Minecraft Wilderness Bound Update Details and Patch Notes

The new Wilderness Bound Update for Minecraft has arrived, and brings with it a variety of content to the game including dappled forests, abandoned camps, cushions, straw beds, and much more!

This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of the Wilderness Bound update in Minecraft, including a link to the full Patch Notes.

Wilderness Bound Content

Dappled Forest

The Dappled Forest is a new biome where you'll find the new Poplar trees. It'll be most commonly found near cold biomes. As a result, it has a noticeably autumnal feel with lots of red foliage and fauna.

• The Dappled Forest is a new type of forest biome which can be found near cold biomes
• Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees generate here
• Shelf Mushrooms can be found here, placed on Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees
• Red Shrubs generate here
• The following passive and neutral mobs spawn in the Dappled Forest, using their cold variants where applicable:
  • Sheep
  • Chicken
  • Cow
  • Pig
  • Rabbit
  • Fox
• A Dappled Forest variant of the new Abandoned Camp structure can be found here

Poplar Trees

This new tree type (as you would expect) grants you access to a whole new suite of wooden blocks and Poplar leaves, the latter of which have three color variations.

• Added the Poplar Tree to the game
  • A new type of tree in the Dappled Forest which comes in three color variations:
  • Red Poplar Leaves
  • Orange Poplar Leaves
  • Yellow Poplar Leaves
• Each variant of the tree has its own variant of falling leaf particles matching the color of the leaves
• Poplar Leaves drop Poplar Saplings which will randomly grow into any of the three different variants
• Poplar Saplings can be found in trades with Wandering Trader
• Shelf Mushrooms and Leaf Litter naturally generates on and around Poplar Trees
• The trunk of the trees are made of Poplar Logs
• Poplar Logs can be crafted into a new set of Poplar wood blocks
• Forest ambience sounds are tied to the Poplar Leaf blocks

Shelf Mushrooms

This new mushroom variant will grow on the side of Poplar trees, and come in two different sizes. When you or another entity land on one, it'll be bouncy! You can gather them and then place them on the side of any (full) block that you choose.

• A new type of mushroom that generates on Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees
• Can be found in two sizes, small and large
• A small Shelf Mushroom can be grown into a large Shelf Mushroom using Bone Meal
• A large Shelf Mushroom drops two Shelf Mushroom items when broken
• Can be used like other mushrooms to make Stews
• Can be found in trades with Wandering Trader
• Shelf Mushroom has a slight bounciness when stepped on, similar to Beds

Abandoned Camp

The Abandoned Camp is a new structure that you can find in the following biomes:

• Swamp
• Savanna
• Taiga/Snowy Taiga
• Dappled/Flower/Birch/Windswept Forest
• Jungle
• Pale Garden
• Cherry Grove
• Meadow
• Wooded Badlands

In Abandoned Camps, you'll find chests/barrels, a variety of different blocks, and Straw Beds.

• Each of these biomes has its own variant of the structure with design based on that biome
• Certain structure pieces are generic for all biome variants of the structure
• Various Chests and Barrels with loot can be found at Abandoned Camps
• Straw Beds can be found in Abandoned Camps
• Cushions can be found in Abandoned Camps
• Chests in Abandoned Camps contain Explorer Maps that lead to Ancient City, Mineshaft, Desert Pyramid, Warm Ocean Ruins, and other biome variants of Abandoned Camps

Straw Bed

The Straw Bed is a new bed variant that will allow you to sleep through the night without changing your spawn point. As a tradeoff for this utility, it is a one-time use item and will break after you use it. You can craft one with three horizontal hay bales.

• Straw Bed is a new type of bed which can be used to sleep through the night without setting your spawn point
• It can only be used once and will be destroyed after use
• It can not be used in the Nether or The End and will be destroyed if you try to sleep on it there
• It is crafted using 3 Hay Bales and will give you 4 Straw Beds
• Straw Beds breaks faster when using a Hoe

Additional Updates

• Cushions have been added.
  • Crafted from 3 Wool Slabs
  • Decorative block that can be placed on any surface
  • Can be sat on, and comes in all color variations
  • A Cushion can be placed on any flat surface
  • Cushions always align horizontally to the grid, but vertically sit on top of the supporting surface
  • Cushions cannot move
  • Cushions break if the supporting block is removed
  • Cushions do not have collision and can overlap with other objects (except other Cushions)
• Wool stairs and slabs (in all color variations) have been added.
• Concrete stairs and slabs (in all color variations) have been added.
• Red Shrub is a new type of decorative plant block that can be found in small patches in the Dappled Forest
  • Can be used in the Composter
  • Using Bone Meal on a Red Shrub grows a Red Shrub in a random adjacent space, if possible
• New Explorer Maps have been added
  • Swamp
  • Dappled Forest
  • Windswept Forest
  • Flower Forest
  • Birch Forest
  • Bamboo Jungle
  • Pale Garden
  • Cherry Grove
• New structure maps have been added to the Abandoned Camps loot pool:
  • Warm Ocean Ruins Map
  • Buried Mineshaft Map
  • Buried Ancient City Map
  • Desert Pyramid Map

Full Patch Notes

If you wish to read the Patch Notes in full, you can do so via the official Minecraft websites Wilderness Bound Patch Notes post.

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