Java Edition 20w07a

20w07a is the second snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on February 14, 2020, which adds piglins, baby hoglins and some changes to endermen and beacons.

Items

 * Spawn eggs
 * Added the piglin spawn egg.

Mobs

 * Hoglins
 * Added baby hoglins.


 * Piglins
 * Spawn in crimson forests and nether wastes biomes.
 * Randomly spawns with golden sword or crossbow.
 * Adults are hostile; babies are passive.
 * Will not attack players wearing golden armor.
 * Adult piglins turn aggressive when a player is mining blocks of gold or opening chests, even if they are wearing gold armor.
 * The player can barter with them by right-clicking with golden ingots or drop them on the ground, which makes them drop at least one item or block.
 * Common barters ($10/109$ or about 9.17%) are 1–4 soul sand, 1–4 brown mushrooms, 1–4 red mushrooms, 1–4 crimson fungi, 1–4 nether bricks, 3–8 flint, or 4–12 rotten flesh.
 * Uncommon barters ($5/109$ or about 4.59%) are 1 shroomlight, 1 fire charge, 4–12 gravel, 2–5 porkchops, 2–7 leather, or 1–2 warped fungi.
 * Rare barters ($2/109$ or about 1.83%) are 2–4 glowstone dust, 1–3 magma cream, or 2–4 ender pearls.
 * Very rare barters ($1/109$ or about 0.92%) are 1 warped nylium, 1–4 quartz, or 1 obsidian.
 * Attack adult hoglins sometimes.
 * Baby piglins do not attack and adult piglins will not attack baby hoglins.
 * Attack wither skeletons.
 * Avoid soul fire, soul fire torches, soul fire lanterns, and zombie pigmen.
 * Prefer to hunt and fight in groups.
 * Will convert to a zombie pigman when in the Overworld.

General

 * Tags
 * Added block tag.
 * Contains block of iron, block of gold, block of diamond, block of emerald, and block of netherite.
 * Controls what blocks can be used to build a beacon base.
 * Added block tag.
 * Contains lantern, soul fire lantern, torch, soul fire torch, redstone torch, and tripwire.
 * Controls what non-solid blocks can transform walls into their pillared block state.
 * Added block tag.
 * Contains soul sand and soul soil.
 * Controls what blocks can be used to build a wither.
 * Added item tag.
 * Contains iron ingot, gold ingot, diamond, emerald and netherite ingot.
 * Controls what items can be used as payment in a beacon's GUI.


 * Text
 * Added text which was missing for a death message and was displaying a raw translation string - what it says exactly is unknown.


 * Textures
 * Added the zombified piglin entity texture.
 * Added the leather, chainmail, iron, golden, diamond and netherite helmet textures used for piglins.

Blocks

 * Beacons
 * Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon and netherite ingots can be used as the fuel for a beacon.


 * Soul fire lanterns
 * Now have an animated texture.
 * Removed the wood colors from the texture.

Items

 * Spawn eggs
 * Changed the texture of the hoglin spawn egg.
 * Using a spawn egg on a mob that doesn't have a baby variant now spawns an adult of that mob type.

Mobs

 * Endermen
 * Can now pick up nylium, roots, and fungi variants.
 * No longer pick up netherrack.


 * Hoglins
 * Attack players on sight.
 * Drop pork and sometimes leather.
 * Breed when fed crimson fungi.
 * Are hunted by adult piglins sometimes.
 * Are not hunted by baby piglins and baby hoglins are not hunted at all.
 * Move away from placed warped fungi.
 * Have new sounds.


 * Withers
 * Can now be summoned using soul soil in the base.

Gameplay

 * Advancements
 * Piglins and hoglins will now count towards the Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted advancements.

General

 * Tags
 * Removed netherrack and added fungi, roots, and nylium variants to the block tag.

Video
Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

 * 20w07a was released on a Friday, which almost never happens with a first snapshot.
 * This and 20w08a are currently the only 1.16 snapshots to not have introduced a new block.