Java Edition 1.16 Pre-release 3

1.16 Pre-release 3 (known as 1.16-pre3 in the launcher) is the third pre-release for Java Edition 1.16, released on June 10, 2020, which adds a few minor changes and fixes some critical bugs from the previous pre-release.

Changes

 * Food can now be placed on unlit campfires.
 * Made Nether Fortresses slightly more common
 * Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of fire resistance.
 * Piglins now hear you break a chest or block of gold (or similar) even if you are out of line of sight, and will assume you are stealing.
 * The game will now attempt to recover worlds broken in 1.16 Pre-release 1.
 * Game rule descriptions now span multiple lines if needed on the game rules screen.
 * A loading screen is now displayed while the game is reading world data for loading, creating or re-creating a worldTechnical changes in 1.16 Pre-release 3.


 * Region files are now only opened in synchronous mode on Windows, not on other operating systems. Status of this feature can be manually controlled by following options: - For dedicated servers:   within   - For clients:   within

Fixes
116 issues fixed


 * MC-13823 - Leads are incorrectly positioned on certain entities
 * MC-14680 - Lead is shifted upwards or downwards based on leashed entity height
 * MC-27535 - Mobs can sometimes still despawn, even if named with a name tag
 * MC-84610 - Off-hand hotkey doesn’t work in inventories
 * MC-131286 - Attack will use right hand instead of left hand when swimming (main hand: left)
 * MC-134608 - Certain Spawner Tag Conditions Induce Game Crash
 * MC-143473 - Teleporting a mob while it is pathfinding will make it navigate back to where it was originally going
 * MC-152157 - “Marie Stålkrantz” is not the right color in game credits
 * MC-159371 - Leads are incorrectly positioned on bees
 * MC-159502 - Bees don’t avoid water; killing themselves
 * MC-160520 - Bee’s wandering AI tries to go through three-way corners
 * MC-163921 - Placing a block while looking at redstone ore plays no sound
 * MC-166346 - Transparent blocks do not render properly with tripwire above
 * MC-166880 - Pufferfish spikes model seems to be broken
 * MC-167043 - Enchantment glint does only apply to the handle of shields with banners
 * MC-169008 - Using End portal in the Nether teleports the player to the End, but at the same coordinates the player was in the Nether
 * MC-171618 - Players wearing armor take less damage from burning when standing in fire under certain conditions
 * MC-171810 - Some Mojang employees are not mentioned in the credits
 * MC-171969 - Fall damage is negated when stepping up after falling
 * MC-172053 - Nether particles get stuck on the bottom of blocks
 * MC-172105 - When a piglin is dancing, targeting or looking at an item, the chestplate the piglin is wearing does not adjust to the piglin’s pose
 * MC-172110 - Texture of turtle shells is missing when worn by a piglin or zombified piglin
 * MC-172871 - Unable to spawn wither in horizontal arrangement below y level 2
 * MC-173310 - Observer powered texture doesn’t match unpowered
 * MC-173404 - Desync when mounting an entity while sneaking
 * MC-173825 - Bats break turtle eggs
 * MC-176094 - Baby zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn riding striders
 * MC-177336 - ‘Failed to access level’ when opening a world from a CIFS mount on Ubuntu
 * MC-177530 - The new minecraft:attributes registry is plural, while all the others are singular
 * MC-177542 - Chunk loading and saving is extremely slow when sync-chunk-writes=true
 * MC-177626 - Spruce generation is broken
 * MC-177694 - Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg is placed before Zombie Villager Spawn Egg in the creative inventory
 * MC-177712 - Nether portal blocks do not have loot tables
 * MC-177795 - Overworld music can start playing in the Nether
 * MC-177863 - Shroomlights cannot be composted
 * MC-177876 - Striders are now much rarer
 * MC-178010 - Lena Raine does not appear in credits
 * MC-178338 - Striders only get warm when lava touches their legs
 * MC-179140 - Sea guardians have an odd swimming behavior
 * MC-180603 - Wrong structures are generated in superflat worlds
 * MC-181630 - Advancement trigger “minecraft:tick” does not support standard “player” predicate
 * MC-181813 - Edit "g"ame "r"ules are not capitalized in the Game Rules menu title
 * MC-181884 - Falling quickly/Flying with Elytra/Swimming with Riptide Trident and throwing a projectile will cause it to hit the player
 * MC-182076 - Horse jumping sound is unused
 * MC-182249 - Problems with potted_cactus.json block model file
 * MC-182766 - Recipe book search function does not work if recipe book was not open before
 * MC-182909 - Esc from Customised World’s Biome selection screen kicks us back to main menu
 * MC-183018 - When sneaking while flying underwater in Creative, the player exits flying mode after a few seconds
 * MC-183402 - Tutorial doesn’t advance when breaking nether tree
 * MC-183554 - Ruined portals generated in lava lakes unnaturally displace lava, resulting in weird borders
 * MC-183588 - Stray emerald block in structure bastion/treasure/big_air_full
 * MC-183594 - The 5th large inner and outer hoglin stables do not generate in bastions
 * MC-183599 - Some hoglin stable stair structures do not generate
 * MC-183762 - Description of F3+N in help menu still describes the old functionality
 * MC-183809 - Large Oak Trees replace blocks
 * MC-183880 - Distracting baby piglins with gold grants the ‘Oh Shiny’ advancement
 * MC-183915 - Wall Heads & Skulls are slightly offset from block selection outline
 * MC-183931 - nether fortress mobs no longer spawn in extended bounding box
 * MC-183933 - show_text tellraw hover events don’t work for components that need resolving (nbt, score, selector)
 * MC-184093 - Using an end gateway teleports the player half a block too high
 * MC-184250 - Font of the enchantments displayed in the enchanting table is italic
 * MC-184608 - “Unknown biome, defaulting to plains” error upon launching the game
 * MC-184612 - Import Settings “s” isn’t capitalized
 * MC-184613 - End Stone generates in Floating Islands setting
 * MC-184644 - Cave buffet generator generates with netherrack, even if using a non-nether biome
 * MC-184653 - [Crash] “java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: value already present:” - Game crashes when worldgen dimension type presets are not unique
 * MC-184675 - Superflat void preset doesn’t have a starting platform again
 * MC-184699 - ‘/spreadplayers under’ does not prevent invalid values
 * MC-184723 - The “i” in “World Type: Floating islands” is not capitalized
 * MC-184757 - [Crash] “java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking memory connection” on loading a dimension with debug chunk generator
 * MC-184887 - You can spawn in the bedrock ceiling of a Caves world
 * MC-184900 - Newline in tellraw adds a space at the beginning of the new line
 * MC-184984 - Game crashes after generating multiple worlds in succession
 * MC-185004 - [Crash] java.lang.NullPointerException - Crash on entering end/nether portal when dimension is removed in worldgen settings
 * MC-185164 - Bottom half of icebergs always generate at y=62 regardless of sea_level
 * MC-185285 - Entering the End or the Nether after creating and reentering a debug world crashes the game
 * MC-185299 - Villagers cannot be summoned with a specific type unless you also specify a profession
 * MC-185363 - sync-chunk-writes often takes over a minute to close a world
 * MC-185417 - Maps reset on upgrade
 * MC-185616 - Turtle eggs can’t hatch on red sand
 * MC-185949 - Copy “C” in Click to Copy to Clipboard isn’t capitalized
 * MC-186078 - Transparent items render in front of transparent blocks on some graphics cards when graphics setting is set to fabulous
 * MC-186084 - Piglin head and torso floats and detaches during celebration dance
 * MC-186085 - Player is unable to interact with the world after dismounting a boat while it’s moving
 * MC-186091 - When you stop swimming, “diving underwater” sound occurs and vision flashes
 * MC-186092 - The head of a piglin becomes offset after performing their celebration dance
 * MC-186097 - Pigs are moving very slowly
 * MC-186248 - “m” in Safe Mode button isn’t capitalized
 * MC-186263 - “b” & “l” in Create Backup & Load isn’t capitalized
 * MC-186337 - The lighting of the “Client” doesn’t correspond to that of the “Server”
 * MC-186353 - The “s” and “m” in “Edit sign message” are uncapitalized
 * MC-186403 - Swimming up on the side of flowing water no longer prevents the player from drowning
 * MC-186492 - Lily pad placement in creative mode causes item on hotbar to flicker/vanish
 * MC-186905 - "Superflat Customization" screen resets every time you open it and does not show previously saved settings
 * MC-187363 - Charged respawn anchors no longer light up blocks around them
 * MC-187367 - Netherite recipes show up in crafting table despite requiring a smithing table to use
 * MC-187371 - Game crashes when attempting to change cloud settings on some graphics cards
 * MC-187392 - Items in waterlogged stairs don’t float up high enough to be caught by a water stream above the stair
 * MC-187394 - Dying Ender dragons are rendered completely white when using Fabulous graphics
 * MC-187402 - Lighting in the End dimension is much darker when on a server
 * MC-187405 - /seed is no longer available without cheats enabled
 * MC-187411 - Particles and clouds not rendering properly behind stained glass and solid blocks
 * MC-187437 - Held item is invisible in inventory menu
 * MC-187449 - Zombie Pigmen/Zombified Piglins do not drop XP and rare drops anymore if killed by anything other than the player while in angered state
 * MC-187466 - Mobs killed in creative mode don’t drop experience
 * MC-187468 - Enchantment glint does not render for certain things on “Fabulous” setting
 * MC-187483 - The advancement “Two by Two” can be achieved by just breeding turtles
 * MC-187504 - Mobs do not drop rare drop items when killed by a player in Creative Mode
 * MC-187552 - Piglins and Hoglins shake in the nether on servers
 * MC-187585 - Dolphins with NoAI:1b can drown
 * MC-187592 - Piglins constantly picking up gold nuggets and dropping them
 * MC-187611 - White squares when in first person with fabulous video settings and F1
 * MC-187618 - Demo world not saving after saving and quitting then quiting out of minecraft
 * MC-187673 - [Crash] “java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unregistered dimension type”
 * MC-187676 - “d” in Reset to default isn’t capitalized
 * MC-187677 - “b” in Go back isn’t capitalized
 * MC-187679 - Bees stay angry far longer
 * MC-187730 - Newly spawned Zombified Piglins do not pick up the aggro of older spawned aggravated Zombified Piglins
 * MC-187739 - NeutralMob.playerDied(Player) does not return if forgiveDeadPlayers = false
 * MC-187796 - Wolves only use their hostile appearance after being attacked
 * MC-187811 - Ender dragon death animation suddenly flashes right after it has ended
 * MC-187978 - /seed availiable to all players on multiplayer server
 * MC-188070 - Glitched skin while swimming (left hand)
 * MC-188088 - Overworld superflat preset no longer generates with terrain decorations
 * MC-188216 - Superflat biome selection overrides block selection on “Create New World” screen
 * MC-188393 - K in “4k” should be capitalized