by Ligon
Trails and Tales adds two new wood sets, friendly giants and archeology.
The bamboo wood set comes with a unique wooden block, mosaic bamboo planks (perfect for floor designs). While bamboo allows me to add almost golden touches to my builds, I can’t add cherry wood to my current structures as it only goes well with pink and red blocks.
Exploring to find bamboo is much easier with the addition of camels. Unlike the old horses, mules and donkeys, players can still ride these new desert mobs when they are in two block deep pools of water. These friendly giants are so tall that zombies can’t reach me when I’m on my trusty companion. Camels aren’t the only passive giants: sniffers are Minecraft’s first dinosaurs. Sniffers don’t spawn naturally, they need to be hatched from eggs. The eggs normally take a long twenty minutes to hatch but take a much quicker ten minutes when placed on moss. Once the adorable snifflets have hatched and grown into sniffers, they have the ability to dig up seeds for the new breathtakingly gorgeous torchflower and pitcher plants.
Sniffer eggs can be found in suspicious sand, one of two new block variants. By using the new brush tool, I can find extremely useful and pretty items (new and old) in the new suspicious sand and gravel. These archaeology blocks can be found in old structures like ocean ruins. Meanwhile, the amazingly beautiful trail ruins are full of suspicious gravel. Depending on where I dig, I can uncover loads of items from the new armour trims and hanging signs to TNT, emeralds, wheat, dye and stained glass. However, I always have the chance to find one of twenty kinds of pottery sherds.
Overall, Trails and Tales brings Minecraft to a whole new level and adds a mysterious history to this amazing game.