Java Edition 20w19a

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20w19a is the fifteenth snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on May 6, 2020,^[1] which fixed bugs and made tweaks to mob spawning.

The Nether

• Blobs of blackstone and gravel now generate in all Nether biomes at level of the lava ocean.
• Blobs of soul sand now generate in soul sand valleys at level of the lava ocean.

Statistics

• Added a statistic for distance by strider.

Tags

• Added prevent_mob_spawning_inside block tag.
  • Contains the #rails block tag, as well as wither roses and sweet berry bushes.
  • Mobs cannot spawn in blocks in this tag.

Blackstone

• Now uses the top texture on the bottom face.

Crimson and warped doors

• Texture changed to include hinges.

Crimson and warped roots

• Are now randomly offset, similarly to grass and flowers.

Nether sprouts

• Now require shears to be obtained.
• Are now randomly offset, similarly to grass and flowers.

Redstone wire

• Now visually connects when traveling up soul sand, 8-layer snow stacks and the back of upside-down stairs.
• Particles are now generated across the entire area of the redstone wire; previously they only appeared at the center.
  • This now causes the particles to appear at the incorrect positions when millions of blocks away from the spawn point, due to precision loss^[2] (see Java Edition distance effects).

Twisting vines and weeping vines

• Lowered the amount that they grow when using bone meal.

General

• Mobs can no longer spawn within blocks occupied by a wither rose (except wither skeletons).
• Spawning has been tweaked to more closely follow mob caps.
  • Mobs in soul sand valleys and warped forests create a radius around them that prevents other mobs of the same type from spawning, which gets bigger as more mobs spawn.

Fish

• Now have their own mob category and mob cap.

Hoglins and piglins

• Now become zoglins and zombified piglins respectively when in the End.

Iron golems

• Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time.

The Nether

• Bastion remnants are now slightly less common.
• Tweaked biome distribution.

Creative inventory

• Block categories and tag names are no longer bold.

Recipe book

• Clocks and compasses no longer function in the recipe book menu.

Tags

• Changed the stairs block and item tags to use their respective wooden_stairs tag.
  • This has effectively made crimson stairs and warped stairs a part of this tag.

45 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.16

• MC-87949 – The shield use statistic is not working.
• MC-89956 – Levitation has no effect if gliding with elytra.
• MC-116293 – Functioning clock and compass in recipe book.
• MC-125613 – Datapack tag #stairs does not use #wooden_stairs.
• MC-132236 – When executing /reload and then pressing L to open advancements, it instead tells me that there are no advancements unless I click.
• MC-145862 – Villagers try to sleep in occupied beds.
• MC-152084 – Villagers occasionally stand up out of beds at night, then can never sleep in that bed again.
• MC-152170 – When a villager takes the bed of another villager, then the bed's previous owner will not look for a new bed.
• MC-157077 – Villagers will not sleep in beds at night.
• MC-158542 – Iron golems do not stop spawning.
• MC-160250 – Naturally-generated villagers are not pathfinding towards their POI; POI detection range is too small.
• MC-164205 – Endermen do not spawn in the End if difficulty is set to Easy.
• MC-166764 – Villagers spawned during world generation have a lower follow range than villagers spawned by other means.
• MC-168139 – Enchanted armor pieces worn by entities lose their enchantment glint when looked at from certain angles.
• MC-168673 – Iron golems congregate all in the same place in some villages.
• MC-170612 – Villagers spawned by meeting points have frozen AI and do not move when that chunk is freshly generated.
• MC-172524 – Letters of name tag render inconsistently when sneaking (within the same name tag).
• MC-173115 – Mobs can spawn inside of wither roses.
• MC-174568 – Rail updates are 3–4x times laggier since 1.13.
• MC-174648 – You can unhighlight the recipe book button of crafting interfaces.
• MC-179989 – Smithing table and anvil UI does not have "Inventory" title above player inventory.
• MC-181566 – Powered redstone dust only emits particles at the center of the block.

From the 1.16 development versions

• MC-172107 – Piglins and hoglins do not get zombified in the End.
• MC-172899 – Piglins with blocks (pumpkins) equipped on their heads show z-fighting.
• MC-173015 – Crimson roots, warped roots, and nether sprouts are not randomly offset.
• MC-174024 – Spawn rates for dolphins and squid are higher than before.
• MC-174909 – Endermen do not teleport when on magma blocks.
• MC-175251 – Fish are spawning in with extremely high numbers. Over 200 different entities of cod every five minutes.
• MC-176356 – "Distance by Strider" statistic is missing.
• MC-177839 – Blackstone and blackstone walls use the blackstone side face on the bottom, while blackstone stairs and slabs use the blackstone top face on the bottom.
• MC-178487 – Saddles on untamed horses no longer render.
• MC-180064 – Piglins would rather use an unenchanted crossbow instead of an enchanted crossbow.
• MC-180297 – Player name color in list appears too dark.
• MC-180372 – Loading old beta or 1.0 worlds crashes the game.
• MC-180407 – Piglin bartering is limited to dropping a single item stack from the loot table.
• MC-180410 – Enderman spawn rate seems very low on upgraded worlds.
• MC-180575 – Dispensers now always plays "dispenser failed" when dispensing glowstone.
• MC-181353 – Warped and crimson doors have no hinges.

From the previous development version

• MC-181418 – Entity names can no longer be colored.
• MC-181424 – Fish (and other items from fishing) cannot be caught with a fishing rod.
• MC-181461 – Enchantment glint does not render on elytra, shields, and tridents.
• MC-181479 – Map marker labels do not render properly.
• MC-181524 – Redstone does not visually connect when going up soul sand.
• MC-181944 – Font of category/section text in creative mode item selection screen is much thicker than in 1.15.2.
• MC-182595 – Parity issue: blackstone does not generate in ore blobs in nether wastes.