1.21 - The End Update

The 1.21 End Update will be released on October 23rd 2024 and revamps mostly features of the End. It added 6 EnderOres, 5 biomes, items, blocks 4 new mobs and more systems in game to help renew resources previously unrenewable.
== Biomes ==
-The Barrens, a biome covered in a purple substance called Voyidal. This operates like sculk and will slowly spread over the Ender Islands. The Barrens have Voyidal Grass, Wood, Fungi (leaves), and a new flower that may or may not be something more.
-Voyidal is pronounced like the phrase "boy at all"
-The Stalgs, dark and eerie biome filled with stalagmites. There is a black substance everywhere called charred stone which will trick players into thinking they're falling in the void. Endermites can naturally spawn here alongside deadbushes, yet no structures can spawn
-In this biome there is only one ore that can spawn, it is called Stalgation Ore. It acts like Iron used to in the making process but when you put an Ingot in an anvil with a book you get the new enchantment, Curse of The Void, which when applied to something like a shovel, will take the closest mountain to spawn and dig a giant hole on the west side. Never go inside of the hole, only bad things come from that mountain.
-The Lush, which is actually quite the opposite of its name. There are patches of voyidal grass and trees around the biome, along with a new structure called the abandoned city. They are made of purpur, endstone and voyidal wood. These structures seem very fimiliar. The houses resemble villages and there is also a ruined portal like structure in the structure. And towards the eastern side there is a skyscraper made completely of purpur and endstone. There are paintings on the top floor depicting two blacked out player-like characters making what seems to be a shulker in a laboratory. That same laboratory can be found in the basement of the skyscraper.
-These paintings cannot be placed by the player
-The Purpur, a biome that will generate more ancient cities, voyidal grass, and Purpur Ore, a ways to get bunches of purpur without needing to destroy End Cities. This also adds smooth and chiseled purpur to the game.
-The popped chorus fruit way of crafting purpur is still there but it is less favorable 
-The chiseled purpur depicts a dragon.
-The Tames, A mountain that spawns with a roman like structure on it 100% of the time. In these mountains cases you can find patches of limestone, an ore that when smelted in a furnace or super smelter, will make marble. Marble looks somewhat like quartz but more textured, like a white cobblestone. You can make Marble Pillars, Slabs, stairs, smooth marble and chiseled marble. You can also find Ancient Artifacts in the chests here, 3 of them are present, one depicting a player, one depicting a enderman, and one depicting an ender dragon.
-Mojang confirmed they wanted to update the rocks in the game at some point
== EnderOres ==
-Endrion was the first ore announced at Minecraft Live, and was said to be made in response to people wanting to challenge themselves by starting out in the end. So they added this as a mid-way point of strength in the end since you don't really have iron. Crafting tables will also spawn in the abandoned cities so you can make Endrion armor and pickaxes and all of that. You can use it basically the same as iron except for iron golems, chains, cauldrons, pistons etc but they can be used in shields, armor, tools, blocks, nuggets, raw variants and raw blocks.
-Endpisa is the ender variant of lapis, it will lower the xp needed to enchant in an Enchanting table but will double the use of the endpisa. This was made for a teased future enchanting update.
-Enderite, the upgrade to netherite. When you mine the ore it drops Enderite peices, which when smelted in a furnace or blast furnace will give you an Enderite Ingot. There was a huge speech about the bullying that was seen among some players when netherite was added for still using diamond stuff. They didn't want this to happen again, so they had kingbdogz give a scripted speech about it before it's reveal. You can make this into armor, blocks and tools just like netherite. It is upgraded in the smithing table.
== Mobs ==
Mojang added 4 new mobs, including the mob from Minecraft Live's 2023 mob vote. This was confirmed to be one of the last mob votes for a while and mob votes will be replaced with biome votes. They did this to make up for the disappointment for the Wild Update not including most promises they didn't commit to.
=== Enderbull ===
Enderbulls are hostile mobs that when killed will drop the bullhorn, the minecraft equivalent to trumpets. These can be used as a battlecry as well as Goat horns
=== Xbloom ===
The xbloom is a flower mob that when killed will drop the enderflower, that can be made into purple dye or crafted with 6 Deepslate, 1 Glass and 1 Endrion can create the Endmare, that when uses on the players 3rd night without sleep will disable phantoms for 27 days. Xblooms are passive.
=== Endermilliant ===
Endmillitant are variants of Endermen that spawn with camouflage helmets and Enderbows. Enderbows will instantly shoot when triggered to, so be careful where you aim. They also cannot be crafted by the player. Endermillitia will spawn in groups of 4-8 and will anger the same as endermen and will attack in groups.
=== Mob Vote ===
In the mob vote for 2023 there were 3 candidates, one of which is a familiar face being given a second chance before mob votes end for a while. (There would be one more in MCL2024 but then that was it)
The Jole was the first one shown off. It was a horse variant that would go super fast when going towards any illager structure. It would also add a dueling sword, crafted with two sticks and 3 iron ingots.
The Paganama was the second one, and it was a squid that could spawn in the nether, when killed would drop brimstone, a sponge for lava. It lost the vote first.
The Hovering Inferno, Mob D from 2017. You already know how it works. A master blaze with shields. If you defeat it then you get the blaze crown, it functions like a helmet, and the Inferno Shield, a shield that when in use will not let you take fire damage and inflict fire damage onto the mob/player you used it on.
With a close fight between the Jole and the Hovering Inferno it was the Hovering Inferno that came out on top.
Throughout Minecraft Live's mob vote announcements there were silhouettes of previous mobs that lost with the enchanting table language spelling out "I will return" each time. The ones shown were the Iceologer, Glare and the Moobloom. When the winner was announced as well, all three silhouettes were shown with the text "The fight of a lifetime, 2025" this was assumed to be a teaser for the biome vote of 2025, and all of the most beloved mobs from the past years would get a second chance, minus the golems as they were nowhere to be found during these teasers.
== Advancements ==
=== EnderSlayer ===
Defeat every end mob
=== Marble Zone ===
Find a Tames biome and enter the structure
=== Operation: Sculk the Shulk ===
Cover an end city in sculk
=== Original Soundtrack ===
Find every disc in the game
=== Lure in the Lore! ===
Get discs 13, 11, 5, and 3
=== End Game Trainstaion ===
Travel 30,000 km in the End with an elytra
=== Touch Grass ===
Collect a block of Grass, Nylium and Voyidal
=== This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years ===
Travel to every End biome
=== Duel of the Fates ===
Bring a Wither, Warden and Ender Dragon to the End and defeat them all.
=== Riches! Riches! ===
Get Enderite anything.
== Music ==
-Added Enderdub
-Added Disc 3
-Disc 3 depicts the opening of an end portal, with the sound of people fighting off silverfish and building around the portal. We hear someone running up to our protagonist before he's pushed in. Static. A peice of the bass from Enderdub plays for 43 seconds. Static. We hear someone eating a chorus fruit and a shulker. A few more blocks are placed before the Disc ends
== Miscellaneous Blocks and Features ==
-Super Smelter, the cousin of the blast furnace and smoker that can smelt other blocks quickly, such as cobblestone, sand, cactus, and every other block that you couldn't smelt at this speed before. It cannot smelt foodstuffs or ores.
-Alex head and other default skin heads are added to the creative inventory and the give command. Player head is renamed to Steve head. Custom player heads are still obtainable through commands and mods.
-If a frog were to eat a slime instead of a magma cube, they will drop frog blocks which are a sticky, slimy block of different colours.
-In snapshot 24w06a-24w10a limestone was considered a regular building block and couldn't be used in a blast furnace, this was fixed as limestone is considered an ore in Minecraft.
-On March 13th, 2024 the texture on the hay bale changed so that the red stripes around it spelled out "1.22" this was removed on March 14th, 2024 and was notices by a total of 16,719 people among the community, 13% of which posted their findings on youtube. This was confirmed by the the devs at Minecraft Live 2024 and they applauded the community for noticing such a minute detail.