Bats and Pots

Bats and Pots is a retroactive game drop released on December 5, 2023, as Java Edition 1.20.3 and Bedrock Edition 1.20.50, which adds new functionalities for decorated pots, redesigns bats and adds an experimental toggle for features that will be included in the next major update.

Bats and Pots

Release date	December 5, 2023
Version(s)	Java Edition 1.20.3 Bedrock Edition 1.20.50
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Notable features

Changed blocks

Decorated Pot

• Now can store up to a single stack of one type of item.
  • Hoppers, minecarts with hoppers, and droppers can now insert and/or extract items from them.
  • Redstone Comparators can now read the number of items in them.
  • Players can interact with them and insert items into them.
    • Player interactions with them cause them to wobble and trigger a vibration frequency of 11.
  • They have no GUI, and need to be broken to retrieve their content by players.
• Now can be smashed by projectiles, which cause them to shatter and drop their contents.
• Now has new sounds for breaking, shattering and being stepped on.
• Now can stack up to 64.
• Now appears in the "Redstone" tab of the Creative inventory.
• Now, when blockstate cracked set to true, decorated pots always shatter when broken.‌
• Now can utilize loot tables and read from the LootTable tag key.‌

Changed mobs

Bat

• Their model, animations, and texture have been updated.

Video

Video made by Slicedlime: