Minecraft Snapshot 20w10a

26th Dec, 2022

Today's snapshot is loud! It also includes a bunch new ambient sounds that adds some nice flavour to the Nether biomes. You will also need to use the smithing tables to create Netherite. Happy mining!

New Features in 20w10a

– Added crimson, warped hyphae, all-sided “stem blocks”, including stripped variations. Use a smithing tablet to fuse the Netherite Ingot with your diamond tool/armor. New ambient sounds for Nether biomes

Changes in 20w10a

– Fish now despawn if they are more than 64 blocks from the nearest player. Hoes now look more like other tools used for breaking blocks. Updated the Netherite texture textures. Bartering loot has again been modified to bring back Soul Sand, make Netherite hoes less common, remove/add items to better suit survival players.

Hoe Changes

We have made some changes to Hoes in order to make them more useful in Nether.

Hoes are able to enchant themselves with the following enchantments. Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch – These enchantments are now available through the magical table.

Bartering Loot

– Soul Sand is back! – Netherite hoe much less common – Shroomlight removed – Warped Fungus removed – Iron Nuggets included

Technical Changes in 20w10a

UUIDs for Entities

– The UUIDs of projectile owners, such as arrows and snowballs, are now stored in an array of four integers. In the future, all UUIDs will be stored as this format.

New tags for item frames

Invisible – Makes the item frame invisible (but the item within it remains visible).Fixed: Prevents the item frame from breaking and the item within from being taken out

target_hit advancement trigger type

Signal_strength matches The signal strength output from block on hitprojectile matches that of the projectile entityshooter matches that of the player who shot or threw it

Fixed bugs in 20w10a

MC-130906 – Dolphins move very fast near a boat

MC-131046: Angry dolphins show players dolphin's grace

MC-146824: Inconsistency: Tripwire hooks and ladders cannot be placed on redstone blocks' sides, observers or target blocks.

MC-147496: Dolphin tries to catch a non-player rider's boat

MC-152441: Corner quartz stairs (not corner smooth Quartz stairs) do NOT have the border at the bottom or back that a normal quartz staircase would.

MC-165518 Village houses desert_temple_1 or plains_temple_4 do not have a floor at their entrance

MC-169533 – Asymmetrical walls in snowy_cartographer_house_1

MC-169715 – Misrotated block in snowy_small_house_3.

MC-169869 – Mooshrooms using an incorrect texture in Programmer art

MC-170242: Asymmetrical walls in the taiga_medium_house_4

MC-170470 – At snowy_library_1, a snow block is placed right next to the window. This creates an ugly visual effect

MC-170819 – Netherite boots and sword textures have transparent pixels

MC-170829 – When you drop netherite armor and tools into lava it sounds like they are burning

MC-170897: Fossils can be created in the air from soulsand valleys

MC-171367 – Warped Fungi item doesn't match block texture

MC-171447 – Crimson root item form has inconsistent textures

MC-172077 – Piglins with NoAI shakes in the overworld

MC-172082: Piglins don't serialize their conversion times

MC-172242 – Left-handed piglins don't look at gold ingots with their right hand

MC-172567 – Wither skeletons are not automatically attacking piglins

MC-173021 Unuseful Warning Logged when server receives incorrect vehicle movements packets

MC-173090: Attacking baby Piglins won't anger any adult Piglins

MC-173165 – Piglin Bartering Loot Table includes an additional “set_count” function

MC-173168 – The word “backup”, instead of “back up”, appears in the MC-173168.

MC-173169 – Piglins aren't attracted by powered rails

MC-173176: Serialization error affecting whitelist and operators list

MC-173244 – Target block moved by pistons keeps their signal strength permanently

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