Minecraft Forums

Health: 10 ()

Dolphins spawn in every single ocean biome except frozen oceans. They are attracted to items floating around in the water, and are friendly in nature. However, be sure not to hit them, as attacking even just one dolphin will result in all nearby dolphins being aggressive to you, similar to the behavior of zombie pigmen.

They have a unique use in that they lead you to treasure after you feed them fish (raw cod).

The phantom is attracted to players who haven't slept. It spawns in groups at night at high altitudes and swoops down to damage players with high insomnia. When killed, phantoms drop phantom membranes that can be brewed into potions of slow falling. These membranes are now the only way to repair elytra without using another pair of elytra.

Using commands, you can also control the size of the phantom using the {Size:x} tag, just as you can with slimes.

These nasty things spawn in rivers and oceans. They will sometimes have tridents, in which case they will use them as a throwing weapon and drop them when killed. The drowned attack baby turtles and turtle eggs just as skeletons and zombies do. If a zombie drowns, it will become a drowned. The drowned will sometimes drop a nautilus shell.

Turtles spawn on beaches. When bred with sea grass, they lay eggs that will hatch into tiny baby turtles.

When you jump on these, eggs, they will have a chance of breaking. Zombies and skeletons are hostile to baby turtles, and will even try to destroy the eggs themselves.

Through methods unknown of for now, you can collect "turtle shell pieces." You can use five of these to make a turtle shell, which can be worn on your head like a helmet (in which case it would provide as much protection as an iron helmet and give you an extra 10 seconds of breathing time while underwater) or brew it into the "Potion of the Turtle Master." This potion gives you high levels of resistance and slowness, similar to how a turtle is very slow but very strong due to its shell.

This is a new weapon. So far we don't know how to obtain it, but we do have its abilities and texture shown already. You can use it as a melee weapon like a sword, or throw it. There is a special enchantment you can get on it that makes it come back to you after you throw it. There is also another enchantment that makes the player go with the trident when its thrown. Also note that you can only use certain abilities of the trident when underwater or if exposed to rain.

Above is another picture of it. There are multiple enchantments for the trident. Riptide makes you go with the trident as you throw it, Impaler makes it do more damage to underwater creatures, Loyalty makes the trident come back to you after you throw it, and Channeling causes lightning to strike when you hit something with the trident as long as there is currently a thunderstorm. Note that the Riptide enchantment cannot be combined with Channeling or Loyalty.

As a melee weapon, tridents do 9 () damage. with 9.9 damage per second. As a ranged weapon tridents do 8 () damage.

You can now sprint underwater by double-tapping w. This picture is from this minecraft.net page.

These are caused by placing magma blocks under water. All entities and players fall downwards through bubble columns there is no water there, making it a potential risk when navigating the seas.

On the other hand, you can use soulsand to create upwards bubble columns. These push players and entities up.

After harvesting normal kelp, you get this item:

If you cook this in a furnace, you get dried kelp.

This can be eaten to restore half a hunger shank and 0.6 saturation. Note that it can be eaten faster than other foods. It can be then crafted into dried kelp blocks.

These can be crafted back into normal dried kelp.

Like coral, sea grass grows in the ocean. It can actually be obtained through bonemealing the ground when underwater. When mined with shears, it drops its item.

Coral can be found in coral reefs. There are blocks, "plants," and fans. There are five variations of each. Coral blocks and coral fans become "dead" (gray) when no longer in contact with water. You can only harvest coral with a Silk Touch pickaxe.

Sea pickles generate on coral in the ocean. They emit light, but only when underwater. Just like with turtle eggs, there can be up to 4 sea pickles in one block. The more there are, the more light is given off. Sea pickles can be smelted to make lime dye.

• Cod will spawn in Cold, Normal and Lukewarm oceans, and like to be with other cod.

• Salmon will spawn in Frozen and Cold oceans and rivers, and like to be with other salmon. They can be in 3 different sizes.

• Puffer fish will spawn in Lukewarm and Warm oceans, and like to be alone

As you can see, the pufferfish has multiple stages. It will grow to its full stage and poison you when you are near it. When a fish mob dies, it drops its corresponding item. The fish can also be picked up using a bucket of water, after which they can be placed down.

There are also now tropical fish, which include the clownfish.

When spawning, tropical fish have a 90% chance to look like one of the fish above. However, they also have a 10% chance to spawn with a randomized look.

Each tropical fish that is randomized can have one of 2 shapes, 6 patterns, 16 base colors, and 16 secondary colors. User Uniquitous has calculated that there are 3,072 possible tropical fish.

These will of course be found deep in the ocean, and will contain loot chests. The loot includes, but is not limited to:

- Iron

- Gold

- Diamond

- Lapis

- Emeralds

- Bottle o' Enchanting

- Treasure Map

- Compass

- Leather Armor

Jens (jeb_) has now confirmed that water physics will work slightly different than shown above. Here are some quotes from one of his Mixer streams:

"The things that we showed at Minecon may have been too much, so
we're trying more simple way of doing the water physics, more similar to
the old style. The most important thing is to have non solid blocks
inside water, like stairs and fences, but the way we're gonna do it is
that if you have a fence and you put water on it, that's gonna be a water source block, but water itself won't flow through fences [...] because that would break a lot of contraptions that people make using trapdoors and such."

"We want water physics to work like they do today. The difference is
that you can put water on the fence, and then the fence will be inside
water"

You can now place water inside of slabs and stairs.

Dinnerbone has actually been working on the fluid engine, though, and has made water technically separate from other blocks. Water may act more like what was shown originally at Minecon in the future.

The nautilus shell can be obtained through fishing and is also a rare drop from the drowned. It is one of the ingredients used to craft the conduit.

The Heart of the Sea can be found in treasure chests. It is one of the ingredients used to craft the conduit.

The conduit is a mysterious item that provides a unique buff for the player.

When surrounded by 16 or more prismarine-typed blocks (sea lanterns, prismarine, or prismarine bricks) it gives off a new status effect called "Conduit Power" to players in a 96 block radius of the conduit. This effect gives players infinite breathing, haste (increased mining speed), and clearer vision underwater. The conduit will also do damage to nearby hostile mobs such as the drowned.

When damaging mobs, (The conduit has to be fully powered to do so.), mobs take damage one at a time and only take damage if in an 8 block radius of the conduit.

This was revealed on the Minecraft Instagram. They have chests which can contain loot such as prismarine crystals, enchanted fishing rods, iron, gold, treasure maps, cooked fish, and even diamonds.

"Cold underwater ruins generate in normal, cold, and frozen ocean biomes, as well as their deep variants. They are composed of stone materials. Warm underwater ruins generate in warm, lukewarm, and deep lukewarm ocean biomes, and are composed of sandstone and stone materials. Although most underwater ruins generate underwater, they will sometimes generate on land." - The Official Minecraft Wiki

You can now right-click a banner with a map to mark a spot on said map as seen in the picture above. The color of the marker is dependent on the base color of the banner.

Blue ice is similar to packed ice, but takes much longer to mine and is even more slippery. Blue ice can be crafted with 9 packed ice in the crafting table like so: