Minecraft Java 1.16.2 Released

Ever since the Nether Update, the Piglins have seen players sneaking in and having a peek in their chests – well, no more! With 1.16.2, we’re introducing the Piglin Brute – a Piglin so focused on guarding the Bastion Remnants' chests that even gold can’t distract them.

Features

Accessibility

Two new accessibility settings have been added to help with visual comfort.

• Distortion effects such as nausea and the Nether portal overlay can now be reduced
• At lower values, the nausea effect is replaced with a green overlay as an alternative visualization
• Field of view effects, shown after speed modifiers are applied, can now be reduced

Chat Delay

• Chat delay has been added to the Chat Settings screen
• Pressing F3+D now clears the pending chat messages

Bastion Remnants

• Tweaked the Bastion Remnant chest loot
• Chests in Bastion Remnants are now more likely to be positioned on top of gilded blackstone

Blocks

• Brewing stands can now be crafted with blackstone
• Lanterns and Soul Lanterns can now be waterlogged
• Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium
• Chains can now be placed in all orientations

Items

• Tools are now sorted based on material in the creative inventory
• Totems of undying now give the fire resistance status effect for 40 seconds when activated

Mobs

• Endermen will no longer place their held block onto bedrock blocks
• Zoglins can now be leashed
• When a Zombified Piglin is spawned riding a Strider, it will now be holding a Warped Fungus on a Stick
• Removed Herobrine
  

Piglins

• Added Piglin Brutes!
• Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a Chest Minecart
• Tweaked bartering loot

Piglin Brute

• Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastions and protect the treasures there
• Unlike the 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 they are dressed
• Piglin Brutes wield axes and don’t need any armor, because they’re just that tough

Respawn Block Positions

• Modified how respawn positions are chosen for beds and respawn anchors
• Respawn anchors will prioritize cardinal directions over corners
• Beds will prioritize the side of the bed the player entered from and then spaces circling around the foot of the bed up to the head of the bed
• Respawning players will now face the block that they respawned at
• Placing players onto dangerous blocks is now avoided when possible

Villagers

• Villagers now emit green particles when joining a village, setting a home bed, or acquiring a job site / profession
• Villagers now lose their job sites when changing dimension

Technical

• Custom worlds now support custom biomes
• Sign edit screen will now intialize from existing sign text (should have no noticeable impact on vanilla)
• Small improvements to data and resource pack selection screens
• Tags can now have optional entries

Commands

Execute

• execute in now respects dimension scaling

spawnpoint & setworldspawn

Added an angle parameter for setting the default facing angle of a respawning player
Syntax: spawnpoint [<targets>] [<pos>] [<angle>]
Syntax: setworldspawn [<pos>] [<angle>]
New parameters:

• angle - Floating point angle in degrees. Supports the relative ~ modifier

Customized world generation

• Custom world generation and dimension settings now use the same folder pattern in data packs as other resources (namespace/<type>/resource.json)
• There is now experimental support for a worldgen folder in data packs
• worldgen/biome can contain biome definitions
• worldgen/configured_carver can contain definitions for world carver settings
• worldgen/configured_feature can contain definitions for feature placements
• worldgen/configured_structure_feature can contain definitions for structure placements
• worldgen/configured_surface_builder can contain definitions for surfaces
• worldgen/noise_settings can now contain noise configurations
• worldgen/processor_list can contain sets of block processors
• worldgen/template_pool can contain pool definitions for jigsaw structures
• Custom biomes can now be used in the single biome/caves/floating islands world types (add the data pack containing the biome first)
• Custom biomes can now be used in custom dimension generators

Dedicated server packet limit

• Dedicated servers can now kick clients that consistently send too many packets within a second
• Controlled with the rate-limit settings in server.properties
• The default rate limit of 0 means “no limit”

Pack selection screens

• While screen is open, it will automatically update when pack directory contents change
• Both pack selection screen will now display contents of pack.png as pack icon

Pack version

• Resource pack version raised to 6

Tags

Optional entries

Entries in tags can now be marked as optional. Failure to resolve optional entries does not prevent the whole tag from loading.
Example:

{
  "replace": false,
  "values": [
    "#minecraft:beds", // existing syntax
    { "id":"#missing:tag", "required": false }, // optional sub-tag entry
    "minecraft:anvil", // existing syntax
    { "id":"minecraft:stone_button", "required": true }, // new syntax for required tags
    { "id":"missing:block", "required": false } // optional single-element entry
  ]
}

Bugs

• 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-34661 - Thorns enchantment causes double armor decay
• MC-35765 - Viewing text in Right-to-Left language while in another language renders backwards and non-connected
• MC-49476 - NBT "HideFlags" does not hide "Dyed" on leather armor
• MC-57869 - Some item tooltips use § for coloring, rendering them incorrect in right-to-left languages
• MC-65953 - Tags IsBaby and IsVillager can't be changed from true to false with /entitydata
• MC-68487 - Player heads of the same player always have the same skin texture, even if the saved texture data is different
• MC-69876 - Pistons at Y=1 do not push downwards / at Y=254 do not push upwards
• MC-73884 - Throwable projectiles get destroyed at contact with non solid blocks
• MC-80032 - Horses can suffocate when going through nether portals
• MC-93024 - Bow From Skeleton Traps enchanted twice with the same enchantment
• MC-96007 - Arrows, trident, projectiles, splash and lingering potions can't be teleported from directly above the end portal, end gateway and nether portal
• MC-97507 - Using item which modifies the held item shows "Gear equips" subtitle
• MC-102967 - Shulker bullets can't teleport through a nether or end portal
• MC-105248 - Wet wolves become nearly black in dark areas
• MC-107529 - Marker:1b Armor Stands render themself and their equipment dark if inside solid blocks
• MC-111702 - Memory leak with complex json text while chat is open
• MC-116857 - Advancement descriptions use unnecessary capitalization on generic resource names
• MC-121098 - Entering a tall portal that takes you to a short portal from the top causes you to take suffocation damage
• MC-124320 - Endermen can pick up and place snowless snowy grass blocks
• MC-124365 - Exiting world does not release file handle to zipped datapack / resourcepack
• MC-125758 - Bubble column does not affect egg, snowball, ender pearl, splash potion, lingering potion, fireball and shulker bullet
• MC-130558 - Item frames cannot be emptied if gamerule doEntityDrops is set to false
• MC-134084 - If gamerule sendCommandFeedback is disabled, /msg or /tell don't display the message to the sender
• MC-136553 - Dyes in creative inventory are in reverse order
• MC-145691 - Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only opens inventory
• MC-148447 - Villagers often get stuck while trying to go through a door at the same time
• MC-149060 - Villagers "spam" doors by opening and closing them really fast
• MC-150417 - Some items get stuck in soul sand when there is liquid above the soul sand
• MC-152037 - Powered, activator and detector rails are deleted when pushed/pulled onto a block they cannot be placed on
• MC-153195 - Mobs can drop items with duplicate enchantments
• MC-153230 - Players in spectator mode can stop minecarts
• MC-157774 - Bouncing off side of blocks while creative flying
• MC-158735 - Pillagers without crossbows hold their arm up, in a way that may be offensive to some people
• MC-158767 - Sleeping beside lava wakes player in lava
• MC-158987 - Raid still continues after a villager turns into a witch
• MC-160723 - Bamboo crouch sliding off
• MC-163767 - Villagers get ejected from a minecart when converted to a zombie villager
• MC-166718 - Mobs no longer suffocate inside of soul sand, farmland or grass paths
• MC-167045 - Banners are rendered too dark in the inventory
• MC-167756 - Wolf is rendered too dark when not directly affected by skylight
• MC-169203 - Sloped redstone type rail not dropping item when pushed by piston to a spot without adjacent block
• MC-170628 - UserCache with X user entries writes the same file X times to disk on server startup
• MC-171363 - Nether forest biomes: Large fungi and small plants only generate on the topmost layer of nylium, leaving all lower layers devoid of flora
• 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-172221 - Hoglins, zoglins, ravagers, iron golems, and polar bears won't walk down a block if they are partially walking on air
• MC-173526 - All Minecarts can survive in lava
• MC-174469 - Soul Speed does not work when jumping
• MC-174479 - Cannot place sea pickles on soul sand
• MC-174520 - Soul particle texture is incorrect for the first frame
• MC-174574 - Soul speed doesn't work when slabs and blocks of similar height are placed above the soul sand block
• MC-174762 - Villager iron golem respawn timer is reset when the chunk is reloaded
• MC-175334 - Villagers take longer to get a job the more workstations are nearby
• MC-176015 - Strider suffocates when player is saddled on and looking up with Warped Fungus on a Stick
• MC-176034 - You can walk on striders
• MC-176491 - Nylium randomly catches fire from lava and burns infinitely
• MC-176753 - Piglins stand around dropped golden items if their "CanPickUpLoot" tag is set to "0b"
• MC-176778 - Camera is reset when a block reappears due to high server latency
• MC-176836 - Unarmed vindicators raise their arm in offensive way when attacking
• MC-177651 - Despite being cold outside of lava, striders don't care about staying in lava
• MC-177684 - Cocoa beans, bone meal and lapis between dyes in creative inventory
• MC-177733 - Powered & Activator Rail Dupe
• MC-178061 - Chat Delay option doesn't exist in Chat settings
• 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-179369 - Wandering Traders are always invisible in the Nether and the End
• MC-180350 - Long pack names and world descriptions don't stop with "..." in some menus
• MC-180447 - Game crash when placing player head down
• MC-181204 - doDaylightCycle button slightly incorrectly labeled
• MC-181233 - Mobs cannot spawn on wooden trapdoors, but can on iron and nether fungus trapdoors
• MC-181925 - Unarmed vexes raise their arms in an offensive way when attacking
• MC-182330 - Crossbow-wielding piglins behave weirdly when they try to pursue invisible players
• MC-182430 - Piglins continuously try and fail to pick up gold ingots if they can't reach them
• MC-182652 - Ruined portals don't always spawn with chest
• MC-182868 - Rail updates are 4-5x times laggier since 1.14 if the rail is on top of a non-full cube
• MC-183663 - Farmer villagers don't compost correctly
• MC-183743 - Iron golem overpopulation
• MC-185019 - Worldgen settings with empty structures parameter generates all structures extremely frequent
• MC-185274 - Subtitles are still showing ''Gear equips'' when eating in snapshot 20w21a or newer.
• MC-185490 - Separated trader llamas on leads cause server performance (tps) issues
• MC-185684 - Enderman can teleport when hit in cases where they previously would not teleport
• MC-185925 - Casting issue: Mineral vein generation uses 32-bit floats, leading to precision loss and potential crashes
• MC-186627 - Undead mobs do not burn in daylight in custom dimensions
• MC-187112 - Extra space in "Keep Jigsaws" button in jigsaw block
• MC-187126 - Jigsaw block UI is not closed when pressing "Generate"
• MC-187129 - Jigsaw blocks do not generate the correct structure until "Done" is pressed and the UI is reopened
• MC-187344 - Fast graphics tooltip has incorrect 'tree-leaves' spelling
• MC-187357 - Strongholds will not generate in floating_islands or caves preset
• MC-187379 - Text for pack.incompatible.confirm.new makes no sense
• MC-187380 - Incorrect grammar in en_us translation of pack.dropConfirm
• MC-187398 - Smithing table and stonecutter recipes are not unlocked when used
• MC-187598 - Block hitboxes still cause semi-transparent blocks not to render behind them in lower than "Fabulous" gfx settings
• MC-187904 - Data packs cannot replace settings of vanilla dimensions during world creation
• MC-188389 - Several minor errors in datapackFailure.title
• MC-188390 - Comma splices in four strings
• MC-188392 - Death message for getting shot by a skull is not grammatically correct in all situations
• MC-188459 - Potted cactus still missing cullface argument for top
• MC-188473 - Resource pack screen no longer updates when adding or removing resource packs
• MC-188534 - Potted cactus missing bottom face
• MC-188621 - Mojang "Production Manager" credit is indented further than other credits
• MC-188880 - Baby zombified piglins riding on chickens aren't positioned properly
• MC-188969 - Having a suspicious stew in inventory prevents all types of suspicious stew from going into your inventory when milking brown mooshroom
• MC-189414 - Smithing table doesn't calculate amount of output items correctly
• MC-189736 - "distance" within predicate no longer works
• MC-189769 - Fungi can grow through fire
• MC-189788 - Certain mobs in boats sometimes take drowning damage while the boat is moving
• MC-189797 - Hoglins, Zoglins, melee Piglins, and Piglin Brutes do not properly attack invisible entities within normal range
• MC-189909 - player_interacted_with_entity does not trigger if there is only one item and the item gets consumed
• MC-189918 - Multiplayer warning uses "Mojang" instead of "Mojang Studios"
• MC-190021 - Trying to mount a pig or strider while sneaking plays hand animation
• MC-190098 - Structure size and offset still limited to 32 for dedicated servers
• MC-190102 - Some UI strings are not consistently capitalized
• MC-190103 - Crash when using a nether portal: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: fromIndex < 0: -2368549
• 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-190288 - Fabulous and Fancy graphics tooltips have missing commas
• MC-190552 - Demo mode resets position and inventory upon launch
• MC-190559 - Baby striders don't die when it's raining and they are in lava
• MC-190849 - Slime blocks can only push entities 5 blocks high instead of 6 blocks high as in 1.15.2
• MC-190852 - Advancement announcement message has switched brackets for right-to-left languages
• MC-190856 - '/list uuids' shows parentheses incorrectly for right-to-left languages
• MC-190859 - floating_islands or caves buffet worlds no longer generate strongholds and ender eyes do not locate previously generated strongholds after upgrading to 1.16
• MC-190860 - '/' (slash) in chat and command block shows legacy formatting symbol for right-to-left languages
• MC-190875 - Creating a custom superflat world with a structure that cannot generate in a given biome, then running /locate on that structure, softlocks the game
• MC-190891 - Certain redstone circuits causing lag
• MC-190892 - Brackets in potion effects are reversed in right-to-left languages
• MC-191031 - Players in spectator mode can interact with boats
• MC-191168 - Piglins that convert into Zombified Piglins while sitting on a minecart sometimes sink into blocks
• MC-191388 - "No key position_predicate in MapLike" console spam
• MC-191441 - Right-to-left text is rendered bottom-up in some cases
• MC-191467 - Resource packs screen not updated during runtime when packs are dropped in the folder
• MC-191501 - Opening a world from earlier 1.14 releases in 1.16 causes villagers to vanish
• MC-191562 - "Cancel" button overlaps "Done" button when uploading a world to Realms, making users unable to upload world
• MC-191571 - Switched square brackets for right-to-left languages
• MC-191579 - Book signing GUI has broken formatting for right-to-left languages
• MC-191623 - Ender dragon battle music does not stop after ender dragon has been defeated
• MC-191656 - Right-to-left languages don't perform as expected in creative search menu
• MC-191915 - While in a boat the elytra does not show as enchanted
• MC-191947 - Entities that tick in nether portal for one gametick don't get sent to the nether
• MC-191953 - End Gateway occasionally fails to teleport player to/from the End Islands
• MC-192021 - Enchantment Glint effect on transparent blocks not properly rendered on Fabulous graphic
• MC-192032 - Villagers don't always try to claim the closest workstation and are sometimes focussed on a non-existent one or one out of their reach
• MC-192136 - Lava damage works differently than in previous versions
• MC-192236 - Endermen can place blocks on top of item frames on the floor
• MC-192296 - Spider Jockey from a spawner minecart crashes with"java.lang.IllegalStateException: Entity is already tracked"
• MC-192306 - Crimson and warped slabs use incorrect colors on maps
• MC-192371 - Paintings in the same block space pop off when chunk loads
• MC-192845 - Block Event Lag in 1.16 is excessive
• MC-192894 - Transparency layers lose their auxiliary depth buffer ID when resized
• MC-193213 - Leads are positioned incorrectly on players and Wandering Traders
• MC-193276 - Player floats slightly above strider while riding it
• MC-193339 - NullPointerException during shutdown when rcon enabled with no password
• MC-195062 - Raids often will not end in defeat when all villagers are dead if there are job sites in the village
• MC-195544 - Game crashes after killing a mob that is being ridden by a guardian which is being ridden by a wither skeleton
• MC-195851 - "Hat" layer on helmets detaches from Piglins' heads while bartering
• MC-196245 - Charged creeper does not always drop skull if zombie variants are nearby
• MC-196473 - Pufferfish gives Nausea II instead of the maximum of Nausea I
• MC-196737 - Shift does not work on lanterns
• MC-197049 - Pending messages are saved after relogging, while normal messages are not
• MC-197053 - Pressing F3+D clears the pending lines message, but doesn't clear the pending messages
• MC-197275 - Due to changes to walls, "pack_format: 5" is not cross-compatible between 1.15 and 1.16

Get the Release

​To install the release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and click play! Make sure your Launcher is set to the "Latest Release" option.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

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• Minecraft issue tracker!

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