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JAVA EDITION: SNAPSHOT 20W19A

This latest snapshot brings us some small changes and a few quality of life tweaks.  I was missing my Iron Golems, what about you?

• Patches of blackstone and gravel now generate in all Nether biomes, and patches of soul sand now generate in Soulsand Valleys
  
  
• Added “distance by strider” statistic
  

• Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time
  
  
• Bastions are now a bit less common
  
  
• Lowered the amount that weeping and twisting vines grow when bonemealed
  
  
• You now need to use shears to get an item when breaking Nether Sprouts
  
  
• Tweaked spawning of mobs to more closely adhere to mob caps
  
  
• Biome distribution in the Nether has been tweaked
  

• Fish now have their own mob category and mob cap
  

• MC-87949 – The shield use statistic is not working
  
  
• MC-89956 – Levitation has no effect if gliding with elytra
  
  
• MC-116293 – Functioning clock and compass in recipe book
  
  
• MC-125613 – Datapack tag “stairs” does not use #wooden_stairs
  
  
• MC-145862 – Villagers try to sleep in occupied beds
  
  
• MC-152084 – Villagers occasionally stand up out of beds at night, then can never sleep in that bed again
  
  
• MC-152170 – When a villager takes the bed of another villager then the bed’s previous owner will not look for a new bed
  
  
• MC-157077 – Villagers will not sleep in beds at night
  
  
• MC-158542 – Iron Golems don’t stop spawning
  
  
• MC-160250 – Naturally generated villagers are not pathfinding towards their POI; POI detection range is too small
  
  
• MC-166764 – Villagers spawned on world generation have a lower follow range than villagers spawned by other means
  
  
• MC-170612 – Villagers spawned by meeting points have frozen AI and do not move when that chunk is freshly generated
  
  
• MC-172107 – Piglins and Hoglins don’t get zombified in the end
  
  
• MC-172524 – Letters of name tag render inconsistently when sneaking (within the same name tag)
  
  
• MC-172899 – Piglins with blocks (pumpkins) equipped on their heads show z-fighting
  
  
• MC-173015 – Crimson roots, Warped roots, and Nether sprouts are not randomly offset
  
  
• MC-173115 – Mobs can spawn inside of wither roses
  
  
• MC-174568 – Rail updates are 3-4x times laggier since 1.13
  
  
• MC-174909 – Endermen don’t teleport when on magma blocks
  
  
• MC-175251 – Fish are spawning in with extremely high numbers. Over 200 different entities of cod every five minutes
  
  
• MC-177839 – Blackstone and blackstone walls use the blackstone side face on the bottom, while blackstone stairs and slabs use the blackstone top face on the bottom
  
  
• MC-178487 – Saddles on untamed horses no longer render
  
  
• MC-179989 – Smithing Table and Anvil UI does not have “Inventory” title above player inventory
  
  
• MC-180064 – Piglins would rather use an unenchanted crossbow instead of an enchanted crossbow
  
  
• MC-180297 – Player name color in list appears too dark
  
  
• MC-180407 – Piglin bartering is limited to dropping a single item stack from the loot table
  
  
• MC-180410 – Enderman spawn rate seems very low on upgraded worlds
  
  
• MC-180575 – Dispensers now always plays “dispenser failed” when dispensing glowstone
  
  
• MC-181353 – Warped and Crimson Doors have no hinges
  
  
• MC-181418 – Entity names can no longer be colored
  
  
• MC-181424 – Fish (and other items from fishing) cannot be caught with a fishing rod
  
  
• MC-181461 – Enchantment glint doesn’t render on shields, tridents and elytra
  
  
• MC-181479 – Map marker labels do not render properly
  
  
• MC-181524 – Redstone does not visually connect when going up soul sand
  
  
• MC-181566 – Powered redstone dust only generates particles at the center of the block
  
  
• MC-181944 – Font of category/section text in creative mode item selection screen is much thicker than in 1.15.2
  
  
• MC-182595 – Parity issue: Blackstone doesn’t generate in ore veins in nether wastes