Want to find out what’s coming in the latest Minecraft update? These content drops add all sorts of mobs and materials to the game, but they also implement those all-important bug fixes and quality-of-life changes. Minecraft patch notes are a great resource for finding out exactly what these changes are and what new features are coming in each new update.
There are two versions of Minecraft that often receive updates at different times. Minecraft Java Edition is the original standalone PC version and is usually the first to get updated. Bedrock is the newer version made for Windows 10, consoles, and mobile devices, and the most crucial difference is that this version isn’t open to modding, but does support crossplay.
If this is your first visit, you’ve stumbled across our running catalogue of what’s new in both versions of Minecraft. You can read about Minecraft Java updates on this page including version 1.18, or head straight to the second page for Minecraft Bedrock patch notes.
Page 1: Minecraft Java patch notes
Page 2: Minecraft bedrock patch notes
Upcoming: Caves & Cliffs Part 2 1.18
Minecraft’s next major content release is the second half of their major Caves & Cliffs update. This time, bug changes will be coming to (you guessed it) the game’s caves and cliffs. It was originally planned as part of update 1.17, but Mojang decided to split the update into two parts. The first part released on June 8 while the second part of the update arrives later this year.
The Minecraft 1.18 update is when caves will get their own new biomes like the lovely Lush Caves and the much spookier Deep Dark biome where the new Warden mob lives. The experimental snapshots have also revealed new mountain-based biomes such as the Stony Peaks, the Snowy Slopes, and the Mountainous Meadow.
Minecraft Java Update: 1.17 Caves & Cliffs Part 1
Features
- Added Dripstone Block and Pointed Dripstone
- Added Block of Amethyst, Budding Amethyst, Amethyst Cluster, and Amethyst Bud
- Added Block of Raw Iron, Copper, and Gold
- Added Candles
- Added Copper
- Added Deepslate
- Added Glow Lichen
- Added Lava Cauldron
- Added Lightning Rod
- Added Lush Caves Block
- Added Powder Snow
- Added Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold items
- Added the Axolotl
- Added the Glow Squid
- Added the Goat
- Added Spyglass
- Added Tinted Glass
- A Shulker hitting a Shulker with a Shulker Bullet can make a new Shulker
- Additions to Wandering Trader and Mason trades
- Bundles and Shulker Box items will drop their contents when destroyed
- Changed Infested Block destroy times
- Changes to Shipwreck and Mineshaft loot
- Dirt Paths (formerly Grass Path) can now be made by using a Shovel on Dirt, Podzol, Mycelium, or Coarse Dirt (as well as Grass)
- Drowned now has a chance of dropping a Copper Ingot, and they no longer drop Gold Ingots
- Experience Orbs now sometimes merge when in large quantities to improve performance. This does not change the rate at which the player can absorb them, it simply limits the amount of separate orbs floating around in the world. Orbs that merge will gain the lifetime of the most recently created one.
- Holding down the space bar now increases the scroll speed in the credits
- Minecarts and Rails work in water
- Particles now appear when Pistons break blocks
- Reordered some blocks in the Building Blocks Tab in the Creative Menu
- Reordered the Redstone Tab in the Creative Menu
- Simple Firework Rockets with one Gunpowder can now be crafted using the recipe book
Accessibility
Added an alternative solid black background color for the Mojang Studios loading screen, toggleable with the “Monochrome Logo” accessibility option
Advancements
- Added “Whatever Floats Your Goat!” for floating in a boat with a Goat
- Added “Wax on” for applying Honeycomb to a Copper block
- Added “Wax off” for scraping wax off a Copper block
- Added “The Cutest Predator” for catching an Axolotl in a Bucket
- Added “The Healing Power of Friendship!” for teaming up with an Axolotl and winning a fight
- Added “Glow and Behold” for making a Sign glow
- Added “Light as a Rabbit” for walking on Powder Snow with Leather Boots
- Added “Surge Protector!” for having a lightning strike a Lightning Rod near a Villager without setting the area on fire
- Added “Is It a Bird?” for looking at a Parrot through a Spyglass
- Added “Is It a Balloon?” for looking at a Ghast through a Spyglass
- Added “Is It a Plane?” for looking at the Ender Dragon through a Spyglass
Amethyst Blocks
- Amethyst comes in block form inside the Geodes in two ways: Block of Amethyst and Budding Amethyst
- All types of Amethyst blocks (Clusters included) create beautiful sounds when you walk on them, break them, place them, or hit them with a projectile – go make some music!
Amethyst Clusters
- Amethyst Clusters grow from Budding Amethyst, which can be found inside Amethyst Geodes
- Clusters have four growth stages: Small Amethyst Bud, Medium Amethyst Bud, Large Amethyst Bud, and Amethyst Cluster
- Clusters can only grow when they are placed on Budding Amethyst blocks
- Fully-grown Amethyst Clusters drop four Amethyst Shards (or more with Fortune) when mined with a Pickaxe, and drop two Amethyst Shards when broken by hand, Piston, or other means
- Clusters can be Silk Touched at any stage
Amethyst Geodes
- These huge geodes can be found anywhere underground in the Overworld
- Amethyst Geodes have an outer layer of a new stone called Smooth Basalt
- Amethyst Geodes have a second layer of another new block called Calcite
- Amethyst Geodes have an inner layer of various Amethyst blocks
Amethyst Shards
- Amethyst Clusters drop two Amethyst Shards when broken by hand, Piston, or other means
- Amethyst Clusters drop four Amethyst Shards when mined with a Pickaxe (or more with Fortune)
Axolotl
- Amphibious!
- Axolotls spawn in underground water that is in total darkness with Stone, Granite, Diorite, Andesite, Tuff, or Deepslate below
- Axolotls love tropical fish! Bucket of Tropical Fish can be used to breed Axolotls.
- Axolotls will swim around with you if you’re holding a Bucket of Tropical Fish in either hand
- When a player kills a mob that the Axolotl was attacking or being attacked by, the Axolotl will show its appreciation by granting the player temporary Regeneration and removing any Mining Fatigue effects
- If the player has more than 2 minutes of Regeneration effect left already, the axolotl will not grant additional regeneration
- You can pick up your Axolotl in a Water Bucket and carry it around just like a Salmon or a Cod!
- Axolotls will always chase after and attack Squids, Glow Squids, Tropical Fish, Cod, Salmon, Pufferfish, Drowned, Guardians, and Elder Guardians
- Axolotls do not like being out of water, and will dry up and begin taking damage if they are out of water for longer than 5 minutes
- An Axolotl will not dry up as long as they are in water or rain
- Sometimes when an Axolotl takes damage while inside water, it will pretend to be dead so that it stops being attacked
- There are four common varieties and one rare variety (blue) of Axolotl
- Axolotls spawn in underground water sources that are in total darkness and above natural stone blocks
- Axolotls now have a two-minute cooldown after hunting non-hostile targets: Squids, Glow Squids, Tropical Fish, Cod, Salmon, and Pufferfish
- Axolotls will prioritize targeting hostile mobs over hunting
Bone Meal
- A crinkly, crunchy sound plays when Bone Meal is used
Budding Amethyst
- On any side of a Budding Amethyst block where there is air or a water source block, a Small Amethyst Bud will eventually grow
- Amethyst Buds can only grow when attached to Budding Amethyst, and will grow until they become Amethyst Clusters
Building Blocks Tab
- All ores have been reordered to be in the same location in the creative inventory
- Compact forms of raw and refined underground materials have been reordered
Candles
- Candles come in all sixteen colors and one uncolored variant
- Up to four Candles can be placed in one block
- Waterloggable! (But you cannot light them underwater, silly)
- Wish anybody a happy birthday with a Cake with a Candle!
- Candles can only be placed if there is a solid surface below but will remain even if the surface below is removed
Cauldrons
- Cauldrons can now be filled with Lava and Powder Snow Buckets!
- Cauldrons filled with lava give off a Redstone signal with Strength 3 when used with a comparator
Copper Blocks
- Craft nine Copper Ingots into a Copper Block
- Craft Cut Copper, Cut Copper Stairs, and Cut Copper Slabs
- The Stonecutter can be used to craft the different Copper Block variants
- Use Honeycomb to craft Waxed Copper Blocks
- Right-click with Honeycomb on Copper Blocks to wax them
- Use Honeycomb in a Dispenser to wax Copper Blocks
Copper Ore
- Copper Ore can be found in ore blobs across the Overworld, similar to Iron and Coal (this is not the final generation for Copper…)
- Smelt Copper Ore to get a Copper Ingot
- Copper Ore drops 2-3 Raw Copper
Deepslate
- Deepslate can be found in the deepest parts of the underground, and is slightly tougher to mine than normal Stone
- Deepslate will drop Cobbled Deepslate, similar to how Stone drops Cobblestone
- You can still obtain Deepslate with Silk Touch
- Like Cobblestone, Cobbled Deepslate can be used to craft basic tools, Furnaces and Brewing Stands
- You can also craft the following blocks with Deepslate:
- Cobbled Deepslate Slab
- Cobbled Deepslate Stairs
- Cobbled Deepslate Wall
- Polished Deepslate
- Polished Deepslate Slab
- Polished Deepslate Stairs
- Polished Deepslate Wall
- Deepslate Bricks
- Deepslate Brick Slab
- Deepslate Brick Stairs
- Deepslate Brick Wall
- Deepslate Tiles
- Deepslate Tile Slab
- Deepslate Tile Stairs
- Deepslate Tile Wall
- Chiseled Deepslate
- Cracked Deepslate Bricks
- Cracked Deepslate Tiles
- There is also an Infested variant of Deepslate found in the underground
- Cobbled Deepslate can be smelted into Deepslate
Deepslate Ores
- When ore is generated in the same place as Deepslate, Deepslate variants of that ore are now generated instead
- Twice as tough to mine as normal ores
Dripstone Block
- Decorative block
- Can be crafted with four Pointed Dripstone
Pointed Dripstone
- Forms a stalactite if placed on the ceiling or a stalagmite if placed on the floor
- Can be combined to form longer stalactites & stalagmites
- Stalactites and stalagmites merge if the tips are next to each other unless you press shift while placing
- Stalagmites will break if they’re not attached to something below
- Landing or jumping on a stalagmite hurts! They are sharp
- Stalactites fall down if not attached to something above
- Being hit by a falling stalactite hurts! They are sharp
- Stalactites drip water (or lava if there is lava above the ceiling)
- A stalactite with a water source above the ceiling will gradually fill a cauldron below with water
- A stalactite with a lava source above the ceiling will fill a cauldron below with lava after a while
- Thrown Tridents break Pointed Dripstone
Dripstone Growth
- If a stalactite is hanging from a Dripstone Block with a water source above, it will slowly grow both the stalactite from above and a stalagmite from below
- Growth speed is random but very slow, a single growth step can take several Minecraft days
- A stalactite will only grow up to seven blocks long
- A stalactite will only cause stalagmite growth if the floor or stalagmite below is within 10 blocks
- If the stalactite tip is inside water it won’t drip, and therefore won’t trigger any growth
- If the stalagmite tip is inside water it won’t receive drops, and therefore won’t be grown by a dripping stalactite. Same thing if there is any fluid between the two tips.
- A stalagmite or stalactite will never grow into a fluid
Glow Lichen
- A dim light source that generates in caves
- Use Shears to pick it up
- Use Bone Meal to spread it along block surfaces
Glow Squid
- Glow Squids are well-lit and can be seen from far distances
- When killed, Glow Squids drop Glow Ink Sacs
- Glow Ink Sacs can be used on Signs to make the text super visible, even at night. Works with colors!
- Craft a Glow Item Frame by combining a Glow Ink Sac with an Item Frame in a Crafting Table. Any item in a Glow Item Frame is perfectly illuminated, even at night.
- Use an Ink Sac on a Sign to remove the glow effect
- Axolotls will attack any Glow Squids they see, so… be careful
- Glow Squids spawn in underground water that is in total darkness with Stone, Granite, Diorite, Andesite, Tuff, or Deepslate below
Goat
- Goats spawn in mountains
- Goats can scale the sides of mountains with their incredible jumps
- Goats can be tempted and bred using Wheat
- Goats are another source of Milk!
- Goats will ram anything that moves… also Armor Stands
- Two in every 100 goats have something very loud to tell you!
- Goats will avoid walking on Powder Snow
- Screaming Goats will use their ram attack more often than other Goats will
- Mobs rammed by Goats do not retaliate
Infested Blocks
- Infested Blocks are no longer instantly destroyed, and instead, have half the destroy time of their non-infested counterpart
Lightning Rod
- A Lightning Rod is crafted from three Copper Ingots
- Keeps your builds safe (well, as long as the closest area around the Lightning Rod is fireproof) during thunderstorms!
- The Lightning Rod will protect an area of 8 * 16 blocks around it from the, sometimes devastating, lightning strikes!
- Lightning Rods give off a Redstone signal when struck by lightning
Lush Caves Blocks
- Added Moss
- Added Dripleaves
- Added Rooted Dirt and Hanging Roots
- Added Spore Blossoms (currently only available in the Creative inventory)
- Added Cave Vines and Glow Berries
- Added Azalea Bushes
Azalea Bushes
- Added Azalea Bushes as well as Flowering Azaela Bushes
- Bees see Flowering Azalea (and Flowering Azalea Leaves) as flowers
- Bonemeal Azalea or Flowering Azalea to get an Azalea Tree
Cave Vines & Glow Berries
- Cave Vines grow down from the ceiling, like Weeping Vines
- When they grow they have a chance of producing Glow Berries
- Glow Berries are a natural light source as well as a food source
- Foxes eat Glow Berries
- Use Glow Berries to plant new Cave Vines
- Bonemealing a Cave Vine will create Glow Berries
Drip Leaves
- Small Dripleaf needs moisture, so it grows on Clay or underwater
- The facing direction of Small Dripleaf blocks is determined by which direction the player is facing when placing it
- The Wandering Trader will sometimes sell Small Dripleaf plants
- Small Dripleaf grows into Big Dripleaf when bonemealed
- Big Dripleaf grows taller when bonemealed
- If you stand on a Big Dripleaf, it will tilt after a while, and you will fall off
- A tilted Big Dripleaf will tilt up again after a while
- A Big Dripleaf will tilt when hit by a projectile
- A Redstone powered Big Dripleaf will not tilt (except when hit by a projectile)
Moss
- Two new decorative blocks: Moss Block and Moss Carpet
- Moss Carpet can be crafted from Moss Blocks
- Moss Blocks can be crafted with Cobblestone or Stone Bricks to make the mossy versions of those blocks
Roots
- Added Rooted Dirt and Hanging Roots – decorative blocks that will appear in the upcoming Lush Caves biome
- Bonemealing Rooted Dirt grows Hanging Roots underneath
- Tilling Rooted Dirt with a Hoe will convert it into Dirt, and pop out a Hanging Roots item.
Spore Blossoms
- A beautiful large flower placed on ceilings
- Particles drip from it and will appear in the air around it
Minecarts and Rails In Water
- All Rails can be waterlogged (works with a Dispenser & Water Bucket too)
- Flowing water doesn’t break Rails
- Minecarts can pass through water, but get slowed down more than usual
Oxidation
- Copper will oxidize over time
- There are four stages: Copper, Exposed Copper, Weathered Copper, and Oxidized Copper
- It takes 50-82 Minecraft days (in loaded chunks) for a Copper Block to oxidize one stage
- Waxed Copper Blocks will not oxidize
- You can wax any oxidation stage – how lovely, that means you can keep that pretty Weathered Copper Block in its weathered stage forever!
- A lightning strike hitting Copper will clean its oxidation
- Waxed Copper Blocks can be crafted into nine Copper Ingots
- Axes can scrape off wax and oxidation from Copper Blocks
Powder Snow
- Powder Snow is a trap block that causes any entity that walks into it to sink in it
- You can pick up and place Powder Snow with a Bucket
- Wear Leather Boots to prevent yourself from sinking into Powder Snow blocks
- Leave a Cauldron outside in falling snow and it will fill with Powder Snow
- Entities on fire now get extinguished when they collide with Powder Snow. The Powder Snow block is also destroyed
- Skeletons now convert to Strays when frozen
- Powder Snow is pushable by Pistons and Sticky Pistons
- Rabbits, Endermites, Silverfish, and Foxes can walk on top of Powder Snow without falling in
Freezing
- Standing in Powder Snow will slowly freeze an entity
- Once frozen, freeze damage is done every few seconds to the frozen entity
- Wearing any piece of Leather Armor prevents freezing entirely
- Added a freezeDamage game rule that allows players to toggle whether Powder Snow causes freeze damage or not
- Strays, Polar Bears, and Snow Golems are immune to freezing
- Mobs that are fully frozen will shake
- Mobs that enjoy the heat (Blazes, Magma Cubes, and Striders) take increased freeze damage
Redstone Tab
- The Redstone Tab has been reordered to prioritize highly-used blocks
- Redstone items/blocks have been grouped and ordered in the following way:
- Essentials
- Unique activators
- Miscellaneous
- Common activators
- Openables
- Slime Blocks and Honey Blocks have been moved to the Redstone tab
Smeltable Ore Drops
- Ores that are smeltable now drop raw item forms of the ore instead of the ore block, and these can be smelted just like before
- This is to prevent cluttering the inventory, and have consistency with Fortune on all ores
- Just like other ore materials, you can craft a compact version with raw ore items in order to save inventory space
Smooth Basalt
- Smelt Basalt to obtain Smooth Basalt
Spyglass
- You can use a Spyglass to see faraway things
- Pretend to be a sea captain, or catch your neighbor in the act as they dye your Sheep lime green
- The Spyglass is crafted from two Copper Ingots and one Amethyst Shard
Tinted Glass
- Tinted Glass is a type of glass that does not allow light to pass through
- Tinted Glass is crafted by putting a Glass Block in the middle of four Amethyst Shards
- Tinted Glass can be obtained without Silk Touch; it does not shatter like normal glass
Trade & Loot Tables
- Added the following trades to Mason:
- Will sell 4 Dripstone Blocks for 1 Emerald
- Added the following trades to Wandering Trader:
- Will sell 2 Pointed Dripstones for 1 Emerald
- Will sell 2 Rooted Dirt for 1 Emerald
- Will sell 2 Moss Blocks for 1 Emerald
- Moss Blocks can be found in Shipwreck Chests
- Glow Berries can be found in Mineshaft Chest Minecarts
Tuff
- A new type of stone that can be found in blobs between y0 and y16
Underground Structure Changes
- Strongholds are mostly encased in Stone
- Mineshaft corridors are supported by log pillars below or Chains above when needed
- Cobwebs don’t generate fully floating in the air
Visuals
- Sky color now varies smoothly when moving between different biomes
- Ores without unique shapes have been given new textures for accessibility reasons, so that each ore is distinguishable by shape alone
- Emerald Ore and Lapis Ore have had some small touch-ups
- Being the most iconic ore, Diamond Ore texture is staying the same to keep that classic feel maintained
- Blackstone, Polished Blackstone Bricks, and Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks have had some minor touch-ups
- Clock and Compass textures have been updated
World Generation
- Dripstone clusters can be found rarely in normal caves
- Deepslate blobs can be found from Y0 to y16
Minecraft Java update 1.16.4
Features
Social Interactions Screen
A new screen available in Multiplayer which shows a list of all players on a server so you can hide chat from any player.
- Opens with a configurable key binding, by default P
- Which players are hidden resets when you disconnect from a server
Blocked players
- When logging in with a Microsoft account, players blocked in your account are now also blocked in the game, and account restrictions are now respected
- Chat from blocked players is always hidden
- Realms invites from blocked players are hidden
Bugs Fixes
- MC-192434 – Netherite leggings are textured weirdly
- MC-199487 – WorldGen Deadlock
- MC-201885 – Divide by zero error in the Ender Dragon entity class can cause a server crash and infinite velocity
- MC-202147 – Cursor in Social Interactions & Recipe Book & Anvil menu doesn’t blink
Minecraft Java update 1.16.3
Bugs fixed:
- Piglins, piglin brutes, hoglins and zoglins have trouble pathfinding to the player when attacking.
- Giving an item and a gold ingot to a baby piglin and killing it duplicates the item.
Minecraft Java update 1.16.2 Piglin Brutes and more
Minecraft Java’s first big update following this year’s Nether Update adds a few Nether-related features and more accessibility options. The start of the show is the brand new mob, the so-tough-it-doesn’t-need armor Piglin Brute. It’s big, mean, and carries an axe. Hey Mojang, why can’t we carry axes?
New features
Accessibility
- Distortion effects such as nausea and the Nether portal overlay can now be reduced
- At lower values, the nausea effect is replaced with a green overlay as an alternative visualization
- Field of view effects, shown after speed modifiers are applied, can now be reduced
Chat delay
- Chat delay has been added to the Chat Settings screen
- Pressing F3+D now clears the pending chat messages
Bastion remnants
- Tweaked the Bastion Remnant chest loot
- Chests in Bastion Remnants are now more likely to be positioned on top of gilded blackstone
Blocks
- Brewing stands can now be crafted with blackstone
- Lanterns and Soul Lanterns can now be waterlogged
- Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium
- Chains can now be placed in all orientations
- Dripstone blocks can be crafted from four pointed dripstone
Items
- Tools are now sorted based on material in the creative inventory
- Totems of undying now give the fire resistance status effect for 40 seconds when activated
Mobs
- Endermen will no longer place their held block onto bedrock blocks
- Zoglins can now be leashed
- When a Zombified Piglin is spawned riding a Strider, it will now be holding a Warped Fungus on a Stick
Piglins
- Added Piglin Brutes!
- Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a Chest Minecart
- Tweaked bartering loot
Piglin Brutes
- Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastions and protect the treasures there
- Unlike the their cowardly and greedy counterparts, the Piglin Brutes cannot be distracted by gold and aren’t afraid of anything
- Piglin Brutes attack players on sight, no matter how they are dressed
- Piglin Brutes wield axes and don’t need any armor, because they’re just that tough
Respawn block positions
- Modified how respawn positions are chosen for beds and respawn anchors
- Respawn anchors will prioritize cardinal directions over corners
- Beds will prioritize the side of the bed the player entered from and then spaces circling around the foot of the bed up to the head of the bed
- Respawning players will now face the block that they respawned at
- Placing players onto dangerous blocks is now avoided when possible
Villagers
- Villagers now emit green particles when joining a village, setting a home bed, or acquiring a job site / profession
- Villagers now lose their job sites when changing dimension
For the full patch notes that covers smaller technical changes, check out the official changelog on the Minecraft website.
Minecraft Java update: 1.16 The Nether Update
If you want a more skim-able version of changes, check out our dedicated page to the Minecraft Nether Update for a high-level look at what’s new and changed. For the nitty gritty, here are Mojang’s official patch notes for the release.
After you catch up on what all the news blocks are called, you may also want some help figuring out how to get Blackstone, how to get Netherite, and how to craft Respawn Anchors.
Nether Update Features List
- Added Basalt Deltas biome to the Nether
- Added Crimson Forest biome to the Nether
- Added Hoglins
- Added Netherite
- Added Piglins
- Added ruined portals
- Added Soulsand Valley biome to the Nether
- Added Striders
- Added Warped Forest biome to the Nether
- Added Zoglins
- Added a new disableChat command line option – when used, receiving and sending online chat is disabled
- Added a new disableMultiplayer command line option – when used, the Multiplayer button is disabled
- Added bastion remnants
- Added new Game Mode Switcher debug menu
- Added new Nether blocks
- Added the Soul Speed enchantment
- Added the lodestone
- Added the respawn anchor that allows you to set your respawn point in the Nether. Use while holding glowstone to charge to a maximum of four charges – each respawn use one charge
- You can charge the respawn anchor using a dispenser
- You can charge the respawn anchor using a dispenser
- Added the target block
- Basalt is formed when lava flows over soul soil next to blue ice
- Bell blocks will now ring when hit by any projectile
- Bells can now be hung from the underside of more blocks
- Compasses can now be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing
- Endermen can now pick up some of the new Nether blocks
- Endermen will no longer pick up Netherrack
- Entities now get pushed by flowing lava
- Farmer Villagers can now compost seeds
- Fish now despawn when further than 64 blocks away from the closest player
- Huge fungi will now only grow on its matching type of nylium
- Knockback resistance is now a scale instead of a probability
- Lily pads are now considered junk fishing loot rather than treasure
- Patrols no longer spawn when the player is close to a village
- TNT and campfires will now ignite when hit by any burning projectile
- The General statistics list is now alphabetically sorted
- Updated logos for Mojang Studios and Minecraft
- Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time
- Walls do not have gaps anymore when stacked vertically
- Walls will now connect to even more things, such as iron bars, panes, pressure plates, banners, and even pickles
- When a Villager is struck by lightning, the witch it is converted to will no longer despawn
- When fishing, treasure loot can now only be obtained by fishing in open waters
New Nether Biomes
Basalt Deltas
Remnants of volcanic eruptions, this biome sports a high concentration of basalt columns and lava deltas. Walking through it, you will be surrounded by flowing flakes of white ash. Magma cubes finally have their own home and spawn very frequently here. A new block, blackstone, can be found here in large patches.
Crimson Forest
Crimson nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation. Crimson nylium can be bonemealed to get more of this strange new vegetation. Huge crimson fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor. Nether wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe. Weeping vines grow from the cave ceilings and fungi. Hoglins wander these forests. Crimson spores swirl through the air.
Soulsand Valley
An open space made mostly of soul sand and soul soil. Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling. Fossil remains of unknown creatures from the past litter the valley. Ash falls through the air. A light blue glow envelopes the valley. Beware of skeletons here.
Warped Forest
Warped nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation. Warped nylium can be bonemealed to get more of the strange new vegetation. Huge warped fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor. Warped wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe. A dark blue fog covers the forest. Warped spores swirl through the air. The Warped Forests are strange, but also the least hostile place in the Nether.
New Nether Mobs
Hoglin
- Hoglins are big aggressive beasts that live in crimson forests in the Nether
- They attack players on sight. Be careful – they can easily knock you off a ledge!
- Hoglins drop pork and sometimes leather, but not willingly
- You can breed Hoglins by feeding them crimson fungi. Do so at your own risk
- Hoglins get hunted by Piglins sometimes, but they don’t go down without a fight
- Despite this, Hoglins and Piglins aren’t enemies – more like an ecosystem
- Baby Hoglins like to pretend they are tough – but don’t worry, they’re more bark than bite
- Want to keep Hoglins off your back? Pro tip: Hoglins hate the smell of warped fungi
- Hoglins that somehow end up in the Overworld become Zoglins fairly quickly – but who would ever bring a Hoglin to the Overworld?
Zoglin
- Zoglins are zombified Hoglins – the result of bringing a Hoglin into the Overworld
- Unlike Hoglins, they can’t be bred or fed, and they don’t care about warped fungus
- Beware – these beasts are raving mad and attack just about everything they see!
Piglin
- Piglins are an aggressive civilization that lives in the Nether
- They mostly hang around in Crimson Forests, but you might find some in the Nether Wastes too
- They think of players as target practice and will attack on sight
- However, if you dress appropriately, they will see you as a respectable figure. Or tolerable at least
- Piglins are suspicious of strangers. If they see you opening a chest or other container, they will assume that you’re stealing and will treat you accordingly
- If Piglins hear you break a chest or a block of gold (or similar), they will also assume you are stealing
- Piglins LOVE gold and get very distracted by gold items
- Gold ingots are currency to Piglins. Throw ingots at them, or right-click them with an ingot, to barter for various goods
- Piglins sometimes get hungry and hunt Hoglins for food. Or they try at least. They results… vary.
- Piglins prefer to hunt and fight in groups. When a fight is happening, everyone wants in
- Piglins that somehow end up in the Overworld become zombified fairly quickly
- Piglins are creeped out by soul fire and Zombified Piglins, and will avoid them if possible
- Wither skeletons and Withers are historic enemies of the Piglins and will be attacked on sight
- Baby Piglins are not as dangerous, but they can be mischievous, so watch your back
- …and they like to play with Baby Hoglins
- …and they like to play with Baby Hoglins
- Added a Piglin banner pattern that can be found in bastion remnants
Zombified Piglin
- Zombie Pigmen are now known as Zombified Piglins, and they now have ears. Well, at least one ear
- Zombified Piglins no longer attack innocent bystanders (unless you enable gamerule universalAnger)
- Zombified Piglins stop being angry if the targeted player dies nearby (unless you disable gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers)
- Zombified Piglins continuously spread to other Zombified Piglins, as long as they see their target
Strider
- Strides on top of the surface of lava
- Can be saddled, but has a will of its own
- Really likes the smell of warped fungi – might even be convinced to follow it
Nether Update new blocks
- Added crying obsidian. It’s sad and cries purple energy
- Added basalt. Craft it 2×2 or use a stone cutter to create clean and shiny polished basalt!
- Added blackstone, along with its variants: regular, polished, and polished brick
- Blackstone can be used to craft furnaces and stone tools
- Blackstone can be used to craft furnaces and stone tools
- Blackstone can be used to craft furnaces and stone tools
- Added gilded blackstone – blackstone which has been imbued with gold and has a chance of dropping gold nuggets when broken
- Added chiseled Nether bricks, cracked Nether bricks, and quartz bricks
- Added two new non-flammable wood-like blocks: crimson stems and warped stems
- Added crimson and warped hyphae – all-sided “stem” blocks, including stripped variations
- Added new ground surface blocks: crimson nylium and warped nylium
- Added new vegetation: Nether sprouts, crimson roots, and warped roots
- Added two types of fungi: crimson and warped. Try using bone meal to grow them!
- You can place crimson and warped roots and fungi into pots
- You can place crimson and warped roots and fungi into pots
- You can place crimson and warped roots and fungi into pots
- Added warped wart blocks
- Added weeping vines that grow from the bottom of a block downwards
- Added twisting vines that grow upwards
- Added a new natural light source block: Shroomlights
- Added soul soil. Whenever fire burns on soul soil, it burns with a blue flame
- Soul soil and soul sand can be used to craft soul torches, which in turn can be crafted into soul lanterns
- The Wither can now be summoned using soul soil as base
- Soul soil and soul sand can be used to craft soul torches, which in turn can be crafted into soul lanterns
- The Wither can now be summoned using soul soil as base
- Soul soil and soul sand can be used to craft soul torches, which in turn can be crafted into soul lanterns
- The Wither can now be summoned using soul soil as base
- Added soul campfires. Warm your buns with the heat of one thousand souls!
- Added chain blocks
- Added Lodestone. Crafted from a Netherite ingot and chiseled stone bricks
- Use a compass on a lodestone to create a lodestone compass, which will point to that lodestone
Netherite
- Mine ancient debris in the lower depths of the Nether. At your own risk though. No insurance coverage for that
- Combine four Netherite scrap with four gold ingots in a crafting table to make a Netherite ingot
- Refine it into Netherite scrap in a furnace or blast furnace
- Use a smithing table to fuse the Netherite ingot with your diamond weapon, tool, or armor
- Netherite items float in lava – just so you don’t lose all your gear after that unplanned lava bath
- Netherite items have higher enchantment value than diamond (but not as high as gold)
- Netherite tools work faster and last longer than diamond
- Netherite weapons do more damage than diamond
- Netherite armor have higher toughness and durability than diamond
- Netherite armor gives you knockback resistance, so you barely get knocked back at all when hit by arrows and such
- Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon and Netherite ingots can be used as the fuel for a beacon.
Soul Speed
- Shine your boots of choice with this soul-sucking enchantment to speed around on soul sand and soul soil
- However, there’s a downside: enchantments will slowly degrade your boots each soul block you walk on
- Can only be obtained by bartering with those pesky Piglins
Bastion Remnants
- Added four separate bastion remnant types: bridge, Hoglin stable, housing units, and treasure room
- You can find these sizable structures in all Nether biomes, except the treacherous ash-dusted regions of Basalt Deltas
- Explore, loot, and conquer a bastion remnant to call it your home – but beware! Piglins don’t take kindly to intruders stealing their possessions
Ruined Portals
- They can be found in any Overworld or Nether biome
- Some are hidden underground, under the sea, or buried in sand
Nether Update mob anger rules
Forgive Dead Players
- If this gamerule is disabled, then angered mobs will stay angry even if the targeted player dies
- If both forgiveDeadPlayers and universalAnger are enabled, an angered neutral mob will stop being angry when their target dies. They won’t seek any new targets after that
- Notable exception: Angered Zombified Piglins continuously spread anger. So even if one Zombified Piglin stops being angry because its target died, other angered Zombified Piglins nearby are likely to make it angry again. The only way to stop the anger is if none of the angered Zombified Piglins see a player for a while
Neutral Mob Anger
Updated anger management for most neutral mobs (polar bear, wolf, bee, Enderman, Piglin, Zombified Piglin).
- When hurt by a player, the neutral mob will target that player and try to kill it
- The mob will stay angry until the player is dead or out of sight for a while
- Anger is persistent, so a player can’t escape by temporarily logging out or switching dimension
- If a targeted player dies near the angered mob, it will stop being angry (unless forgiveDeadPlayers is disabled)
- Neutral mobs also get angry at other mobs who hurt them. However, that anger is not persistent
- Angered neutral mobs will only attack the offending player, not innocent bystanders
- Notable exception: If a beehive or nest is broken, the bees will be angry at all nearby players
- Notable exception: If a beehive or nest is broken, the bees will be angry at all nearby players
- Notable exception: If a beehive or nest is broken, the bees will be angry at all nearby players
- Some mobs spread anger (wolf, Zombified Piglin, Piglin, bee). If a player attacks one, all nearby mobs of the same type will get angry at that player
Universal Anger
Universal anger is basically guilt by association. A neutral mob attacked by players will be angry at players in general, regardless of who attacked them.
- A neutral mob attacked by a player will target the nearest player, even if that player wasn’t the attacker
- Every time the neutral mob is hit by a player it will update its attack target to the nearest player
- Players can use this to make neutral mobs attack other players. Who would ever do something that devious?
- Universal anger does not apply when a neutral mob is attacked by another mob – only when it is attacked by a player
- Universal anger is persistent. The angered mob will stay angry even if the player logs out and logs in, or jumps through a portal and back
- Mobs that spread anger will also spread universal anger. So if a player attacks a Zombified Piglin, all other Zombified Piglins within sight will be universally angry and attack their nearest player
- An angered neutral mob will stop being angry if it can’t see any eligible target for a while
Nether Update advancements
Bullseyeunlocks when hitting the bullseye of a target block from at least 30 meters awayHidden in the Depthsunlocks when obtaining ancient debrisCover Me in Debrisunlocks when obtaining full Netherite armorCountry Lode, Take Me Homeunlocks when using a compass on a lodestoneWho Is Cutting Onions?unlocks when obtaining crying obsidianNot Quite "Nine" Livesunlocks when setting a respawn anchor to the maximumThis Boat Has Legsunlocks when riding a Strider with a fungus on a stickHot Tourist Destinationsunlocks when visiting all biomes in the NetherThose Were the Daysunlocks when entering a bastionWar Pigsunlocks when looting a chest in a bastionOh Shinyunlocks when distracting an angry Piglin with gold
Accessibility
- Added “Line Spacing” chat and accessibility option
- Added “Chat Delay” accessibility option
Nether Update feature changes
Advancements
- Piglins and Hoglins are now required for
Monster HunterandMonsters Hunted Serious Dedicationis now awarded for obtaining a Netherite hoe- Obtaining blackstone now also counts for the
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The Parrots and the Batsand is now required forTwo by Two
Mob Changes
- Reduced the maximum distance a bee can wander away from its home hive to ~22 blocks
- Farmers can now put excess seeds in the composter to create bone meal
- Bone meal is used by the farmers to grow crops
- Bone meal is used by the farmers to grow crops
- Farmers share excess wheat to other farmers, so more farmers can make bread
- Players can no longer mount another entity when the crouch key is held down
- Added gamerule universalAnger (disabled by default), which makes angered neutral mobs attack any nearby player – not just the player that angered them. Works best if you disable forgiveDeadPlayers
- Added gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers (enabled by default), which makes angered neutral mobs stop being angry when the targeted player dies nearby
- Parrots imitate hostile mobs less often
- Parrots do not randomly imitate hostile mobs when gamemode is on peaceful
Hoe Changes
- Each tier has different speed at which hoes mine blocks they are effective against
- Hoes can now be enchanted with the following enchantments: Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch
- Those enchantments can now be provided through enchanting table
- Hoes are now the appropriate tool for mining hay, targets, dried kelp blocks, leaves, Shroomlights, Nether wart blocks, warped wart blocks, sponges, and wet sponges.
Block Changes
- Nether gold ore can now be found in the Nether – it drops a few gold nuggets and can be mined with any type of pickaxe
- Bone meal can now be used to grow kelp, weeping vines, and twisting vines
- Using bone meal on Netherrack can now spread nylium
- Nether vegetation blocks (sprouts, roots, vines, fungus, wart and wart blocks) are now compostable
- Nether sprouts can be harvested with shears
- Food can now be placed on unlit campfires
- Crimson fungi is now called crimson fungus
- Warped fungi is now called warped fungus
- Weeping vines are now climbable!
Redstone Changes
- A dot of redstone will not power its surrounding blocks
- A single redstone wire is now represented as a cross
- A wire on top of a block, which is redirected from below, will now power the sides it is redirected to. E.g. a fence gate above the redirecting wire will be powered
- Wires that redirect upwards to wires on non-conductive blocks used to only be redirected visually. Now, this redirection applies to their behavior as well
- A wire that is redirected to go over a block will now always provide power to the block. This is most noticeable when the wire has signal strength 1
- When right-clicking a single piece of redstone, it will toggle between a the cross and the dot
- The target block now conducts redstone signals
Dispensers
- Dispensers can now saddle pigs and horses
- Dispensers can now put horse armor on horses
- Dispensers can now put carpets on llamas
- Dispensers can now put chests on llamas, donkeys and mules
- Dispensers can now shear a Mooshroom
- Dispensers can now shear snow golems
F3 + N Spectator Toggle
- By default, using this key would return you to Creative after toggling from Spectator. It now will toggle back to the previous game mode you had
- As an example, if you were in Survival, then toggled to Spectator and back, you would be set back to Survival
Game Mode Switcher
- Hold F3 and tap F4 to open the menu
- Tapping F4 will cycle the game mode, or you can use the mouse
- Release F3 to apply
- Your last game mode is remembered and will be the first selected option, so you can quickly toggle between two game modes with a single press of F3 + F4!
Creative Mode changes
- You can now milk cows and Mooshrooms in creative mode
- You can now get stew from Mooshrooms in creative mode
- When using an empty bucket on water in creative mode, you now get a bucket of water. If you have a bucket of water in your inventory already, no additional water buckets will be added when you use your empty bucket on water
Sounds
- Ghasts sounds are now heard at shorter range
- Updated block sounds for bone blocks, Netherrack, soul sand, Nether wart, Nether bricks, and quartz ore
- New ambient sounds for the Nether biomes
- New mood detection algorithm for cave sounds
- Added a new music disc titled “Pigstep” by Lena Raine, which can only be found in bastion remnants
Target Block
- The closer you hit to the center, the larger the redstone signal
- Test your skills with a variety of projectiles, including eggs, snowballs, tridents, and more
- You will need one hay block and four redstone for this recipe
Villager workstation logic
- Villagers no longer try to work at the same workstation
- The most experienced nearby villager for the profession corresponding to the workstation you add will get the workstation
- Villagers now have to walk to and reach the workstation before they can acquire the profession and/or work there
- Villagers can no longer claim workstations or professions during raids or night time
- Villagers will check and make sure their workstation is valid at all times of day as long as they are within 16 blocks of their workstation
World Generation
- The old Nether biome is now called Nether Wastes
- Shipwrecks and ocean ruins are now a bit less common, so you get more excited when you find one!
- Patches of blackstone and gravel now generate in all Nether biomes, and patches of soul sand now generate in Soul Sand Valleys
Minecraft Java update: 1.15.2 patch notes
Patch 1.15.2 has a bit more meat on the bones than 15.1. We’ve got small changes to how bees bee-have when using a silk touch tool and extensive changes to hive spawn rates in certain biomes. Bees are still relatively rare, so get to hunting! See the official patch notes page here.
- Bees no longer anger when a nearby nest/hive is destroyed using a silk touch tool
- Added doPatrolSpawning and doTraderSpawning game rules that control spawning of patrols and wandering traders, respectively
- Added gui_light option in block models to allow controlling light when rendering model as item in GUI
- Controls light when rendering block model inside slot. If set to side, model will be rendered like block. If set to front, model is shaded like flat item
- Any birch or oak sapling grown near a flower within 2 blocks distance on the same y-level has a 5% chance of having a bee nest
- Bee Nests now have a 2% chance of spawning in Flower Forests
- Bee Nests now have a 0.2% chance of spawning in Forest, Wooded Hills, Birch Forest, Tall Birch Forest, Birch Forest Hills, and Tall Birch Hills biomes
- Fixed bugs
Minecraft Java update: 1.15.1 patch notes
Patch 1.15.1 is a simple little patch with mostly full of bug fixes. No new content, but important improvements nonetheless! Head here for the official patch page.
- Optimized chunk rendering performance, especially for chunks with many different block states
- Fixed an error spammed to the game’s log files caused by custom spawner blocks spawning villagers
- Improved network handling of invalid Biome ids
- Fixed a crash in the Realms screen
- Fixed bugs
- Removed Herobrine
Minecraft Java update: 1.15 patch notes
Minecraft Java 1.15 adds something that not enough of our real world appreciates enough: bees! Minecraft bees live in bee nests that spawn in flowery biomes. They pollinate flowers and crops to help them grow better, fill nests and craftable hives with honey, and can captured and farmed.
For everything else bees can do and more in this update, check out the full patch notes. Here are the highlights:
- Added Bees
- Added Bee Nests and Hives
- Added Honeycomb
- Added some dispenser functionality
- Minecraft: Java Edition now requires OpenGL 2.0
- New function for loot tables called copy_state
- Fixed bugs
Minecraft Java update: 1.14.4 patch notes
Looking through the Minecraft update 1.14.4 patch notes, minor adjustments and a variety of fixes dot the landscape. Adjustments to villager behavior, the new sieges, and some multiplayer settings changes are the highlights.
For access to the full patch notes including bugfixes, check here.
- Fixed bugs.
- Performance improvements.
- Suspicious stew made from poppies now gives you night vision instead of speed.
- Added /debug report for getting more detailed information.
- Fixed a memory leak.
- Removed camera pivot offset in first-person.
- Improved chunk loading when traveling at high speed.
- Fixed incorrect Pillager texture.
- /reload and /forceload are now available to gamemasters.
- function-permission-level is a new setting in server.properties that controls which commands functions have access to.
- Villagers now stock more items.
- Villagers will now remember their gossip after becoming a Zombie Villager .
- Improved performance of Villager pathfinding.
- Villagers can now work without also restocking at the same time.
- Gossip about players who converted a zombie villager will now last longer.
- The Player Activity button on the Realm screen has been removed.
- Villagers now wait with restocking until they have trades that need restocking.
- Village sieges no longer occur on mushroom islands.
- Mobs will no longer try to pathfind their way through bamboo.
- Pinged the human.
Minecraft Java update: 1.14.3 patch notes
Check here for the full patch notes, including bugfixes
- Items can now be repaired by crafting them together again.
- Reverted the enchanting system to how it was before 1.14.
- Torches, lanterns and pressure plates can now be placed on glass panes and iron bars.
- Lanterns can now be attached below iron bars and glass panes.
- Saturation is no longer required for the “How did we get here?” advancement.
- You can now turn off raids with ‘/gamerule disableRaids true’
- Villagers that are panicking now have a bigger chance of spawning Iron Golems, assuming they can occasionally work and sleep
- “Last slept” and “last worked” is now saved properly for Villagers
- Farmers now spend more time farming when they are working
- Farmers can now always give away food even if other villagers don’t need it
- Improved performance
- Fixed bugs
Patrol Changes:
Minecraft Java update: 1.14.2 patch notes
You can find the full patch notes, with bugfixes, over here.
- All light will now be re-calculated the first time you open a world saved in a previous version
- Errors encountered while loading regions now print more diagnostics to the log file
- Fixed so parrots can spawn on grass blocks and not only on grass
- Added server-side chunk count to debug screen
- Modified raider spawning so they can only ever spawn in fully loaded chunks
- Increased search radius for bell when starting a raid from 48 to 64 blocks
- Fixed bugs
Minecraft Java Village & Pillage update: 1.14.0 patch notes
Minecraft – Village & Pillage – 1.14.0 patch notes
For the full listing, including technical changes and bug fixes, check here.
General Features Overview
- Lots of accessibility improvements.
- Added bamboo blocks into the game.
- Added bamboo jungles in the world.
- Added barrels.
- Added the bell.
- Added yummy sweet berries and sweet berry bushes to the game.
- Added blast furnace.
- Rewrote the book & quill editing to be more intuitive.
- Added campfire.
- Added cartography table.
- Split cats and ocelots to their own creatures and updated cats with new features.
- Added composter.
- Added crossbows.
- Added lots of new blocks.
- Added lots of new decorative blocks.
- Added fletching table.
- Added new dyes and flowers.
- Added some community suggestions.
- Updated the credits list.
- Added in-game buttons for reporting bugs or giving feedback.
- Improvements to invisibility to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it didn’t but you’d expect it to.
- Added grindstone functionality.
- Added ‘Hero of the Village’ effect.
- Added leather horse armor.
- Added lantern.
- Added lectern.
- Added loom.
- Existing special banner patterns can now be crafted into a new item that is not consumed when used, Banner Patterns.
- Added a new “Globe” banner pattern and item.
- We’re now using the new textures.
- Added new noteblock sounds.
- Added pandas.
- Added foxes.
- Added Illager patrols.
- Added Pillagers.
- Added Pillager outpost.
- Added raids.
- Added Ravager.
- Added Wandering Trader.
- Added scaffolding.
- Rewrote the sign editing to be more intuitive.
- Added smithing table.
- Added smoker.
- Added stonecutter.
- Added suspicious stew.
- Trading changes.
- Villager changes.
- Biome based architecture for villages.
Accessibility
- There’s a new Accessibility menu which provides a useful place for all of our accessibility features to be toggled.
- When the narrator is turned on, buttons will be narrated on focus.
- Most screens allow tab and shift+tab navigation through buttons, edit boxes and other UI elements.
- Most lists allow up/down arrow keys to navigate through them.
- We’ve added a new option for turning up the background of all transparent text elements, which should help make them more readable for some people.
Bamboo
- Can be found in Jungles and the two new biomes: bamboo jungle and bamboo jungle hills.
- Can grow to a max height of 12 to 16 blocks.
- When sprinkled with bone meal, bamboo will grow with one or two bamboo blocks on the top.
- When struck with a sword, bamboo will instantly break.
- Two bamboo can be crafted into a single stick.
- Can be used as fuel, with four bamboo required to smelt a single item.
- Bamboo can be placed into flower pots.
- Bamboo can also be found in shipwrecks and jungle temples.
Barrels
- Store things in them!
- Rotate them!
- Find them in villages!
Bells
- Trade with certain villagers to obtain the bell
- Use the bell to alert villagers of nearby danger
- A villager will ring the bell to alert other villagers of an impending raid
- Ringing bells reveals all nearby mobs that can appear in raids
Berries
- Delicious!
- Not very filling!
- Plant your berries in the ground and look with your special eyes as they grow up into a strong, independent bush!
Berry Bush
- Commonly found in taiga, taiga hills, and taiga mountains
- Rarely found in snowy taiga and snowy taiga hills and snowy taiga mountains
- You can stand inside them, but be careful, it will hurt to move
- Has four stages of growth: sapling, no berries, some berries, full berries
- Drops one or two berries in younger stage, then two or three in full growth stage
- Supports bone meal!
- Doesn’t support silk touch!
Biome-based Architecture for Villages
- Villages have recieved an updated look, with several new themes
- The theme depends on the biome the village is in, taking both climate and to available resources into consideration
- Uses the new mysterious jigsaw block for generation
- Adds new structure files, quite many actually
Blast Furnace
- A new furnace upgrade that allows for smelting ores and melting metals faster than the traditional furnace
- Can be crafted via three smooth stone, one furnace, and five iron ingots
- Added to world gen in some villager buildings
Campfire
- A decorative fireplace without fire spread
- Cooks up to four foods, but slowly
- Acts as a smoke signal you can see very (VERY!) far away when a hay bale is below (hint: think note blocks!)
- Cosy light source
- Can be lit/unlit
Cartography Table
- New functional block that provides an easier and simpler way of cloning, extending, and locking of maps
- New map functionality with cartography table
- Map Locking: allows you to lock maps in the cartography table with a glass pane so that they can no longer be modified
- Map Locking: allows you to lock maps in the cartography table with a glass pane so that they can no longer be modified
- Fancy UI to more closely represent what the recipes actually do functionally
- Crafted with two planks and two paper
Cat and Ocelot Split
- Stray cats can be tamed
- Tamed cats can give lovely (or less lovely) morning gifts to their owners
- Ocelots can’t be tamed, but might start trusting you if you feed them with fish
- Phantoms are terribly scared of cats – how convenient!
- Cat collars can now be dyed
- Added several new cat skins!
Community Suggestions
- Leaves now have a small chances to drop sticks
- Chorus fruit flowers now break when shot by an arrow
- Dead bushes can now be used as furnace fuel
- Rabbit stew and beetroot soup have been changed to a shapeless recipe
- Creepers will now drop records when killed by Stray in addition to skeletons
- Dispensers with shears in them will now shear sheep that have wool in front of them
- TNT and TNT minecart explosions now have 100% drop rate
Composter
- Instead of eating your veggies you can make fertilizer from it!
- Crafted with 3 planks and 4 fences
Crossbows
“To charge the crossbow, hold down the “Use” button. Once the crossbow string has been pulled all the way back, let go. Your crossbow is now loaded and ready to shoot with a single click of the “Use” button.”
- Shoots arrows with base power slightly stronger than the bow, but has less durability
- Three unique enchantments
- Fun, challenging advancements
- New loading mechanics
- Unique load animation
Enchantments
Three new enchantments for Crossbows.
Decorative Blocks
- Changed all existing stone slabs to smooth stone slabs (same look, new name!)
- Changed all existing signs to oak signs (same look, new name!)
- Made smooth stone slabs craftable from smooth stone
- Added spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak signs
- You can now right click on signs with dyes to change the text colour
- Added stone stairs and slabs
- Added granite stairs, slabs and walls
- Added polished granite stairs and slabs
- Added diorite stairs, slabs and walls
- Added polished diorite stairs and slabs
- Added andesite stairs, slabs and walls
- Added polished andesite stairs and slabs
- Added sandstone walls
- Added smooth red sandstone stairs and slabs
- Added smooth quartz stairs and slabs
- Added brick walls
- Added stone brick walls
- Added mossy stone brick stairs, slabs and walls
- Added nether brick walls
- Added end stone brick stairs, slabs and walls
- Added prismarine walls
- Added red sandstone walls
- Added red nether brick stairs, slabs and walls
- Added smooth sandstone stairs and slabs
- Added mossy cobblestone stairs and slabs
- Made smooth stone obtainable by smelting stone
- Made smooth sandstone obtainable by smelting sandstone
- Made smooth red sandstone obtainable by smelting red sandstone
- Made smooth quartz obtainable by smelting quartz block
- Changed the recipe of nether brick fence to four brick blocks and two brick items
- Changed the recipe of signs to require all of the same wood type, not any wood type
Dyes
- Separated bone meal, ink sac, cocoa beans, and lapis lazuli into their own dyes
- Unified all dye names (red, yellow, and green dyes no longer have special names)
- Added new recipes to obtain coloured stained glass and coloured carpet
Fletching Table
- Crafted with four planks and two flint
- Villagers use it as a work site
Flowers
- Added cornflower, wither rose and lily of the valley
- Be careful of the wither rose!
Foxes
- Foxes come in two variants: red and snowy
- Foxes are nocturnal
- Foxes will hunt rabbits, chickens, and fish
- Foxes are hunted by wolves and polar bears
- Foxes are nimble and quick, so sneak up on them carefully!
- Breed foxes with berries
- If you breed two foxes, their offspring will trust you forever
- Trusting foxes will defend you, but will still eat your chickens
- Foxes like to eat any and every food item they find on the ground
- You may find a fox exploring a nearby village at night
Grindstone
- Moved inventory and crafting table repairing into the grindstone, this will be its new home
- Has the ability to remove all non-curse enchantments from an item; for each enchant removed some XP is reimbursed
Hero of the Village
- Hero of the Village effect causes the cost of trades with villagers to be reduced by a percentage and scales with level of the effect.
- Hero of the Village additionally causes Villagers to occassionally toss items to you to thank you!
Horse Leather Armor
- Added a new armour type for horses
- Dye it in lots of different colours
Illager Patrols
- Spawn in the world as a pack of five random illagers
- Spawn in all variations of the Plains, Taiga, Deserts, Savanna
- Scary-spooky new banner can be found a top the patrol leaders head
Lantern
- The lantern is a new light source
- The lantern can be placed either hanging under a block or on top of a block
- It gives slightly more light than the torch
Lectern
- Right-click an empty lectern to place book
- Right-click a lectern with book to open
- Current page is persistent and shared between all readers
- Emits redstone pulses when page is changed
- Use a comparator to get book reading progress
Loom
- New and easier way of being able to apply patterns to banners, can still only apply six max patterns to a banner
- Generic patterns now only require one dye in order to create patterns, instead of one to eight (depending on the pattern)
- Special banner patterns (oxeye daisy, creeper skull, wither skeleton skull, enchanted golden apple) can now be crafted. These patterns don’t consume the pattern item when used in the loom
- Old pattern recipes in the crafting table for apply patterns to banners have been removed
New Blocks
- Added barrel
- Added smoker
- Added blast furnace
- Added cartography table
- Added fletching table
- Added grindstone
- Added lectern
- Added smithing table
- Added stonecutter
- Added village bell
New Textures
- Renovated the old textures of Minecraft and polished them for a new beginning
- If you’re feeling nostalgic you can always enable the old “Programmer Art” textures in the resource pack menu
Noteblock
- 5 new Noteblock sounds have been added: Iron Xylophone, Cow Bell, Didgeridoo, Bit, and Banjo
- 1 previously existing, but unused, sound effect has now been made available: Pling
- The new Noteblock sounds can be heard by using Iron Blocks, Soul Sand, Pumpkins, Emerald Blocks, Hay Blocks, or Glowstone
Pandas
- Pandas come in different types and personalities!
- Pandas love bamboo! They kinda like cake as well
- Pandas can be bred, and the cubs can inherit traits through a special panda inheritance system
- Pandas spawn naturally in the new bamboo forest biome
- Pandas drop bamboo when killed.
Pillager
- A new type of illager that, well, pillages!
- Pillagers wield a new weapon, the crossbow!
Pillager Outpost
- As if finding pillager patrols out in the wild wasn’t scary enough, keep an eye out during your explorations and you may just find one of their outposts
- Can be found in any biome villages generates in
- Takes advantage of the new mystery block, the jigsaw, for generation
Raids
- If you find an illager wearing a banner on its head, be careful not to kill it!
- If you do kill it, you might find yourself facing a ‘Bad Omen’
- If you find yourself with a bad omen buff, be especially careful not to walk into a village
- If you do walk into a village with it? Best of luck!
Ravager
- A fearsome new foe who packs quite a wallop. Grab your sword and shield and prepare to get knocked around!
Rewrite of Book and Quill Editing
- Movable cursor for free text editing
- Selection support
- Copy & paste
- Keyboard and mouse handling
- Improved page filling and line wrapping
- Increased book length (100 pages)
Rewrite of Sign Editing
- Movable cursor for free text editing
- Selection support
- Copy & paste
Scaffolding
- Easily buildable
- Easily destroyable
- Easily climbable
- Easily the best use of your Bamboo
Smithing Table
- Crafted with 4 planks + 2 iron ingots
- Villagers use it as a work site
Smoker
- New furnace upgrade that allows for the smelting of foods faster than the traditional furnace
- Can be crafted via four Logs, and one furnace
- Added to world gen in some villager buildings
Stonecutter
- New functional block that provides a simpler way to craft various stones (stairs, slabs, chiseled, and more)
- Crafted with three stone + one iron ingot
Suspicious Stew
- Found in buried ship treasure chests
- Also craftable!
- Whoever eats this stew will be imbued with an unknown effect for several seconds!
- Whoever crafts the stew will know what effect they gave it
Trading Changes
- Lots of new trades have been added
- Villagers now level up in a new way
- The trading UI is updated (WIP)
- The trading prices now depend on your reputation and on demand
- The villagers will restock up to two times per day (if they can work at their work station!)
- Added visual trading; villagers will display the item they want to trade for your in-hand item
Villager Changes
- Villagers and zombie villagers now have new fancy skins
- Added mason profession
- Cured zombie villagers retain their trades
- Villagers now have a daily schedule. They will for example go to work and meet up at the village bell
- Each villager will try to find their own bed and work station
- Each profession has a specific block that works as a work station for them (e.g. lectern for the librarian and cauldron for the leatherworker)
- Village detection is now based on beds, job sites, and meeting points instead of doors
- Iron Golems will spawn when enough villagers meet
Wandering Trader
- A mysterious trader that can be randomly found around
- Provides various random trades from a variety of different biomes
- Is escorted around by a few llama with some sweet new decorations! (Careful! They can be temperamental)
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