Megan Miller - Hacks for Minecrafters: Aquatic: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Wont Teach You

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

This guide is based on the 1.15.2 version of the Minecraft Java Edition, so some features may have changed, or been added or removed between writing this book and publication. There are some minor differences between the Java Edition and the Bedrock Editions of Minecraft, although these tend to be minimal and are reconciled as development of the editions for the two platforms continue.

CHAPTER 1

THE AQUATIC BIOMES OF MINECRAFT

T he biomes of Minecraft are the different natural environments you find, like desert or forest. There used to be only one type of ocean in Minecraft, and it was pretty barren, but today there are lots of different aquatic environment with their own unique features. In Minecraft, biomes are given different sky colors (sometimes), leaf and grass colors, as well as different plants and mobs that can spawn there. Different Minecraft ocean biomes will have different water colors, ocean beds, structures, and flora (plants) and fauna (animals).

The ocean biomes have different shades of blue for their water and temperatures associated with each shade. From left to right are the water colors of the Warm Oceans, Lukewarm Oceans, Oceans, Cold Oceans, and Frozen Oceans.

Whats Aquatic?

Aquatic means watery or waterlike, and it comes from the Latin word for water, aqua. Aquatic biomes in the real world are environments that are in water, from marine biomes (oceanic biomes) to freshwater biomes like lakes, rivers, and wetlands.

Ocean

The original aquatic biomes in Minecraft is the Ocean biome and it counts for the greatest amount of Overworld area in any normal world over a quarter of any world will be Ocean. If you include all ocean biomes, a Minecraft world will be over half ocean. Sea level (the top of the ocean) in Minecraft is at y=63, and an ordinary oceans floor is around y=48. Oceans typically have gravelly floors (with some exposed stone) that rise and fall in hills, mountains, cliffs, and valleys. Ravines can cut into the ocean floor and reach down as deep as y=11.

Some small patches of the ocean floor rise high, some high enough to form islands. Here, and at the oceans edges, where the floor rises to meet land, you can find the ground changing from gravel to a mix of stone, patches of clay, sand, and the blocks the land biome is made of, like dirt, sand, and terracotta.

Ocean banks include the ground blocks of the biome they are rising to, like the terracotta blocks of the mesa.

Youll find kelp and seagrass growing on the Ocean biome floor, with some kelp growing up to sea level. Youll also see dolphins, cod, salmon, and squid living in the ocean waters. The drowned, a variant of the zombie hostile mob, can also spawn in the ocean waters. When you are exploring, look out for underwater ruins and shipwrecks, which can appear in any ocean biome, and are great sources for loot and buried treasure maps.

Youll find kelp, cod, shipwrecks, and dolphins in the ocean, not to mention squid and the drowned!

Cold Ocean

The Cold Ocean biome is virtually identical to the Ocean biome, save for its the darker blue color of its waters. If you are looking for a Frozen Ocean, finding a cold ocean means you are likely close to your goal.

As well as cod, youll see salmon swimming in small groups in the cold and frozen oceans, as well as rivers.

Frozen Ocean

The water of a Frozen Ocean biome is even darker than the water in a Cold Ocean biome, but much of the water at the surface has frozen to ice. Youll also find icebergs here, some massive, made of blue ice, packed ice, and snow. The temperature can vary in a Frozen ocean: The coldest areas have snowfall instead of rain. In all areas, though, it is too cold for either seagrass or kelp to grow, and dolphins also will not spawn here. You will see salmon, squid and the drowned, of course. Above the ocean on the ice and on icebergs, you will see polar bears and the stray, a variant of the skeleton.

Much of the oceans surface is covered by ice and icebergs in a frozen ocean.

Lukewarm Ocean

A Lukewarm Ocean has lighter water than a regular ocean and its floor is primarily made of sand blocks. Youll find cod and squid here, along with the pufferfish and tropical fish that need warmer waters.

You know youre entering into a lukewarm ocean when the sea color turns greenish and the ocean floor turns to sand.