1.22 "The Ocean and Orange update" Part 1

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 1 of the update, Part 2 can be found here.
==Additions==
===Blocks===
*Smothered Sand
**Can be broken by anything (Turns to mud if not using a shovel)
**Use shovel to Collect it as smothered sand
**Looks nearly identical to sand
**Can be found where gravel once generated in the oceans
**Wandering villagers will have it (2 emerald per smothered sand)
**Plants that can usually go on sand can be planted on smothered sand
*Crying Cooler
**Crafted using Crying obsidian and water bucket (Crying obsidian all around water bucket, uses up water bucket entirely)
**A diamond pickaxe or better is required to mine this block
**When broken with non-silk tools are used to break this block, it drops 8 crying obsidian.
**Can be filled with glowstone like to a respawn anchor
**When full of glowstone, the lava around it will slowly turn into magma and the glowstone will be used up
*Wild Stem
**Can be broken by anything (Axes are most effective)
**Is the stem of Huge Inversion Fungi
**Can be turned into Wild planks
**Can't be burned
**Looks like a green warped stem
*Wild Planks
**Can be broken by anything (Axes are most effective)
**Crafted from Wild Stem
**Is a plank type (Usable for any plank recipe)
***Has it's own Door, Fence, Fence gate, Slab, Stairs, Button, Pressure Plate, Trapdoor, and Sign
**Can't be burned
*Inverse Wart Block
**Can be broken by anything (Hoes are most effective)
**If non-silk breaks it then it drops Inverse mushrooms
***Has a 2% chance to drop an Exotic fruit
**Is the top of Huge Inversion Fungi
*Inverse mushroom
**Instantly breaks
**Can be placed on top of Basalt or Soul soil
**When Bone meal is used on it (1-4 tries) it'll turn into an Huge Inversion Fungi
* Hot Obsidian
** A diamond pickaxe or better is required to mine this block
** Unobtainable until part 2
===Items===
*Dart
**Crafted using a flint and iron nuggets 3 (flint must be next to line of iron nuggets, gives 4)
**Can be charged like a bow
**Can be thrown
**Only stacks to 16
**Sticks to surfaces
Dart damage
0.1 s (no charge) 	0.5 hearts of damage
0.2-0.5 s (medium charge)	1 heart of damage
0.6+ s (full charge) 	1.5 hearts of damage
*Water Flare
**Crafted using a firework, slime ball, and amethyst shard (shapeless)
**Can be put onto a crossbow
**When shot from a crossbow on land, it will act like a firework, but it won't be effected by water
**When it explodes there will be a bright flash if underwater
**Temporarily negates the darkness effect if underwater
**Dolphins will get attracted to the water flare exploding
*Exotic Fruit
**Looks like an orange
**Found in the nether
**Restores 3 hunger
**Can be used to craft Inverse mushroom
*Boat with Crafting table
** Crafted using a boat and a Crafting table (Crafting table on top of Boat)
** Functions just like a boat
** Going into your inventory opens up the crafting grid
* Boat with furnace
** Crafted using a boat and a furnace (Furnace on top of Boat)
** Functions just like a boat, but moves 10% slower
** Going into your inventory opens up the furnace
** Has blast furnace and smoker variants
* Floaty boat
** Crafted with Slime blocks and Empty bottle (The same way a boat is crafted, but with Slime blocks, and there's the empty bottle in the middle)
** Functions like a boat
** Constantly floats up to the surface
** Turns into Slime blocks (2-4), Slime (3-9), and an empty bottle when broken
** If it hits land at high speeds it'll break
===Structure Loot===
*Darts can be found in the following structures
**Dungeons (1-7)
**Sunken ships (2-6)
*Exotic Fruit can be found in the following structures
**Nether fortress (1-3)
**Bastion (2-3)
**Stronghold (1)
===Mobs===
*Shark
**Health points: 7.5 hearts
**Attack strength: 2 hearts
**Can swim
**Can breathe underwater
**Spawns in the frozen ocean biome and it's variants
**Are neutral mobs (Only attack small fish, attack the player if the player attacks first)
**Are breedable using Tropical fish (takes 2-5 times for it to work)
*Lavapod
**Health points: 12 hearts
**Spawns in the nether in the lava oceans
**Attack strength: 3 hearts (also inflicts fire onto it's attacker)
**Immune to fire damage
**Resembles a crocodile
**Opens it's mouth 180 degrees open when nothing is super near it
**It's mouth has netherrack inside of it with a variation of any nether vegetation to be on it
**Once something is close enough towards it, the Lavapod claps it's mouth shut, and begins to attack whatever's near it
===Advancements===
*Good Eye
**Shoot something with a dart
*Target Practice
**Hit a target block with a dart
*Super UN-Soaker
**Use a Sponge and a Crying Cooler
*Kablam
**Fire a Water Flare Underwater and hit something
*Tower Defense (Goal)
**Kill a Ghast with a dart
*Big shot! (Challenge)
**Kill a mob using a dart from over 50 blocks away
* Raise your sails! (Challenge)
** Ride each boat variant for at least 1000 blocks
==Changes==
===World Generation===
*Smothered Sand will now replace gravel in all ocean generation
*Small nether lava blobs generate more often the lower in the nether.
===Effects===
*Fire resistance
**You can see through lava like you would with water with water breathing
**Lava can be swimmed in like water
===Advancements===
*Monster hunter now can be triggered with a Lavapod
*Monster hunted now requires you to kill the Lavapod
*Two by Two now requires you to breed sharks
*A Balanced Diet now requires the exotic fruit to be eaten
Category:Updates by MarioXHK
Category:Major update
Category:1.22
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Category:Items
Category:Blocks
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