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20w07a is the second snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on February 14, 2020,[1] which adds piglins, baby hoglins and some changes to endermen and beacons.

Additions[]

Items[]

Spawn eggs
  • Added the piglin spawn egg.

Mobs[]

Hoglins
  • Added baby hoglins.
Piglins

General[]

Tags
Text
  • Added text which was missing for a death message and was displaying a raw translation string - what it says exactly is unknown.[2]
Textures
  • Added the zombified piglin entity texture.
  • Added the leather, chainmail, iron, golden, diamond and netherite helmet textures used for piglins.

Changes[]

Blocks[]

Beacons
  • Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon and netherite ingots can be used as the fuel for a beacon.
Soul fire lanterns
  • Now have an animated texture.
  • Removed the wood colors from the texture.

Items[]

Spawn eggs
  • Changed the texture of the hoglin spawn egg.
  • Using a spawn egg on a mob that doesn't have a baby variant now spawns an adult of that mob type.

Mobs[]

Endermen
Hoglins
  • Attack players on sight.
  • Drop pork and sometimes leather.
  • Breed when fed crimson fungi.
  • Are hunted by adult piglins sometimes.
    • Are not hunted by baby piglins and baby hoglins are not hunted at all.
  • Move away from placed warped fungi.
  • Have new sounds.
Withers
  • Can now be summoned using soul soil in the base.

Gameplay[]

Advancements
  • Piglins and hoglins will now count towards the Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted advancements.

General[]

Tags

Fixes[]

37 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.16
  • MC-64871 – Cannot sleep while on fire, even with fire resistance.
  • MC-65951 – Armor stands fall through fences.
  • MC-75328/clear does not clear items in the inventory crafting grid.
  • MC-79944 – Various statistics overflow at 32-bit integer limit.
  • MC-89043 – Slime blocks moved by pistons often fail to bounce up the player.
  • 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 the day while being aggressive.
  • MC-123453 – Armor stands can't be placed in a 1 block high space if the EntityTag "Small:1b" is set.
  • MC-132967 – Mushrooms show as green dots on map.
  • MC-133088 – Missing translation string death.attack.magic.player.
  • MC-135034 – Burning mobs are extinguished by snow in cold biomes, but not in snowy biomes.
  • MC-136063 – Incorrect spacing for "entity.minecraft.tropical_fish.type.sunstreak"s value.
  • MC-148067 – Snow golems are damaged by snowfall in mountain and cold biomes.
  • MC-155977 – Enchanting a book makes the book lose its name.
  • MC-159672 – Vex will occasionally try to attack the player in creative/spectator.
  • MC-160053 – Enderman keeps following the player after becoming neutral/passive.
  • MC-166245 – No sound for shearing snow golems.
  • 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-172025 – Several misrotated blocks in snowy_medium_house_2.
From the previous development version
  • MC-170816 – Debug pie chart freezes in place when closing the F3 menu and stays there.
  • MC-170846 – Stacked walls create pillars when they should not, depending on the order of placement.
  • MC-170848 – Hoglin and zombie pigman spawn eggs look identical.
  • MC-170849 – Hoglin's hitbox is way too small.
  • MC-170852 – Breaking a warped or crimson doors drops two items in Survival mode.
  • MC-170853 – Cannot spawn baby hoglin using spawn eggs on adult hoglin.
  • MC-170862 – Soul "lights" do not update walls.
  • MC-170869 – Soul fire lantern animation missing.
  • MC-170881 – Fire does not burn items.
  • MC-170886Alt + F3 debug graph no longer functions.
  • MC-170899 – Netherite cannot power beacons.
  • MC-170939 – Walls do not create pillars with string or tripwire above.
  • MC-170951 – Cannot teleport entities outside of the world.
  • MC-171023 – Walls do not stack properly in some directions when placed next to blocks.
  • MC-171211 – Observers no longer detect a piston base starting to retract.
  • MC-171333 – Killing a hoglin does not grant the Monster Hunter or Monsters Hunted advancements.

Video[]

Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia[]

  • 20w07a was released on a Friday, which almost never happens with a first snapshot.
  • This is first snapshot to be released on Valentine's Day.

References[]

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 20w07a" – Minecraft.net, February 14, 2020
  2. MC-133088
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