Java Edition 16w32a

16w32a is the first snapshot released for Java Edition 1.11.

Items

 * Spawn eggs
 * Eggs that were removed in 1.10-pre2 are re-added, except the cat spawn egg, including:
 * Wither Skeleton.
 * Mule.
 * Skeleton Horse.
 * Zombie Horse.
 * Donkey.
 * Elder Guardian.
 * Stray: Dark gray with light gray dots.
 * Husk: Brown with cream colored dots.
 * Added zombie villager spawn egg.

General

 * Splashes
 * "Javalicious edition"


 * Internationalization
 * New strings within the game were made available for internationalization:
 * World selection error messages
 * Customized superflat preset names
 * Spectator-mode-specific options and messages
 * In the Options menu: the words "chunks" and "fps"
 * In item tooltips: the words "Color: ", "NBT: " and "Durability: "
 * The F3+Q keybindings display text, and text associated with other F3 actions
 * Text associated with downloading resource packs from servers.

Blocks

 * Cauldrons
 * Washing dyed leather armor and dyed banners now removes 1 water level from the cauldron.

Items

 * Spawn eggs
 * Are now sorted by name in the creative inventory.


 * Stacks
 * There is no longer an item stack of 0 when using the drag function to craft items.

Mobs

 * Creepers
 * If a creeper is inflicted with a potion effect, its explosion will cause a lingering effect of the potion.


 * Husks
 * Now try to avoid water.


 * Snow golems
 * Now, when their pumpkin is sheared from their head, that is saved with the game (previously it was just an in-memory visual effect).


 * Skeleton trap horses
 * The chance of spawning with a thunderstorm lightning strike is reduced to $1/5$ of what it was.

Gameplay

 * Exhaustion levels


 * Chat
 * Some warnings now appear above the hotbar instead in the chat, like "Press [key] to dismount" had.
 * "You can only sleep at night"
 * "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby"
 * "This bed is occupied"
 * "Height limit for building is 256 blocks"
 * "Unable to open. Loot not generated yet."

Command format

 * Now ignores item-specific stacking restrictions.
 * Now ignores item-specific stacking restrictions.


 * Block states
 * Block states can now be used in the, , and  commands.
 * Examples:
 * instead of
 * instead of
 * instead of

General

 * Resource packs
 * The required pack version number was changed to "3" in.
 * Version 3 resource packs have to use lowercase filenames for everything.


 * Entity IDs, block entity IDs, block IDs and item IDs
 * Now are no longer case sensitive.
 * Autocomplete will put in lowercase letters.


 * Entity and block entity IDs
 * Use underscores to separate words, rather than using single words in mixed case.
 * Optionally, a  namespace prefix can be used, just like block and item IDs. However, it is not optional for EntityTags and spawners.
 * There are still old entity IDs in the language files (example:  instead of   for the magma cube) and the new mobs in 1.11 have their ID with the old type (no underscores, capital letters for the beginning of the words. example:   instead of   for the vindicator.)
 * The following names have changed:
 * Horse was split into entity IDs,  ,  ,   and   for their respective types.
 * Skeleton was split into entity IDs,   and.
 * Zombie was split into entity IDs,   and.
 * Guardian was split into entity IDs  and.
 * Unused savegame IDs  and   were removed, meaning that all references to the first mob added to the game have been removed.


 * NBT tags
 * For all horses,,   and   tags are removed.
 * and  tags now apply only to   and.
 * and  tags now apply only to.
 * tag is removed from  and.
 * tag is removed from all zombie types.
 * and  tags now apply only to.
 * tag is removed from all skeleton types.
 * byte tag is added to.


 * Loot tables
 * Donkeys, mules, husks and zombie villagers now each draw from their own loot tables, rather than drawing from the horse and zombie loot tables, respectively.

Fixes

 * Other fixes
 * More stable handling of invalid items
 * Less duplication bugs will be occurred

Video
Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

 * 16w32a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.