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Patch Notes | 22w18a

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Another snapshot is now available for Minecraft: Java Edition. This snapshot brings a few gameplay changes and some technical tidbits, such as the place command and cryptographically signed chat commands.

Enjoy!

Changes

  • Allays now follow their liked player even if they can’t see them
  • Allays will only lose track of a player if they are more than 64 blocks away
  • The texture of the sonic boom particle has been updated
  • Vibration listeners such as Sculk Sensors, Sculk Shriekers and Wardens now listen to the closest vibration instead of the first vibration in the tick

Technical Changes

  • Banner patterns available in the Loom can now be controlled with tags (banner_pattern/no_item_required for no pattern item and banner_pattern/pattern_item/* for specific banner pattern items)
  • Servers can now define different chat style formats for clients
  • Removed the placefeature command
  • Added the place command
  • The bundled Java runtime has been upgraded to 17.0.3
  • Removed loot table function set_goat_horn_sound
  • Added loot table function set_instrument
  • Chat from the /say, /msg, /teammsg, and /me commands are now all also cryptographically signed

Chat Types

  • Different chat style formats can now be controlled by the server through the chat_type registry
    • These are synchronized to clients when they join the server
    • The translation key or translation format can be defined, like chat.type.text or %s says: “%s”
      • Chat can be similarly optionally narrated with a custom translation key or format
    • The entire message can have formatting applied, such as italics or a specific color (but currently not click or hover events)

Place Command

New command that replaces placefeature and can place features, jigsaws and structures at a given location. Syntax:

place feature <feature> [pos]
place jigsaw <pool> <start> <depth> [pos]
place structure <structure> [pos]

  • feature: The namespaced id of a feature to try to place
  • structure: The namespaced id of a structure to try to generate
  • pool: The namespaced id of a template pool to start generating
  • start: The namespaced id name of a jigsaw to use as the starting anchor
  • depth: The maximum number of jigsaw connections to traverse during placement
  • pos: The position to use as the origin for the generation (if omitted, ~ ~ ~ is used)

Loot Tables

NEW FUNCTIONS

SET_INSTRUMENT

Sets item tags needed for instrument items to a random value selected from a tag.

Parameters:

  • options - a tag reference specifying the instrument options to randomly pick from

Fixed Bugs

  • MC-207935 - Simultaneous vibrations don’t trigger as expected.
  • MC-232009 - Minecraft does not resolve SRV records correctly.
  • MC-249021 - The invitation and news buttons aren’t consistently displayed within the realms menu.
  • MC-249129 - The walking animation of frogs doesn’t change in relation to their movement speed.
  • MC-249175 - Only one sculk vein drops when using a Silk Touch hoe on multiple in a single block space.
  • MC-249454 - Sculk Catalysts will spread sculk if a baby mob that does not drop experience dies around it.
  • MC-249732 - Allays lose picked up items on world restart.
  • MC-249740 - Allays leashed to a fence do not move and refuse to pick up items.
  • MC-249784 - Ancient Cities can be submerged in aquifers.
  • MC-249857 - Parity Issue: Allays don’t follow the player / note blocks as closely on Java.
  • MC-250139 - Snow layers cannot be placed on top of mud.
  • MC-250143 - Improper advancement description for “Sneak 100”.
  • MC-250144 - “Sneak 100” advancement includes sculk shriekers as a block that can “hear” the player.
  • MC-250145 - Warden/frogs continue animations when the game is paused.
  • MC-250163 - Warden can still detect things after it dies.
  • MC-250183 - Warden continues to roar when angered by an ignited creeper.
  • MC-250198 - Warden continues to roar when the target of the enraged warden suffers an unnatural death.
  • MC-250207 - Warden continues to roar at disconnected players.
  • MC-250216 - Warden continues to roar at targets in unloaded chunks.
  • MC-250218 - Warden continues to roar at despawned target.
  • MC-250244 - Warden continues to roar when the target enters the nether portal, end portal or end gateway.
  • MC-250245 - Warden sonic boom attacks can hit player even if the player has entered another dimension.
  • MC-250292 - Wardens can sometimes freeze when overwhelmed with enemies/attacks/sounds.
  • MC-250506 - Mangrove leaves can appear at a higher altitude when grown below y = 0.
  • MC-250557 - Allay permanently stuck trying to pick up item stack if its slots contain stack of the same type with differing NBT (and vice versa).
  • MC-250864 - Game fails to load worldgen settings when .DS_Store files are present in datapack.
  • MC-250926 - There is a goat horn in the creative Destroy Item slot / all tabs within the creative inventory contain goat horns.
  • MC-250937 - User skins don’t load in singleplayer.
  • MC-250939 - Game crashes when a goat horn with an invalid sound variant is used / java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index <index> out of bounds for length 8.
  • MC-250954 - Player is assigned a new UUID in singleplayer.
  • MC-250974 - MinecraftClientHttpException when opening/creating a world.

Get the Snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the “Installations” tab.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar: Minecraft server jar.

Report bugs here: Minecraft issue tracker!

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Published: 2022/05/04
Author: Adrian Östergård
Adaptor: Ran#

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