Anyone play Minecraft? I got into it more with my son when he started playing over a year ago and we play on a realm to build a world together.

Anyway the first of a big 2 part update was released end of last week, called the Caves and Mountains update. The first big addition since the Nether update.

introducing the first new block in some time, Copper, as well as some new mobs such as goats and glow squid and some new items found in caves. With these additions there are some new items that can be created such as a telescope, light up item frames and lit text on signs.

Some parts of the new caves additions have also been added such as stalagmites and stalactites, making caves look more like a real natural cave. You can use stalactites as a water souce as they drip water, and also utilise them to drop into enemies.

This 1.17 was a fairly small update, with the majority of it arriving at the end of the year with the 1.18 update. This will add whole new biomes to the cave systems.

Minecraft is one of those games when I play it a lot of a bit, then get a bit bored and leave it a few weeks, then jump back in. We tend to mainly just build and create areas. Mine is mainly focused around a huge castle with big areas of farming, dye production etc and a few automated machines for things like bonemeal creation. I'm not so much into fighting the enemy mobs.