Java Edition 1.10

 is an upcoming major update to Minecraft with no set release date.

Version number
The version number of this update is 1.10. It is currently listed on the bug tracker as "Future Version - 1.10+", and this version has been referred to as 1.10 by Minecraft developers Erik Broes (Grum), Nathan Adams (Dinnerbone) , Jens Bergensten (Jeb) and Michael Stoyke (Searge).

General

 * Sound events


 * Options
 * A new 'Auto-jump' toggle has been added, which automatically makes the player jump when running towards a one block tall obstacle.
 * It's turned on by default.


 * Loot tables
 * A new tag  for the   function.
 * It determines the maximum amount the player can expect to receive on mob drops when using the looting enchantment of any level.


 * Particles
 * A new  particle has been added.
 * It sometimes appears whenever a gravity-affected block is first placed without a support block below.
 * Appears underneath gravity-affected blocks that generate suspended in midair, with the world generation.
 * Does not apply to dragon eggs.


 * NBT tags
 * : Determines the kind of zombie a specific zombie is.
 * 0: default, 1-5: villager, 6: husk.
 * This tag, in effect, unifies the characteristics of being a zombie, a specific zombie villager and a husk into a single variable.
 * Intended to replace the  and   tags.
 * These tags are kept for backwards compatibility, but no newly generated entities have them.


 * Debug screen
 * + shows the chunk borders around the player

World generation

 * Fossils
 * Generates 15–24 blocks underground in Desert, DesertHills, Desert M, Swampland, and Swampland M biomes. Each chunk has a $1/64$ chance of generating a fossil.
 * Composed of bone blocks and some coal ore, arranged as to resemble the skulls and spines of giant extinct creatures.
 * There are 4 variants of the skull, and 4 variants of the spine sections.

Blocks

 * Structure void
 * Used for the structure block to keep the blocks in that location.
 * Intended to be a replacement for the function barrier blocks used to convey, so they can form part of the structure itself.
 * They are invisible and have a small hitbox.
 * They are only visible when using the feature in (save) structure blocks.


 * Magma block
 * Found in the Nether, generating 4 veins per chunk between Y=27 and Y=36.
 * It has a similar frequency to blocks like andesite in the Overworld.
 * Crafted using four magma cream.
 * Mobs and players take half a heart of damage every second while touching it, similar to a cactus.
 * If the player is crouching, wearing Frost Walker-enchanted armor, or under the effect, it does not take damage.
 * If the player dies by standing on it, a new death message will appear: "[Player] discovered that floor was lava."
 * If the player dies by the block, but after being damaged by a mob or player, the death message will be: "[Player] walked into danger zone due to [Mob or Player]."
 * Removes water blocks on top when randomly ticked.
 * It emits as much light as it received from other sources.
 * e.g. A magma block next to a torch will emit light at level 13, as that was the light level it received from the torch and no other sources were stronger.


 * Nether wart block
 * Crafted by filling a 3x3 square in the crafting table with nether wart.
 * It cannot be crafted back into nether wart.


 * Red nether brick
 * Crafted by placing a 2x2 checkerboard of 2 nether brick and 2 nether wart in a crafting table.


 * Bone block
 * Crafted by filling a 3x3 square in the crafting table with Bone Meal.
 * Placing it in a crafting table yields 9 bone meal back.
 * Found underground in desert and swamps as part of the fossil structure

Items

 * Spawn eggs
 * Now exists for:
 * Wither skeleton.
 * Mule.
 * Skeleton horse.
 * Zombie horse.
 * Donkey.
 * Cat.
 * Elder guardian.
 * Polar bear (new mob).
 * Stray (new mob).
 * Husk (new mob).

Mobs

 * Polar bear
 * Adults and children spawn randomly as passive mobs in Ice Plains, Ice Mountains, and Ice Plains Spikes.
 * When hit, the adults will attack you, the cubs will run away (very fast, similar to baby zombies).
 * Additionally, adults will always attack you when their cubs are around
 * Adults can swim faster in water than the player.
 * Drops 0–2 raw fish (75% chance) or 0–2 salmon (25% chance), each increased by 1 per level of Looting.


 * Stray
 * 80% of skeletons spawned above ground in Ice Plains, Ice Mountains, and Ice Plains Spikes biomes will be strays.
 * All spawns where the skeleton does not have a view of the sky will be normal skeletons.
 * Spiders spawned in cold biomes have a chance of having a stray riding it.
 * Acts mostly like a regular skeleton.
 * Its  tag is 2.
 * Drops are the same as skeletons, but also have a 50% chance to drop 0-1 tipped arrow of when killed by the player. With looting, chance increases to $2×level+1/2×level+2$.
 * Shoots Tipped Arrows of Slowness (0:30) at the target.


 * Husk
 * 80% of zombies spawned above ground in Desert, Desert Hills, and Desert M biomes will be husks.
 * All spawns where the zombie does not have a view of the sky will be normal zombies or zombie villagers.
 * Behaves mostly like a regular zombie
 * Its  tag is 6.
 * Does not burn in sunlight.
 * Can spawn as a baby or as a chicken jockey.
 * Applies 7 seconds of hunger when attacking in Easy, 14 in Normal and 21 in Hard difficulty.
 * Visually 2 pixels taller than zombies, but has the same hitbox.

General

 * NBT tags
 * now works for all entities, not only armor stands.


 * Huge mushrooms
 * Huge mushrooms have a 1⁄12 chance of generating twice as tall as normal.

World generation

 * Plains and Sunflower Plains
 * Now have some trees in 5% of its chunks ($1/3$ large oaks, $2/3$ normal oaks).


 * Ice Plains, Ice Mountains, and Ice Plains Spikes
 * Have a lower chance of spawning passive mobs during world generation than other biomes (7% versus 10%).


 * Mesas, including all variants
 * Hardened clay and stained clay no longer generate more than 15 blocks deep, if the mesa is more than 15 blocks above sea level.
 * In addition to the normal 2 veins of gold ore below Y=32, attempts to generate 20 veins between Y=32 and Y=79.
 * Generate the new type of abandoned mineshafts, described below.


 * Abandoned mineshafts
 * New mineshaft type that generates in mesa biomes (including all variants).
 * Placed so that the midpoint of the structure is near sea level, rather than so that the top is 10 blocks or more below sea level.
 * Uses dark oak wood for wooden structures.
 * New NBT tag  on mineshaft structure pieces to indicate the type. 0 is the traditional mineshaft, 1 is the new mesa mineshaft.
 * Features generate differently if above ground (i.e. the sky light where they generate is 8 or more). This is not dependent on mineshaft type.
 * Cave spider spawners no longer generate if sky light is 8 or more.
 * Various wooden pieces no longer generate if the block above is air and/or if sky light is 8 or more.
 * Rails in corridors are more complete if sky light is below 8.


 * Villages
 * Village structures are no longer restricted by biome boundaries.
 * Meaning that a village that starts in a valid biome can now spread into an adjacent invalid biome.
 * Now generate in taigas (but not variants).
 * They are made with spruce wood.
 * Savanna villages are now made with acacia wood instead of oak.
 * In savannas, acacia logs replace cobblestone in all structures except churches
 * Paths no longer generate below sea level, and in non-desert villages they are made with different material depending on the existing terrain.
 * If replacing grass blocks, the path is made from grass path blocks.
 * If replacing water or lava, the path is made from planks.
 * Otherwise, the path is gravel on top of cobblestone (including bridges across ravines).
 * Sandstone paths still always generate in desert villages
 * They have a 2% chance of being a zombie village.
 * All generated villagers are instead zombie villagers.
 * There are no doors or torches in the village.


 * Caves
 * No longer turn adjacent sand blocks in the ceiling into sandstone when generating.

Blocks

 * Structure block
 * The intended purpose is revealed.
 * It is to allow the player to save and load different created structures in game, and offer a way to bundle such structures with the world.
 * The block has now four modes, each with a completely different texture than the original.
 * D, data - for chest markers and other blocks that require data (default)
 * S, save - build structure in world, tell the block where it is and it saves it to file
 * L, load - loads saved structure files, replacing blocks with saved blocks except for null blocks.
 * C, corner - for automatic size calculation
 * Are now available in item form; can be given or summoned.
 * Similarly to command blocks, its placement, destruction and modification are restricted to opped players in creative.
 * Now comes with an integrated GUI.
 * Structures can be stored, bundled and loaded per world, in the "structures" folder
 * Structures are limited to a size of 32 blocks in each direction.
 * The coordinates used by the blocks are relative to themselves.
 * When in use, it shows the outline of the structure it relates to in white
 * Can rotate and mirror blocks.
 * L and S structure blocks can be activated by redstone.
 * The game protects against maps saving arbitrary amounts of data to disk.
 * Red and blue small little cubes can be displayed in the selection area.
 * Blue is for air blocks, red is for structure void blocks.
 * Display a name tag above them indicating their mode and structure name.


 * End stone bricks
 * Are no longer craftable.

Items

 * Firework rocket
 * Recipe now produces three rockets rather than only one.

Mobs

 * Endermen
 * Can now rarely spawn in the Nether with a $1/153$ rate.
 * Compared to $100/153$ for zombie pigmen.
 * Can now naturally pick up netherrack


 * Magma cubes
 * Spawn about twice as often in the Nether.
 * The rate is now $2/153$, compared to $1/151$ before

Planned changes

 * Numerical block IDs
 * Limit will get removed
 * Block states
 * Can now be used in directly.
 * e.g. to set down a block of blue wool, it will be instead of.

Unconfirmed features

 * 'Observer' (BUD) block
 * Jeb indicates it will come to PC "eventually".
 * Recipes for seamless slabs and bark blocks.
 * "if we find a good recipe"

Fixes

 * More fixes:
 * Fixed some broken uses of relative coordinates