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Snapshot 20w06a (known as 20w06a in the launcher) is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on February 5, 2020,[1] which adds several new Nether Update features, like new biomes, the /locatebiome command, and fixes some bugs.

Additions[]

Blocks[]

Ancient debris
Basalt
Block of netherite
Crimson and warped fungi
Crimson and warped nylium
  • Resemble grass blocks.
  • Can be spread to netherrack by using bonemeal on a netherrack block next to a nylium block.
Crimson and warped planks
Crimson and warped roots
Crimson and warped signs
  • Work like normal wooden signs.
  • Cannot be crafted in this snapshot.
Crimson and warped stems
  • 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 sprouts
  • Foliage that generates in warped forests.
Shroomlight
  • 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.
Soul fire
Soul fire lantern
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
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

Items[]

Netherite armor
Netherite axe, hoe, pickaxe, shovel, and sword
  • Crafted with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item.
  • Does not burn in lava or fire.
  • 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
Netherite scrap
Spawn eggs

Mobs[]

Hoglins

World generation[]

Biomes
Structures

Command format[]

/locatebiome
  • Used to locate specific biomes.

Gameplay[]

Sounds

General[]

Particles
  • Added ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame, warped_spore.
Tags

Changes[]

Blocks[]

Bamboo saplings
  • Renamed to "bamboo shoot."
Bone blocks
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
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. Sometimes generates in the ground replacing the crimson nylium in crimson forest biome.
  • Texture changed from Nether Wart Block JE2 to Nether Wart Block JE3.
Pistons and sticky pistons
  • Hardness has been increased to 1.5.
  • Pickaxes are now more efficient on pistons.[3]
  • Pistons can now support non-solid blocks on its top face without them popping off when the piston retracts.[4]
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
Ghasts
Skeletons
Zombie pigmen

World generation[]

Biomes
  • Biomes in 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

Command format[]

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

Gameplay[]

Advancements
  • The description of the "Sky's the Limit" advancement has changed from "Find Elytra" to "Find elytra."
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
Sounds
Spawn
  • Players 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.

Options[]

  • Renamed Scale to Chat Text Size in Chat Settings.
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[]

68 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.16
  • 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-44192generic.knockbackResistance is percentage chance to ignore knockback, rather than being scaled.
  • 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 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-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-101084 – Held items/blocks appear to bob down and up when opening horse's inventory
  • 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-109844en_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-114304 – Retracting piston pushes entities standing behind the back of it.
  • MC-120335 – Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect uv values in the model file.
  • 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/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 only sleep at night during a thunderstorm.
  • 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 a 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-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.
  • MC-182914 – Arrows, and Tridents stuck in midair on door.

Video[]

Video made by slicedlime:

References[]

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 20w06a" – Minecraft.net, February 5, 2020
  2. MC-171413 resolved as "Works as Intended"
  3. MC-140544 — Pickaxes don't speed up piston breaking
  4. MC-93631 — Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting
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