21w11a is the fourteenth snapshot for Java Edition 1.17 released on March 17, 2021,[1] which fixes numerous amounts of bugs, many of which are relating to textures and rendering issues as well as adds new mechanics related to copper.
Additions[]
General[]
- Added F3 + L shortcut to generate and persist performance metrics from in-game, similar to
/debug
.- Metrics are saved in .minecraft/debug/profiling/<timestamp>.zip.
- Added the
electric_spark
,scrape
,wax_off
, andwax_on
particles.
- Added the
cluster_max_harvestables
item tag.- Contains all pickaxes.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Breaking by hand, piston, or other means now drops 2 amethyst shards instead of dropping none.
- Breaking with any pickaxe can now be used to drop 4 amethyst shards instead of an iron pickaxe or higher.
- Breaking the stem now drops the block.
- Now can be fertilized with bone meal on the stem to make the dripleaf grow.
- Block of Copper, Cut Copper, and variants
- Honeycomb can now be used to wax them, to match Bedrock Edition.
- Yellow particles are formed when waxing the block.
- Using a dispenser with honeycomb waxes them, matching Bedrock Edition.
- Axes can now be used to scrape off wax and oxidation (one stage at a time).
- White particles are formed when scraping off wax from the block.
- Lightning now may clean oxidation, reverting the oxidation process by one or several stages.
- Chances of cleaning and number of reverted stages are higher the closer to the struck block.
- Waxed copper blocks can be crafted into 4 copper ingots, to match Bedrock Edition.
- Changed potion icon in the brewing stand GUI to reflect the new bottle texture in the Texture Update.[2]
- Removed some stray pixels from the GUI texture.
- Lava buckets and powder snow buckets can now be emptied in the respective filled cauldrons.
- Renamed the parts from "cave vines head" and "cave vines body" to "cave vines" and "cave vines plant", respectively.
- The IDs have also changed.
- Now all parts give a light level of 14.
- Previously, only the bottom-most part gave level 14; others gave only 10.
- Now slow down the player.
- Can now be climbed.
- The texture has changed.
- Bone meal can no longer be used on it if it has no blocks to spread to.
- Can now be used on a composter.
- Changed part of the dirt of the side texture of snowy grass to match regular grass.[3]
- Now renders randomly offset from the center.
- Removing the support block for it no longer allows it to float.
- Can now be waterlogged.
- Now turns completely white when struck by lightning.
- Now has a new block state: powered, used to determine whether the rod turns completely white when struck by lightning.
- Now emits particles when in contact with rain.
- Can be combined with cobblestone or stone bricks to make the mossy versions of those blocks.
- Vines can still be used, in addition to moss blocks.
- In addition to axes,[5] hoes are now an appropriate tool to collect it.
- Changed one pixel on the pumpkin's top texture to remove the possibility for a small swastika to be displayed.[6]
- Using bone meal on any side grows hanging roots underneath.
- Changed the textures of acacia, birch, dark oak, jungle, oak, and spruce signs to reflect new textures in the Texture Update.
- The facing direction of small dripleaf is now determined by which direction the player is facing when placing it.
- Changed the top texture of the smoker.
- Removing the support block for it no longer allows it to float.
- No longer causes suffocation.
- Mobs can no longer spawn on top of it.
Items[]
- Changed the texture of the jungle door item to reflect the block texture in the Texture Update.[7]
- Fired spectral arrows are now entirely golden to reflect the item texture in the Texture Update.[8]
Mobs[]
- Changed the texture of the siamese cat type, mostly brightening it.
- Removed some stray pixels from the texture file.
- Moved the librarian top overlay texture to correct side of its torso.[10]
Non-mob entities[]
- Changed the back texture to reflect the planks texture in the Texture Update.
World generation[]
- Tweaked the cave sizes.
- Reduced the amount of floating water in lush caves.
- Slightly increased the frequency of diamond ore blobs.
- If any ore replaces tuff, it will now be deepslate ore.
Gameplay[]
- Frozen hearts now have a different texture in Hardcore mode to reflect the regular heart texture.
- It is now possible to see while inside lava and powder snow.
- Added subtitles for amethyst blocks chiming.
- Added subtitles for waxing and removing wax from copper blocks.
- These are "Wax on" and "Wax off", but are not triggered in-game.[11]
- Changed the subtitles for stripping logs and wood from "Axe scrapes" to "Axe strips".
- "Axe scrapes" is now used for copper blocks. However, it is not triggered in-game.[11]
General[]
- Added cave vines and cave vines plant to the
climbable
block tag. - Added tuff to the
deepslate_ore_replaceables
block tag. - Added tinted glass to the
impermeable
block tag. - Removed tuff from the
stone_ore_replaceables
block tag.
Fixes[]
- 127 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.17
- MC-1483 – Snow covered grass/podzol/mycelium block side texture does not match original block.
- MC-9591 – Players are able to create ghost lily pads.
- MC-12363 – Lava / water / powder snow bucket desync when using it while rapidly turning.
- MC-70850 – False negatives during occlusion culling.
- MC-71530 – Spectators can't see through lava.
- MC-86645 – Scroll bar goes higher than chat overlay.
- MC-145501 – Librarian and zombie librarian torso top texture is incorrect.
- MC-150054 – Spectral arrow texture on item and entity aren't consistent.
- MC-150784 – Brewing Stand bottle outline incorrect.
- MC-154006 – Overworld wood signs use the outdated wood texture on all sides.
- MC-160195 – Jungle door inventory texture is outdated.
- MC-160388 – Painting back texture has not been updated with the texture update.
- MC-169717 – Blocks in recipe book groups are rendered in front of item tooltips.
- MC-195806 – Smoker's top and bottom textures have inconsistently colored pixels.
- MC-197561 – Carved pumpkins and jack o'lanterns create swastikas.
- MC-197883 – Jigsaw Structures causing
DataFixer
spam. - MC-198805 – Floating pixel in the tailfin of a guardian/elder guardian.
- MC-202186 – Houses in Zombie Villages disappear when spawned using
/locate
. - MC-202760 –
area_effect_cloud
does not enforce a maximum radius. - MC-211513 – Trident returning to owner not in the same world can cause permanent player kick.
- MC-212123 – Player lighting is inconsistent in the inventory and appears darker on the front.
- MC-214568 – Setting a lectern on fire causes z-fighting.
- MC-216227 – Sugar cane item texture is no longer accurate from 13w36a forward.
- From the 1.17 development versions
- MC-203554 –
block.amethyst_block.chime
has no subtitle. - MC-203561 – Amethyst crystal cluster drops items when block is moved directly by a piston without actually breaking the block.
- MC-203623 – Inconsistency: Breaking amethyst crystals with hands doesn't drop the item, but breaking the block they are placed on drops them.
- MC-203676 – Tinted Glass suffocates entities inside of it.
- MC-203753 – Spyglass use statistic never increases.
- MC-203918 – Mobs can spawn on tinted glass.
- MC-204016 – When filling a lava/powder snow cauldron with lava/powder snow, it is placed on the ground instead of in the cauldron.
- MC-204115 – Pushing an amethyst cluster off of a block with a 1-tick pulse using a sticky piston doesn't drop any items.
- MC-204862 – Tinted glass is not included in the
impermeable
tag. - MC-205913 – Lightning rod can spawn skeleton horses with skeletons.
- MC-206588 – Blocks dripstone can be attached to are inconsistent.
- MC-206787 – World Border is rendered upside down.
- MC-206805 – World border texture moves up and down with the player.
- MC-207557 – Frozen hearts in hardcore mode look identical to frozen hearts in survival mode.
- MC-208295 – Moving water with a piston and amethyst cluster.
- MC-212226 – Bone Meal can still be used on a Glow Lichen when it is unable to grow.
- MC-212410 – Cannot compost glow lichen.
- MC-213269 – Waxed Copper Block cannot be crafted back into ingots.
- MC-213271 – Parity issue: Copper blocks cannot be waxed by either using honeycomb items on them or using dispensers with honeycombs.
- MC-213583 – Crash upon importing world generation settings with over 256 layers.
- MC-213743 – Spectators can't see through powder snow.
- MC-213764 – Removing the block supporting a spore blossom allows the spore blossom to float.
- MC-213765 – Cave vine blocks are inconsistent in ID from other similar blocks.
- MC-213768 – Removing the support block for hanging roots allows it to float.
- MC-213778 – Cave vines cannot be climbed.
- MC-213782 – Cave vines do not slow you down like other vines.
- MC-213798 – Cave vines head and body emit different light levels.
- MC-213816 – Hanging roots don't get destroyed by flowing water.
- MC-213886 – Bone meal cannot be used on dripleaf stems.
- MC-213911 – Cave vines body and cave vines head share the same name.
- MC-213980 – Moss appropriate tool is axe rather than hoe.
- MC-214290 – Crash upon importing world generation settings with a layer that is less than 0 blocks high.
- MC-214780 – It is not possible to create a superflat world with over 256 layers.
- MC-214868 – Big dripleaf won't drop the item if the top is underwater.
- MC-214951 – Superflat worlds start generating at negative coordinates, causing a dark horizon.
- MC-215036 – Snow layers in "Snowy Kingdom" superflat preset generate 64 blocks above the ground.
- MC-215384 – Azaleas cannot be used as a fuel.
- MC-215417 – Sky going dark y level ignores data pack dimension y axis limits (
minecraft:overworld
effects). - MC-216018 – Redstone Ready and Water World presets have the default spawn point at wrong Y-level.
- MC-216134 – Gilded blackstone texture does not match the new side texture of blackstone.
- MC-216184 – Player takes no fall damage on blocks above Y=316.
- MC-216737 – When replacing tuff, ores still generate with a "stone" background below Y=0.
- MC-216945 – Teams become dysfunctional when any entity leaves the team.
- MC-216965 – Flat "slices" of terrain generating in cracks.
- MC-217303 – Potential optimization target in
DepthBasedReplacingBaseStoneSource
. - MC-217546 –
stat.fallOneCm
is not updated when falling onto a block above Y=316. - MC-217802 – Some blocks generate at wrong Y height in a superflat world.
- From the previous development version
- MC-218587 – Lightning rod still can't be waterlogged.
- MC-218594 – Debug chunk borders don't render properly.
- MC-218596 – Debug pie is blacked out.
- MC-218597 – Water has no fog anymore.
- MC-218603 – Screen turns dark grey when switching dimension.
- MC-218604 – Hanging roots can generate hanging on other hanging roots, making them float.
- MC-218609 – Mipmapping causes some block faces to become too dark.
- MC-218610 – Banners are unimpacted by light levels.
- MC-218626 – Cannot enchant items.
- MC-218633 – Smooth lighting has brighter outlines.
- MC-218635 – With fast graphics, the freezing overlay renders black, and covers the whole screen black in first person.
- MC-218640 – Broken spyglass overlay on fast graphics.
- MC-218641 – Red vignette shown when outside the world border is too intense.
- MC-218645 – The carved pumpkin overlay turns the screen completely black when using fast graphics.
- MC-218652 – The green nausea overlay no longer renders.
- MC-218653 – Glowing effect no longer changes to team color.
- MC-218655 – Floating water generates excessively in lush caves.
- MC-218660 – The nether portal overlay no longer renders, whilst using fast graphics.
- MC-218695 – Shulkers do not flash red when hurt or killed.
- MC-218712 – Debug pie has purple box when moving an enchanted item.
- MC-218713 – Right clicking to open alternate recipes does not show the recipes.
- MC-218729 – Noise cave entrances cause unnatural, smooth edges in terrain.
- MC-218734 – Caves generate with very blocky areas.
- MC-218748 – At sunset, a blue line appears in the northern and southern skies.
- MC-218753 – Ambient occlusion of the player seen in the survival inventory has changed.
- MC-218793 – Two white lines appear on the Mojang loading screen.
- MC-218817 – Cave Vines can generate without supporting blocks.
- MC-218825 – M1 ARM Macs crash when using Fabulous Graphics mode as was the case in older versions, but no lack of support warning is shown.
- MC-218830 – World border is white.
- MC-218834 – You can see block hitboxes very clearly under powder snow/lava.
- MC-218845 – Mojang logo screen flashes blue before changing to red.
- MC-218852 – World border is occasionally shown as a solid color upon being loaded.
- MC-218877 – The red flash when a mob is hurt/killed appears to be slightly dimmed.
- MC-218881 – When selecting text in the end, the sky gets highlighted.
- MC-218911 – The background of hover-event text becomes blue when text is selected in an anvil or chat.
- MC-218945 – Spyglass has a gradient effect while freezing.
- MC-218979 – Cave ceilings and floors sometimes too flat or blocky.
- MC-218988 – Fire is rendered dark in the player/horse/llama UI.
- MC-218990 – Transparency buffers start with blue background instead of empty background.
- MC-219002 – The wither's wither armor has a blue aura around it.
- MC-219006 – The background opacity of subtitles and chat, are affected by a potion effect UI fading out.
- MC-219014 – Charged creeper layer makes clouds and entities invisible.
- MC-219036 – World border is shown as a solid color when picking up items or experience orbs.
- MC-219039 – World border does not render when below the world.
- MC-219049 – Reloading resource packs no longer shows the progress bar while the transparent background is shown.
- MC-219105 – Entity hitboxes can be seen whilst inside of powder snow/lava.
- MC-219108 – Chat scroll bar is offset.
- MC-219111 – Social interactions scroll bar appears broken.
- MC-219126 – Spyglass allows looking through blocks.
- MC-219180 – Slime blocks, honey blocks, stained glass, and ice are fully lit when moved by pistons.
- MC-219208 – Using enchanted items allows looking through blocks.
- MC-219212 – Entity shadows can be seen whilst inside of powder snow/lava.
- MC-219224 – The background opacity of command syntax help is affected when highlighting text.
- MC-219278 – Being inside of a block no longer shows the block texture.
- MC-219281 – Dying ender dragon is rendered too bright.
- MC-219392 – Lead/fishing line is no longer affected by the fog from powder snow/lava.
- MC-219597 – End portal and end gateway textures expand as the player travels further from the block.
Video[]
Videos made by slicedlime:
Trivia[]
- This version has the same data version as Combat Test 7b, even though these versions should not be compatible with each other.
- 21w11a contained the largest number of bug fixes in a single snapshot, with at least 127, beating 20w22a at least 3.