Minecraft Rolls Out Phase 2 Of Aquatic Update

Minecrafts’s Aquatic update on Xbox One, Windows 10, mobile, Oculus and Switch comes with a lot of new things, such as bubble columns, a new mob, turtles (yes, turtles) and more.

Here is a full rundown of the update:

Minecraft Aquatic Update – Phase Two features

General

• Realms are now available on Nintendo Switch
• The Drowned – These dangerous, underwater zombies lurk in dark, deep water and will come up to the shore at night
• Sea Turtles – These gentle creatures can be found swimming in oceans and tanning on beaches. Protect their eggs so more can hatch!
• Turtle Shell and Scute items
• Potion of the Turtle Master
• Nautilus Shells – Can be found while fishing or held by the Drowned
• Conduits can now be constructed underwater and give players the Conduit Power effect. Craft them with Nautilus Shells & Heart of the Sea
• Bubble Columns – Magma Blocks create downward flowing columns and Soul Sand creates upward flowing bubbles
• New Achievements!
• Added new commands that only affect worlds with Education Edition enabled: 1. /ability – Sets a player’s ability 2. /immutableworld – Sets the immutable state of the world 3. /worldbuilder – Toggle World Builder status of caller

Changes

• Changed the menu background to be themed for Update Aquatic
• Undead mobs will now sink in water and can walk on the bottom
• Improved the steering of Boats when using keyboard and mouse by pressing W to move forward and S to reverse
• Dolphins can now be given Raw Fish or Raw Salmon and will swim towards the nearest Ocean Ruins or Shipwreck
• Husks that have sunk in water will now transform into Zombies and Zombies will transform into Drowned
• Skeleton Horses can now be ridden underwater
• Skeletons and Strays will switch from ranged to melee attacks while underwater and switch back when out of water
• Coral blocks will no longer die as long as one side is touching water
• Improved player swimming at the surface of water
• Tridents can now be enchanted with Mending and Unbreaking
• Added an animation when using Riptide in first person perspective
• Slightly decreased the friction of Blue Ice
• Updated the texture of the top of Kelp
• Updated the texture of Cooked Fish
• Updated the Riptide spin texture
• Default Field of View has been reduced from 70 to 60 and can be adjusted in Video Settings
• Tridents will no longer break blocks in Creative mode
• The Inventory button has been moved to the top of the Store page