Minecraft:Java Edition 1.16

1.16, the release of the Minecraft:Nether Update, is a major update to Template:Editions announced at Minecraft:MINECON Live 2019<ref name="MINECON article">Template:Mcnet</ref> and released on June 23, 2020.<ref name=nether-release>Template:Mcnet</ref> This update overhauls Minecraft:the Nether by adding four new biomes, four new mobs (the Minecraft:piglin, Minecraft:hoglin, Minecraft:zoglin, and Minecraft:strider), and a multitude of new blocks, including many variants of Minecraft:blackstone as well as the Minecraft:respawn anchor used to set the player's spawnpoint in the Nether. It also adds a new Minecraft:netherite tier of equipment, obtained through Minecraft:ancient debris found rarely throughout the Nether.

1.16 was reuploaded around 6 hours after release to attempt to fix an issue with the Realms menu which prevented clients from viewing and connecting to Realms (Template:Bug). The changes were only to the client, and the server jar files are functionally identical.<ref>Template:Reddit</ref> This hotfix was unsuccessful,<ref>Template:Bug</ref> and 1.16.1 was released the next day.

Additions

Blocks

File:Ancient Debris JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Ancient debris

• Can be found throughout Minecraft:the Nether at any altitude, though it is much more common at lower altitudes (Y-levels 8–22).
• Can be refined into a Minecraft:netherite scrap by smelting in a Minecraft:furnace or Minecraft:blast furnace.
• Same blast resistance as Minecraft:obsidian, but is movable with Minecraft:pistons.
• Inventory item floats on Minecraft:lava.
• Cannot burn in Minecraft:lava or Minecraft:fire.
• A diamond or netherite Minecraft:pickaxe is required to mine it.
• Always spawns covered by lava and/or blocks on all sides.

File:Basalt (UD) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Basalt

• Makes up Minecraft:basalt pillars.
• Generates in Minecraft:soul sand valleys and Minecraft:basalt deltas.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to Minecraft:logs.
• Has a polished variant, obtained through the Minecraft:stonecutter or crafted from in a 2×2 grid, similar to other polished blocks.
• Generates whenever Minecraft:lava touches Minecraft:blue ice while flowing over Minecraft:soul soil.

File:Blackstones.jpg

All blackstone block variants.

File:Blackstone JE3 BE2.png Minecraft:Blackstone

• Generates in Minecraft:basalt deltas.
• Has a regular, polished, chiseled polished, polished brick and cracked polished brick variant.
• Has regular, polished and polished brick slab, stair, and wall variants.
• Has polished button and pressure plate variants.
  • Work like their stone counterparts.
• Can be used as an alternative in place of cobblestone for crafting Minecraft:furnaces and stone tools.

File:Block of Netherite JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Block of netherite

• Can be Minecraft:crafted with 9 Minecraft:netherite ingots.
• Can be used as a Minecraft:beacon base.
• Minecraft:Item entity floats on Minecraft:lava.
• Cannot Minecraft:burn in Minecraft:lava or Minecraft:fire.
• Same Minecraft:blast resistance as Minecraft:obsidian, but is movable with Minecraft:pistons.

File:Chain (UD) JE1 BE1.png Chain

• Generates in Minecraft:bastion remnants.
• Crafted using 2 iron nuggets and 1 iron ingot in a vertical line formation.

File:Chiseled Nether Bricks JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Chiseled Nether bricks

• New variant of Minecraft:Nether bricks.
• Crafted from 2 Nether brick slabs.

File:Cracked Nether Bricks JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cracked Nether bricks

• New variant of Minecraft:Nether bricks.
• Obtained by smelting Nether bricks in a furnace.

Template:Animate Crimson and warped fungi

• Generate in crimson and Minecraft:warped forests.
• Can be placed on Minecraft:dirt, Minecraft:coarse dirt, Minecraft:farmland, Minecraft:podzol, Minecraft:nylium, Minecraft:soul soil, and Minecraft:grass blocks, and can also be placed in Minecraft:flower pots.
• Minecraft:Bone meal can be used on Minecraft:Nether fungi to grow it into the respective Minecraft:huge fungi when placed on the same type of Minecraft:nylium.
• Unlike Minecraft:mushrooms, fungi do not spread over time.
• Can be used in Minecraft:composters.

Template:Animate Crimson and warped nylium

• Resemble Minecraft:grass blocks.
• Can be spread to Minecraft:netherrack by using Minecraft:bone meal on a netherrack block next to a nylium block.
• Can be right-clicked with bone meal to generate Minecraft:crimson roots, Minecraft:warped roots, Minecraft:Nether sprouts, and Minecraft:Nether fungi.

Template:Animate Crimson and warped planks

• Wooden planks that do not burn.
• Crafted from the respective stem.
• Can be used to craft respective Minecraft:slabs, Minecraft:stairs, Minecraft:fences, Minecraft:fence gates, Minecraft:pressure plates, Minecraft:signs, Minecraft:buttons, Minecraft:doors, and Minecraft:trapdoors.
• Cannot be used as Minecraft:furnace Minecraft:fuel, since they do not burn.

Template:Animate Crimson and Minecraft:warped roots

• Foliage that generates in both crimson and Minecraft:warped forest biomes, as well as Minecraft:soul sand valleys.
• Can be placed into Minecraft:flower pots.
• Can be used in Minecraft:composters.

Template:Animate Crimson and warped stems

• Minecraft:Blocks that comprise the Minecraft:trunks of Minecraft:huge fungi.
• Have animated textures.
• Have a top texture similar to regular Minecraft:log blocks.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to Minecraft:logs.
• Does not Minecraft:burn.
• Have respective stripped variants.

File:Crying Obsidian JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Crying obsidian

• File:Crying obsidian.png

  When obsidian cries, its tears stay on the ground for a while.

  Used to craft Minecraft:respawn anchors.
• Can be found in Minecraft:ruined portals and Minecraft:bastion remnant loot chests.
• Can be obtained by Minecraft:bartering with Minecraft:piglins.
• Has a Minecraft:light level of 10.
• Emits purple Minecraft:particles, resembling tears.
• Has the same Minecraft:blast resistance as Minecraft:obsidian.
• Programmer Art texture is the old texture from 2011.

File:Gilded Blackstone JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Gilded blackstone

• A variant of gold ore found in Minecraft:bastion remnants.
• Variant of Minecraft:blackstone.
• It has a chance to drop 2–5 golden nuggets when mined with a pickaxe.
  • If does not drop gold nuggets, then it drops itself.
  • As with the drop chance of Minecraft:flint from Minecraft:gravel, the Minecraft:Fortune enchantment does not increase the amount dropped, but increases the chance that gold nuggets drop.
    • Pickaxe without Fortune – 10% chance to drop 2–5 gold nuggets.
    • Pickaxe with Fortune I – 14.29% (¹⁄₇) chance to drop 2–5 gold nuggets.
    • Pickaxe with Fortune II – 25% chance to drop 2–5 gold nuggets.
    • Pickaxe with Fortune III – 100% chance to drop 2–5 gold nuggets.
  • Silk Touch – always drops the block itself.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Hyphae

• A variant of stems with the bark on all 6 sides.
• Also has a stripped variant.

File:Lodestone JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Lodestone

• Crafted with a Minecraft:netherite ingot and Minecraft:chiseled stone bricks.
• Template:Control a Minecraft:compass on one creates a lodestone compass, which points to that lodestone block.
• Its functionality applies in all dimensions.

File:Nether Gold Ore JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Nether gold ore

• A variant of Minecraft:gold ore found in Minecraft:the Nether.
• Drops 2–6 Minecraft:gold nuggets when mined.
  • This is affected by Minecraft:Fortune the same way other ores are, for a maximum possible drop of 24 golden nuggets with Minecraft:Fortune III.
  • Nether gold ore, obtained with Minecraft:Silk Touch, can still be smelted into a single Minecraft:gold ingot.
• Can be mined with any pickaxe.
• Also drops Minecraft:experience orbs.

File:Nether Sprouts JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Nether sprouts

• Foliage that generates in Minecraft:warped forests.
• Resembles Minecraft:grass from the Overworld.
• Requires Minecraft:shears to be obtained.
• Can be used in Minecraft:composters.

File:Quartz Bricks JE2.png Minecraft:Quartz bricks

• Crafted from four Minecraft:blocks of quartz.
• Used as a decorative block.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Respawn anchor

• Crafted with 6 Minecraft:crying obsidian and 3 Minecraft:glowstone.
• Can be used to set spawn points in Minecraft:the Nether, using glowstone as charges.
• A maximum of 4 charges can be set at once, and one charge is depleted with each respawn.
  • Minecraft:Redstone comparators can track how much it is charged.
• Emits a slight amount of light, which gets stronger for each charge added.
• Using it in Minecraft:the End or the Minecraft:Overworld causes it to explode and set fire to surrounding blocks similar to Minecraft:beds in the Nether or the End.
• Can be charged using a dispenser.
• The portal animation on the top texture is inverted from the Nether portal texture.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
• Has an advancement called Minecraft:Not Quite "Nine" Lives. To complete, a Minecraft:respawn anchor must be charged to its maximum (four).

File:Shroomlight JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Shroomlight

• Emits a light level of 15, similarly to Minecraft:glowstone.
• Can be mined with any Minecraft:tool, but Minecraft:hoes are the most effective.
• Generate as a part of Minecraft:huge fungi.
• Can be used in Minecraft:composters.

File:Soul Campfire JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Soul campfire

• Soul variant of the normal campfire.
• Has a blue flame instead of orange.
• Gives off a light level of 10, with the normal campfire giving off 15.
• Hay bales can increase smoke particle height.
• Deals double damage compared to the normal Minecraft:campfire.
• Crafted with soul sand or soul soil instead of coal.
• Piglins are repelled by soul campfires.

File:Soul Fire JE1.gif Minecraft:Soul fire

• Blue variant of Minecraft:fire.
• Fire lit on Minecraft:soul soil or Minecraft:soul sand turns into soul fire regardless of dimension.
  • Burns forever, similarly to Minecraft:netherrack and Minecraft:magma blocks.
• Generates naturally in the Minecraft:soul sand valley biome in Minecraft:the Nether.
• Deals damage at a rate of Template:Hp per second as opposed to the Template:Hp per second of regular fire.
• Does not extinguish when in the rain.<ref>Template:Bug resolved as "Works As Intended"</ref>

File:Soul Lantern.png Minecraft:Soul lantern

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted similarly to a normal Minecraft:lantern, using a Minecraft:soul torch instead of a normal Minecraft:torch.
• Has an animated texture, just like its Overworld counterpart.

File:Soul Torch.gif Minecraft:Soul torch

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted similarly to a normal torch, with soul soil or soul sand being placed under the stick.
• Gives off a lower light level than a normal torch.

File:Soul Soil JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Soul soil

• Generates in the Minecraft:soul sand valley, alongside conventional Minecraft:soul sand.
• Minecraft:Fire lit on soul soil is blue, and is called Minecraft:soul fire.
• The Minecraft:player does not sink and is not slowed when walking in soul soil.
• Considered a full Minecraft:block, unlike soul sand.
• Can be used to summon the Minecraft:wither.
• Works with the newly-added Soul Speed enchantment.

File:Target JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Target

• Minecraft:Redstone component that can be activated by shooting Minecraft:projectiles into it.
  • Signal is stronger depending on how close the projectile is to the center of the block. The signal strength goes up to 15.
• Can be crafted using a Minecraft:hay bale and 4 Minecraft:redstone dust.
• Can be mined with any Minecraft:tool, but Minecraft:hoes are the most effective.
• Does not need a Minecraft:redstone comparator to send a signal strength.

File:Twisting Vines JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Twisting vines

• Generates in the Minecraft:warped forest.
• Is placed on top of a block and grows upward, like kelp.
• Can be climbed, like normal Minecraft:vines.
• Growth can be accelerated with Minecraft:bone meal.
• Can be used in Minecraft:composters.

File:Warped Wart Block JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Warped wart block

• A variation of the Minecraft:Nether wart block, but cannot be crafted.
• Generates as a part of huge warped fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the Minecraft:warped nylium in the warped forest biome.
• Can be used in Minecraft:composters.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Weeping vines

• Generates in the Minecraft:crimson forest.
• Is placed on the bottom of a block and grows downward.
• Can be climbed, like other Minecraft:vines.
• Growth can be accelerated with Minecraft:bone meal.
• Can be used in Minecraft:composters.

File:Nether plants.png

The 2 variations of the new nether-themed colored blocks, crimson (right) and warped (left), along with a soul lantern.

Items

File:Lodestone Compass JE2 BE2.gif Minecraft:Lodestone compass

• Created by right-clicking a Minecraft:lodestone with a Minecraft:compass.
  • Points toward that lodestone.
    • Keeps them stacked.
• Entering another dimension other than the one containing the right-clicked lodestone causes the compass to spin uncontrollably, similar to regular compasses in the Nether or the End.

File:Music Disc Pigstep JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Music discs

• Added the "Pigstep" music disc, composed by Minecraft:Lena Raine.
  • Can be found only in Minecraft:bastion remnants.
  • Has a red disc color instead of black.
  • When played in a Minecraft:jukebox, a Minecraft:redstone comparator output produces a signal strength of 13.

File:Netherite Armor JE2.png Minecraft:Netherite armor

• Upgraded using a Minecraft:smithing table with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
• Does not burn in lava or fire, as a dropped item or when worn (its durability does not decrease when the player takes damage from lava) (Minecraft:players equipping netherite armor, however, can still take burning damage).
• Floats in Minecraft:lava.
• Tougher than diamond Minecraft:armor.
• Has higher durability and enchantability than diamond, but not higher enchantability than gold.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Netherite Minecraft:axe, Minecraft:hoe, Minecraft:pickaxe, Minecraft:shovel, and Minecraft:sword

• Upgraded using a smithing table with a Minecraft:netherite ingot and the respective diamond Minecraft:item.
• Does not burn in Minecraft:lava or fire.
• Floats in lava.
• Have higher Minecraft:item durability, mining level, breaking multiplier, and enchantability than diamond, but not higher than gold.
• All items, except the Minecraft:hoe, deal 1 more Minecraft:damage than their diamond counterparts.

File:Netherite Ingot JE1 BE2.png Minecraft:Netherite ingot

• Created with 4 Minecraft:gold ingots and 4 Minecraft:netherite scraps.
• Can be used to upgrade diamond Minecraft:tools and Minecraft:armor in a Minecraft:smithing table.
• Floats in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.

File:Netherite Scrap JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Netherite scrap

• Created by smelting Minecraft:ancient debris in a Minecraft:furnace or Minecraft:blast furnace.
• Used to create Minecraft:netherite ingots.
• Floats in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.

File:Snout banner pattern.png Minecraft:Snout banner pattern

• New pattern for banners, the Snout.
• Used in the Minecraft:loom to apply the Snout pattern to the banner.
• Can be found in Minecraft:bastion remnants.

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

• File:Hoglin Spawn Egg JE2.png Minecraft:Hoglin Spawn Egg
• File:Piglin Spawn Egg JE1.png Minecraft:Piglin Spawn Egg
• File:Strider Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Strider Spawn Egg
• File:Zoglin Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Zoglin Spawn Egg

File:Warped Fungus on a Stick JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Warped fungus on a stick

• Crafted with a Minecraft:fishing rod and Minecraft:warped fungus.
• Can be used to control Minecraft:striders in the same way as a Minecraft:carrot on a stick controls Minecraft:pigs.
  • Right-clicking while riding a Minecraft:strider temporarily boosts its speed, similarly to riding pigs, taking 1 damage whenever the strider's speed is boosted.
• Has 100 durability as opposed to the Minecraft:carrot on a stick's durability of 25.
• Mending and Unbreaking can be applied using an anvil.

Mobs

File:Hoglin JE3.png Minecraft:Hoglins

• Have Template:Hp health.
• Spawn in Minecraft:crimson forests.
• Are a Minecraft:hostile mob.
• Drop Minecraft:raw porkchop and Minecraft:leather.
• Have an adult and baby variant.
• Can be Minecraft:bred with Minecraft:crimson fungi.
• Are hunted by adult Minecraft:piglins.
  • Baby hoglins are not hunted and baby piglins do not hunt hoglins.
• Avoid placed Minecraft:warped fungi, Minecraft:Nether portals, and Minecraft:respawn anchors.
• Convert into Minecraft:zoglins when in the Overworld or the End.
  • Have an IsImmuneToZombification data value that prevents them from zombifying in the Minecraft:Overworld.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Piglins

• Have Template:Hp health.
• Spawn in Minecraft:crimson forests and Minecraft:Nether wastes biomes.
• Randomly spawns with golden Minecraft:sword or Minecraft:crossbow.
• Adults are hostile; babies are Minecraft:passive.
  • Do not attack Minecraft:players wearing at least one piece of golden Minecraft:armor.
  • Adult Minecraft:piglins turn aggressive when a player is mining "gold related" blocks (such as Minecraft:blocks of gold, Minecraft:Nether gold ore, Minecraft:gilded blackstone, etc.) or opening/breaking Minecraft:chests, even if they are wearing gold armor.
• The Minecraft:player can Minecraft:barter with them by right-clicking with gold ingots or dropping them on the ground, which makes them drop at least one item or block in return.
• Occasionally attack adult Minecraft:hoglins.
• Up to 3 baby Minecraft:piglins can ride on the back of baby hoglins.
• Adults attack Minecraft:wither skeletons on sight.
• Avoids Minecraft:soul fire, Minecraft:soul torches, Minecraft:soul lanterns, Minecraft:soul campfires, Minecraft:zombified piglins, and Minecraft:zoglins.
• Can spawn with golden Minecraft:armor.
• Convert to a Minecraft:zombified piglin when in the Minecraft:Overworld or Minecraft:the End.
  • Have an IsImmuneToZombification data value that prevents them from zombifying in the Minecraft:Overworld.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Striders

• Have Template:Hp health.
• A Minecraft:passive mob that spawns in Minecraft:the Nether on lava oceans.
• Drops Minecraft:strings.
• Can be saddled and controlled with a Minecraft:warped fungus on a stick.
• Moves in and out of lava.
  • Shivers and turns blueish-purple when out of lava.
  • Moves significantly slower out of lava.
• Is damaged by Minecraft:water and Minecraft:rain.
• Has a baby variant.
• Can be bred using Minecraft:warped fungi.
• Adults can spawn with baby striders riding them.
• Can spawn with Minecraft:zombified piglins riding them.
  • If they spawn with a zombified piglin, they also have a saddle equipped.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Zoglins

• Have Template:Hp health.
• A zombified variant of the hoglin.
• Created when a hoglin is brought into the Overworld.
• Unlike hoglins, they cannot be bred or fed, and they do not flee from Minecraft:warped fungi.
• Attack most mobs on sight, except for Minecraft:creepers, Minecraft:ghasts, and other zoglins.
• Drops Minecraft:rotten flesh.
• Takes more damage with Smite, as it is considered an undead mob.

World generation

Minecraft:Biomes

• File:BiomeSprite basalt-deltas.png Minecraft:Basalt deltas
  • A volcanic biome in the Nether. Filled with pillars of Minecraft:basalt and large areas of Minecraft:blackstone. The air is filled with a light gray ash-like particle.
  • Minecraft:Ghasts, Minecraft:magma cubes, and Minecraft:striders can spawn here.

• File:BiomeSprite crimson-forest.png Minecraft:Crimson forests
  • A dense forest with Minecraft:huge crimson fungi. Minecraft:Nether wart blocks and Minecraft:Nether fungi are found in patches on the ground and Minecraft:weeping vines are found under the trees and Nether wart “stalactites”. Fog effects are similar to the Minecraft:Nether wastes biome.
  • Minecraft:Zombified piglins, Minecraft:piglins, and Minecraft:hoglins can spawn here.

• File:BiomeSprite soul-sand-valley.png Minecraft:Soul sand valleys
  • A vast grotto composed of uncovered Minecraft:Nether fossils, Minecraft:soul sand, Minecraft:soul soil, large pillars made of Minecraft:basalt, blue fog, and Minecraft:soul fire.
  • Minecraft:Skeletons, Minecraft:ghasts, and Minecraft:endermen can spawn here.

• File:BiomeSprite warped-forest.png Minecraft:Warped forests
  • A blue color variation of the Minecraft:crimson forest, but with somewhat different vegetation and blue particles and fog effects.
  • Minecraft:Endermen and Minecraft:striders can spawn here.

Minecraft:Structures

• File:Basalt Pillar.png Minecraft:Basalt pillars
  • Floor to ceiling pillars of Minecraft:basalt that generate in Minecraft:soul sand valleys.

• Template:Animate Minecraft:Bastion remnants
  • Generate in all Nether biomes, except Minecraft:basalt deltas.
  • Four types of structures generate; Bridge, Hoglin Stable, Housing Units, and Treasure Room.
  • Are the only source of the "Pigstep" music disc.
  • Minecraft:Piglins and Minecraft:hoglins spawn here.
  • Minecraft:Monster spawners that spawn Minecraft:magma cubes can be found in bastion remnants.
  • Piglins have more gold armor parts if spawn here.

• Template:Animate Minecraft:Huge crimson fungi and Minecraft:huge warped fungi
  • New structures resembling trees found in crimson and warped forests, respectively. They resemble Minecraft:trees in the Overworld.
  • Made of crimson and warped stem blocks as well as Minecraft:Nether wart blocks and Minecraft:warped wart blocks. Resembles Minecraft:leaves in Overworld.
  • Can be grown from their respective Minecraft:Nether fungi.

• File:Nether fossil 1.png Minecraft:Nether fossils
  • New fossil structures have been added for the Minecraft:soul sand valley.
    • These fossils are different from the Overworld fossils and generate random pieces of Minecraft:basalt instead of Minecraft:coal ore.

• Template:Animate Minecraft:Ruined portals
  • Shattered remains of Minecraft:Nether portals.
  • Generate in both Minecraft:the Nether and the Minecraft:Overworld.
  • Can be buried underground or underwater.
  • A loot chest can be found beside the portal.

Command format

Template:Cmd

• Used to get, set, or modify Minecraft:attributes.
• Possible syntax: Parameters:
  • Template:Cd – get total value of attribute
  • Template:Cd – sets base value
  • Template:Cd – get base value
  • Template:Cd – adds modifier (fails if modifier is already present)
  • Template:Cd – removes modifier
  • Template:Cd – get value of modifier
  • Template:Cd – single entity (note: only players, armor stands and mobs have attributes)
  • Template:Cd – name of attribute (like Template:Cd)
  • Template:Cd – string (in optional quotes) describing human-readable name of modifier
  • Template:Cd – floating point value (note: Certain attributes have limits on final value, so the change might not be noticeable)

Template:Cmd

• Used to locate specific Minecraft:biomes.

Template:Cmd

• Makes angered neutral mobs stop being angry when the targeted player dies nearby.
• Enabled by default.

Template:Cmd

• Makes angered neutral mobs attack any nearby player, not just the player that angered them. Works best if forgiveDeadPlayers is disabled.
• Disabled by default.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Advancements Template:Load advancements

• All of these advancements are located in the "Nether" tab, except "Bullseye", which is located in the "Adventure" tab.
  • "Bullseye", "Cover Me in Debris", and "Hot Tourist Destinations" are challenge advancements, while the others are "normal" advancements.

• Added a Template:Cd property to the Template:Cd trigger which checks if the location is closely above a campfire.
• Added Template:Cd advancement trigger.
  • Template:Cd matches the thrown item which was picked up.
  • Template:Cd matches the entity which picked up the item.
• Added Template:Cd advancement trigger.
  • Template:Cd matches the resource location of the generated loot table.
• Added Template:Cd advancement trigger.
  • Template:Cd matches the location at the center of the block the item was used on.
  • Template:Cd matches the item used on the block.
• Added player_interacted_with_entity advancement trigger.
  • item matches the item which was in the player's hand during interaction.
  • entity matches the entity which was interacted with.

Minecraft:Bartering

• Added new bartering mechanic, through which the player can trade items with piglins.
• Bartering is done by right-clicking piglins with gold ingots or dropping them on the ground, which makes the piglin drop at least one item or block in return, with different blocks and items having varying rarities.

Minecraft:Death messages

• Added a new death message for being killed by another player's firework using a crossbow.
  • "[player] went off with a bang due to a firework fired from [item] by [player/mob]"

Minecraft:Enchanting

• Added the Minecraft:Soul Speed enchantment.
  • A new treasure enchantment obtainable only via Minecraft:bartering with Minecraft:piglins or in Minecraft:chest loot found in Minecraft:bastion remnants.
  • Available only on Minecraft:boots.
  • Allows faster walking on Minecraft:soul sand and Minecraft:soul soil.
    • There is a 4% chance that the durability of the boots goes down for each soul sand or soul soil block stepped on.
  • Cannot be obtained from Minecraft:enchanting tables, Minecraft:fishing, or Minecraft:trading.

Minecraft:Loot tables

• Added a loot table for the Minecraft:Nether portal block.
• Minecraft:Fire now also has a loot table

Minecraft:Materials

• Added seven new material colors:
  • Template:Color Template:Cd
  • Template:Color Template:Cd
  • Template:Color Template:Cd
  • Template:Color Template:Cd
  • Template:Color Template:Cd
  • Template:Color Template:Cd
  • Template:Color Template:Cd

Minecraft:Recipe book

• Added recipe book unlocks for Minecraft:smithing tables.

Sounds

• New unique block Minecraft:sounds for most of the newly added blocks have been added.Template:More info
• Some blocks already in the game such as netherrack, bone blocks, and Nether bricks sounds have been changed.

Minecraft:Statistics

• Added a statistic for distance by Minecraft:strider.

General

Accessibility

• Chat line spacing can now be adjusted.
• A chat delay can be set between 0 (default) and 6 seconds.

Minecraft:Ambience

• Added new ambient sounds to Minecraft:the Nether.
  • Different sounds play in each Nether biome.
• Added 3 new soundtracks to the Nether, composed by Lena Raine: "Rubedo", "Chrysopoeia" and "So Below".
  • "Rubedo" plays in the Minecraft:Nether wastes biome.
  • "Chrysopoeia" plays in the Minecraft:crimson forest biome.
  • "So Below" plays in the Minecraft:soul sand valley and Minecraft:basalt deltas biomes.

Template:Mono arguments

• disableChat
  • Disables the receiving and sending of online chat.
• disableMultiplayer
  • Disables the Minecraft:Multiplayer and Minecraft:Minecraft Realms buttons.

Minecraft:Customized worlds

• Added experimental support for new custom worlds.
• The "Edit World" menu now has an option to export world settings to a JSON file.
  • Previously exported world settings can be imported during world creation.
• Many new parameters are exposed but marked as experimental, meaning they can be used but may later be removed.

File:Datapack Menu.png

The new data pack selection menu.

Minecraft:Data packs

• Added a new "Data Packs" button on the "Create World" screen.
  • Allows the player to select data packs to be enabled in the world.
  • Supports drag-and-drop.
• Dimensions and Minecraft:custom dimension types can now be added and changed by data packs.
• Smithing recipes can now be added and changed by data packs.

Template:Cd

• Now has Template:Cd properties, which match the vehicle or the entity targeted by a mob.

Minecraft:Game mode toggling

• Added quick game mode switching functionality using the Template:Key debug key.
  • Hold Template:Key and press Template:Key to open the menu. Pressing Template:Key or using the mouse cycles the game mode. Release Template:Key to apply.
  • The last game mode is remembered and is the first selected option, so it is possible to quickly toggle between two game modes with a single press of Template:Key.
  • Template:Key now toggles between Spectator mode and the previous game of the player.

Graphics

• Added new "Fabulous!" graphics option
  • Uses per-pixel blending layers for some transparent elements.

Minecraft:Options

• Added an "Entity Distance" scale option ranging from 50% to 500%.
  • Sets the distance at which Minecraft:mobs render into the frame.

Minecraft:Particles

• Added Template:Cd particles.
• Added three particles for Minecraft:crying obsidian: Template:Cd.
• Added a new particle type: Template:Cd.
  • Used when walking on Minecraft:soul sand or Minecraft:soul soil when wearing Minecraft:boots with the new Minecraft:Soul Speed enchantment.

Minecraft:Settings

• Added functionality to import/export world settings.

Shaders

• Added assets\minecraft\shaders\post\transparency.json.

Minecraft:Splash

• Added new splashes:
  • This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be!
  • Honey, I grew the bees!
  • Find your claw!
  • Everybody do the Leif!
  • <3 Max & 99 & Ducky!
  • Bushy eyebrows!
  • Edit is a name!
  • From free range developers!
  • Music by Minecraft:Lena Raine!
  • Aww man!
  • #minecraftfarms
  • And my pickaxe!
  • Envision! Create! Share!
  • Fabulous graphics!
  • Also try Minecraft:Minecraft Dungeons!
  • Vanilla!
  • May contain traces of citrus!
  • Minecraft:Zoglin!?

Minecraft:Sound events

• Added a new sound event for Minecraft:foxes teleporting after eating a chorus fruit.

Minecraft:Subtitles

• Added a subtitle for traveling through a Minecraft:Nether portal, "Portal noise fades".
• Added a subtitle for activating a Nether portal, "Portal noise intensifies".
• Added a subtitle for Minecraft:cat purring, "Cat purrs".
• Added a subtitle for Minecraft:donkey eating, "Donkey eats".
• Added a subtitle for Minecraft:fox teleporting, "Fox teleports".
• Added subtitles for Minecraft:mules neighing and eating; "Mule neighs" and "Mule eats", respectively.
• Added subtitles for Minecraft:parrots imitating Minecraft:hoglins, Minecraft:piglins, and Minecraft:zoglins; "Parrot growls", "Parrot snorts", and "Parrot growls", respectively.
• Added subtitles for Minecraft:zombies attacking and breaking wooden Minecraft:doors; "Door shakes" and "Door breaks", respectively.
• Added subtitles for using Minecraft:cartography tables, Minecraft:looms, and Minecraft:stonecutters; "Map drawn", "Loom used", and "Stonecutter used", respectively.
• Several of these subtitles do not show up in game, but are specified in Template:Mono.

Minecraft:Tags

• Added Minecraft:block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:block of diamond, Minecraft:block of emerald, Minecraft:block of gold, Minecraft:block of iron, and Minecraft:block of netherite.
  • Controls what blocks can be used to build a Minecraft:beacon base.
• Added item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:diamond, Minecraft:emerald, Minecraft:gold ingot, Minecraft:iron ingot, and Minecraft:netherite ingot.
  • Controls what Minecraft:items can be used as payment in a Minecraft:beacon's GUI.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains campfires and soul campfires.
  • Minecraft:Bees, Minecraft:parrots, and Minecraft:turtles view blocks in this tag as dealing fire damage and pathfind accordingly.
  • Campfires use this tag to determine if they are lit or not.
  • Flint and steel & fire charges use this tag to determine if they can light campfires.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Includes Minecraft:ladders, Minecraft:scaffolding, Minecraft:twisting vines, Minecraft:vines, and Minecraft:weeping vines.
  • Used in Minecraft:mob pathfinding and to determine what blocks the player can climb.
• Added item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains all music discs except "Pigstep".
  • Used to determine what music discs creepers can drop.
• Added block and item tags Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:crimson stem, Minecraft:stripped crimson stem, Minecraft:crimson hyphae and Minecraft:stripped crimson hyphae.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains all 8 fence gate types.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:fire and Minecraft:soul fire.
  • Used in defining various fire-related behaviors, such as mob pathfinding and splash water extinguishing.
• Added item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:blackstone and Minecraft:cobblestone.
  • Items in this tag can be used to craft furnaces and unlock the recipe in the recipe book.
• Added block and item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:gold ore and Minecraft:Nether gold ore.
  • Many Minecraft:recipes use this tag.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains container blocks such as (Minecraft:barrels, Minecraft:chests, Minecraft:ender chests, the shulker_boxes block tag, and Minecraft:trapped chests), as well as Minecraft:gilded blackstone, gold blocks (Minecraft:blocks of gold, and the gold_ores block tag).
  • Minecraft:Piglins become hostile toward a player that destroys a block in this tag.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:Nether portals, Minecraft:respawn anchors, and Minecraft:warped fungus.
  • Minecraft:Hoglins avoid blocks in this tag.
• Added entity tag Template:Cd.
  • Includes the arrows tag, dragon fireballs, Minecraft:eggs, Minecraft:fireballs, small fireballs, Minecraft:snowballs, Minecraft:tridents, and wither skulls.
  • Used to determine what Minecraft:entities break Minecraft:chorus fruit when hit.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains the Template:Cd block tag as well as bedrock.
  • Fire burns infinitely on blocks in this tag in the End.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains the Template:Cd block tag.
  • Fire burns infinitely on blocks in this tag in the Nether.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains netherrack and magma blocks.
  • Fire burns infinitely on blocks in this tag in the Overworld.
• Added block and item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains the Template:Cd block and item tags, respectively.
• Added block and item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains crimson and warped stems, hyphae, planks, and other woodblocks, as well as stripped variants where applicable.
  • Items in the item tag cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:crimson nylium and Minecraft:warped nylium.
• Added item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains gold ingots, gold tools, gold armor, golden apples, enchanted golden apples, golden horse armor, golden carrots, blocks of gold, the Template:Cd item tag, gilded blackstone, light weighted pressure plates, bells, glistering melon slices, and clocks.
  • Piglins "love" items in this tag, meaning they actively seek them out. They also view players holding an item in this tag as holding a "loved" item.
  • Used in the "Oh Shiny" advancement.
• Added block and item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:soul campfires, Minecraft:soul fire, Minecraft:soul lanterns, and Minecraft:soul torches.
  • Minecraft:Piglins avoid, and don't attempt to pick up, blocks and items in this tag.
• Added block tag Template:Cd
  • Contains light and heavy weighted pressure plates, as well as the #stone_pressure_plates and #wooden_pressure_plates block tags.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains the #rails block tag.
  • Mobs cannot spawn in blocks in this tag.
• Added block and item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:soul sand and Minecraft:soul soil.
  • Determines what blocks can support Minecraft:soul fire.
  • Items in this tag can be used to craft Minecraft:soul campfires and Minecraft:soul torches and unlock the recipes in the recipe book.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:soul sand and Minecraft:soul soil.
  • The Minecraft:Soul Speed enchantment uses this tag to test for which blocks increase speed.
• Added block tag Template:Cd
  • Contains stone and polished blackstone pressure plates.
• Added item tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:cobblestone and Minecraft:blackstone.
  • Items in this tag can be used to craft stone tools and unlock the recipes in the recipe book.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains lava.
  • Unless a strider is in a block in this tag, it turns purple and shiver.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains the Template:Cd block tag.
  • Blocks in this tag cannot support lanterns or bells on their bottom side even if they would otherwise be able to.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:banners, Minecraft:pressure plates, Minecraft:redstone torches, #signs, Minecraft:soul torches, Minecraft:tripwire, and Minecraft:torches.
  • Controls what non-solid blocks can transform Minecraft:walls into their pillared block state.Template:Info needed
• Added block and item tags Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:stripped warped hyphae, Minecraft:stripped warped stem, Minecraft:warped hyphae and Minecraft:warped stem.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:Nether wart block and Minecraft:warped wart block.
• Added block tag Template:Cd.
  • Contains Minecraft:soul sand and Minecraft:soul soil.
  • Controls what blocks can be used to build a Minecraft:wither.

Text

• Added text which was missing for two Minecraft:death messages and were displaying raw translation strings.<ref>Template:Bug</ref><ref>Template:Bug</ref>

World creation

• Minecraft:Difficulty and Minecraft:game rules can now be changed from the "Create World" screen.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Bamboo saplings

• Renamed to "Bamboo Shoot".

Minecraft:Beacons

• Minecraft:Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon.
• Minecraft:Netherite ingots can be used to select powers from a beacon.

Minecraft:Bells

• Now rings when hit by any type of Minecraft:projectile.
• Now follow the same placement rules as Minecraft:lanterns when being placed on the undersides of blocks. As a result they can now be hung from the bottom of the following blocks:
  • Minecraft:Anvils (all stages)
  • Minecraft:Brewing stands
  • Chains
  • Minecraft:Chests
  • Minecraft:Ender chests
  • Minecraft:End rods (facing up or down)
  • Minecraft:Fences (all types)
  • Minecraft:Flower pots (including potted objects)
  • Minecraft:Glass panes (including stained)
  • Minecraft:Grindstones (ceiling attached)
  • Minecraft:Hoppers (downward facing)
  • Minecraft:Iron bars
  • Mob Minecraft:heads
  • Minecraft:Pistons (sideways facing extended)
  • Minecraft:Trapped chests
  • Minecraft:Walls (all types)

Minecraft:Bone blocks

• Generate as part of Minecraft:Nether fossils in Minecraft:soul sand valleys.
• Now have their own Minecraft:sound, instead of using the default Minecraft:stone sound.

Minecraft:Campfires

• Can now be crafted using crimson and warped stems.
• Now ignites when hit by any burning projectile.
• Now drop food being cooked when put out with a shovel or water bottle.

Minecraft:Composter

• Now allows for Minecraft:Nether fungi, Minecraft:Nether sprouts, Minecraft:Nether wart, Minecraft:Nether wart blocks, Minecraft:crimson roots, Minecraft:warped roots, Minecraft:twisting vines, Minecraft:warped wart blocks, Minecraft:weeping vines, and Minecraft:shroomlights to be composted.

Minecraft:Dispensers

• Can now saddle Minecraft:pigs, Minecraft:striders, and tamed Minecraft:horses, Minecraft:donkeys, and Minecraft:mules.
• Can now put Minecraft:horse armor on tamed horses.
• Can now put Minecraft:carpets on tamed Minecraft:llamas.
• Can now put Minecraft:chests on tamed llamas, donkeys, and mules.
• Can now shear Minecraft:mooshrooms and Minecraft:snow golems.

Minecraft:Fire

• Now has a proper hitbox (Template:Frac Minecraft:blocks).
• Cannot be put out by Minecraft:swords or Minecraft:tridents in Minecraft:Creative mode, akin to other Minecraft:blocks, and can be modified via the Minecraft:debug stick.
• Now has Minecraft:loot tables.

Minecraft:Flower pots

• Has a bottom texture when empty.

Minecraft:Furnaces

• Can now be crafted with Minecraft:blackstone.
• Breaking a furnace now gives the experience for the smelted things inside.

Minecraft:Gravel and Minecraft:soul sand

• Generate in the new Minecraft:soul sand valley biome.

Minecraft:Jigsaw blocks

• Can have one of 12 orientations.
• Added new property Template:Cd to describe if attached piece can be rotated (Template:Cd) or not (Template:Cd).
• NBT field Template:Cd has been renamed to Template:Cd.
• Template:Cd has been split into Template:Cd (on parent block) and Template:Cd (on child block).
• Added a locked texture File:Jigsaw Block (S) JE3 BE2.png.
• Added a button in the GUI that generates a jigsaw structure starting from the jigsaw block, using a given generation depth.
• Added a new "Keep Jigsaws" option that controls whether jigsaw blocks in the resulting structure after using "Generate" remain jigsaw blocks or are replaced by their "Turns Into" block.
  • Defaults to "ON".

Minecraft:Lava

• Now pushes Minecraft:entities.
• Now has a proper hitbox, making flowing lava blocks not full blocks anymore.
• Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of Minecraft:Fire Resistance.

Minecraft:Nether portal block

• Now has an associated loot table.

Minecraft:Netherrack

• Using Minecraft:bone meal on Minecraft:netherrack adjacent to Minecraft:nylium converts the netherrack into nylium.
  • If two nylium blocks of different types are present, it chooses the type at random based on how many Minecraft:blocks of each type are around it.

Minecraft:Nether wart blocks

• Generate as a part of Minecraft:huge crimson fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the Minecraft:crimson nylium in the Minecraft:crimson forest biome.
• Texture changed from File:Nether Wart Block JE2.png to File:Nether Wart Block JE3.png.
• Changed the texture to match the texture Template:In.
• Can now be used in Minecraft:composters.

Minecraft:Observers

• Now allow the placing of Minecraft:ladders and Minecraft:tripwire hooks.
• The back texture while powered on has been changed.

Minecraft:Pistons and Minecraft:sticky pistons

• Hardness has been increased to 1.5.
• Minecraft:Pickaxes are now more effective on pistons.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• Pistons can now support non-solid Minecraft:blocks on its top face without them popping off when the piston retracts (Minecraft:torches, Minecraft:levers, Minecraft:buttons, etc.).<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Minecraft:Potted cactus

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

Minecraft:Purpur pillars

• Changed the top texture to match the texture Template:In.

Minecraft:Redstone blocks

• Now allow the placing of Minecraft:ladders and Minecraft:tripwire hooks.

Minecraft:Redstone dust

• Now has a bottom texture.
• A single redstone wire is now represented as a cross.
  • Right-clicking an isolated redstone toggles it between a cross and a dot.
    • A dot of redstone does not power surrounding blocks, and a cross does.
    • Redstone which is connected to anything is not toggleable.
• Redstone provides power to blocks on sides it shows a visual connection to, and not do so on those sides without a visual connection.
• A wire on top of a block, which is redirected from below, now powers the sides it is redirected to.
  • Wires that redirect upward to wires on non-conductive blocks used to be redirected only visually; now this redirection applies to their behavior as well.
• A wire that is redirected to go over a block now always provides power to the block. This is most noticeable when the wire has signal strength 1.
• Redstone dust's hitbox now better adjusts to its shape.
• Now visually connects when traveling up Minecraft:soul sand, 8-layer Minecraft:snow stacks and the back of upside-down Minecraft:stairs.
• Particles are now generated across the entire area of the redstone wire; previously they appeared only at the center.
  • This now causes the particles to appear at the incorrect positions when millions of blocks away from the spawn point, due to precision loss<ref>Template:Bug</ref> (see Minecraft:Java Edition distance effects).

Minecraft:Signs

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

Minecraft:Smithing tables

• Added functionality: it is used to upgrade diamond Minecraft:items into their respective Minecraft:netherite variations.
  • Minecraft:Enchantments on the diamond item are preserved when upgrading into netherite.

Minecraft:Smokers

• Can now be crafted using crimson or warped Minecraft:planks.

Minecraft:Smooth quartz

• Renamed to "smooth quartz block".

Minecraft:Snow

• Minecraft:Buttons, Minecraft:doors, Minecraft:pressure plates, Minecraft:rails, Minecraft:redstone dust, and Minecraft:torches can now be placed on a full-Minecraft:block of snow layers.

Minecraft:Soul sand

• Soul sand with a Minecraft:rail on top no longer slows down Minecraft:minecarts.
• Minecraft:Buttons, Minecraft:doors, Minecraft:pressure plates, Minecraft:rails, Minecraft:redstone dust, and Minecraft:torches can now be placed on it.
• Walking/running speed on soul sand now can be sped up if wearing Minecraft:Soul Speed boots.

Minecraft:Structure blocks

• Expanded the maximum size per axis from 32 to 48, to accommodate the new Minecraft:bastion remnants.

Minecraft:TNT

• Now ignites when hit by any burning projectile.

Minecraft:Vines

• Now play a Minecraft:sound when climbed.

Minecraft:Walls

• Walls in the middle of a row have longer pillars when stacked vertically.
  • Minecraft:Block state now uses Template:Cd for Template:Cd directional values.
• Now connect to the bottom and sides of Minecraft:glass panes and Minecraft:iron bars.
• Now connect to the bottom of Minecraft:sea pickles.
• Now change into posts when Minecraft:pressure plates and Minecraft:banners are placed on them.

Items

Minecraft:Bone meal

• Can now be used to grow Minecraft:kelp, Minecraft:twisting vines, and Minecraft:weeping vines.
• Minecraft:Nether fungi, Minecraft:Nether sprouts, Minecraft:crimson roots, and Minecraft:warped roots; now grow on Minecraft:nylium if bone meal is used on a nylium block.

Minecraft:Charcoal

• Can now be smelted only from items in the Template:Cd block tag.
  • This change does not affect gameplay, as the new tag contains only items charcoal could be smelted from.

Clay

• Renamed to "Clay Ball".

Minecraft:Compass

• Can now be enchanted with Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing.
• Can now be used on the new Minecraft:lodestone block as a waypoint.
  • The compass now has LodestonePos, LodestoneDimension, and LodestoneTracked data fields. If LodestoneTracked is zero, game skips checking for a lodestone in the specified position.
• Now points to the center of the spawn point block instead of its northwest corner.

Minecraft:Diamond axe, Minecraft:diamond boots, Minecraft:diamond helmet, Minecraft:diamond hoe, Minecraft:diamond leggings, Minecraft:diamond pickaxe, Minecraft:diamond shovel, Minecraft:diamond sword, Minecraft:golden hoe, Minecraft:golden pickaxe, Minecraft:wooden hoe, and Minecraft:wooden pickaxe

• Changed their textures slightly.

Minecraft:Food

• Can now be placed on unlit Minecraft:campfires.

Minecraft:Hoes

• Can now be enchanted with Minecraft:Efficiency, Minecraft:Fortune and Minecraft:Silk Touch.
• Now mine Minecraft:sponges, Minecraft:wet sponges, Minecraft:dried kelp blocks, Minecraft:Nether wart blocks, Minecraft:targets, Minecraft:shroomlights, Minecraft:leaves, and Minecraft:hay bales faster than other Minecraft:tools.
  • Mining with a hoe does not cause leaves to drop like mining with Minecraft:shears does.
  • As hoes can now be enchanted with Fortune or Silk Touch, these enchantments now affect leaves when mined with a hoe.
• Each tier has different speed at which hoes mine Minecraft:blocks they are effective against.

Minecraft:Maps

• Map making sounds are now same as when using Minecraft:cartography tables.

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

• Using a spawn egg on a Minecraft:mob that does not have a baby variant now spawns an adult of that mob type.

Stone Minecraft:axes, Minecraft:hoes, Minecraft:pickaxes, Minecraft:shovels, and Minecraft:swords

• Can now be crafted with blackstone.

Minecraft:Water buckets

• Can now be obtained in Minecraft:Creative mode when an empty bucket is used on water.
  • If a bucket of water is in the player’s inventory already, no additional water buckets are added when an empty bucket is used on water.

Zombie pigman Minecraft:spawn eggs

• Renamed to zombified piglin spawn egg.

Mobs

File:Revamped anger management for neutral mobs in minecraft.jpg

The revamped anger management for neutral mobs in minecraft

General

• Now avoid walking on magma blocks and lit campfires.
• Mobs except Minecraft:wither skeletons can no longer spawn within Minecraft:blocks occupied by a Minecraft:wither rose.
• Spawning has been tweaked to more closely follow mob caps.
  • Mobs in Minecraft:soul sand valleys and Minecraft:warped forests create a radius around them that prevents other mobs of the same type from spawning, which gets bigger as more mobs spawn.
• Players can no longer mount another entity when the crouch key is held down.
• The neutral mob NBT tag AngryAt is now used when the mob is angry at any entity, not just players.
• Mobs that are riders of other mobs and entities no longer Minecraft:despawn.
  • Therefore, passengers of Minecraft:boats and Minecraft:minecarts no longer despawn.

Minecraft:Bees

• The maximum distance a Minecraft:bee can wander away from its home Minecraft:hive when randomly wandering has been reduced to around 22 Minecraft:blocks.
• Now grow up and count down their breeding cool down when inside a beehive.

Minecraft:Cows

• Can now be milked in Minecraft:Creative mode.

Minecraft:Endermen

• Now spawn in Minecraft:soul sand valleys and Minecraft:warped forests.
• Can now pick up Minecraft:nylium, Minecraft:crimson roots, Minecraft:warped roots, and Minecraft:Nether fungi variants.
• No longer pick up Minecraft:netherrack.
• No longer despawn when holding a block.

Minecraft:Fish

• Now despawn when they are further than 64 blocks away from the closest Minecraft:player.
  • Does not apply to fish placed or named by the player.<ref>Template:Reddit</ref>
• Now have their own mob category and mob cap.

Minecraft:Ghasts

• Sounds are now heard at a shorter range.
• Now spawn in Minecraft:soul sand valleys and Minecraft:basalt deltas.

Minecraft:Mooshrooms

• Can now be milked in Minecraft:Creative mode.
• Minecraft:Mushroom stew and Minecraft:suspicious stew can now be obtained in Creative mode.

Minecraft:Iron golems

• Minecraft:Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time.

Minecraft:Magma cubes

• Now spawn commonly in Minecraft:basalt deltas.

Minecraft:Parrots

• Imitate Minecraft:hostile mobs less often.
• Do not randomly imitate hostile mobs when the game mode is set to Minecraft:Peaceful difficulty.

Minecraft:Shulkers

• Shulkers with Template:Cd can now be summoned with rotation.

Minecraft:Skeletons

• Now spawn in Minecraft:soul sand valleys.

Minecraft:Skeleton horses and Minecraft:zombie horses

• Can now be leashed with a Minecraft:lead.

Minecraft:Snow golems

• Shearing a snow golem drops the pumpkin.
• Now take damage from splash and lingering water bottles.

Minecraft:Villagers

• Farmer villagers now put excess Minecraft:seeds in their Minecraft:composter.
  • Use the Minecraft:bone meal received from the composter to grow crops.
• Farmers can now share excess Minecraft:wheat to other farmers, allowing them to make Minecraft:bread.
• Villager workstation logic changes.
  • Villagers no longer try to work at the same workstation.
  • When a workstation is placed, the most experienced nearby villager for that corresponding profession gets the workstation.
  • Villagers now have to walk to and reach the workstation before they can acquire the profession/work there.
  • Villagers check and make sure their workstation is valid at all times of day as long as they are within 16 blocks of their workstation.
  • Villagers can no longer claim workstations/professions during raids or night time.
• The experience bar now accurately reflects how much experience villagers have and need.
• Minecraft:Clocks and Minecraft:compasses no longer function in the villager trading UI.

Minecraft:Witches

• When a villager is struck by Minecraft:lightning, the witch it converts to no longer despawns.

Minecraft:Withers

• Can be summoned using Minecraft:soul soil as the base.
• Can now be built sideways even at Y=0 and Y=1.

Minecraft:Wither skeletons

• Now attack Minecraft:piglins on sight.

Minecraft:Zombie pigmen

• Renamed to "Zombified Piglins", and given a new Minecraft:model and Minecraft:texture.
• Now spawn in Minecraft:crimson forests.
• No longer attack Minecraft:players who have not attacked a zombified piglin.
• Now stop being angry if the targeted Minecraft:player dies nearby.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Armor stands

• No longer delete replaceable blocks such as snow, grass, fire etc. when placed inside them.

Minecraft:Item frames

• Have two new data tags:
  • Invisible – makes item frame invisible (Minecraft:item inside frame remains visible).
  • Fixed – prevents item frame from Minecraft:breaking and the item inside from being removed (it does not prevent item rotation).

Minecraft:Minecarts

• Now check dismount position height against Minecraft:entity height.

World generation

Ceiling

• Alongside mushrooms, huge crimson and warped fungi can generate over Y=128 in Minecraft:the Nether.

Floating Islands

• Minecraft:Guardians and Minecraft:pillagers now spawn correctly in floating islands worlds.

Nether biome

• The old "Nether" biome is now called "Nether Wastes".

Minecraft:Structures

• Minecraft:Shipwrecks and Minecraft:ocean ruins are now less common.
• Minecraft:Fossils no longer overlap desert temples.
• Intersecting dungeons no longer replace spawners with cobblestone.
• Fossils, ocean ruins, and Minecraft:monster rooms no longer overlap end portals.

Minecraft:Villages

• "Jellie" Minecraft:cats now spawn naturally in Minecraft:villages.

World types

• Minecraft:Buffet worlds can no longer be created from Template:Mono.

Minecraft:Zombie villages

• Zombie villagers that spawn in zombie villages no longer despawn.

Command format

General

• The message shown when running an unknown/incomplete command has changed.

Template:Cmd

• Template:Cmd now works with items in the inventory crafting grid.

Template:Cmd

• Changed the chat output when enabling/disabling a data pack from "Enabled/Disabled data pack <datapack>" to "Enabling/Disabling data pack <datapack>".<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Template:Cmd

• Can now be used to locate Minecraft:Nether fossils and Minecraft:bastion remnants.
• Structure names are now specified as lowercase.

Template:Cmd

• Now supports being run in any of the dimensions.

Template:Cmd

• Added the ability to control the height.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
    • Template:Cd specifies the maximum height for resulting positions.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Advancements

• The "Serious Dedication" advancement has been changed.
  • It is now awarded for obtaining a Minecraft:netherite hoe.
    • Changed the description from "Completely use up a diamond hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices" to "Use a Netherite ingot to upgrade a hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices."
    • Has been renamed to obtain_netherite_hoe.json. This means progress in this advancement is not kept when upgrading to this version.
• Changed the description of "Sweet Dreams" from "Change your respawn point" to "Sleep in a bed to change your respawn point."
• Changed the description of "Not Today, Thank You" from "Deflect an arrow or trident with a shield" to "Deflect a projectile with a shield."
• Changed the description of "Ice Bucket Challenge" from "Form and mine a block of obsidian" to "Obtain a block of obsidian."
• Changed the description of "Sky's the Limit" from "Find Elytra" to "Find elytra."
• Minecraft:Elder guardians, Minecraft:ender dragons, Minecraft:endermites, Minecraft:hoglins, Minecraft:piglins, Minecraft:vexes, Minecraft:withers, and Minecraft:zoglins can now be killed for the "Monster Hunter" advancement, and they are now required for the "Minecraft:Monsters Hunted" advancement.
• Breeding hoglins and striders can unlock now "Minecraft:The Parrots and the Bats" advancement, and are required for the "Minecraft:Two by Two" advancement.
• The advancement "Two By Two" now requires Minecraft:donkeys and Minecraft:mules as well.
  • This advancement now checks the child resulting from breeding.
• Obtaining blackstone now also counts for the "Stone Age" advancement.
• Removed the Template:Cd advancement trigger as it was made redundant by Template:Cd.
• Added Template:Code check to every trigger (except Template:Code).
  • Due to addition of Template:Cd, existing contents of Template:Cd, Template:Cd, Template:Cd, Template:Cd can now be placed in Template:Cd field instead of top-level object.
    • Old syntax is still supported, but deprecated.
• Entity checks in triggers can now use loot table condition syntax.
  • All conditions in top level array must be met for whole condition to trigger
  • To access new functionality, top level element must be JSON array
    • JSON objects are interpreted as old notation
• Full list of extended triggers:
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Minecraft:Ambience

• New mood detection algorithm for cave sounds.
  • Aims to make ambient cave sounds play at more appropriate moments.
    • Mood increases the longer a player remains underground.
    • Mood increases the longer a player remains without or in the low sky Minecraft:light or block light.Template:More info
    • Mood decreases and eventually resets the longer a player is neither underground nor in the absence of light.
  • The player can check the percentage of the mood in the sounds info section in the Minecraft:debug screen.
    • When the mood percentage reaches 100%, an ambient cave sound plays.

Minecraft:Death messages

• Added a new death message for being killed by an entity's wither skull projectile, "<player> was shot by a <entity>'s skull".

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:Debug screen

• Added a new line detailing mob spawning.
  • Template:Cd represents the number of chunks in which mobs can spawn. It is the same value given in debug reports as Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd represent the number of mobs for each group that contribute to that group's Minecraft:mob cap. The groups are Template:Cd. They're also in debug reports.
• In the Targeted Block and Targeted Fluid fields, the coordinates of the targeted block or fluid are now shown as well.
  • The "Looking At" field has been removed in favor of this.

Minecraft:Dual wield

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

Minecraft:Enchantments

• If the player has the Minecraft:Mending enchantment on any items, XP now always goes to healing the items before going to the XP bar.
  • Before, the enchantment would randomly choose an item when XP was received. If the item was fully healed, the XP would go to the XP bar.

Minecraft:Fishing

• When fishing, treasure loot can now be obtained only by fishing in open waters.
  • A fishing location is considered to be open water if each layer in the 5×4×5 area around the bobber meets one and only one of the following criteria:
    • Have only water source blocks, waterlogged blocks without collision, or Minecraft:bubble columns.
    • Has only Minecraft:lily pads.
• Lily pads are now considered junk fishing loot rather than treasure.

Knockback resistance

• Is now a scale of the amount of knockback taken instead of a probability to take no knockback.

Minecraft:Patrols

• Patrols no longer spawn when the Minecraft:player is close to any intact Minecraft:village.

Minecraft:Recipe book

• The Minecraft:cartography table recipe now unlocks with Minecraft:paper instead of Minecraft:string.
• Stained glass pane recipes now unlock only when the player has the same color of stained glass in their inventory.
• Charcoal now unlocks using the Template:Cd item tag.
• Minecraft:Clocks and Minecraft:compasses no longer function in the recipe book menu.

Minecraft:Repairing

• Blackstone can now be used to repair stone tools.

Minecraft:Sounds

• Updated Minecraft:block sounds for Minecraft:bone blocks, Minecraft:netherrack, Minecraft:Nether bricks (and variants), Minecraft:Nether quartz ore, Minecraft:Nether wart blocks, and Minecraft:soul sand.
• Template:Cd and Template:Cd sounds are now part of the "ambient/environment" sound category adjustable in Minecraft:options.
• Minecraft:Shearing sound category was changed from "friendly creatures" to "Minecraft:players" for players using Minecraft:shears and to "Minecraft:blocks" for Minecraft:dispensers using shears.

Spawn

• Minecraft:Players can reset their spawn point using a Minecraft:bed when hostile Minecraft:mobs are near, although players still cannot sleep when hostile mobs are near.

Minecraft:Subtitles

• Changed the subtitle for Minecraft:zombified piglins angry grunts from "Zombified Piglin angers" to "Zombified Piglin grunts angrily".
• Changed the subtitle for Minecraft:zombie villagers converting from "Zombie vociferates" to "Zombie Villager vociferates".
• Changed the subtitle for zombie villagers being cured from "Zombie snuffles" to "Zombie Villager snuffles".
• Changed the subtitle for stripping Minecraft:logs and Minecraft:wood from "Debarking log" to "Axe scrapes".
• Changed the capitalization of "Blast furnace crackles" to "Blast Furnace crackles".
• Changed the capitalization of "Enchanting table used" to "Enchanting Table used".
• Changed the capitalization of "Turtle egg breaks" to "Turtle Egg breaks".
• Changed the capitalization of "Turtle egg cracks" to "Turtle Egg cracks".
• Changed the capitalization of "Turtle egg hatches" to "Turtle Egg hatches".
• Removed the subtitle "Horse lands".

General

Minecraft:Animations

• Hand animations have been added for the following:
  • Entering a Minecraft:boat<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Shearing Minecraft:sheep (a regression from 1.15.2).<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Feeding a brown Minecraft:mooshroom.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Using a spawn egg on a mob to spawn a baby variant, if there wouldn't also be a block within reach through said mob.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• Hand animations for the following have been removed:
  • Targeting a block through a mob then using a Minecraft:spawn egg.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Attempting to switch a Minecraft:minecart with furnace's direction when it isn't on a rail<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Using a Minecraft:dye on a Minecraft:sheep which already has that color.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Using a dye on a sheared sheep.

Minecraft:Attributes

• Items and entities no longer keep unknown attributes.
• Attribute names now use Minecraft:resource locations.
• Names of some attributes have been renamed to meet resource location requirements (i.e., lowercase separated by underscores instead of camelCase).
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Block storage format

• Block storage format in chunks has been slightly changed to speed up various tasks (rendering, pathfinding, world generation, etc.).
  • Template:Cd in Template:Cd elements no longer contain values stretching over multiple 64-bit fields.
    • If the number of bits per block is not a power of two (i.e. single 64-bit value can't fill whole number of blockstates) some bits are not used.
    • For example, if a single block state takes 5 bits, the highest 4 bits of every 64-bit field are unused. That also means a slight increase in storage size (in case of 5 bits, from 320 to 342 64-bit fields).

Chat

• Changed the capitalization of "Click to copy to Clipboard" to "Click to Copy to Clipboard".
• Changed "Your home bed was missing or obstructed" to "You have no home bed or charged respawn anchor, or it was obstructed".

Template:Mono

• Removed Minecraft:Realms code from the client, but its assets remain.

Collision

• Minor optimizations in collision detection.

Credits

• Updated the credits.

Minecraft:Data packs

• Slightly changed data pack loading to prevent custom data packs from crashing.
• If data pack reload fails, changes are not applied and the game continues using previous data.
• Changes to data pack list are stored only after successful reload.
• If existing data packs prevent world from loading, the game gives option to load world in safe mode, which loads only vanilla data pack.
• Added --safeMode option for servers to load only with vanilla data pack.
• Game detects any critical data pack issues, such as required tags being missing, and prevents the world from being loaded.
• Entering the world in an unknown dimension (caused by disabling a Minecraft:data pack which added said Minecraft:dimension) now puts the player in the Minecraft:Overworld at the same coordinates.

Minecraft:Debug menu

• When outside the world's vertical area, the debug menu no longer lists 'minecraft:the_void' as the biome.
  • Instead, it simply hides the biome information.

Floating-point precision

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Bone meal particles being generated at the corner of the block instead of at the sapling, one of many precision loss bugs fixed by 1.16.

• Certain game mechanics, mainly a handful of different particles, have been modified to use 64-bit (double-precision) precision where they previously used 32-bit (single-precision).
• As a result, the effects appear in the correct places even if the player is far away from the spawn point (with effects being the most extreme when over 16,777,216 blocks away). See Minecraft:Java Edition distance effects for a further explanation and history of such effects.
• The following precision loss errors are fixed:
  • Minecraft:Bone meal particles should now appear at the right position.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Minecraft:Lava embers and popping sounds should now originate from the correct positions.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Minecraft:Campfire embers should now be generated at the correct position.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Particles from Minecraft:redstone repeaters should now appear at the correct position.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Particles from Nether biomes should now appear at the correct position.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Particles from adding Minecraft:eye of enders to Minecraft:end portal frames should now appear at the correct position.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Particles dripping from Minecraft:leaves during rain no longer snap to block corners and are correctly randomized across the underside of the block.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • The book of the Minecraft:enchanting table now opens properly at high distances; previously there were cases where the player could be pressed right up to the block, yet the book would not acknowledge them.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Minecraft:TNT ignited by other explosions now appears at the right locations at high distances.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Minecraft:Detector rails at high distances were not always being correctly powered and depowered, which has been fixed.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Mob spawning would also break down, spawning mobs at block corners and sometimes inside of other blocks.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  • Generation of Minecraft:minecarts with chests in Minecraft:mineshafts now spawns them at the intended positions.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>.

Fonts

• Chat component style now supports Template:Cd property, which is resource location for font in the resource pack. No entry is equivalent to Template:Cd.
• Full range of Unicode characters is supported, making it possible to type emojis and other Unicode characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane.
  • However, custom resource packs must be used to display correct characters instead of tofu, due to the lack of these characters in the default font.
• Template:Cd option now switches between normal and alternative font (called Template:Cd) – no reload needed.
• Many new characters have been added.
  • Includes several remaining Latin and Armenian-language ligatures<ref>Template:Bug</ref> and the Georgian alphabet.
  • The new characters are: ´¨ᴀʙᴄᴅᴇꜰɢʜᴊᴋʟᴍɴᴏᴘꞯʀꜱᴛᴜᴠᴡʏᴢ§ɱɳɲʈɖɡʡɕʑɸʝʢɻʁɦʋɰɬɮʘǀǃǂǁɓɗᶑʄɠʛɧɫɨʉʊɘɵɤɜɞɑɒɚɝƁƉƑƩƲႠႡႢႣႤႥႦႧႨႩႪႫႬႭႮႯႰႱႲႳႴႵႶႷႸႹႺႻႼႽႾႿჀჁჂჃჄჅჇჍაბგდევზთიკლმნოპჟრსტუფქღყშჩცძწჭხჯჰჱჲჳჴჵჶჷჸჹჺ჻ჼჽჾჿתּשׂפֿפּכּײַיִוֹוּבֿבּꜧꜦɺⱱʠʗʖɭɷɿʅʆʓʚ₪₾֊ⴀⴁⴂⴃⴄⴅⴆⴡⴇⴈⴉⴊⴋⴌⴢⴍⴎⴏⴐⴑⴒⴣⴓⴔⴕⴖⴗⴘⴙⴚⴛⴜⴝⴞⴤⴟⴠⴥ⅛⅜⅝⅞⅓⅔✉☂☔☄⛄☃⌛⌚⚐✎❣♤♧♡♢⛈☰☱☳☴☶☷↔⇒⇏⇔⇵∀∃∄∉∋∌⊂⊃⊄⊅∧∨⊻⊼⊽∥≢⋆∑⊤⊥⊢⊨≔∁∴∵∛∜∂⋃⊆⊇□△▷▽◁◆◇○◎☆★✘₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉₊₋₌₍₎∫∮∝⌀⌂⌘〒ɼƄƅẟȽƚƛȠƞƟƧƨƪƸƹƻƼƽƾȡȴȵȶȺⱥȻȼɆɇȾⱦɁɂɃɄɈɉɊɋɌɍɎɏẜẝỼỽỾỿꞨꞩ𐌰𐌱𐌲𐌳𐌴𐌵𐌶𐌷𐌸𐌹𐌺𐌻𐌼𐌽𐌾𐌿𐍀𐍁𐍂𐍃𐍄𐍅𐍆𐍇𐍈𐍉𐍊🌧🔥🌊

Hitboxes

• Fire now has a hitbox, unlike previously, where it did not, when putting out fire required targeting its base blocks.
• Redstone dust's hitbox now correctly confirms to its shape, much like the hitboxes of Minecraft:fences, Minecraft:walls, Minecraft:glass panes, and Minecraft:iron bars.
  • This also includes when the redstone is traveling up a vertical surface, so the upward portion can be targeted without hitting the block underlying.

Minecraft:Loot tables

• Entity predicate
  • Added Template:Cd sub-predicate.
• Template:Cd
  • Check properties of the fishing hook.
  • Template:Cd parameter matches whether the fishing location is open water fishing or not.
  • Can be set to "false" in-game files to make AFK fishing farms work again. This removes the restriction of being able to obtain loot only from normal waters.

Minecraft:Main menu

• The main menu background is now set in the Nether.
  • The menu panorama uses seed 6006096527635909600 at coordinates X = 482.208, Y = 78.515, Z = -1127.193
• The "Singleplayer" button jumps directly to "Create World" screen if there are no worlds to select.

Minecraft:Materials

• Added new Nether wood material.
  • Uses the wood material color.
  • Uses default properties.
• Whether or not a block requires a tool is now no longer a property of a material and is now assigned on a block-by-block basis.

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New Mojang Studios logo on the loading screen.

Minecraft:Title screen

• Updated Minecraft:Mojang Studios and Minecraft:Minecraft logos.

Miscellaneous

• Added a JMX MBean to monitor dedicated server tick times.Template:More info

Minecraft:Models

• All "block states" files have improved spacing, and now define the namespace when referring to the model.
• All model files now define the namespace when referring to a different model.

Multiplayer screen

• Changed "Online play is not rated" to "Caution: Third-Party Online Play".
• Changed "During online play you may be exposed to chat messages or other types of user generated content that has not been rated, and may not be suitable for all ages." to "Caution: Online play is offered by third-party servers that are not owned, operated, or supervised by Mojang or Microsoft. During online play, you may be exposed to unmoderated chat messages or other types of user-generated content that may not be suitable for everyone."

Minecraft:NBT tags

• The Dimension Minecraft:NBT tag is now a Minecraft:resource location string instead of a number, which is used in Minecraft:player.dat.

Minecraft:Obsidian platform

• Obsidian platform now can get regenerated when a non-player entity enters the End through an Minecraft:end portal.

Optimizing worlds

• The progress bar when optimizing worlds are now color-coded according to the type of Minecraft:dimension, and the ratio is calculated according to the number of chunks to optimize for each.
  • Green for the Minecraft:Overworld, brown for Minecraft:the Nether, and light orange for Minecraft:the End.
  • This applies even with custom dimensions.

Options

• The localization key for the offhand keybinding was changed from key.swapHands to key.swapOffhand.
• Changed the description of the offhand swap key in the controls section from "Swap Item In Hands" to "Swap Item With Offhand".
• 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."

Minecraft:Particles

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  • Now use 64-bit floats for spawning, not 32-bit.
    • This means that using bone meal at high distances from the world origin (notably greater than 17 million) causes the particles to appear in expected places, and not far away from the target.

Pathfinding

• Cached repeated block type lookups and collisions during pathfinding for increased performance.

Minecraft:Predicates

• Top-level element in predicate file can now be array (all contents are ANDed).

Minecraft:Raw JSON text format

• The JSON color component now supports 6-digit hexadecimal colors to specify custom colors other than the 16 default Minecraft:color codes.
  • Example: /tellraw @a {"text":"Turquoise output","color":"#00ff88"}
• The hoverEvent chat component now uses the parameter contents, with contents depending on type:
  • For Template:Cd – chat component
  • For Template:Cd – either item id or object with fields Template:Cd, Template:Cd and Template:Cd (with last one being serialized NBT)
  • For Template:Cd – object with fields: Template:Cd (UUID), Template:Cd (chat component) and Template:Cd (entity type resource location)
  • The value argument is now deprecated, but still supported.

Minecraft:Realms

• Removed translation strings of:
  • Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Recipe book

• There is now a text that says "Search..." in the recipe book.

Region files

• Region files are now opened in synchronous mode only 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.

Rendering

• Improved entity shadows to the ground.
• Made experimental changes to graphics rendering.
• Added shader support for accessing the depth buffer.
• The renderer now uses per-pixel blending layers for some transparent elements.

Saved toolbars

• Renamed to "Saved Hotbars"

Servers

• Added a Template:Cd option to the Minecraft:server.properties file which if set to Template:Cd suppresses replies to status requests from clients.
  • This makes the server appear offline in the multiplayer screen.
• Added control over how much entity data a server sends to clients: Template:Cd server property, controlling how close entities need to be before being sent to clients.
  • Higher values mean entities are visible further away from players but cause more network traffic.
  • Specifies a percentage of the default value so, for example, Template:Cd specifies half of the default range.

Minecraft:Splashes

• The splash "Sexy!" was changed to "Moderately attractive!"
• Removed some splashes:
  • Undocumented!
  • Down with O.P.P.!
  • Lewd with two dudes with food!
  • Switches and ores!
  • Huge tracts of land!
  • Totally forgot about Dre!
  • Popping tags!
  • Getting ready to show!
  • Getting ready to know!
  • Getting ready to drop!
  • Getting ready to shock!
  • Getting ready to freak!
  • Getting ready to speak!

Minecraft:Statistics

• General statistics are now ordered alphabetically in the statistics menu.

Minecraft:Superflat

• Removed structure settings from flat level preset strings as it was broken due to the addition of customizable worlds.

Minecraft:Tags

• Added crimson and warped wooden Minecraft:items to the Template:Cd block tags.
• Added crimson and warped wooden items to the Template:Cd item tags.
• Added polished blackstone, and (where applicable) blackstone blocks and items to the Template:Cd block and item tags.
• Added potted Minecraft:crimson fungus, Minecraft:crimson roots, Minecraft:warped fungus, and Minecraft:warped roots to the Template:Cd Minecraft:block tag.
• Added Minecraft:crying obsidian and Minecraft:respawn anchors to the Template:Cd block tag.
• Updated block tag Template:Cd.
  • Added Minecraft:Nether fungi, Minecraft:nylium variants, Minecraft:crimson roots, and Minecraft:warped roots.
  • Removed Minecraft:netherrack variant.
• The Template:Cd block and item tags now use the respective Template:Cd tag.
• Changed the Template:Cd block and item tags to use the Template:Cd block and item tags, respectively.
• Changed the Template:Cd item tag to use the Template:Cd item tag and the Pigstep music disc.
• Changed the Template:Cd block and item tags to use their respective Template:Cd tag.
  • This has effectively made Minecraft:crimson stairs and Minecraft:warped stairs a part of this tag.
• The sand block tag is now used to determine whether turtle eggs can hatch on a block.

Minecraft:The Nether

• Changed the ambient lighting in the Nether; it is now much darker.

UUIDs

• UUIDs stored in NBT are also represented as an array of four integers, rather than UUIDMost/UUIDLeast.
  • Example: {UUID:[I;1498693494,1027158888,1898994005,860320107]}
  • Renamed a couple of fields:
    • Template:Cd of tamed animals, area effect clouds, evoker fangs and projectiles is now simply Template:Cd.
    • Template:Cd of foxes is now Template:Cd.
    • Template:Cd of conduits is now Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Worlds

• Old customized worlds (from before Minecraft:Java Edition 1.13) now say "Old Customized" in the world selection screen.

World creation

• 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".
  • "Go back" was changed to "Go Back".
  • "Reset to default" was changed to "Reset to Default".

World save files

• Region files are now opened in synchronous mode to increase prevent data loss and corruption after a crash.
  • Dedicated servers can disable that by changing sync-chunk-writes inside Template:Mono.

World save format

• Saving Template:Cd now uses randomly-named temporary files (instead of using Template:Cd every time).
• Template:Cd are now saved in a way similar to Template:Cd (including leaving Template:Cd files).

World selection

• Changed "Failed to access level" to "Failed to access world".
• Changed "Failed to delete level" to "Failed to delete world".

Trivia

• This update surpassed 1.14 for hosting the largest addition of new blocks into the Java Edition of the game, adding a total of 74 compared to 69. This record was surpassed by the following update.
• Starting with 1.16, all major update version numbers are the same for both the Template:Els.<ref name="Skipping">Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Replying to [[[:Template:Tweet]] "are version numbers finally going to be the same across both bedrock and java then?"]: Template:Tweet</ref>
• 1.16 fixes the most bugs that were existent prior to its development out of any release version, beating 1.8.

See also

• Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.16.0