The Exploration Update

(I am currently turning this into a mod, so stay tuned!)

The exploration update (aka 1.18) is the most recent update to Minecraft, adding multiple items, enchantments and more!

New biomes:

The haunted forest: The haunted forest has about the same rarity as a mooshroom biome, and it has two structures, the abandoned village, and the haunted mansion (more on that later). The mobs in this biome are pretty much all undead mobs.

The volcanic biome: The volcanic biome is one of the rarest biomes in all of Minecraft, being hundreds of thousands away from spawn. All lava caves lead to the volcanic biome.

The redwood biome: The redwood biome contains a new type of wood, redwood, and the trees in the biome are huge, about 108 blocks high. (The jungle tree is only 30 blocks high!) The biome also contains foxes, wolves, and new mobs called the elk and the brown bear, both of which will be covered more later.

The wither biome: The wither biome is the only new biome in this update that is in the nether. It is very rare because you can farm multiple wither skulls. It has a new structure called the wither fortress.

new enchantments:

new mobs: the illager king: he spawns in a new structure, the illager castle in the top floor, the throne room. he has can cycle through weapons, the weapons he prefers are crossbows, magic and axes. the new villagers: they are not technically new mobs, but they are new villager jobs, they include the redstone engineer, the beekeeper and the pyrotechnic. the illager golem spawns in the illager castle, illager towns and raids on harder difficulties, they have a small bit less health then the golem but they have a stronger attack. the necromancer: they spawn in illager castles, illager towns, raids and woodland mansions, they give strength to nearbye illagers and slowness to near bye villagers. the elk: the elk is a mob that spawns in the redwood biome, they drop 4 elk meat when you kill them, but they wont go down without a fight.

new structures: the piglin outpost: they spawn in the crimson forest, they have four floors, including a workplace, a forge, a lab and a defense on the roof. the illager castle: the illlager castle has 30 rooms, including a lab, a dining table, a potion room, a prison and a throne room. illager town: a illager town resembles a normal village, there are multiple types, depending on the biome. new villages the new villages are the swamp village and a jungle village, nothing much more to say. villager castle: the villager castle spawns in any type of village, but it has to match certant requirements (a fountain, more then 21 beds, etc) it has 20 rooms and a castle wall, if you kill the king, he drops a crown which will make guards and golems attack anyone you hit or attacks you, but attacking the king will make the guards attack YOU!

new items: potion of glowing: brewed by using a glow squid sack, when drunk, mobs will be dazed by your glow! potion of phantom repellent, brewed by using some phantom membranes, it will keep phantoms away for the duration of the potion, hoglin hide: hoglin hide is obtained by killing a hoglin, it can be used to create hoglin hide beds. hoglin hide beds: hoglin hide beds allow you to sleep in the nether, they spawn in piglin outposts, refined redstone: it can be crafted similar to the golden apple, but with redstone in the middle, it has a stronger signal, is immune to water and can go up walls.

minor changes: custom skins for villagers in mesa and all 1.16 nether biomes, flame has another level which makes blocks set on fire, wither skeletons drop charred bones, there new illager textures fir every biome.