Minecraft Player Discovers Ocean Monument in Unusual…

A Minecraft player happened across an ocean monument that seems to have spawned in a particularly unusual location, planted directly beneath a floating desert biome. The massively popular sandbox game from Mojang features plenty of hidden secrets for players to uncover in their worlds, both above ground and deep within its depths. Players can happen across everything from temples in different biomes and Pillager Outposts to winding mine shafts and underground Fortresses. However, one player's Minecraft discovery serves as a bit more of an unusual oddity than the game's normal structures.

First added in 2014's "Bountiful Update," ocean monuments give players something to discover beneath the oceans in their Minecraft worlds. Ocean monuments feature several different rooms for players to explore, typically protected by Guardians and a pre-determined number of Elder Guardians. Players can track down ocean monuments within their worlds by using ocean explorer maps obtained from Cartographer Villagers, with players able to find Gold and Prismarine blocks within. A Minecraft player is now sharing their unusual run-in with one of the sub-aquatic structures.

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A post shared to the Minecraft subreddit by Reddit user Neffdigitydog shows off the unusual spawn point for an ocean monument in their world. The underwater monument appears to have spawned directly beneath a desert biome within the game, featuring sand blocks suspended in mid-air directly above the monument. The user points out the spawn as particularly odd as ocean monuments only spawn in ocean biomes, suggesting Minecraft had assigned two different biomes to the same location. The player also shares both the seed for the Minecraft world and some key coordinates in the replies.

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Replies from other Minecraft fans saw a mixture of players trying to deduce how the unusual spawn had occurred. The most prevalent theory about the strange structure posited that Minecraft had attempted to spawn a monument at the edge of an ocean biome, causing it to overlap with the neighboring Desert biome. Other fans posited that the monument might have been generated in an older world, though the original poster did point out the world was created no older than the 1.20 update. One fan jokingly suggested the user should break a sand block, causing the others to drop into the ocean.

Minecraft has seen some big updates in recent months, making a plethora of major changes to the beloved game. Mojang officially unveiled Minecraft's new "Vibrant Visuals" update earlier this year, making sweeping overhauls to the game's graphics engine and introducing improved water shading, volumetric lighting, and plenty more. Minecraft will also soon launch its "Chase the Skies" update, officially introducing Happy Ghasts to the game alongside finally allowing players to craft saddles. Minecraft's upgraded graphics and new content should look to give fans plenty more to do in its sandbox world.

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