Minecraft:Java Edition 23w07a

23w07a is the fifth and final Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.19.4, released on February 15, 2023,<ref>Template:Snap</ref> which adds the Minecraft:sniffer, Minecraft:cherry groves, and Minecraft:archaeology under experimental features, and fixes bugs.

Additions

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Interaction

• A new type of entity that records Template:Ctrl and Template:Ctrl. Interactions (interaction) are invisible and of a custom size, with following fields:
  • width: Width of the entity's bounding box (default is 1).
  • height: Height of the entity's bounding box (default is 1).
  • attack: An action object, records the last attack action on the entity.
  • interaction: An action object, records the last interaction action on the entity.
  • response: Boolean specifying if interacting should trigger a response (arm swing, sound effects, etc - default false).
• Introduced action object accordingly. When an action is stored, it always has two fields:
  • player: The UUID (in standard integer array format) of the player performing the action.
  • timestamp: The timestamp of the game tick when the event happened (stored as a long).
• This made following command usage possible:
  • Execute command as the last player who attacked the entity when using Template:Cmd.
  • Execute command as the last player who interacted with the entity when using Template:Cmd.
• Advancement triggers also got triggered, when:
  • Interacting with an interaction entity: player_interacted_with_entity.
  • Attacking an interaction entity: player_hurt_entity.

General

Minecraft:Recipe

• Added a new recipe serializer crafting_decorated_pot for the new Minecraft:decorated pot recipe.
• Added show_notification field to recipes.
  • Accepts a boolean which determines if a notification is shown when unlocking this recipe.
  • Defaults to true if isn't specified.

Minecraft:Tags

• Added following item tags:
  • #axes: contains Template:Cd.
  • #breaks_decorated_pots: contains Template:Cd.
  • #hoes: contains Template:Cd.
  • #pickaxes: contains Template:Cd.
  • #shovels: contains Template:Cd.
  • #swords: contains Template:Cd.
  • #tools: contains Template:Cd.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Jukebox

• Now emits a redstone signal of 15 while playing a Minecraft:music disc.
• Minecraft:Droppers and Minecraft:hoppers can now interact with it.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Horse breeding

• When breeding horses and the like, the babies' speed, jump height and health are no longer biased toward the average.
  • This change is intended to make horse breeding a viable way of getting great horses, if a player starts with good parents and puts in enough time and Minecraft:golden carrots.

General

Minecraft:Realms

• Updated the "Realms" screen to be more in line with the "Singleplayer" and "Multiplayer" screens.

Minecraft:Recipe

• The Minecraft:crafting table recipe is unlocked immediately on creating a new world.
• The Minecraft:crossbow and Minecraft:soul campfire recipes are no longer unlocked by Minecraft:sticks.

Minecraft:Resource pack

• The vanilla resource pack en_us language file is now sorted alphanumerically by key.

Experimental

These additions and changes only take effect when the 1.20 experimental data pack is enabled.

Additions

Blocks

File:Cherry Leaves (fast) JE1.png Minecraft:Cherry leaves

• A new type of leaves.
• Have pink particles falling underneath.

File:Stripped Cherry Log JE1 BE1.png File:Cherry Log JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cherry log

• A new type of log, as well as a stripped variant.
• Can be used to craft cherry woods and planks.
• The stripped variant can be used to craft Minecraft:cherry hanging sign.

File:Cherry Planks JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cherry planks

• A new type of plank.
• Can be used to craft cherry File:Cherry Button JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:buttons, File:Cherry Door JE1.png Minecraft:doors, File:Cherry Fence (EW) JE1.png Minecraft:fences, File:Cherry Fence Gate JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:fence gates, File:Cherry Pressure Plate JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:pressure plates, File:Cherry Sign (0) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:signs, File:Cherry Slab JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:slabs, File:Cherry Stairs JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:stairs, and File:Cherry Trapdoor JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:trapdoors.

File:Cherry Sapling JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cherry sapling

• A new type of sapling.
• Can be placed in Minecraft:flower pots.

File:Stripped Cherry Wood JE1 BE1.png File:Cherry Wood JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cherry wood

• A new type of wood, as well as a stripped variant.
• Can be used to craft cherry planks.

File:Decorated Pot (N) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Decorated pot

• Can be crafted with any 4 pottery shards or Minecraft:brick items, shaped rhombic.
  • The type of crafting material decides which picture would occur on each side of the crafted decorated pot.
    • The possible pictures are decided by the type of pottery shard which is used to craft.
    • The brick item doesn't have a picture.
• Very fragile, and easy to break.
  • Break apart into its crafting materials when broken using any block-breaking tool.
  • Drop itself when broken using an empty hand or a block-breaking tool with Minecraft:Silk Touch, or when moved by Minecraft:pistons.

File:Pink Petals 3 (N) JE1.png Minecraft:Pink petals

• A new type of a flower, which generates naturally in cherry groves.
• Renewable when applying a bone meal to an existing one or to the ground of cherry groves.
• Similar to Minecraft:sea pickle, can be placed up to 4 in one dirt-related block.
• Can be placed directionally.
• Can be crafted into a Minecraft:pink dye.

File:Suspicious Sand JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Suspicious sand

• Resembles sand, but rougher.
• Affected by gravity, vanishes when landing.
• Drops nothing when mined or moved, even if mining with Minecraft:Silk Touch.
• Generates naturally in Minecraft:desert pyramids and Minecraft:desert wells, with different archaeological loot tables.
• Brushing the suspicious sand with a brush extracts objects.
  • Has 4 stages of extracting, recovers gradually when stop brushing.
  • Turns to regular sand when extraction is done.
  • An item can be extracted only from suspicious sand with a valid archaeological loot table.

File:Torchflower JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Torchflower

• A new type of flower, grows from Minecraft:torchflower seeds after 2 stages (3 stages in total).
• Doesn't emit light.
• If grown fully, it drops itself only when broken, otherwise drop the seed.
• Can be crafted into an Minecraft:orange dye.
• Can be planted in a Minecraft:flower pot.

Items

File:Brush JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Brush

• A tool which can be used to brush things.
• Can be crafted with 3 Minecraft:string and 2 Minecraft:sticks, like the shape of crafting Minecraft:pickaxes.
• Consumes 1 durability when extracting an item from a suspicious sand successfully.
• Does nothing when brushing anything other than suspicious sand.

File:Archer Pottery Sherd JE1.png File:Arms Up Pottery Sherd JE1 BE2.png File:Prize Pottery Sherd JE1 BE2.png File:Skull Pottery Sherd JE1 BE2.png Minecraft:Pottery shards

• Have pictures on them.
• Cannot be crafted and are only found by brushing suspicious sand.

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

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

File:Torchflower Seeds JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Torchflower seeds

• A new type of seed, which can be planted on Minecraft:farmland and grows into a torchflower.
• Can only be obtained if a sniffer it digs up.

Mobs

File:Sniffer JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Sniffers

• A new passive friendly mob, which is the mob vote winner of Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2022, and considered as the first "ancient" mob.
• Very large (2×2 full blocks).
• Have Template:Hp points of health.
• Cannot spawn naturally.
• Cannot be tempted or tamed.
• Often sniff in the air and occasionally dig for torchflower seeds.
  • The digging has a cooldown of 8 minutes.
  • The last 20 dug blocks are remembered with a sniffer_explored_positions memory, and are not eligible for digging again.
• Can be bred with torchflower seeds.
• Drop Minecraft:moss block when killed.

Non-mob entities

File:Cherry Boat JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cherry boat

• A new type of boat, crafted with cherry planks.

File:Cherry Boat with Chest JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cherry boat with chest

• A new type of boat with chest, crafted with a cherry boat and a chest.

World generation

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• A new type of tree which can be grown from cherry saplings.
• Occasionally generated with a Minecraft:bee nest.
• Tree trunks fork or bend high up, and are then covered up in large, round canopies of cherry leaves.

Template:BiomeLink

• A new biome which contains pretty cherry blossom trees.
• Located in the Minecraft:mountains, like Minecraft:meadows.
• Minecraft:Sheep, Minecraft:donkeys, and Minecraft:bees can spawn here.

General

Particles

• Added Template:Cd, which appear underneath the cherry leaves.

Minecraft:Tags

• Added following block tags:
  • #cherry_logs: contains Template:Cd.
  • #sniffer_diggable_block: contains Template:Cd.
• Added following item tags:
  • #cherry_logs: contains Template:Cd.
  • #decorated_pot_shards: contains Template:Cd.
  • #sniffer_food: contains torchflower_seeds.

Changes

World generation

Minecraft:Desert pyramid

• Now includes a new room filled with Minecraft:sand and Minecraft:suspicious sand.
  • Some sand appear exposed, and can be found at the same height as Minecraft:blue terracotta.

Minecraft:Desert well

• Now includes suspicious sand underwater.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Advancement

• The cherry grove is now required to be visited for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.

General

Minecraft:Tags

• Added cherry_boat into the #boats item tag.
• Added cherry_button into the #wooden_buttons block and item tags.
• Added cherry_chest_boat into the #chest_boats item tag.
• Added cherry_door into the #wooden_doors block and item tags.
• Added cherry_fence_gate into the #fence_gates block and item tags.
• Added cherry_fence into the #wooden_fences block and item tags.
• Added cherry_grove into the #is_mountain biome tag.
• Added cherry_hanging_sign into the #ceiling_hanging_signs block tag and #hanging_signs item tag.
• Added cherry_leaves into the #leaves block tag.
• Added cherry_leaves and pink_petals into the #flowers and #mineable/hoe block tags.
• Added cherry_log into the #overworld_natural_logs block tag.
• Added #cherry_logs into the #logs_that_burn block tag.
• Added cherry_planks into the #planks block and item tags.
• Added cherry_pressure_plate into the #wooden_pressure_plates block and item tags.
• Added cherry_sapling into the #saplings block tag.
• Added cherry_sign into the #standing_signs block tag and #signs item tag.
• Added cherry_slab into the #wooden_slabs block and item tags.
• Added cherry_stairs into the #wooden_stairs block and item tags.
• Added cherry_trapdoor into the #wooden_trapdoors block and item tags.
• Added cherry_wall_hanging_sign into the #wall_hanging_signs block tag.
• Added cherry_wall_sign into the #wall_signs block tag.
• Added pink_petals into the #inside_step_sound_blocks block tag.
• Added suspicious_sand into the #sand block tag.