Ever wanted to take a quick nap in a biome full of lava and with dangers lurking around every corner? Good news! We've just added the Respawn Anchor that lets you set your spawn point in the Nether. Just make sure that you have enough charges.

New Features in 20w12a



Added the respawn anchor that can set your respawn point in the Nether. Use while holding Glowstone to charge to a maximum of four charges - each respawn depletes one charge

Added polished basalt! Smelt your basalt to make it clean and shiny!

Warped and crimson nylium can now be bonemealed to get more of the strange new vegetation

Hoes are now the appropriate tool for sponges and wet sponges

Changes in 20w12a



When fishing, treasure loot can now only be obtained by fishing in open waters

Reduced the maximum distance a bee can wander away from its home hive when randomly wandering to around 22 blocks

Nether gold ore can now be mined with any type of pickaxe and drops a few gold nuggets

Parrots imitate hostile mobs less often

Parrots do not randomly imitate hostile mobs when gamemode is on peaceful

New mood detection algorithm for cave sounds

Technical Changes in 20w12a

The spawnpoint command now supports being run in any dimension

UUIDs in NBT

UUIDs stored in NBT are now represented as an array of four integers.

Example: {UUID:[I;1498693494,1027158888,1898994005,860320107]}

Along with that a couple of fields have been renamed:

OwnerUUID of tamed animals, area effect clouds, evoker fangs and projectiles is now simply Owner

of tamed animals, area effect clouds, evoker fangs and projectiles is now simply TrustedUUIDs of foxes is now Trusted

of foxes is now target_uuid of conduits is now Target

Loot Tables

Entity Predicate

Added fishing_hook sub-predicate

Fishing Hook

Check properties of the fishing hook

Parameter

in_open_water - Matches whether the fishing location is open water fishing or not. A fishing location is considered to be open water if there are no blocks above water and no solid underwater blocks around, all water blocks are source blocks and there are no bubble columns.

Fixed bugs in 20w12a

MC-3328 - Dismounting an entity places riding entity / player half block too high

MC-64242 - Silent tag is not working for some entities

MC-100342 - Several Non-Ticking blocks are marked as ticking forcing the growth-algorithm to check chunks needlessly

MC-113809 - Chorus Flower plant, Bamboo, Sugarcane, Cactus and other plants grow instantly when supporting block is replaced with same block type

MC-114000 - Mouse click in cat hissing sounds

MC-122128 - Recipe book resets itself to closed state after death

MC-129137 - Parrots imitating hostile mobs in peaceful is not that peaceful

MC-130137 - Grass and mycelium don’t decay underwater

MC-140545 - Pathfinding prefers North (negative Z) direction

MC-148936 - Parrot summoned with negative Age has smaller hitbox

MC-149375 - Camera can be positioned inside of snow layers

MC-160959 - Clicking onto a bed in daytime doesn’t grant the advancement “Sweet Dreams”

MC-161754 - Item duplication with chested donkeys, mules and llamas

MC-163918 - Bees not animating their pollen gathering

MC-166980 - Bees become stuck wandering to the north-west after completing a task, or randomly in large numbers

MC-168384 - NBT-Tag “Silent:1b” doesn’t work for bees.

MC-169965 - Potion effect timers for higher levels can remain at 0:00 after the higher level has run out if multiple levels of the same effect were applied in descending order

MC-170584 - Structure taiga_meeting_point_2 from zombie villages has 1 misrotated log

MC-170591 - Misrotated floor blocks in desert_tool_smith_1 basement

MC-170773 - Recipe book and filtering craftable do not stay open for blast furnace and smoker when (re)loading the world

MC-170940 - Netherite ingot recipes are not grouped

MC-171133 - Camera can be positioned inside of soul sand

MC-172188 - Hoglins are not required by ‘Two by Two’ advancement

MC-172690 - Smelting netherite scraps doesn’t provide the right amount of experience

MC-172820 - Piglins can turn into adult chicken jockeys in the overworld

MC-173199 - Fossils in the nether cause caves / floating islands to generate and can break through the nether roof

MC-173220 - Dismounting passenger moves to a nearby block when ridden entity dies

MC-173420 - Sign crafting recipes of various wood types are not grouped

MC-173487 - Falling out of water death message still does not seem to appear

MC-173552 - Nether Fossile support islands cut off at chunk borders

MC-173791 - Mobs dismount vehicles only in front of the boat, even if there is danger ahead

MC-173828 - Village church entrance does not generate correctly

MC-173832 - Crimson and Warped Hyphae and Stripped Hyphae are switched in Creative inventory

MC-173837 - Removing fire and soul fire with shears will reduce the shears’ durability

MC-174049 - Fireworks shot from a crossbow do not explode instantly when hitting a solid block

MC-174071 - Roof of savanna_mason_1 is cut off

MC-174072 - Structure savanna_temple_2 contains one misrotated block

MC-174073 - Two misrotated blocks in savanna_small_house_5

MC-174075 - Misrotated block in savanna_butchers_shop_1

MC-174076 - Inconsistent rotation of logs under windows in savanna_small_house_4

MC-174077 - Structure snowy_library_1 no longer has snow under the roof

MC-174078 - Three misrotated blocks in snowy_armorer_house_2

MC-174079 - Misrotated block at snowy_weapon_smith_1

MC-174082 - Three misrotated blocks in snowy_small_house_2

MC-174083 - Three misrotated blocks in snowy_butchers_shop_1

MC-174174 - Arrow animation stuck on loop when a flame bow is used to detonate TNT

MC-174234 - Village structure snowy_masons_house_1 has two misrotated blocks

MC-174258 - Fixed item frames do not take void damage

MC-174391 - Several misrotated blocks at snowy_medium_house_2

MC-174429 - Chorus flowers remove arrow and trident velocity

MC-174464 - Soul speed decreases durability on boots in creative mode

MC-174466 - Soul speed particles are generated in spectator mode

MC-174467 - Placing fire on soul sand does not place soul fire

MC-174476 - Soul fire torch is in the piglin_repellents item tag twice

MC-174480 - Piglins are not attracted to Nether gold ore

MC-174489 - Shroomlight preferred tool is now both Axe and Hoe

MC-174502 - Soul Speed 3 on Soul Soil in water keeps and increases player momentum

MC-174513 - Soul Speed Enchanted Books from bartering with piglins do not work in an anvil

MC-174522 - Soul Speed doesn’t break boots

MC-174690 - Soul speed enchantment books can be found in chests

MC-174785 - Mining speed of crimson and warped wall signs is not affected by an axe

Get the snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

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