Education Edition 1.16.0

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1.16.0, the first release of the Nether Update, is an upcoming major update to Minecraft: Education Edition set to release in mid-2021, when the Caves and Cliffs Update will release for Bedrock and Java Editions. It is predicted to be released around August 2021.

Additions

Blocks

Allow and Deny

• Re-added and can be obtained only by using the Template:Cmd command.

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, but is movable with pistons.
• 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

• Makeup basalt pillars.
• Generates in soul sand valleys and in basalt deltas.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.
• Can be crafted into polished basalt
• Can be made if lava touches blue ice while flowing over soul soil.

Blackstone

• Naturally generates in basalt deltas and bastion remnants.
• Generates in all Nether biomes except basalt deltas below lava level.
• Can be used to craft stone tools, furnaces, slabs, stairs, and walls.

Block of Netherite

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

Border

• Re-added and can be obtained only by using the Template:Cmd command.

Chain

• Generates in Bastion Remnants.
• Crafted with iron ingots and iron nuggets.

Chiseled Nether Bricks

• New variant of Nether bricks.
• Crafted from 2 Nether brick slabs.

Cracked Nether Bricks

• New variant of Nether bricks.
• Obtained by smelting Nether bricks in a furnace.

Crimson and Warped Fungus

• Generate in crimson and warped forests.
• 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, wooded, and stripped wooded variants. The wood and striped wood variants are called "Hyphae" and "Stripped Hyphae" respectively.

Crying Obsidian

• Used to craft respawn anchors.
• Generates in Ruined Portals.
• Obtainable through bartering.
• Can be found in ruined portals and bastion remnant chests.
• Emits purple particles, resembling tears.
• Has the same blast resistance as obsidian.

Gilded Blackstone

• Variant of blackstone that can drop gold nuggets.

Hyphae

• A variant of stems with the bark on all 6 sides.
• Also has a stripped variant.

Lodestone

• Crafted with 1 netherite ingot and 8 chiseled stone bricks.
• Using a compass on it turns the compass into a lodestone compass which points to the connected lodestone.
• Works in all dimensions.

Nether Gold Ore

• A variant of gold ore found in the Nether.
• Drops 2–6 gold nuggets when mined.
  • This is affected by Fortune the same way other ores are, for a maximum possible drop of 24 golden nuggets with Fortune III.
  • Nether gold ore, obtained with Silk Touch, can still be smelted into a single gold ingot.
• Can be mined with any pickaxe.
• Also drops experience orbs.

Nether Sprouts

• Blue foliage that generates in warped forests.
• Resembles grass from the Overworld.
• Can be used in composters.

Polished Basalt

• Can be crafted with 4 basalt.
• Directional and purely decorative, like normal basalt.

Polished Blackstone

• Crafted from 4 blackstone.
• Can be crafted into pressure plates, buttons, slabs, stairs, and walls.

Polished Blackstone Bricks

• Crafted from 4 polished blackstone.
• Can be crafted into slabs, stairs, and walls.

Quartz Bricks

• Crafted from four blocks of quartz.
• Used as a decorative block.

Respawn Anchor

• Crafted with 6 crying obsidian and three glowstone.
• Requires a diamond pickaxe or higher to mine.
• Can be used to respawn in the Nether
• It is charged with glowstone and can be charged up to four levels. Whenever someone who charged the respawn anchor dies, they respawn near it and the level goes down by 1.
• Emits a slight amount of light, which gets stronger for each charge added.
• Can be charged with a dispenser.
• When it is not charged, it does not do anything.
• Like how a bed explodes in the Nether, attempting to use a respawn anchor in the Overworld or the End causes it to explode.

Shroomlight

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

Soul Campfire

• Soul variant of the normal campfire.
• Has a blue flame instead of orange.
• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted with soul sand or soul soil instead of coal.
• Piglins are repelled by soul campfires.

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 ​ per second as opposed to the ​ per second of regular fire.
• Does not extinguish when in the rain.

Soul Lantern

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

Soul Torch

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

Soul Soil

• Generates in the soul sand valley, alongside conventional soul sand.
• Fire lit on soul soil is called soul fire.
• The player does not sink and is not slowed when walking in soul soil.
• Can be used to summon the wither.

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.

Twisting Vines

• Generates in the warped forest.
• Grows upward, like kelp.
• Can be climbed, like other vines.
• Growth can be accelerated with bone meal.
• Can be used in composters.

Warped Wart Block

• A variation of the nether wart block, but cannot be crafted.
• Generates as a part of huge warped fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the warped nylium in the warped forest biome.
• Can be used in composters.

Weeping Vines

• Generates in the crimson forest.
• Grows downward.
• Can be climbed, like other vines.
• Growth can be accelerated with bone meal.
• Can be used in composters.

Items

Potion of Slowness IV

• Can be brewed by adding glowstone dust to a regular potion of slowness.

Splash Potion of Slowness IV

• Can be brewed by adding glowstone dust to a regular splash potion of slowness.

Lingering Potion of Slowness IV

• Can be brewed by adding glowstone dust to a regular lingering potion of slowness.

Arrow of Slowness IV

• Can be crafted by tipping an arrow in a cauldron filled with a potion of slowness IV, or with eight arrows and one lingering potion of slowness IV.

Banner Patterns

• Added a new pattern for banners: the Snout.
• Used in the loom to apply the Snout pattern to the banner.
• Obtained in bastion remnant chests.

Music Discs

• Added a new music disc known as "Pigstep"
  • Composed by Lena Raine.
  • Can be found only in bastion remnant chests unlike other music discs.

Netherite Armor

• Upgraded using a smithing table 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 armor.

Netherite Axe, Hoe, Pickaxe, Shovel, and Sword

• Upgraded using a smithing table 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 in a smithing table.
• 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, piglin, strider, and zoglin spawn eggs.

Warped Fungus on a Stick

• Crafted with a fishing rod and warped fungus.
• Can be used to control striders in the same way as a carrot on a stick with pigs.

Mobs

Hoglins

• A hostile mob that spawns 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.
  • Baby hoglins are not hunted and play with baby piglins.
• Avoid placed warped fungi.
• Convert to a zoglin when in the Overworld.

Piglins

• Spawn in crimson forests and nether wastes biomes.
• Also spawn in Bastion Remnants.
• Randomly spawns with golden sword or crossbow.
• Adults are hostile; babies are passive.
  • Do not attack players wearing at least one piece of golden armor.
  • Adult piglins turn aggressive when a player is mining blocks of gold, hitting a piglin, or opening/breaking chests, barrels, trapped chests, or shulker boxes, even if they are wearing gold armor.
• The player can barter with them by right-clicking with golden ingots, which makes them drop at least one item or block.
• Attack adult hoglins.
  • Baby piglins do not attack and adult piglins do not attack baby hoglins.
• Baby piglins ride on the back of baby hoglins.
• Adults attack wither skeletons.
• Avoid soul fire, soul fire torches, soul fire lanterns, nether portals, zoglins, and zombified piglins.
• Can spawn with golden armor.
• Convert to a zombified piglin when in the Overworld.

Strider

• A passive mob that spawns in the Nether on lava oceans.
• Drops 2–5 string.
• Can be saddled and controlled with warped fungus on a stick.
• Moves in and out of lava
  • Shivers and turns blueish-purple when out of lava.
  • Moves significantly slower out of lava.
• Is damaged by water and rain.
• Has a baby variant.
• Can be bred with warped fungi.
• Adults can spawn with baby striders riding them.
• Can spawn with zombified piglins or baby striders riding them. If they spawn with a zombified piglin, they also have a saddle equipped.

Zoglins

• A zombified variant of the hoglin.
• Created when a hoglin is brought into the Overworld after 15 seconds.
• Attack most mobs on sight, except creepers and other zoglins.
• Drop rotten flesh.
• Have an adult and baby variant.
• Unlike hoglins, they cannot be bred or fed, and they do not flee from warped fungi.

World generation

Biomes

• Basalt Deltas
  • A biome consisting of basalt, blackstone, ash particles, gray fog, and small lava ponds.
  • Magma Cubes spawn frequently here.
• 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 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.

• Bastion Remnants
  • Structures built from blackstone and filled with piglins.
  • Contains chests, blocks of gold, and various forms of loot protected by piglins.
  • Can generate in all nether biomes except basalt deltas.

• Nether Fossil
  • Structures found in soul sand valley.
    • These fossils are different bone block structure from the overworld counterpart.

• 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.

• Ruined Portal
  • Shattered remains of nether portals.
  • Structures found in the Overworld and the Nether.
  • A loot chest can be found beside the portal.
  • Can be found at surface, underground, and in oceans or lava seas.

Gameplay

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The emotes menu in use.

Emotes

• The player can toggle the emote menu with B, or Template:Xbutton on Xbox One controllers, or Template:Nsbutton/Template:Nsbutton on Nintendo Switch controllers, or Template:Psbutton on PlayStation 4 controllers, or File:Emote button.png by default.
• Emotes are available for free, purchase, and as achievement rewards.

Enchanting

• Added Curse of Binding.
  • Prevents the item from being removed from that armor slot until the player dies.
  • Cannot be removed with a grindstone.
• Added Curse of Vanishing.
  • Any item with this enchantment disappears if the player dies.
  • The keepInventory gamerule prevents this.
  • Cannot be removed with a grindstone.
• Added Soul Speed enchantment.
  • A new treasure enchantment obtainable via bartering with piglins or in bastion remnant chests.
  • Available only on boots.
  • Allows faster walking on soul sand and soul soil.
    • There is a 4% chance that the durability of the boots goes down for each soul sand or soul soil block stepped on.
  • Cannot be obtained from enchanting tables, fishing, chest loot, or trading.

Command format

Commands

• Added Template:Cmd
  • Used to kick players from a world.

General

Accessibility

• Added "Text Background Opacity" setting that can be altered to change item tooltip backgrounds.

Ambience

• Added cave and moody nether ambient sounds.
  • Cave sounds play in the overworld, more commonly in caves.
  • Moody nether sounds play in the Nether, with each nether biome having its own sounds.

Experimental Gameplay

• Added structure voids, save and load mode for structure blocks, which are available only through experimental gameplay.

Music

• Added 6 new soundtracks: 3 for the Nether, composed by Lena Raine, and 3 for the ocean, composed by C418:
  • "Rubedo" plays in the nether wastes biome.
  • "Chrysopoeia" plays in the crimson forest biome.
  • "So Below" plays in the soul sand valley and basalt deltas biomes.
  • "Axolotl", "Dragon Fish" and "Shuniji" all play in ocean and river biomes.

Splashes

• Added the following splash text:
  • "Honey, I grew the bees"
  • "Find your claw!"
  • "Everybody do the Leif!"
  • "<3 Max & 99 & Ducky"
  • "Bushy eyebrows"
  • "Edit is a name"
  • "From free range developers"

See also

• Education Edition 1.17.0
• Education Edition 1.18.0

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