21w42a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.18, released on October 20, 2021,[1] which introduces new music, changes to world generation, and many fixes related to spawning.
Additions[]
Items[]
- Added a new music disc from Lena Raine titled "otherside".
- Can be found on rare occasions in stronghold corridor chests, or much more rarely in monster room chests.
General[]
- Added new music to the Overworld (when playing in survival mode), distributed to the new biomes, and to the main menu. [note 1]
- By Lena Raine: "Stand Tall", "Left to Bloom", "One More Day", "Wending" and "Infinite Amethyst":
- "Stand Tall" plays in the snowy slopes, jagged peaks, frozen peaks and stony peaks biomes, as well as the menu screen.
- "Left to Bloom" plays in the meadow and lush caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
- "One More Day" plays in the meadow, snowy slopes and lush caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
- "Wending" plays in the grove, jagged peaks, stony peaks and dripstone caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
- "Infinite Amethyst" plays in the grove and dripstone caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
- By Kumi Tanioka (谷岡 久美): "Floating Dream", "Comforting Memories" and "An Ordinary Day":
- "Floating Dream" plays in the jagged peaks and lush caves biomes.
- "Comforting Memories" plays in the grove biome.
- "An Ordinary Day" plays in the snowy slopes, dripstone caves and lush caves biomes.
- By Lena Raine: "Stand Tall", "Left to Bloom", "One More Day", "Wending" and "Infinite Amethyst":
- Added "Autosave Indicator" to video settings, for singleplayer worlds, which allows to toggle the indicator on / off.
- The indicator appears in the bottom right of the screen whenever the game is saving the world file.
- Defaults to on.
- Added
block_marker
, to replacelight
andbarrier
.- Renders with texture declared in
particle
slot for model assigned to configured block state. - Summoned with same syntax as
block
particle (i.e.block_marker wheat[age=2]
).
- Renders with texture declared in
Changes[]
World generation[]
- Ore distrubution
- Increased top height limit of Badlands gold generation from Y=79 to Y=256, and increased the number of blobs.
- Lava springs can now generate amid calcite, dirt, snow, powder snow and packed ice.
- These changes allow lava springs to generate in mountains and snowy terrain.
- Water springs don't generate higher than Y=192, and are slightly less common.
General[]
- Player Spawning
- Reworked world spawn selection algorithm.
- Now spawns according to the same climate parameters that control biome placement and world generation: players should no longer spawn in the ocean or some other inconvenient locations like certain mountains biomes.[needs in-game testing]
Fixes[]
- 15 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.18
- MC-73300 – "Saving Level..." text not appearing in pause menu.
- MC-80824 – Spawning in some biomes causes "Unable to find spawn biome" warning.
- MC-129912 – Player no longer spawned at highest level at world spawn.
- MC-131686 – Spawn in ground with Buffet generation when creating a new world.
- MC-132347 – Spawning inside icebergs.
- MC-133466 – Certain world configurations force the player to spawn at X=8 Z=8.
- MC-185033 – Underground spawn in single biome world type.
- MC-185034 – Always respawning on the same block with no spawnpoint set.
- MC-198232 – Music plays less frequently as it normally did.
- MC-202166 – "Times Crafted" statistics column doesn't always display data correctly.
- MC-214288 – Player does not spawn on the surface of the world when
min_y
is greater than 0. - MC-221641 – Caves can make ravines generate without water.
- MC-233771 – Parity issue: Light blocks do not display their light level when shown via a held light block item.
- From the 1.18 development versions
- MC-236837 – The player can occasionally spawn underground when loading into a new world.
- MC-238582 – Beaches generate between desert and ocean.
Notes[]
- ↑ Released to all 1.18 snapshots.
Video[]
Videos made by slicedlime:
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 21w42a" – Minecraft.net, October 20, 2021