It's time for another snapshot cycle as we make our way towards 1.16.2! This snapshot introduces the Piglin Brutes, and you might have heard about them in a Bedrock beta already. 

The Piglin Brutes will be the only feature addition of 1.16.2, the rest of these snapshots will be focused on fixing bugs.

New Features in 20w27a

• Added Piglin Brutes!

Piglin Brute

• Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastions and protect the treasures there
• Unlike their cowardly and greedy counterparts, the Piglin Brutes cannot be distracted by gold and aren’t afraid of anything
• Piglin Brutes attack players on sight, no matter how the player is dressed
• Piglin Brutes wield axes and don’t need any armor, because they’re just that tough

Changes in 20w27a

• Zoglins can now be leashed
• Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium

Technical Changes in 20w27a

• Small improvements to data and resource pack selection screens

Fixed bugs in 20w27a

• MC-1058 - A dragon head is invisible if the entity wearing it is not in view
• MC-2404 - Stepping down while sneaking allows falling off of blocks
• MC-49476 - NBT “HideFlags” does not hide “Dyed” on leather armor
• MC-68487 - Player heads of the same player always have the same skin texture, even if the saved texture data is different
• MC-97507 - Using item which modifies the held item shows “Gear equips” subtitle
• MC-145691 - Binding “Open/Close Inventory” to Tab only opens inventory
• MC-150417 - Some items get stuck in soul sand when there is liquid above the soul sand
• MC-167285 - Travelling into an end gateway with a platform on the other side while on a boat would instantly teleport you back
• MC-171739 - Weeping and twisting vines, bamboo, and kelp can be replaced by “saplings” by breaking and placing the block at the same time
• MC-173526 - All Minecarts can survive in lava
• MC-178729 - Inconsistency: Red and brown mushrooms can’t be grown into huge mushrooms on nylium, while they can on all other “grass” blocks
• MC-182652 - Ruined portals don’t always spawn with chest
• MC-183663 - Farmer villagers don’t compost correctly
• MC-183743 - Iron golem overpopulation
• MC-185274 - Subtitles are still showing ‘‘Gear equips’’ when eating in snapshot 20w21a or newer.
• MC-188473 - Resource pack screen no longer updates when adding or removing resource packs
• MC-188969 - Having a suspicious stew in inventory prevents all types of suspicious stew from going into your inventory when milking brown mooshroom
• MC-189909 - player_interacted_with_entity does not trigger if there is only one item and the item gets consumed
• MC-190021 - Trying to mount a pig or strider while sneaking plays hand animation
• MC-190266 - Players and other entities can catch on fire after logging on while riding a Strider in lava
• MC-190274 - Collecting liquids in bottles on Creative mode is inconsistent with the new creative bucket mechanics
• MC-190849 - Slime blocks can only push entities 5 blocks high instead of 6 blocks high as in 1.15.2
• MC-191915 - While in a boat the elytra does not show as enchanted
• MC-192894 - Transparency layers lose their auxiliary depth buffer ID when resized

Get the snapshot

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.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

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