Minecraft: FAQ for the Hidden Depths DLC for Minecraft Dungeons, and details for the Caves & Cliffs update for Minecraft

With less than a week left until release, Mojang Studios have shared an official FAQ about the Hidden Depths DLC for Minecraft Dungeons (out on May 26th). If you want to know all there is to know about this new bit of DLC, but also the free content releasing alongside it, make sure to check it out!

Also, the next major update for Minecraft, the Caves & Cliffs update, will add a brand new ressource: amethyst shards. If you want to learn more about it, you’re in luck: the latest post in the Taking Inventory series (which goes over key items in the Minecraft universe) is all about them. Click here to check it out!

Here’s how they work. Geodes spawn underground and are surrounded by smooth basalt blocks. They’re also always partially submerged in some kind of solid block – usually stone. Dig through that, or find a crack in the surface, and you’ll uncover a layer of calcite ⁠– another new mineral. Inside the calcite layer, you’ll find something rather special ⁠– a mix of amethyst and budding amethyst blocks ⁠– as well as clusters of amethyst that when broken drop amethyst shards.