Minecraft Snapshot 20w19a

A Minecraft Java Snapshot

This snapshot contains another round of tweaks and bugfixes, but also quality of life features such as strider distancing. It might not be as important as social distancing, but we hope you'll like it. Stay safe and wash your hands!

New Features in in 20w19a

Patches of blackstone and gravel now generate in all Nether biomes, and patches of soul sand now generate in Soulsand Valleys
Added "distance by strider" statistic

Changes in 20w19a

Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time
Bastions are now a bit less common
Lowered the amount that weeping and twisting vines grow when bonemealed
You now need to use shears to get an item when breaking Nether Sprouts
Tweaked spawning of mobs to more closely adhere to mob caps
Biome distribution in the Nether has been tweaked

Technical Changes in 20w19

Fish now have their own mob category and mob cap

Fixed bugs in 20w19a

MC-87949 - The shield use statistic is not working
MC-89956 - Levitation has no effect if gliding with elytra
MC-116293 - Functioning clock and compass in recipe book
MC-125613 - Datapack tag “stairs” does not use #wooden_stairs
MC-145862 - Villagers try to sleep in occupied beds
MC-152084 - Villagers occasionally stand up out of beds at night, then can never sleep in that bed again
MC-152170 - When a villager takes the bed of another villager then the bed’s previous owner will not look for a new bed
MC-157077 - Villagers will not sleep in beds at night
MC-158542 - Iron Golems don’t stop spawning
MC-160250 - Naturally generated villagers are not pathfinding towards their POI; POI detection range is too small
MC-166764 - Villagers spawned on world generation have a lower follow range than villagers spawned by other means
MC-170612 - Villagers spawned by meeting points have frozen AI and do not move when that chunk is freshly generated
MC-172107 - Piglins and Hoglins don’t get zombified in the end
MC-172524 - Letters of name tag render inconsistently when sneaking (within the same name tag)
MC-172899 - Piglins with blocks (pumpkins) equipped on their heads show z-fighting
MC-173015 - Crimson roots, Warped roots, and Nether sprouts are not randomly offset
MC-173115 - Mobs can spawn inside of wither roses
MC-174568 - Rail updates are 3-4x times laggier since 1.13
MC-174909 - Endermen don’t teleport when on magma blocks
MC-175251 - Fish are spawning in with extremely high numbers. Over 200 different entities of cod every five minutes
MC-177839 - Blackstone and blackstone walls use the blackstone side face on the bottom, while blackstone stairs and slabs use the blackstone top face on the bottom
MC-178487 - Saddles on untamed horses no longer render
MC-179989 - Smithing Table and Anvil UI does not have “Inventory” title above player inventory
MC-180064 - Piglins would rather use an unenchanted crossbow instead of an enchanted crossbow
MC-180297 - Player name color in list appears too dark
MC-180407 - Piglin bartering is limited to dropping a single item stack from the loot table
MC-180410 - Enderman spawn rate seems very low on upgraded worlds
MC-180575 - Dispensers now always plays “dispenser failed” when dispensing glowstone
MC-181353 - Warped and Crimson Doors have no hinges
MC-181418 - Entity names can no longer be colored
MC-181424 - Fish (and other items from fishing) cannot be caught with a fishing rod
MC-181461 - Enchantement glint doesn’t render on shields, tridents and elytra
MC-181479 - Map marker labels do not render properly
MC-181524 - Redstone does not visually connect when going up soul sand
MC-181566 - Powered redstone dust only generates particles at the center of the block
MC-181944 - Font of category/section text in creative mode item selection screen is much thicker than in 1.15.2
MC-182595 - Parity issue: Blackstone doesn’t generate in ore veins in nether wastes

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