During this week’s Minecraft Monthly, Mojang developers announced Minecraft: Trails & Tales, previously only known as “Update 1.20.” According to the dev team, the update is “almost here.” With its focus on self-expression, players will find new ways to represent themselves, tell their stories, and practice the great art of worldbuiding.
This update has been in the works since Minecraft Live 2022 with few details revealed between then and now. However, the time has come to unveil all of the features that players can look forward to, including camels, the Sniffer, and much more.
Trails & Tales Features
- Camels: The friendly new camel mob is found in desert villages and can be ridden by not one, but TWO players at the same time.
- The bamboo wood set: Like other wood types, you can craft things like slabs and stairs, but bamboo also brings you mosaic blocks which are perfect for flooring and creating a lovely raft.
- Chiseled bookshelves: You can build your own chiseled bookshelf that lets you store books so you can keep all your stories safe and sound.
- Hanging signs: Hanging signs can be crafted from any wood type and arranged in all manner of cool ways along with customized text to add that extra touch.
- Armor trims: You can customize your armor with new armor trims! Armor trims come in multiple patterns which you can find in the form of smithing templates hidden across the world.
- New mob head functionality: This update also adds a brand new mob head for players to collect called the piglin head! Players can wear it or power it with redstone, causing the ears to wiggle. In addition, mob heads placed on top of note blocks will now play the corresponding mob’s sound effects!
- Archeology: The new archeology system has several components, introducing a new craftable tool and new blocks, as well as changes to desert temples and wells.
- The Sniffer: The sniffer is an ancient creature, found in eggs unearthed from suspicious sand. They hatch into baby “snifflets” that, once grown, can help you search for seeds of ancient plants.
- Cherry blossom biome and wood set: Are you ready for Minecraft 1.20 to bring a rare, and above all PINK, biome to the Overworld!? The beautiful cherry blossom biome is filled with cherry blossom trees that bring a unique look to the horizon. The cherry tree can be broken down into a full wood set, and you can also find cherry tree saplings so you can plant them wherever you want.
Check out the Minecraft official site to learn more about Trails & Tales.
