Minecraft:Java Edition 24w44a

24w44a is the first Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.21.4, released on October 30, 2024,<ref>Template:Snap</ref> that adds the Minecraft:eyeblossom and Minecraft:resin family blocks, makes Winter Drop features available in normal gameplay (replacing the "Winter Drop" Minecraft:experiment), and fixes bugs.

Additions

Blocks

Template:Animate Minecraft:Eyeblossoms

• New flowers that generate in the pale garden biome.
  • They exist in two variants: closed and open.
  • Eyeblossoms transition between the two variants based on the time of day.
    • During the night, eyeblossoms become open.
    • During the day, they become closed.
  • In dimensions that do not have a day/night cycle, they remain as-is.
  • Eyeblossoms planted on the ground communicate with each other, helping each other to open or close.
  • Open eyeblossoms have glowing eyes during the night.
  • Can be obtained by bonemealing the grass in the pale garden biome.
  • Minecraft:Bees get poisoned when they interact with eyeblossoms.
  • Minecraft:Suspicious stew made from eyeblossom has Blindness or Nausea effect depending on the variant.
  • Gray or orange dye can be crafted from closed and open eyeblossoms, respectively.
  • Minecraft:Wandering traders can sell open eyeblossoms.
  • The closed and open variations can each be placed in Minecraft:flower pots.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Resin block family

• File:Resin Clump (item) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Resin clumps are a new multi-face block:
  • Dropped by creaking hearts when it is destroyed.
  • Placed around creaking hearts when its creaking is attacked.
  • Can be crafted into a File:Block of Resin JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:block of resin.
  • Can be hardened into File:Resin Brick JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:resin brick items in a furnace.
  • Can be used to trim armor.
• Resin bricks can be crafted into the resin brick set:
  • File:Resin Bricks JE1.png Minecraft:Resin bricks block
  • File:Resin Brick Stairs JE1.png Minecraft:Resin brick stairs
  • File:Resin Brick Wall JE1.png Minecraft:Resin brick wall
  • File:Resin Brick Slab JE1.png Minecraft:Resin brick slab
  • File:Chiseled Resin Bricks JE1.png Minecraft:Chiseled resin bricks
• Both can be found in chests in the woodland mansion.
• Blocks of resin can be crafted into a creaking heart using two pale oak logs.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Bell, Minecraft:lantern, Minecraft:soul lantern, Minecraft:copper door, Minecraft:iron door, Minecraft:heavy weighted pressure plate, Minecraft:light weighted pressure plate, Minecraft:polished blackstone pressure plate, Minecraft:stone pressure plate and Minecraft:brewing stand

• Now drop when broken with any tool.

width=32x32 Minecraft:Creaking heart

• No longer experimental.
• Attacking a creaking causes its creaking heart to exude 2 to 3 resin clumps.
• Creaking hearts can be crafted with a resin block and pale oak logs.
• Naturally placed creaking hearts drop 20-24 experience when broken by a player, with or without Silk Touch.
• Breaking a creaking heart block drops 1-3 resin clumps, and it is affected by Fortune enchantment.
• The top texture has been changed from width=32x32.

Minecraft:Ender chest

• Now has its normal drops when mined with anything.
  • This is itself when mined with any item enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch, and 8 Minecraft:obsidian otherwise.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Nether bricks, Minecraft:chiseled nether bricks, Minecraft:cracked nether bricks and Minecraft:red nether bricks

• Changed the texture of normal, chiseled, cracked and red nether bricks from Template:Animate to match the pattern of other brick blocks.

Minecraft:Pale hanging moss

• No longer experimental.
• Breaks instantly when mined.
• Requires shears or Silk Touch tools to be obtained.
• Can now be sold by the Minecraft:wandering trader.

width=32x32 Minecraft:Pale oak hanging sign

• A minor texture change occurred.

Minecraft:Pale moss block

• No longer experimental.
• Can now be sold by Minecraft:wandering traders.

Minecraft:Pale oak leaves

• Now emit a falling particle effect, similar to cherry leaves.

Minecraft:Pale oak sapling

• No longer experimental.
• Can now be sold by Minecraft:wandering traders.

Items

Minecraft:Elytra

• A subtitle for flying has been added.

Mobs

Minecraft:Bee

• Instead of breeding, they get withered when fed Minecraft:wither roses, and poisoned by eyeblossoms.
  • Neither of these anger bees.

Minecraft:Creaking

• No longer experimental.
• Melee attacks deal Template:Hp damage.
• The following changes apply for naturally spawning creakings:
  • Reacts only to damage caused by mobs and projectiles, by swaying in place.
  • Ignores cactus, sweet berry bushes and powder snow damage and can now walk through/over them.
  • Has a twitching animation.
  • Is fire-resistant.
• The creaking heart may decide to remove or replace its associated creaking when:
  • It turns day.
  • The creaking is too far away from the heart.
  • A player intersects with creakings for a few seconds.
• Minecraft:Ravagers are no longer afraid of creakings.

World generation

Minecraft:Pale oak

• Player grown pale oak trees grow without any decorations.
• Naturally generated pale oak trees have Minecraft:pale hanging moss hanging from the foliage, Minecraft:pale moss patches on the ground, and Minecraft:creaking heart blocks can generate in them.

Biomes

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• Has no music, and currently playing music gradually fades out if the player enters one.

General

Minecraft:Title screen

• The Minecraft:panorama was changed to showcase Minecraft:pale gardens.

Technical

Additions

General

Minecraft:Entity format

• Added optional field explosion_speed_factor that controls the amount of added damage depending on the speed of the minecart.
  • Default value: 1.0.

Minecraft:Raw JSON text format

• Added optional shadow_color style field to text components, which overrides the shadow properties of text.
  • Format:
    • A packed integer ARGB value (e.g. -1).
    • An array of RGBA values (e.g. [1, 1, 1, 1]).
  • If specified as 0, the shadow is never displayed for this text.
  • If specified as a non-zero value, the shadow is always displayed with this color.

Changes

Command format

Template:Cmd

• A subcommand to reset the base value of an attribute to its default value for the target entity was added. If the attribute does not exist on the entity, the command fails.
• Syntax:
  • Template:Cmd
• Parameters:
  • Template:Cd: The entity to update the attribute for.
  • Template:Cd: The attribute ID to update.
• Suggestions are now shown for Template:Cmd modifier IDs existing on the target in the Template:Cmd command.

General

Biome effects

• Have a new format for music using a weighted list.
  • The list can be empty indicating no music should play in this biome.
• Have a new optional field: music_volume.
  • The game smoothly transitions between the current music volume and the new volume when entering the biome:

<syntaxhighlight lang="json" line="1"> "music": [

   {
     "data": {
       "max_delay": 24000,
       "min_delay": 12000,
       "replace_current_music": false,
       "sound": "minecraft:music.overworld.forest"
     },
     "weight": 1
   }
 ],
 "music_volume": 1.0,

</syntaxhighlight>

Minecraft:Block entity

• Item blocks with minecraft:block_entity_data component now set block entity data only if id tag matches type of placed block entity.
  • Additionally, a warning is added to item tooltip if placing such item might directly or indirectly lead to command execution with high permission level.

Minecraft:Configured feature

• The simple_block feature type has a new optional field: schedule_tick.
  • If set to true, the block is scheduled to tick.

Minecraft:Data pack

• The Minecraft:pack format version is now Template:Cd.
• Removed the Template:Cd feature flag and built-in data pack.
  • The winter drop feature flag is now in the game by default.

Minecraft:Entity format

• The TNTFuse field of TNT minecarts has been renamed to fuse.

GUI sprites

• The Template:Cd sprite layout has been updated to use standard nine-slicing functionality.
• The Template:Cd sprite is now scaled for taller toasts, and as such has nine-slice scaling in the default resource pack.
• The Template:Cd and Template:Cd GUI sprites are now configured to scale with nine-slicing.
• Empty slot sprites, such as those for the armor slots in the inventory, have been renamed and moved from items into the Template:Cd directory.
  • Template:Cd -> Template:Cd.
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• The empty slot sprites in the loom have been split from their background and moved:
  • Template:Cd -> Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd -> Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd -> Template:Cd.
• The empty slot sprites in the brewing stand have been split from the container background:
  • Template:Cd.
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• The empty slot sprites in the horse/llama inventories have been split from their background, cropped, and moved:
  • Template:Cd -> Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd -> Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd -> Template:Cd.

Particles

• Template:Cd particle has a new required field: Template:Cd.
  • Indicates, in ticks, how long the particle takes to fly from the start to the target.

Minecraft:Resource pack

• The Minecraft:pack format version is now Template:Cd.
• Added the following new block models and textures:
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    • Additionally uses Template:Cd texture layer.
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• Added the following non-top-level block models:
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• Added the following new item models and textures:
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• Added new armor trim color palette: Template:Cd.
• The UV mapping of the Minecraft:magma cube texture has been updated.

Minecraft:Tags

• Added Template:Cd to the Template:Cd block tag.
• Added Template:Cd, and Template:Cd to the Template:Cd block tag.
• Added Template:Cd, and Template:Cd to the Template:Cd block and item tags.
• Added Template:Cd to the Template:Cd block tag.
• Added Template:Cd to the Template:Cd block and item tags.
• Added Template:Cd to the Template:Cd item tag.
• Replaced Template:Cd with Template:Cd in the Template:Cd block tag.
• Removed the copper doors from the Template:Cd block tag.
• Removed Template:Cd, and Template:Cd from the Template:Cd block tag.

Experimental

All features previously behind the "Winter Drop" Minecraft:experimental toggle have been de-experimentified and are now available during normal gameplay.