Caves & Cliffs Backport Mod (1.16.5, 1.15.2) – Adding Features from 1.17 to Old Version of Minecraft

Amethyst Bud

• Grows from budding amethyst, which is found in amethyst geodes.
• Starts out tiny, but grows into medium after a while, large after even more time, and eventually becomes an amethyst cluster.
• Unlike crops, each growth stage is a separate block instead of a block state.
• Drops only when mined with a Silk Touch pickaxe.

Amethyst Cluster

• The final, mature stage of the amethyst bud, which grows from budding amethyst in amethyst geodes.
• Drops amethyst shards if broken, in an amount affected by Fortune, but can also be picked up with Silk Touch.
  • Breaking by hand, piston, breaking the support block or other means drops only 2 amethyst shards instead of 4 that would be dropped by using any pickaxe.
• Emits a light level of 5.

Azalea

• Has variants with either no blossoms or pink blossoms.
• Bush-like blocks that can be planted on dirt and grass blocks.
• Both azaleas can grow from moss blocks when bone meal is used on them.
• The variant with pink blossoms is seen as small flowers by the game (for example, bees can pollinate them).

Azalea Leaves

• Has variants with either no blossoms or pink blossoms.
• Yield azalea and sticks on decay.
• The variant with pink blossoms is seen as small flowers by the game (for example, bees can pollinate them).

Block of Amethyst

• A decorative block found in amethyst geodes.
• Unlike the Budding Amethyst, the Block of Amethyst can be obtained when mined.
• Can also be crafted with 4 amethyst shards.

Block of Copper

• Can be crafted with 9 copper ingots, and can also be crafted back into 9 copper ingots.
• Oxidizes and changes texture to a turquoise-green over time.
• Can be stopped from oxidizing by combining it with a honeycomb to create a Waxed Block of Copper.
• Honeycomb can also be used, or applied with a dispenser to wax them.
  • Yellow particles are formed when waxing the block.
• Axes can be used to scrape off wax and oxidation (one stage at a time).
  • White particles are formed when scraping off wax from the block.
• Lightning may clean oxidation, reverting the oxidation process by one or several stages.
  • Chances of cleaning and number of reverted stages are higher the closer to the struck block.
• Can be crafted into cut copper.
• There are 8 variants in total.

Block of Raw Metal

• Raw copper, Raw gold and Raw iron can be crafted into the respective block of raw metal.

Budding Amethyst

• Generates amethyst buds/clusters on any side that is exposed either to air or a water source block.
• Cannot be obtained when mined, even with Silk Touch, and does not drop anything.
• Breaks immediately if pushed by a piston or sticky piston.
  • Cannot be pulled by sticky pistons.
• Generates in amethyst geodes.

Calcite

• An off-white stone that generates in geodes, between smooth basalt and amethyst.

Candle

• Crafted with honeycomb and string.
• Comes with 16 dyed types and a yellowish non-dyed type.
• Can be lit by any item that produces fire.
• Up to 4 can be placed in a single block, similar to sea pickles, for a maximum light level of 12.
  • Only candles of the same color can be placed on the same block.
• Only one can be placed on an uneaten cake and lit.
  • If any of the cake is consumed, the candle pops off.
• Can be placed underwater, but cannot be lit.

Cave Vines

• A natural light source, with a light level of 14.
• Drop glow berries.
  • Growth can be sped up using bone meal.
  • Berries can be harvested by interacting with the vine.
• Grow from glow berries when placed on the underside of a block.

Cobbled Deepslate

• Drops from deepslate when mined with a pickaxe without Silk Touch.
• Can be used interchangeably with cobblestone and blackstone in crafting recipes of basic tools, furnaces and brewing stands.
• Can be crafted into respective stairs, slabs and walls, Polished Deepslate, Chiseled Deepslate, Deepslate Bricks and Deepslate Tiles, which can be used to craft their respective stairs, slabs, and walls (excluding Chiseled Deepslate).
  • Deepslate Bricks and Deepslate Tiles can also be smelted into their cracked variants.
• Can be smelted back into deepslate.

Copper Ore

• Generates randomly underground in small blobs.
• Copper ore generates uniformly between levels 0 and 64.
• Drops raw copper when mined.
• Can be smelted into a copper ingot.

Cut Copper

• Can be made into stair and slab variants.
• Oxidizes and changes texture over time.
• Can be stopped from oxidizing by combining it with a honeycomb to create Waxed Cut Copper.
• There are 8 variants in total.

Cut Copper Slab

• Oxidizes and changes texture over time.
• Can be stopped from oxidizing by combining it with a honeycomb to create a Waxed Cut Copper Slab.
• There are 8 variants in total.

Cut Copper Stairs

• Oxidizes and changes texture over time.
• Can be stopped from oxidizing by combining it with a honeycomb to create Waxed Cut Copper Stairs.
• There are 8 variants in total.

Deepslate

• A dark-gray stone that generates in blobs between heights 0 and 16.
• Has a hardness value greater than that of stone but can be mined with any pickaxe.
• Drops cobbled deepslate when mined.
• Can be obtained only with a Silk Touch pickaxe, or by smelting cobbled deepslate.
• There are 19 variants in total, including:
  • Cobbled Deepslate Slab
  • Cobbled Deepslate Stairs
  • Cobbled Deepslate Wall
  • Polished Deepslate
  • Polished Deepslate Slab
  • Polished Deepslate Stairs
  • Polished Deepslate Wall
  • Deepslate Bricks
  • Cracked Deepslate Bricks
  • Deepslate Brick Slab
  • Deepslate Brick Stairs
  • Deepslate Brick Wall
  • Deepslate Tiles
  • Cracked Deepslate Tiles
  • Deepslate Tile Slab
  • Deepslate Tile Stairs
  • Deepslate Tile Wall
  • Chiseled Deepslate

Deepslate Ore

• Added deepslate variants of all ores, including iron, gold, copper, coal, diamond, redstone, emerald, and lapis lazuli.
• Takes twice as long to mine as normal ores.
• Has the texture of deepslate replacing the normal stone texture.
• Takes place of ores that generate in deepslate.
• Can be used in blasting and smelting recipes like normal ores.
  • These recipes can be unlocked in the recipe book with deepslate ores as well.

Dripleaf

• Allows an entity to stay on it for 1.5 seconds (30 ticks) before the entity falls through it.
  • The tilt happens in 3 stages: unstable, partial, and full. These can be seen in the F3 debug menu.
    • All the stages are solid except the full stage, which is when the player falls through.
    • When nobody is standing on it, it is set to none stage.
  • The tilt can also be triggered by hitting the plant with a projectile.
  • The tilt can be prevented by powering it with redstone, but hitting it with a projectile still causes it to tilt.
• Comes in two sizes: small and big. Small can be applied bone meal to grow into big.
  • Small dripleaf can be obtained only with shears (otherwise breaks) and can be planted on clay or moss blocks, or underwater on clay and dirt blocks.
  • Big dripleaf can be obtained with any tool or by hand and can be planted on grass, dirt, and moss blocks.
• Both sizes can be found inside lush caves, which can currently only be accessed through the single biome, caves, or floating islands world types.
  • It is available in Survival through the wandering trader.

Dripstone Block

• A decoration block.
• Appears to be made of the same materials as stalactites and stalagmites but as a full cube.
• Generates mainly in the dripstone caves biome, which is currently available only through single biome, caves, or floating islands world types.
  • Dripstone clusters can also be found rarely in regular caves.
• Can be crafted from 4 pointed dripstone.

Glow Item Frame

• Placeable entities that appear to glow.
• Do not affect the light level, but appear as if lit up themselves.
• Items placed inside also glow.
• Crafted using an item frame and a glow ink sac.
• Includes application to maps.

Glow Lichen

• A naturally occurring light source found rarely in caves, growing on any face of a block.
• Has a light level of 7.
• Obtained with shears, otherwise breaks.
• Does not spread naturally, although bone meal can be used to spread it horizontally (or vertically if on the side of a block).
  • It spreads to adjacent spaces, up to 4.
• Can be waterlogged.
• Unlike vines, it does not pop off when underwater, and is not climbable.
• Up to 6 can be put on the same block space, merging into one block.

Hanging Roots

• Decorative blocks that can be placed only on the underside of a block.
• Obtained with shears, otherwise breaks.
• It can also be obtained using a hoe on rooted dirt turning it into normal dirt.

Infested Dripstone

• An infested variant of deepslate.
• Spawns a silverfish when mined.

Lightning Rod

• Can be crafted with 3 copper ingots.
• Lightning strikes within a 32-block radius get redirected to the lightning rod.
  • Turns completely white when struck by lightning.
• Gives off a redstone signal with a strength of 15 if hit by lightning.
• Can be activated directly by throwing a trident with Channeling at it during a thunderstorm, though this does not produce a redstone signal.

Moss Block

• An opaque block with a grass-like texture on all sides.
• Can be fertilized with bone meal to grow grass, tall grass, moss carpets, and both types of azaleas on it and in its vicinity.
• Can be fertilized with bone meal to grow over (expand) across stone surfaces, but not grass surfaces.
• Breaks when pushed by a piston or sticky piston.
• Can be combined with cobblestone or stone bricks to make the mossy versions of those blocks.
  • Vines can still be used, in addition to moss blocks.
• Hoes are the appropriate tool to collect it.
• Small dripleaf can be planted on it.

Moss Carpet

• Same texture as the moss block, but one pixel thick.
• Can be crafted with moss blocks, or be obtained by applying bone meal to them.

Pointed Dripstone

• Can be either placed on a ceiling to create a stalactite or on top of a block to create a stalagmite.
  • Can be combined to form longer stalactites and stalagmites.
• Thrown tridents break pointed dripstone. They also break when pushed directly or with a block by a piston.
• Stalagmites break if not attached to something below.
• Stalagmites hurt entities that fall on top of them more than normal fall damage.
  • Damage is relative to height: For example, jumping on a stalagmite deals 2 (❤️) of damage, and falling from 3 blocks deals 8 (❤️❤️❤️❤️) of damage.
• Stalactites can fall or break if unsupported, and break apart on impact, hurting entities they fall on.
  • Damage is relative to height: For example, one falling from 2 blocks deals 2 (❤️) of damage, and one falling from 3 blocks deal 4 (❤️❤️) of damage.
  • They drip water or lava into cauldrons if a source block is placed above the stalactite, and gradually fill the cauldron. Water drips even without any water above the block (as does lava in the Nether) but this effect alone does not fill the cauldron.
• If a stalactite is hanging from a dripstone block with a water source above, it will slowly grow both the stalactite from above and a stalagmite from below.
  • Growth speed is random but very slow; a single growth step can take several in-game days.

Potted Azalea

• Obtained by planting an Azalea Bush into a pot.

Powder Snow

• A variant of snow, entities that walk over it sink into it.
• Leather boots can be worn to prevent entities from sinking into powder snow blocks.
  • Players can still crouch to descend with leather boots. Wearing leather boots also allows powder snow to be “climbed”, like water or scaffolding. They also prevent fall damage when landing on powder snow.
  • Leather Horse Armor also protects horses from freeze damage.
• When inside a powder snow block, a frosty vignette appears around the player’s screen and any entity (with the exception of strays, polar bears, snow golems and withers) inside starts freezing and taking damage after a short time.
  • Wearing any piece of leather armor stops the freeze effect.
• Can be collected and placed with a bucket.
• Entities on fire melt powder snow when colliding.

Rooted Dirt

• A dirt-like decorative block with roots on its texture.
• Similar to coarse dirt, neither mycelium nor grass spread to it.
• Using bone meal on any side grows hanging roots underneath.
• Tilling rooted dirt with a hoe will now convert it into dirt, and pop out hanging roots.

Smooth Basalt

• A basalt variant that composes the outer layer of amethyst geodes.
• Can be obtained by smelting basalt.

Spore Blossom

• Can be placed only on the underside of a block.
• Sends green particles downward when opened.
• Particles appear in the air around the block.

Tinted Glass

• A black variant of glass that is transparent to players, but does not let light through.
• Can be crafted with 4 amethyst shards and a glass block.
  • Stained glass cannot be used to craft tinted glass.
• Drops itself if mined without Silk Touch or even by hand, unlike glass.

Tuff

• A deep grayish stone that generates in blobs between levels 0 and 16.

Amethyst Shard

• Obtained from breaking amethyst clusters.
• The amount dropped can be increased with the Fortune enchantment.
• Can be used to craft tinted glass, blocks of amethyst, and spyglasses.

Bucket of Axolotl

• Obtained by using a water bucket on an axolotl, similar to fish.
• Can be used to carry around and empty out axolotls, also similarly to fish.

Copper Ingot

• Obtained by smelting raw copper or copper ore.
• Used to craft copper blocks, lightning rods, and spyglasses.

Glow Berries

• Can be eaten, restoring 2 ().
• Grow on cave vines.
  • Once harvested the vines will lose their glow berry texture.

Glow Ink Sac

• Dropped by glow squids when killed.
• Can be used to craft glow item frames.
• Can be used to make text glow on signs.

Music Disc

• Added a new music disc from Lena Raine titled “otherside”.
  • Can be found on rare occasions in stronghold corridor chests, or much more rarely in dungeon chests.
  • Has a blue and green color to the ring area of the disc.

Powder Snow Bucket

• Obtained by using a bucket on powder snow.
• Can be used to place a powder snow block wherever it is used, or can be used to fill cauldrons with powder snow.

Raw Copper

• Drops from copper ore when mined with a stone pickaxe or higher without Silk Touch.
• Can be smelted into copper ingots.

Raw Gold

• Drops from gold ore when mined with a iron pickaxe or higher without Silk Touch.
• Can be smelted into gold ingots.

Raw Iron

• Drops from iron ore when mined with a stone pickaxe or higher without Silk Touch.
• Can be smelted into iron ingots.

Spawn Eggs

• Added Axolotl spawn egg.
• Added Goat spawn egg.
• Added Glow Squid spawn egg.

Spyglass

• Crafted with 2 copper ingots and an amethyst shard.
• When used, it zooms in on wherever the player is looking but limits their view to a square.
  • The scope texture is a glass square with a copper border.
  • The overlay that limits the view can be removed with a resource pack or by pressing F1.
• There is a unique animation for using the spyglass, which is visible in a third-person perspective or by another player.

Axolotl

• Can only spawn in complete darkness and where there’s a natural stone block less than 5 blocks below the spawning space.
• The first amphibian added to Minecraft.
  • Dry out and start taking damage after 5 minutes of being out of water.
• Can be caught using a water bucket, like fish.
• Can be bred using buckets of tropical fish.
• Come in five different colors (leucistic, yellow, brown, cyan, and blue, with blue being the rarest).[1]
  • Blue axolotls are very rare, as they don’t naturally spawn, only appearing with a 1⁄1200 chance when breeding.
• Plays dead when damaged on water, receiving Regeneration I.
  • This regeneration ability is likely based on how real axolotls can regrow lost limbs.
• Attacks drowned, guardians, elder guardians, squids, glow squids and fish, dealing 2♥ damage.
  • They have a two-minute cooldown after hunting non-hostile targets such as fish and squids.
  • They prioritise attacking hostile mobs over passive ones.
• If a player kills a mob an axolotl is in combat with, the player gets a Regeneration I effect and is rid of Mining Fatigue, if they had it.

Glow Squid

• Originates from the mob of the same name in Minecraft Earth.
• Underwater mob that behaves like a regular squid.
• Can only spawn in complete darkness and where there’s a natural stone block less than 5 blocks below the spawning space.
• Is attacked by axolotls without provocation.
• Drops glow ink sacs when killed.
• Does not affect the light level, but appears as if lit up. Glows in the same way that magma cube cores, vexes, blazes and the eyes of spiders, drowned, and endermen do.
• Stops glowing for a short time and swims away quickly after taking damage.

Goat

• Spawns in mountain biomes.
  • Currently a place holder until the new mountains are added.
• Goats can ram other mobs and armor stands to knock them a few blocks.
  • Mobs rammed by goats don’t retaliate.
• Can jump higher than other mobs to avoid obstacles, up to 10 blocks high.
• Takes reduced fall damage.
• Avoids powder snow by jumping over it.
• Can be bred with wheat to produce a baby goat.
• A bucket can be used on them to get milk.
• Do not drop anything.
• They have a 2% chance of spawning as a screaming goat, which are more hostile and make different noises.

Death Messages

• Added 2 new death messages:
  • ” froze to death”
  • ” was frozen to death by “