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Written By: Java Team
Published: 11/29/24

Minecraft 1.21.4 Release Candidate 3

A Minecraft Java Release Candidate

What's better than shipping on a Friday? How about shipping twice on a Friday?!

Here's Release Candidate 3 for Minecraft 1.21.4, fixing some critical issues, including several crashes.

Fixed bugs in 1.21.4 Release Candidate 3

MC-276962 - JVM crash occurs when minimizing maximized window
MC-277889 - Villagers' iron golem detection range is increased for villagers upgraded from 1.21.1 or earlier

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.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please 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!

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