{"id":108791,"date":"2020-02-06T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T07:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T07:21:02","slug":"java-edition-snapshot-20w06a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a\/","title":{"rendered":"JAVA Edition: Snapshot 20W06A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are heating up as we dive into the first Snapshot for the <span><strong>Nether Update<\/strong><\/span>.&nbsp; Everythings exciting and Diamond is no longer king!&nbsp; Be sure to share your thoughts and findings in the comments below!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added new Nether blocks!<\/li>\n<li>Knockback resistance is now a scale instead of a probability<\/li>\n<li>Added Crimson Forest biome to the Nether<\/li>\n<li>Added Hoglins \u2013 they don\u2019t do much yet, but they have cute flappy ears!<\/li>\n<li>Patrols no longer spawn when the player is close to any village<\/li>\n<li>Added Netherite!<\/li>\n<li>Added Soulsand Valley biome to the Nether<\/li>\n<li>Walls do not have gaps anymore when stacked vertically<\/li>\n<li>Added Warped Forest biome to the Nether<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a.png\" alt width=\"383\" height=\"41\"><\/h3>\n<p>Many new block types have been added!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two new wood-like materials \u2013 Crimson Stems and Warped Stems<\/li>\n<li>Basalt blocks \u2013 you can find them as pillars but they can be placed in any direction<\/li>\n<li>New ground surface blocks: Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium<\/li>\n<li>New vegetation: Nether Sprouts, Crimson Roots and Warped Roots<\/li>\n<li>Two types of Fungi: Crimson and Warped \u2013 try using bone meal to grow them!<\/li>\n<li>Warped Wart blocks<\/li>\n<li>Weeping Vines that grow from the bottom of a block downwards!<\/li>\n<li>A new natural light source: Shroomlights<\/li>\n<li>Added Soul Soil! Whenever fire burns on Soul Soil, it burns with a blue flame!<\/li>\n<li>Soul Soil can be used to craft Soul Torches \u2013 and those can be crafted into Soul Lanterns!<\/li>\n<li>Using bone meal on Netherrack can now spread Nylium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a-1.png\" alt width=\"383\" height=\"41\"><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Crimson Forests can now be found in the Nether!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crimson nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation<\/li>\n<li>Huge Crimson Fungi make up the \u201ctrees\u201d of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor<\/li>\n<li>Weeping Vines grow from the cave ceilings and fungi<\/li>\n<li>Hoglins wander these forests<\/li>\n<li>Crimson spores swirl through the air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a-2.png\" alt width=\"383\" height=\"41\"><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A new high-level material found in the Nether. Use it to upgrade your diamond gear!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>How to Make Netherite<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mine Ancient Debris in the lower depths of the Nether. At own risk. No insurance coverage for that<\/li>\n<li>Refine it into Netherite Scrap in a Furnace (although that\u2019s kind of slow so you might want a Blast Furnace)<\/li>\n<li>Combine 4 Nether Scrap with 4 Gold Ingots in a crafting table to make a Netherite Ingot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Netherite Effects<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Netherite items float in lava so you don\u2019t lose all your gear after that unplanned lava bath<\/li>\n<li>Netherite items have higher enchantment value than diamond (but not as high as gold)<\/li>\n<li>Netherite tools work faster and last longer than diamond<\/li>\n<li>Netherite weapons do more damage than diamond<\/li>\n<li>Netherite armor have higher toughness and durability than diamond<\/li>\n<li>Netherite armor gives you knockback resistance, so you barely get knocked back at all when hit by arrows and such<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and it looks cool!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a-3.png\" alt width=\"383\" height=\"41\"><\/h2>\n<p>Soulsand Valleys can now be found in the Nether!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An open space made mostly of Soul Sand and Soul Soil<\/li>\n<li>Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling<\/li>\n<li>Fossil remains of unknown creatures from the past litter the valley<\/li>\n<li>Ash falls through the air<\/li>\n<li>A light blue glow envelopes the valley<\/li>\n<li>Beware of Skeletons here!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Sounds<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghasts sounds are now heard at a shorter range<\/li>\n<li>Updated block sounds for Bone Blocks, Netherrack, Soul Sand, Netherwart, Nether Bricks and Quartz Ore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a-4.png\" alt width=\"383\" height=\"41\"><\/h2>\n<p>Warped Forests can now be found in the Nether!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warped nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation<\/li>\n<li>Huge Warped Fungi make up the \u201ctrees\u201d of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor<\/li>\n<li>A dark blue fog covers the forest<\/li>\n<li>Warped spores swirl through the air<\/li>\n<li>The Warped Forests are strange, but also the least hostile place of Nether<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>World Generation<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The old Nether biome is now called Nether Wastes<\/li>\n<li>Made shipwrecks and ocean ruins a bit less common, so you get more excited when you find one!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Added a&nbsp;<span class=\"bedrock-server\">locatebiome<\/span>&nbsp;command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/java-edition-snapshot-20w06a-5.png\" alt width=\"383\" height=\"41\"><\/h2>\n<h4><strong>LOCATEBIOME<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>New command that locates a specified biome. Useful in creative mode when you\u2019re looking for a specific biome and don\u2019t want to fly around randomly searching for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syntax:<\/strong>&nbsp;<span><em><span class=\"bedrock-server\">locatebiome &lt;biome&gt;<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/><strong>Parameters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span class=\"bedrock-server\">biome<\/span><\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; The id of the biome to find<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Particles<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>New particle types: ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame and warped_spore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Rendering<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Nailed Entity shadows to the ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-17431\">MC-17431<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Shift-clicking stacked items with a data tag into the enchanting table GUI removes data tags from the moved item<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-45619\">MC-45619<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Water, Signs, Vines, Torches etc. in the same block as item frame break item frame\u2019s redstone signal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-52178\">MC-52178<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Cape doesn\u2019t move down while sneaking \/ Cape detaches from body while sneaking<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-59363\">MC-59363<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Items in item frames are deleted if both mouse buttons are used simultaneously<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-82235\">MC-82235<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Baby pigs turn into adult zombie pigmen when struck by lightning<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-92889\">MC-92889<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Mending doesn\u2019t always consume experience if the player wears items with mending that are already fully repaired<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-93198\">MC-93198<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Throwing potions \/ throwable projectiles causes both hands to bob up and down<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-93631\">MC-93631<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-96436\">MC-96436<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Eggs\/snowballs\/xp-bottles break instantly when thrown while riding a horse<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-97958\">MC-97958<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Small slime has no jump or squish sound<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-103655\">MC-103655<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Cats don\u2019t stand up when using right click on them while they\u2019re sitting on chests or beds<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-109370\">MC-109370<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Bottom face of column blocks are rotated 180 degrees<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-109844\">MC-109844<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; en_us.json contains unused strings<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-109850\">MC-109850<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Redstone wire doesn\u2019t have a bottom texture<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-112630\">MC-112630<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Carrot on a stick cannot be broken<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-113381\">MC-113381<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Falling dust particles of anvil and concrete powder blocks are black<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-120335\">MC-120335<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect \u201cuv\u201d values in the model file<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-131440\">MC-131440<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; The message for trying to sleep at the wrong time implies that you can only sleep at night during a thunderstorm<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-131770\">MC-131770<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Rain particles appear one block below the water or lava surface<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-132607\">MC-132607<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Splitting slimes and magma cubes do not copy NoAI value<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-134162\">MC-134162<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Item entities can break turtle eggs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-136868\">MC-136868<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Ignited TNT, arrow or trident turns black when it falls on soul sand or snow layers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-138600\">MC-138600<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Cats don\u2019t bring gifts if they have already decided to sit on your bed<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-140544\">MC-140544<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Pickaxes don\u2019t speed up piston breaking<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-148474\">MC-148474<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Sloped powered detector rails break when pushed or pulled by a piston<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-149052\">MC-149052<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Stonecutter recipe list doesn\u2019t show item tooltips<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-149776\">MC-149776<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Cartography Table requires string for the recipe to show up in the recipe book<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-150020\">MC-150020<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Composter is in the \u201cMiscellaneous\u201d category instead of \u201cDecoration\u201d like the other workstation blocks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-154867\">MC-154867<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Tamed cats remain sitting if the world is reloaded while the cat is sitting on a chest<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-158807\">MC-158807<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; You can remove cursed enchantments on items by repairing them in inventory<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-159300\">MC-159300<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Villagers that have been infected by a zombie can despawn, even if they have been traded with<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-159773\">MC-159773<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Shulkers can teleport to non-solid faces, and don\u2019t teleport to some solid faces<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-159918\">MC-159918<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Foxes don\u2019t run from polar bears<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-159963\">MC-159963<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Minecarts can break turtle eggs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-160897\">MC-160897<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Dropping an item using the drop key displays the hand animation but dropping items from within the inventory does not<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-160902\">MC-160902<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Arm swings when right-clicking on full minecart<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-161156\">MC-161156<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Silverfish and endermites appear black on soul sand<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-161259\">MC-161259<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Using the carrot on a stick while riding a pig plays no hand animation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-162881\">MC-162881<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Composter doesn\u2019t display particles when being fed composting items through a hopper<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-163286\">MC-163286<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; \/setblock ~ ~ ~ air destroy does not destroy liquids<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-164184\">MC-164184<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Breaking a shulker box with contents in Creative mode drops the block at an incorrect location<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-164948\">MC-164948<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Entity shadow renders through transparent blocks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-167077\">MC-167077<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Foxes sleep on top of honey blocks, even in broad daylight<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-167512\">MC-167512<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Glass in the hand is rendered differently depending on the \u201cClouds\u201d setting<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-167989\">MC-167989<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Spawn point is not set when monsters are nearby<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-168540\">MC-168540<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Threads created by net.minecraft.Util.backgroundExecutor() have misleading names<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-168772\">MC-168772<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Experience orbs can crush turtle eggs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-169679\">MC-169679<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Composters do not make sounds when fed by hoppers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-169692\">MC-169692<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Entity shadow floats slightly above the ground<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-169832\">MC-169832<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Transparent item models have inconsistent rendering when a glowing entity is present<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.mojang.com\/browse\/MC-170128\">MC-170128<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Cannot build an EntityType without a datafixer due to an IllegalArgumentException<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are heating up as we dive into the first Snapshot for the Nether Update.&nbsp; Everythings exciting and Diamond is no longer king!&nbsp; Be sure to share your thoughts and findings in the comments below! Added new Nether blocks! Knockback resistance is now a scale instead of a probability Added Crimson Forest biome to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minecraft-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}