Minecraft Snapshot 21w18a

• Reduced Copper spawning a bit, to compensate for large ore veins
• Large ore veins are slightly more rare and slightly smaller on average. But the size varies a lot so you can still find huge ones.
• Increased chance of finding raw ore blocks in ore veins
• Cave carvers generate below y 0 in Ocean biomes (they didn’t before, it was an accident)
• Increased the minimum size of noodle caves and carvers, to make them easier to traverse and less likely to break up into fragments.
• Noodle caves no longer generate above y 30, so the surface should be less riddled with holes.
• Removed Deepslate blobs above y 0
• Extended the vertical range of the smaller blobs of iron ore, to make it possible to find iron in caves near the surface.
• Slightly reduced the amount of normal-sized iron blobs, to compensate for large ore veins and the increased range of smaller blobs.

Fixed bugs in 21w18a

• MC-3587 - Last use of an anvil causes player to drop their item
• MC-87935 - When closing the inventory while holding an item with the cursor in Creative mode, the item disappears
• MC-125033 - Old cave and ravine generation gets cut off unnaturally on chunk borders near water
• MC-162953 - NativeImage bounds checks are incorrect
• MC-197616 - Certain custom biome settings cause game to spam “Received invalid biome id: -1” in the console, causing major lag or freeze
• MC-204707 - Adventure mode players can extinguish candles
• MC-204969 - No “Burning” sound for items burning in lava cauldron
• MC-205797 - Zoglins attack Marker armor stands and Invisible armor stands
• MC-206560 - Pufferfish react to Marker armor stands and Invisible armor stands
• MC-208430 - Minecraft crashes when loading resource pack due to “tessellating block model”
• MC-208679 - Axolotl inconsistently doesn’t show its mouth in-game
• MC-211064 - Loading in a TrueTypeFont with an out-of-bounds size crashes the game
• MC-214159 - Small Dripleaf sometimes shrink into smaller (1 block tall) Big Dripleaf when using bone meal
• MC-214427 - Spore Blossoms can be used to breathe underwater / cannot be waterlogged
• MC-214793 - Some strips of chunks generate completely dark
• MC-214808 - World occasionally fails to load correctly
• MC-214860 - Some chunks in a line are lit up constantly
• MC-214898 - Extreme world generation lag
• MC-215867 - Crash: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Chunk not there when requested
• MC-215946 - Game fatally crashed while exploring chunks (IllegalStateException: Accessing PalettedContainer from multiple threads)
• MC-216148 - Some chunks occasionally don’t save properly, resetting progress
• MC-221647 - Goat Babies Don’t Follow Parents
• MC-221725 - Legs of goats move differently
• MC-221727 - Goat eye height is outside of its hitbox while airborne
• MC-221840 - Goats can still do high jumps normally when on honey blocks
• MC-222151 - Goat head animation is weird when it rides a boat
• MC-222157 - Eye position of the goat is too high in some cases, causing suffocation
• MC-222458 - UVs on the goat’s ears aren’t mirrored as they should be
• MC-223141 - Piglins aren’t attracted to a Block of Raw Gold
• MC-223145 - Piglins aren’t angered when mining a Block of Raw Gold
• MC-223150 - Goats ram Marker armor stands & Invisible armor stands
• MC-223178 - Deepslate Tile Stairs come before Deepslate Brick Stairs in the creative inventory
• MC-223203 - Deepslate ore map colors are inconsistent with deepslate
• MC-223239 - Ramming sound that comes from a baby goat does not change pitch
• MC-223422 - When removing water from base of Small Dripleaf, the block stands without water untill a block update
• MC-224401 - Mob death does not show death particles
• MC-224428 - Raw ore blocks can generate as floating blocks in ore veins

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