Minecraft:Java Edition 22w42a

22w42a is the first Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.19.3, released on October 19, 2022,<ref>Template:Snap</ref> which added the first scheduled features for 1.20 and made Minecraft:bundles available again in the respective built-in experimental data packs, and fixes bugs.

Additions

General

Minecraft:Data packs

• Added a subsection called chat_type.
• Added a subsection called datapacks.
  • Contains vanilla data packs that enable certain features.
• The vanilla world generation data pack is now visible within the game's jar.
  • This means categories such as dimension_type and worldgen are now visible, along with their contents.

Feature flags

• Option to enable or disable certain groups of game elements (i.e. blocks, entities, and items).
  • Enabled via Minecraft:data packs.
    • New pack metadata section called features, containing enabled feature flags in list named enabled.
• Game elements controlled by feature flags are hardcoded and stored per world.
• Built-in data packs now enable features and provide other things such as associated recipes and advancements.
• Feature flags can affect:
  • Blocks
    • Disabled blocks are not recognized by commands, won't spawn in structures, won't be loaded as part of entities, and can't be interacted with by players.
  • Entities
    • Disabled entities are not recognized by commands, don't spawn or load in the world, and spawn eggs for disabled entities don't function.
  • Items
    • Disabled items are not recognized by commands, are hidden from the creative menu, can't be used by players for interacting or attacking, and recipes and loot tables cannot create disabled items.

Minecraft:Options

• Added a new "Panorama Scroll Speed" accessibility option.

Minecraft:server.properties

• Added initial-enabled-packs and initial-disabled-packs.
  • Allows for which packs to be selected to load during world creation.
  • initial-enabled-packs contains a list of packs to be enabled (feature packs need to be explicitly enabled).
  • initial-disabled-packs contains a list of packs that are not enabled automatically.
    • Data packs added after world creation are disabled if they require features that are not enabled for the loaded world.

Minecraft:Splashes

• Added the following splash texts:
  • "You are valid!"
  • "I'm glad you're here!"
  • "You are welcome here!"
  • "Your gender is valid!"
  • "Contains infinite genders!"

Minecraft:Tags

• Added the invalid_spawn_inside block tag.
  • Contains Minecraft:end portal and Minecraft:end gateway.
• Added the stripped_log block and item tags.
  • Includes all stripped logs and stems.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Chorus flower and Minecraft:scaffolding

• Mobs no longer spawn on them.

Minecraft:Frogspawn

• No longer has transparent model.

Minecraft:Invisible blocks

• Minecraft:Barriers and Minecraft:structure voids no longer produce particles when broken, for consistency with the Minecraft:light block.

Mobs

Minecraft:Rabbits

• Now always drop one Minecraft:raw rabbit when killed, or one Minecraft:cooked rabbit when killed by fire.

World generation

Minecraft:Stronghold

• The placement code has been changed to be more efficient, causing stronghold positions to shift.
  • They are still placed in concentric rings, but their positions in the rings may change by a few degrees.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Advancements

• The advancement "Birthday Song" is now a regular advancement instead of a challenge.

Minecraft:Chat

• Removed chat preview.
• Chat messages deleted by server moderators are no longer completely hidden, but rather replaced with text stating "This chat message has been deleted by the server."
• Deleted chat messages are now displayed in the chat window for at least 3 total seconds before being hidden.
• The chat trust status indicators have been tweaked:
  • The 'Modified' tag no longer displays for server-modified messages where only style has been changed.
  • The 'Modified' tag icon and indicator is now dark gray.
  • The 'Not Secure' tag is now light gray and does not have an icon.
• Partially filtered chat messages now show the filtered text as gray hashes with a hover text saying that it was filtered.

Creative inventory

• The ordering of tabs and the contents in the creative inventory have been tweaked to make the experience of finding relevant blocks and items easier.
  • Blocks and items have been moved into categories that fit them better.
  • Blocks are now ordered by their material as much as possible.
    • For example, all oak blocks and variants are now next to each other.
  • Some items can now be found in more than one tab.
  • Various tabs have been renamed or collapsed into others.
    • The new tabs for blocks are "Building Blocks", "Nature Blocks", "Functional Blocks" and "Redstone Blocks".
    • The new tabs for items are "Tools & Utilities", "Combat", "Consumables", "Crafting" and "Spawn Eggs".
  • The search tab now lists items sequentially grouped by the other tabs.
    • For example, items found in building blocks always appear before items in redstone blocks.
• Petrified oak slab has been removed from the creative inventory, but can still be accessed through commands.

Protocol

• The network protocol now supports adding player entities to the world without being added to the 'tab' player list.
• Servers can now lazily distribute players' profile public keys along with their first chat packet.
• Message 'headers' within the secure chat protocol no longer need to be distributed when private messages are sent.
• Contextual message references are now deduplicated for efficiency within the secure chat network protocol.

Minecraft:Realms

• The "Realms News" button now shows a confirmation screen before opening the link.

Minecraft:Recipes

• Crafting book categories/tabs can now be controlled by recipe definitions.
• Categories available for shaped/shapeless and various special crafting recipes:
  • building
  • redstone
  • equipment
  • misc (default)
• Categories available for smelting, blasting, smoking, campfire_cooking
  • food
  • blocks
  • misc (default)
• Some crafting books collapse multiple categories into a single tab.
• The exact mappings might change in the future.

Minecraft:Resource packs

• The Minecraft:pack format version is now 11.
• Removed "fixers" for resource packs with versions 3 and 4 (pre-flattening).
  • The game no longer tries to adapt packs with those versions to the current version.

Minecraft:Sound

• Various wood types now have unique sounds when placed, broken, or walked on.
  • There are three sets of unique sounds: Overworld wood types, Nether wood types, and bamboo.

General

Minecraft:Tags

• Added crimson and warped hanging signs to the non_flammable_wood item tag.

Experimental

These additions only take effect when the 1.20 experimental data pack is enabled, the exception to this is the re-addition of Minecraft:bundles, which only takes effect when enabling its respective experimental data pack.

Additions

Blocks

File:Bamboo Mosaic JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Bamboo mosaics

• A variant exclusive to the bamboo plank set.
• Crafted by arranging 2 bamboo slabs in a vertical strip.
• Can be used to craft respective Minecraft:stairs and Minecraft:slabs variant.

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

• Crafted by arranging 4 Minecraft:bamboo in a 2×2 pattern.
• Can be used to craft respective File:Bamboo Button JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:buttons, File:Bamboo Door JE1.png Minecraft:doors, File:Bamboo Fence (EW) JE1.png Minecraft:fences, File:Bamboo Fence Gate JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:fence gates, File:Bamboo Pressure Plate JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:pressure plates, File:Bamboo Sign (0) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:signs, File:Bamboo Slab JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:slabs, File:Bamboo Stairs JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:stairs, and File:Bamboo Trapdoor JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:trapdoors.
• Can be used to craft File:Bamboo Raft (item) JE1.png Minecraft:bamboo rafts and File:Bamboo Raft with Chest (item) JE1.png Minecraft:bamboo raft with chests.
• Can be used to craft wooden blocks or items (eg. Minecraft:chest).

File:Chiseled Bookshelf (stage 0) (S) JE1.png File:Chiseled Bookshelf (stage 1) (S) JE1.png File:Chiseled Bookshelf (stage 2) (S) JE1.png File:Chiseled Bookshelf (stage 3) (S) JE1.png File:Chiseled Bookshelf (stage 4) (S) JE1.png File:Chiseled Bookshelf (stage 5) (S) JE1.png File:Chiseled Bookshelf (stage 6) (S) JE1.png Minecraft:Chiseled bookshelves

• Crafted with 6 Minecraft:planks and 3 Minecraft:wooden slabs.
• Can store up to 6 Minecraft:books, Minecraft:book and quills, and/or Minecraft:enchanted books.
  • Interacting with the bookshelf while holding a book puts the book to the first empty slot.
  • Interacting with the bookshelf while not holding a book takes the last book out of the shelf.
• Can interact with Minecraft:redstone comparators, which gives a signal strength matching that of the slot that was last interacted with.
• Don't interact with Minecraft:hoppers.
• Don't increase the power of Minecraft:enchanting tables.
• The correct tools to break them is an axe.
  • Breaking them with any method drops any books inside. Minecraft:Silk Touch is required for the bookshelf itself to drop in addition to the books.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Hanging signs

• Can be crafted with 2 chains and 6 Minecraft:stripped logs, resulting 6 of them.
  • The only exception is the bamboo hanging sign, which can be crafted with 2 chains and 6 bamboo planks, resulting 2 hanging signs.
• Can be hung up in the following ways:
  • Underneath a block that can provide support in the center.
    • When the hanging sign is placed underneath a full block, the chains are on parallel sides of the sign. Signs in this configuration can be placed in 4 cardinal directions (North, South, East, and West)
    • When the hanging sign is placed underneath a non-full block, such as a fence, or when placed while sneaking, the chains take on an upside-down v-shape. Signs in this configuration can be placed in 16 different angles.
    • Signs that are placed in this way break when the supporting block is removed.
  • Underneath another hanging sign.
    • When the hanging sign is placed in an angle that is the same or the opposite of the supporting hanging sign, the chains are on parallel sides of the sign.
    • When the hanging sign is placed in any other angle, or when placed while sneaking, the chains take on an upside-down v-shape.
    • Signs that are placed in this way break when the supporting block is removed.
  • Attached to the solid side of a block.
    • When the hanging sign is placed in this way, an additional support appears, which is a horizontal wood bar matching the wood type of the sign. The chain is on parallel sides of the sign, connected to the stick. Signs in this configuration can be placed in 4 cardinal directions (North, South, East, and West).
    • Signs that are placed in this way remain hanging in the air when the supporting block is removed.
• Just like regular Minecraft:signs, the text on the hanging signs is on the front, and the back side is blank.
• Just like regular signs, the text on the hanging signs can be dyed.
• Just like regular signs, hanging signs can be waterlogged.
• Unlike regular signs, hanging signs have a much smaller space available for the text.
• Unlike regular signs, hanging signs can't be placed directly on the ground without support from the side or above.

Items

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

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

Minecraft:Bundle

• Moved behind its own data pack.

Mobs

File:Camel JE1 BE2.png Minecraft:Camels

• Have Template:Hp health points.
• Spawn naturally in desert villages.
• Can be bred with Minecraft:cactus, and follow players holding a cactus on hand.
• Can be equipped with a Minecraft:saddle and ridden by up to two players.
• Can either walk slowly, sprint quickly, or dashing.
  • Can walk over 1.5 block tall obstacles (such as fences and blocks with a slab on top).
  • Dash can be done by pressing the jump key.
    • After dashing, they lose stamina, leaving them unable to sprint or dash for a while.
    • A dash can extend more than 10 blocks when executed perfectly.
• Mobs that are 2 blocks tall and lower cannot reach the player (except spiders) when the player is riding it.
• Randomly sit down.
  • While sitting, it is difficult to convince them to move.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Boats and Minecraft:boat with chests

• Added File:Bamboo Raft JE1 BE1.png bamboo raft and File:Bamboo Raft with Chest JE1 BE1.png bamboo raft with chest.
  • Can be crafted with bamboo planks instead.
  • They function the same as regular boats, but have a unique look to them.

General

Minecraft:Tags

• Added the all_hanging_signs block tag.
  • Contains the ceiling_hanging_signs and wall_hanging_signs tags.
• Added the ceiling_hanging_signs block tag.
  • Contains all ceiling versions of hanging sign blocks.
• Added the wall_hanging_signs block tag.
  • Contains all wall versions of hanging sign blocks.
• Added the bookshelf_books item tag.
  • Contains book, written book, enchanted book, and book and quill.
• Added the hanging_signs item tag.
  • Contains all hanging sign items.
• Added relevant bamboo blocks to the Template:Cd block and item tags.
• Added relevant bamboo blocks to the Template:Cd block tags.
• Added relevant bamboo items to the Template:Cd item tags.

Trivia

• This snapshot was released 75 days after 1.19.2 was released, the longest time between the releases of any two consecutive versions of Template:JE.