Minecraft:Java Edition 1.16 Pre-release 3

1.16 Pre-release 3 (known as 1.16-pre3 in the Minecraft:launcher) is the third pre-release for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.16, released on June 10, 2020,<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> which makes a few minor changes and fixes many bugs.

Additions

Gameplay

Minecraft:Loot tables

• Added a loot table for the Minecraft:Nether portal block.

General

Minecraft:Tags

• Added infiniburn_overworld block tag.
  • Contains netherrack and magma blocks.
  • Fire burns infinitely on blocks in this tag in the overworld.
• Added infiniburn_nether block tag.
  • Contains the #infiniburn_overworld block tag.
  • Fire burns infinitely on blocks in this tag in the Nether.
• Added infiniburn_end block tag.
  • Contains the #infiniburn_overworld block tag as well as bedrock.
  • Fire burns infinitely on blocks in this tag in the End.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Lava

• Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of Minecraft:Fire Resistance.

Minecraft:Observers

• The back texture while powered on has been changed.

Minecraft:Potted cactus

• Top face now uses the top texture of cactus, rather than the side texture.
• Now no longer contains dirt.

Minecraft:Signs

• Changed the capitalization of "Edit sign message" to "Edit Sign Message" in the sign GUI.

Items

Minecraft:Food

• Can now be placed on unlit Minecraft:campfires.

Minecraft:Shroomlights

• Can now be composted.

Mobs

Minecraft:Piglins

• Now are angered if they hear a player breaking a chest or block of gold (or similar), even when out of their line of sight.
• No longer have unique helmet textures.

Minecraft:Striders

• Are now more common.

Minecraft:Withers

• Can now be built sideways even at Y=0 and Y=1.

Minecraft:Zombified piglins

• Now drop experience orbs and rare drops if killed by entity while in angered state.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

World generation

Minecraft:Bastion remnants

• A few sub-structures that would not generate previously now generate.
  • This includes bastion/hoglin_stable/large_stables/inner_4 and bastion/hoglin_stable/large_stables/outer_4.
• A few unused sub-structures have been removed.
  • This includes bastion/hoglin_stable/stairs/stairs_0_mirrored, bastion/hoglin_stable/stairs/stairs_2, and bastion/hoglin_stable/stairs/stairs_3.
• Removed the emerald block from bastion/treasure/big_air_full.

Minecraft:Nether fortresses

• Are now slightly more common.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Advancements

• The advancement "Oh Shiny" no longer unlocks if the distracted piglin is a baby. The advancement also does not unlock if the player uses Minecraft:gold nuggets, since they were removed from the piglin_loved item tag.

Debug messages

• Changed the description of the F3+N shortcut in the F3+Q output from "F3 + N = Cycle creative <-> spectator" to "F3 + N = Cycle previous gamemode <-> spectator".

Minecraft:Dual wield

• Item can be swapped into the off-hand from any open inventory, instead from only the hotbar.

General

Chat

• Changed the capitalization of "Click to copy to Clipboard" to "Click to Copy to Clipboard".

Credits

• Updated the credits.

Minecraft:Entities

• The neutral mob NBT tag AngryAt is now used when the mob is angry at any entity, not just players.

Options

• The localization key for the offhand keybinding was changed from key.swapHands to key.swapOffhand.
• Changed the description of fancy graphics to "'Fancy' graphics balances performance and quality for the majority of machines. [New line] Weather, clouds and particles may not appear behind translucent blocks or water."
  • Was previously "'Fancy' graphics balances performance and quality for the majority of machines."
• Changed the description of fabulous graphics to "'Fabulous' graphics uses screen shaders for drawing weather, clouds and particles behind translucent blocks and water. [New line] This may severely impact performance for portable devices and 4K displays."
  • Was previously "'Fabulous' graphics enables screen shaders to draw translucent objects per-pixel. [New line] This may severely impact performance for portable devices and 4k displays."
• Changed the description of the offhand swap key in the controls section from "Swap Item In Hands" to "Swap Item With Offhand".

Region files

• Region files are now only opened in synchronous mode on Windows, not on other operating systems. Status of this feature can be manually controlled by following options:
  • For dedicated servers: sync-chunk-writes within server.properties.
  • For clients: syncChunkWrites within options.txt.

Minecraft:Splashes

• The splash "Sexy!" was changed to "Moderately attractive!"
  • At the time of this snapshot's release, this change had no effect as the splashes relating to the COVID-19 pandemic were still in place.

Minecraft:Tags

• Removed gold nuggets from the piglin_loved item tag.
• The sand block tag is now used to determine whether turtle eggs can hatch on a block.

World creation

• The game now attempts to recover worlds broken in Minecraft:1.16-pre1.
• A loading screen is now displayed while the game is reading world data for loading, creating or re-creating a world.
• Gamerule descriptions now span multiple lines if needed on the game rules screen.
• Changed the capitalization of some strings.
  • "Create backup and load" was changed to "Create Backup and Load".
  • "Safe mode" was changed to "Safe Mode".
  • "Edit game rules" was changed to "Edit Game Rules".
  • "Import settings" was changed to "Import Settings".
  • "Floating islands" was changed to "Floating Islands".
  • "Go back" was changed to "Go Back".
  • "Reset to default" was changed to "Reset to Default".

Raid data files

• Rename the data file for the Nether from raids_nether.dat to raids.dat.
  • However, the game neither moves the old file nor imports data from the old file.

Trivia

• 1.16-pre3 held the record for the largest number of bug fixes in a single pre-release, as well as in any development version, at 131. However, this was beaten by Minecraft:24w33a.