The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w08a.
CHANGES IN 21W08A
- Tweaked cave sizes further
- Canyon and cave carvers now apply below y=0
- Cracks can now be found carved into the ground
- Grimstone has been changed into Deepslate
- Added Deepslate ores
- The distribution of ores has been further tweaked
- Andesite no longer generates under y=0
- Tuff now sometimes generates under y=0
- The Tuff layer of amethyst geodes has been replaced with now a new type of stone called Smooth Basalt
- Smooth Basalt is now obtained from smelting Basalt
- Another round of tweaking has been done to the new textures of ores and Blackstone
- Emerald and Lapis Lazuli ore textures have had some touch-ups
- Mineshafts now once again generate in the open air in caves
- Particles now appear in the air around spore blossoms
- Slime Blocks and Honey Blocks have been moved to the Redstone tab of the creative inventory
DEEPSLATE
- Grimstone is now called Deepslate
- Deepslate now has a top texture, and a new block called Cobbled Deepslate drops from Deepslate
- The cobbled variant is the same but without the top texture, and is used to craft all Deepslate variants instead
- Deepslate now has a unique set of sounds! Very crunchy indeed
DEEPSLATE ORES
- Added Deepslate versions of Iron, Gold, Lapis, Redstone, and Diamond ores that generate wherever those ores replace Deepslate
- Twice as tough to mine as normal ores
ORE DISTRIBUTION TWEAKS
Ore distribution in snapshot 21w08a. Click here for a link to the image in full resolution.
Fixed issues:
[MC-214843] Old style caves don't generate past Y=0
[MC-214782] Geodes can generate floating in caves
[MC-213926] Rooted dirt footstep sounds are considerably quieter than normal dirt footstep sounds
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w08b.
Fixed issues:
[MC-216744] Iron ore doesn't generate (only iron ore in deepslate is generated)
[MC-216101] Redstone ore generates with a flat distribution below y=12
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w10a.
NEW FEATURES IN 21W10A
- Added Lush Caves underground biome!
- Added Cracked Deepslate Bricks and Cracked Deepslate Tiles
- There is now an Infested variant of Deepslate found in the underground
- While they will not generate in the world by default, Deepslate versions of copper, emerald and coal ores have been added for use by creators of maps and data packs
LUSH CAVES BIOME
The Lush Caves underground biome now exists for use in single-biome worlds. It does not yet generate in other world types.
- Moss covers the floors and ceilings
- Spore Blossoms grow from the ceiling and drip particles
- Contains clay pools with Dripleaf Plants grow out of them
- Contains Azalea Bushes and Flowering Azalea Bushes
- The Azalea Tree loves to have its roots in lush caves, so if you find an Azalea Tree (either overground or in a cave) you know there is a Lush Cave beneath you
- Cave Vines with Glow Berries grow from the ceiling and light up the caves
CHANGES IN 21W10A
- Cobbled Deepslate can now be smelted into Deepslate
- Deepslate can now be placed along any axis
- Lightning rods can now be waterlogged
- Fossils in the deepest part of the underground generate with Deepslate Diamond Ore instead of Coal Ore
- The textures of Deepslate and some of the ores have been updated
Click here for a full resolution image of changes to ore textures in snapshot 21w10a.
ORE DISTRIBUTION
Overworld ore generation has been tweaked.
- More emeralds in mountains
- More lapis
- Less copper, gold, and Redstone
- Smaller diamond blobs, but slightly more frequent. Less diamond ore overall though
- Less iron, and it generates lower down
- Reduced air exposure for coal
Click here for a full resolution image of changes to ore distribution changes in snapshot 21w10a.
TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 21W10A
- The game now runs using OpenGL 3.2 core profile
- The maximum size that slimes can be summoned with is now 128
- The give command can only give up to 100 stacks of items at a time (e.g. 6400 stone or 100 iron swords)
OPENGL
Rendering is now using OpenGL 3.2 core profile. All fixed function rendering has been replaced with shader based rendering.
SHADERS
Shaders are now included for all supported render states. Any shader except for the blit shader can also be replaced in resource packs. For now replacing these shaders is not officially supported and the way it works may change in the future.
The current rendering engine uses a system similar to the post processing shader pipeline. There are some differences between both system that cater to the slightly different requirements.
Fixed issues:
[MC-29318] Client misses inventory updates while player is manipulating items - causes invisible items
[MC-84121] Shape of glow effect is based on mob’s base layer
[MC-87019] Only visible slots are updated clientside when you are inside an inventory
[MC-154094] Lectern running /clear turns items into ghost items
[MC-175964] Setblock command run by book in lectern to clear inventory run in command block causes ghost items
[MC-201316] The /give command can create so many items that the game will freeze
[MC-207818] Placing a sign from the offhand closes the sign UI immediately
[MC-208301] /clear does not properly affect the item on the mouse pointer after crafting it
[MC-210408] /spawnpoint allows players to set their spawnpoint to out-of-bounds coordinates, which crashes the game when trying to respawn
[MC-211666] Guardians attack invisible axolotls
[MC-212127] Normal ink sac and glow ink sac are not grouped in the creative inventory
[MC-212144] Subtitles refer to Glow Item Frame as “Item Frame”
[MC-212168] Ctrl + Pick Block doesn’t copy block state “lit”
[MC-212236] Cannot visually critical-hit a glow squid (No sound/particles)
[MC-212314] Glow squid remains dark even if there is a light source block next to it
[MC-212325] Glow Squid entity data (potion effects, custom name, …) does not get saved
[MC-214629] FOV decreases when underwater regardless of FOV Effects accessibility setting
[MC-214781] Lava does not generate at the very bottom of noise caves
[MC-214784] Fossils can generate floating in caves
[MC-214836] Water caves cause land to be excessively flooded
[MC-214844] Bedrock can be exposed to the air at the very bottom of the new caves
[MC-214970] Phantoms continously make too much flapping sounds
[MC-215194] Structure blocks do not work below y=0
[MC-215838] There is currently no way to craft deepslate tiles and deepslate bricks
[MC-215850] Deepslate Tile Wall comes before Deepslate Brick Wall but Deepslate Bricks come before Deepslate Tiles in creative inventory
[MC-215939] Emerald ore spawns in lower frequencies than it should above y=100
[MC-216136] Polished deepslate slab isn’t grouped with the other deepslate slabs in creative inventory
[MC-216363] Crash upon replacing soul sand or magma with the other under a tall bubble column using /setblock
[MC-216735] Stone Lapis Ore generating in Deepslate
[MC-216736] Lava lakes generate exposed in caves
[MC-216765] Coal ore can generate below Y=0 when attached to a fossil
[MC-216817] Inconsistency: Cobbled deepslate cannot be smelted back into deepslate
[MC-218139] Spectator vision bug
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w11a.
NEW FEATURES IN 21W11A
- Lightning rods can now, for the very first time ever, be waterlogged
- New functionality for applying and removing wax from Copper
- Bonemealing rooted dirt now grows hanging roots underneath
WAXING COPPER AND OXIDIZATION
- Right-click with Honeycomb on Copper Blocks to wax them
- Use honeycomb in a dispenser to wax Copper Blocks
- Axes can scrape off wax and oxidation of Copper Blocks
- Lightning strike hitting Copper will clean its oxidation
CHANGES IN 21W11A
- Waxed Copper Blocks can be crafted into 4 Copper Ingots
- Tweaked the cave sizes
- Slightly increased the frequency of Diamond Ore blobs
- Hanging roots block now renders randomly offset
- Breaking a Big Dripleaf stem now drops a Big Dripleaf Block
- Moss Blocks can be crafted with cobblestone or stone bricks to make the mossy versions of those blocks
- The facing direction of Small Dripleaf Blocks is now determined by which direction the player is facing when placing it
- Fully-grown Amethyst Clusters now drop 4 Amethyst Shards (or more with Fortune) when mined with a pickaxe, and drop 2 Amethyst Shards when broken by hand, piston, or other means
TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 21W11A
- Added F3+L shortcut to generate and persist performance metrics from in-game
IN-GAME CLIENT METRICS REPORTING
Pressing F3+L while in the game will start a recording for 10 seconds capturing metrics such as tick durations, used heap sizes, and other more detailed stats. These will be saved to a zip file in debug/profiling/<yyyy-MM-dd_HH.mm.ss>.zip and could be used for performance regression analysis if included in bug reports.
The exact metrics, output format, and names are susceptible to change between versions, and our plan is to continue iterating on which metrics to capture.
FIXED BUGS IN 21W11A
[MC-1483] Snow covered grass/podzol/mycelium block side texture does not match original block
[MC-12363] Lava / water / powder snow bucket desync when using it while rapidly turning
[MC-70850] False negatives during occlusion culling
[MC-71530] Spectators can’t see through lava
[MC-145501] Librarian and zombie librarian torso top texture is incorrect
[MC-150054] Spectral arrow texture on item and entity aren’t consistent
[MC-150784] Brewing Stand bottle outline incorrect
[MC-154006] Overworld wood signs use the outdated wood texture on all sides
[MC-160195] Jungle door inventory texture is outdated
[MC-160388] Painting back texture has not been updated with the texture update
[MC-195806] Smoker’s top and bottom textures have inconsistently colored pixels
[MC-197561] Carved pumpkins and jack o’lanterns create swastikas
[MC-197883] Jigsaw Structures causing DataFixer spam
[MC-198805] Floating pixel in the tailfin of a guardian/elder guardian
[MC-202760] Area effect cloud does not enforce a maximum radius
[MC-203554] block.amethyst_block.chime has no subtitle
[MC-203561] Amethyst crystal cluster drops items when block is moved directly by a piston without actually breaking the block
[MC-203623] Inconsistency: Breaking amethyst crystals with hands doesn’t drop the item, but breaking the block they are placed on drops them
[MC-203676] Tinted Glass suffocates entities inside of it
[MC-203753] Spyglass use statistic never increases
[MC-203918] Mobs can spawn on tinted glass
[MC-204016] When filling a lava cauldron with lava, the lava is placed on the ground, not in the cauldron. This also affects powder snow.
[MC-204862] Tinted glass is not included in the impermeable tag
[MC-205913] Lightning rod can spawn skeleton horses with skeletons
[MC-206787] World Border is rendered upside down
[MC-207557] Frozen hearts in hardcore mode look identical to frozen hearts in survival mode
[MC-211513] Trident returning to owner not in the same world can cause permanent player kick
[MC-212123] Player lighting is inconsistent in the inventory and appears darker on the front
[MC-212226] Bone Meal can still be used on a Glow Lichen when it is unable to grow
[MC-212410] Cannot compost glow lichen
[MC-213743] Spectators can’t see through powder snow
[MC-213764] Removing the block supporting a spore blossom allows the spore blossom to float
[MC-213765] Cave vine blocks are inconsistent in ID from other similar blocks
[MC-213768] Removing the support block for hanging roots allows it to float
[MC-213778] Cave vines cannot be climbed
[MC-213782] Cave vines do not slow you down like other vines
[MC-213798] Cave vines head and body emit different light levels
[MC-213886] Bone meal cannot be used on dripleaf stems
[MC-213911] Cave vines body and cave vines head share the same name
[MC-213980] Moss appropriate tool is axe rather than hoe
[MC-214568] Setting a lectern on fire causes z-fighting
[MC-215036] Snow layers in “Snowy Kingdom” superflat preset generate 64 blocks above the ground
[MC-215384] Azaleas cannot be used as a fuel
[MC-216134] Gilded blackstone texture does not match the new side texture of blackstone
[MC-216184] Player takes no fall damage on blocks above y=316
[MC-216227] Sugar cane item texture is no longer accurate from 13w36a forward
[MC-216737] When replacing tuff, ores still generate with a “stone” background below y=0
[MC-216945] Teams become dysfunctional when any entity leaves the team
[MC-216965] Flat “slices” of terrain generating in cracks
[MC-217303] Potential optimization target in DepthBasedReplacingBaseStoneSource
[MC-217546] stat.fallOneCm is not updated when falling onto a block above y=316
[MC-217802] Some blocks generate at wrong Y height in a superflat world
[MC-218587] Lightning rod still can’t be waterlogged
[MC-218594] Debug chunk borders don’t render properly
[MC-218596] Debug pie is blacked out
[MC-218597] Water has no fog anymore
[MC-218603] Screen turns dark grey when switching dimension
[MC-218604] Hanging roots can generate hanging on other hanging roots, making them float
[MC-218609] Mipmapping causes some block faces to become too dark
[MC-218610] Banners are unimpacted by light levels
[MC-218626] Cannot enchant items
[MC-218635] With fast graphics, the freezing overlay renders black, and covers the whole screen black in first person
[MC-218640] Broken spyglass overlay on fast graphics
[MC-218641] Red vignette shown when outside the world border is too intense
[MC-218645] The carved pumpkin overlay turns the screen completely black when using fast graphics
[MC-218652] The green nausea overlay no longer renders
[MC-218653] Glowing effect no longer changes to team color
[MC-218655] Floating water generates excessively in lush caves
[MC-218660] The nether portal overlay no longer renders, whilst using fast graphics
[MC-218695] Shulkers do not flash red when hurt or killed
[MC-218712] Debug pie has purple box when moving an enchanted item
[MC-218713] Right clicking to open alternate recipes does not show the recipes
[MC-218729] Noise cave entrances cause unnatural, smooth edges in terrain
[MC-218734] Caves generate with very blocky areas
[MC-218748] At sunset, a blue line appears in the northern and southern skies
[MC-218753] Ambient occlusion of the player seen in the survival inventory has changed
[MC-218765] Glowing effect no longer renders around translucent pixels
[MC-218793] Two white lines appear on the Mojang loading screen
[MC-218817] Cave Vines can generate without supporting blocks
[MC-218825] M1 ARM Macs crash when using Fabulous Graphics mode as was the case in older versions, but no lack of support warning is shown
[MC-218830] World border is white
[MC-218834] You can see block hitboxes very clearly whilst in powder snow/lava
[MC-218845] Mojang logo screen flashes blue before changing to red
[MC-218852] World border is occasionally shown as a solid color upon being loaded
[MC-218877] The red flash when a mob is hurt/killed appears to be slightly dimmed
[MC-218881] When selecting text in the end, the sky gets highlighted
[MC-218911] The background of hover-event text becomes blue when text is selected in an anvil or chat
[MC-218945] Spyglass has a gradient effect while freezing
[MC-218979] Cave ceilings and floors sometimes too flat or blocky
[MC-218988] Fire is rendered dark in the player/horse/llama UI
[MC-218990] Transparency buffers start with blue background instead of empty background
[MC-219002] The wither’s wither armor has a blue aura around it
[MC-219006] The background opacity of subtitles and chat, are affected by a potion effect UI fading out
[MC-219014] Charged creeper layer makes clouds and entities invisible
[MC-219036] World border is shown as a solid color when picking up items or experience orbs
[MC-219039] World border does not render when below the world
[MC-219049] Reloading resource packs no longer shows the progress bar while the transparent background is shown
[MC-219105] Entity hitboxes can be seen whilst inside of powder snow/lava
[MC-219108] Chat scroll bar is offset
[MC-219111] Social interactions scroll bar appears broken
[MC-219126] Xray with spyglass
[MC-219155] Cast fishing line is disconnected from the rod
[MC-219180] Slime blocks, honey blocks, stained glass, and ice are fully lit when moved by pistons
[MC-219208] Xray using enchanted items
[MC-219212] Entity shadows can be seen whilst inside of powder snow/lava
[MC-219224] The background opacity of command syntax help is affected when highlighting text
[MC-219278] Being inside of a block no longer shows the block texture
[MC-219281] Dying ender dragon is rendered too bright
[MC-219392] Lead/fishing line is no longer affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
[MC-219597] End portal and end gateway textures expand as the player travels further from the block
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w13a.
NEW FEATURES IN 21W13A
- Added the goat!
- Added an accessibility option
GOAT
- Goats spawn in Mountains
- Goats can scale the sides of mountains with their incredible jumps!
- Goats can be tempted and bred using Wheat
- Goats are another source of milk!
ACCESSIBILITY
- Added an alternative solid black background color for the Mojang Studios loading screen, toggleable with the “Monochrome Logo” accessibility option
Fixed issues:
[MC-221146] Water fog still very subtle making water appear too clear in the distance
[MC-220339] Beacon beam is not affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
[MC-220269] Shader texture coordinate wrapping mode causes screen effects like glowing to wrap where they shouldn't
[MC-220174] With graphics set to Fabulous!, blocks such as honey, slime and stained glass appear lit up in third person mode
[MC-220157] String is not affected by light levels
[MC-220070] Lightning is not affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
[MC-220069] Wither/creeper armor is no longer affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
[MC-220068] Experience orbs are no longer affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
[MC-219974] Big Dripleaf takes about a second to be mined
[MC-219973] Hanging Roots takes about a second to be mined
[MC-219937] Parity issue: Clouds are at y=192
[MC-219933] Shulker heads do not flash red when taking damage / when killed
[MC-219920] Amethyst Blocks can no longer be gained by mining them
[MC-219906] Minecraft crashes when spectating an entity submerged in water
[MC-219868] Opening a UI darkens the background less than it used to
[MC-219850] There is no sound or subtitle for applying/removing/scraping wax or oxidation
[MC-219740] Spyglass overlay broken while in water with fast graphics
[MC-219635] There is no sound when defrosting from fire/lava (vanilla parity)
[MC-219240] Inconsistency: cobbled deepslate does not take longer to mine than deepslate
[MC-219203] Mineshaft support legs can generate in lava
[MC-219103] The eyes of some entities can be seen through powder snow/lava
[MC-219054] Can type text into anvil text field without putting an item in it, preventing you from closing the UI with E
[MC-218888] Shift Clicking items into inventory prevents the relevant advancement from triggering
[MC-217749] Small Dripleaf can't be placed on Rooted Dirt while waterlogged
[MC-216820] Cobbled Deepslate Slab uses the stone sounds instead of the deepslate sounds
[MC-214965] Maximum building height is 319, but warning message says 320
[MC-214901] Rain passes through moss blocks
[MC-214879] Selecting nothing and pressing Ctrl+C clears clipboard
[MC-214858] Powered big dripleaf play tilting sounds when blocks are changed nearby
[MC-214818] Waterlogged pointed stalagmites don't drop when their support block is broken
[MC-214698] Azalea top texture is mirrored incorrectly
[MC-214696] Small dripleaf texture mirrored incorrectly from underneath
[MC-214695] Big dripleaf texture mirrored incorrectly from underneath
[MC-214694] Tripwire which is part of a tripwire hook is not mirrored correctly from behind
[MC-214693] Tripwire texture is not mirrored correctly from behind
[MC-214639] Rooted dirt is not randomly rotated
[MC-214589] End gateway exit portals can be set to high coordinates, kicking the player
[MC-214586] Rooted Dirt has no assigned tool
[MC-214374] Redstone doesn't connect vertically on moss blocks
[MC-214181] Rooted dirt cannot be picked up by endermen
[MC-214135] Converted moss blocks do not update redstone
[MC-214097] Cake cannot be placed on top of a moss block
[MC-214073] The azalea's side textures are partially cut off
[MC-214049] Mining rooted dirt is slightly faster than mining other dirt blocks
[MC-213958] Azalea bushes connect to walls and fences
[MC-213907] Skeletons don't have a shaking animation while converting to strays
[MC-213899] Big Dripleaf can be rotated incorrectly by breaking and replacing it
[MC-213878] Using bone meal on a small dripleaf shows breaking particles
[MC-213877] Cannot turn Rooted Dirt into a Dirt Path
[MC-213860] Farmland/dirt path don't convert to dirt when moss is placed above
[MC-213841] Signs, banners, paintings & item frames cannot be placed on moss
[MC-213837] Can't pick block big dripleaf stem
[MC-213815] Grass, ferns, flowers, bushes, saplings and bamboo cannot be placed on top of rooted dirt
[MC-213789] Water behaves as if moss blocks were air
[MC-213777] Azalea and flowering azalea z-fight when placed next to blocks
[MC-213772] Certain faces of azalea are not culled by other blocks
[MC-213771] Rooted dirt is in decorations tab
[MC-213769] Rooted dirt is far from other dirt variants in the Creative inventory
[MC-213552] Shulker hitbox does not immediately rotate after the shulker visually rotates
[MC-212736] Some world border faces are rendered mirrored, resulting in incorrect corners
[MC-212305] Back face of glow lichen is not correctly mirrored from behind
[MC-212221] Glow item frames are rendered dark when a light source is nearby
[MC-209371] Can't cut stacks in half in furnace output
[MC-208745] Explorer maps & filled maps turn blank after entering the nether or end
[MC-208703] Axolotls don't give regeneration or remove mining fatigue
[MC-208695] Semi-transparent pixels on axolotl textures
[MC-208647] Axolotls don't attack elder guardians
[MC-208594] Axolotls aren't required for the "Two By Two" advancement
[MC-208588] Axolotls change color when released from bucket / axolotl entity data isn't stored in the bucket item
[MC-208075] Copper slabs and stairs are not included in the #minecraft:slabs and #minecraft:stairs tags
[MC-205918] Experience orb stacks that were used in the mending process lose their experience amount, even if the stack is still larger than one
[MC-205914] Placing turtle egg/sea pickle onto turtle egg/sea pickle while sneaking doesn’t place it next to it, although placing candle onto candle does
[MC-205885] Endermen holding water, lava or powder snow cauldrons don't drop cauldrons
[MC-205613] Skeletons in powder snow spin when aiming at the player
[MC-205302] Using /setblock to place a structure block defaults to save mode, unlike placing one by hand
[MC-205169] Mobs don't path find across powder snow blocks when not wandering
[MC-205158] Powder snow inside textures are not correctly mirrored
[MC-205143] The particles produced when extinguishing a campfire are misplaced
[MC-205131] Landing on powder snow while wearing leather boots inflicts fall damage on Java, but not on Bedrock
[MC-205106] Mobs that get damaged by powder snow can spawn inside powder snow
[MC-205083] Mobs wearing leather boots spin around when walking on powder snow
[MC-205060] Powder snow does not cause underlying grass, mycelium or podzol to appear snowy
[MC-204430] Cauldrons filled with water, lava or powder snow cannot be used as a workstation for villagers
[MC-204133] Candle extinguishing particle appears offset from the candle
[MC-203847] Waterlogged candles can be lit
[MC-203838] Aiming a spyglass with a loaded crossbow in offhand creates weird third person effect
[MC-203617] Can't "Pick Block" cauldrons with liquid or powdered snow inside
[MC-203605] Lightning rod bottom texture is mapped incorrectly
[MC-203553] Water bottle doesn't extinguish candles
[MC-201753] Sea pickle green top sections do not render correctly from behind
[MC-201751] Chain section on lanterns is incorrectly mirrored from behind
[MC-201748] Chain model planes are incorrectly mirrored on the rear
[MC-199242] Texture planes of crop models appear incorrectly mirrored from behind
[MC-199239] Vines appear incorrectly mirrored when viewed from behind
[MC-199237] Back of ladder is incorrectly mirrored
[MC-199065] Zombies that die while on fire do not drop baked potatoes
[MC-197073] Turtles laying eggs on red sand produce normal sand particles
[MC-195640] Suspicious stew inedible with full hunger
[MC-194183] Some experience points do not go towards Mending repair, even if the Mending gear is not fully repaired
[MC-190774] Stonecutter saw spins both ways simultaneously
[MC-187544] 'Cover Me With Diamonds' advancement improperly capitalized
[MC-174701] Leash knot sound effect plays when loading singleplayer world
[MC-167853] Observer doesn't detect when a grass block changes to dirt if a tree grows on top
[MC-136776] Some NBT tags are not kept when fish or axolotl mobs are caught in water buckets
[MC-124667] Air can be used in custom recipes, causing a crash
[MC-123587] Kicked from the game when reaching y levels over 30,000,000
[MC-108636] There are a number of unused texture files
[MC-102269] Polar bears drop raw fish instead of cooked fish when killed with fire or lava
[MC-70738] Killing guardian with lava does not give cooked fish
[MC-3366] End portal appears transparent from below
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w14a.
NEW FEATURES IN 21W14A
- Added Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold items
- Tuff blobs can now be found between heights 0 and 16
SMELTABLE ORE DROPS
- Ores that are smeltable now drop raw item forms of the ore instead of the ore block and these can be smelted just like before
- This is to prevent cluttering the inventory and have consistency with Fortune on all ores
- Ore blocks from old worlds and silk-touched ore blocks will continue to be smeltable
CHANGES IN 21W14A
- Fully oxidized Copper can now be waxed
Fixed issues:
[MC-221673] Ocean monuments are completely empty
[MC-221586] Excessive pillager spawning in pillager outposts
[MC-221553] The end dimension generates differently than it did previously
[MC-220652] IndexOutOfBound exception hard crash when loading a simple custom dimension datapack
[MC-219849] Fishing doesn't animate or render the rod, line or bobber anymore
[MC-217702] Game crashes (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException) during world feature placement / decoration
[MC-216697] Having 'min_y' set to lower than -64 causes either a crash or the world not to behave correctly if the height limit wasn't modified
[MC-215120] World-gen datapacks can cause crashes when first generating world
[MC-214287] Crash upon entering a nether portal when logical_height is set to 0 and min_y is set to 80 or greater
[MC-213665] Crash upon attempting to generate a world with a height of 0 blocks
[MC-210155] Command block output no longer is displayed immediately after running a command
[MC-207173] Entering only colons into multiplayer Direct Connection & pressing enter crashes the game
[MC-203854] Fishing rod texture always looks like it has been cast when in the player's hand
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w15a.
CAVES & CLIFFS WORLD GENERATION
The riskier and technically more complex world generation changes for the Caves & Cliffs update will be shipped in a later update and have been switched off in this snapshot. This means:
- World height has been switched back to the 1.16 levels
- Noise caves and aquifers have been switched off
- Cave and ravine carvers have been returned to their old settings
- Crack carvers have been switched off
- Ore distribution has been returned to the 1.16 setup
- Copper now generates between the bottom of the world and height 192, being most common around height 96
- Tuff now generates in blobs between heights 0 and 16
- Worlds created in snapshot 21w05b or any earlier version can now once again be opened
- Worlds created in any version between snapshot 21w06a and 21w14a can no longer be opened
THE CAVES & CLIFFS PROTOTYPE DATA PACK
You can still try out the world generation for the later update using a datapack which activates the changes as an experimental custom world:
- Download the data pack
- Launch the game, go to the “Create New World” screen, and click the “Data Packs” button
- Drag the downloaded zip file onto the Minecraft window
- The game will ask you if you want to add the data pack – click “Yes”
- Click the play arrow on the data pack that just appeared in the list – this will move it to the list on the right-hand side of the screen
- Click the “Done” button and continue creating your world as normal
Keep in mind that the world you create with the data pack will be flagged as experimental by the game, and such worlds are not guaranteed to work in future versions. Also, please note that you can’t add data packs that change the world generation to existing worlds, so you must create a new world to access the experimental features.
NEW FEATURES IN 21W15A
- Goats will ram anything that moves… and also armor stands
CHANGES IN 21W15A
- A crinkly, crunchy sound now plays when Bone Meal is used
- Reordered some blocks in the Building Blocks Tab in Creative Menu
- Goats will avoid walking on Powder Snow
- Creepers know won't dare mess with Goats
- The main menu background has been updated
- Tweaked the textures of raw ore items
- Just like other ore materials, you can craft a compact version with raw ore items in order to save inventory space
Click here for a full resolution image of the new raw ore textures in snapshot 21w15a.
BUILDING BLOCKS TAB
- All ores have been reordered to be in the same location in the creative inventory
- Compact forms of raw and refined underground materials have been reordered
TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 21W15A
- Added the Marker entity
- Added /debug function
- selector and nbt chat components can now configure separators between elements
- Servers can now customize a message to display when prompting players about custom resource packs
MARKERS
Markers are a new type of entity meant for custom use cases like map making and data packs.
- Only exist on the server side, are never sent to clients
- Do not do any updates of their own
- Have a data compound field that can contain any data
/DEBUG FUNCTION
New debug subcommand executes command with same syntax as function
- Every executed command, message (even if it would be normally invisible), result or error is stored to file
- Cannot be run from inside functions
CHAT COMPONENT SEPARATORS
[LIST][*]Components that print lists of names, like selector or nbt can now override separator (", " by default) with separator element[*]Examples:
- {"selector": "@e[type=chicken]", "separator": "|"}
- {"nbt": "CustomName", "entity": "@e[type=chicken]", "interpret": true, "separator": {"text": "*", "color": "red"}}
CUSTOM SERVER RESOURCE PACKS
When require-resource-pack is used in server.properties, there’s now an option for servers to add a custom message.
- A dedicated server can configure additional message to be shown on resource pack prompt (resource-pack-prompt in server.properties, expects chat component syntax, can contain multiple lines)
Fixed issues:
[MC-222522] Nether Gold Ore is no longer smeltable
[MC-222266] Goats don't attack
[MC-222104] Beacon beam fog is incorrectly computed
[MC-221798] Blindness doesn't render correctly
[MC-221718] Lava fog repeatedly fails to render each block at certain y-levels
[MC-221501] Water splash potions don't give the axolotl 1.5 minutes of moisture
[MC-219972] Deepslate gold ore has an inconsistent pixel
[MC-218944] Copper ore and deepslate copper ore have inconsistent textures
[MC-218749] Deepslate coal ore doesn't drop experience
[MC-218705] Deepslate emerald ore is separated from other deepslate ores in the creative inventory
[MC-218698] Infested deepslate makes the old "stone" sounds
[MC-218588] Cracked deepslate bricks & tiles are in the incorrect position in the creative inventory
[MC-216588] Feature placement - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bound must be positive
[MC-215844] Stone still generates around lava pools at low levels
[MC-215836] Deepslate uses the same color as stone on maps
[MC-212273] Glow Lichen doesn't render when being held by an Enderman
[MC-212145] Summoning Glow Lichen using /setblock doesn't place any lichen but creates light until the block is updated
[MC-203855] A geode configured_feature causes a crash when use_alternate_layer0_chance is used with no entries in inner_placements
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w16a.
NEW FEATURES IN 21W16A
- Azalea and Flowering Azalea can now be bonemealed to get an Azalea Trees
- Added dripstone growth
DRIPSTONE GROWTH
- If a stalactite is hanging from a dripstone block with a water source above, it will slowly grow both the stalactite from above and a stalagmite from below
- Growth speed is random but very slow, a single growth step can take several minecraft days
- A stalactite will only grow up to 7 blocks long
- A stalactite will only cause stalagmite growth if the floor or stalagmite below is within 10 blocks
- If the stalactite tip is inside water it won’t drip, and therefore won’t trigger any growth
- If the stalagmite tip is inside water it won’t receive drops, and therefore won’t be grown by a dripping stalactite. Same thing if there is any fluid between the two tips
- A stalagmite or stalactite will never grow into a fluid
CHANGES IN 21W16A
- Tweaked the texture of raw ores and raw ore blocks
Click here for a full resolution image of the new raw ore textures in snapshot 21w16a.
CHANGES TO THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW
Download the updated datapack here.
- Aquifers below height 0 will sometimes be lava aquifers instead of water aquifers
- Ore veins can now spawn underground
Click here for a full resolution image of a lava aquifer in snapshot 21w16a.
ORE VEINS
- Ore veins are large, rare, snake-like underground ore formations
- Copper veins form above height 0 and are mixed with granite
- Iron veins form below height 0 and are mixed with tuff
TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 21W16A
- Users who previously permanently declined server resource packs will now still be shown the pack prompt if the pack is mandatory (instead of being immediately disconnected)
- The statistic for play time has been renamed to play_time
- There is now a statistic for “Time with World Open” (total_world_time) that also includes the time when the game was paused
Fixed issues:
[MC-223757] minecraft.used:minecraft.lava_bucket doesn't increase when filling a cauldron with a lava bucket
[MC-223756] minecraft.used:minecraft.powder_snow_bucket doesn't increase when filling a cauldron with a powder snow bucket
[MC-223639] minecraft.used:minecraft.shears doesn't increase when collecting honeycombs from a beehive or bee nest
[MC-223638] minecraft.used:minecraft.shears doesn't increase when carving a pumpkin
[MC-223563] minecraft.used:minecraft.glass_bottle doesn't increase when collecting honey from a beehive or bee nest
[MC-223558] minecraft.used:minecraft.glass_bottle doesn't increase when taking water from a cauldron using a glass bottle
[MC-223557] minecraft.used:minecraft.bucket doesn't increase when taking powder snow, lava, or water from a cauldron using a bucket
[MC-223555] minecraft.used:minecraft.COLOR_dye doesn't increase when applying a dye to a sign
[MC-223554] minecraft.used:minecraft.ink_sac doesn't increase when applying an ink sac to a sign
[MC-223553] minecraft.used:minecraft.glow_ink_sac doesn't increase when applying a glow ink sac to a sign
[MC-223260] Emerald ore does not generate as intended
[MC-222778] minecraft.used:minecraft.candle doesn't increase when placing a candle on a cake
[MC-222684] You cannot grow azalea trees by bonemealing Azalea plants
[MC-222517] A large amount of slime or honey blocks will crash the game
[MC-222004] Grass block isn't apart of the #dirt block tag
[MC-221655] Glow Squids and Axolotls Spawn in Monuments
[MC-221652] Teleport command to player does not work as in previous versions
[MC-221628] Entities don’t stop glowing after losing the glowing effect
[MC-221560] Copper/Coal Ore in Deepslate Patches aren't Deepslate Ores
[MC-220887] Shader includes fail to compile correctly when missing newline at end of file
[MC-220641] Loyalty tridents disappear when your inventory is full
[MC-220307] TrueType Font glyphs render incorrectly
[MC-220024] Shader compilation slows or fails the more asterisks are in a multiline comment
[MC-219903] Silverfish infesting deepslate cause it to rotate
[MC-219851] Applying bone meal to a waterlogged big dripleaf stem creates more waterlogged big dripleaf stems
[MC-219211] Two mysterious white pixels can be seen in the upper left corner of the recipe book icon
[MC-219155] Cast fishing line is disconnected from the rod
[MC-218637] Inconsistency: Infested deepslate is not rotated randomly like normal deepslate
[MC-218614] Inconsistency: Infested Deepslate can't be placed along axis
[MC-218592] Azalea trees can generate inside of lakes (even completely submerged in water)
[MC-218590] Error message for commands.give.failed.toomanyitems doesn't translate item name
[MC-217411] Anvils can become damaged when only falling one block
[MC-216787] Cobwebs in mineshafts can generate as if supported by chains
[MC-215270] Moss requires air above a replaceable block to spread
[MC-214293] Mobs can spawn on top of azaleas
[MC-214129] Several dirt blocks are not part of the #minecraft:lush_plants_replaceable tag
[MC-213998] root_vines_head is unused in-game files
[MC-213927] Using bone meal on a sapling that is on a moss block consumes bone meal, but doesn't grow into a tree
[MC-212863] Glow lichen use the same color as vines on maps
[MC-212113] Glow Lichen can spawn underwater whilst not in a cave.
[MC-208598] Baby axolotls take damage when touching a solid block from below / eye height is outside of their hitbox
[MC-205236] Frozen State doesn't go away after respawn when on a server
[MC-203637] Mobs don't avoid lava cauldrons when pathfinding despite of setting themselves on fire
[MC-190128] Using a flint and steel to ingite TNT is not tracked by the in-game stats
[MC-157116] Food that is plantable counts towards using when right clicked on the ground
[MC-136681] Debug Stick use statistic increases when not allowed to use it
[MC-136560] minecraft.used:minecraft.elytra not functioning
[MC-117653] Recipes and advancements are not granted while most GUIs are open
[MC-111534] The firework rocket use statistic doesn't count rockets used for elytra boosting
[MC-55775] Statistics screen sometimes doesn't show up to date information
[MC-29522] stat.playOneMinute adds a value of 1 every tick
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w17a.
CHANGES IN 21W17A
- Small Dripleaves can now also be placed on Moss Blocks
- Copper Ore drops 2-3 raw Copper when mined, or more when using a tool enchanted with Fortune
- Copper Blocks are now crafted from 9 Copper Ingots
- Tweaked the texture of raw Metal blocks
Click here for a full resolution image of the new raw ore textures in snapshot 21w17a.
CHANGES TO THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW
Download the updated datapack here.
- Large Ore Veins have been tweaked
- Added noodle caves – thinner, squigglier, and more claustrophobic variant of spaghetti caves
Click here for a full resolution image of noodle caves in snapshot 21w17a.
LARGE ORE VEINS
- Ore veins are now slightly rarer and slightly smaller (but they are still large!)
- The ores in the vein are clumpier and less evenly distributed
- If you are lucky you may find a raw ore block in the vein
Fixed issues:
[MC-223792] Shrinking world border with center past x/z 29999983 crashes the game
[MC-223055] Amethyst buds and cluster have an unused blockstate
[MC-222520] Raw and Ore smelting previews aren't grouped together
[MC-222008] Empty/missing template pool error grammar mistake
[MC-221560] Copper/Coal Ore in Deepslate Patches aren't Deepslate Ores
[MC-220033] (Parity issue) Hanging Roots can't be waterlogged
[MC-219842] Recipes for mossy cobblestone and mossy stone bricks aren't grouped
[MC-219840] You cannot unlock the recipe for Mossy Stone Bricks
[MC-219155] Fishing line only starts on half distance between the fishing rod and bobber (Apple M1 only)
[MC-214865] Floating islands world type generates extreme terrain
[MC-214838] Big dripleaf stem remains after breaking a stem or leaf above it
[MC-214735] Horse disappears when dying while riding it and reloading the world while it's unloaded
[MC-214187] Void platform generates multiple times
[MC-204031] Waxed Cut Copper (any level of weathered) have two separate recipes in the recipe book
[MC-203745] Repeated teleport between dimensions causes the entity to duplicate on the client
[MC-203570] Candles aren't grouped in the recipe book
[MC-201269] Constantly teleporting player to a phantom crashes the game/kicks the player
[MC-187664] World border uses float to determine its size, making some border sizes inaccessible, and cannot be set to 30 million or beyond
[MC-170443] Banner copying recipe ignores existence of other items in crafting grid
The snapshot server has been updated.
New Minecraft snapshot version is: 21w18a.
CHANGES IN 21W18A
- Infested Blocks are no longer instantly destroyed. Instead, they have half the destroy time of their non-infested counterpart.
- Screaming goats will use their ram attack more often than other goats will
CHANGES TO THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW
Download the updated datapack.
Click here for a full resolution image of ore distribution in 21w18a.
- Reduced Copper spawning a bit, to compensate for large ore veins
- Large ore veins are slightly more rare and slightly smaller on average. But the size varies a lot so you can still find huge ones.
- Increased chance of finding raw ore blocks in ore veins
- Cave carvers generate below y 0 in Ocean biomes (they didn’t before, it was an accident)
- Increased the minimum size of noodle caves and carvers, to make them easier to traverse and less likely to break up into fragments.
- Noodle caves no longer generate above y 30, so the surface should be less riddled with holes.
- Removed Deepslate blobs above y 0
- Extended the vertical range of the smaller blobs of iron ore, to make it possible to find iron in caves near the surface.
- Slightly reduced the amount of normal-sized iron blobs, to compensate for large ore veins and the increased range of smaller blobs.
Fixed issues:
[MC-224428] Raw ore blocks can generate as floating blocks in ore veins
[MC-224401] Mob death does not show death particles
[MC-223422] When removing water from base of Small Dripleaf, the block stands without water untill a block update
[MC-223239] Ramming sound that comes from a baby goat does not change pitch
[MC-223203] Deepslate ore map colors are inconsistent with deepslate
[MC-223178] Deepslate Tile Stairs come before Deepslate Brick Stairs in the creative inventory
[MC-223150] Goats ram Marker armor stands & Invisible armor stands
[MC-223145] Piglins aren't angered when mining a Block of Raw Gold
[MC-223141] Piglins aren't attracted to a Block of Raw Gold
[MC-222458] UVs on the goat's ears aren't mirrored as they should be
[MC-222157] Eye position of the goat is too high in some cases, causing suffocation
[MC-222151] Goat head animation is weird when it rides a boat
[MC-221840] Goats can still do high jumps normally when on honey blocks
[MC-221727] Goat eye height is outside of its hitbox while airborne
[MC-221725] Legs of goats move differently
[MC-221647] Goat Babies Don't Follow Parents
[MC-216148] Some chunks occasionally don't save properly, resetting progress
[MC-215946] Game fatally crashed while exploring chunks (IllegalStateException: Accessing PalettedContainer from multiple threads)
[MC-215867] Crash: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Chunk not there when requested
[MC-214898] Extreme world generation lag
[MC-214860] Some chunks in a line are lit up constantly
[MC-214808] World occasionally fails to load correctly
[MC-214793] Some strips of chunks generate completely dark
[MC-214427] Spore Blossoms can be used to breathe underwater / cannot be waterlogged
[MC-214159] Small Dripleaf sometimes shrink into smaller (1 block tall) Big Dripleaf when using bone meal
[MC-211064] Loading in a TrueTypeFont with an out-of-bounds size crashes the game
[MC-208679] Axolotl inconsistently doesn't show its mouth in-game
[MC-208430] Minecraft crashes when loading resource pack due to "tessellating block model"
[MC-206560] Pufferfish react to Marker armor stands and Invisible armor stands
[MC-205797] Zoglins attack Marker armor stands and Invisible armor stands
[MC-204969] No "Burning" sound for items burning in lava cauldron
[MC-204707] Adventure mode players can extinguish candles
[MC-197616] Certain custom biome settings cause game to spam "Received invalid biome id: -1" in the console, causing major lag or freeze
[MC-162953] NativeImage bounds checks are incorrect
[MC-125033] Old cave and ravine generation gets cut off unnaturally on chunk borders near water
[MC-87935] When closing the inventory while holding an item with the cursor in Creative mode, the item disappears
[MC-3587] Last use of an anvil causes player to drop their item
