Java Edition 22w45a

22w45a is the fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.19.3, released on November 9, 2022, which adds block of bamboo and block of stripped bamboo in the built-in experimental data pack, adds new default skins for offline players, changes model and texture for vexes, tweaks creative inventory again, and fixes bugs.

Minecraft 22w45a

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	November 9, 2022
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.19.3
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Obfuscation maps	Client Server
Protocol version	dec: 1073741931  hex: 4000006B
Data version	3208
Resource pack format	12
Data pack format	10
Minimum Java version	Java SE 17
◄◄  1.19.2 1.19.3 1.19.4 ►► ◄  22w44a 22w45a 22w46a ►

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Additions

Mobs

Player

• Added new default skins for offline players. Their names are Ari, Efe, Kai, Makena, Noor, Sunny, and Zuri.
  • The old skins have been removed, with the new skins being located on a new folder.

General

Options

• Added "Operator Items Tab" option in the controls menu, which is off by default.

Changes

Blocks

Scaffolding

• Changed its texture.

Shulker box

• Now pops off blocks attached (such as torches) to the opened faces when opening.
  • While open, blocks which require support cannot be placed on these open faces.

Items

Water bucket

• Can now be emptied into waterlogged blocks.

Mobs

Vex

• Changed model and textures.
  • Retains a slightly oversized hitbox to make it easier to fight.

Gameplay

Creative inventory

• The textures for the tabs are now skinnier.
• Operator-only items now appear in a new "Operator Utilities" tab if the player has both the "Operator Items Tab" option in controls menu set to ON and the required operator permissions.
  • The tab is hidden if operator permissions are lost while inventory is open.
  • Now also includes structure blocks and all light levels of light blocks.
• Added a "Colored Blocks" tab.
  • Contains all blocks with 16 color variants.
  • Moved all colored blocks from "Building Blocks" tab to this tab instead to make that tab less sizeable.
• "Consumables" tab has been renamed to "Food & Drinks" tab to have a more straightforward name.
• "Crafting" tab has been renamed to "Ingredients" tab since not all items are used in crafting.
• Reordered:
  • Natural blocks
    • More consistency between types for the top section.
    • Moved eggs to be between seeds and single-block plants.
    • Placed climbable plants above double-block plants.
  • Food & drinks
    • Cooked versions of raw food are now right next to each other.
  • Redstone blocks
    • Less cluttered.
    • Higher importance items up the top.
    • Removed variants of boat with chests, buttons, doors, fence gates, pressure plates and trapdoors that don't have any functional difference.
  • Ingredients
    • Placed lapis in the same order as ore blocks.
• Moved bottle o' enchanting from the "Tools & Utilities" tab to the ingredients tab next to enchanting books.
• Added:
  • All axes to the "Combat" tab (they still remain in the tools & utilities tab as well).
  • All possible suspicious stews to the food & drinks tab.
    • The tooltip shows the effect of a stew before it's picked up from the creative inventory.
    • Only stews with effects available via crafting or mooshrooms are listed.
  • Pressure plates and buttons of each type to the building blocks tab.
  • Almost all lighting blocks to the top of the functional blocks tab.
  • All 3 flight durations of fireworks to tools & utilities tab, and the combat tab next to crossbow.
  • Eye of ender next to end portal frame block in functional tab for better ease of use.
• Tooltips for all items in creative menu outside single-category tabs show categories where this item can be found.
  • Previously this only happened on the search tab.

Spectator

• "Teleport to Team Member" option in spectator menu now only shows up for teams with viable target players.

Command format

/publish

• Now has new arguments to enable commands and set the default game mode.
  • New syntax: /publish [<allowCommands>] [<gamemode>] [<port>]

General

Multiplayer

• Made changes to the "Open to LAN" screen.
• Now allows selecting the port on which to host the LAN world.
• The game mode and allow cheats buttons are now initialized with the default values of the world.

Music

• The Wild Update music has been tweaked to be slightly less loud.

Recipes

• Many recipe files were made to be formatted more consistently.
• Blocks and items that are crafted using nine of a single item are now considered shapeless recipes, though this has no impact on gameplay.

Resource pack

• The pack format version is now 12.

Tags

• The #overworld_natural_logs item tag was removed.

Experimental

These additions and changes only take effect when the 1.20 experimental data pack is enabled.

Additions

Blocks

Block of bamboo and block of stripped bamboo

• Two new log-like blocks.
• Block of bamboo can be crafted from 9 bamboo and can be stripped like other logs.
• Bamboo planks crafted from block of bamboo yield only 2 planks compared to 4 for logs.

General

Tags

• Added #bamboo_blocks block and item tags: bamboo_block and stripped_bamboo_block.

Changes

Blocks

Bamboo planks

• Changed its crafting recipe to using 1 block of bamboo (stripped or unstripped) to craft 2 bamboo planks.

Hanging signs

• Replaced the bamboo planks in crafting recipe of bamboo hanging sign to block of stripped bamboo, also increased the result from 2 to 6.
• Changed the texture of jungle wall hanging signs.

Items

Bamboo raft and bamboo raft with chest

• Changed their item textures.
  • The raft is now taller and the chest is more detailed.

General

Tags

• Added #bamboo_blocks to the #mineable/axe block tag.

Fixes

40 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.19

• MC-30954 – Chat pop-ups being displayed when chat disappears.
• MC-80032 – Horses can suffocate when going through nether portals.
• MC-118140 – Result map tooltip when zooming out a map shows previous zoom value instead of new one.
• MC-127110 – You can't empty water buckets into waterlogged blocks.
• MC-152823 – Buckets ignore fluid placement check for replaceable or non-solid-blocking LiquidBlockContainers.
• MC-177523 – Enderman angry/screaming sound event subtitled identically to idle sound.
• MC-177789 – Shulker box doesn't destroy twisting vines when placed on top.
• MC-193360 – Inconsistent eye level between piglins or zombified piglins and piglin brutes.
• MC-194390 – A firework rocket from the creative inventory doesn't show a flight duration.
• MC-200000 – Merchant trade select packet (C2S) does not check for negative indices.
• MC-220668 – Shulker boxes can open when blocked by Big Dripleaf.
• MC-220708 – Shulker boxes can be opened when blocked by small dripleaves.
• MC-235414 – Player desynchronization with Nether Portals.
• MC-244550 – Empty Tags match Empty Slots in Shaped Recipes.

From 1.19.2

• MC-255370 – Chat hover & click events are offset if "Line Spacing" chat setting is used.
• MC-255743 – Bees' path finding system may cause performance issues.
• MC-256685 – In a small window, when in a scrollable option menu, the tooltip from option 1 of row 8 appears at the top of the screen when hovering over it.

From the 1.19.3 development versions

• MC-256461 – Camel's back of neck is visible during the sit down animation.
• MC-256475 – Placing or taking books from chiseled bookshelves displays the "Block placed" subtitle.
• MC-256511 – Non-controlling passengers can make camels dash.
• MC-256516 – Inconsistent textures with jungle hanging signs.
• MC-256532 – Sounds for Bamboo, Crimson and Warped hanging signs use the generic wood sound.
• MC-256616 – Weighted pressure plates make incorrect sounds.
• MC-256674 – FileAlreadyExistsException if the resourcepacks directory is a symbolic link.
• MC-256765 – References to chat reporting in singleplayer.
• MC-256849 – Steve and Alex are not using their updated skins whilst the game is offline.
• MC-256854 – Error in any model file causes resource reload fail now.
• MC-256884 – Mobs don't shoot correctly from crossbows.
• MC-256885 – The word "messages" within the gui.chatSelection.fold string is always pluralized.
• MC-256888 – New network protocols prevent logging into offline servers.
• MC-256903 – Lodestone compass's enchantment glint is scaled incorrectly.
• MC-256917 – Death message from explosions by TNT and TNT minecarts that are not the cause of a player or another mob has changed.
• MC-256951 – TNT Minecarts don't record what caused its explosion.
• MC-256961 – Multishot shoots projectiles backwards.
• MC-256990 – Superflat Worlds can use Disabled Blocks as part of their layers.

From the previous development version

• MC-257102 – Missing Structure Block in creative tab.
• MC-257104 – "Lava" in gamerule.lavaSourceConversion is misspelled as "Lave".
• MC-257118 – Buttons are placed different than pressure plates in Creative Inventory.
• MC-257182 – Scaffolding does not match the bamboo color scheme.
• MC-257234 – Applying bone meal to warped or crimson fungus crashes client on multiplayer.

Video

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