With anticipation of some of the cool new things to discover in 1.17, we have expanded on the North and West sides of eeWorld. Unfortunately, we didn’t realize that some of the changes were postponed and won’t be out until a later release, namely the Deep Dark Biome and all that comes with that including the new Warden mob. Apparently, the Deep Dark will live in the y<0 range after a change is made allowing Y to go from a -64 to 64 higher than today (265). But alas, we are still stuck at y>0. The plan was to continue to expand on the East and South sides as well. We have even expanded the map room to accommodate that. But we will wait until the rest of the Caves update is released so that we don’t generate any more of the map as it is not clear if existing map chunks already rendered will get the changes allowing Y to go to -64.
In the meantime, there is a still a lot of area to explore which does have some cool new features like drip stone caves, some new mine structures including some platforms held up by chains, huge amethyst geodes, and more!
