1.16 is an upcoming major update to Java Edition that overhauls the Nether, set to release sometime in 2020.[2] This update was announced at MINECON Live 2019.[1] The update does not include the announced features for the mountains biome.[3]
Additions
Blocks
All blackstones.
- Can be found throughout the Nether at any altitude, though it is much more common at lower levels.
- Can be refined into a netherite scrap by smelting in a furnace or blast furnace.
- Same blast resistance as obsidian, but is movable with pistons.
- Inventory item floats on lava.
- Cannot burn in lava or fire.
- A diamond or netherite pickaxe is required to mine it.
- Always spawns covered by lava and/or blocks on all sides.
- Makes up basalt pillars.
- Generates in soul sand valleys and basalt deltas.
- Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.
- Has a polished variant.
- Generates whenever lava touches blue ice while flowing over soul soil.
- Has a regular, polished, and polished brick variant.
- Also has a variant called gilded blackstone, which has a chance to drop golden nuggets when mined with a pickaxe.
- In order for nuggets to be dropped, the Fortune enchantment is needed.
- Using a normal or Silk Touch pickaxe will drop the ore block.
- Can be used as an alternative for crafting furnaces and stone tools.
- Can be crafted with 9 netherite ingots.
- Can be used to as a beacon base.
- Inventory item floats on lava.
- Cannot burn in lava or fire.
- Same blast resistance as obsidian, but is movable with pistons.
- Generate in crimson and warped forests.
- Can be placed on dirt, coarse dirt, farmland, podzol, nylium, soul soil, and grass blocks, and can also be placed in flower pots.
- Bone meal can be used on fungi to grow it into the respective huge fungi when placed on the same type of nylium.
- Unlike mushrooms, fungi do not spread over time.
- Can be used in composters.
- Resemble grass blocks.
- Can be spread to netherrack by using bonemeal on a netherrack block next to a nylium block.
- Can be right-clicked with bone meal to generate roots, Nether sprouts, and fungi.
- Wooden planks that do not burn.
- Crafted from the respective stem.
- Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors and trapdoors.
- Cannot be used as furnace fuel, since they do not burn.
- Foliage that generates in both crimson and warped forest biomes, as well as soul sand valleys.
- Can be placed into flower pots.
- Can be used in composters.
- Blocks that comprise the trunks of huge fungi.
- Have animated textures.
- Have a top texture similar to regular log blocks.
- Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.
- Do not burn.
- Have respective stripped variants.
- Used to craft respawn anchors.
- Can be obtained by bartering with piglins.
- Has a light level of 10.
- Emits purple particles, resembling tears.
- Has the same blast resistance as obsidian.
- Programmer Art texture is the old texture from 2011.
- A variant of stems with the bark on all 6 sides.
- Also has a stripped variant.
- Crafted with a netherite ingot and chiseled stone bricks.
- Using a compass on one creates a lodestone compass, which points to that lodestone block.
- Its functionality applies in all dimensions.
- Added chiseled and cracked variants.
- A variant of gold ore found in the Nether.
- Drops 2–6 gold nuggets when mined.
- This is affected by Fortune the same way other ores are, for a maximum possible drop of 24 golden nuggets with Fortune III.
- Nether gold ore, obtained with Silk Touch, can still be smelted into a single gold ingot.
- Can be mined with any pickaxe.
- Also drops experience orbs.
- Foliage that generates in warped forests.
- Resembles grass in the Overworld.
- Can be used in composters.
- Obtained through the stonecutter using basalt.
- Can also be crafted from basalt in a 2x2 grid, similar to other polished blocks.
- Purely decorative and directional, like normal basalt.
- Crafted from four blocks of quartz.
- Used as a decorative block.
- Crafted with 6 crying obsidian and 3 glowstone.
- Can be used to set spawn points in the Nether, using glowstone as charges.
- A maximum of 4 charges can be set at once, and one charge is depleted with each respawn.
- Redstone Comparators can track how much it is charged.
- Emits a slight amount of light, which gets stronger for each charge added.
- Using it in the End or the Overworld causes it to explode and set fire to surrounding blocks similar to beds in the nether/end.
- Can be charged using a dispenser.
- The portal animation on the top texture is inverted from the nether portal texture.[4]
- Emits a light level of 15, similarly to glowstone.
- Can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the most effective.
- Generate as a part of huge fungi.
- Soul variant of the normal campfire.
- Gives off a light level of 10, with the normal campfire giving off 15.
- Hay bales can increase smoke particle height.
- Can be crafted with soul sand or soul soil
- Blue variant of fire.
- Fire lit on soul soil or soul sand turns into soul fire regardless of dimension.
- Burns forever, similarly to 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.[5]
- Gives off a light level of 10.
- Crafted similarly to a normal lantern, using a soul fire torch instead of a normal torch.
- Has an animated texture, just like its
overworld counterpart.
- Gives off a light level of 10.
- Crafted similarly to a normal torch, with soul soil or soul sand being placed under the stick.
- Gives off a lower light level than a normal torch.
- Generates in the soul sand valley, alongside conventional soul sand.
- Fire lit on soul soil is blue, and is called soul fire.
- The player does not sink and is not slowed when walking in soul soil.
- Considered a full block, unlike soul sand.
- Can be used to summon the wither.
- Redstone component that can be activated by shooting projectiles into it.
- Signal is stronger depending on how close the projectile is to the center of the block. The signal strength goes up to 15.
- Can be crafted using a hay bale and 4 redstone dust.
- Can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the most effective.
- Does not need a redstone comparator to send a signal strength.
- Generates in the warped forest.
- Is placed on top of a block and grows upward, like kelp.
- Can be climbed, like normal vines.
- Growth can be accelerated with bone meal.
- Can be used in composters.
- A variation of the nether wart block, but cannot be crafted.
- Generates as a part of huge warped fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the warped nylium in the warped forest biome.
- Can be used in composters.
- Generates in the crimson forest.
- Is placed on the bottom of a block and grows downward.
- Can be climbed, like other vines.
- Growth can be accelerated with bone meal.
- Can be used in composters.
The 2 variations of the new nether-colored blocks, crimson (right) and warped (left).
Items
- Upgraded using a smithing table 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.
- Tougher than diamond armor.
- Has higher durability and enchantability than diamond, but not higher than gold.
- Upgraded using a smithing table with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
- Do not burn in lava.
- Float in lava.
- Have higher item durability, mining level, breaking multiplier, and enchantability than diamond, but not higher than gold.
- All items, except the hoe, deal 1 more damage than their diamond counterparts.
- Created with 4 gold ingots and 4 netherite scraps.
- Can be used to upgrade diamond tools and armor in a smithing table.
- Floats in lava.
- Cannot burn in lava.
- Created by smelting ancient debris in a furnace or blast furnace.
- Used to create netherite ingots.
- Floats in lava.
- Cannot burn in lava.
- Created by right-clicking a lodestone with a compass.
- Will point towards that lodestone.
- Right-clicking with stacked compasses will turn all compasses into lodestone compasses.
- Will keep them stacked.
- Entering another dimension than the one containing the right-clicked lodestone will cause the compass to shake uncontrollably.
- Crafted with a fishing rod and warped fungus.
- Can be used to control striders in the same way a carrot on a stick controls pigs.
- Right-clicking while riding a strider will temporarily boost its speed, similarly to riding pigs, taking 1 damage whenever the strider's speed is boosted.
- Has 100 durability as opposed to the carrot on a stick’s durability of 25.
- Mending and Unbreaking can be applied in an anvil.
Mobs
- Spawn in crimson forests.
- Are a hostile mob.
- Drop raw porkchop and occasionally leather.
- Have an adult and baby variant.
- Can be bred with crimson fungi.
- Are hunted by adult piglins.
- Baby piglins are not hunted and do not hunt hoglins.
- Avoid placed warped fungi, nether portals and respawn anchors.
- Will convert into zoglins when in the Overworld.
- 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 at least one piece of 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 gold ingots or dropping them on the ground, which makes them drop at least one item or block in return.
- Common barters: 4-16 soul sand, 1-5 fire charge, 8–16 gravel, 4–10 leather, 4–16 nether brick, 1 obsidian, or 1–3 crying obsidian (40⁄424 chance or about 9.43%).
- Uncommon barters: 8–16 nether quartz, 5–12 glowstone dust, 2–6 magma cream, 4–8 ender pearl, or 8–24 string (20⁄424 chance or about 4.72%).
- Rare barters: 9-36 iron nugget, 1 Fire Resistance potion or 1 Fire Resistance splash potion (10⁄424 chance or about 2.36%).
- Very rare barters: 1 Iron Boots with Soul Speed (8⁄424 chance or about 1.89%), or 1 Enchanted Book with Soul Speed (5⁄424 chance or about 1.18%).
- Extremely rare barter : 1 netherite hoe (1⁄424 chance or about 0.24%).
- Attack adult hoglins.
- Baby piglins do not attack and adult piglins will not attack baby hoglins.
- Baby piglins ride on the back of baby hoglins.
- Up to 3 baby piglins can ride on the back of baby hoglins.
- Adults attack wither skeletons on sight.
- Avoid soul fire, soul fire torches, soul fire lanterns, zombified piglins, and zoglins.
- Can spawn with golden armor.
- Will convert to a zombified piglin when in the Overworld.
- Have an
IsImmuneToZombificationdata value that prevents them from zombifying in the Overworld.
- Have an
- A new passive mob that spawns in the Nether on lava oceans.
- Drops 2-5 string.
- Can be saddled and controlled with a warped fungus on a stick.
- Moves in and out of lava.
- Shivers and turns blueish-purple when out of lava.
- Moves significantly slower out of lava.
- Is damaged by water and rain.
- Has a baby variant.
- Can be bred using warped fungi.
- Adults can spawn with baby striders riding them.
- Can spawn with zombified piglins riding them.
- If they spawn with a zombified piglin, they will also have a saddle equipped.
- A zombified variant of the hoglin.
- Created when a hoglin is brought into the Overworld.
- Unlike hoglins, they cannot be bred or fed, and they do not flee from warped fungi.
- Attack most mobs on sight, except for creepers and other zoglins.
- Drops rotten flesh.
- Takes more damage with Smite, as it is considered an undead mob.
World generation
- Crimson forest
- A dense forest with huge crimson fungi. Nether wart blocks and fungi are found in patches on the ground and weeping vines are found under the trees and nether wart “stalactites”. Fog effects are very similar to the Nether wastes biome.
- Zombified piglins, piglins, and hoglins may spawn here.
- Soul sand valley
- Warped forest
- A blue color variation of the crimson forest, but with somewhat different vegetation and blue particles and purple fog effects.
- Only endermen may spawn here.
- Basalt Delta
- Blackstone and Basalt can be found in large patches here.
- The air is filled with a light gray ash-like particle.
- Magma cubes frequently spawn here.
- Basalt pillar
- Floor to ceiling pillars of basalt that generate in soul sand valleys.
- Huge crimson fungi and huge warped fungi
- New structures resembling trees found in crimson and warped forests, respectively. They resemble trees in the Overworld.
- Made of crimson and warped stem blocks as well as nether wart blocks and warped wart blocks. Resembles leaves in Overworld.
- Can be grown from their respective fungi.
- Nether fossils
- New fossil structures have been added for the soul sand valley.
Command format
- Used to locate specific biomes.
Gameplay
- Added new "Bullseye" advancement.
- To complete this advancement, the player has to shoot a projectile into the center of one face of a target block.
- Added Soul Speed enchantment.
- A new treasure enchantment only obtainable via bartering with piglins.
- Only available on boots.
- Allows faster walking on soul sand and soul soil.
- There is a 4% chance that the durability of the boots goes down for each soul sand or soul soil block stepped on.
- Cannot be obtained from enchanting tables, fishing, chest loot, or trading.
- Sounds
- New unique block sounds for most of the newly added blocks have been added.[more information needed]
- Some blocks already in the game such as netherrack or nether bricks sounds have been changed.
General
- Added 95 ambient sounds to the Nether.
- Different sounds play in each Nether biome.
- Three new Nether tracks composed by Lena Raine.
- Played in its own unique biome.
- Added
ash,crimson_spore,soul_fire_flame, andwarped_sporeparticles. - Added three particles for crying obsidian:
dripping_obsidian_tear,falling_obsidian_tear, andlanding_obsidian_tear. - Added a new particle type:
soul.- Used when walking on soul sand or soul soil when wearing boots with the new Soul Speed enchantment.
- Added block tag
beacon_base_blocks.- 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 item tag
beacon_payment_items.- Contains iron ingot, gold ingot, diamond, emerald and netherite ingot.
- Controls what items can be used as payment in a beacon's GUI.[more information needed]
- Added block tag
climbable.- Includes ladders, vines, scaffolding, weeping vines and twisting vines.
- Used in mob pathfinding and to determine what blocks the player can climb.
- Added block and item tags
crimson_stems.- Contains crimson stem, stripped crimson stem, crimson hyphae and stripped crimson hyphae.
- Added block tag
fire. - Added block and item tag
gold_ores.- Contains gold ore and nether gold ore.
- Many recipes use this tag.
- Added block tag
hoglin_repellents.- Contains warped fungus, nether portals and respawn anchors.
- Hoglins will avoid blocks in this tag.
- Added entity tag
impact_projectiles.- Includes the arrows tag, snowballs, fireballs, small fireballs, eggs, tridents, dragon fireballs, and wither skulls.
- Used to determine what entities will break chorus fruit when hit.
- Added block and item tag
logs_that_burn.- Contains the
dark_oak_logs,oak_logs,acacia_logs,birch_logs,jungle_logs, andspruce_logsblock and item tags, respectively.
- Contains the
- Added block and item tag
non_flammable_wood.- Contains crimson and warped stems, hyphae, planks, and other wood blocks, as well as stripped variants where applicable.
- Items in the item tag cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.
- Added block tag
nylium.- Contains crimson nylium and warped nylium.
- Added block and item tag
piglin_repellents.- Contains soul fire, soul fire torches, and soul fire lanterns.
- Piglins will avoid, and will not attempt to pick up, blocks in this tag.
- Added block tag
soul_fire_base_blocks. - Added block tag
soul_speed_blocks.- Contains soul sand and soul soil.
- The Soul Speed enchantment uses this tag to test for which blocks will increase speed.
- Added block tag
strider_warm_blocks.- Contains lava.
- Unless a strider is in a block in this tag, it will turn purple and shiver.
- Added block tag
wall_post_override.- Contains lanterns, soul fire lanterns, torches, soul fire torches, redstone torches, and tripwire.
- Controls what non-solid blocks can transform walls into their pillared block state.[more information needed]
- Added block and item tags
warped_stems.- Contains warped stem, stripped warped stem, warped hyphae and stripped warped hyphae.
- Added block tag
wart_blocks.- Contains nether wart block and warped wart block.
- Added block tag
wither_summon_base_blocks.
- Text
- Added text which was missing for a death message and was displaying a raw translation string - what it says exactly is unknown.[6]
- Textures
- Added the zombified piglin entity texture.
- Added the leather, chainmail, iron, golden, diamond and netherite helmet textures used for piglins.
Changes
Blocks
- Renamed to "Bamboo Shoot".
- Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon.
- Netherite ingots can be used as fuel for a beacon.
- Now rings when hit by any projectile.
- Generate as part of nether fossils in soul sand valleys.
- Now have their own sound, instead of using the stone sound.
- Can now put saddles on pigs, horses, and striders.
- Can now put horse armor on horses.
- Can now put carpets on llamas.
- Can now put chests on llamas, donkeys, and mules.
- Can now shear mooshrooms and snow golems.
- Now has a proper hitbox (1⁄16 blocks).
- Cannot be put out by swords or tridents in Creative mode, akin to other blocks, and can be modified via the debug stick.
- Now has loot tables.
- Has a bottom texture when empty.
- Generate in the new soul sand valley biome.
- Can have one of 12 orientations.
- Added new property
Joint typeto describe if attached piece can be rotated (rollable) or not (aligned). - NBT field
target_poolhas been renamed topool. attachement_typehas been split intoname(on parent block) andtarget(on child block).
- Now pushes entities.
- Now has a proper hitbox, making flowing lava blocks not full blocks anymore.
- Now avoid walking on magma blocks and lit campfires
- Using bone meal on netherrack adjacent to nylium converts it into nylium.
- Generate as a part of huge crimson fungi. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the crimson nylium in the crimson forest biome.
- Texture changed from
to File:Nether Wart Block JE3 BE2.png. - Changed the texture to match the texture in Bedrock Edition.
- Can now be used in composters.
Nether Vegetation
- Sprouts, fungi, roots, vines, wart, and wart blocks are now compostable.
- Now allow placing of ladders and tripwire hooks.
- Hardness has been increased to 1.5.
- Pickaxes are now more effective on pistons.[7]
- Pistons can now support non-solid blocks on its top face without them popping off when the piston retracts. (Torches, levers, buttons, etc.)[8]
- Changed the top texture to match the texture in Bedrock Edition.
- Now has a bottom texture.
- Added functionality: it is used to upgrade diamond items into their respective Netherite variations.
- Enchantments on the diamond item are preserved when upgrading into Netherite.
- Renamed to "smooth quartz block".
- Doors, rails, buttons, torches, pressure plates and redstone can now be placed on a full-block of snow layers.
- Soul sand with a rail on top no longer slows down minecarts.
- Doors, rails, buttons, torches, pressure plates, and redstone dust can now be placed on it.
- Walking/running speed on soul sand now can be sped up if wearing Soul Speed boots.
- Now ignites when hit by any burning projectile.
- Now play a sound when climbed.
- Walls in the middle of a row have longer pillars when stacked vertically.
- Block state now uses
none,low, andtallforeast,west,north, andsouthdirectional values.
- Block state now uses
- Will now connect with iron bars, glass panes, and more.
Items
- Can now be used to grow kelp, weeping vines, and twisting vines.
- Fungi, roots, and nether sprouts now grow on nylium if bone meal is used on a nylium block.
- Can now only be smelted from items in the
logs_that_burnblock tag.- This change does not affect gameplay, as the new tag only contains items charcoal could be smelted from.
- Renamed to "clay ball".
- Can now be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing
- Can now be used on the new Lodestone Block as a waypoint.
- The compass now has
LodestonePos,LodestoneDimension, andLodestoneTrackeddata fields. IfLodestoneTrackedis zero, the game will skip checking for a lodestone in the specified position.
- The compass now has
- Diamond axe, diamond boots, diamond helmet, diamond hoe, diamond leggings, diamond pickaxe, diamond shovel, diamond sword, golden hoe, golden pickaxe, wooden hoe, and wooden pickaxe
- Changed their textures slightly.
- Can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch.
- Now mine sponges, wet sponges, dried kelp blocks, nether wart blocks, targets, shroomlights, leaves, and hay bales faster than other tools.
- Mining leaves do not cause leaves to drop like shears do.
- As hoes can now be enchanted with Fortune or Silk Touch, these enchantments will now affect leaves when mined with a hoe.
- Each tier has different speed at which hoes mine blocks they are effective against.
- Using a spawn egg on a mob that does not have a baby variant now spawns an adult of that mob type.
Mobs
- The maximum distance a bee can wander away from its home hive when randomly wandering has been reduced to around 22 blocks.
- Now spawn in soul sand valleys and warped forests.
- Can now pick up nylium, roots, and fungi variants.
- No longer pick up netherrack.
- Now despawn when they are further than 64 blocks away from the closest player.
- Sounds are now heard at a shorter range.
- Now spawn in soul sand valleys.
- Now spawn commonly in the Basalt Deltas biome.
- Parrots imitate hostile mobs less often.
- Parrots do not randomly imitate hostile mobs when gamemode is on peaceful difficulty.
- Now spawn in soul sand valleys.
- Can now be leashed.
- Farmer villagers now put excess seeds in their composter.
- Will use the bone meal received from the composter to grow crops.
- Farmers can now share excess wheat to other farmers, allowing them to make bread.
- Can be summoned using soul soil as the base.
- Now attack Piglins on sight.
- Now spawn in crimson forests.
- Renamed to "Zombified Piglins", and given a new model and texture.
Non-mob entities
- Have two new data tags:
- Now check dismount position height against entity height.
World generation
- Ceiling
- Alongside mushrooms, huge crimson and warped fungi can generate over y=128 in the Nether.
- The old "Nether" biome is now called "Nether wastes".
- Shipwrecks and ocean ruins are now less common.
Command format
- The message shown when running an unknown/incomplete command has changed.
- Can now be used to locate Nether fossils.
- Now supports being run in any dimension.
Gameplay
- Elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers, and zoglins are now required for the player to receive the "Monster Hunter" and "Monsters Hunted" advancements.
- Hoglins are now required for "Two by Two".
- Striders can be used to obtain "The Parrots and the Bats".
- New mood detection algorithm for cave sounds.
- Aims to make ambient cave sounds play at more appropriate moments.
- Mood increases the longer a player remains underground.
- Mood increases the longer a player remains without or in low sky light or block light.[more information needed]
- Mood decreases and eventually resets the longer a player is neither underground nor in the absence of light.
- The player can check the percentage of the mood in the sounds info section in the debug screen.
- When the mood percentage reaches 100%, an ambient cave sound will play.
- Aims to make ambient cave sounds play at more appropriate moments.
- When fishing, treasure loot can now only be obtained by fishing in open waters.
- A fishing location is considered to be open water if each layer in the 5x4x5 area around the bobber meet one and only one of the following criteria:
- Have only water source blocks, waterlogged blocks without collision, or bubble columns.
- Have only air or lily pads.
- A fishing location is considered to be open water if each layer in the 5x4x5 area around the bobber meet one and only one of the following criteria:
- Knockback resistance
- Is now a scale of the amount of knockback taken instead of a probability to take no knockback.
- The cartography table recipe now unlocks with paper instead of string.
- Stained glass pane recipes now only unlock when the player has the same color of stained glass in their inventory.
- Charcoal now unlocks using the
logs_that_burnitem tag.
- Updated block sounds for bone blocks, netherrack, soul sand, nether wart blocks, nether bricks (and variants), and nether quartz ore.
block.portal.travelandblock.portal.triggersounds are now part of the "ambient/environment" sound category adjustable in options.- Shearing sound category was changed from "friendly creatures" to "players" for players using shears and to "blocks" for dispensers using shears.
- Players can reset their spawn point using a bed when hostile mobs are near, although players still cannot sleep when hostile mobs are near.
General
- Items and entities no longer keep unknown attributes.
- Names of some attributes have been renamed to meet resource location requirements (i.e., lowercase separated by underscores instead of camel case).
- Changed
generic.maxHealthtogeneric.max_health. - Changed
zombie.spawnReinforcementstozombie.spawn_reinforcements. - Changed
horse.jumpStrengthtohorse.jump_strength. - Changed
generic.followRangetogeneric.follow_range. - Changed
generic.knockbackResistancetogeneric.knockback_resistance. - Changed
generic.movementSpeedtogeneric.movement_speed. - Changed
generic.flyingSpeedtogeneric.flying_speed. - Changed
generic.attackDamagetogeneric.attack_damage - Changed
generic.attackKnockbacktogeneric.attack_knockback - Changed
generic.attackSpeedtogeneric.attack_speed - Changed
generic.armorToughnesstogeneric.armor_toughness.
- Changed
- Chat messages
- Changed "Your home bed was missing or obstructed" to "You have no home bed or respawn anchor, or it was obstructed".
- Removed Realms code from the client, though its assets remain.
- 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.
- Entity Predicate
- Added
fishing_hooksub-predicate.
- Added
fishing_hook- Check properties of the fishing hook.
in_open_waterparameter matches whether the fishing location is open water fishing or not.- Can be set to "false" in game files to make AFK fishing farms work again. This will remove the restriction of only being able to obtain loot from normal waters.
- The main menu background is now in the Nether.
- Added new nether wood material.
- Uses the wood material color.
- Uses default properties.
- All "block states" files have improved spacing, and now define the namespace when referring to the model.
- All model files now define the namespace when referring to a different model.
Bone meal particles
- Now use 64-bit floats for spawning, not 32-bit.
- This means that using bone meal at high distances from the world origin (notably greater than 17 million) will cause the particles to appear in expected places, and not far away from the target.
- Now use 64-bit floats for spawning, not 32-bit.
- Removed translation strings of:
mco.create.world.seed.mco.trial.title.mco.trial.unavailable.
- Rendering
- Improved entity shadows to the ground.
- General statistics are now ordered alphabetically in the statistics menu.
- 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, andwooden_trapdoorsblock tags. - Added crimson and warped wooden items to the
planks,signs,wooden_buttons,wooden_doors,wooden_fences,wooden_pressure_plates,wooden_slabs,wooden_stairs, andwooden_trapdoorsitem tags. - Added potted crimson fungus, warped fungus, crimson roots, and warped roots to the
flower_potsblock tag. - Added crying obsidian and respawn anchor to the
dragon_immuneblock tag. - Updated block tag
enderman_holdable.- Added fungi, roots, and nylium variants.
- Removed netherrack variant.
- The
slabsblock and item tags now use the respectivewooden_slabstag. - Changed the
logsblock and item tags to use thelogs_that_burn,crimson_stems, andwarped_stemsblock and item tags, respectively.
- Changed the ambient lighting in the Nether, it is now much darker.
- UUIDs
- UUIDs of the owners of projectiles, such as arrows or snowballs, are now stored as an array of four integers. All UUIDs will be stored in this format in the future.
- UUIDs stored in NBT are also represented as an array of four integers.
- Example:
{UUID:[I;1498693494,1027158888,1898994005,860320107]} - Renamed a couple of fields:
OwnerUUIDof tamed animals, area effect clouds, evoker fangs and projectiles is now simplyOwner.TrustedUUIDsof foxes is nowTrusted.target_uuidof conduits is nowTarget.
- Example:
- World save files
- Region files are now opened in synchronous mode to increase prevent data loss and corruption after crash.
- Dedicated servers can disable that by changing sync-chunk-writes inside server.properties.
Fixes
- 197 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.16
- MC-2591 – Walking over the corner of lava deals damage.
- MC-3328 – Dismounting an entity places riding entity/player half block too high.
- MC-7424 – Fall damage death messages do not show block players fall from correctly (ladders, vines, water).
- 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-44192 –
generic.knockbackResistanceis percentage chance to ignore knockback, rather than being scaled. - MC-45619 – Water, signs, vines, torches, etc. in the same block as item frame break the 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-64242 –
Silenttag is not working for some entities. - MC-64334 – Fire can be destroyed if given an item with
CanDestroytag for unbreakable block below (notably bedrock). - MC-64871 – Can not sleep while on fire, even with Fire Resistance.
- MC-65951 – Armor stands fall through fences.
- MC-75328 –
/cleardoes not clear items in the inventory crafting grid. - MC-76810 – Casting issue: Bone meal particles break at high coordinates (floating-point precision).
- MC-79944 – Various statistics overflow at 32-bit integer limit.
- MC-81659 – Fireball and witherskull hitboxes are frequently invisible for some seconds.
- MC-82235 – Baby pigs turn into adult zombie pigmen when struck by lightning.
- MC-83039 – End City chests generate destroyed, items on the ground.
- MC-85527 – Shulkers opening into blocks.
- MC-89043 – Slime blocks moved by pistons often fail to bounce up the player.
- MC-91522 – Shulker rendering position desync and generates ghost shulker when destroying shulker-ridden boat or minecart.
- MC-91893 – Missing subtitles for various sounds.
- 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 cause 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-93813 – Snow golems throwing snowballs play arrow shooting sound.
- MC-94094 – Snow golems do not drop their pumpkin when sheared.
- MC-94730 – Endermen become passive when teleporting randomly during day while being aggressive.
- 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-100342 – Several non-ticking blocks are marked as ticking forcing the growth-algorithm to check chunks needlessly.
- MC-101084 – Held items/blocks appear to bob down and up when opening a horse's inventory.
- MC-101364 – Mobs and players sometimes dismount vehicles in a dangerous place.
- MC-102319 – Nether portal trigger and travel sounds are not assigned to any sound category.
- MC-102439 – Shield desynchronises.
- MC-103655 – Cats do not stand up when using right-click on them while they are sitting on chests or beds.
- MC-104900 – Skeletons, illusioners and piglins with crossbows have broken agility reaction when hit or walking on certain blocks when provoked.
- MC-104949 – Mobs can't jump shorter than half of the blocks.
- MC-109248 – Extended piston head not removed when /setblock is used to place a different piston base.
- 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-111437 – Player activated fireworks do not count as a player kill.
- MC-111475 – Fireworks cannot hurt invulnerable mobs when player in creative mode.
- MC-111498 – Fireworks and water bottle damage do not make neutral mobs angry or hostile.
- MC-111502 – Fireworks damage does not make passive mobs flee in panic.
- MC-111726 – Minecart dismount position always above the minecart, even if there is space next to it.
- MC-112630 – Carrot on a stick cannot be broken.
- MC-113381 – Falling dust particles of anvil and concrete powder blocks are black.
- MC-113809 – Chorus flower plant, bamboo, sugarcane, cactus, and other plants grow instantly when supporting block is replaced with same block type.
- MC-114000 – Mouse click in cat hissing sounds.
- MC-114304 – Retracting piston pushes entities standing behind the back of it.
- MC-115750 – Advancement "Monster Hunter" (
kill_a_mob) is not granted for killing certain hostile mobs. - MC-116756 – Reversed and inconsistent subtitles for iron trapdoor.
- MC-118080 – Bows without pulling predicate animate when other bows are pulled back.
- MC-118096 – Incorrect position of particles when using bone meal on grass block.
- MC-118327 – Parrots cannot teleport onto non-full cube / transparent blocks.
- MC-120335 – Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect
uvvalues in the model file. - MC-122128 – Recipe book resets itself to closed state after death.
- MC-122187 – Teleported to coordinates wrong when teleporting entities relatively.
- MC-122335 – Projectiles go through an entity if it is close to a player or a snow golem.
- MC-122715 –
/teleportcommand no longer prevents teleporting to invalid coordinates. - MC-124428 – Firework star crashes game if there's an int array but no colors.
- MC-125055 – Igloo generates with brewing stand and flower pot contents dropped (and placed).
- MC-127316 – General statistics out of order.
- MC-128247 – Dolphins can jump way too far causing them to hit on land.
- MC-129137 – Parrots imitating hostile mobs in peaceful is not that peaceful.
- MC-130137 – Grass and mycelium don’t decay underwater.
- MC-130906 – Dolphins are moving very fast when near a boat.
- MC-131046 – Angry dolphins give players dolphin's grace.
- 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
NoAIvalue. - MC-132967 – Mushrooms show as green dots on map.
- MC-133049 – Compasses don't point to the correct location when in an item frame on the ground or on the ceiling.
- MC-133088 – Missing translation string
death.attack.magic.player. - MC-134162 – Item entities can break turtle eggs.
- MC-134481 – Typo in en_us.json: "Status requst has been handled".
- MC-134900 – server.properties
generator-settingsforlevel-type FLATnot implemented; property is stored in ignoredflat_world_optionsNBT. - MC-135034 – Burning mobs are extinguished by snow in cold biomes, but not in snowy biomes.
- MC-135151 – Typo in en_us.json: "An error occured!".
- MC-135849 – Grass and mycelium don't decay under waterlogged blocks.
- MC-136063 – Incorrect spacing for
entity.minecraft.tropical_fish.type.sunstreak's value. - MC-136868 – Ignited TNT, arrow or trident turns black when it falls on soul sand or snow layers.
- MC-137554 – Shearing sound is in "friendly creatures" sound category.
- 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-140545 – Pathfinding prefers North (negative Z) direction.
- MC-145140 – Fireballs cannot be interacted with when summoned.
- MC-146824 – Ladders and tripwire hooks cannot be placed on the sides of redstone blocks, observers and target blocks.
- MC-146834 – Zombie pigman's head bottom texture is flipped.
- MC-146928 – Can't place doors, rails, buttons, pressure plate, redstone, etc. on soul sand.
- MC-147368 – Pillager outpost can generate in water.
- MC-147496 – Dolphin tries to catch the boat of the non-player ride.
- MC-147601 – Purpur pillar block top texture has not changed to a new texture.
- MC-147708 – Putting out fires is not considered mining a block, leading to strange effects.
- MC-148067 – Snow golems damaged by snowfall in mountain/cold biomes.
- MC-148360 – Cave ambience sounds play no matter where the player is.
- MC-148474 – Sloped powered detector rails break when pushed or pulled by a piston.
- MC-148869 – Player can clip through the ground when exiting a minecart or a boat.
- MC-148935 – Zombies with no AI still convert into drowned.
- MC-148936 – Parrot summoned with negative
Agehas smaller hitbox. - MC-149042 – Minecart dismount position is not consistent.
- MC-149052 – Stonecutter recipe list does not show item tooltips.
- MC-149081 – Entering a bed from a mount causes the player to bounce up and down.
- MC-149375 – Camera can be positioned inside of snow layers.
- 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-150405 – Client handling of unknown entity attributes is bugged.
- MC-150455 – Ignored lava hitbox level.
- MC-152441 – Corner quartz stairs (not corner smooth quartz stairs) do not have the border on the back/bottom that a normal quartz stair would have.
- MC-154427 – Villagers only pick up four stacks of items.
- MC-154867 – Tamed cats remain sitting if the world is reloaded while the cat is sitting on a chest.
- MC-155977 – Enchanting a book makes the book lose its name.
- MC-156306 – Villager not throwing bread during idle/meet up times.
- MC-156600 – Shields appear to stop blocking when they have taken damage and are still in use.
- 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-159672 – Vex will occasionally try to attack the player in Creative or Spectator.
- 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-160020 – Pulled bow changes its texture to the unpulled one when the durability changes.
- MC-160053 – Enderman keeps following the player after becoming neutral/passive.
- MC-160897 – Dropping an item using the drop key displays the hand animation but dropping items from within the inventory does not.
- MC-160902 – Arm swings when right-clicking on full minecart.
- MC-160959 – Clicking onto a bed in daytime doesn’t grant the advancement “Sweet Dreams”.
- MC-161128 – Piston head left behind when base is quickly broken and replaced.
- MC-161156 – Silverfish and endermites appear black on soul sand.
- MC-161259 – Using the carrot on a stick while riding a pig plays no hand animation.
- MC-162881 – Composter does not display particles when being fed composting items through a hopper.
- MC-163286 –
/setblock ~ ~ ~ air destroydoes not destroy liquids. - MC-163655 – Fire cannot be targeted like other blocks.
- MC-163918 – Bees not animating their pollen gathering.
- MC-164129 – Ender dragon inner hitboxes are rendered offset by approximately 200 blocks.
- MC-164158 – Lava does not emit smoke during rainfall.
- MC-164184 – Breaking a shulker box with contents in Creative mode drops the block at an incorrect location.
- MC-164435 – Stream sounds do not loop properly.
- MC-164446 – Tags don't load if one of their values is invalid, causing all data packs to unload.
- MC-164948 – Entity shadow renders through transparent blocks.
- MC-165518 – Village houses
desert_temple_1andplains_temple_4have no floor at entrance. - MC-166245 – No sound for shearing snow golems.
- MC-166246 – Skeleton horses cannot be leashed.
- MC-166980 – Bees become stuck wandering to the north-west after completing a task, or randomly in large numbers.
- MC-167077 – Foxes sleep on top of honey blocks, even in broad daylight.
- MC-167447 – Wrong
RenderStateShardname. - MC-167512 – Glass in the hand is rendered differently depending on the "Clouds" setting.
- MC-167561 – All players can make a dog stand up or sit down.
- MC-167692 – Infested blocks do not spawn silverfish when blown up.
- MC-167989 – Spawn point is not set when monsters are nearby.
- MC-168319 – Fireworks sometimes don't explode when launched at the edge or under a block.
- MC-168384 – NBT-Tag
Silent:1bdoesn’t work for bees. - MC-168540 – Threads created by
net.minecraft.Util.backgroundExecutor()have misleading names. - MC-168748 – Rapid cod spawning and despawning causing performance issues.
- MC-168772 – Experience orbs can crush turtle eggs.
- MC-169533 – Asymmetrical walls in
snowy_cartographer_house_1. - MC-169679 – Composters do not make sounds when fed by hoppers.
- MC-169692 – Entity shadow floats slightly above the ground.
- MC-169715 – Misrotated block in
snowy_small_house_3. - MC-169832 – Transparent item models have inconsistent rendering when a glowing entity is present.
- MC-169869 – Mooshroom using incorrect texture in Programmer Art.
- MC-169965 – Potion effect timers for higher levels can remain at 0:00 after the higher level has run out if multiple levels of the same effect were applied in descending order.
- MC-169975 – Highlight players (spectators) key doesn't affect any players other than yourself.
- MC-170128 – Cannot build an
EntityTypewithout a datafixer due to anIllegalArgumentException. - MC-170242 – Asymmetrical walls in
taiga_medium_house_4. - MC-170273 – Diamond swords use the wrong pallet.
- MC-170274 – Pickaxe textures are inconsistent.
- MC-170470 – At
snowy_library_1, the snow block is placed next to the window, which causes ugly visual effect. - MC-170556 – Hoe textures are inconsistent.
- MC-170584 – Structure
taiga_meeting_point_2from zombie villages has 1 misrotated log. - MC-170591 – Misrotated floor blocks in
desert_tool_smith_1basement. - MC-170773 – Recipe book and filtering craftable do not stay open for blast furnace and smoker when (re)loading the world.
- MC-170836 – Cannot set the top of soul sand on fire.
- MC-171756 – Weird fire bug.
- MC-172025 – Several misrotated blocks at
snowy_medium_house_2. - MC-172307 – All loaded tileticks instantly run in the first tick after loading the chunk.
- MC-173367 – Arrows are floating in midair after being pushed by piston.
- MC-173732 – Fire and soul fire do not have loot tables.
- MC-173828 – Village church entrance does not generate correctly.
- MC-174071 – Roof of
savanna_mason_1is cut off. - MC-174072 – Structure
savanna_temple_2contains one misrotated block. - MC-174073 – Two misrotated blocks in
savanna_small_house_5. - MC-174075 – Misrotated block in
savanna_butchers_shop_1. - MC-174076 – Inconsistent rotation of logs under windows in
savanna_small_house_4. - MC-174077 – Structure
snowy_library_1no longer has snow under the roof. - MC-174078 – Three misrotated blocks in
snowy_armorer_house_2. - MC-174079 – Misrotated block at
snowy_weapon_smith_1. - MC-174082 – Three misrotated blocks in
snowy_small_house_2. - MC-174083 – Three misrotated blocks in
snowy_butchers_shop_1. - MC-174234 – Village structure
snowy_masons_house_1has two misrotated blocks. - MC-175171 – Fishing bobber can get stuck on a ledge when being reeled in.
- MC-175201 – Misrotated floor block in
savanna_small_house_1,savanna_small_house_2,savanna_small_house_3andsavanna_small_house_7. - MC-176644 – Observers don't trigger when a fence connects to a newly grown tree
Planned additions
World generation
- Bastions
- Fortifications built by piglins that are found in the Nether.[1]
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.
Blocks
- An in-game mechanism to see how many bees are in a hive may be added.[10]
- May get functionality. It was mentioned during the development of Village & Pillage that it would be added in "...the next major themed update..."[11]
- Later statements said they "can't promise anything for 1.16," though nothing was firmly deconfirmed.[12]
- As smithing tables received functionality in 20w10a, fletching tables might also receive functionality.
Mobs
- More mobs in general may be added.[13]
- The feature of pigs transforming to zombified piglins when struck by lightning may be removed.[14][more information needed]
Gallery
MINECON Live 2019
Screenshots of the Nether Update from MINECON Live 2019:
A view of the crimson forest biome.
- Blue Netherwart Forest.png
A view of the warped forest biome.
Multiple piglins.
Multiple hoglins.
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.
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.
A teaser for the strider posted by @kingbdogz on Twitter.[16]
Concept artwork
Trivia
- Starting with 1.16, all major update version numbers will be the same for both the Java and Bedrock editions.[17][18]
References
- ↑ a b c "Everything We Announced at MINECON Live 2019" – Minecraft.net, September 28, 2019
- ↑ a b "What we've announced is "this year"" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, January 13, 2020
- ↑ "But mountains will come in a later update." – @MiaLem_n (Maria Lemón) on X, September 28, 2019
- ↑ "Fun fact: the respawn anchor's portal is in reverse and the particles go outwards instead of inwards like the nether portal, indicating that you cannot go in, but only out!" – @JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X, March 20, 2020
- ↑ 171413 resolved as "Works As Intended"
- ↑ MC-133088
- ↑ 140544 — Pickaxes don't speed up piston breaking
- ↑ 93631 — Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting
- ↑ "It was 128 blocks before. This doesn't apply to anything marked persistent, like nametagged fish or fish caught in a bucket and then released again." – u/sliced_lime on Reddit, March 4, 2020
- ↑ "Open to suggestions!" – @Cojomax99 on X, March 4, 2020
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 19w11a" – Minecraft.net, March 12, 2019
- ↑ "Not in 1.15 and I can't promise anything for 1.16 either I'm afraid." – @MiaLem_n (Maria Lemón) on X, September 30, 2019
- ↑ "There will be more mobs, don't worry" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, January 13, 2020
- ↑ "We will likely remove that feature, because it will work differently" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, September 29, 2019
- ↑ "No, piglin, don't hunt the baby hoglins." – @henrikkniberg on X, December 5, 2019
- ↑ "I haven't seen that before... :o" – @kingbdogz on X, March 25, 2020
- ↑ "We are skipping 1.15 so the next release will be 1.16." (archived) – @Chupacaubrey on X, March 16, 2020
- ↑ Replying to "are version numbers finally going to be the same across both bedrock and java then?": "That is the plan! 👇 So that it’s not so confusing anymore." (archived) – @Chupacaubrey on X, March 16, 2020









![A baby hoglin shown on Twitter.[15]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/0/0f/BabyHoglin.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20191231180813)


![A teaser for the strider posted by @kingbdogz on Twitter.[16]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/a/a6/StriderTeaser2.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/64?cb=20200326131853)


