Java Edition 20w22a

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20w22a is the nineteenth and final snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on May 29, 2020,^[1] which adds a piglin dance and fixes many bugs.

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Jigsaw blocks

• Added a new "Keep Jigsaws" option that controls whether jigsaw blocks in the resulting structure after using "Generate" remain jigsaw blocks or are replaced by their "Turns Into" block.
  • Defaults to "ON".

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Piglins

• Now have a 10% chance to "dance" after killing a hoglin.
• If they have a sword, they now raise it while aggressive.

Death messages

• Added a new death message for being killed by an entity's wither skull projectile, "<player> was shot by a <entity>'s skull".

Shaders

• Added assets\minecraft\shaders\post\transparency.json.

Tags

• Added new fence_gates block tag.
  • Contains all 8 fence gate types.
• Added new unstable_bottom_center block tag.
  • Contains the #fence_gates block tag.
  • Blocks in this tag cannot support lanterns or bells on their bottom side even if they would otherwise be able to.

Bells

• Now follow the same placement rules as lanterns when being placed on the undersides of blocks. As a result, they can now be hung from the bottom of the following blocks:
  • Anvils (all stages)
  • Brewing stands
  • Chains
  • Chests
  • Ender chests
  • End rods (facing up or down)
  • Fences (all types)
  • Flower pots (including potted objects)
  • Glass panes (including stained)
  • Grindstones (ceiling attached)
  • Hoppers (downward facing)
  • Iron bars
  • Mob heads
  • Pistons (sideways facing extended)
  • Trapped chests
  • Walls (all types)

Campfires

• Now drop food being cooked when put out with a shovel or water bottle.

Nylium

• Now drop netherrack unless broken with Silk Touch, in which case they drop themselves.

Smithing tables

• The hammer in the UI has been shifted to the left slightly, and the text has moved up.

Soul campfires

• Now deal double the damage that normal campfires deal.

General

• Players can no longer mount another entity when the crouch key is held down.

Bees

• Now grow up and count down their breeding cool down when inside a beehive.

Endermen

• No longer despawn when holding a block.

Villagers

• Workstation logic changes.
  • Villagers no longer try to work at the same workstation.
  • When a workstation is placed, the most experienced nearby villager for that corresponding profession gets the workstation.
  • Villagers now have to walk to and reach the workstation before they can acquire the profession/work there.
  • Villagers check and make sure their workstation is valid at all times of day as long as they are within 16 blocks of their workstation.
• The experience bar now accurately reflects how much experience villagers have and need.
• Clocks and compasses no longer function in the villager trading UI.

Witches

• When a villager that was traded with is struck by lightning, the witch it converts to no longer despawns.

Zombified piglins

• Now hold their arms forward, similar to zombies.
• Texture has been tweaked.

Basalt pillars

• Now end in the top layer of the lava ocean instead of directly above it.

Chest loot

• Is no longer randomized across the same seed.

Structures

• Fossils no longer overlap desert temples.
• Intersecting dungeons no longer replace spawners with cobblestone.
• Fossils, ocean ruins, and dungeons no longer overlap end portals.

/clear

• Now works properly with the inventory crafting grid.

Advancements

• "Bee Our Guest" can now be unlocked with both beehives and bee nests, instead of only beehives.

Repairing

• Blackstone can now be used to repair stone tools.

Collision

• Minor optimizations in collision detection.

Data packs

• Slightly changed data pack loading to prevent custom data packs from crashing.
• If data pack reload fails, changes are not applied and the game continues using the previous data.
• Changes to data pack list are stored only after a successful reload.
• If existing data packs prevents the world from loading, the game offers the option to load the world in safe mode, which loads only the vanilla data pack.
• Added --safeMode option for servers to load only the vanilla data pack.
• Game now detects any critical data pack issues, such as required tags being missing, and prevents the world from being loaded.

Materials

• Whether or not a block requires a tool is now no longer a property of a material and is now assigned on a block-by-block basis.

Pathfinding

• Cached repeated block type lookups and collisions during pathfinding for increased performance.

Predicates

• Top-level element in predicate file can now be array (all contents are ANDed).

Rendering

• Made experimental changes to graphics rendering.
• Added shader support for accessing the depth buffer.
• The renderer now uses per-pixel blending layers for some transparent elements.

Others

• The "Crafting" text in the player's inventory has been moved 2 pixels up and 1 pixel to the right in the crafting table GUI to match the edge of the crafting grid.

124 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.16

• MC-667 – Lily pads can be placed intersecting entities.
• MC-4065 – Messages/commands sent while in a bed are not remembered in sent history.
• MC-101374 – Endermen don't dodge melee attacks if the player isn't aiming at their head.
• MC-112131 – Intersecting dungeons: spawner replaced by cobblestone.
• MC-118594 – Removal of Log4J2Plugins.dat causing a slowdown of 3 secs on startup while it has to rescan all classes.
• MC-120805 – Pig rotation is wrong when you see a player riding them with a carrot on a stick.
• MC-121932 – Villager trade with same items but different NBT data.
• MC-124812 – Endermen holding a block can despawn.
• MC-125006 – Stronghold and dungeon generate over each other.
• MC-134637 – Comparators on slabs drop when loading them with structure blocks.
• MC-134755 – All short mobs drown just below the surface of water.
• MC-136760 – A passenger of a boat is not saved if the passenger is in a different chunk than the boat.
• MC-137102 – Hoe doesn't lose durability if used to mine blocks.
• MC-143443 – Redstone dust block states do not update properly if the wire is broken by a piston.
• MC-148893 – Fox spawners do not render the fox inside of the block.
• MC-150806 – Multiple villagers are attached to the same profession block.
• MC-153787 – Zombie reinforcements can spawn on glass.
• MC-156161 – Some chest loot is randomized across the same seed, unlike before 1.14.
• MC-156866 – Villagers level from Apprentice to Journeyman with less experience than shown by the XP bar.
• MC-157303 – Villagers wake up and seek a new "home" (bed) while living in a 2 high house.
• MC-157436 – Player position is constantly reset when clicking with a sword or a trident onto the ground in creative mode.
• MC-161899 – Clouds do not render behind transparent blocks.
• MC-161917 – Particles do not render underwater, behind water, or behind other transparent blocks.
• MC-162340 – World border is rendered behind transparent blocks.
• MC-162341 – World border is rendered behind clouds.
• MC-162346 – Clouds do not render behind transparent particles.
• MC-162428 – Rain and snow cannot be seen through transparent blocks.
• MC-162665 – Food does not drop from a campfire when it is put out with a shovel/water bottle.
• MC-163910 – Hand animation sometimes plays for a second time with high ping.
• MC-164047 – Moving transparent blocks cause transparent blocks behind them to not render.
• MC-164056 – Clouds do not render behind moving transparent blocks.
• MC-164111 – Transparent falling blocks make entities and block entities invisible.
• MC-164233 – "Skilled" villagers without job sites do not get precedence over unemployed villagers.
• MC-165549 – Arm swing animation is still playing when drinking an item.
• MC-165958 – Clouds, transparent blocks, and other semi-transparent textures do not render behind semi-transparent entities.
• MC-165962 – Some transparent items make transparent blocks and beacon beams do not render behind them when dropped (again).
• MC-165966 – Shadows do not render behind experience orbs.
• MC-165968 – Transparent blocks do not render behind experience orbs.
• MC-166135 – Bees inside a nest/hive do not grow up or get their breeding timer reset.
• MC-166297 – Items do not render behind experience orbs.
• MC-166398 – Mobs do not render behind experience orbs.
• MC-166576 – Player head shakes when loading world in F5.
• MC-166717 – Block outlines/hitboxes render behind all translucent blocks and clouds.
• MC-166725 – Entity hitboxes render behind all translucent blocks and clouds.
• MC-166729 – Fishing lines render behind water, other transparent blocks, and clouds.
• MC-167039 – Right-clicking on a spawner with the same mob spawn egg as in spawner plays hand animation.
• MC-167090 – Entity hitboxes are rendered behind item frames.
• MC-167273 – Some special rendering blocks render in front of entity hitboxes.
• MC-167342 – Structure block outline renders behind clouds and translucent blocks.
• MC-168137 – Entities sometimes do not render behind semi-transparent entities.
• MC-168311 – Fishing line disappears when in front of entities and blocks entities.
• MC-168485 – Chests do not render behind experience orbs.
• MC-169079 – Held items do not render behind semi-transparent entities.
• MC-169683 – Bells cannot be hung from certain blocks that have a wide enough base.
• MC-169891 – Zombie reinforcements can spawn in regardless if the light level is higher than 9 in nether (hard difficulty).
• MC-174404 – Arrows are rendered in front of the world border.
• MC-174932 – Right-to-left text appears left-to-right after the game start until the language is changed.
• MC-177075 – Taking product out of stonecutter produces no subtitle.
• MC-178441 – Endermen do not avoid the wither's skull projectiles.
• MC-178576 – Projectile protection has no effect on wither skulls, unlike ghast fireballs
• MC-181108 – Right-to-left text is displayed left-to-right at all times.
• MC-181827 – Northwest bias in bee movement.
• MC-182336 – Entities sometimes do not render behind the wither armor effect of the Wither.
• MC-182888 – Compasses and clocks work like normal in villager trading GUI.
• MC-183718 – Stronghold end portal can be overwritten by ocean ruins.

From the 1.16 development versions

• MC-171553 – Basalt can generate inside nether fortresses.
• MC-172079 – The /clear command output does not count items in the inventory crafting grid.
• MC-172142 – Items are invisible while being picked up.
• MC-172197 – Nylium is not dropping netherrack when it is broken by pickaxe.
• MC-172272 – /clear removes all items from the crafting grid regardless of item type.
• MC-172479 – Hoglins immediately attack invisible players.
• MC-172980 – Light does not propagate across chunk borders properly.
• MC-173032 – Fossils can overwrite the stronghold end portal.
• MC-173063 – Redstone wire does not update connections going up or down when being placed by commands.
• MC-173197 – Zombified piglin does not hold its arms upward like a zombie.
• MC-173552 – Nether fossil support islands are sometimes cut off at chunk borders.
• MC-174307 – Nether fossils stop basalt pillars from generating.
• MC-174325 – Mushrooms or nether fungi can replace the stem of large nether fungi (trees).
• MC-174692 – Shroomlights, wart blocks, and vines can overwrite the stem of large nether fungi.
• MC-174956 – Some entities behind the world border are rendered in front of it instead of behind it.
• MC-174957 – Held items are rendered in front of the world border.
• MC-175553 – Piglins do not drop their inventories when converted to zombified piglins.
• MC-176020 – If a player is riding a strider, other players can not see the animation of the strider.
• MC-176051 – Glowstone in the offhand sets spawn point and charges respawn anchor at the same time.
• MC-176147 – Basalt randomly gets cut off.
• MC-176628 – Frost Walker protects player from fire.
• MC-177150 – Ticking entity java.lang.IllegalStateException: Tag minecraft:fire used before it was bound.
• MC-177265 – Piglin and zombified piglin right arm/leg/loincloth textures are identical to the left ones.
• MC-177626 – Spruce generation is broken.
• MC-177870 – Soul campfire does not deal twice the amount of damage as a normal campfire.
• MC-177888 – Blackstone cannot be used to repair stone tools and weapons using an anvil.
• MC-177962 – Giant fungi can replace waterlogged blocks when growing.
• MC-177970 – Player can occasionally be forced into crawling in one-block tall spaces.
• MC-178003 – Fossils can generate inside desert temples.
• MC-179020 – Jigsaw blocks do not disappear post-gen when the structure is spawned using the 'Generate' action from an initial jigsaw.
• MC-179890 – Fire stops ticking forever if gamerule doFireTick is set to false once.
• MC-179909 – 2×2 trees sometimes fail to grow, but if they grow, they always grow on the surface.
• MC-180098 – Farmer villagers' farming behavior is broken.
• MC-180771 – Observer not updating when a tree grows leaves in front of it.
• MC-180877 – Fire does not spread from netherrack to other blocks.
• MC-181464 – When a piglin picks up a shield the gear equip sound is infinitely spammed.
• MC-181529 – + Pick Block no longer copies skull/head NBT data properly.
• MC-181555 – When replacing a snow layer with a grass block, podzol, or mycelium, the block has the "snowy=true" blockstate.
• MC-182666 – Parity issue: Piglins do not have a dancing animation when celebrating their victory.
• MC-182919 – Horse armor stops rendering if you equip the horse with a saddle by right-clicking.
• MC-182967 – Throwing ender pearl whilst mounted does not teleport you.
• MC-183275 – Basalt pillars end above the lava in Java Edition but inside of the lava in Bedrock Edition.
• MC-183298 – Piglins crash game when reloaded if a block tag called within the piglin_repellents tag cannot be read.
• MC-183374 – Text on signs stops rendering while still in view.
• MC-183496 – Enchantment glint does not render in boat interior.
• MC-183808 – "Bee Our Guest" advancement does not trigger when harvesting honey from bee nests.
• MC-183860 – Zombie villager converted from villager gets PersistenceRequired depending on whether attacking zombie had it.
• MC-184482 – End gateways do not generate after defeating the ender dragon.

From the previous development version

• MC-184609 – Text renders in the wrong order.
• MC-184619 – Piglins riding on other entities float.
• MC-184629 – Piglins riding on hoglins or other piglins automatically dismount them.
• MC-184640 – Only one piglin can ride on a boat while the other piglin dismounts the boat.
• MC-184730 – Crash: java.lang.NullPointerException: mouseClicked event handler – Some Superflat presets crash immediately when trying to generate them.
• MC-184740 – Structures generated in previous versions are not recognized as valid structures, causing mobs not to spawn.
• MC-184778 – Redstone dust can be toggled between cross and dot in adventure mode.
• MC-184907 – [Crash] java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - Some villages cause crashes.
• MC-184936 – Old Minecraft logo in the end poem/credits.
• MC-185141 – Opacity of the new Minecraft logo when fading in the main menu is inconsistent with other elements.
• MC-185156 – Worldgen settings are not validated and can cause crashes.

• This snapshot, being the last for 1.16, was released in the same week of the year as the last snapshot for 1.13, 18w22c.
• Just like 20w07a, 20w22a came out on Friday, which almost never happens to the first-of-the-week snapshot.
• 20w22a contained the largest number of bug fixes in a single snapshot, with at least 123, beating 19w14a by at least 18. The record was, however, beaten by 21w11a and 23w31a.