21w03a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.17, released on January 20, 2021, which adds glow squids, glow ink sacs, glow lichen, glow item frames, and fixes bugs.[1] This is the first snapshot to be released in 2021.
Additions[]
Blocks[]
- Placeable entities which appear to glow.
- Do not affect the light level, only appearing as if lit up themselves.
- Items placed inside also glow.
- Crafted using an item frame and a glow ink sac.
- Includes application to maps.
- A naturally occurring light source found rarely in caves, growing on any face of a block.
- Has a light level of 7.
- Obtained with shears, otherwise breaks.
- Does not spread naturally, although bone meal can be used to spread it.
- It spreads to adjacent spaces horizontally, up to 4.
- Can be waterlogged.
- Unlike vines, it does not pop off when underwater, and is not climbable.
- Up to 6 can be put on the same block space, merging into one block.
Items[]
- Dropped by glow squids when killed.
- Can be used to craft glow item frames.
- Can be used to make text glow on signs.
- Added glow squid spawn egg.
Mobs[]
- Originates from the mob with the same name from Minecraft Earth.
- Underwater mob that behaves like a regular squid.
- Does not naturally spawn yet.
- Is attacked by axolotls without provocation.
- Drops glow ink sacs when killed.
- Does not affect the light level, only appearing as if lit up itself.
- Stops glowing for a short time and swims away fast after taking damage.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Can now be crafted from 4 pointed dripstone.
- Can now be tinted with glow ink sacs to make the text glow.
- Glowing signs do not affect the light level, only appearing as if the text itself is illuminated.
- A new
lit
block state had been added to indicate whether the sign text is lit up. - Regular ink sacs can be used to remove the glowing effect.
- Now has sounds for being dyed.
Gameplay[]
- Added unique death messages for dying from falling on a stalagmite.
- "<player> was impaled on a stalagmite" and "<player> was impaled on a stalagmite whilst fighting <entity>".
- Previously, this death would use the generic fall damage death messages.
- The chiseled polished blackstone crafting recipe is now unlocked by having a polished blackstone slab, instead of polished blackstone.
- Changed
Lava drips into cauldron
toLava drips into Cauldron
. - Changed
Water drips into cauldron
toWater drips into Cauldron
. - Changed
Shulker bullet explodes
toShulker Bullet explodes
. - Changed
Shulker bullet breaks
toShulker Bullet breaks
.
General[]
- Block Models
- Made the vine's block model much simpler.
- Changed the error message for failing to connect to the authentication servers. Now says they are "not reachable" instead of "down for maintenance".
- Added glow squids to the
axolotl_always_hostiles
entity type tag.
- Changed the license included in the obfuscation map.
- World Selection
- Added unique warnings for downgrading a world.
- Removed the following languages due to incomplete translations:
- Gothic
- Kabyle
- Maori
- Mohawk
- Nuk
- Ojibwe
- Talossan
- World height/depth can now be adjusted to a max of Y=-2048 to Y=2031, mountain and cave generation will scale accordingly similar to amplified world type.[2][3]
Fixes[]
- 47 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.17
- MC-89880 – Spawner with weight
0
crashes the game. - MC-91522 – Shulker rendering position desync and generates ghost shulker when destroying shulker-ridden boat or minecart.
- MC-92349 – Players cannot tempt animals with food while other players are closer to the animal.
- MC-92867 – Setting JSON text value to
null
throws exceptions and crashes. - MC-96322 – Shulkers are unable to attack from boat.
- MC-99098 – Shulker open and close hitbox is not updated, when they ride boat, minecart or mobs.
- MC-105344 – Shulkers in boats and minecarts do not sit up if previousely attached to blocks sideways.
- MC-108717 – Shulkers cannot be pushed back.
- MC-111196 – Using a monster spawner to spawn shulkers spawns white shulkers.
- MC-113177 – Shulkers cannot be pushed inside non-solid blocks.
- MC-119051 – Random transparent line in shulker box GUI texture.
- MC-121897 – Gaps in an animation's used frames throws
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
. - MC-131564 – Models that have locked uv in blockstates ignore texture rotation.
- MC-139265 – Shulkers do not teleport correctly when going through a portal.
- MC-156109 – Turtles do not follow players in Creative mode holding seagrass.
- MC-161334 – Shulker boxes cannot be opened if next to a shulker mob.
- MC-168900 – Shulkers teleport with original dimension coordinates after passing through portals.
- MC-174216 – Shulkers riding a vehicle sometimes appear in the ground after reopening world.
- MC-174876 – Shulker spawn egg spawns shulker inside soul sand, snow layers, farmland, grass path and honey block.
- MC-183067 – Shulkers can push marker armour stands.
- MC-183884 – Shulkers are afraid of being next to another shulker.
- MC-186172 – Shulkers open into blocks when unable to teleport.
- MC-190677 – Shulkers are notaligned to the grid for a split second after being spawned in.
- MC-193386 – Shulkers spawned attached to the groud attaches themselves to a wall after another shulker is spawned.
- MC-194089 – Shulkers at some Y positions refuse to get a Peek value.
- MC-200195 – Boats do not try dismounting the player on land.
- MC-202202 – Servers are unable to prevent a player from dismounting a vehicle, causing a desync.
- MC-203373 – Shulker bullet subtitles are not capitalized correctly.
- MC-203397 – Ceiling vines rotate when other vines are placed in the same block space.
- MC-208639 – Chiseled Blackstone Recipe unlocks when you get polished blackstone, not polished blackstone slab.
- MC-210791 – Dropping an item on a shulker launches the item off.
- From the 1.17 development versions
- MC-203571 – Right-clicking an empty bundle sometimes plays hand animation.
- MC-204337 – Bundle use stat never increases.
- MC-205076 – Game mode selection is ordered differently.
- MC-206118 – "type" in loot table number providers is not optional anymore.
- MC-206510 – Game crashes when trying to shift-click a chest into the inventory of a donkey whose chest is being removed.
- MC-206550 –
block.pointed_dripstone.drip_[liquid/cauldron]
has no subtitles. - MC-206923 – Dripstone subtitles are not capitalized properly.
- MC-207250 – Dripstone caves biome name is not properly capitalized.
- MC-207254 – Dripstone caves generate merging dripstones in impossible ways.
- MC-207293 – Dripstone generated in dripstone caves can replace lava sources which looks weird.
- MC-207335 – Mobs cannot spawn in dripstone caves.
- MC-207388 – Issues with chunk rendering when height limit is large.
- MC-207900 – Summoning "dust" or "dust_color_transition" particles kicks nearby players when on a server.
- MC-208336 – "player" sub-predicate of "entity_properties" predicate only passes if game mode is specified.
- From the previous development version
- MC-208611 – Shulker boxes and bundles duplicate items when destroyed by two fire blocks simultaneously.
- MC-208666 – Shulker boxes and bundles drop their items twice when thrown into a lava cauldron.
Trivia[]
- This is the only snapshot released in January 2021.
Video[]
- Videos made by slicedlime
See Also[]
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 21w03a" – Minecraft.net, January 20, 2021
- ↑ https://youtu.be/9WpkDr1gXq8
- ↑ https://youtu.be/tH76tx-AnWI