Blocks

• 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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• Foliage that generates in warped forests.

• 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.

• 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.^[​5]

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Items

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Added hoglin and piglin spawn eggs.

Mobs

• 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.

• 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 or about 8.85%) are 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 or about 4.42%) are 8-16 nether quartz, 5-12 glowstone dust, 2-6 magma cream, 4-8 ender pearl, or 8-24 string.
  • Rare barters (⁵⁄₂₂₆ or about 2.21%) are 1 warped nylium, 1 Fire Resistance potion or 1 Fire Resistance splash potion.
  • Very rare barter (¹⁄₂₂₆ or about 0.44%) is 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.^[​6]
• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Used to locate specific biomes.

Gameplay

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

• The recipes for crimson and warped signs have been added to the recipe book and are unlocked by having the respective planks.

• New unique block sounds for most of the newly added blocks have been added.^{[more information needed]}

General

• 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.

• 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.^{[more information needed]}
• 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 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.^{[more information needed]}
• Added crimson_stems block and item tags.
  • Contains crimson stem and stripped crimson stem.
• Added warped_stems block and item tags.
  • Contains warped stem and stripped warped stem.
• 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 text which was missing for a death message and was displaying a raw translation string - what it says exactly is unknown.^[​7]

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

Changes

Blocks

• Renamed to "bamboo shoot".

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

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

• 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.

• Has a bottom texture when empty.

• Generate in the new soul sand valley biomes.

• Now pushes entities.

• 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.

• 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 .

• Hardness has been increased to 1.5.
• Pickaxes are now more efficient on pistons.^[​8]
• Pistons can now support non-solid blocks on its top face without them popping off when the piston retracts.^[​9]

• Changed the top texture.

• Has a bottom texture.

• Renamed to "smooth quartz block".

• 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

• Renamed to "clay ball".

• Changed the texture slightly

• Can now break nether wart blocks quickly.

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

Mobs

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

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

• Now spawn in soul sand valleys.

• Can now be leashed.

• Can be summoned using soul soil as the base.

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

Non-item entities

• Now checks dismount position height against entity height.

World generation

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

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

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

• Shipwrecks and ocean ruins are now less common.

Command format

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

Gameplay

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

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

• 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.

• Updated block sounds for bone blocks, netherrack, soul sand, nether wart blocks, nether bricks (and variants), and nether quartz ore.

• 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

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

• 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.

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

• Improved entity shadows to the ground.

• 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.