Minecraft:Java Edition 16w38a

16w38a is the sixth Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.11, released on September 20, 2016.<ref name="blogpost_16w38a">Template:Mojangsnap</ref>

Additions

Gameplay

Minecraft:Gamerules

• doWeatherCycle
  • Determines whether the weather changes.
  • Defaults to true.

• maxEntityCramming
  • Defaults to 24.
  • If one entity tries to push more than 24 other entities, it starts to suffocate. (Note that pushing entities like minecarts also count towards this, although minecarts don't suffocate, mobs or players who push one, do suffocate)
    • The death message is (playername) suffocated in a wall.
  • Setting to 0 disables the rule.
  • Affects mobs and players only.

Changes

Blocks

Template:Animate Cobblestone Walls and Mossy Cobblestone Walls

• Are now in the "Decoration Blocks" tab in the Minecraft:Creative inventory rather than the "Building Blocks" tab.

width=32x32 Minecraft:Farmland

• Using Template:Control gives the player farmland itself instead of Minecraft:dirt.

Command format

Minecraft:Target selectors

• Invalid selectors (such as @e[Type=creeper] instead of @e[type=creeper], @e[asdf] or @e[foo=nonexistent]) now generate an error instead of being silently ignored.
• Removed implicit target selectors (such as @e[167,28,454]).

Gameplay

Minecraft:Chat

• Messages can now be 256 characters long instead of 100.

Minecraft:Fishing

• Minecraft:Ink sacs are now caught in stacks of 10 with a weight of 1, rather than in stacks of 1 with a weight of 10.

General

Minecraft:Sounds

• Walking underwater no longer produces a step sound for the block the player is walking on.<ref group=note name=watersound>It is not known if this was intended or not, but it was later re-added in Minecraft:23w18a.</ref>

Items

width=32x32 Minecraft:Potions

• Potions that have missing or invalid potion-effect tags now default to the uncraftable potion, which now has no glint, and is now magenta in color.
  • This also applies to lingering potions, splash potions and tipped arrows.
  • Due to the water bottle without tags being changed to uncraftable potion, the brewing icon is also changed to uncraftable potion in the Creative inventory.

width=32x32 Minecraft:Elytra

• Visible when equipped on Minecraft:skeletons, Minecraft:zombies and Minecraft:armor stands.

Mobs

Template:Animate Minecraft:Guardians and Elder Guardians

• Their common drop of Minecraft:raw fish will now be Minecraft:cooked fish if they die while on fire.
  • Their rare drops from player kills, which match Minecraft:fishing loot and are sometimes fish, are unaffected.

width=43x43 Minecraft:Rabbits

• Their Minecraft:raw rabbit drop is now affected by the Minecraft:Looting enchantment.

Template:Animate Skeleton Horses and Zombie Horses

• Their Minecraft:bone and Minecraft:rotten flesh drops (respectively) now yield 0–2, and are now affected by Looting.

Trivia

• 16w38a was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.