Java Edition 20w14a

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20w14a is the tenth snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on April 2, 2020,^[1] which adds zoglins, makes some changes to striders, and fixes bugs.

Spawn eggs

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  Zoglin spawn egg
  • Spawns zoglins.

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Zoglins

• Created when a hoglin is brought into the Overworld.
• Unlike hoglins, they can't be bred or fed, and they don't flee from warped fungus.
• Attack most mobs on sight, except for creepers and other zoglins.

Sounds

• Added various sounds to zoglins.​^{[more information needed]}

Subtitles

• Added a lot of previously missing subtitles.^[2]:
  • Added "Beacon activates", "Beacon hums", "Beacon deactivates", and "Beacon power selected".
  • Added "Conduit activates", "Conduit pulses", "Conduit attacks", and "Conduit deactivates".
  • Added "Enchanting table used".
  • Added "End Portal opens!" and "Eye of Ender attaches".
  • Added "Shears carve".
  • Added "Smithing Table used".
  • Added "Rowing" subtitle for boats.
  • Added "Cat begs", "Cat eats", and "Cat hisses".
  • Added drowned's underwater ambient sound, "Drowned gurgles".
  • Added "Eye of Ender falls".
  • Added "Bobber retrieved".
  • Added "Hoglin converts to Zoglin".
  • Added "Horse lands".
  • Added player attacking subtitles: "Critical attack", "Knockback attack", "Strong attack", "Sweeping attack", and "Weak attack".
  • Added player damaging subtitles: "Player drowning" and "Player burns".
  • Added "Strider dies", "Strider eats", "Strider warbles", "Strider hurts", "Strider chirps", and "Strider retreats".
  • Added "Tropical Fish dies", "Tropical Fish flops", and "Tropical Fish hurts".
  • Added "Wandering Trader disappears", "Wandering Trader drinks milk", "Wandering Trader drinks potion", and "Wandering Trader appears".
  • Added "Zoglin growls", "Zoglin growls angrily", "Zoglin attacks", "Zoglin dies", "Zoglin hurts", and "Zoglin steps".
  • Added "Turtle Egg stomped".
  • Added "Bottle empties".
  • Added "Fish captured".

Compass

• Now has LodestonePos, LodestoneDimension, and LodestoneTracked data fields. If LodestoneTracked is zero, the game skips checking for a lodestone in the specified position.
• Can now be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing.

Warped fungus on a stick

• Now has 100 durability instead of 25.
• Takes 1 damage whenever the strider's speed is boosted.

Hoglins

• Now become zoglins in the Overworld.
• Now avoid nether portals and respawn anchors.

Piglins

• Now avoid zoglins in the same way they avoid zombified piglins.

Striders

• Riding speed has now been significantly increased to be even faster than that of a boat.​^{[more information needed]}

Advancements

• The advancements "Monster Hunter" and "Monsters Hunted" now include elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, vexes, withers, and zoglins.

Attributes

• Items and entities no longer keep unknown attributes.
• Names of some attributes have been renamed to meet resource location requirements (i.e., lowercase separated by underscores instead of camel case).
  • Changed generic.maxHealth to generic.max_health.
  • Changed zombie.spawnReinforcements to zombie.spawn_reinforcements.
  • Changed horse.jumpStrength to horse.jump_strength.
  • Changed generic.followRange to generic.follow_range.
  • Changed generic.knockbackResistance to generic.knockback_resistance.
  • Changed generic.movementSpeed to generic.movement_speed.
  • Changed generic.flyingSpeed to generic.flying_speed.
  • Changed generic.attackDamage to generic.attack_damage
  • Changed generic.attackKnockback to generic.attack_knockback
  • Changed generic.attackSpeed to generic.attack_speed
  • Changed generic.armorToughness to generic.armor_toughness.

Main menu

• The main menu Panorama overlay has been removed.
• The main menu Panorama is now in the Nether.
  • Since this was an asset update, all of the 1.16 snapshots have the new backdrop.

Statistics

• General statistics are now ordered alphabetically in the statistics menu.

Tags

• Added nether portals and respawn anchors to the hoglin_repellents block tag.

World save files

• Region files are now read/written in synchronous mode to help prevent data loss and corruption after crash.
  • Dedicated servers can disable that by changing sync-chunk-writes inside server.properties.

39 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.16

• MC-83039 – End City chests generate destroyed, items on the ground.
• MC-91893 – Missing subtitles for various sounds.
• MC-109248 – Extended piston head is not removed when /setblock is used to place a different piston base.
• MC-115750 – Advancement "Monster Hunter" (kill_a_mob) is not granted for killing certain hostile mobs.
• MC-116756 – Reversed and inconsistent subtitles for iron trapdoor.
• MC-124428 – Firework star crashes game if there is an int array but no colors.
• MC-125055 – Igloo generates with brewing stand and flower pot contents dropped (and placed).
• MC-127316 – General statistics out of order.
• MC-133049 – Compasses do not point to the correct location when in an item frame on the ground or on the ceiling.
• MC-135501 – Invalid tag inside another tag silently fails to reload data packs.
• MC-150405 – Client handling of unknown entity attributes is bugged.
• MC-150455 – Ignored lava hitbox level.
• MC-154427 – Villagers only pick up four stacks of items.
• MC-161128 – Piston head left behind when base is quickly broken and replaced.
• MC-164129 – Ender dragon inner hitboxes are rendered offset by approximately 200 blocks.
• MC-164446 – Tags do not load if one of their values is invalid, causing all data packs to unload.
• MC-167608 – Item frames are destroyed after respawning.
• MC-169975 – Highlight players (spectators) key does not affect any players other than the user.
• MC-175201 – Misrotated floor block in savanna_small_house_1, savanna_small_house_2, savanna_small_house_3 and savanna_small_house_7.
• MC-176644 – Observers do not trigger when a fence connects to a newly grown tree.

From the 1.16 development versions

• MC-172069 – Piston arms are not deleted when the base of a pulsing piston is replaced with another piston.
• MC-173158 – Zombified piglin's overlay texture is not rendered.
• MC-173192 – Fluid collision is too high.
• MC-173684 – Spawning under the portal when using a nether portal.
• MC-173774 – Shulker bullets do not act as a projectile.
• MC-173875 – Item frames cannot be interacted with after unloading and reloading the chunk.
• MC-174231 – Ocelots are no longer spawning.
• MC-174838 – Target detection of fireworks is unreliable.
• MC-175434 – Fireworks launched from upwards-facing dispensers explode inside of the dispenser block.
• MC-175985 – Lodestone compass needle does not have animation.
• MC-175990 – Lodestone compass needle spins around quickly when the lodestone has been destroyed or is not in the same dimension.
• MC-176052 – Using a compass on a lodestone plays no hand animation.
• MC-176059 – Scoreboard criteria for using compasses does not increase score after using a compass on a lodestone.
• MC-176195 – Many mountable mobs and vehicles can still be shot by the rider's arrows.
• MC-176231 – Compasses with custom enchantments do not display enchantment glint.
• MC-176269 – Right-clicking lodestone with compass also uses offhand item.

From the previous development version

• MC-176387 – Fishing rod can reel in vehicle of player.
• MC-176391 – Basalt can generate on nether trees.
• MC-176420 – Lodestone compass sound is in the friendly creatures option.

• Unlike most of the first-of-the-week actual snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.
  • This is because an April Fools' joke snapshot Java Edition 20w14infinite was released on April 1, 2020, which is a Wednesday.