The 1.20 Dry Biomes Update

This is a 1.20 update that adds and expands the desert, badlands, and savannah biome vote features. It adds many new functionalities to blocks, items, mobs, and more. It even adds more new biomes for you to explore along with advancements.
== Additions ==
=== World Generation ===
====== Baobab Savannah ======
* Contains Baobab trees
* Rare variant of Savannah Biome
* Villages and Pillager Outposts can generate here
* Animals that can spawn here include llamas, horses, cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, and donkeys
====== Badlands Canyon ======
* River that cuts down at least 30 blocks from badlands surface
* Layers of terracotta
* Contains new village
====== Baobab Tree ======
* New 4x4 tree that contains Baobab Wood, Termite Burrows, and Baobab Leaves
* Can be found in Baobab Savannah or Windswept Savannah
====== Palm Tree ======
* New acacia-structured tree found in an Oasis
* Only grow on Moist Sand
====== Oasis ======
* New structure with a small pond, Meerkat Burrow, Palm Trees, and some animals
* Moist Sand generates here
* Sandstorms do not affect any Oasis
====== Meerkat Burrow ======
* New underground structure with meerkats running around
* Entered by crouching on a Hollow Sand Block
====== Mesa Temple ======
* New structure in the side of a cliff in the Badlands Biome
* Contains Bandits, Ruby Blocks, Treasure Chests, Rope, spike traps (Dripstone), gold blocks, and TNT
* Spawn as often as Desert Temples
* Come in 2 Variants: Loot Temple and Treasure Temple
* Treasure Temples contain Clay Golems
====== Abandoned Camp ======
* Spawns near mountainsides in Badlands Biomes
* Has a few barrels containing:
** Dynamite Sticks
** Bones
** Raw Ores
** Gold Ingots
** Coal
** Cooked Rabbit
** Bundles
* Spawns 10-15 skeletons at night
* Can spawn Undead Bandits
====== Bandit Hideout ======
* Has bandits guarding chests
* Has barrels and loot chests
* Tamed horses spawn in the stables section
====== Mesa Village ======
* Inhabited by Badlands Villagers
* Built in the side on a Badlands Canyon
* Has normal village structures
* Has bridges to navigate across canyon
====== Abandoned Mining Town ======
* An abandoned village in the Badlands Biome
* Has much better loot than normal Abandoned Villages
* Can spawn Undead Bandits
=== Blocks ===
====== Baobab Log ======
* Generates on Baobab Trees in a 4x4 pattern
====== Stripped Baobab Log ======
====== Baobab Wood ======
* Crafted like any other wood block
====== Stripped Baobab Wood ======
====== Baobab Leaves ======
* Generate on Baobab Trees
* Can be composted
====== Baobab Planks ======
* Can be crafted into stairs, slab, fence, gate, door, trapdoor, pressure plate, button, sign, boat, and chestboat
* Looks like cross between Jungle Wood and Acacia Wood
====== Baobab Sapling ======
* Drop from Baobab Leaves 25% of the time
* Can be planted in 4x4 pattern to grow Baobab tree
====== Termite Mound ======
* Can be found around trees
* Termites enter it like Silverfish enter stone
* Made of a dirt-sand like substance
* Unobtainable in Survival Mode
* Holds up to 10 termites
====== Termite Burrow ======
* A wood block/log that termites burrow into (Basically a wooden termite mound)
* Take twice as long to mine than wood
* Termites enter it like Silverfish enter stone
* Holds up to 8 termites
====== Moist Sand ======
* Can be found around an Oasis or randomly in Baobab Savannah
* Palm Saplings can be planted on this
* Use a hoe on it to turn it into hydrated farmland
====== Palm Logs ======
* Found on Palm trees
====== Stripped Palm Logs ======
====== Palm Wood ======
====== Stripped Palm Wood ======
====== Palm Planks ======
* Have a color between Birch Wood and Jungle Wood
* Can be used to craft stairs, slabs, fences, gates, doors, trapdoors, pressure plates, buttons, signs, boats, and chestboats
====== Palm Leaves ======
* Have a 20% chance to drop Palm Saplings
* Have a 15% chance of dropping Palm Fruits
====== Palm Sapling ======
* Grow into a Palm Tree
* Can only be planted on Moist Sand
====== Hollow Sand ======
* Sand block with black circle in center
* Sneak on block to enter a Meerkat Burrow
====== Quicksand ======
* Sand that you sink into and suffocate
* Acts like Powdered Snow
* Make a water source in quicksand to turn it to Moist Sand
====== Red Quicksand ======
* Badlands variant of quicksand
* Much rarer
====== Ruby Block ======
* Can be found in Mesa Temples
* Can be crafted with 9 Rubies
====== Ruby Ore ======
* Drops 1-3 rubies (without Fortune)
* Only spawns in Badlands biome
====== Rope ======
* Can be climbed up
* Found in Mesa Temples
====== Sand Layers ======
* Appear after sandstorms in a Desert biome
====== Red Sand Layers ======
* Appear after sandstorms in a Badlands biome
====== Prickly Pear ======
* New cactus
* Can be smelted into Green Dye
* Can be mined with shears
* Cactus fruit grows on it
* Replace regular cacti in Badlands Biome
=== Items ===
====== Bundle ======
* Same as 1.17/1.18 snapshots
* Can also be crafted with Meerkat Fur
====== Wood Chips ======
* Dropped from Termite Burrow when broken
====== Palm Fruit ======
* Dropped from Palm Leaves
* Restore 3 hunger points
* Can be bought from a farmer
====== Cactus Fruit ======
* Can be picked from Prickly Pears
* Restore 2 hunger points
* Can be bought from a Mesa Villager
====== Meerkat Fur ======
* Dropped from Meerkats
* Dropped 2-3 at a time
* Can be used a substitute for Rabbit Hide
====== Ruby ======
* Can be mined or found in loot chests
* Can be crafted into Ruby Block and vise versa
* Traded with Mesa Villagers instead of Emeralds
====== Dynamite Stick ======
* A new weapon crafted with 2 gunpowder and a string
* Does AOE damage like TNT, but breaks no blocks
* Bandits use this
* Can be found in loot chests inside Mesa Temples or Abandoned Camps
====== Ostrich Egg ======
* Eggs laid by Ostriches
* Can be thrown to hatch into a baby Ostrich
====== Bucket of Quicksand ======
* Can take and place Quicksand using this bucket
====== Bucket of Red Quicksand ======
* Can take and place Red Quicksand using this bucket
=== Mobs ===
====== Clay Golem ======
* A boss mob
* Has 700 health points (350 Hearts)
* Can be found in Treasure Temples at the end and are awoken when loot is taken from the chest
* Once awoken, you cannot leave the temple, apart from dying
* Uses smash attacks and its stomps cause your bow to fire even if you didn't release it
* Once defeated, you can leave the temple
====== Bandits ======
* Pillager-like mobs riding/running around Badlands
* Can ride horses and have dynamite sticks, iron swords, or crossbows as weapons
* Spawn in Mesa Temples and Bandit Camps as well as throughout the Badlands biome
* Have 20 health points (10 hearts)
====== Mesa Villagers ======
* Act like normal villagers
* Only spawn in Mesa Villages
* Trade for Rubies instead of Emeralds
* Have red eyes instead of green eyes
====== Vulture ======
* A flying mob that will circle you
* Will take your items when you die
* After it steals your items, it sits on the nearest Prickly Pear for you to return
* Kill it to get your items back and some feathers
====== Ostrich ======
* Tall birds that spawn in Baobab Savannah
* They lay Ostrich Eggs occasionally
* Bred with seeds
* Will occasionally bury its head in the ground and come back out with seeds
* Rarely, you will be able to tame and ride an Ostrich. However, this will be like llamas where you can tame, but not control them
====== Meerkats ======
* Spawn in an Oasis and in/around Meerkat Burrows
* Drop Meerkat Fur when killed
* Bred using Raw Rabbit
* If fed a fish, it will attack once and run away to its burrow
* Tamed with Raw Rabbit or Raw Mutton
====== Undead Bandits ======
* Can spawn in Abandoned Mining Town and Abandoned Camp
* Burn in daylight
* Have dynamite sticks, iron swords, or crossbows as weapons
Have 20 health points (10 hearts)
====== Termites ======
* Can spawn in Termite Colony’s
* When colony is attacked, all termites near you will hurt you
* Collectable by putting jar of leaves down.
==== Non-Mob Entities ====
====== Tumbleweed ======
* Tumbleweeds blow across the Badlands
* Getting hit by one will break it and do 2 points of damage (1 heart)
* Break Tumbleweeds by right-clicking them
* Breaking it without getting hit will give you a random reward
* The reward could be:
** 1-3 Diamond
** 4-5 Gold Nugget
** 8-10 Red Sand
** 1-2 Flint
** Summon a creeper
=== Gameplay ===
====== Sandstorms ======
* When it rains, a sandstorm will strike the desert
* Effect players and mobs outside with Slowness 2 and Sanded Eyes 3
* Meerkats will return to their burrows
* Will not affect an Oasis
====== Red Sandstorms ======
* When it rains, a red sandstorm will strike the Badlands
* Effect players and mobs outside with Slowness 2 and Sanded Eyes 4
* Mesa Villagers and Bandits will try and find cover by entering houses or caves
====== Status Effects ======
* Sanded Eyes 3 will be like blindness, but yellow and blurry
* Sanded Eyes 4 will be like blindness, but red, blurry, and lower vision distance
====== Hot Sand ======
* Some sand in the center of Deserts/Badlands is so hot that it'll burn your feet
* Does 1 point of damage (half a heart) every second you stand there
* Wear Leather Boots or place a water bucket to stop this
===== Advancements =====
====== "Stranded in the Desert" ======
* Unlocked by discovering an Oasis
* Only unlocks if the Oasis is farther than 100 blocks from the Desert's edge
* Parent: "Sweet Dreams"
====== "A Complete Ca-Meerkatalogue" ======
* Discover a Meerkat Burrow and tame a Meerkat inside
* Tame a Meerkat with Raw Rabbit or Raw Mutton
* Parent: "A Complete Catalogue"
====== "Limu Emu" ======
* Find and ride an Ostrich
* Reward is 50 xp
* Hidden advancement
* Parent: "Best Friends Forever"
====== "Indiana Bones" ======
* Kill a skeleton inside a Mesa Temple while holding a Ruby
* The skeleton has to spawn naturally
* Ruby must be in either you hand or off-hand
* Parent: "Monster Hunter"
== Changes ==
=== Mobs ===
====== Villager ======
* Farmer villagers now trade emeralds for Palm Fruit
=== Blocks ===
* Terracotta now generates below Y=0 in Badlands Biomes instead of Deepslate
=== Advancements ===
* The Baobab Savannah is now required for "Adventuring Time"
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