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Minecraft 1.17 Release Candidate 2

A Minecraft Java Release Candidate

We're now releasing the first (and hopefully only) release candidate for Caves & Cliffs: Part I. If there are no major issues following this release, no further changes will be done before the full release. 

Happy mining!

Update: We've now released a second release candidate.

The Caves & Cliffs Preview

Download the latest datapack.

Fixed bugs in 1.17 Release Candidate 2

  • Fixed a few critical issues

Fixed bugs in 1.17 Release Candidate 1

  • MC-227323 - Custom player heads sometimes flash when placed on armor stands
  • Improved desync issues when exiting a boat over a high latency connection
  • Fixed crashes

Get the Release Candidate

Release candidates are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the release candidate, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Release candidates 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:

Report bugs here:

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