Java Edition 1.20 Pre-release 2

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1.20 Pre-release 2 (known as 1.20-pre2 in the launcher) is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.20, released on May 16, 2023,^[1] which fixes bugs.

Creative inventory

• Fish buckets are now listed in the same order as the fish items.
• Dead coral blocks are now listed in the same order as the live corals.
• Wither rose is now grouped with other small flowers.
• Mangrove roots and muddy mangrove roots are now grouped with logs rather than leaves.

Title screen

• Game now displays message box on startup if user enabled text-to-speech functionality, but it is not available.

Recipe

• "item": "minecraft:air" can now be used to denote an ingredient that matches an empty slot.
  • The following recipe types, however, do not allow for an empty ingredient:
    • minecraft:crafting_shaped
    • minecraft:crafting_shapeless
    • minecraft:smelting
    • minecraft:blasting
    • minecraft:smoking
    • minecraft:campfire_cooking
    • minecraft:stonecutting

Tag

• Removed sunflower, lilac, rose_bush, and peony from #replaceable block tag.

56 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.20

• MC-1310 – Dispensed boats and rafts get stuck inside of dispensers used to place them.
• MC-117815 – The sign GUI remains open when the said sign is destroyed.
• MC-121433 – Non English letters are lower case in controls setting, while English are upper case.
• MC-124327 – Changing the name of an item and then emptying the text field in an anvil doesn't make the rename unavailable, keeps last non-empty name on output item.
• MC-132076 – Lowercase Letters in controls menu + "Not Bound" is missing.
• MC-159633 – Command feedback messages are unnecessarily created during function execution.
• MC-165562 – Command suggestion report "incorrect argument" when cursor is at the start of a node without suggestions.
• MC-175504 – Single quotation marks are not supported in NBT paths.
• MC-220096 – Graphics warning button(s) improperly capitalized.
• MC-224976 – NativeImage.setPixelRGBA throws exception with message getPixelRGBA.
• MC-226344 – Changing the Owner tag of a projectile doesn't affect the outcome of the projectile unless the world is reloaded.
• MC-227890 – If you are falling with leather boots through powder snow, you still fall through.
• MC-228529 – Tutorial keybind components are lowercase.
• MC-237960 – New potion effect GUI doesn't work when using Programmer Art.
• MC-250197 – Glass bottles are inconsistently referred to throughout some advancement description strings.
• MC-252216 – 65540: Invalid scancode -1 logged in key bind menu when an option is unbound.
• MC-252408 – Chat restriction strings consist of inconsistent concluding punctuation.
• MC-256833 – Ridable entities that can be steered build up fall damage when on climbable blocks.
• MC-257052 – You cannot double-click on languages within the "Language" menu to select them.
• MC-257370 – Buckets of fish are not sorted in the same order as the fish items.
• MC-257512 – Dead tube coral in creative inventory is in wrong order.
• MC-258360 – Horse armor loses its NBT data when equipped on horses via right-clicking.
• MC-258461 – The "Detect structure size and position:" string displayed within the structure block GUI is improperly capitalized.
• MC-260468 – Wither rose is not grouped with other small flowers in the creative inventory.
• MC-260602 – /data modify from string index failure does not return 0 for /execute store success.
• MC-260711 – Some words within /datapack list command feedback messages are always pluralized.
• MC-260712 – Some words within /scoreboard command feedback messages are always pluralized.
• MC-260713 – Some words within /team command feedback messages are always pluralized.
• MC-260715 – Some words within /bossbar command feedback messages are always pluralized.
• MC-260716 – Some words within /fill, /fillbiome, and /clone command feedback messages are always pluralized.
• MC-261024 – /execute if loaded does not guarantee entities are loaded.
• MC-261080 – Player can fall through scaffolding when loading a world.
• MC-261433 – Shield doesn't block TNT explosion.
• MC-262440 – Sniffers can sniff while in love and pathfinding to their lover.
• MC-262518 – The mco.configure.world.uninvite.player string contains an unnecessary space before the question mark.

From the 1.20 development versions

• MC-261233 – Minecart movement is not reliably detected by sculk sensors.
• MC-261349 – Chiseled Bookshelf won't rotate when placed as part of a structure.
• MC-261816 – Most two block tall flowers do not block enchanting tables / are part of #minecraft:replaceable.
• MC-261988 – Inconsistency with Mangrove Roots and Leaves in the Creative Tab.
• MC-262033 – The command block GUI remains open when the said command block is destroyed.
• MC-262106 – Smithing recipe must have template to work.
• MC-262135 – Recipe book GUI is positioned incorrectly.
• MC-262181 – NBSP is a valid invisible character that can be used to rename items to have blank names.
• MC-262213 – Baby sniffer's head is smaller on the first frame of existing.
• MC-262310 – Telemetry description strings consist of inconsistent concluding punctuation.
• MC-262311 – The telemetry.event.game_load_times.description string is missing an article before the word "execution".
• MC-262355 – Death messages for falling from climbable blocks do not work.
• MC-262441 – Baby sniffers stand a bit too far away from players that are tempting them.
• MC-262445 – The text cursor no longer renders above text.
• MC-262446 – Text within buttons renders above the semi-transparent black lines at the edges of menus.
• MC-262471 – Random skylight underwater where it shouldn't be, that cuts off at the chunk border.

From the previous development version

• MC-262506 – Parts of beds render through the alternative recipe GUI in the recipe book.
• MC-262508 – torchflower_crop causes the game to crash and locks the world when pollinated by bees.
• MC-262531 – death.attack.genericKill.player displays raw translation string (is untranslated).
• MC-262542 – Loot tables have the same loot sequence in each dimension.
• MC-262557 – Ender Dragon respawns and exit portal does not open if the world was Saved and Quit in End before killing the dragon.

• The update image is a reference to the famous photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper by Charles Clyde Ebbets^[2]