Mangrove trees! Warm frogs! Mud blocks! More mangrove trees! Today, we’re happy to bring you the most mud-tastic Java snapshot to date! 

Sure, it might be our only mud-tastic snapshot to date – but the important thing is that our new biome, mangrove swamp, now is available for testing, along with nitty-gritty features like the recovery compass and other, more technical tidbits.

Enjoy!

New Features in 22w14a

• Added Clay renewability
• Added Mangrove Trees
• Added Mangrove Swamp biome
• Added Echo Shard and Recovery Compass

Clay renewability

• Placing Mud above a block that has Pointed Dripstone underneath will eventually turn the Mud Block into Clay

Mangrove trees

Introducing a new type of water-adapted tree that spawns propped up on roots

• Have a chance of spawning a Bee Nest
• Grows from Mangrove Propagules

Mangrove Swamp

Muddy! Murky! Magnificent! Welcome to the newest biome - the Mangrove Swamp

• Located in warmer, more humid places where you’d normally find the Swamp biome in Minecraft
• Here you can find Bees and Warm Frogs
• The floor of this biome is coated with a thick layer of Mud, so be sure to pack your best boots
• Have a nice boat ride under and around the larger-than-life roots of mangrove trees

Recovery Compass

A new Recovery Compass can be crafted with Echo Shards which can only be found and are unique to Ancient City chests

• Unlike a normal Compass, the Recovery Compass will point to the last place you died
• If you are not in the dimension you last died, or you haven’t died yet in your world, it will randomly spin
• It can be crafted with 1 Compass surrounded by 8 Echo Shards, which can be found in Ancient Cities

Changes in 22w14a

• The Warden will now get angry at ALL living mobs that bump into it, not just players

Technical Changes in 22w14a

• CatType fields on enitites with type minecraft:cat have been replaced with variant, with numeric values being replaced with string ids (so, for example, 5 becomes minecraft:calico)
• Some mutually exclusive tests in entity predicate (player, fishing_hook, lightning_bolt and catType) have been collapsed to type_specific field
• Added item_delivered_to_player advancement trigger
• Added allay_drop_item_on_block advancement trigger

Predicates

Entity predicate

• player, fishing_hook, lightning_bolt and catType fields have been replaced with type_specific
• type_specific has field type (one of player, fishing_hook, lightning_bolt or cat) and same fields as removed fields
• Example:
• Before:

 "lightning_bolt": {
   "blocks_set_on_fire": 0
 }

• After

  "type_specific": {
    "type": "lightning",
    "blocks_set_on_fire": 0
  }

• catType has been wrapped to match new format and now uses new cat variant names instead of texture names:
  • Before

   "catType": "minecraft:textures/entity/cat/british_shorthair.png"
  

• After

 "type_specific": {
    "type": "cat",
    "variant": "minecraft:british"
 }

• New type_specific options:
  • frog has variant field matching frog variant (minecraft:warm, minecraft:temperate or minecraft:cold)
  • slime applies for slimes and magma creams, has size field matching slime size (smallest is 1)

Advancements

• Removed field location from triggers location, slept_in_bed, hero_of_the_village and voluntary_exile - it was handled exactly the same as player.location

New triggers

item_delivered_to_player

• Triggered when an allay delivers an item to a player
• Conditions:
  • player - a player for which this trigger runs

allay_drop_item_on_block

• Triggered when an allay drops an item on a block
• Conditions:
  • player - a player for which this trigger runs
  • location - a predicate for the block that the item was dropped on
  • item - a predicate for the item that was dropped

Fixed bugs in 22w14a

• MC-207289 - Sculk sensor wool occlusion has directional bias
• MC-207635 - Sculk sensors react differently to wool occlusion depending on the global direction.
• MC-249075 - Sculk shrieker isn’t grouped with other sculk related blocks in the decorations tab of creative inventory
• MC-249122 - block.sculk_catalyst.bloom has no subtitle
• MC-249254 - Frogs eating named slimes or magma cubes isn’t logged in console
• MC-249384 - Warden can create Light, barriers or structure voids particles when digging
• MC-249386 - The entity shadows of wardens are too small in relation to the size of their models
• MC-249387 - Warden’s digging sound is the same as its emerging sound
• MC-249400 - The vertical movement of wardens when they’re in liquids is too sensitive
• MC-249401 - Warden spawn egg isn’t alphabetized correctly
• MC-249415 - Wardens won’t pathfind through lava even though they’re immune to it
• MC-249422 - Some subtitles relating to the warden don’t contain possessive apostrophes where appropriate
• MC-249426 - Angered wardens play the “warden takes notice angrily” sound when hit in survival on top of their hurt sound
• MC-249430 - Wardens remember players in creative mode
• MC-249434 - The warden indefinitely roars when attacked by multiple entities
• MC-249445 - Activated sculk shriekers fail to summon the warden when broken
• MC-249447 - Activated sculk shriekers fail to summon the warden if you run away
• MC-249451 - Warden doesn’t appear in spawner
• MC-249455 - “Not a string” appears in log when serializing angered Warden
• MC-249473 - Some Warden sounds play in Peaceful difficulty
• MC-249476 - Warden can spawn in water
• MC-249479 - Wardens will attack their teammates
• MC-249499 - Warden summoned with ‘Silent’ tag still plays heartbeat sounds
• MC-249504 - The sounds of wardens groaning angrily aren’t controlled by the “Hostile Creatures” sound slider
• MC-249509 - Warden is invisible for a split second when spawned in by spawner or spawn egg
• MC-249517 - Warden doesn’t detect non-player mobs colliding with them
• MC-249526 - Sculk shriekers are not activated when the player is riding something
• MC-249530 - Warden’s hitbox shows up in peaceful difficulty
• MC-249531 - Warden indefinitely roars when the attack target is invulnerable
• MC-249646 - The warden sniffs excessively after killing a mob
• MC-249659 - Sculk Catalyst and Sculk Veins only drop when broken by Silk Touch hoe
• MC-249664 - Warden despawns when far away
• MC-249674 - Wardens forget their targets on world reload
• MC-249712 - Server hangs and game stops responding when loading a chunk containing a structure with an allay
• MC-249714 - Z-fighting can be seen on the wings of allays during their death animation
• MC-249720 - Allay’s wings are not attached to its body
• MC-249727 - Wardens stop sensing vibrations after world reload
• MC-249728 - Lava can generate in ancient cities and burn wool/make structures fly
• MC-249729 - Z-fighting can be seen on the underside of allays’ heads
• MC-249751 - Warden UV overlapping
• MC-249758 - Z-fighting can be seen when the arms of allays intersect their bodies
• MC-249761 - Trapdoor of Ice Box in Ancient Cities is by default open
• MC-249764 - Second lamp in the centres of ancient cities is missing its sculk sensor
• MC-249768 - entrance_path_5 can never generate
• MC-249769 - Unused structures in ancient cities
• MC-249780 - Blocks that require support can generate floating in ancient cities
• MC-249785 - Warden can be pushed when emerging and digging
• MC-249800 - Eating doesn’t activate redstone door in the Ancient City center
• MC-249816 - Wardens hitbox doesn’t adjust when emerging and digging

Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

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

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• Minecraft server jar

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• Minecraft issue tracker!

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