Java Edition 21w11a

21w11a is the fourteenth snapshot for Java Edition 1.17 released on March 17, 2021, which fixes bugs, many of which are relating to textures and rendering issues, and adds new copper oxidation mechanics.

General

 * Controls
 * Added shortcut to generate and persist performance metrics from in-game.


 * Particles
 * Added the particles.


 * Tags
 * Added the item tag.
 * Contains all pickaxes.

Blocks

 * Amethyst Cluster
 * Breaking by hand, piston, or other means now only drops 2 amethyst shards instead of 4 with a pickaxe.


 * Azalea
 * Can now be used as fuel in a furnace.


 * Big Dripleaf
 * Breaking the stem now drops the block.


 * Block of Copper, Cut Copper, and variants
 * Honeycomb can now be to wax them.
 * Using a dispenser with honeycomb waxes them.
 * Axes can scrape off wax and oxidation (one stage at a time).
 * Lightning now may clean oxidation, reverting the oxidation process by one or several stages.
 * Chances of cleaning and number of reverted stages are higher the closer to the striken block.
 * Waxed copper blocks can be crafted into 4 copper ingots.


 * Brewing Stand
 * Removed extra pixels from the potion icons in the brewing stand GUI.
 * Removed some stray pixels from the GUI texture.


 * Cauldron
 * Lava buckets and powder snow buckets can now be emptied in the respective filled cauldrons.


 * Cave Vines
 * Renamed the parts from "cave vines head" and "cave vines body" to "cave vines" and "cave vines plant", respectively.
 * The IDs have also changed.
 * Now always give 14 light, regardless of the type of part.
 * Now slow down the player.
 * Can now be climbed.


 * Gilded Blackstone
 * The texture has changed.


 * Glow Lichen
 * Bone meal can no longer be used on it if it has no blocks to spread to.
 * Can now be used on a composter.


 * Grass Block
 * Changed part of the dirt of the side texture of snowy grass.


 * Hanging Roots
 * Now renders randomly offset from the center.
 * Removing the support block for it no longer allows it to float.


 * Lightning Rod
 * Can now be waterlogged.
 * Now turns completely white when struck by lightning.
 * Now emits particles when in contact with raining.


 * Lectern
 * The model has changed.


 * Moss Block
 * Can be combined with cobblestone or stone bricks to make the mossy versions of those blocks.
 * Vines can still be used, in addition to moss blocks.
 * In addition to axes, hoes are now an appropiate tool to collect it.


 * Pumpkin
 * Changed one pixel on the pumpkin's top texture.


 * Rooted Dirt
 * bone meal on any side grows hanging roots underneath.


 * Signs
 * Changed the textures of acacia, birch, dark oak, jungle, oak, and spruce signs to better reflect new textures in the Texture Update.


 * Small Dripleaf
 * The facing direction of small dripleaf is now determined by which direction the player is facing when placing it.


 * Smoker
 * Changed the top texture of the smoker.


 * Spore Blossom
 * Removing the support block for it no longer allows it to float.


 * Tinted Glass
 * No longer causes suffocation on mobs.
 * Mobs can no longer spawn on top of it.

Items

 * Jungle Doors
 * Changed the texture of the jungle door item.


 * Spectral Arrows
 * Fired spectral arrows are now entirely golden, matching the item texture.


 * Sugar Cane
 * Changed the texture of the sugar cane item.

Mobs

 * Cats
 * Changed the texture of the siamese cat type, mostly brightening it.


 * Guardian and Elder Guardian
 * Removed some stray pixels from the texture file.


 * Villagers and Zombie Villagers
 * Changed the librarian overlay texture.

Non-Mob Entities

 * Paintings
 * Changed the back texture to closer resemble plank textures in the Texture Update.

World generation

 * Caves
 * Tweaked the cave sizes.


 * Lush caves
 * Reduced the amount of floating water in lush caves.


 * Ore distribution
 * Slightly increased the frequency of diamond ore blobs.
 * If ore replaces tuff, it will now be deepslate ore.

Gameplay

 * Freezing
 * Frozen hearts now have a different texture in Hardcore mode.


 * Spectator mode
 * Now possible to see while inside lava and powder snow.


 * Subtitles
 * Added subtitles for amethyst blocks chiming.
 * Added subtitles for waxing and removing wax from copper blocks.
 * These are "Wax on" and "Wax off", but are not triggered in-game.
 * Changed the subtitles for stripping logs and wood from "Axe scrapes" to "Axe strips".
 * "Axe scrapes" is now used for copper blocks. However, it is not triggered in-game.

General

 * Tags
 * Added cave vines and cave vines plant to the block tag.
 * Added tuff to the block tag.
 * Added tinted glass to the block tag.
 * Removed tuff from the block tag.

Video
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