Java Edition 1.16

Minecraft 1.16
Edition	Java Edition
Official name	Nether Update
Planned release date	2020
See also other instances of 1.16	Bedrock Edition PlayStation 3 Edition PlayStation 4 Edition PlayStation Vita Edition

1.16, the first release of the Nether Update, is an upcoming major update to Java Edition that overhauls the Nether, set to release in 2020. This update was announced at MINECON Live 2019. The update does not include the announced features for the mountains biome.

Additions

Blocks

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.
• Same blast resistance as obsidian.
• Inventory item floats on lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.
• A diamond pickaxe or better is required to mine it.
• Always spawns covered by lava and/or blocks on all sides

Basalt

• Make up basalt pillars.
• Generates in soul sand valleys.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.

Block of netherite

• Can be crafted with 9 netherite ingots.
• Decorative.
• Inventory item floats on lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.
• Same blast resistance as obsidian, but is movable with pistons.

Crimson and warped fungus

• Generate in crimson and warped forests, respectively.
• Can be placed on flower pots, dirt, coarse dirt, farmland, podzol, nylium, soul soil, and grass blocks.
• Bone meal can be used on fungi to grow it into the respective huge fungi when placed on the same type of nylium.
• Unlike mushrooms, fungi cannot spread.

Crimson and warped nylium

• Resemble grass blocks.
• Can be spread to netherrack by using bonemeal on a netherrack block next to a nylium block.

Crimson and warped planks

• Does not burn.
• Crafted from the respective stem.
• Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors and trapdoors.

Crimson and warped roots

• Foliage that generates in both crimson and warped forest biomes, as well as soul sand valleys.
• Can be placed into flower pots.

Crimson and warped stems

• Blocks that comprise the trunks of huge fungi.
• Have animated textures.
• Has a top texture similar to regular log blocks.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.
• Does not burn.
• Have respective stripped variants.

Crying obsidian

• Currently used for decoration only.
• Can be obtained by bartering with piglins.
• Has a light level of 10.
• Emits purple particles.
• Can be moved by pistons.

Nether sprouts

• Foliage that generates in warped forests.

Shroomlight

• Emits a light level of 15, similarly to glowstone.
• Can be mined with any tool, but axes are the most efficient.
• Generate as a part of huge fungi.

Soul fire

• Blue variant of fire.
• Fire lit on soul soil turns into soul fire regardless of dimension.
  • Burns forever, similar to regular fire on netherrack and magma blocks.
• 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.
• Does not extinguish when in the rain.

Soul fire lantern

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted similarly to a normal lantern, using a soul fire torch instead of a normal torch.
• Have an animated texture.

Soul fire torch

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted similarly to a normal torch, with soul soil being placed under the stick.

Soul soil

• Generates in the soul sand valley, alongside conventional soul sand.
• Fire lit on soul soil is soul fire.
• The player does not sink and is not slowed when walking in soul soil.

Target

• Redstone component that can be activated by shooting projectiles into it.
  • Signal is stronger depending on how close the projectile is to the center of the block. The signal strength goes up to 15.
• Can be crafted using a hay block and 4 redstone dust pieces.

Warped wart block

• A variation of the nether wart block.
• Generates as a part of huge warped fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the warped nylium in warped forest biome.

Weeping vines

• Generates in the crimson forest.
• Is placed on the bottom of a block and grows downward.
• Can be climbed, like normal vines.

The 2 variations of the new nether-colored blocks, purple and blue.

Items

Netherite armor

• Crafted with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
• Does not burn in lava, as a dropped item or when worn (players equipping netherite armor, however, can still take burning damage).
• Floats in lava.
• Tougher than diamond armor.
• Has higher durability and enchantability than diamond.

Netherite axe, hoe, pickaxe, shovel, and sword

• Crafted with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
• Does not burn in lava.
• Floats in lava.
• Has higher durability, mining level, breaking multiplier, and enchantability than diamond.
• All items, except the hoe, deal 1 more damage than their diamond counterparts.

Netherite ingot

• Created with 4 gold ingots and 4 netherite scraps.
• Can be used to upgrade diamond tools and armor.
• Floats in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava.

Netherite scrap

• Created by smelting ancient debris in a furnace or blast furnace.
• Used to create netherite ingots.
• Floats in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava.

Spawn eggs

• Added hoglin and piglin spawn eggs.

Mobs

Hoglins

• Spawn in crimson forests.
• Attack players on sight.
• Drop raw porkchop and occasionally leather.
• Have an adult and baby variant.
• Can be bred with crimson fungi.
• Are hunted by adult piglins sometimes.
  • Are not hunted by baby piglins and baby hoglins are not hunted at all.
• Move away from placed warped fungi.

Piglins

• Spawn in crimson forests and nether wastes biomes.
• Randomly spawns with golden sword or crossbow.
• Adults are hostile; babies are passive.
  • Will not attack players wearing at least one piece of golden armor.
  • Adult piglins turn aggressive when a player is mining blocks of gold or opening chests, even if they are wearing gold armor.
• The player can barter with them by right-clicking with golden ingots or drop them on the ground, which makes them drop at least one item or block.
  • Common barters (²⁰⁄₂₂₆ chance or about 8.85%): 6–10 shroomlight, 1 fire charge, 8–16 gravel, 4–10 leather, 4–10 warped fungus, 4–16 nether brick, 1 obsidian, or 1–3 crying obsidian.
  • Uncommon barters (¹⁰⁄₂₂₆ chance or about 4.42%): 8–16 nether quartz, 5–12 glowstone dust, 2–6 magma cream, 4–8 ender pearl, or 8–24 string.
  • Rare barters (⁵⁄₂₂₆ chance or about 2.21%): 1 warped nylium, 1 Fire Resistance potion or 1 Fire Resistance splash potion.
  • Very rare barter (¹⁄₂₂₆ chance or about 0.44%): 1 netherite hoe.
• Sometimes attack adult hoglins.
  • Baby piglins do not attack and adult piglins will not attack baby hoglins.
• Baby piglins ride on the back of baby hoglins.
• Attack wither skeletons.
• Avoid soul fire, soul fire torches, soul fire lanterns, and zombie pigmen.
• Prefer to hunt and fight in groups.
• Can spawn with golden armor.
• Will convert to a zombified piglin when in the Overworld.
  • Have an IsImmuneToZombification data value that prevents them from zombifying in the Overworld.

World generation

Biomes

• Crimson forest
  • A dense forest with huge crimson fungi. Nether wart blocks and fungi are found in patches on the ground and weeping vines are found under the trees and nether wart stalactites.
  • Zombified Piglins, piglins and hoglins may spawn here.
• Soul sand valley
  • A vast grotto composed of uncovered nether fossils, soul sand, soul soil, large pillars made of basalt, blue fog, and soul fire.
  • Skeletons, ghasts, and endermen may spawn here.
• Warped forest
  • A color variation of the crimson forest, but with somewhat different vegetation and blue particles and fog effects.
  • Only endermen may spawn here.

Structures

• Basalt pillar
  • Floor to ceiling pillars of basalt that generate in soul sand valley.

• Huge crimson fungi and huge warped fungi
  • New structure resembling trees found in crimson and warped forests, respectively.
  • Made of crimson and warped stem blocks as well as red nether wart blocks and warped wart blocks.
  • Can be grown from their respective fungi.

• Nether fossils
  • New fossil structures have been added for the soul sand valley.
    • These fossils are different from the overworld fossils and generate with random pieces of basalt instead of coal ore.

Command format

/locatebiome

• Used to locate specific biomes.

Gameplay

Advancements

• Added new "Bullseye" advancement.
  • To complete this advancement, the player has to shoot a projectile into the center of one face of a target block.

Sounds

• New unique block sounds for most of the newly added blocks have been added.

General

Particles

• Added ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame, and warped_spore particles.
• Added three particles for crying obsidian: dripping_obsidian_tear, falling_obsidian_tear, and landing_obsidian_tear.

Tags

• Added block tag beacon_base_blocks.
  • Contains block of iron, block of gold, block of diamond, block of emerald, and block of netherite.
  • Controls what blocks can be used to build a beacon base.
• Added block tag climbable.
  • Includes ladders, vines, scaffolding, and weeping vines.
  • Used in mob pathfinding.
• Added block tag fire.
  • Contains fire and soul fire.
  • Controls what blocks can burn entities.
• Added block tag nylium.
  • Contains crimson nylium and warped nylium.
• Added block tag wall_post_override.
  • Contains lantern, soul fire lantern, torch, soul fire torch, redstone torch, and tripwire.
  • Controls what non-solid blocks can transform walls into their pillared block state.
• Added block tag wart_blocks.
  • Contains nether wart block and warped wart block.
• Added block tag wither_summon_base_blocks.
  • Contains soul sand and soul soil.
  • Controls what blocks can be used to build a wither.
• Added entity tag impact_projectiles.
  • Includes the arrows tag, snowballs, fireballs, small fireballs, eggs, tridents, dragon fireballs, and wither skulls.
  • Used to determine what entities will break chorus fruit when hit.
• Added item tag beacon_payment_items.
  • Contains iron ingot, gold ingot, diamond, emerald and netherite ingot.
  • Controls what items can be used as payment in a beacon's GUI.
• Added block and item tags crimson_stems.
  • Contains crimson stem and stripped crimson stem.
• Added block and item tags warped_stems.
  • Contains warped stem and stripped warped stem.

Text

• Added text which was missing for a death message and was displaying a raw translation string - what it says exactly is unknown.

Textures

• Added the zombified piglin entity texture.
• Added the leather, chainmail, iron, golden, diamond and netherite helmet textures used for piglins.

Changes

Blocks

Bamboo saplings

• Renamed to "bamboo shoot".

Beacons

• Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon.
• Netherite ingots can be used as fuel for a beacon.

Bone blocks

• Generate as part of nether fossils in soul sand valleys.

Comparators

• Changed the way to calculate the input signal.
  • First, if there is an adjacent container behind, it detects the signal from the container. If not, it detects the signal from redstone components.
  • Then, if it is not less than 15, the detected signal becomes the input signal. Otherwise, it also gets a signal from an item frame and container behind separated by a redstone conductor block from the comparator, and takes the maximum of the three as the input signal.

Flower pots

• Has a bottom texture when empty.

Gravel and soul sand

• Generate in the new soul sand valley biomes.

Lava

• Now pushes entities.

Netherrack

• Using bone meal on netherrack adjacent to nylium converts it into nylium.
  • If two nylium blocks of different types are present, it chooses the type at random based on how many blocks of each type are around it.

Nether wart blocks

• Generate as a part of huge crimson fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the crimson nylium in crimson forest biome.
• Texture changed from to .

Pistons and sticky pistons

• Hardness has been increased to 1.5.
• Pickaxes are now more efficient on pistons.
• Pistons can now support non-solid blocks on its top face without them popping off when the piston retracts.

Purpur pillar

• Changed the top texture to match the texture in Bedrock Edition.

Redstone dust

• Has a bottom texture.

Smooth quartz

• Renamed to "smooth quartz block".

Walls

• Walls in the middle of a row have longer pillars when stacked vertically.
  • Block state now uses none, low, and tall for east, west, north, and south directional values.

Items

Clay

• Renamed to "clay ball".

Diamond axe, diamond boots, diamond helmet, diamond hoe, diamond leggings, diamond pickaxe, diamond shovel, diamond sword, golden hoe, golden pickaxe, netherite pickaxe, wooden hoe, and wooden pickaxe

• Changed their textures slightly to match the textures in Bedrock Edition.

Hoes

• Can now break nether wart blocks quickly.

Spawn eggs

• Using a spawn egg on a mob that doesn't have a baby variant now spawns an adult of that mob type.

Mobs

Endermen

• Now spawn in soul sand valleys and warped forests.
• Can now pick up nylium, roots, and fungi variants.
• No longer pick up netherrack.

Ghasts

• Sounds are now heard at a shorter range.
• Now spawn in soul sand valleys.

Skeletons

• Now spawn in soul sand valleys.

Skeleton horses and zombie horses

• Can now be leashed.

Wither

• Can be summoned using soul soil as the base.

Zombie pigmen

• Now spawn in crimson forests.
• Renamed to "Zombified Piglins", and given a new model and texture.

Non-mob entities

Minecart

• Now checks dismount position height against entity height.

World generation

Biomes

• Biomes in the Nether may now differ based on altitude.

Ceiling

• Alongside mushrooms, huge crimson and warped fungi can generate over y=128 in the nether.

Nether biome

• The old "Nether" biome is now called "Nether wastes".

Structures

• Shipwrecks and ocean ruins are now less common.

Command format

General

• The message shown when running an unknown/incomplete command has changed.

Gameplay

Knockback resistance

• Is now a scale of the amount of knockback taken instead of a probability to take no knockback.

Patrols

• Patrols no longer spawn when the player is close to any intact village.

Recipe book

• The cartography table recipe now unlocks with paper instead of string.
• Stained glass pane recipes now only unlock when the player has the same color of stained glass in their inventory.

Sounds

• Updated block sounds for bone blocks, netherrack, soul sand, nether wart blocks, nether bricks (and variants), and nether quartz ore.
• block.portal.travel and block.portal.trigger sounds are now part of the "ambient/environment" sound category adjustable in options.
• Shearing sound category was changed from "friendly creatures" to "players" for players using shears and "blocks" for dispenser using shears.

Spawn

• Player can reset their spawn point using a bed when hostile mobs are near, although players still cannot sleep when hostile mobs are near.

General

Advancements

• Piglins and Hoglins are now required for "Monster Hunter" and "Monsters Hunted" advancements.

Debug menu

• When outside the world's vertical area, the debug menu no longer lists 'minecraft:the_void' as the biome.
  • Instead, it simply hides the biome information.

Materials

• Added new nether wood material.
  • Uses the wood material color.
  • Uses default properties.

The Nether

• Changed the ambient lighting in the Nether, it is now much darker.

Rendering

• Improved entity shadows to the ground.

Tags

• Added crimson and warped wooden items to the planks, standing_signs, wall_signs, wooden_buttons, wooden_doors, wooden_fences, wooden_pressure_plates, wooden_slabs, wooden_stairs, and wooden_trapdoors block tags.
• Added crimson and warped wooden items to the planks, signs, wooden_buttons, wooden_doors, wooden_fences, wooden_pressure_plates, wooden_slabs, wooden_stairs, and wooden_trapdoors item tags.
• Added potted crimson fungus, warped fungus, crimson roots, and warped roots to the flower_pots block tag.
• Updated block tag enderman_holdable.
  • Added fungi, roots, and nylium variants.
  • Removed netherrack variant.
• The slabs block and item tags now use the respective wooden_slabs tag.

Fixes

98 issues fixed

• MC-2591 – Walking over the corner of lava deals damage.
• MC-7424 – Fall damage death messages do not show block player fall from correctly (ladders, vines, water).
• MC-10727 – Player and entity shadows experience z-fighting with redstone.
• MC-17431 – Shift-clicking stacked items with a data tag into the enchanting table GUI removes data tags from the moved item.
• MC-45619 – Water, signs, vines, torches, etc. in the same block as item frame break the item frame's redstone signal.
• MC-52178 – Cape does not move down while sneaking and detaches from body while sneaking.
• MC-59363 – Items in item frames are deleted if both mouse buttons are used simultaneously.
• MC-64871 – Can not sleep while on fire, even with Fire Resistance.
• MC-65951 – Armor stands fall through fences.
• MC-75328 – /clear does not clear items in the inventory crafting grid.
• MC-79944 – Various statistics overflow at 32-bit integer limit.
• MC-82235 – Baby pigs turn into adult zombie pigmen when struck by lightning.
• MC-85527 – Shulkers opening into blocks.
• MC-89043 – Slime blocks moved by pistons often fail to bounce up the player.
• MC-92889 – Mending does not always consume experience if the player wears items with mending that are already fully repaired.
• MC-93198 – Throwing potions or throwable projectiles causes both hands to bob up and down.
• MC-93477 – Shulkers opening into shulker.
• MC-93631 – Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting.
• MC-93813 – Snow golems throwing snowballs play arrow shooting sound.
• MC-94094 – Snow golems do not drop their pumpkin when sheared.
• MC-94730 – Endermen become passive when teleporting randomly during day while being aggressive.
• MC-96436 – Eggs, snowballs, and experience bottles break instantly when thrown while riding a horse.
• MC-97958 – Small slime has no jump or squish sound.
• MC-101084 – Held items/blocks appear to bob down and up when opening horse's inventory.
• MC-102319 – Nether portal trigger and travel sounds are not assigned to any sound category.
• MC-103655 – Cats do not stand up when using right-click on them while they are sitting on chests or beds.
• MC-109370 – Bottom face of column blocks is rotated 180 degrees.
• MC-109844 – en_us.json contains unused strings.
• MC-109850 – Redstone wire does not have a bottom texture.
• MC-111133 – Piston pushing opened shulker makes said shulker glitch.
• MC-111726 – Minecart dismount position always above the minecart, even if there is space next to it.
• MC-112630 – Carrot on a stick cannot be broken.
• MC-113381 – Falling dust particles of anvil and concrete powder blocks are black.
• MC-114304 – Retracting piston pushes entities standing behind the back of it.
• MC-120335 – Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect uv values in the model file.
• MC-122187 – Teleported to coordinates wrong when teleporting entities relatively.
• MC-122335 – Projectiles go through an entity if it is close to a player or a snow golem.
• MC-122715 – /teleport command no longer prevents teleporting to invalid coordinates.
• MC-131440 – The message for trying to sleep at the wrong time implies that players can sleep only during a thunderstorm at night.
• MC-131770 – Rain particles appear one block below the water or lava surface.
• MC-132607 – Splitting slimes and magma cubes do not copy NoAI value.
• MC-132967 – Mushrooms show as green dots on map.
• MC-133088 – Missing translation string death.attack.magic.player.
• MC-134162 – Item entities can break turtle eggs.
• MC-134481 – Typo in en_us.json: "Status requst has been handled".
• MC-135034 – Burning mobs are extinguished by snow in cold biomes, but not in snowy biomes.
• MC-135151 – Typo in en_us.json: "An error occured!".
• MC-136063 – Incorrect spacing for entity.minecraft.tropical_fish.type.sunstreak's value.
• MC-136868 – Ignited TNT, arrow or trident turns black when it falls on soul sand or snow layers.
• MC-137554 – Shearing sound is in "friendly creatures" sound category.
• MC-138402 – Waterlogged walls "connect" to water source blocks above.
• MC-138600 – Cats do not bring gifts if they have already decided to sit on the user's bed.
• MC-140544 – Pickaxes do not speed up piston breaking.
• MC-147601 – Purpur pillar block top texture has not changed to a new texture.
• MC-148067 – Snow golems damaged by snowfall in mountain / cold biomes.
• MC-148474 – Sloped powered detector rails break when pushed or pulled by a piston.
• MC-148869 – Player can clip through the ground when exiting a minecart or a boat.
• MC-149042 – Minecart dismount position is not consistent.
• MC-149052 – Stonecutter recipe list does not show item tooltips.
• MC-149776 – Cartography table requires string for the recipe to show up in the recipe book.
• MC-150020 – Composter is in the "Miscellaneous" category instead of "Decoration" like the other workstation blocks.
• MC-154867 – Tamed cats remain sitting if the world is reloaded while the cat is sitting on a chest.
• MC-155977 – Enchanting a book makes the book lose its name.
• MC-158807 – Players can remove cursed enchantments on items by repairing them in inventory.
• MC-159300 – Villagers that have been infected by a zombie can despawn, even if they have been traded with.
• MC-159672 – Vex will occasionally try to attack the player in Creative or Spectator.
• MC-159773 – Shulkers can teleport to non-solid faces, and do not teleport to some solid faces.
• MC-159918 – Foxes do not run from polar bears.
• MC-159963 – Minecarts can break turtle eggs.
• MC-160053 – Enderman keeps following the player after becoming neutral/passive.
• MC-160897 – Dropping an item using the drop key displays the hand animation but dropping items from within the inventory does not.
• MC-160902 – Arm swings when right-clicking on full minecart.
• MC-161156 – Silverfish and endermites appear black on soul sand.
• MC-161259 – Using the carrot on a stick while riding a pig plays no hand animation.
• MC-162881 – Composter does not display particles when being fed composting items through a hopper.
• MC-163286 – /setblock ~ ~ ~ air destroy does not destroy liquids.
• MC-164158 – Lava does not emit smoke during rainfall.
• MC-164184 – Breaking a shulker box with contents in Creative mode drops the block at an incorrect location.
• MC-164435 – Stream sounds do not loop properly.
• MC-164948 – Entity shadow renders through transparent blocks.
• MC-166245 – No sound for shearing snow golems.
• MC-166246 – Skeleton horses cannot be leashed.
• MC-167077 – Foxes sleep on top of honey blocks, even in broad daylight.
• MC-167447 – Wrong RenderStateShard name.
• MC-167512 – Glass in the hand is rendered differently depending on the "Clouds" setting.
• MC-167561 – All players can make a dog stand up or sit down.
• MC-167692 – Infested blocks do not spawn silverfish when blown up.
• MC-167989 – Spawn point is not set when monsters are nearby.
• MC-168540 – Threads created by net.minecraft.Util.backgroundExecutor() have misleading names.
• MC-168772 – Experience orbs can crush turtle eggs.
• MC-169679 – Composters do not make sounds when fed by hoppers.
• MC-169692 – Entity shadow floats slightly above the ground.
• MC-169832 – Transparent item models have inconsistent rendering when a glowing entity is present.
• MC-170128 – Cannot build an EntityType without a datafixer due to an IllegalArgumentException.
• MC-170273 – Diamond swords use the wrong pallet.
• MC-170274 – Pickaxe textures are inconsistent.
• MC-170556 – Hoe textures are inconsistent.
• MC-172025 – Several misrotated blocks at snowy_medium_house_2.

Planned additions

Blocks

• Added functionality to crying obsidian.

Mobs

• More mobs in general will be added.

World generation

Bastions

• Fortifications built by piglins that are found in the Nether.

Planned changes

Gameplay

Respawning

• A method of setting the player's spawn point in the Nether will be added. How this will be done is currently unknown, but may involve crying obsidian.

Unconfirmed features

These features were mentioned during the development of Java Edition 1.16 or earlier, or during MINECON Live 2019, but have not been confirmed to be added in this update.

Pigs

• The feature of pigs transforming to zombie pigmen when struck by lightning may be removed. However, since the bug involving piglets transforming into adult zombie pigmen was fixed, it might not get removed after all.

Smithing table and fletching table

• May get functionality. It was mentioned during the development of Village & Pillage that it would be added in "...the next major themed update..."

Biomes

• There might be another biome added in the future.

Illusioner

• May be added to raids.

Gallery

MINECON Live 2019

Screenshots of the Nether Update from MINECON Live 2019:

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  A view of the soulsand valley.

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  Some soul fire present in the soulsand valley.

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  A view of the crimson forest biome.

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  A close-up view of the crimson forest.

• Blue Netherwart Forest.png

  A view of the warped forest biome.

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  A close-up of the warped forest.

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  Multiple piglins.

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  Multiple hoglins.

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  A target block being shot that activated the redstone lamps.

Subsequent screenshots

• Netherwart Forest Blue Fungi.jpeg

  A view of the warped forest, with the red Nether fungi being replaced by two new types of fungi.

• A better look at the terrain generation of the crimson forest and weeping vines, which generate within the biome.

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  A baby hoglin shown on Twitter.

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  Another screenshot which shows two piglins hunting a hoglin. Nether wart blocks seem to be growing on the ground. Note the piglin wearing golden leggings.

• Netherwart Forest Blue.jpeg

  Another screenshot of the warped forest.

• Netherwart Forest Red.jpeg

  Another screenshot of the crimson forest.

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  A soulsand valley that has generated next to a warped forest.

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  A crimson forest that has generated rather large mushrooms. This screenshot in particular shows off the 'stem' of the mushrooms. The bottom of which resembles wood logs.

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  Yet another screenshot of the crimson forest in which there are nether wart blocks growing on the ceiling with weeping vines growing down from them.

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  This image shows off some rather large tree-like structures in the warped forest.

Concept artwork

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  "This concept was made as we started talking about introducing huge nether warts in the Nether. This eventually led to us deciding to turn it into its own biome." – Johan Aronson, art director.

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  "We wanted to extend the palette in the Nether to enhance the feeling that you're not in the Overworld anymore. This was an experiment to find a suitable, contrasting palette to the original Nether setting." – Johan Aronson, art director.

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  Artwork by Johan Aronson, art director.