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20w16a is the twelfth snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on April 15, 2020,[1] which adds bastion remnants, ruined portals, chains, and a new music disc.

Additions

Blocks

Chains
  • Generate in bastion remnants.
  • Crafted using 2 iron nuggets and 1 iron ingot in a vertical line formation.

Items

Music Discs
  • Added "Pigstep" music disc, composed by Lena Raine.
  • "Pigstep" can only be found in Bastion Remnants and cannot be dropped by creepers.
  • "Pigstep" has a red color instead of black.
  • When played in a jukebox, a redstone comparator will give a signal strength of 13.

World generation

Bastion Remnants
Ruined Portals
  • Shattered remains of ancient Nether Portals.
  • Generate in the Overworld and Nether.
  • Can be buried underground or underwater.
  • A loot chest can be found beside the portal.

General

Tags
  • Added new creeper_drop_music_discs item tag.
    • Contains all music discs except "pigstep".
    • Used to determine what music discs creepers can drop.

Changes

Blocks

Chiseled nether bricks
  • Changed texture of Chiseled Nether Bricks. The center now more closely resembles a skeleton or wither skeleton skull.
Crying Obsidian
Gilded Blackstone
Jigsaw Block
  • Added a button in the GUI that generates a jigsaw structure starting from the jigsaw block, using given generation depth.
Quartz bricks
  • Changed texture of Quartz Bricks. The bottom row of bricks was shifted to the right about 14 of a block.
Structure Block
  • Expanded the max size per axis of Structure Blocks from 32 to 48.

Items

Banner patterns

World Generation

Biomes

General

Misc
  • Added a JMX MBean to monitor dedicated server tick times.
Tags

Fixes

11 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.16
  • MC-37557 – Sometimes a minecart sound plays/subtitle shown when loading a world.
  • MC-91163 – Certain subtitles show up when the player is too far away to hear the sound.
  • MC-154617 – Server hangs on stop due to rcon.
From the 1.16 development versions
  • MC-171020 – New Nether biomes do not work properly in buffet worlds.
  • MC-175919 – Villagers sometimes stop farming.
  • MC-177136 – All compasses and lodestone compasses point to the same target, regardless of what type of compass it is.
  • MC-177238 – Windows symbolic link in saves/ is no longer followed as of 20w14a.
  • MC-177253 – Running a set_attributes function throws java.lang.NullPointerException if it contains an undefined attribute.
  • MC-177316 – Lodestone compass in item frame does not update after turning.
From the previous development version
  • MC-177942 – Fortresses do not generate in basalt deltas.
  • MC-178368 – Lodestone compass does not point to its lodestone block when rotated in an item frame.

References

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 20w16a" – Minecraft.net, April 15, 2020
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