Minecraft 1.16.2 Pre-Release 1

It’s time for pre-releases for Minecraft Java Edition 1.16.2!

From now on you should mostly see bug fixes leading up to the full release of 1.16.2, which we expect to happen in a few weeks.

New Features in 1.16.2 Pre-release 1

• New accessibility settings have been added to help with visual comfort

Accessibility

• Distortion effects such as nausea and the Nether portal overlay can now be reduced
• At lower values, the nausea effect is replaced with a green overlay as an alternative visualization
• Field of view effects shown after speed modifiers are applied can now be reduced

Changes in 1.16.2 Pre-release 1

• Chains can now be placed in all orientations
• Endermen will no longer place their held blocks onto bedrock blocks
• Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a Chest Minecart
• Villagers now lose their job sites when changing dimension
• Chat delay has been added to the Chat Settings screen

Technical Changes in 1.16.2 Pre-release 1

• Custom world generation and dimension settings now use the same folder pattern in data packs as other resources (namespace/<type>/resource.json)

Fixed bugs in 1.16.2 Pre-release 1

• MC-73884 - Throwable projectiles get destroyed on contact with non-solid blocks
• MC-125758 - Bubble column does not affect egg, snowball, ender pearl, splash potion, lingering potion, fireball, and shulker bullet
• MC-158987 - Raid still continues after a villager turns into a witch
• MC-163767 - Villagers get ejected from a minecart when converted to a zombie villager
• MC-167045 - Banners are rendered too dark in the inventory
• MC-170900 - New Nether plants can be picked up without shears/silk touch
• MC-174574 - Soul speed doesn’t work when slabs and blocks of similar height are placed above the soul sand block
• MC-176015 - Strider suffocates when player is saddled on and looking up with Warped Fungus on a Stick
• MC-176034 - You can walk on striders
• MC-177651 - Despite being cold outside of lava, striders don’t try to stay in lava
• MC-178061 - Chat Delay option doesn’t exist in Chat settings
• MC-182330 - Crossbow-wielding Piglins behave weirdly when they try to pursue invisible players
• MC-185490 - Separated trader llamas on leads cause TPS hit
• MC-187398 - Smithing table and stonecutter recipes are not unlocked when used
• MC-187904 - Data packs cannot replace settings of vanilla dimensions during world creation
• MC-189414 - Smithing table doesn’t calculate amount of output items correctly
• MC-189797 - Hoglins, Zoglins, melee Piglins, and Piglin Brutes do not properly attack invisible entities within normal range
• MC-191168 - Piglins that convert into Zombified Piglins while sitting on a minecart sometimes sink into blocks
• MC-192032 - Villagers don’t always try to claim the closest workstation and are sometimes focused on a non-existent one or one out of their reach
• MC-193213 - Leads are positioned incorrectly on players and wandering traders
• MC-194263 - Large End Cities do not generate correctly / get cut off
• MC-194299 - Template pools fail to load via datapack
• MC-194845 - Subspace Bubble advancement cannot be completed with 7 km distance
• MC-195062 - Raids often will not end in defeat when all villagers are dead if there are job sites in the village
• MC-195544 - Game crashes after killing a mob that is being ridden by a guardian while it is being ridden by a wither skeleton

Get the pre-release

Pre-releases are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the pre-release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Pre-releases can corrupt your world, so please make a backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

Want to give feedback?

• Head over to our feedback website or come chat with us about it on the official Minecraft Discord.