20w11a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on March 11, 2020,[1] which adds nether gold ore, twisting vines and the Soul Speed enchantment.
Additions[]
Blocks[]
- Found in the Nether, at any height.
- Behaves exactly like normal gold ore.
- Another variant of vines found in warped forests.
- Grows upward, unlike weeping vines.
- Can be climbed.
Gameplay[]
- 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, or trading. However, can be found in chest loot in this snapshot due to a bug.[2]
General[]
- 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 the
gold_ores
block and item tags.- Contains gold ore and nether gold ore.
- Blocks in this tag require an iron pickaxe or better to be mined.
- Many recipes use this tag.
- Added the
piglin_repellents
item tag.- Already existed in the prior snapshots as a block tag, but now extends to items.
- Contains soul fire torches and lanterns.
- Piglins will not attempt to pick up items in this tag.
- Added the
soul_speed_blocks
block tag.- Contains soul sand and soul soil.
- The Soul Speed enchantment uses this tag to test for which blocks will increase speed.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Will now ring when hit by any projectile.
- Will now ignite when hit by any burning projectile.
- Can no longer be pushed by pistons.
- Can no longer be destroyed by the ender dragon.
- Now requires a diamond or netherite pickaxe to be mined.
- No longer has a breaking animation.
- No longer sounds like wool when broken.
- Now have loot tables.
- Now plays a sound when used.
- 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 will no longer slow-down minecarts.
- Doors, rails, buttons, torches, pressure plates and redstone can now be placed on it.
- Will now ignite when hit by any burning projectile.
- Now play a sound when climbed.
- Now have a 1⁄3 chance to drop 1 item, with the maximum increased by 2 per level of Fortune.
- Now play a sound when climbed.
Items[]
- Can now be used to grow kelp, weeping vines, and twisting vines.
- Are now the appropriate tools for mining targets, dried kelp blocks, and shroomlights.
- Due to a bug, axes will still mine shroomlights faster.[4]
Gameplay[]
- Piglins can now offer iron boots and enchanted books with the Soul Speed enchantment.
/locate
can now be used to locate Nether fossils.
General[]
- Added twisting vines to the
climbable
block tag. - Added crying obsidian to the
dragon_immune
block tag. - Added potted warped fungus to the
hoglin_repellents
block tag.
Fixes[]
- 47 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.16
- MC-81659 – Fireball and witherskull hitboxes are frequently invisible for some seconds.
- MC-104900 – Skeletons, illusioners and piglins with crossbows have broken agility reaction when hit or walking on certain blocks when provoked.
- MC-104949 – Mobs cannot jump shorter than half of the blocks.
- MC-128247 – Dolphins can jump way too far causing them to hit on land.
- MC-134900 – server.properties
generator-settings
forlevel-type FLAT
not implemented; property is stored in ignoredflat_world_options
NBT. - MC-145140 – Fireballs cannot be interacted with when summoned.
- MC-146928 – Cannot place doors, rails, buttons, pressure plate, redstone, etc. on soul sand.
- MC-148935 – Zombies with no AI still convert into drowned.
- MC-170836 – Cannot set the top of soul sand on fire.
- MC-173732 – Fire and soul fire do not have loot tables
- From the 1.16 development versions
- MC-171079 – Comparators no longer work as expected reading containers through powered blocks.
- MC-171213 – Blocks that are affected by gravity do not destroy Nether sprouts when dropped from above.
- MC-171589 – Fire makes block burned noise before the block disappears.
- MC-171756 – Weird fire bug.
- MC-171860 – Nether fossils have code implying an unimplemented
/locate
function. - MC-172266 – Crossbow wielding piglins do not properly walk backwards to target the player when very close.
- MC-172323 – Game crashes when summoning a hoglin with the attack damage attribute set to 0 or giving a hoglin Weakness with a very high level (255).
- MC-172374 – Can teleport to invalid y coordinates and crash the game.
- MC-172428 – Piglins and hoglins do not look at their target.
- MC-172470 – When the piglin holds the bow, it will try to attack and follow the enemy eventually stood there not moving.
- MC-172530 – Piglins indefinitely stand around dropped golden items if
mobGriefing
is disabled. - MC-172903 – Piglins which convert into zombified piglins delete armor if equipped.
- MC-173050 – Hoglins cannot hit some mobs with large hitboxes.
- MC-173156 – Z-fighting at bottom of potted bamboo; bottom texture of bamboo is exposed.
- MC-173160 – Weeping vines plants can be replaced by weeping vines "sapling" (small block) by just right-clicking.
- MC-173167 – Netherite sword/tools not sorted with other swords/tools.
- MC-173180 – Hoglins are not scared of warped fungus in flower pots.
- MC-173219 – No sound when climbing weeping vines.
- MC-173243 – Crying obsidian is movable by pistons.
- MC-173283 – Piglin admiring held gold ingot does not drop it when killed.
- MC-173302 – Crying obsidian can be harvested with any pickaxe.
- MC-173384 – Crying obsidian can be destroyed by the ender dragon.
- MC-173433 – Killing a baby hoglin does not yield experience.
- MC-173462 – Baby piglins can hold soul fire torches.
- MC-173467 – Piglins admiring bartering gold ingot drop nothing when converting to zombified piglin.
- MC-173484 – Death message from falling off a trapdoor does not mention it by name.
- MC-173485 – Death message from falling off scaffolding does not mention it by name.
- MC-173706 –
NullPointerException
in server tick loop when trying to load a flatland world with Nether biome.
- From the previous development version
- MC-173725 – Anvil name field does not automatically receive focus anymore and is unclickable.
- MC-173731 – Fire and soul fire play a sound and produce particles when extinguished.
- MC-173739 – Missing sound for event:
minecraft:block.smithing_table.use
. - MC-173766 – Thrown tridents disappear after hitting and damaging a mob or entity.
- MC-173776 – Hoes do not mine targets faster.
- MC-173792 – End gateways do not work using ender pearls.
- MC-173829 – Lava and fire randomly make extinguishing sound.
- MC-173858 – Unable to set
LeftHanded
to1b
for piglins. - MC-174326 – Mobs do not spawn on soul sand, causing weird mob spawning in soul sand valleys.
Video[]
Video made by slicedlime: