In this snapshot you can be on your merry way across the beautiful Soulsand Valleys with your freshly enchanted boots. It's a bit scary to be fair, so these boots will help you out with that bit...

Before we dive into this snapshot, a word about Redstone

Redstone is one of the coolest things in Minecraft and many of you are members of communities that focus on building mind-blowing redstone contraptions, farms, computing machines and 256x256 piston doors.

A lot of redstone behaviour is currently categorized as “undefined”. This is when the behaviour of the block is not the result of intentional code but is a side-effect of unaccounted edge cases or quirks in the game code.​

We know that many players consider undefined behaviour as a very interesting aspect of redstone and enjoy experimenting with and using undefined behaviour to build unique contraptions to share with the rest of the community.​

However, the quirks of undefined behaviour can be quite surprising - even when building simple contraptions. This quirkiness can be a negative experience for players new to redstone and may turn them away from this very unique and exciting aspect of Minecraft as well as the vast redstone community behind it.​

Our goal is to bring all redstone components up to a level of quality that we are happy with and we will be making adjustments where it makes the most sense for redstone going forward.

Any changes we make will be communicated in the snapshot changelogs and as always we will be reading your feedback and comments. If you have any immediate feedback regarding redstone then please make a post on the feedback website.

New Features in 20w11a



Added Soul Speed enchantment



Added Twisting Vines that grow upwards

Nether gold ore can now be found in the nether - it is just like gold ore, but more Nether-y

Soul Speed

Never suffer again drudging through Soul Sand Valleys - Soul Speed has you covered!

Shine your boots of choice with this soul-sucking enchantment to speed around on Soul Sand and Soul Soil!

There's a downside, however: enchantments will slowly degrade your boots each Soul block you walk on

Can only be obtained by bartering with those pesky Piglins

Changes in 20w11a



Bone meal can now be used to grow kelp, weeping vines and twisting vines

Hoes are now the appropriate tools for mining Hay, Targets, Dried Kelp Blocks, Shroomlights, Nether Wart Blocks and Warped Wart Blocks

Doors, rails, buttons, pressure plates, redstone and more can now be placed on soulsand and full-block of snow layers

Soul sand with a rail on top will no longer slow-down minecarts

TNT and Campfires will now ignite when hit by any burning projectile

Bell blocks will now ring when hit by any projectile

Technical Changes in 20w11a

minecraft:soul_speed_blocks is any block that the Soul Speed enchantment increases speed on

is any block that the Soul Speed enchantment increases speed on New particle type: soul

Fixed bugs in 20w11a

MC-81659 - Fireball and witherskull hitboxes are frequently invisible for some seconds

MC-134900 - server.properties generator-settings for level-type FLAT not implemented; property is stored in ignored flat_world_options NBT

MC-145140 - Fireballs cannot be interacted with when summoned

MC-146928 - Can’t place doors, rails, buttons, pressure plate, redstone, etc. on soul sand

MC-148935 - Zombies with no AI still convert into drowned

MC-171079 - Comparators no longer work as expected reading containers through powered blocks

MC-171860 - Nether fossils have code implying an unimplemented /locate function

MC-172266 - Crossbow wielding piglins do not properly walk backwards to target the player when very close

MC-172323 - Game crashes when summoning a hoglin with the attack damage attribute set to 0 or giving a hoglin weakness with a very high level (255)

MC-172374 - Can teleport to invalid y coordinates and crash the game

MC-172428 - Piglins and hoglins don’t look at their target

MC-172470 - When the piglin holds the bow, it will try to attack and follow the enemy eventually stood there not moving

MC-172530 - Piglins indefinitely stand around dropped golden items if mobGriefing is disabled

MC-172903 - Piglins which convert into zombified piglins delete armor if equipped

MC-173156 - Z-fighting at bottom of potted bamboo; bottom texture of bamboo is exposed

MC-173167 - Netherite sword/tools not sorted with other swords/tools

MC-173180 - Hoglins are not scared of Warped Fungus in flower pots

MC-173219 - No sound when climbing weeping vines

MC-173243 - Crying obsidian is movable by pistons

MC-173283 - Piglin admiring held gold ingot doesn’t drop it when killed

MC-173302 - Crying Obsidian can be harvested with any pickaxe

MC-173384 - Crying obsidian can be destroyed by the Ender Dragon

MC-173433 - Killing a baby Hoglin doesn’t yield experience

MC-173462 - Baby piglins can hold soul fire torches

MC-173467 - Piglins admiring bartering gold ingot drop nothing when converting to Zombified Piglin

MC-173484 - Death message from falling off a trapdoor does not mention it by name

MC-173485 - Death message from falling off scaffolding does not mention it by name

MC-173706 - NullPointerException in server tick loop when trying to load a flatland world with Nether biome

MC-173725 - Anvil name field doesn’t automatically receive focus anymore and is unclickable

MC-173731 - Fire and soul fire play a sound and produce particles when extinguished

MC-173732 - Fire and soul fire do not have loot tables

MC-173739 - Missing sound for event: minecraft:block.smithing_table.use

MC-173766 - Thrown tridents disappear after hitting and damaging a mob or entity

MC-173776 - Hoes do not mine targets faster

MC-173792 - End gateways don’t work using enderpearls

MC-173858 - Unable to set “LeftHanded” to “1b” for piglins

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