Category: Minecraft News

Are you ready for the official release?  Well you only have to wait until the 23rd to get your hands on the official release.  Are you excited?  I am!  Let’s help find those pesky bugs to get as many squashed as possible!

• MC-114030 – Structure blocks take and apply NBT data of entities and tile entities directly instead of a copy when loading and saving structures
• MC-127971 – Trying to throw a trident while having a shield or bow equipped will make the trident appear backwards in your hand
• MC-153483 – When Swapping Tridents between hands the trident being held doesnt swap visually, it just flips backwards
• MC-159820 – 3rd person reverse trident bug
• MC-179309 – Trident animates backwards while eating
• MC-187953 – Adding items to #minecraft:small_flowers item tag and feeding them to brown mooshrooms crashes the game
• MC-188746 – Not selecting a biome for “Floating Islands” world type spawns an empty world
• MC-188859 – Incorrect throwing animation for tridents
• MC-189007 – When entering or leaving swimming mode both arms now move parallel instead of symmetrical
• MC-189782 – Large ferns only drop one small fern when harvested
• MC-189858 – Leads can disappear when transporting a mob through a nether portal
• MC-189937 – Saddled pigs accumulate speed when ridden in water
• MC-189970 – Selected worlds using keyboard nav does not enable world-specific options such as Play, Edit, Delete, and Re-Create
• MC-189973 – ClassCastException when bee with passenger flies through village at night
• MC-190005 – Piglins can spawn with gear with too many enchantments, including multiple enchantments of the same type
• MC-190036 – Passive mobs do not spawn in floating island world type
• MC-190124 – Grass decays too quickly when covered in water
• MC-190166 – Game crashes when burning a tree in a custom dimension: java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception while ticking

We’re seeing a lot more fixes with these latest two Pre-Releases as well as a few small changes.  I can think of a few ideas for maps with the interacted advancement trigger.  What can you guys think of?

• Tweaked map colours of crimson and warped materials
• There is now a text that says “Search…” in the recipe book that highlights that you can… search…
• Opening the game mode switcher now has a default selection if you have not entered a different game mode before in that world. 
• In the above scenario, by default, you will now select Creative if currently in any other game mode, and Survival if currently in Creative

• Added player_interacted_with_entity advancement trigger
• item matches the item which was in the player’s hand during interaction
• entity matches the entity which was interacted with

• MC-45749 – Potion particles spread always from the north-west corner of a block, regardless of impact
• MC-163333 – Plains houses and decorations can generate in taiga villages
• MC-166593 – Zombie villagers in zombie villages aren’t persistent
• MC-167386 – binding hotbar hotkeys to mouse thumb button won’t interact the way it should
• MC-167554 – Enchantment glint on shields is rendered incorrectly
• MC-171543 – Ravagers can easily be knocked back with the knockback enchantment
• MC-172027 – Datafixer for minecraft:recipes/misc/composter advancement is missing
• MC-172442 – Piglins don’t spawn with enchanted gear
• MC-172592 – Breaking a larger than normally possible Nether portal makes the game crash with a java.lang.StackOverflowError
• MC-174279 – Baby piglins don’t run from wither skeletons
• MC-175993 – Enchantment glint of lodestone compass or enchanted compass/clock jumps when compass/clock rotates
• MC-177929 – End gateways don’t always teleport the player when throwing an ender pearl into it
• MC-178573 – Piglins are afraid of extinguished soul campfires
• MC-178947 – Explosion damage can be blocked by fire
• MC-181465 – Bartering with a piglin with an equipped shield using right click deletes the shield instead of dropping it on the ground
• MC-182309 – Command autocomplete doesn’t sort strings that start with the given word to the top
• MC-182325 – Iron golem causes lag when it can’t attack its enemies
• MC-183759 – Oh Shiny advancement doesn’t activate when right clicking
• MC-184277 – Last game mode for game mode switcher and F3 + N is always survival after relogging
• MC-184813 – Superflat world corruption when converting the world
• MC-186614 – New Nether mobs make too many noises under certain circumstances
• MC-186617 – Zombified piglins sound angry too many times when hit constantly
• MC-187031 – Piglin swinging animation does not match attacking or targeting animation
• MC-187420 – Zombified piglins make angry sounds too frequently
• MC-187490 – Piglins that pick up gold while pathfinding will continue pathfinding
• MC-187522 – Server doesn’t generate amplified / large biome worlds
• MC-187622 – Piglins can still remove curse of binding enchanted helmets / carved pumpkins after they’ve inspected a golden helmet
• MC-187853 – Water / Lava doesnt move entities unless they move first
• MC-188581 – Glass placed in item frame isn’t rendered properly
• MC-188659 – New “swap items with offhand” feature doesn’t work if the control is bound to the 4th or 5th mouse button
• MC-188702 – When loading in a redstone dot via a structure block, the dot gets set to a redstone cross
• MC-188987 – When standing on certain non-full blocks, the player gets pushed off if there is a lower area next to the block
• MC-189081 – Chains create water sources
• MC-189256 – Hoglin and zoglin tusks textures are not separate
• MC-189326 – Lecterns don’t stack with other lecterns after being placed down and broken

• MC-176447 – Striders left/right leg uses the same texture
• MC-180467 – World Border is no longer fully solid
• MC-183673 – Skeletons not spawning frequently in Soul Sand Valley
• MC-185126 – Unable to jump one block high from flowing lava that has level 3 or lower
• MC-186228 – Zombified piglins’ sleeve layers are not held upwards like their arms
• MC-188552 – Zombified Piglins drop less XP than before
• MC-188838 – Heads and skulls on a wall cause z-fighting
• MC-189824 – Overworld/general gameplay music can play in the nether in creative mode
• MC-189846 – Turtle eggs hatching broken, game checking for sand one block too deep
• MC-189856 – Unable to set nether portal block with /setblock or /fill
• MC-189867 – Cannot use /setblock and /fill to place blocks in positions they cannot normally be in
• MC-189868 – Player gets set on fire and extinguished continuously when standing in fire in Creative mode
• MC-189895 – Redstone in jungle temple / pyramid no longer connects to blocks and redstone components properly
• MC-189905 – The player can get stuck inside of the world border
• MC-189971 – Clicking the “Take me back” button causes translucent blocks to stop rendering

More cleanup as we move ever closer to the release of 1.16.  With the latest release just remember to turn down your graphic settings a bit before playing.  Report any bugs to Mojang Studios to get as many bugs as possible squashed!

• Tweaked hostile spawn rates in Warped Forests and Soulsand Valleys

• MC-136085 – Blocks attached to multi-block blocks are deleted when breaking the other half of the block
• MC-177463 – Crash report “Connection:” field contains unuseful value (Object.toString())
• MC-179851 – Attribute generic.movement_speed does not work in /attribute
• MC-180967 – Advancement description JSON can ignore the first specified color
• MC-181498 – Using a fire charge on top of fire briefly creates another fire on top of it
• MC-181556 – Baby Zombified Piglins float while riding striders
• MC-181576 – Worlds which are already open in another instance of Minecraft can be selected with arrow keys and tab
• MC-184613 – End Stone generates in Floating Islands setting
• MC-184644 – Cave buffet generator generates with netherrack, even if using a non-nether biome
• MC-186468 – Although reload failed, the game will also tell you “Disabled data pack [XXX]”
• MC-187419 – Hand animation is not played when feeding horses or donkeys with golden carrots
• MC-188352 – Creative mode cow milking / mushroom stewing inconsistent with picking up placed fluids
• MC-188451 – Game crashes when dispensing a shulker box from a dispenser – “java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception while ticking”
• MC-188463 – Transparent dropped items render in wrong order when behind entities when graphics setting is set to fabulous
• MC-188467 – “Sound Director” in credits is too light compared to the rest of the text, and is missing an “S”
• MC-188517 – Cannot create multiple empty tags in a datapack
• MC-188519 – Clouds render on top of blocks
• MC-188528 – Particles render on top of stained glass

• Added a GPU warn list for graphics drivers that are known to have rendering issues with Fabulous graphics
• If your GPU driver is detected as problematic then a warning message will be displayed with details of the detected problem
• This warning message can be ignored, but support cannot be provided for graphics drivers on the warn list running Fabulous

• MC-141934 – Ctrl + Pick block on a lectern does not display its book despite being saved to NBT
• MC-148955 – Iron golems can spawn inside of non-full blocks
• MC-149308 – Thrown items appear right in front of head for a frame
• MC-166276 – Thrown items and blocks sometimes appear black for an instant
• MC-166413 – Item frame turns black for an instant when being placed
• MC-166718 – Mobs no longer suffocate inside of soul sand, farmland or grass paths
• MC-167359 – Items are bright for a brief moment after being broken
• MC-167362 – Item frames are bright for a brief moment when placed
• MC-177361 – Villagers/wandering traders don’t flee away from zoglins
• MC-180867 – Jukeboxes grabbed with an NBT+ picker do not release discs on right click.
• MC-181605 – Right-clicking a Respawn Anchor with an item in off-hand uses that item
• MC-182119 – Game mode description text is no longer centered and now extends off the screen in some languages
• MC-183469 – Mobs do not pathfind around holes or lava
• MC-185777 – Shift-clicking a netherite ingot in a smithing table moves the ingot to gear slot
• MC-186206 – Water tinted rendered differently behind glass top versus sides
• MC-188468 – User Control for “Swap Item with Offhand” gets reset when upgrading from 1.16pre-2 to 3
• MC-188489 – “Switch item with offhand” inventory keyboard shortcut still works in Search Items creative tab, overriding text input
• MC-188505 – Attacking an entity while sneaking cancels sneaking for a moment, then desyncs client and server about player’s height
• MC-188509 – Zombified Piglins drop experience but not gold ingots when they die while aggressive
• MC-188542 – Custom world gen settings causes minecraft to crash upon import
• MC-188633 – Small mobs drown while in boat
• MC-188652 – Gamerules doMobLoot and doTileDrops have the same description in gamerule menu
• MC-188655 – Number keys in Creative search override typing in the search bar, resulting in unintentional hotbar item switching
• MC-188675 – Bed heads, tall flowers and bottom doors drop two items
• MC-188678 – Milking a cow/mooshroom for milk or mushroom stew consumes the item without giving anything back
• MC-188691 – Can no longer light Nether Portal using Fire Charge on the side of Obsidian

This update brings fixes to the back-end dealing with account sing ins and multiplayer.  Happy crafting!

• Fixed several crashes that could occur when attempting to sign into Xbox Live / Microsoft account MCPE-20548, MCPE-64245 
• Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to sign in when offline MCPE-29021 
• Fixed various sign in and account linking issues on Nintendo Switch MCPE-65511 
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent game invites from being sent/received correctly on mobile devices

This update brings fixes to the back-end dealing with account sing ins and multiplayer.  Happy crafting!

• Fixed several crashes that could occur when attempting to sign into Xbox Live / Microsoft account MCPE-20548, MCPE-64245 
• Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to sign in when offline MCPE-29021 
• Fixed various sign in and account linking issues on Nintendo Switch MCPE-65511 
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent game invites from being sent/received correctly on mobile devices

• This week’s beta includes more back-end fixes to address several issues with account sign in and multiplayer

We’re still a few weeks out from the official release.  No, no official date has been set, but in the meantime, the changes and bugfixes will have to tide us over.  At least worlds opened in 1.16 Pre-release 1 seem like they might be recoverable now.  No promises there.

• Made Nether Fortresses slightly more common
• Food can now be placed on unlit campfires
• Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of fire resistance
• Piglins now hear you break a chest or block of gold (or similar) even if your are our of line of sight, and will assume you are stealing
• The game will now attempt to recover worlds broken in 1.16 Pre-release 1
• Game rule descriptions now span multiple lines if needed on the game rules screen
• A loading screen is now displayed while the game is reading world data for loading, creating or re-creating a world

• Region files are now only opened in synchronous mode on Windows, not on other operating systems. Status of this feature can be manually controlled by the following options:
• For dedicated servers: sync-chunk-writes within server.properties
• For clients: syncChunkWrites within options.txt

• MC-13823 – Leads are incorrectly positioned on certain entities
• MC-14680 – Lead is shifted upwards or downwards based on leashed entity height
• MC-27535 – Mobs can sometimes still despawn, even if named with a name tag
• MC-84610 – Off-hand hotkey doesn’t work in inventories
• MC-131286 – Attack will use right hand instead of left hand when swimming (main hand: left)
• MC-134608 – Certain Spawner Tag Conditions Induce Game Crash
• MC-143473 – Teleporting a mob while it is pathfinding will make it navigate back to where it was originally going
• MC-152157 – “Marie Stålkrantz” is not the right color in game credits
• MC-159371 – Leads are incorrectly positioned on bees
• MC-159502 – Bees don’t avoid water; killing themselves
• MC-160520 – Bee’s wandering AI tries to go through three-way corners
• MC-163921 – Placing a block while looking at redstone ore plays no sound
• MC-166346 – Transparent blocks do not render properly with tripwire above
• MC-166880 – Pufferfish spikes model seems to be broken
• MC-167043 – Enchantment glint does only apply to the handle of shields with banners
• MC-169008 – Using End portal in the Nether teleports the player to the End, but at the same coordinates the player was in the Nether
• MC-171618 – Players wearing armor take less damage from burning when standing in fire under certain conditions
• MC-171810 – Some Mojang employees are not mentioned in the credits
• MC-171969 – Fall damage is negated when stepping up after falling
• MC-172053 – Nether particles get stuck on the bottom of blocks
• MC-172105 – When a piglin is dancing, targeting or looking at an item, the chestplate the piglin is wearing does not adjust to the piglin’s pose
• MC-172110 – Texture of turtle shells is missing when worn by a piglin or zombified piglin
• MC-172871 – Unable to spawn wither in horizontal arrangement below y level 2
• MC-173310 – Observer powered texture doesn’t match unpowered
• MC-173404 – Desync when mounting an entity while sneaking
• MC-173825 – Bats break turtle eggs
• MC-176094 – Baby zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn riding striders
• MC-177336 – ‘Failed to access level’ when opening a world from a CIFS mount on Ubuntu
• MC-177530 – The new minecraft:attributes registry is plural, while all the others are singular
• MC-177542 – Chunk loading and saving is extremely slow when sync-chunk-writes=true
• MC-177626 – Spruce generation is broken
• MC-177694 – Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg is placed before Zombie Villager Spawn Egg in the creative inventory
• MC-177712 – Nether portal blocks do not have loot tables
• MC-177795 – Overworld music can start playing in the Nether
• MC-177863 – Shroomlights cannot be composted
• MC-177876 – Striders are now much rarer
• MC-178010 – Lena Raine does not appear in credits
• MC-178338 – Striders only get warm when lava touches their legs
• MC-179140 – Sea guardians have an odd swimming behavior
• MC-180603 – Wrong structures are generated in superflat worlds
• MC-181630 – Advancement trigger “minecraft:tick” does not support standard “player” predicate
• MC-181813 – Edit “g”ame “r”ules are not capitalized in the Game Rules menu title
• MC-181884 – Falling quickly/Flying with Elytra/Swimming with Riptide Trident and throwing a projectile will cause it to hit the player
• MC-182076 – Horse jumping sound is unused
• MC-182249 – Problems with potted_cactus.json block model file
• MC-182766 – Recipe book search function does not work if recipe book was not open before
• MC-182909 – Esc from Customised World’s Biome selection screen kicks us back to main menu
• MC-183018 – When sneaking while flying underwater in Creative, the player exits flying mode after a few seconds
• MC-183402 – Tutorial doesn’t advance when breaking nether tree
• MC-183554 – Ruined portals generated in lava lakes unnaturally displace lava, resulting in weird borders
• MC-183588 – Stray emerald block in structure bastion/treasure/big_air_full
• MC-183594 – The 5th large inner and outer hoglin stables do not generate in bastions
• MC-183599 – Some hoglin stable stair structures do not generate
• MC-183762 – Description of F3+N in help menu still describes the old functionality
• MC-183809 – Large Oak Trees replace blocks
• MC-183880 – Distracting baby piglins with gold grants the ‘Oh Shiny’ advancement
• MC-183915 – Wall Heads & Skulls are slightly offset from block selection outline
• MC-183931 – nether fortress mobs no longer spawn in extended bounding box
• MC-183933 – show_text tellraw hover events don’t work for components that need resolving (nbt, score, selector)
• MC-184093 – Using an end gateway teleports the player half a block too high
• MC-184250 – Font of the enchantments displayed in the enchanting table is italic
• MC-184608 – “Unknown biome, defaulting to plains” error upon launching the game
• MC-184612 – Import Settings “s” isn’t capitalized
• MC-184613 – End Stone generates in Floating Islands setting
• MC-184644 – Cave buffet generator generates with netherrack, even if using a non-nether biome
• MC-184653 – [Crash] “java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: value already present:” – Game crashes when worldgen dimension type presets are not unique
• MC-184675 – Superflat void preset doesn’t have a starting platform again
• MC-184699 – ‘/spreadplayers under’ does not prevent invalid values
• MC-184723 – The “i” in “World Type: Floating islands” is not capitalized
• MC-184757 – [Crash] “java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking memory connection” on loading a dimension with debug chunk generator
• MC-184887 – You can spawn in the bedrock ceiling of a Caves world
• MC-184900 – Newline in tellraw adds a space at the beginning of the new line
• MC-184984 – Game crashes after generating multiple worlds in succession
• MC-185004 – [Crash] java.lang.NullPointerException – Crash on entering end/nether portal when dimension is removed in worldgen settings
• MC-185164 – Bottom half of icebergs always generate at y=62 regardless of sea_level
• MC-185285 – Entering the End or the Nether after creating and reentering a debug world crashes the game
• MC-185299 – Villagers cannot be summoned with a specific type unless you also specify a profession
• MC-185363 – sync-chunk-writes often takes over a minute to close a world
• MC-185417 – Maps reset on upgrade
• MC-185616 – Turtle eggs can’t hatch on red sand
• MC-185949 – Copy “C” in Click to Copy to Clipboard isn’t capitalized
• MC-186078 – Transparent items render in front of transparent blocks on some graphics cards when graphics setting is set to fabulous
• MC-186084 – Piglin head and torso floats and detaches during celebration dance
• MC-186085 – Player is unable to interact with the world after dismounting a boat while it’s moving
• MC-186091 – When you stop swimming, “diving underwater” sound occurs and vision flashes
• MC-186092 – The head of a piglin becomes offset after performing their celebration dance
• MC-186097 – Pigs are moving very slowly
• MC-186248 – “m” in Safe Mode button isn’t capitalized
• MC-186263 – “b” & “l” in Create Backup & Load isn’t capitalized
• MC-186337 – The lighting of the “Client” doesn’t correspond to that of the “Server”
• MC-186353 – The “s” and “m” in “Edit sign message” are uncapitalized
• MC-186403 – Swimming up on the side of flowing water no longer prevents the player from drowning
• MC-186492 – Lily pad placement in creative mode causes item on hotbar to flicker/vanish
• MC-186905 – “Superflat Customization” screen resets every time you open it and does not show previously saved settings
• MC-187363 – Charged respawn anchors no longer light up blocks around them
• MC-187367 – Netherite recipes show up in crafting table despite requiring a smithing table to use
• MC-187371 – Game crashes when attempting to change cloud settings on some graphics cards
• MC-187392 – Items in waterlogged stairs don’t float up high enough to be caught by a water stream above the stair
• MC-187394 – Dying Ender dragons are rendered completely white when using Fabulous graphics
• MC-187402 – Lighting in the End dimension is much darker when on a server
• MC-187405 – /seed is no longer available without cheats enabled
• MC-187411 – Particles and clouds not rendering properly behind stained glass and solid blocks
• MC-187437 – Held item is invisible in inventory menu
• MC-187449 – Zombie Pigmen/Zombified Piglins do not drop XP and rare drops anymore if killed by anything other than the player while in angered state
• MC-187466 – Mobs killed in creative mode don’t drop experience
• MC-187468 – Enchantment glint does not render for certain things on “Fabulous” setting
• MC-187483 – The advancement “Two by Two” can be achieved by just breeding turtles
• MC-187504 – Mobs do not drop rare drop items when killed by a player in Creative Mode
• MC-187552 – Piglins and Hoglins shake in the nether on servers
• MC-187585 – Dolphins with NoAI:1b can drown
• MC-187592 – Piglins constantly picking up gold nuggets and dropping them
• MC-187611 – White squares when in first person with fabulous video settings and F1
• MC-187618 – Demo world not saving after saving and quitting then quiting out of minecraft
• MC-187673 – [Crash] “java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unregistered dimension type”
• MC-187676 – “d” in Reset to default isn’t capitalized
• MC-187677 – “b” in Go back isn’t capitalized
• MC-187679 – Bees stay angry far longer
• MC-187730 – Newly spawned Zombified Piglins do not pick up the aggro of older spawned aggravated Zombified Piglins
• MC-187739 – NeutralMob.playerDied(Player) does not return if forgiveDeadPlayers = false
• MC-187796 – Wolves only use their hostile appearance after being attacked
• MC-187811 – Ender dragon death animation suddenly flashes right after it has ended
• MC-187978 – /seed availiable to all players on multiplayer server
• MC-188070 – Glitched skin while swimming (left hand)
• MC-188088 – Overworld superflat preset no longer generates with terrain decorations
• MC-188216 – Superflat biome selection overrides block selection on “Create New World” screen
• MC-188393 – K in “4k” should be capitalized

It was only just yesterday we had our first pre-release.  Any words opened in 1.16 pre-release 1 are corrupt.  If you haven’t already please remember to create backups before playing any snapshots of your favorite worlds you open while the snapshots/pre-releases are active on your launcher.

• MC-187350 – Game randomly crashes / IllegalStateException: POI never registered
• MC-187352 – Loading a world created in 1.16-pre1 always ask for confirmation
• MC-187353 – Crash when loading some worlds: IllegalStateException: Lock is no longer valid
• MC-187358 – Worlds generated in 1.16-pre1 do not have their world generation settings saved correctly, causing chunk errors
• MC-187364 – Disabling and enabling dimension datapack disables nether and end
• MC-187408 – Game crashing with Nether portals – java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking player

We draw closer to the release of the Nether Update.  We see some fixes for some more of those pesky crashes as well some hang-ups when trying to open certain words.

Remember that only those on Xbox One / Windows 10 / and Android may participate in the Beta builds.  You will not be able to join Realms or non-beta players worlds and you will not be able to open worlds opened in the Beta in earlier/current stable builds of Bedrock.

Performance and Stability

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to create world with the Tropical City Resort mash-up pack
• Fixed an issue that could cause a hang on start up when trying to open certain worlds

General

• Fixed an issue with projectiles being destroyed prematurely if they didn’t deal damage. This is now optional with the addition of 2 new flags to the projectile 

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue that could cause chests to generate without loot MCPE-69003 

Graphical

• Fixed rendering issues while riding a mount

Add-Ons and Scripting

• Fixed an issue that could occur when the movement component is removed, meaning that a mob’s speed has to ramp up from 0 again
• Changes to components: set_last_hurt_requires_damage and destroy_on_hit_requires_damage. Each defaulting to true to respect old behavior, but can now be set to false if it is desired to have a projectile that is destroyed even when it doesn’t deal damage

Commands

• Added new overload for /replaceitem with an option for destroy (the old behavior) or keep (the command will return an error if an item occupies that slot)
• Fixed a bug where a mob wouldn’t delete its goal if all goals were trying to be removed
• Fixed spamming of particles, sounds, and events for looped, non-zero-length animations with timelines
• Fixed a syntax error issue when running the /xp command with levels
• Fixed an issue with “A Nightmare in Candyland” map which was no longer teleporting players correctly 

Its a fabulous time as we grow ever closer to the Nether Update to be officially released!  Most of this pre-release contains changes in Creative Mode with how you interact with items with entities and blocks.  Remember to report any bugs you find to Mojang so they can squash them!  

• Added new “Fabulous” graphics option – uses per-pixel blending layers for some transparent elements

• You can now milk Cows and Mooshrooms in creative mode
• You can now get stew from Mooshrooms in creative mode
• When you use an empty bucket on water in creative mode, you now get a bucket of water. If you have a bucket of water in your inventory already, no additional water buckets will be added when you use your empty bucket on water.
• When any villager is struck by lightning, the witch it is converted to will no longer despawn
• Added gamerule universalAnger (disabled by default), which makes angered neutral mobs attack any nearby player, not just the player that angered them. Works best if you disable forgiveDeadPlayers.
• Added gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers (enabled by default), which makes angered neutral mobs stop being angry when the targeted player dies nearby.
• Zombified piglins no longer attack innocent bystanders (unless you enable gamerule universalAnger)
• Zombified piglins stop being angry if the targeted player dies nearby (unless you disable gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers)

• Smithing recipes can now be added or changed through data packs
• Game will now detect critical datapack issues, like missing required tags and prevent world from being loaded

DATA PACK SELECTION

• Data packs can now be selected before world is created
• “Copy world” option will also copy data packs present in source world

PACK SELECTION SCREEN

• Packs can now be dropped directly on data and resource pack selection screens
• Dropped files and directories will be copied to appropriate places

SMITHING RECIPES

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There’s now a smithing recipe type. Recipes of this type are used in the smithing table to upgrade one item type into another type, maintaining tags.

• base – Ingredient specifying an item to be upgraded.
• addition – Ingredient specifying valid items to trigger the upgrade.
• result – Item specifying the resulting type of the upgraded item.

• MC-4520 – Aggressive neutral mobs become neutral when the world is reloaded
• MC-9856 – you cannot pick up buckets of water/lava in creative mode
• MC-36322 – Unable to milk cows in creative
• MC-64623 – Lightning bolts cannot be targeted by selectors
• MC-69032 – When a mob hits a zombified piglin, and that mob dies, the zombified piglins attack you
• MC-90969 – Cannot get mushroom stew from mooshrooms / milk from cows in creative mode
• MC-106968 – Snow golems aren’t damaged by splash or lingering water bottles
• MC-127004 – Waterlogged blocks cause z-fighting when looking at them from a distance
• MC-138675 – Wither skulls inflict the Wither effect on players in Creative mode
• MC-138713 – “Two by Two” advancement does not require donkeys or mules
• MC-158906 – After sleeping in a bed, players aren’t positioned in the center of a block
• MC-159500 – Hostile mobs attacking bees also cause the bees to attack players
• MC-161969 – Casting issue: Adding ender eyes to end portal frames at high distances causes particles to lose precision
• MC-163950 – Ice bordering water causes z-fighting issues from a distance
• MC-164692 – Entering a boat does not play the hand animation
• MC-165669 – Hand animation is playing when you’re aiming at a block through the mob and use the spawn egg
• MC-165734 – Minecarts with furnace still display a hand animation with incompatible items when not on a rail
• MC-166188 – Bees still hitting player after death
• MC-166524 – Trying to dye a sheep with the same color as sheep displays hand animation
• MC-167042 – Casting issue: Campfire embers are generated at a point that loses precision at high coordinates
• MC-167044 – Casting issue: Enchanting table book does not open for the player at high distances in some cases
• MC-167046 – Casting issue: Lava ember particles and lava popping sounds lose precision on creation at high coordinates
• MC-167047 – Casting issue: TNT blocks ignited by other explosions lose precision at high coordinates
• MC-167091 – Casting issue: Water particles dripping from leaves lose precision at high coordinates
• MC-167195 – Bees anger towards players in survival when killed in one hit
• MC-167971 – Casting issue: Particles emitted by redstone repeaters lose precision at high coordinates
• MC-168675 – Settings that update after closing the video settings menu don’t if you change the fullscreen setting
• MC-170872 – Casting issue: Nether biome particles suffer from precision loss
• MC-170944 – /locatebiome messages do not fit for all biome names
• MC-171035 – Casting issue: Particles from falling rain lose precision at high coordinates
• MC-171037 – Casting issue: smoke produced by lava during rain loses precision at high coordinates
• MC-171663 – Right-clicking on unemployed villagers sometimes cause hand animation to stop after a villager has a profession
• MC-171683 – Crimson and warped doors can’t have transparent textures
• MC-172259 – Baby Hoglin/Zoglin have their head slightly above their neck, it seems that their head is partly floating
• MC-172531 – Small mobs get stuck in fence corners
• MC-172610 – When not aiming at a block through a ridable mob while using a spawn egg on it, the player starts riding the mob and a baby mob is spawned
• MC-174815 – Piglins don’t automatically attack withers
• MC-175028 – Sometimes hoglins don’t avoid warped fungus
• MC-175215 – Respawn anchors destroy blocks when detonated underwater
• MC-175409 – Soul speed “effect” stays when you levitate/fly off of soul sand or soul soil
• MC-175476 – Respawn anchor doesn’t cull block faces
• MC-175911 – Soul Speed lasts after leaving soul blocks
• MC-176041 – Using a spawn egg on a strider while aiming at lava spawns both a baby and an adult strider
• MC-176188 – Striders are not damaged by splash or lingering water bottles
• MC-176225 – Accelerating a baby strider’s growth does not display hand animation
• MC-176470 – Respawning in the nether does not de-aggro zombified piglins
• MC-176637 – Closing game during Mojang load screen causes NullPointerException
• MC-176640 – You can set your spawn point inside dangerous blocks
• MC-178567 – Shearing sheep does not display hand animation again
• MC-178618 – Feeding a flower to a brown mooshroom does not perform hand animation
• MC-178961 – /loot … fish … command no longer has any functionality
• MC-179561 – Retreating baby hoglins sometimes won’t pathfind to the opposite direction of the player
• MC-180111 – Hoglins angered for reasons other than being attacked by the player ignore placed repellents.
• MC-180922 – Right clicking a mob with a spawn egg to spawn the baby variant doesn’t play the hand swing animation when not aiming at a block through the mob
• MC-182308 – Chicken jockeys cannot despawn
• MC-182748 – Casting issue: Redstone dust particles are generated at the wrong positions at high coordinates
• MC-182883 – Parity issue: Baby hoglins don’t follow adult hoglins
• MC-183766 – Who Is Cutting Onions Improperly Capitalized
• MC-183767 – Incorrect filename for “Serious Dedication” advancement in vanilla data pack
• MC-183792 – piglin_loved item tag has unnecessary items
• MC-183821 – “Game Mode Switcher” bottom hint text isn’t centered
• MC-183825 – New nether challenges don’t grant experience points
• MC-183893 – Gold nugget isn’t under #piglin_loved
• MC-184679 – Using custom world generation, temperature is written wrong
• MC-184947 – Carriage return symbol can be seen when importing or exporting world generation settings to or from certain worlds
• MC-185095 – “thrown_item_picked_up_by_entity” advancement trigger does not work for players
• MC-185377 – Bone mealing kelp creates a large field of particles, rather than only within the kelp’s block space
• MC-185480 – Casting issue: Smoke particles emitted by campfires during rain form at the wrong positions at high coordinates
• MC-186062 – Warning “Could not find uniform named InSize in the specified shader program.” when loading resources
• MC-186064 – Clouds render in front of everything for some users
• MC-186067 – Some structures’ loot chests do not contain any items
• MC-186071 – Clouds are visible and don’t render correctly when they are turned off
• MC-186074 – Particles render in the wrong order with transparent blocks when using certain graphics cards
• MC-186075 – GPU usage in latest snapshot significantly higher than before, causing lag or crash for some users
• MC-186080 – Entities, block entities, and items are rendered black on some graphics cards
• MC-186088 – Block hitboxes once again cause semi-transparent blocks not to render behind them
• MC-186089 – Functions load before entity tags do, causing loading errors.
• MC-186101 – Some commands in functions cause a NullPointerException
• MC-186108 – Enchantment glint does not render on dropped/thrown items
• MC-186109 – You can use multiplayer commands on a singleplayer world
• MC-186124 – Lightning bolt doesn’t render
• MC-186204 – Items render in front of other entities, transparent blocks, and blocks with special renderers
• MC-186253 – Held translucent blocks make the water, clouds, particles, and placed translucent blocks behind them invisible in third person mode.
• MC-186274 – Purple light from Ender Dragon’s Death doesn’t appear
• MC-186284 – Player’s point of view is upside down in 20w22a
• MC-186314 – Villagers become fixated on potential job site
• MC-186335 – Bees age calculation inside hive/nest is broken
• MC-186455 – Persistent villagers without experience can despawn after converting to a witch
• MC-186464 – Enabled data packs still show up in the “/datapack enable” list
• MC-186478 – Tag minecraft:tick doesn’t work when joining a world
• MC-186480 – Inner parts of slime blocks and honey blocks disappear again while the block is moved by a piston
• MC-186600 – Nether gold ore is gray on a map
• MC-186696 – Totem of Undying causes red or blue tint in the screen when in F5 mode

Dancing Piglins, Workstation changes, and fixes oh my!  We draw ever closer to the Nether Update and so far I have to say the first thing I want to do is find some dancing piglins!

We’ve included some experimental changes to graphics rendering in this snapshot, which might reveal some issues on a small number of older graphics cards.

If do you find any new graphical bugs then please report them to the bug tracker with the make and model of your graphics card as well as which operating system you are using.

• Piglins now sometimes dance in celebration of a completed hunt

• Villager workstation logic changes
• Bells can be hung from the underside of more blocks
• When a villager that was traded with is struck by lightning, the witch it converts to will no longer despawn
• Players can no longer mount another entity when the crouch key is held down

VILLAGER WORKSTATION LOGIC

• Villagers no longer try to work at the same workstation
• The most experienced nearby villager for the profession corresponding to the workstation you add will get the workstation
• Villagers now have to walk to and reach the workstation before they can acquire the profession/work there
• Villagers can no longer claim workstations/professions during raids or night time.
• Villagers will check and make sure their workstation is valid at all times of day as long as they are within 16 blocks of their workstation.

• Added shader support for accessing depth buffer
• Renderer now uses per-pixel blending layers for some transparent elements
• Slightly changed datapack loading to prevent custom datapacks from crashing
• Cached repeated block type lookups and collisions during pathfinding for increased performance
• Minor optimizations in collision detection
• Top-level element in predicate file can now be array (all contents will be ANDed)

DATAPACK LOADING

• If datapack reload fails, changes will not be applied and the game will continue using previous data
• If existing datapacks prevent world from loading, the game will give option to load world in safe mode, which loads only vanilla datapack
• Changes to datapack list are stored only after successful reload 
• Added –safeMode option to server to load only with vanilla datapack
• Game will now detect critical datapack issues, like missing required tags and prevent world from being loaded

• MC-667 – Lily pads can be placed intersecting entities
• MC-4065 – Messages/commands sent while in a bed won’t be remembered in sent history
• MC-112131 – Intersecting dungeons: spawner replaced by cobblestone
• MC-118594 – Removal of Log4J2Plugins.dat causing a slowdown of 3 secs on startup while it has to rescan all classes
• MC-120805 – Pig rotation is wrong when you see a player riding them with carrot on a stick
• MC-124812 – Endermen holding a block can despawn
• MC-125006 – Stronghold and dungeon generate over each other
• MC-134755 – All short mobs drown just below the surface of water
• MC-143443 – Redstone dust block states don’t update properly if the wire is broken by a piston
• MC-148893 – Fox spawners do not render the fox inside of the block
• MC-150806 – Multiple villagers are attached to the same profession block
• MC-153787 – Zombie Reinforcements can spawn on glass
• MC-156161 – Some chest loot is randomized across the same seed, unlike before 1.14
• MC-156866 – Villagers level from Apprentice to Journeyman with less experience than shown by XP bar
• MC-157303 – Villagers wake up and seek a new “home” (bed) while living in a 2 high house
• MC-157436 – Player position is constantly reset when clicking with a sword or a trident onto the ground in creative mode
• MC-162340 – World border is rendered behind transparent blocks
• MC-162665 – Food does not drop from a campfire when it is put out with a shovel/water bottle
• MC-163910 – Hand animation sometimes plays for a second time with high ping
• MC-164233 – “Skilled” villagers without job site do not get precedence over unemployed villagers
• MC-165549 – Arm swing animation is still played when drinking an item
• MC-166135 – Bees inside a nest/hive don’t grow up or get their breeding timer reset
• MC-167039 – Right-clicking on a spawner with the same mob spawn egg as in spawner plays hand animation
• MC-169891 – Zombie Reinforcements can spawn in regardless if light level is higher than 9 in nether (hard difficulty)
• MC-171515 – Semi-transparent items don’t render properly in front of semi-transparent blocks
• MC-171553 – Basalt can generate inside Nether fortresses
• MC-172079 – The /clear command output doesn’t count items in the inventory crafting grid
• MC-172142 – Items are invisible while being picked up
• MC-172197 – Nylium is not dropping netherrack when it is broken by pickaxe
• MC-172272 – /clear removes all items from crafting grid regardless of item type
• MC-172479 – Hoglins immediately attack invisible players
• MC-172980 – Light does not propagate across chunk borders properly
• MC-173032 – Fossils can overwrite the stronghold end portal
• MC-173063 – Redstone wire doesn’t update connections going up or down when being placed by commands
• MC-173197 – Zombified Piglin does not hold its arms upwards like a zombie
• MC-173404 – Desync when mounting an entity while sneaking
• MC-173552 – Nether Fossil support islands are sometimes cut off at chunk borders
• MC-174307 – Nether fossil stops basalt pillar
• MC-174325 – Mushrooms or Nether fungi can replace the stem of large nether fungi (trees)
• MC-174692 – Shroomlights, wart blocks and vines can overwrite the stem of large Nether fungi
• MC-174932 – Right-to-left text appears left-to-right after game start until language is changed
• MC-175553 – Piglins don’t drop their inventories when converted to zombified piglins
• MC-176020 – If a player is riding a strider, other players can not see the animation of the strider
• MC-176051 – Glowstone in the offhand sets spawn point and charges respawn anchor at the same time
• MC-176147 – Basalt randomly gets cut off
• MC-176628 – Frost Walker protects player from fire
• MC-177150 – Ticking entity java.lang.IllegalStateException: Tag minecraft:fire used before it was bound
• MC-177265 – Piglin and Zombified Piglin right arm/leg/loincloth textures are identical to the left ones
• MC-177626 – Spruce generation is broken
• MC-177870 – Soul campfire doesn’t deal twice the amount of damage as normal campfire
• MC-177888 – Blackstone can’t be used to repair stone tools and weapons using an anvil
• MC-177962 – Giant fungi can replace waterlogged blocks when growing
• MC-177970 – Player can occasionally be forced into crawling in one block tall spaces
• MC-178003 – Fossils can generate inside of desert temples
• MC-178441 – Endermen don’t avoid the wither’s skull projectiles
• MC-179020 – Jigsaw blocks do not disappear post-gen when structure is spawned using the ‘Generate’ action from an initial jigsaw
• MC-179890 – Fire stops ticking forever if gamerule doFireTick is set to false once
• MC-179909 – 2×2 trees sometimes fail to grow, but if they grow, they always grow on the surface
• MC-180098 – Farmer villagers’ farming behavior is broken
• MC-180771 – Observer not updating when tree grows leaves in front of it
• MC-180877 – Fire does not spread from netherack to other blocks
• MC-181108 – Right-to-left text is displayed left-to-right at all times
• MC-181464 – When a piglin picks up a shield the gear equip sound is infinitely spammed
• MC-181529 – Ctrl + Pick Block no longer copies skull / head NBT data properly
• MC-181555 – When replacing a snow layer with a grass block, podzol or mycelium, the block has the “snowy=true” blockstate
• MC-182666 – Parity issue: Piglins do not have a dancing animation when celebrating their victory
• MC-182888 – Compasses and clocks work like normal in villager trading GUI
• MC-182919 – Horse armour stops rendering if you equip the horse with a saddle by right-clicking
• MC-182967 – Throwing ender pearl whilst mounted doesn’t teleport you
• MC-183275 – Basalt pillars end above the lava in Java Edition but inside of the lava in Bedrock Edition
• MC-183374 – Text on signs stops rendering while still in view
• MC-183496 – Enchantment glint doesn’t render in boat interior
• MC-183718 – Stronghold end portal can be overwritten by ocean ruins
• MC-183808 – “Bee Our Guest” advancement does not trigger when harvesting honey from bee nests
• MC-183860 – Zombie villager converted from villager gets PersistenceRequired depending on whether attacking zombie had it
• MC-184482 – End Gateways don’t generate after defeating the ender dragon
• MC-184609 – Text renders in the wrong order
• MC-184619 – Piglins riding on other entities float
• MC-184629 – Piglins riding on hoglins or other piglins automatically dismount them
• MC-184730 – [Crash] “java.lang.NullPointerException: mouseClicked event handler” – Some Superflat presets crash immediately when trying to generate them
• MC-184740 – Structures generated in previous versions are not recognised as valid structures, causing mobs not to spawn
• MC-184778 – Redstone dust can be toggled between cross and dot in adventure mode
• MC-184936 – Old Minecraft logo in the end poem/credits
• MC-185156 – Worldgen settings are not validated and can cause crashes