Minecraft:Java Edition 20w51a

20w51a is the fifth Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.17, released on December 16, 2020, which adds Minecraft:axolotls, a gamerule to control when night is skipped when sleeping, makes changes to the Minecraft:sculk sensor, and fixes bugs.<ref>Template:Snap</ref> This is the final snapshot released in 2020.

Additions

Items

File:Bucket of Axolotl JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Bucket of axolotl

• Obtained by right-clicking on an axolotl while holding a water bucket.

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

• File:Axolotl Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Axolotl spawn egg

Mobs

Template:Animate Minecraft:Axolotls

• Do not spawn naturally.
• Are amphibious.
  • Dry out and start taking damage after 5 minutes of being out of water.
• Can be caught using a Minecraft:water bucket.
• Are passive toward players.
• Can be bred using Minecraft:tropical fish or Minecraft:buckets of tropical fish.
• Come in five different colors: yellow, brown, white, pink, and blue.
  • Blue axolotls are very rare, with a Template:Frac chance of spawning.
• May play dead when damaged, receiving Minecraft:Regeneration I.
• Attack drowned, guardians, squid and fish.
  • Are always hostile to fish and squid, and hostile to drowned and guardians only when "tempted" by a player holding tropical fish.
• Leashed Axolotl begins walking at an exaggeratedly fast speed.

Command format

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• Controls what percentage of players must sleep to skip the night.
• When set to 0 or a negative value, a single player is sufficient to skip the night, and night is skipped immediately without the falling asleep transition.
• When set over 100, the night cannot be skipped.
• Set to 100 by default.

General

Minecraft:Tags

• Added the axolotl_tempt_items item tag.
  • Contains the Minecraft:tropical fish item and Minecraft:bucket of tropical fish.
  • Items in this tag can be used to tempt axolotls.
• Added the occludes_vibration_signals item tag.
  • Contains the wool item tag.
  • As thrown entities, items in this tag do not trigger vibrations.
• Added the axolotl_always_hostiles entity type tag.
  • Contains tropical fish, pufferfish, salmon, cod, and squid.
  • Axolotls are always hostile toward entities in this tag.
• Added the axolotl_tempted_hostiles entity type tag.
  • Contains drowned and guardians.
  • Axolotls are hostile toward entities in this tag if they have been tempted.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Sculk sensor

• "Eating Start" has been removed as an event.
• Walking on wool no longer causes vibrations.
• Throwing wool as an item on the ground no longer causes vibrations.
• Sculk sensors are now silent while waterlogged.

Items

Minecraft:Bundles

• When destroyed as an entity, it drops the items it currently has.
• Changed interface:
  • Now shows two empty slots when not full, and a X when full.
  • The first item in a bundle is now highlighted.

Minecraft:Shulker boxes

• Like bundles, they drop their items when destroyed as entities.

General

Minecraft:Resource packs

• Minecraft:Bundle icons are now a separate texture.

Minecraft:Tags

• Removed the eating_start game event from the vibrations game event tag.

Trivia

• This snapshot was released on the third latest calendar out of all snapshots on December 16, beaten by Minecraft:23w51a/Minecraft:23w51b on December 18 and Minecraft:15w51a/Minecraft:15w51b on December 17.

Gallery

• All of the Axolotl types that were added in this snapshot.
  All of the Axolotl types that were added in this snapshot.