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 2 of the update. Part 1 can be found here.
Additions[]
World Generation/Biomes/Structures[]
- Twilight Ocean
- "The oceans are vast, and now, and they are now deeper than ever, reaching to as low as deepslate, so prepare to be deep underwater."
- A deeper and rarer Ocean
- The floor is a thick layer of Smothered sand
- Small volcanic-like structures made out of dripstone can generate
- Contain magma
- Guardians naturally spawn and despawn here
- Small ore deposits can spawn on the seafloor of the Twilight Ocean
- The Midnight
- Only generates where the Twilight Ocean reaches below y level 1
- The floor here is made out of Deepsand
- You loose air 25% Faster while in this biome and below y level 23
- Breathstealers can spawn here
- Small patches of Sculk Growth can generate
- A bit bigger ore deposits can be found in the midnight, but most covered by Smothered Sand
- Abyssal Caves
- Abyssal caves generate when a flooded cave generate where the deep dark is
- Infested in Sculk Blocks
- Sculkfish spawn in the caves
- Lava River
- Lava Rivers generate similar to the way regular rivers generate, but smaller
- Generate in the nether
- Can lead to lava-falls into the lava ocean
- Cooled Sanctuary
- Generates almost like a nether waste
- No ores generate
- No mobs spawn
- All the lava's replaced with magma
- Fossils Uncommonly generate
- Lava Reaches
- At the edges of this biome the Lava ocean gradually rises
- The Lava ocean here is elevated to 48 blocks
- Volcanic-like structures made from hot obsidian generate in the lava.
- Sometimes (very rarely) Ancient debris generates on the hot obsidian
- Melty Meadow
- A biome where a mix of Nylium generates on the ground
- Foliage varies as it's a mix of crimson and warped forest foliage
- No huge fungi generate
- The Lava ocean here generates much deeper, almost to obsidian
- Small bits of Ancient debris can be found on the lava ocean floor.
- Overheated castles
- Castles that generate in Lava reaches and Mealty Meadows
- Are mainly built out of Deepslate bricks, and as it goes lower it gradients into Blackstone bricks.
- Magma blocks occasionally generate here too
- Chests can be found here
- Contain somewhat similar loot to bastions
- Instead of Pigstep there's Heatflip
Music[]
- Added new music
- "Impossibilities", "Underflood", "Drowning Damage", "Another lost soul", "Keep it up", "Heatflip", "Back by sundown", "Immeasurable Pressure", "Too Deep", "Shallow end", "Overheart", "Warming reminder", "Old timey", and "Erudition"
- "Impossibilities" Plays in the Twilight Ocean and The Midnight biomes
- "Underflood" Plays in the Frozen Ocean, The Midnight, and Abyssal Caves biomes
- "Drowning Damage" Plays in The Midnight and Abyssal Caves biomes
- "Another lost soul" Plays in the Soul sand valley and Cooled Sanctuary biomes
- "Keep it up" Plays in the Nether Wastes, Cooled Sanctuary, and Lava Reaches biome
- "Back by sundown" Plays in every ocean variant, and in beaches
- "Immesurable Pressure" Plays in The Midnight and Abyssal Caves biomes
- "Too Deep" Plays in the Twilight Ocean and The Midnight biomes
- "Shallow end" Plays in the Beach and River biomes
- "Overheart" Plays in the Cooled Sanctuary and Melty Meadow biomes
- "Warming Reminder" Plays in the Lava reaches and Mealty Meadow biomes
- "Old timey" Plays in the plains and beach biomes
- "Impossibilities", "Underflood", "Drowning Damage", "Another lost soul", "Keep it up", "Heatflip", "Back by sundown", "Immeasurable Pressure", "Too Deep", "Shallow end", "Overheart", "Warming reminder", "Old timey", and "Erudition"
Blocks[]
- Deepsand
- A shovel is required to mine this block
- Generates in The midnight
Items[]
- Music Disc - Erudition
- Can be found on rare occasions in berried treasure chests, or much more rarely in Sunken ship chests.
- Music Disc - Heatflip
- Can be found in Overheated Castles
Mobs[]
- Breathstealer
- Health points: 2 hearts (Unbloated) 6 hearts (bloated)
- Resembles a slime, but black and more opague.
- Spawns in the Twilight Ocean (rare) and The Midnight
- When they attack they don't deal damage, but instead take away 5 air bubbles from the thing they're attacking.
- If the thing they're attacking has 4 or less bubbles, they take 2 hearts of damage
- Bloats up when they attack
- After attacking they'll become passive until they unbloat
- Takes 2 minutes for them to unbloat
- Drops 1-3 Slime
- Sculkfish
- Spawn in the Abyssal caves
- When anything comes near it they immediately swim away.
- Will preferably swim to the nearest Sculk Sensor
- Sometimes drops a sculk block
- Scout
- A type of fish found in the nether
- Immune to fire damage
- Swims in lava
- Drops single gold nugget upon death
Advancements[]
- Swift N Water
- Use either a Dart or Water Flare to kill something underwater
- Deeper than can ever be
- Make it to the bottom of The Midnight
- Stopped at sundown
- Stop a Sculkfish from finding a Sculk Sensor in time
- Get it while it's still hot!
- Obtain Hot obsidian
- Releasing your inner... Fish? (Goal)
- Blow a goat's horn at midnight while being at The Midnight
- Not a good place for milk and cookies (Goal)
- Drink milk and eat a cookie in the lava reaches
- Something's Fishy (Challenge)
- Swim down exactly 100 blocks without going for air (non source blocks don't count)
- Ocean n Orange (Challenge)
- Be in the nether's lava ocean for more than 10 minutes and swim in it for at least 100 blocks.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Sculk Sensors can detect twice as far underwater and if the vibration happens underwater (must be connected to the same water as the Sculk Sensor
Advancements[]
- Adventuring Time now requires you to find the Twilight ocean, The midnight, and the Abyssal Caves.
- Hot Tourist Destinations now requires you to goto a Lava river, Cooled Sanctuary, Lava reaches, and Melty Meadow