For the April Fool's joke snapshot released that week, see Java Edition 20w14∞.
20w14a is the tenth snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on April 2, 2020,[1] which adds zoglins, makes some changes to striders, and fixes bugs.
Additions[]
Items[]
- Added zoglin spawn egg.
Mobs[]
- Created when a hoglin is brought into the Overworld.
- Unlike hoglins, they can't be bred or fed, and they don't flee from warped fungus.
- Attack most mobs on sight, except for creepers and other zoglins.
Gameplay[]
- Added various sounds to zoglins.[more information needed]
- Added a lot of previously missing subtitles.[2]:
- Added "Beacon activates", "Beacon hums", "Beacon deactivates", and "Beacon power selected".
- Added "Conduit activates", "Conduit pulses", "Conduit attacks", and "Conduit deactivates".
- Added "Enchanting table used".
- Added "End Portal opens!" and "Eye of Ender attaches".
- Added "Shears carve".
- Added "Smithing Table used".
- Added "Rowing" subtitle for boats.
- Added "Cat begs", "Cat eats", and "Cat hisses".
- Added drowned's underwater ambient sound, "Drowned gurgles".
- Added "Eye of Ender falls".
- Added "Bobber retrieved".
- Added "Hoglin converts to Zoglin".
- Added "Horse lands".
- Added player attacking subtitles: "Critical attack", "Knockback attack", "Strong attack", "Sweeping attack", and "Weak attack".
- Added player damaging subtitles: "Player drowning" and "Player burns".
- Added "Strider dies", "Strider eats", "Strider warbles", "Strider hurts", "Strider chirps", and "Strider retreats".
- Added "Tropical Fish dies", "Tropical Fish flops", and "Tropical Fish hurts".
- Added "Wandering Trader disappears", "Wandering Trader drinks milk", "Wandering Trader drinks potion", and "Wandering Trader appears".
- Added "Zoglin growls", "Zoglin growls angrily", "Zoglin attacks", "Zoglin dies", "Zoglin hurts", and "Zoglin steps".
- Added "Turtle Egg stomped".
- Added "Bottle empties".
- Added "Fish captured".
Changes[]
Items[]
- The compass now has
LodestonePos
,LodestoneDimension
, andLodestoneTracked
data fields. IfLodestoneTracked
is zero, the game will skip checking for a lodestone in the specified position. - Compasses can now be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing.
- Now has 100 durability instead of 25.
- Takes 1 damage whenever the strider's speed is boosted.
Mobs[]
- Now become zoglins in the overworld.
- Now avoid nether portals and respawn anchors.
- Now avoid zoglins in the same way they avoid zombified piglins.
- Strider riding speed has now been significantly increased to be even faster than that of a boat.[more information needed]
General[]
- The advancements "Monster Hunter" and "Monsters Hunted" now include elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, vexes, withers, and zoglins.
- Items and entities will 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.maxHealth
togeneric.max_health
. - Changed
zombie.spawnReinforcements
tozombie.spawn_reinforcements
. - Changed
horse.jumpStrength
tohorse.jump_strength
. - Changed
generic.followRange
togeneric.follow_range
. - Changed
generic.knockbackResistance
togeneric.knockback_resistance
. - Changed
generic.movementSpeed
togeneric.movement_speed
. - Changed
generic.flyingSpeed
togeneric.flying_speed
. - Changed
generic.attackDamage
togeneric.attack_damage
- Changed
generic.attackKnockback
togeneric.attack_knockback
- Changed
generic.attackSpeed
togeneric.attack_speed
- Changed
generic.armorToughness
togeneric.armor_toughness
.
- Changed
- The main menu background is now in the Nether.
- Since this was an asset update, all of the 1.16 snapshots have the new backdrop.
- General statistics are now ordered alphabetically in the statistics menu.
- Added nether portals and respawn anchors to the
hoglin_repellents
block tag.
- World save files
- Region files are now read/written in synchronous mode to help prevent data loss and corruption after crash.
- Dedicated servers can disable that by changing
sync-chunk-writes
inside server.properties.
- Dedicated servers can disable that by changing
Fixes[]
- 39 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.16
- MC-83039 – End City chests generate destroyed, items on the ground.
- MC-91893 – Missing subtitles for various sounds.
- MC-109248 – Extended piston head is not removed when
/setblock
is used to place a different piston base. - 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-124428 – Firework star crashes game if there is 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-133049 – Compasses do not point to the correct location when in an item frame on the ground or on the ceiling.
- MC-135501 – Invalid tag inside another tag silently fails to reload data packs.
- MC-150405 – Client handling of unknown entity attributes is bugged.
- MC-150455 – Ignored lava hitbox level.
- MC-154427 – Villagers only pick up four stacks of items.
- MC-161128 – Piston head left behind when base is quickly broken and replaced.
- MC-164129 – Ender dragon inner hitboxes are rendered offset by approximately 200 blocks.
- MC-164446 – Tags do not load if one of their values is invalid, causing all data packs to unload.
- MC-167608 – Item frames are destroyed after respawning.
- MC-169975 – Highlight players (spectators) key does not affect any players other than the user.
- MC-175201 – Misrotated floor block in
savanna_small_house_1
,savanna_small_house_2
,savanna_small_house_3
andsavanna_small_house_7
. - MC-176644 – Observers do not trigger when a fence connects to a newly grown tree.
- From the 1.16 development versions
- MC-172069 – Piston arms are not deleted when the base of a pulsing piston is replaced with another piston.
- MC-173158 – Zombified piglin's overlay texture is not rendered.
- MC-173192 – Fluid collision is too high.
- MC-173684 – Spawning under the portal when using a nether portal.
- MC-173774 – Shulker bullets do not act as a projectile.
- MC-173875 – Item frames cannot be interacted with after unloading and reloading the chunk.
- MC-174231 – Ocelots are no longer spawning.
- MC-174838 – Target detection of fireworks is unreliable.
- MC-175434 – Fireworks launched from upwards-facing dispensers explode inside of the dispenser block.
- MC-175985 – Lodestone compass needle does not have animation.
- MC-175990 – Lodestone compass needle spins around quickly when the lodestone has been destroyed or is not in the same dimension.
- MC-176052 – Using a compass on a lodestone plays no hand animation.
- MC-176059 – Scoreboard criteria for using compasses does not increase score after using a compass on a lodestone.
- MC-176195 – Many mountable mobs and vehicles can still be shot by the rider's arrows.
- MC-176231 – Compasses with custom enchantments do not display enchantment glint.
- MC-176269 – Right-clicking lodestone with compass also uses offhand item.
- From the previous development version
- MC-176387 – Fishing rod can reel in vehicle of player.
- MC-176391 – Basalt can generate on nether trees.
- MC-176420 – Lodestone compass sound is in the friendly creatures option.
Video[]
Video made by slicedlime:
Trivia[]
- Unlike most of the first-of-the-week actual snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.
- This is because an April Fools' joke snapshot Java Edition 20w14infinite was released on April 1, 2020, which is a Wednesday.
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 20w14a" – Minecraft.net, April 2, 2020
- ↑ MC-91893