Minecraft Caves and Cliffs has been on fans' minds since its first reveal in October 2020, and the first part of the now split update has officially arrived!

Here’s the new Caves and Cliffs content now live in Minecraft: Java Edition.

Patch Notes

The 1.17 update may have been split, but plenty of its biggest new content additions have now arrived in its first part!

This has made for a massively stacked set of Caves and Cliffs patch notes - so instead of giving you the giant list to push through, here’s all the biggest highlights from the first part of Caves and Cliffs.

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New Additions

While the second Minecraft Caves and Cliffs update will focus on large procedural changes, the first has given us a ton of new mobs, blocks, biomes, and more.

• Added Dripstone Block and Pointed Dripstone
• Added Block of Amethyst, Budding Amethyst, Amethyst Cluster, and Amethyst Bud
• Added Block of Raw Iron, Copper, and Gold
• Added Candles
• Added Copper
• Added Deepslate
• Added Glow Lichen
• Added Lava Cauldron
• Added Lightning Rod
• Added Lush Caves Block
• Added Powder Snow
• Added Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold items
• Added the Axolotl
• Added the Glow Squid
• Added the Goat
• Added Spyglass
• Added Tinted Glass

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Bug Fixes

The Caves and Cliffs update has kicked off with over 300 bug fixes, and Mojang have compiled them all together here.

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