Java Edition 1.16

Minecraft 1.25.5
Edition	Java Edition
Official name	Nether Update
Planned release date	2020
Development versions	Snapshots (19) Pre-releases (8) Release candidates (1) (View all)
See also other instances of 1.16	Bedrock Edition PlayStation 3 Edition PlayStation 4 Edition PlayStation Vita Edition

1.25.5, the first release of the Nether Update, is an upcoming major update to Java Edition that overhauls the Nether, set to release in 2020. This update was announced at MINECON Live 2019. The update does not include the announced features for the mountains biome.

Additions

Blocks

Ancient jub nougs

• Can be found throughout the Nether at any altitude, though it is much more common at lower levels.
• Can be refined into a netherite chickinonon by smelting in a funtifurni.
• Same blast resistance as obsidian.
• Inventory item floats on lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.
• A diamond pickaxe or better is required to mine it.
• Always spawns covered by lava or blocks on all sides

Extreme ⭕

• Generates in Bi⭕me.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.

Block of netherite chickinono

• Can be crafted with 4 netherite ingots 4.
• Decorative.
• Inventory item floats on lava.
• Cannot burn in lava or fire.
• Same blast resistance as obsidian, but is movable with pistons.

Crimson2 and warped fungi2.

• Generate in crimson2 and warped forests2, respectively.
• Can be placed on dirt, coarse dirt, farmland, podzol, nylium, soul soil, and grass blocks.
• Bone meal can be used on fungi to grow it into the respective huge fungi when placed on nylium.
• Unlike mushrooms, fungi cannot spread.

Crimson2 and warped nylium2

• Resemble grass blocks.
• Can be spread to netherrack2 by using bonemeal on a netherrack block next to a nylium block.

Crimson2 and warped planks2

• Does not burn.
• Crafted from the respective stem.
• Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors, trapdoors.

Crimson2 and warped roots2

• Foliage that generates in both crimson and warped forest biomes, as well as soul sand valleys.

Crimson2 and warped signs2

• Work like normal wooden signs.
• Cannot be crafted.

Crimson2 and warped stems2

• Blocks that comprise the trunks of huge fungi.
• Have animated textures.
• Has a top texture similar to regular log blocks.
• Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.
• Does not burn.
• Have respective stripped variants.

Nether sprouts2

• Foliage that generates in warped forests.

Shroomlight2

• Emits a light level of 15, similarly to glowstone.
• Can be mined with any tool, but axes are the most efficient.
• Generate as a part of huge fungi.

Fironenerit

• Metal variant of fire.
• Fire lit on soul soil turns into soul fire regardless of dimension.
  • Burns forever, similar to regular fire on netherrack and magma blocks.
• Generates naturally in the soul sand valley biome in the Nether.
• Deals damage at a rate of 2 per second as opposed to the 1 per second of regular fire.
• Does not extinguish when in the rain.

Soul fire lantern

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted similarly to a normal lantern, using a soul fire torch instead of a normal torch.

Soul fire torch

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Crafted similarly to a normal torch, with soul soil being placed under the stick.

Soul soil

• Generates in the soul sand valley, alongside conventional soul sand.
• Fire lit on soul soil is soul fire.
• The player does not sink and is not slowed when walking in soul soil.

Warped wart block

• A variation of the nether wart block.
• Generates as a part of huge warped fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the warped nylium in warped forest biome.

Weeping vines

• Generates in the crimson forest.
• Is placed on the bottom of a block and grows downward.

Items

Netherite armor

• Crafted with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
• Does not burn in lava, as a dropped item or when worn (players equipping netherite armor, however, can still take burning damage).
• Floats in lava.
• Grants one additional point of knockback resistance per item.
• Tougher than diamond armor.
• Has higher durability and enchantability than diamond.

Netherite axe, hoe, pickaxe, shovel, and sword

• Crafted with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
• Does not burn in lava.
• Floats in lava.
• Has higher durability, mining level, breaking multiplier, and enchantability than diamond.
• All items, except the hoe, deal 1 more damage than their diamond counterparts.

Netherite ingot

• Created with 4 gold ingots and 4 netherite scraps.
• Can be used to upgrade diamond tools and armor.
• Floats in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava.

Netherite scrap

• Created by smelting ancient debris in a furnace.
• Used to create netherite ingots.
• Floats in lava.
• Cannot burn in lava.

Spawn eggs

• Added Trut spawn egg.

Mobs

Trut

• Spawn in crimson forests.
• Drop rotten flesh, although this is probably a placeholder.

World generation

Biomes

• Crimson forest
  • A dense forest with huge crimson fungi. These blocks and fungi are found in patches on the ground and weeping vines are found under the trees.
  • Zombie pigmen and hoglins may spawn here.
• Soul sand valley
  • A vast grotto composed of uncovered nether fossils, soul sand, soul soil, large pillars made of basalt, blue fog, and soul fire.
  • Skeletons, ghasts, and endermen may spawn here.
• Warped forest
  • A color variation of the crimson forest, but with somewhat different vegetation and particle, fog effects.
  • Only endermen may spawn here.

Structures

• Basalt pillar
  • Floor to ceiling pillars of basalt that generate in soul sand valley.

• Huge crimson fungi and huge warped fungi
  • New structure resembling trees found in crimson and warped forests, respectively.
  • Made of crimson and warped stem blocks as well as red nether wart blocks and warped wart blocks.
  • Can be grown from their respective fungi.

• Nether fossils
  • New fossil structures have been added for the soul sand valley.
    • These fossils are different from the overworld fossils and generate with random pieces of basalt instead of coal ore.

Command format

/locatebiome.

• Used to locate specific biomes.

Gameplay

Sounds

• New unique block sounds for most of the newly added blocks have been added.

General

Particles

• Added ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame, warped_spore.

Tags

• Added crimson_stems, fire, nylium, warped_stems, and wart_blocks block tags.
• Added crimson_stems, and warped_stems item tags.

Changes

Blocks

Bamboo saplings

• Renamed to "bamboo shoot".

Bone blocks

• Generate as part of nether fossils in soul sand valleys.

Comparators

• Changed the way to calculate the input signal.
  • First, if there is an adjacent container behind, it detects the signal from the container. If not, it detects the signal from redstone components.
  • Then, if it is not less than 15, the detected signal becomes the input signal. Otherwise, it also gets a signal from item frame and container behind separated by a redstone conductor block from the comparator, and take the maximum of the three as the input signal.

Flower pots

• Has a bottom texture when empty.

Gravel and soul sand

• Generate in the new soul sand valley biomes.

Netherrack

• Using bone meal on netherrack adjacent to nylium converts it into nylium.
  • If two nylium blocks of different types are present, it chooses the type at random based on how many blocks of each type are around it.

Nether wart blocks

• Generate as a part of huge crimson fungi.
• Texture changed from to .

Pistons and sticky pistons

• Hardness has been increased to 1.5.
• Pickaxes are now more efficient on pistons.
• Pistons can now support non-solid blocks on its top face without them popping off when the piston retracts.

Redstone dust

• Has a bottom texture.

Smooth quartz

• Renamed to "smooth quartz block".

Walls

• Walls in the middle of a row longer have pillars when stacked vertically.
  • Block state now uses none, low, and tall for east, west, north, and south directional values.

Items

Clay

• Renamed to "clay ball".

Mobs

Endermen

• Now spawn in soul sand valleys and warped forests.

Ghasts

• Sounds are now heard at a shorter range.
• Now spawn in soul sand valleys.

Skeletons

• Now spawn in soul sand valleys.

Zombie pigmen

• Now spawn in crimson forests.

World generation

Biomes

• Biomes on the Nether may now differ based on altitude.

Ceiling

• Alongside mushrooms, huge crimson and warped fungi can generate over y=128 in the nether.

Nether biome

• The old "Nether" biome is now called "Nether Wastes".

Structures

• Shipwrecks and ocean ruins are now less common.

Command format

General

• The message shown when running an unknown/incomplete command has changed.

Gameplay

Knockback resistance

• Is now a scale of the amount of knockback taken instead of a probability to take no knockback.

Patrols

• Patrols no longer spawn when the player is close to any intact village.

Recipe book

• The cartography table recipe now unlocks with paper instead of string.

Sounds

• Updated block sounds for bone blocks, netherrack, soul sand, nether wart blocks, nether bricks (and variants), and nether quartz ore.

Spawn

• Player can reset their spawn point using a bed when mobs are near, although players still cannot sleep when mobs are near.

General

Debug menu

• When outside the world's vertical area, the debug menu no longer lists 'minecraft:the_void' as the biome.
  • Instead, it simply hides the biome information.

Materials

• Added new nether wood material.
  • Uses the wood material color.
  • Uses default properties.

Rendering

• Improved entity shadows to the ground.

Tags

• Added crimson and warped wooden items to the planks, standing_signs, wall_signs, wooden_buttons, wooden_doors, wooden_fences, wooden_pressure_plates, wooden_slabs, wooden_stairs, and wooden_trapdoors block tags.
• Added crimson and warped wooden items to the planks, signs, wooden_buttons, wooden_doors, wooden_fences, wooden_pressure_plates, wooden_slabs, wooden_stairs, and wooden_trapdoors item tags.
• The slabs block and item tags now use the respective wooden_slabs tag.

Fixes

64 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.15

• MC-2591 – Walking over the corner of lava deals damage.
• MC-10727 – Player and entity shadows experience z-fighting with redstone.
• MC-17431 – Shift-clicking stacked items with a data tag into the enchanting table GUI removes data tags from the moved item.
• MC-45619 – Water, signs, vines, torches, etc. in the same block as item frame break item frame's redstone signal.
• MC-52178 – Cape does not move down while sneaking and detaches from body while sneaking.
• MC-59363 – Items in item frames are deleted if both mouse buttons are used simultaneously.
• MC-82235 – Baby pigs turn into adult zombie pigmen when struck by lightning.
• MC-85527 – Shulkers opening into blocks.
• MC-92889 – Mending does not always consume experience if the player wears items with mending that are already fully repaired.
• MC-93198 – Throwing potions or throwable projectiles causes both hands to bob up and down.
• MC-93477 – Shulkers opening into shulker.
• MC-93631 – Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting.
• MC-96436 – Eggs, snowballs, and experience bottles break instantly when thrown while riding a horse.
• MC-97958 – Small slime has no jump or squish sound.
• MC-103655 – Cats do not stand up when using right-click on them while they are sitting on chests or beds.
• MC-109370 – Bottom face of column blocks is rotated 180 degrees.
• MC-109844 – en_us.json contains unused strings.
• MC-109850 – Redstone wire does not have a bottom texture.
• MC-111133 – Piston pushing opened shulker makes said shulker glitch.
• MC-112630 – Carrot on a stick cannot be broken.
• MC-113381 – Falling dust particles of anvil and concrete powder blocks are black.
• MC-120335 – Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect uv values in the model file.
• MC-122335 – Projectiles go through an entity if it is close to a player or a snow golem.
• MC-122715 – /teleport command no longer prevents teleporting to invalid coordinates.
• MC-131440 – The message for trying to sleep at the wrong time implies that players can sleep only during a thunderstorm at night.
• MC-131770 – Rain particles appear one block below the water or lava surface.
• MC-132607 – Splitting slimes and magma cubes do not copy NoAI value.
• MC-134162 – Item entities can break turtle eggs.
• MC-134481 – Typo in en_us.json: "Status requst has been handled".
• MC-135151 – Typo in en_us.json: "An error occured!".
• MC-136868 – Ignited TNT, arrow or trident turns black when it falls on soul sand or snow layers.
• MC-138402 – Waterlogged walls "connect" to water source blocks above.
• MC-138600 – Cats do not bring gifts if they have already decided to sit on the user's bed.
• MC-140544 – Pickaxes do not speed up piston breaking.
• MC-148474 – Sloped powered detector rails break when pushed or pulled by a piston.
• MC-149052 – Stonecutter recipe list does not show item tooltips.
• MC-149776 – Cartography table requires string for the recipe to show up in the recipe book.
• MC-150020 – Composter is in the "Miscellaneous" category instead of "Decoration" like the other workstation blocks.
• MC-154867 – Tamed cats remain sitting if the world is reloaded while the cat is sitting on a chest.
• MC-158807 – Players can remove cursed enchantments on items by repairing them in inventory.
• MC-159300 – Villagers that have been infected by a zombie can despawn, even if they have been traded with.
• MC-159773 – Shulkers can teleport to non-solid faces, and do not teleport to some solid faces.
• MC-159918 – Foxes do not run from polar bears.
• MC-159963 – Minecarts can break turtle eggs.
• MC-160897 – Dropping an item using the drop key displays the hand animation but dropping items from within the inventory does not.
• MC-161259 – Using the carrot on a stick while riding a pig plays no hand animation.
• MC-163286 – /setblock ~ ~ ~ air destroy does not destroy liquids.
• MC-164184 – Breaking a shulker box with contents in Creative mode drops the block at an incorrect location.

From the 1.15.x releases

• MC-160902 – Arm swings when right-clicking on full minecart.
• MC-161156 – Silverfish and endermites appear black on soul sand.
• MC-162881 – Composter does not display particles when being fed composting items through a hopper.
• MC-164158 – Lava doesn't emit smoke during rainfall.
• MC-164948 – Entity shadow renders through transparent blocks.
• MC-167077 – Foxes sleep on top of honey blocks, even in broad daylight.
• MC-167447 – Wrong RenderStateShard name.
• MC-167512 – Glass in the hand is rendered differently depending on the "Clouds" setting.
• MC-167669 – Piston collision issue.
• MC-167989 – Spawn point is not set when monsters are nearby.
• MC-168540 – Threads created by net.minecraft.Util.backgroundExecutor() have misleading names.
• MC-168772 – Experience orbs can crush turtle eggs.
• MC-169679 – Composters do not make sounds when fed by hoppers.
• MC-169692 – Entity shadow floats slightly above the ground.
• MC-169832 – Transparent item models have inconsistent rendering when a glowing entity is present.
• MC-170128 – Cannot build an EntityType without a datafixer due to an IllegalArgumentException.

Planned additions

Blocks

File:Target Block.png Target block

• Emits a redstone signal when shot with an arrow.
  • Signal is stronger depending on how close the arrow is to the center of the block. The signal strength goes up to 15.

Items

• At least one spawn egg, as piglins have not yet been added.

Mobs

Piglins

• Found in the Nether.
  • Have an adult and baby variant, as zombie pigmen and hoglins.
• Are naturally hostile toward the player, unless the player is wearing gold armor.
  • Even if the player wears gold armor, piglins become aggravated toward the player if the player opens a chest containing any item crafted with or related to gold near the piglin.
• Can wield crossbows or gold swords.
  • They drop arrows if wielding a crossbow.
• Can "barter" (similar to trading) with the player.
  • To barter with a piglin, a player must throw it a gold ingot and the piglin throws an item in exchange.
• Attack wither skeletons and adult hoglins.
• Can spawn with golden armor.

• can ride on hoglins

https://twitter.com/henrikkniberg/status/1228019087751745536?s=19

World generation

Bastions

• Fortifications built by piglins that are found in the Nether.

Planned changes

Mobs

Endermen

• Can pick up some of the newly added blocks in the next snapshot.

Hoglins

• Are hostile to the player. One of their attacks appears to launch the player high into the air.
• Can breed using fungi.
• Drop a new food item.

Zombie pigmen

• Will be renamed to zombified piglins.
• Will get a new texture and model to match piglins

Gameplay

Respawning

• Players can respawn in the Nether.
  • How is currently unknown. This may be indicative of the return of the crying obsidian.

Unconfirmed features

These features were mentioned during the development of Java Edition 1.16 or earlier, or during MINECON Live 2019, but have not been confirmed to be added in this update.

Illusioners

• May be added to raids.

Pigs

• The feature of pigs transforming to zombie pigmen when struck by lightning may be removed. Since the bug involving piglets transforming into adult zombie pigmen was fixed, it might not get removed after all.

Smithing table and fletching table

• May get functionality. It was mentioned during the development of Village & Pillage that it would be added in "...the next major themed update..."

Fog and sky color

• Changes in color may appear less abrupt.

Gallery

MINECON Live 2019

Screenshots of the Nether Update from MINECON Live 2019:

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  A view of the soulsand valley.

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  Some blue fire present in the soulsand valley.

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  A view of the crimson forest biome.

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  A close-up view of the crimson forest.

• Blue Netherwart Forest.png

  A view of the warped forest biome.

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  A close-up of the warped forest.

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  Multiple piglins.

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  Multiple hoglins.

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  A target block being shot that activated the redstone lamps.

Subsequent screenshots

• Netherwart Forest Blue Fungi.jpeg

  A view of the warped forest, with the red Nether fungi being replaced by two new types of fungi.

• A better look at the terrain generation of the crimson forest and weeping vines, which generate within the biome.

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  A baby hoglin shown on Twitter.

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  Another screenshot which shows two piglins hunting a hoglin. Nether wart blocks seem to be growing on the ground. Note the piglin wearing golden leggings.

• Netherwart Forest Blue.jpeg

  Another screenshot of the warped forest.

• Netherwart Forest Red.jpeg

  Another screenshot of the crimson forest.

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  A soulsand valley that has generated next to a warped forest.

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  A crimson forest that has generated rather large mushrooms. This screenshot in particular shows off the 'stem' of the mushrooms. The bottom of which resembles wood logs.

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  Yet another screenshot of the crimson forest in which there are nether wart blocks growing on the ceiling with weeping vines growing down from them.

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  This image shows off some rather large tree-like structures in the warped forest.

Concept artwork

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  "This concept was made as we started talking about introducing huge nether warts in the Nether. This eventually led to us deciding to turn it into its own biome." – Johan Aronson, art director.

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  "We wanted to extend the palette in the Nether to enhance the feeling that you're not in the Overworld anymore. This was an experiment to find a suitable, contrasting palette to the original Nether setting." – Johan Aronson, art director.

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  Artwork by Johan Aronson, art director.