Minecraft's Desert and Savanna Updates Have Yet to Rear Their Heads
Minecraft’s ever-expanding strategy has always allowed for continuous growth with new features, biomes, blocks, and mobs added in with each major update. The most recent update gave players a new biome to explore in the Mangrove Swamps, but there were two other biomes that Mojang promised to update back in 2018 that still do not feature any changes. The Savanna and Desert biomes were voted second and third in the Biome Chooser vote, finishing behind the Taiga biome that added foxes, campfires, and berries to Minecraft.
Deserts and Savannas in Minecraft are in dire need of an update, as these two are arguably the most barren biomes in the game. While each can spawn a village, the Savanna biome features little in terms of different mobs, and the Deserts contain no trees, making them poor locations to spawn in when starting up a world. At MineCon Earth 2018, it was revealed that both of these biomes will be updated in the future, but four years down the road fans are still waiting for updates that make these biomes worthwhile.
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Currently, the main features in a Desert biome in Minecraft are villages, rabbits, and Desert Temples, but the update promised in Minecon Earth 2018 was set to make Deserts an easier place to start a new world. The update would add palm trees, giving players living in the desert a way to find renewable wood, oases that would serve as a respite and could provide some food, and meerkats that could be useful for hostile mob detection. Each of these additions would have drastically altered how fans play Minecraft within the Desert and would have made the biome an easier starting point than it has been.
The palm trees would likely be the same as every other
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