Today's snapshot is loud! It comes with a bunch of new ambient sound that adds some really nice flavour to the Nether biomes. Apart from this, you now have to use the smithing table to craft Netherite. Happy mining!

New Features in 20w10a



Added crimson and warped hyphae – all-sided "stem" blocks including stripped variations

Use a smithing table to fuse the Netherite ingot with your diamond weapon/tool/armor

New ambient sounds for the Nether biomes



Changes in 20w10a

Fish now despawn when further than 64 blocks away from the closest player

Hoes are now more like other tools used to break blocks

Updated the Netherite item textures

Bartering loot has been tweaked once again to bring back Soul Sand, make Netherite Hoes less common, and remove/add items to better fit survival players

Hoe Changes

We've made some changes to Hoes to make them more useful in the Nether.

Each tier has different speed at which Hoes mine blocks they are effective against

Hoes can now be enchanted with the following enchantments: Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch

Those enchantments can now be provided through the enchanting table.

Bartering Loot

Soul Sand is back!

Netherite Hoe much less common

Shroomlight removed

Warped Fungus removed

Iron Nuggets added

Technical Changes in 20w10a

Entity UUIDs

UUIDs of the owners of projectiles, such as arrows or snowballs, are now stored as an array of four integers. All UUIDs will be stored in this format in the future

New tags for item frames

Invisible - makes item frame invisible (item inside frame remains visible)

- makes item frame invisible (item inside frame remains visible) Fixed - prevents item frame from being broken and the item inside from being removed

target_hit advancement trigger type

signal_strength matches the signal strength output from the block on hit

matches the signal strength output from the block on hit projectile matches the projectile entity

the projectile entity shooter matches the player who shot or threw the projectile

Fixed bugs in 20w10a

MC-130906 - Dolphins are moving very fast when near a boat

MC-131046 - Angry dolphins give players dolphin’s grace

MC-146824 - Inconsistency: Ladders and tripwire hooks cannot be placed on the sides of redstone blocks, observers and target blocks

MC-147496 - Dolphin tries to catch the boat of the non-player ride

MC-152441 - Corner quartz stairs (not corner smooth quartz stairs) do not have the border on the back/bottom that a normal quartz stair would have

MC-165518 - Village houses desert_temple_1 and plains_temple_4 have no floor at entrance

MC-169533 - Asymmetrical walls in snowy_cartographer_house_1

MC-169715 - Misrotated block in snowy_small_house_3

MC-169869 - Mooshroom using incorrect texture in Programmer Art

MC-170242 - Asymmetrical walls in taiga_medium_house_4

MC-170470 - At snowy_library_1, the snow block is placed next to the window, which causes ugly visual effect

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

MC-170829 - When dropping netherite tools and armor into lava, it sounds as if they are burning

MC-170897 - Fossils in soulsand valleys can be generated in the air

MC-171367 - Warped Fungi item does not match block texture

MC-171447 - Crimson root item form has inconsistent texture

MC-172077 - Piglins with NoAI shake in the overworld

MC-172082 - Piglins do not serialize their conversion time

MC-172242 - Left handed piglins don’t look at gold ingots in their right hand

MC-172567 - Wither skeletons don’t automaticly attack piglins

MC-173021 - Unuseful warning is logged when server receives incorrect vehicle movement packets

MC-173090 - Attacking baby piglins don’t anger any adult piglins

MC-173165 - Piglin Bartering Loot Table contains an extra “set_count” function

MC-173168 - The word “backup” appears instead of the phrase “back up.”

MC-173169 - Piglins still aren’t attracted to powered rails

MC-173176 - Serialization error affecting operators list and whitelist

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

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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