Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 5

This week's snapshot comes packed with a bunch of new things for you to try out! In 26.4 Snapshot 5, we're introducing Packed Ice Bricks, including a bunch of variants, and YES, they work in the Stonecutter! We've also got a frosty new advancement for anyone who decides to fight ice with ice and take out a Frostbite with an Ice Ball.

Happy Mining!

New Features

• Added Packed Ice Bricks

Packed Ice Bricks

• Packed Ice Bricks can be crafted from 2x2 Packed Ice
• Packed Ice Bricks have a Slab, Stair, Wall, and Chiseled variant
• Packed Ice Brick Slabs, Stairs, Walls, as well as Chiseled Packed Ice can also be crafted using a Stonecutter
• Packed Ice Bricks and Chiseled Packed Ice belong to the Fast Sliding Sulfur Cube archetype

Advancements

• Added new "What Goes Around Comes Around" Adventure advancement for killing a Frostbite with an Ice Ball

Changes

• Mobs can now break Decorated Pots, Chorus Flowers and Speleothem blocks with projectiles in an adventure mode world, unless the mob_griefing gamerule is set to false

Sounds

• Added ambient sounds to regular Ice block
  • When an Ice block is surrounded by at least 8 Ice blocks in all horizontal directions (east, west, north, and south), with one Air block above and one Water block below, it has a chance to emit a sound

Video Settings

"Prefer DXGI Present" Video Setting

• This is a new option to attempt to use DirectX to present the game
• This only exists on Windows, and not all hardware supports it
• The default is off, and we consider this option "experimental" - it may not work for everyone
• With DXGI enabled, you may see improvements with IME support, Variable Refresh Rate support, and faster alt-tabbing whilst in fullscreen mode

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 125.0
• The Resource Pack version is now 100.2

Network Protocol

Modified Login Protocol

• Encryption and compression must now be explicitly applied by the server by sending one of two packets that carry connection options
  • The client must acknowledge the change with a matching packet
  • Every packet sent and received by the client after the acknowledgement will use the new settings
  • Previously changes were applied immediately on both sides, which might've lead to malformed packets
• Packets that can carry options:
  • minecraft:login_finished (clientbound) and minecraft:login_acknowledged (serverbound)
  • minecraft:apply_options (clientbound) and minecraft:options_applied (serverbound)

Data Pack Version 125.0

Data Components

minecraft:consumable

• The sound field is now fully optional (defaulted to minecraft:entity.generic.eat before)

minecraft:equippable

• The equip_sound field is now fully optional (defaulted to minecraft:item.armor.equip_generic)
• The shearing_sound field is now fully optional (defaulted to minecraft:item.shears.snip)

World Generation

Features

Changed ore and scattered_ore

• Blocks discarded due to air exposure will no longer fall through to the next replacement rule

Density Functions

Changed upscale (renamed from interpolated)

Samples the input function at a reduced resolution, and upscales on each axis with the specified modes. Modes that require more samples will generally perform worse. Upscaling is performed by axis in order: Z, X, then Y.

Format: object with fields:

• input - Density Function, the input function to sample
• x, y, z - object with fields, the configuration for this axis
  • mode - one of: nearest_neighbor, interpolate_linear, interpolate_cosine, interpolate_cubic, b_spline_cubic, the mode to use
    • nearest_neighbor
      • 1 sample per axis
      • Value is discontinuous across cell boundaries, gradient is always 0
      • Values at cell vertices always equal the cell value
    • interpolate_linear
      • 2 samples per axis
      • Value is continuous, gradient is constant within a cell but discontinuous across cell boundaries
      • Values at cell vertices always equal the cell value
    • interpolate_cosine
      • 2 samples per axis
      • Value and gradient are continuous
      • Gradient is 0 at cell boundaries
      • Values at cell vertices always equal the cell value
    • interpolate_cubic
      • 4 samples per axis
      • Value and gradient are continuous
      • Values at cell vertices always equal the cell value
    • b_spline_cubic
      • 4 samples per axis
      • Value and gradient are continuous
      • Values at cell vertices do not necessarily equal the cell value
  • cell_size - integer between 1 and 64, the size of each upscaling cell

Tags

Biome Tags

• Added #spawns_ice_variants_underground to describe all biomes which allow the spawning of cold variants without requiring sky access
• Renamed spawns_strays_without_powder_snow to spawns_cold_variants_underground

Entity Type Tags

• Replaced the #ignores_poison_and_regen tag with separate #immune_to_poison and #immune_to_regeneration tags
• Renamed the #freeze_immune_entity_types tag to #immune_to_freezing
• Added #immune_to_wither for mobs that are immune to the wither effect
• Added #immune_to_weakness for mobs that are immune to the weakness effect

Resource Pack Version 100.2

Block Sprites

• Added new Block textures:
  • block/chiseled_packed_ice.png
  • block/packed_ice_bricks.png

Fixed bugs in 26.4 Snapshot 5

• MC-25976 - Blocks broken by flowing fluids do not produce particles or make breaking sounds
• MC-170550 - The snowy_shepherds_house_1 village structure never generates
• MC-270793 - Mobs with multiple entity type tags corresponding to effect immunity only respect one
• MC-308621 - Race condition in the dedicated server's compression setup
• MC-312316 - Creakings still try to attack players after they switch to Creative mode
• MC-312360 - Paintings break outside the world border
• MC-312377 - The bottom face of icicles on the floor is rotated 180 degrees
• MC-312386 - The #spawns_strays_without_powder_snow biome tag's name makes no sense
• MC-312404 - Frostbites can naturally spawn in normal caves under cold biomes, unlike strays
• MC-312431 - Red and brown mushrooms now spread incorrectly
• MC-312496 - Icicle models use the deprecated shade field
• MC-312497 - Template models for icicles are not prefixed with template_
• MC-312563 - The icicle in the Creative mode inventory is placed in the wrong spot
• MC-312587 - The game crashes when trying to render the hidden tooltips of music discs in jukebox playlists
• MC-312612 - Jukeboxes can pull from double chests if a single chest was turned into a double chest after being placed
• MC-312613 - Jukeboxes don't pull discs from single chests that are created by breaking a double chest
• MC-312621 - Zombies, husks, drowned, strays, and frostbites are now affected by Poison and Regeneration
• MC-312630 - Ruined portals don't generate in ice caves
• MC-312631 - Ice caves are not part of the #stronghold_biased_to biome tag
• MC-312640 - Any mouse button can be used to select entries in the statistics menu
• MC-312641 - Any mouse button can be used to open links on the death screen
• MC-312642 - Pointed dripstone below flowing lava drips water instead of lava
• MC-312644 - Dispensers filling glass bottles don't play the bottle filling sound
• MC-312645 - Dispensers equipping chests on donkeys, mules or llamas don't play the chest equipping sound
• MC-312652 - Flint and steel and fire charges don't make a sound when igniting sulfur cubes holding TNT
• MC-312654 - Dispensers consume the durability of flint and steel and play their clicking sound despite there being nothing to ignite
• MC-312669 - Any mouse button can be used to close the friends and other players menus when clicking outside of them
• MC-312693 - Projectiles shot by mobs can no longer break decorated pots, chorus flowers, pointed dripstone, sulfur spikes, or icicles
• MC-312715 - The game crashes when a jukebox in a playlist has a negative playlist_position value
• MC-312717 - Mobs can spawn on honey blocks

Get the Snapshot

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Testing versions 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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