Minecraft:Java Edition 1.20 Pre-release 1

1.20 Pre-release 1 (known as 1.20-pre1 in the launcher) is the first pre-release for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.20, released on May 10, 2023,<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> which brings more parity from Template:BE and fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Beds, Minecraft:carpets, and Minecraft:wool

• Colored variants can now be dyed any other color.

Command format

Template:Cmd

• Template:Cd data sources now accept negative boundaries, which are interpreted as index counted from the end of the string.

General

Minecraft:Damage type

• Added Template:Cd.
  • Players outside the world border are now hurt by the damage type Template:Cd instead of Template:Cd.
  • Forcibly removing an entity using i.e. the Template:Cmd command now uses damage type Template:Cd instead of Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Death messages

• Changed death message used for the Template:Cmd command.
  • Changed from "<player> fell out of the world" to "<player> was killed".
• Changed death message used for deaths caused by the world border.
  • Changed from "<player> suffocated in a wall" to "<player> left the confines of this world".

Minecraft:Loot table

• Random sequences for loot tables are now deterministic.
  • The game now uses named random sequences to deterministically produce loot for loot tables.
  • Each random sequence produces a unique sequence based on the world seed and sequence identifier, which means a loot table will produce the same results when ran with the same parameters in the same world.
  • The identifier of the random sequence to use for a loot table is specified as a Minecraft:resource location in a new field called Template:Cd.

Template:Samp

• Changes in encoding.
  • The file is now read in UTF-8 initially, with previous encoding (ISO 8859-1/Latin 1) as a fallback.
  • File is now written with UTF-8 encoding.

Minecraft:Tags

• Removed Template:Cd from Template:Cd block tag.
• Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd damage type tag.
• Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd damage type tags.