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The Ocean and Orange update was a major update announced at Minecraft Live 2024. The update was put into 2 parts, part 1 being released in October 2024 and part 2 being released in March 2025. Part 1 of this update centers on the already existing ocean biomes and blocks and items to be added to the game while part 2 centers on the new major biomes and structures to be added. The update as a whole also centers around the nether's own oceans and lava. This Article talks Part 1 of the update, Part 2 can be found here.


Additions[]

Blocks[]

  • Smothered Sand
    • Can be broken by anything (Turns to mud if not using a shovel)
    • Use shovel to Collect it as smothered sand
    • Looks nearly identical to sand
    • Can be found where gravel once generated in the oceans
    • Wandering villagers will have it (2 emerald per smothered sand)
    • Plants that can usually go on sand can be planted on smothered sand
  • Crying Cooler
    • Crafted using Crying obsidian and water bucket (Crying obsidian all around water bucket, uses up water bucket entirely)
    • A diamond pickaxe or better is required to mine this block
    • When broken with non-silk tools are used to break this block, it drops 8 crying obsidian.
    • Can be filled with glowstone like to a respawn anchor
    • When full of glowstone, the lava around it will slowly turn into magma and the glowstone will be used up
  • Wild Stem
    • Can be broken by anything (Axes are most effective)
    • Is the stem of Huge Inversion Fungi
    • Can be turned into Wild planks
    • Can't be burned
    • Looks like a green warped stem
  • Wild Planks
    • Can be broken by anything (Axes are most effective)
    • Crafted from Wild Stem
    • Is a plank type (Usable for any plank recipe)
      • Has it's own Door, Fence, Fence gate, Slab, Stairs, Button, Pressure Plate, Trapdoor, and Sign
    • Can't be burned
  • Inverse Wart Block
    • Can be broken by anything (Hoes are most effective)
    • If non-silk breaks it then it drops Inverse mushrooms
      • Has a 2% chance to drop an Exotic fruit
    • Is the top of Huge Inversion Fungi
  • Inverse mushroom
    • Instantly breaks
    • Can be placed on top of Basalt or Soul soil
    • When Bone meal is used on it (1-4 tries) it'll turn into an Huge Inversion Fungi
  • Hot Obsidian
    • A diamond pickaxe or better is required to mine this block
    • Unobtainable until part 2

Items[]

  • Dart
    • Crafted using a flint and iron nuggets 3 (flint must be next to line of iron nuggets, gives 4)
    • Can be charged like a bow
    • Can be thrown
    • Only stacks to 16
    • Sticks to surfaces
Dart damage
0.1 s (no charge) 0.5 hearts of damage
0.2-0.5 s (medium charge) 1 heart of damage
0.6+ s (full charge) 1.5 hearts of damage


  • Water Flare
    • Crafted using a firework, slime ball, and amethyst shard (shapeless)
    • Can be put onto a crossbow
    • When shot from a crossbow on land, it will act like a firework, but it won't be effected by water
    • When it explodes there will be a bright flash if underwater
    • Temporarily negates the darkness effect if underwater
    • Dolphins will get attracted to the water flare exploding
  • Exotic Fruit
    • Looks like an orange
    • Found in the nether
    • Restores 3 hunger
    • Can be used to craft Inverse mushroom
  • Boat with Crafting table
    • Crafted using a boat and a Crafting table (Crafting table on top of Boat)
    • Functions just like a boat
    • Going into your inventory opens up the crafting grid
  • Boat with furnace
    • Crafted using a boat and a furnace (Furnace on top of Boat)
    • Functions just like a boat, but moves 10% slower
    • Going into your inventory opens up the furnace
    • Has blast furnace and smoker variants
  • Floaty boat
    • Crafted with Slime blocks and Empty bottle (The same way a boat is crafted, but with Slime blocks, and there's the empty bottle in the middle)
    • Functions like a boat
    • Constantly floats up to the surface
    • Turns into Slime blocks (2-4), Slime (3-9), and an empty bottle when broken
    • If it hits land at high speeds it'll break

Structure Loot[]

  • Darts can be found in the following structures
    • Dungeons (1-7)
    • Sunken ships (2-6)
  • Exotic Fruit can be found in the following structures
    • Nether fortress (1-3)
    • Bastion (2-3)
    • Stronghold (1)

Mobs[]

  • Shark
    • Health points: 7.5 hearts
    • Attack strength: 2 hearts
    • Can swim
    • Can breathe underwater
    • Spawns in the frozen ocean biome and it's variants
    • Are neutral mobs (Only attack small fish, attack the player if the player attacks first)
    • Are breedable using Tropical fish (takes 2-5 times for it to work)
  • Lavapod
    • Health points: 12 hearts
    • Spawns in the nether in the lava oceans
    • Attack strength: 3 hearts (also inflicts fire onto it's attacker)
    • Immune to fire damage
    • Resembles a crocodile
    • Opens it's mouth 180 degrees open when nothing is super near it
    • It's mouth has netherrack inside of it with a variation of any nether vegetation to be on it
    • Once something is close enough towards it, the Lavapod claps it's mouth shut, and begins to attack whatever's near it

Advancements[]

  • Good Eye
    • Shoot something with a dart
  • Target Practice
    • Hit a target block with a dart
  • Super UN-Soaker
    • Use a Sponge and a Crying Cooler
  • Kablam
    • Fire a Water Flare Underwater and hit something
  • Tower Defense (Goal)
    • Kill a Ghast with a dart
  • Big shot! (Challenge)
    • Kill a mob using a dart from over 50 blocks away
  • Raise your sails! (Challenge)
    • Ride each boat variant for at least 1000 blocks

Changes[]

World Generation[]

  • Smothered Sand will now replace gravel in all ocean generation
  • Small nether lava blobs generate more often the lower in the nether.

Effects[]

  • Fire resistance
    • You can see through lava like you would with water with water breathing
    • Lava can be swimmed in like water

Advancements[]

  • Monster hunter now can be triggered with a Lavapod
  • Monster hunted now requires you to kill the Lavapod
  • Two by Two now requires you to breed sharks
  • A Balanced Diet now requires the exotic fruit to be eaten
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