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
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