What 1.17 brought
1.17 – Caves & Cliffs: Part I, released in June 2021. This is the first half of the great renewal of caves and mountains. The game produced axolotles, goats and glowing squids, copper that eventually grows green, amethyst jockeys, an observation pipe, a lightning rod, candles, and loose snow. The new caves and the mountains arrived later in 1.18.
For new builders, the copper goes through several stages of oxidation, and by wax it can be stopped at any one, and the amethyst and candles give light and color. The thunder drain intercepts lightning next to it; on the server, it saves wooden buildings from fire.
Minecraft servers 1.17 are basically a plugin-based survival game that wanted all the new blocks at once. The latest version of the branch is 1.17.1.
Why there are few servers for 1.17
From 1.17 the game and server need Java 16 -- everything worked for Java 8. Hotels and plagins had to be updated, and six months later, in November 2021, 1.18 was released with a new generation of the world and depth to -64. Most of the servers went straight to it, and 1.17 remained a short stop. She's got a bit of mod under her, too.
Many servers run from other clients via ViaVersion and ViaBackwards as well, where the monitoring provides a range such as "1.17-1.21". If only 1.17.1 is listed, put it down.
How to select a server and log in
On the server page - online now, chart for the day and week, peak, record and uptime by day for 90 days. Online monitoring measures it itself, by ping - this is not a number according to the owner.
Press Copy Address, run the right version, open The Network Game, add, and put an address. For an attractive voice server once a day, the voice moves it in the Voices tab.