Java & Bedrock 1.17: The Update that Rechanged the World

1.17, also known as The Update that Rechanged the World, is a major update to the Java and Bedrock Editions created by TheRandomBlock (talk) 15:22, September 19, 2020 (UTC), released on December 16th 2020. 1.17 is preceeded by 1.16 (Nether Update), while it is followed by 1.18 (The End Update).
To be updated as the update progresses
==Snapshots==
Java Edition Only.
*20w31a
*20w32a
*20w32b
*20w33a
==Additions==
===Blocks===
Alexandrite Block
*Crafted from 9 alexandrites.
*Can be crafted into 9 alexandrites.
*Can be used as beacon base blocks.
Alexandrite Ore
*Generates in veins underground between y=1 and y=16.
*When mined with an iron pickaxe or higher, drops 1 alexandrite.
*Generates once per chunk each.
Blackberry Block
*Crafted from 9 blackberries.
*Can be crafted into 9 blackberries.
*Purely a decorative block.
Black Sandstone
*A new sandstone variant.
*Crafted with a sandstone and black dye or ink sac in a shapeless recipe.
*Can be crafted into its chiseled, cut, smooth, brick, and mossy variants, which is similar to its normal and red counterparts.
Chests, bookshelves and ladders
*Added spruce, birch, acacia, dark oak, jungle, crimson, warped, larch and beech variants.
Log
*Added larch and beech woodtypes.
**Both logs can be used to craft respective planks, wood, slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors, chests, bookshelves, ladders, and trapdoors.
Mossy Log
*Replaces normal logs in dying oak, spruce, birch, jungle, and beech trees.
*Crafted from 2 logs and 2 vines in a shapeless recipe.
**This provides 4 mossy logs.
*Can be used to craft mossy wood.
===Items===
Alexandrite
*Obtained by mining its respective ore with an iron pickaxe or higher.
*Can be crafted into its respective block.
*Can be used as beacon payment items.
Blackberry
*A new edible item dropped from its bushes in all taigas.
**The amount of the dropped blackberries varies between 3-9.
*Restores 5 hunger.
*Its bushes have 5 growing steps.
*When the player is on the bush, they will deal temporary damage and slowness.
Golden Blackberry
*Crafted with 8 golden nuggets and a blackberry.
*Gives you Strength III (02:35).
*Gives you Resistance IV (02:15).
*Restores 10 hunger.
Ham
*Comes in raw and cooked forms.
**Raw ham restores 3 hunger, while cooked ham restores 6.
*Has a 50% chance to be dropped by pigs.
Ricochet Arrow
*Can be crafted with an arrow and a slime ball in a crafting table or a smithing table.
*Ricochets off targets doing less damage each time.
*Can be used with a normal bow, a crossbow, or, like the normal arrow, can be thrown at enemies.
===Mobs===
Village Weaver
*Passive ambient mob.
*Has 4 hp.
*Spawns anywhere.
*Drops 1-5 feathers upon being killed.
*Roosts in groups of 20 which fly around the Overworld, and sometimes lands on the block below it, then flies off that block, like its real life counterpart.
*Can be bred with seeds.
*Is very simple to tame just by right-clicking on it.
**The downside of the mob is that foxes hunt on them and attack them while weavers are spawned in taigas.
*Has 2 variants based on the real life village weaver.
**The first variant is based on a male P. c. bohndorffi.
**The second variant is based on a female P. c. cucullatus.
*The mob is itself based on a village weaver.
===World generation===
World types
*Buffet worlds have been added to Bedrock Edition.
**Functions similarly to those in Java Edition before 1.16.
===Gameplay===
Spectator mode
*Added to Bedrock Edition.
*Functions similarly to as in Java Edition.
==Changes==
===Blocks===
Beacon
*Now accepts alexandrites as payment items.
**Beacon base pyramid can now be made with alexandrite blocks.
===Items===
Arrows
*Now have a function to throw them at enemies.
===Mobs===
Pigs
*Added a pale variant of this mob (the same as the pale pig from Minecraft Earth), which has a 21% spawning.
**Like normal pigs, 5% of the pale pigs spawn as piglets.
*Now have a 50% chance to drop 0-2 raw ham. When burned, raw ham becomes cooked ham instead.
Witches
*Can now heal illagers with splash potions in raids.
Zombie Horses
*Completely deleted from the game, along with its spawn egg.
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