Minecraft 1.17 Update, also known as the Caves and Cliffs update, was earlier slated to release later this year. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, it was announced that the update will be split into halves, with the first one coming in Summer 2021, while the second one will arrive during the Holidays.

Every week the developer Mojang Studios releases a Snapshot which includes one of the features of the Caves and Cliffs update. This week, we will be getting Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w17a, and here is all you need to know about it.

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When will Minecraft Snapshot 21w17a release?

Last week, Snapshot 21w16aw was released and dripstone growth was added to the game. There was a wide range of bug fixes and performance improvements alongside that as well. The next Snapshot 21w17a, has been released and is already available for download.

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Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w17a - Patch Notes, Release Date, Time (Today, April 28)

Here are the patch notes of Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 21w17a.

CHANGES IN 21W17A

  • Small Dripleaves can now also be placed on Moss Blocks
  • Copper Ore drops 2-3 raw Copper when mined, or more when using a tool enchanted with Fortune
  • Copper Blocks are now crafted from 9 Copper Ingots
  • Tweaked the texture of raw Metal blocks
A comparison between raw ore textures in snapshot 21w16a and snapshot 21w17a.

CHANGES TO THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW

Download the updated datapack here.

A sprawling cave system.
  • Large Ore Veins have been tweaked
  • Added noodle caves – thinner, squigglier, and more claustrophobic variant of spaghetti caves

LARGE ORE VEINS

  • Ore veins are now slightly rarer and slightly smaller (but they are still large!)
  • The ores in the vein are clumpier and less evenly distributed
  • If you are lucky you may find a raw ore block in the vein

FIXED BUGS IN 21W17A

  • MC-170443 - Banner copying recipe ignores existence of other items in crafting grid
  • MC-187664 - World border uses float to determine its size, making some border sizes inaccessible, and cannot be set to 30 million or beyond
  • MC-201269 - Constantly teleporting player to a phantom crashes the game/kicks the player
  • MC-203570 - Candles aren’t grouped in the recipe book
  • MC-203745 - Repeated teleport between dimensions causes the entity to duplicate on the client
  • MC-204031 - Waxed Cut Copper (any level of weathered) have two separate recipes in the recipe book
  • MC-214187 - Void platform generates multiple times
  • MC-214735 - Horse disappears when dying while riding it and reloading the world while it’s unloaded
  • MC-214838 - Big dripleaf stem remains after breaking a stem or leaf above it
  • MC-214865 - Floating islands world type generates extreme terrain
  • MC-219155 - Fishing line only starts on half distance between the fishing rod and bobber (Apple M1 only)
  • MC-219840 - You cannot unlock the recipe for Mossy Stone Bricks
  • MC-219842 - Recipes for mossy cobblestone and mossy stone bricks aren’t grouped
  • MC-220033 - (Parity issue) Hanging Roots can’t be waterlogged
  • MC-221560 - Copper/Coal Ore in Deepslate Patches aren’t Deepslate Ores
  • MC-222008 - Empty/missing template pool error grammar mistake
  • MC-222520 - Raw and Ore smelting previews aren’t grouped together
  • MC-223055 - Amethyst buds and cluster have an unused blockstate
  • MC-223792 - Shrinking world border with center past x/z 29999983 crashes the game