Hey everybody, it’s Under My Cap, and welcome back to another video! Today, I am thrilled to share this with you. This is the first-ever Minecraft 1.17 snapshot. I obviously don’t know the name yet, but here it is on the screen right now—it’s a whole bunch of letters and numbers. Today, I’m going to go through every single new feature they’ve added, what you can do with them, how to craft them, and a whole bunch more. So if you want to know more, just stick around, and I’ll show you all the new features. Also, make sure to subscribe and like the video for future uploads. I’m going to try to make it a routine to review every snapshot as it comes out, so if you want to stay updated, just subscribe. Thank you! The first new addition to Minecraft is candles. Candles are a really cool light source for your Minecraft worlds. They’re very decorative, fun to use, and they generally look great. One thing I noticed about the candles is that they behave like sea pickles. They have a similar texture and style, but the only difference is that the light source can be turned on and off. As you can see here, I light the candles by right-clicking with flint and steel. To turn them off, I right-click with my character, and yeah, it’s really cool. You’ll also notice that candles can be stacked from one to four, just like sea pickles. They behave similarly with this stacking, so you can have one, two, three, or four—they can stack as many as you like! Another addition with candles, which I really like, is that you can actually place candles on cakes. Finally, you can have a birthday in Minecraft with your friends! All you have to do is place the cake down and then right-click with whatever candle you like. Please note that you can only place one candle; if you try to place more, your character ends up in the cake. So, as you can see here, when I right-click on it, the candle falls out, and then, well, you start eating it. Now, one thing about the candles is that their light source is pretty low. As you can see here, the candle actually emits much less light than a redstone torch, which makes for a more spooky environment where your character can’t really see much. In the video, where Mojang started to reveal some of their features, you could see candles on the floor in the underground biome, which is really cool, but as you may have noticed, torches are much brighter than the actual candles. So, while candles can be decorative in caves, I would recommend using torches instead. To craft a candle, all you’ll need is a honeycomb from a beehive, a string, and any dye you want. You don’t actually have to have dye to craft your candle, but if you want a colorful candle, you just have to place the dye next to the honeycomb during crafting, and you’ll get a cool candle that you can place almost anywhere. The next new addition is copper ore. Copper ore is an ore introduced in this update, and it can be used to craft a whole bunch of items that were also introduced. Copper behaves like a normal ore, so you have to mine it with an iron pickaxe, and you also have to smelt it just like iron. It’s useful for many things, and I’ll show you what you can do with it. The first thing that copper can be crafted into is the copper block. The copper block has a really cool new feature called weathering. Basically, when you use this block for a long period of time and it’s exposed outdoors—not in your inventory—it will slowly erode. As you can see here, I have all of the new copper blocks arranged from the newly crafted to fully eroded. A really cool feature that wasn’t talked about during Minecon Live, which I discovered recently, is that you can actually wax your copper blocks to prevent them from eroding. So, what you can do is make them erode fully or halfway, then wax them, and they’ll stop eroding. I attempted an experiment where I compared the normal copper block against a waxed block by changing the game tick speed to speed up erosion. For some reason, after about three minutes, nothing happened, so it might be a bug at the moment. However, the waxed block definitely does stop erosion. Copper isn’t just for making blocks; you can also use it to create a variety of items. One of the coolest is the lightning rod. The lightning rod was introduced to redirect lightning bolts and prevent them from burning down your buildings. This can be particularly useful for wooden houses or any structures surrounded by wool. As you’ll notice in the current video, it worked for the most part, but I did notice that sometimes the lightning missed and struck areas around it. I’m not sure if this is a bug or just part of the mechanics, but it looks cool and blends in well. The next new feature is geodes. Geodes are little circular orbs found underground in your world, and they are where amethysts spawn. When I break the blocks of the geode or the amethyst blocks, they make a really cool noise, which adds some vibrance to the environment. When walking over the amethyst, you’ll notice they also make a sound, which is another nice feature. Geodes are covered in calcite and tough, new blocks added in Minecraft, designed to symbolize a rough shell and alert players so they don’t damage the amethyst generators. You’ll notice there are two types of amethyst blocks: one type spawns amethyst crystals while the other is purely decorative. When you destroy the amethyst generation blocks, you’ll see that you can’t actually take them. This is because Mojang designed the geodes specifically so you couldn’t farm them in the usual way; you have to return to the location to farm them again. Amethyst crystals emit a little bit of light, as you can see here, but they aren’t an effective light source. They provide some illumination, but they are not as good as torches or candles—probably on par with candles. You might be wondering what you can do with copper and these crystals. Well, you can craft a really cool spyglass. Spyglasses are similar to OptiFine, but they are vanilla. You can use them to look around and see things at a distance, including mobs. One thing to note is that it doesn’t expand your render distance; it simply zooms in, allowing you to see distant objects more clearly. As you can see, it helps a lot to zoom in. This is a very cool feature. However, you can’t use it with a crossbow or any other bows; you can use it in your offhand with other tools like swords. To craft the spyglass, you need two copper ingots and one amethyst shard. As you can see here, this is how you craft it, and you’ll end up with a spyglass. Also, regarding the amethyst, you can gather several amethyst shards to create amethyst blocks, so if you want to display those blocks without mining for the gems, you can do that. The next feature implemented is tinted glass. Tinted glass, unlike stained glass, does not let in light. As you’ll notice when I replace regular glass with tinted glass, the inside area becomes pitch black. This is because tinted glass prevents light from entering. You can still see through tinted glass; it just doesn’t allow light to come through. The final feature added in this snapshot is the ability to use bundles. Bundles are very cool; they function like backpacks and are crafted with rabbit hide and two pieces of string. Instead of being able to open a GUI, you right-click on the items you want to bundle. As you can see, they slowly fill up the bundle. Bundles can hold up to 64 items, and once they are full, you cannot add more. To empty a bundle, you simply right-click on it, and instead of opening a GUI, it dumps all the items into your inventory, which is a bit annoying, but it feels quite vanilla, as is typical in Minecraft. I can see a lot of potential uses for bundles in the future. Not only that, but you can also store a lot more items in your inventory, which is fantastic! So that’s about it for the new Minecraft snapshot in Java. Hopefully, I didn’t miss anything. If I did, I’ll try to make another video on it. If you enjoyed the content, please leave a like and subscribe to the channel for more Minecraft content, including reviews of new Minecraft snapshots that will hopefully come out regularly. I am aware that goats are now available in Bedrock, and I have purchased Bedrock so I can create more tutorials there. I just have to figure out how to get the beta Minecraft version. Thank you so much for watching! My social media links are in the description below. 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