What's New in the Beta

Explore lush caves, tall peaks & more in your classroom with the Caves and Cliffs Part 2 beta (version 1.18.10.04). In this update, you’ll be able to scale bigger mountains, unearth elaborate caves, and mine large ore veins! Also, discover lush cave and dripstone cave biomes, increased world height, and updated terrain generation! As with any beta, we welcome you to try out our new game before we release it to the general public. We can’t wait for you to play!

Please let us know all about the things you love, as well as challenges you run into by contributing to our Beta feedback forum.

From the Caves and Cliffs Part 2 Update

Caves and Cliffs Part 2 brings some exciting features and changes to worlds, here are the highlights!

• Increased the world height and depth, adding 50% more vertical space to build and explore
• New cave generation with new biomes like Lush Caves and Amethyst Geodes
• Taller mountains with new biomes like Jagged Peaks and Groves
• Drastically updated and improved biome, cave, and ore generation

Increased World Height and Depth

• Overworld height and depth for new and existing worlds has been extended to add 50% more vertical space, opening up more space to explore and build in
  • Old vertical height range: y0 to y256
  • New vertical height range: y-64 to y320

World Blending

• Players can now update existing worlds to include the new overworld height dimensions and world generation features.
  • This Bedrock Edition article has some great information about upgrading your worlds. Please note that not all the information is relevant to Minecraft: Education Edition though.
• Existing chunks at y0 bedrock layer and below will be replaced with Deepslate and feature new cave generation underneath
• Biomes and terrain generating across new and existing chunk borders will blend seamlessly, creating natural-looking environmental transitions

New Terrain and Mountain Generation

• Terrain shape and elevation is no longer always determined by biome, resulting in new biome placements such as deserts on top of hills
• Mountains are taller than ever and can now generate up to a maximum height of 256 blocks

New Biomes, 3D Biome Generation, and Biome Distribution

• Added 3D biomes - cave biomes can now generate directly below surface biomes
• New cave and mountain biomes added, including Jagged Peaks, Meadows, Lush Caves and Dripstone Caves

New Cave Generation

• Added more uniquely shaped caves - the three primary types of noise caves are large, open Cheese Caves, wide, tunneling Spaghetti Caves and the narrow, winding Noodle Caves
• Added aquifers - these create local level bodies of water such as flooded caves or underground lakes

Ore Distribution and Large Ore Veins

• Added large ore veins - these long formations stretch through cave systems and contain larger deposits of ore than the clusters usually found underground
• Ore distribution has been adjusted to compensate for the new world height

Mob Spawning

• Monsters will now only spawn in complete darkness. Players can spawn-proof dark areas such as caves using light sources

New Music

• Added new music

Known Issues

• HOC 2019 and Good Trouble are not playable in the Demo experience. Other HOC lessons are playable.