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20w15a is the eleventh snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on April 8, 2020,[1] which adds a new nether biome, new music tracks, new blocks and other changes and fixes.

Addition

Blocks

Blackstone
  • Generates in Basalt Deltas.
  • Can be used in place of stone to craft furnaces and stone tools.
  • Is not blast resistant.
  • Has a slab, stair, and wall variant.
Blackstone Slab, Blackstone Stairs, Blackstone Wall
  • Decorative blocks crafted from blackstone.
Chiseled Nether Bricks
Chiseled Polished Blackstone
  • Decorative block crafted from polished blackstone.
Cracked Nether Bricks
Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks
  • Decorative blocks crafted from polished blackstone.
Gilded Blackstone
  • Has a chance of dropping 2-5 gold nuggets.
  • Currently only available via the creative inventory or by using commands.
Polished Blackstone
  • Crafted with 4 Blackstone.
  • Has a chiseled, slab, stair, and wall variant.
  • Can be crafted into buttons and pressure plates.
Polished Blackstone Bricks
Polished Blackstone Brick Slab, Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs, Polished Blackstone Brick Wall
  • Decorative blocks crafted from polished blackstone bricks.
Polished Blackstone Button and Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate
  • Redstone blocks crafted from polished blackstone.
Polished Blackstone Slab, Polished Blackstone Stairs, and Polished Blackstone Wall
  • Decorative blocks crafted from polished blackstone.
Quartz Bricks
  • Decorative block crafted from quartz.
Soul Campfire
  • Have a blue flame instead of orange.
  • Crafted with soul sand or soul soil instead of coal.
  • Piglins are repelled by soul campfires.

Items

Piglin Banner Pattern
  • New pattern for banners, the Piglin.
  • Use in Loom to apply Piglin pattern to the banner.

Biomes

Basalt Deltas
  • A volcanic biome in The Nether.
  • Filled with pillars of Basalt and large areas of Blackstone.
  • Ghasts, magma cubes, and striders spawn in this biome.

General

Accessibility
  • Chat line spacing can be adjusted.
  • A chat delay can be set between 0 (default) and 6 seconds.
Music
Sound
  • Added ambient sounds for the basalt deltas.
Tags
  • Added campfires block tag.
    • Contains campfires and soul campfires.
    • Bees, parrots, and turtles will view blocks in this tag as dealing fire damage and pathfind accordingly.
    • Campfires use this tag to determine if they are lit or not.
    • Flint and steel uses this tag to determine if it can light campfires.
  • Added guarded_by_piglins block tag.
  • Added furnace_materials item tag.
    • Contains cobblestone and blackstone.
    • Items in this tag can be used to craft furnaces and will unlock the recipe in the recipe book.
  • Added stone_tool_materials item tag.
    • Contains cobblestone and blackstone.
    • Items in this tag can be used to craft stone tools and will unlock the recipes in the recipe book.
  • Added soul_fire_base_blocks item tag.

Changes

Blocks

Dispensers
Furnaces
Soul fire torches
Walls
  • Now connects to the bottom and sides of glass panes and iron bars.
  • Now connects to the bottom of sea pickles.
  • No longer leaves gaps when stacked vertically.

Items

Stone axes, hoes, pickaxes, shovels, and swords
  • Can now be crafted with blackstone.
Hoes
  • Are now the default tool for mining Leaves.
    • Shears are still needed for collecting leaf blocks.
Fungi, Nether sprouts, Roots, Twisting vines, nether wart blocks, warped wart blocks, and weeping vines
  • Can now be composted.

Mobs

Magma cubes
  • Spawn commonly in basalt deltas.
Striders
  • Now turn purple outside of lava.
  • When outside lava, their facial expression changes textures slightly.
  • Can now only spawn if the block above the lava is air.
  • Baby striders ride on top of bigger striders.
Zoglins

General

Tags
  • Added polished blackstone, and (where applicable) blackstone blocks and items to the buttons, slabs, stairs, and walls block and item tags.
  • Added soul campfires to the piglin_repellents block tag.
  • Added the #signs block tag and removed lanterns and soul fire lanterns from the wall_post_override block tag.
Textures
  • Removed an unused fin from the strider texture.

Fixes

23 issues fixed
From the 1.16 development versions
  • MC-171463 – Iron bars do not fully connect to walls.
  • MC-172120 – Hoglins do not try to avoid fire.
  • MC-172226 – Baby animals, villagers, and zombie villagers spawned with a spawn egg on an adult entity always are of the same variant.
  • MC-172250 – Piglin and zombified piglin model does not use textures for left arm or leg.
  • MC-172268 – Bartering with a piglin by right-clicking does not display a hand animation.
  • MC-174542 – Killing baby hoglins drops leather and porkchop.
  • MC-174559 – Baby hoglins/zoglins uses the same attack damage as an adult when spawned in some cases.
  • MC-175030 – Curse of Binding does not affect piglins.
  • MC-175169 – Respawn anchor can create ghost blocks when it explodes.
  • MC-175176 – Using return portal in the End softlocks the game if /spawnpoint was used in the End.
  • MC-175256 – Screen is overlaid with a grey opaque texture when inside of a transparent block.
  • MC-175274 – "Quartz pillar" is translated as "White wool" ("Lana blanca" instead of "Pilar de cuarzo") in Spanish (Spain).
  • MC-175356 – Piglins and hoglins do not avoid magma blocks.
  • MC-175538 – Fish/swimming sounds are louder than they should be.
  • MC-175566 – Piglins with full inventories drop the items they receive.
  • MC-176095 – Striders have an unused fin in the strider.png texture file.
  • MC-176384CompassItem checks twice if the LodestonePos tag exists.
  • MC-176517 – Striders spawn in underground lava pockets.
  • MC-176633 – Lime carpets are named "acacia slab" in Spanish (Spain).
  • MC-177069 – Dispenser will not drop glowstone as item when not connected to a respawn anchor.
From the previous development version
  • MC-177085 – Missing UUID field in attributes crash the game.
  • MC-177102 – Zoglins are not considered an undead mob.
  • MC-177225 – Tag minecraft:water used before it was bound.

Video

Video made by slicedlime:

References

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 20w15a" – Minecraft.net, April 8, 2020
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