21w37a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.18, released on September 15, 2021,[1] which adds the contents of the previous seven experimental snapshots and brings more parity with Bedrock Edition.
Additions[]
General[]
/jfr
- When enabled, begins profiling with Java FlightRecorder, as well as the following custom events:
- minecraft.ServerTickTime: Sampling event exposing average server tick times in intervals of a second
- minecraft.ChunkGeneration: Time taken to generate individual chunk stages
- minecraft.PacketRead / minecraft.PacketSent: Network traffic
- minecraft.WorldLoadFinishedEvent: Initial world loading duration
- The profiling can be stopped in-game by using
/jfr stop
.
- When enabled, begins profiling with Java FlightRecorder, as well as the following custom events:
- Font
- Added
illageralt
, the rune-like font from Minecraft Dungeons.- Currently only usable via commands
- Added the
type
field, which is mandatory.- Written into
BlockEntityTag.id
to ensure that the tag can be migrated correctly between versions
- Written into
- Can now disable lightning flashes, which prevents lightning from making the sky flash. Lightning bolts themselves will still appear.
- The device the game outputs audio to can now be chosen in-game.
- Added "Priority updates" to video settings.
- Determines as to which chunk sections are updated synchronously in a single frame.
- Three options:
- nearby, which corresponds to how chunk sections were updated before 21w37a, and by player and none, which reduce stuttering when placing or removing blocks.
- However, the latter two options may cause rare visual delays in world updates. These options also appear to be improperly capitalized.[2]
- Determines as to which chunk sections are updated synchronously in a single frame.
- Added subtitles for various bundle sounds.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Now emits a light level of 7.
- Now stop growing if shears are used on the tip.
- This action changes the
age
block state of the tip to 25.
- This action changes the
- Reverted change allowing plants to be placed on snow blocks.
- This reversion results in the lack of vegetation in the grove biome.
Items[]
- Have been removed from the creative inventory once again.
- Can once again no longer be crafted.
- Only accessible through commands once again.
- Durability has been increased to 465.
- Reverted changes from experimental snapshot 7.
Mobs[]
- Now have their own mob cap.
- Vindicators, pillagers and evokers
- Will not attack baby villagers anymore.
- Now only spawn in snowy slopes, stony peaks, lofty peaks, and snow capped peaks biomes.
- Feedable mobs
- All feedable mobs (except sheep) named Dinnerbone will now look at the player correctly.
- General
- Reverted changes of spawners from experimental snapshot 2.
World generation[]
- Changes of diorite, andesite, or granite generated as strip in experimental snapshot 4 is reverted.
General[]
- Data pack version number has been increased to 8.
- The Sneak and Sprint, and Auto-jump options have been moved to the Controls tab.
- Render distance now causes chunks to load in a cylinder shape around the player instead of a square.
- Removed length limits for scoreboards, score holders and team names.
- The splash "[this splash text has been delayed until part 2]" has been changed to "[this splash text is now available]".
- Renamed the
lava_pool_stone_replaceables
block tag tolava_pool_stone_cannot_replace
.
- Other
- Worlds last opened before Java Edition 1.2 can no longer be opened.
- These worlds must be opened in a version prior to 21w37a (preferably between Java Edition 1.2 and Java Edition 1.6.4).
- An error will be shown when attempting to open these worlds.
Fixes[]
- 68 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.18
- MC-7200 – Cave/tunnel generation may cut tunnels a bit too soon.
- MC-29274 – Withers will not pursue players in survival mode unless attacked.
- MC-30560 – River through eroded badlands biome generates floating rock formations at water surface.
- MC-54545 – Client render distance doesn't adjust to server render distance if they are different, causing faulty chunk loading.
- MC-65628 – Desert pyramids generate underground when using amplified or custom terrain.
- MC-72831 – Water lakes can generate in deserts.
- MC-85975 – Slimes don't spawn in the swamp hills biome.
- MC-101917 – Andesite, diorite and granite won't generate above a height of about 80.
- MC-123277 – Too long scoreboard objectives and team names are not detected when commands are parsed.
- MC-125033 – Old cave and ravine generation gets cut off unnaturally on chunk borders near water.
- MC-126133 – Undercover ravines sometimes generate cut off at chunk borders.
- MC-129266 – Jagged ocean transitions and slower biome generation.
- MC-132175 – Beaches generate along swamp hills when bordering an ocean.
- MC-132429 – Sand beaches generate when bordering gravelly mountains biomes.
- MC-134407 – Ocean ravines spawning underground with a stone roof on top.
- MC-138801 – The interactions between a biome and another biome and its variants are inconsistent.
- MC-140151 – Modified jungle edge biomes only generate when a jungle borders a swamp hills biome.
- MC-140690 – Giant spruce taiga hills have no difference with giant spruce taiga.
- MC-159025 – Drowned do not spawn in warm ocean biomes.
- MC-160710 – Chat messages written while sleeping are deleted after waking up.
- MC-166238 – Trees can generate on mycelium.
- MC-166423 – Splash water bottles don't damage endermen.
- MC-167277 – Swamp hills don't naturally generate seagrass.
- MC-175929 – Ice spikes get cut off below height limit on AMPLIFIED worlds.
- MC-182362 – Score callbacks with a too long name break callback chain.
- MC-186042 – Plains biome is always generated when a swamp borders a desert, snowy tundra or snowy taiga.
- MC-188096 – Gravelly mountains+ is no different than gravelly mountains.
- MC-190363 – Some biomes generate as "Single biome" worlds in "Floating islands" world type.
- MC-199298 – Strongholds don't generate in bamboo jungles.
- MC-200230 – Anomalous stripes/grid ice generation in frozen ocean biome.
- MC-202376 – Rabbits, instead of spawning on snow blocks, spawn on snow layers.
- MC-208352 – Dark forest hills don't generate small patches of plains or sunflower plains, but dark forest does.
- MC-208353 – Several hills biomes do not generate sporadically replacing patches of their regular biome counterparts.
- MC-208601 – Axolotls do not avoid danger when pathfinding.
- MC-212113 – Glow lichen can spawn underwater whilst not in a cave.
- MC-213779 – FPS drops when looking up in a tall world (4064 blocks).
- MC-214335 – Flower forest is much steeper than regular forest.
- MC-214783 – Oceans generate with stone floors.
- MC-214797 – Pointed dripstone can generate floating at transitions between local water levels.
- MC-214799 – Aquifers sometimes create air pockets.
- MC-214864 – Hard edges when new caves generate near surface.
- MC-215062 – Weird aquifer barrier generator and water in incorrect states.
- MC-215296 – Mineshafts often don't generate in floating island worlds.
- MC-215876 – Dirt can generate below Y=0 from mineshafts.
- MC-216362 – Jukeboxes that have been placed don't stack with jukeboxes that have not been placed.
- MC-216448 – River generates over a ravine.
- MC-216784 – Ruined portals don't generate below Y=0.
- MC-216952 – Some chunks interrupting with cave systems filled with blocks.
- MC-216967 – Kelp and seagrass can generate in aquifers.
- MC-217136 – Random noise pillars generating mid air.
- MC-217465 – Unnatural shape looking like a chunk border but appears to be completely unrelated to chunk borders.
- MC-217509 – Inefficient generation of aquifers, noise caves and ore veins.
- MC-219774 – Magma blocks spawn everywhere underwater in 21w10a.
- MC-219946 – Weird flat sections of terrain.
- MC-221679 – End fog loses its gradient when under Y=0.
- MC-221777 – Horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, and trader llamas do not follow players holding food.
- MC-221815 – Flat roofs in underwater caves.
- MC-221917 – Dripstone, pointed dripstone, and cave magma generate in oceans.
- MC-222051 – Iron ore generation was not increased in 21w13a.
- MC-222379 – Magma can spawn under air in underwater caves.
- MC-223044 – Floating water can generate in ravines.
- MC-223051 – Dripstone can generate in surface lakes.
- MC-223148 – Extended height message goes behind the scrolling bar.
- MC-225781 – The noise cave lava level and the cave carver lava level generate 1 block apart.
- MC-227244 – Ore blocks from ore veins float in underwater magma ravines.
- MC-230343 – Parity issue: Enchanting tables do not emit a light level of 7.
- MC-231863 – Game crashes when trying to access the Realms settings.
- MC-233050 –
#lava_pool_stone_replaceables
tag name is misleading.
Video[]
Videos made by slicedlime:
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 21w37a" – Minecraft.net, September 15, 2021
- ↑ MC-236615