Java Edition 20w27a

20w27a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.16.2, released on July 1, 2020, which adds piglin brutes and fixes bugs.

Items

 * Spawn eggs
 * Added piglin brute spawn eggs.

Mobs

 * Piglin brutes
 * Stronger variants of piglins that wield golden axes.
 * Are always hostile towards players, unlike piglins.
 * Have health.
 * Only spawn during world generation in bastion remnants.

General

 * Tags
 * Added block tag.
 * Contains mycelium, podzol, and crimson and warped nylium.
 * Used to determine which blocks mushrooms can be placed on and which blocks huge mushrooms can grow on, even if the light level is high.

Items

 * Brown and red mushroom
 * Can now be placed and grown on both types of nylium.


 * Crimson and warped fungi
 * Can now be placed on mycelium.
 * Will still only grow into a huge fungus on the respective nylium.

Mobs

 * Zoglins
 * Can now be leashed.

World generation

 * Bastion remnants
 * Now spawn piglin brutes on world generation.
 * Normal piglins still spawn.

Gameplay

 * Advancements
 * Piglin brutes are now used for the "Monster Hunter" advancement and count toward the "Monsters Hunted" advancement.

General

 * Menu
 * Dropping resource packs into the menu now updates the list of resource packs without needing a reload.
 * Data packs can now have a pack.png in the root folder, and will display it in the data pack menu.

Video
Video made by slicedlime: