1.23 "The Ocean and Orange update" Part 2

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 2 of the update. Part 1 can be found here.
== Additions ==
=== World Generation/Biomes/Structures ===
* Twilight Ocean
** "The oceans are vast, and now, and they are now deeper than ever, reaching to as low as deepslate, so prepare to be deep underwater."
** A deeper and rarer Ocean
** The floor is a thick layer of Smothered sand
** Small volcanic-like structures made out of dripstone can generate
*** Contain magma
** Guardians naturally spawn and despawn here
** Small ore deposits can spawn on the seafloor of the Twilight Ocean
* The Midnight
** Only generates where the Twilight Ocean reaches below y level 1
** The floor here is made out of Deepsand
** You loose air 25% Faster while in this biome and below y level 23
** Breathstealers can spawn here
** Small patches of Sculk Growth can generate
** A bit bigger ore deposits can be found in the midnight, but most covered by Smothered Sand
* Abyssal Caves
** Abyssal caves generate when a flooded cave generate where the deep dark is
** Infested in Sculk Blocks
** Sculkfish spawn in the caves
* Lava River
** Lava Rivers generate similar to the way regular rivers generate, but smaller
** Generate in the nether
** Can lead to lava-falls into the lava ocean
* Cooled Sanctuary
** Generates almost like a nether waste
** No ores generate
** No mobs spawn
** All the lava's replaced with magma
** Fossils Uncommonly generate
* Lava Reaches
** At the edges of this biome the Lava ocean gradually rises
** The Lava ocean here is elevated to 48 blocks
** Volcanic-like structures made from hot obsidian generate in the lava.
*** Sometimes (very rarely) Ancient debris generates on the hot obsidian
* Melty Meadow
** A biome where a mix of Nylium generates on the ground
** Foliage varies as it's a mix of crimson and warped forest foliage
** No huge fungi generate
** The Lava ocean here generates much deeper, almost to obsidian
** Small bits of Ancient debris can be found on the lava ocean floor.
* Overheated castles
** Castles that generate in Lava reaches and Mealty Meadows
** Are mainly built out of Deepslate bricks, and as it goes lower it gradients into Blackstone bricks.
** Magma blocks occasionally generate here too
** Chests can be found here
*** Contain somewhat similar loot to bastions
*** Instead of Pigstep there's Heatflip
=== Music ===
* Added new music
** "Impossibilities", "Underflood", "Drowning Damage", "Another lost soul", "Keep it up", "Heatflip", "Back by sundown", "Immeasurable Pressure", "Too Deep", "Shallow end", "Overheart", "Warming reminder", "Old timey", and "Erudition"
*** "Impossibilities" Plays in the Twilight Ocean and The Midnight biomes
*** "Underflood" Plays in the Frozen Ocean, The Midnight, and Abyssal Caves biomes
*** "Drowning Damage" Plays in The Midnight and Abyssal Caves biomes
*** "Another lost soul" Plays in the Soul sand valley and Cooled Sanctuary biomes
*** "Keep it up" Plays in the Nether Wastes, Cooled Sanctuary, and Lava Reaches biome
***"Back by sundown" Plays in every ocean variant, and in beaches
*** "Immesurable Pressure" Plays in The Midnight and Abyssal Caves biomes
*** "Too Deep" Plays in the Twilight Ocean and The Midnight biomes
*** "Shallow end" Plays in the Beach and River biomes
*** "Overheart" Plays in the Cooled Sanctuary and Melty Meadow biomes
*** "Warming Reminder" Plays in the Lava reaches and Mealty Meadow biomes
*** "Old timey" Plays in the plains and beach biomes
=== Blocks ===
* Deepsand
** A shovel is required to mine this block
** Generates in The midnight
=== Items ===
* Music Disc - Erudition
** Can be found on rare occasions in berried treasure chests, or much more rarely in Sunken ship chests.
* Music Disc - Heatflip
** Can be found in Overheated Castles
=== Mobs ===
* Breathstealer
** Health points: 2 hearts (Unbloated) 6 hearts (bloated)
** Resembles a slime, but black and more opague.
** Spawns in the Twilight Ocean (rare) and The Midnight
** When they attack they don't deal damage, but instead take away 5 air bubbles from the thing they're attacking.
*** If the thing they're attacking has 4 or less bubbles, they take 2 hearts of damage
*** Bloats up when they attack
*** After attacking they'll become passive until they unbloat
*** Takes 2 minutes for them to unbloat
** Drops 1-3 Slime
* Sculkfish
** Spawn in the Abyssal caves
** When anything comes near it they immediately swim away.
** Will preferably swim to the nearest Sculk Sensor
**Sometimes drops a sculk block
*Scout
** A type of fish found in the nether
** Immune to fire damage
** Swims in lava
** Drops single gold nugget upon death
=== Advancements ===
* Swift N Water
** Use either a Dart or Water Flare to kill something underwater
* Deeper than can ever be
** Make it to the bottom of The Midnight
* Stopped at sundown
** Stop a Sculkfish from finding a Sculk Sensor in time
* Get it while it's still hot!
** Obtain Hot obsidian
* Releasing your inner... Fish? (Goal)
** Blow a goat's horn at midnight while being at The Midnight
* Not a good place for milk and cookies (Goal)
** Drink milk and eat a cookie in the lava reaches
* Something's Fishy (Challenge)
** Swim down exactly 100 blocks without going for air (non source blocks don't count)
* Ocean n Orange (Challenge)
** Be in the nether's lava ocean for more than 10 minutes and swim in it for at least 100 blocks.
== Changes ==
=== Blocks ===
* Sculk Sensors can detect twice as far underwater and if the vibration happens underwater (must be connected to the same water as the Sculk Sensor
=== Advancements ===
* Adventuring Time now requires you to find the Twilight ocean, The midnight, and the Abyssal Caves.
* Hot Tourist Destinations now requires you to goto a Lava river, Cooled Sanctuary, Lava reaches, and Melty Meadow
Category:Updates by MarioXHK
Category:Major update
Category:1.23
Category:Biomes
Category:Mobs
Category:Advancements