunks of huge fungi.
    • Has a top texture similar to regular log blocks.
    • Does not burn.
    • Have respective stripped variants.
  • Soul Soil
    • Generates in Soul Sand Valley biomes.
  • Basalt
    • Make up basalt pillars.
    • Generates in soul sand valleys.
  • Warped Wart Block
    • A variation of the nether wart block. Can be found in Warped Forests (ordinary nether wart blocks can be found in Crimson Forests).
  • Shroomlight
    • Generates naturally on huge crimson fungi and huge warped fungi or by growing fungi on nylium with bone meal.
  • Weeping Vines
    • Generates in the crimson forest.
    • Can be climbed
  • Crimson and Warped Nylium
    • Resemble grass blocks.
    • Can be spread to netherrack by using bone meal on netherrack next to nylium.
    • Crying Obsidian:
    • Can be obtained by bartering with piglins
  • Ancient Debris
    • Can be found throughout the Nether at any altitude, though it is much more common at lower levels.
    • Can be refined into a netherite scrap by smelting in a furnace or blast furnace.
    • Always generates covered by lava or blocks on all sides.
  • Block of Netherite
    • Can be used in a beacon base.
    • Cannot burn in lava or fire.
    • Same blast resistance as obsidian, but is movable with pistons.
  • Crimson and warped planks
    • Does not burn.
    • Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors and trapdoors.
  • Crimson and warped roots
  • Crimson and warped signs
    • Cannot be crafted.
  • Nether sprouts
    • Foliage that generates in warped forests.
  • Target
    • Creates a redstone signal when hit by a projectile

• New items:
  • Netherite Scrap
    • Used to craft netherite ingots.
  • Netherite Ingot
    • Can be used to upgrade diamond tools and armor.
    • Can be used as fuel for a beacon.
  • Netherite Armor
    • Does not burn in Lava or Fire as a dropped item
  • Netherite tools:
    • Added Netherite axes, pickaxes, swords, shovels and hoes
• New mobs:
  • Piglins
  • Hoglins
    • Spawn in crimson forests.

• New generated structures:
  • Bastions
  • Speleothems
  • Huge Fungi
• New biomes:
  • Soul Sand Valley
  • Crimson Forest
  • Warped Forest

Changes

• Skeletons:
  • Now spawn in Soul Sand Valleys.
• Bone blocks:
  • Now generate in Soul Sand Valleys.
• Lava:
  • Now will flow items and mobs like water

Trivia

• Similarly to the announcement of the Update Aquatic, this update was announced during the development of Java Edition 1.15, and before the features of 1.15 were even added to Java.