Java Edition 20w06a

Minecraft Snapshot 20w06a

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	February 5, 2020
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.16
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Obfuscation maps	Client Server
Protocol version	701
Data version	2504
Resource pack format	5
Data pack format	5
Minimum Java version	Java SE 8
◄◄  1.15.2 1.16 1.16 ►► 20w06a 20w07a ►

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20w06a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on February 5, 2020, which adds several new Nether Update features, like new biomes, the /locatebiome command, and fixes some bugs. It is the first snapshot released in 2020.

Additions

Blocks

Ancient debris

• Can be found throughout the Nether at any altitude, though it is much more common at lower levels.
• Can be refined into a netherite scrap by smelting in a furnace or blast furnace.
• Same blast resistance as obsidian.
• As an item, it floats on lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.
• A diamond pickaxe or better is required to mine it.
• Always spawns covered by lava or blocks on all sides.

Basalt

• Makes up basalt pillars.
• Generates in soul sand valleys.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.

Block of netherite

• Can be crafted with 9 netherite ingots.
• A decorative block.
• As an item, it floats on lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.
• Same blast resistance as obsidian, but is movable with pistons.

Crimson and warped fungi

• Generate in crimson and warped forests, respectively.
• Can be placed on dirt, coarse dirt, farmland, podzol, nylium, soul soil, and grass blocks.
• Bone meal can be used on fungi to grow it into the respective huge fungi when placed on nylium.
• Unlike mushrooms, fungi cannot spread.

Crimson and warped nylium

• Resemble grass blocks.
• Can be spread to netherrack by using bonemeal on a netherrack block next to a nylium block.

Crimson and warped planks

• Don't burn.
• Crafted from the respective stem.
• Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors, and trapdoors.

Crimson and warped roots

• Foliage that generates in both crimson and warped forest biomes, as well as soul sand valleys.

Crimson and warped signs

• Work like normal wooden signs.
• Cannot be crafted in this snapshot.

Crimson and warped stems

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

Nether sprouts

• Foliage that generates in warped forests.

Shroomlight

• Emits a light level of 15, similarly to glowstone.
• Can be mined with any tool, but axes are the most efficient.
• Generates as a part of huge fungi.

Soul fire

• Blue variant of fire.
• Fire lit on soul soil turns into soul fire regardless of dimension.
  • Burns forever, similar to regular fire on netherrack and magma blocks.
• Generates naturally in the soul sand valley biome in the Nether.
• Deals damage at a rate of 2HP per second as opposed to the 1HP per second of regular fire.
• Does not extinguish when in the rain.

Soul fire lantern

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted similarly to a normal lantern, using a soul fire torch instead of a normal torch.

Soul fire torch

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

Soul soil

• Generates in the soul sand valley, alongside conventional soul sand.
• Fire lit on soul soil is soul fire.
• The player does not sink and is not slowed when walking on soul soil.

Warped wart block

• A variation of the nether wart block.
• Generates as a part of huge warped fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the warped nylium in warped forest biome.

Weeping vines

• Generates in the crimson forest.
• Is placed on the bottom of a block and grows downward.

Items

Netherite boots, chestplate, helmet and leggings

• Crafted with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
• Don't burn in lava or fire as items or when worn (players equipping netherite armor, however, can still take fire damage).
• Float in lava.
• Grant one additional point of knockback resistance per item.
• Tougher than diamond armor.
• Have higher durability and enchantability than diamond.

Netherite axe, hoe, pickaxe, shovel, and sword

• Crafted with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
• Float in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.
• Have higher durability, mining level, breaking multiplier, and enchantability than diamond.
• All items, except the hoe, deal 1 more damage than their diamond counterparts.

Netherite ingot

• Crafted with 4 gold ingots and 4 netherite scraps.
• Can be used to upgrade diamond tools, swords, and armor.
• Floats in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.

Netherite scrap

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

Spawn eggs

• Hoglin spawn egg

Mobs

Hoglins

• Spawn in crimson forests.
• Drop rotten flesh.
• Currently have the same hitbox as pigs.
• Legs and ears flail wildly when moved or attacked.

World generation

Biomes

• Crimson forest
  • A dense forest with huge crimson fungi. Fungi are found in patches on the ground and weeping vines are found under the huge fungi.
  • Zombie pigmen and hoglins may spawn here.
• Soul sand valley
  • A vast grotto composed of uncovered nether fossils, soul sand, soul soil, large pillars made of basalt, and soul fire.
  • Skeletons, ghasts, and endermen may spawn here.
• Warped forest
  • A color variation of the crimson forest, but with somewhat different vegetation, particles, and fog effects.
  • Only endermen may spawn here.

Structures

• Nether fossils
  • Generate in the soul sand valley.
  • They are different from the Overworld fossils and generate random pieces of basalt instead of coal ore.

Features

• Basalt pillar
  • Floor to ceiling pillars of basalt that generate in soul sand valleys.
• Huge crimson and warped fungi
  • New structure resembling trees found in crimson and warped forests, respectively.
  • Made of crimson and warped stem blocks as well as red nether wart blocks and warped wart blocks.
  • Can be grown from their respective fungi.

Command format

/locatebiome

• Used to locate specific biomes.

Gameplay

Sounds

• New sounds for most of the newly added blocks.​

General

Particles

• Added ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame, warped_spore.

Tags

• Added block tag fire.
  • Contains fire and soul fire.
  • Controls what blocks can burn entities.
• Added block tag nylium.
  • Contains crimson nylium and warped nylium.
• Added crimson_stems block and item tags.
  • Contains crimson stem and stripped crimson stem.
• Added warped_stems block and item tags.
  • Contains warped stem and stripped warped stem.
• Added block tag wart_blocks.
  • Contains nether wart block and warped wart block.

Changes

Blocks

Bamboo saplings

• Renamed to "Bamboo Shoot".

Bone blocks

• Generate as part of nether fossils in soul sand valleys.

Comparators

• Changed the way to calculate the input signal.
  • First, if there is an adjacent container behind, it detects the signal from the container. If not, it detects the signal from redstone components.
  • Then, if it is not less than 15, the detected signal becomes the input signal. Otherwise, it also gets a signal from item frame and container behind separated by a redstone conductor block from the comparator, and take the maximum of the three as the input signal.

Flower pots

• Has a bottom texture when empty.

Gravel and soul sand

• Generate in the new soul sand valley biomes.

Netherrack

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

Nether wart blocks

• Generate as a part of huge crimson fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the crimson nylium in crimson forest biome.
• Texture changed from to .

Pistons and sticky pistons

• Hardness has been increased to 1.5.
• Pickaxes are now more efficient on pistons.
• Pistons can now support non-solid blocks on its top face without them popping off when the piston retracts.

Redstone dust

• Has a bottom texture.

Smooth quartz

• Renamed to "Smooth Quartz Block".

Walls

• Walls in the middle of a row longer have pillars when stacked vertically.
  • Block state now uses none, low, and tall for east, west, north, and south directional values.

Items

Clay

• Renamed to "Clay Ball".

Mobs

Endermen

• Now spawn in soul sand valleys and warped forests.

Ghasts

• Sounds are now heard at a shorter range.
• Now spawn in soul sand valleys.

Skeletons

• Now spawn in soul sand valleys.

Zombie pigmen

• Now spawn in crimson forests.
• No longer have grunts.

World generation

Biomes

• Biomes in the Nether may now differ based on altitude.

Ceiling

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

Nether biome

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

Structures

• Shipwrecks and ocean ruins are now less common.

Command format

General

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

Gameplay

Advancements

• The description of the "Sky's the Limit" advancement has changed from "Find Elytra" to "Find elytra."

Knockback resistance

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

Patrols

• No longer spawn when the player is close to any intact village.

Recipe book

• The cartography table recipe now unlocks with paper instead of string.

Sounds

• Updated block sounds for bone blocks, netherrack, soul sand, nether wart blocks, nether bricks (and variants), and nether quartz ore.

Spawn

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

General

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.

Saved toolbars

• Renamed to "Saved Hotbars"

Options

• Renamed "Scale" to "Chat Text Size" in chat settings.

Materials

• Added new nether wood material.
  • Uses the wood material color.
  • Uses default properties.

Rendering

• Improved entity shadows to the ground.

Tags

• Added crimson and warped wooden items to the planks, standing_signs, wall_signs, wooden_buttons, wooden_doors, wooden_fences, wooden_pressure_plates, wooden_slabs, wooden_stairs, and wooden_trapdoors block tags.
• Added crimson and warped wooden items to the planks, signs, wooden_buttons, wooden_doors, wooden_fences, wooden_pressure_plates, wooden_slabs, wooden_stairs, and wooden_trapdoors item tags.
• The slabs block and item tags now use the respective wooden_slabs tag.

Fixes

68 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.16

• MC-2591 – Walking over the corner of lava deals damage.
• MC-10727 – Player and entity shadows experience z-fighting with redstone.
• MC-17431 – Shift-clicking stacked items with a data tag into the enchanting table GUI removes data tags from the moved item.
• MC-44192 – generic.knockbackResistance is percentage chance to ignore knockback, rather than being scaled.
• MC-45619 – Water, signs, vines, torches, etc. in the same block as item frame break item frame's redstone signal.
• MC-52178 – Cape does not move down while sneaking and detaches from body while sneaking.
• MC-59363 – Items in item frames are deleted if both mouse buttons are used simultaneously.
• MC-82235 – Baby pigs turn into adult zombie pigmen when struck by lightning.
• MC-85527 – Shulkers opening into blocks.
• MC-92889 – Mending does not always consume experience if the player wears items with mending that are already fully repaired.
• MC-93198 – Throwing potions or throwable projectiles cause both hands to bob up and down.
• MC-93477 – Shulkers opening into shulker.
• MC-93631 – Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting.
• MC-96436 – Eggs, snowballs, and experience bottles break instantly when thrown while riding a horse.
• MC-97958 – Small slime has no jump or squish sound.
• MC-101084 – Held items/blocks appear to bob down and up when opening horse's inventory
• MC-103655 – Cats do not stand up when using right-click on them while they are sitting on chests or beds.
• MC-109370 – Bottom face of column blocks is rotated 180 degrees.
• MC-109844 – en_us.json contains unused strings.
• MC-109850 – Redstone wire does not have a bottom texture.
• MC-111133 – Piston pushing opened shulker makes said shulker glitch.
• MC-112630 – Carrot on a stick cannot be broken.
• MC-113381 – Falling dust particles of anvil and concrete powder blocks are black.
• MC-114304 – Retracting piston pushes entities standing behind the back of it.
• MC-120335 – Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect uv values in the model file.
• MC-122187 – Teleported to coordinates wrong when teleporting entities relatively.
• MC-122335 – Projectiles go through an entity if it is close to a player or a snow golem.
• MC-122715 – /teleport command no longer prevents teleporting to invalid coordinates.
• MC-131440 – The message for trying to sleep at the wrong time implies that players can only sleep at night during a thunderstorm.
• MC-131770 – Rain particles appear one block below the water or lava surface.
• MC-132607 – Splitting slimes and magma cubes do not copy NoAI value.
• MC-134162 – Item entities can break turtle eggs.
• MC-134481 – Typo in en_us.json: "Status requst has been handled".
• MC-135151 – Typo in en_us.json: "An error occured!".
• MC-136868 – Ignited TNT, arrow or trident turns black when it falls on soul sand or snow layers.
• MC-138402 – Waterlogged walls "connect" to water source blocks above.
• MC-138600 – Cats do not bring gifts if they have already decided to sit on the user's bed.
• MC-140544 – Pickaxes do not speed up piston breaking.
• MC-148474 – Sloped powered detector rails break when pushed or pulled by a piston.
• MC-149052 – Stonecutter recipe list does not show item tooltips.
• MC-149776 – Cartography table requires string for the recipe to show up in the recipe book.
• MC-150020 – Composter is in the "Miscellaneous" category instead of "Decoration" like the other workstation blocks.
• MC-154867 – Tamed cats remain sitting if the world is reloaded while the cat is sitting on a chest.
• MC-158807 – Players can remove cursed enchantments on items by repairing them in inventory.
• MC-159300 – Villagers that have been infected by a zombie can despawn, even if they have been traded with.
• MC-159773 – Shulkers can teleport to non-solid faces, and do not teleport to some solid faces.
• MC-159918 – Foxes do not run from polar bears.
• MC-159963 – Minecarts can break turtle eggs.
• MC-160897 – Dropping an item using the drop key displays the hand animation but dropping items from within the inventory does not.
• MC-161259 – Using the carrot on a stick while riding a pig plays no hand animation.
• MC-163286 – /setblock ~ ~ ~ air destroy does not destroy liquids.
• MC-164184 – Breaking a shulker box with contents in Creative mode drops the block at an incorrect location.

From the 1.15.x releases

• MC-160902 – Arm swings when right-clicking on a full minecart.
• MC-161156 – Silverfish and endermites appear black on soul sand.
• MC-162881 – Composter does not display particles when being fed composting items through a hopper.
• MC-164158 – Lava doesn't emit smoke during rainfall.
• MC-164948 – Entity shadow renders through transparent blocks.
• MC-167077 – Foxes sleep on top of honey blocks, even in broad daylight.
• MC-167447 – Wrong RenderStateShard name.
• MC-167512 – Glass in the hand is rendered differently depending on the "Clouds" setting.
• MC-167989 – Spawn point is not set when monsters are nearby.
• MC-168540 – Threads created by net.minecraft.Util.backgroundExecutor() have misleading names.
• MC-168772 – Experience orbs can crush turtle eggs.
• MC-169679 – Composters do not make sounds when fed by hoppers.
• MC-169692 – Entity shadow floats slightly above the ground.
• MC-169832 – Transparent item models have inconsistent rendering when a glowing entity is present.
• MC-170128 – Cannot build an EntityType without a datafixer due to an IllegalArgumentException.
• MC-182914 – Arrows, and Tridents stuck in midair on door.

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