Minecraft Snapshot 25w36b

Snapshot 25w36a is out and it includes mannequins, a new technical entity that is spawned with commands and can be used as an NPC. Conflicting key binds will now function together allowing you to bind a key to multiple actions. And as always, this snapshot also includes technical tweaks and bug fixes.

Developer's Note: This snapshot brings a large change to how we collect and draw block entities and particles. We don't anticipate any change of behaviors so please keep an eye out and report anything suspicious as a bug, thank you!

Update: We have now released Snapshot 25w36b to fix some common crashes.

Fixed bugs in 25w36b

• MC-301745 - Placing an ender chest in the world crashes the game
• MC-301749 - Multiplayer Crash.

New Features

• World Borders can now be set per dimension

End Light Flashes

• While the Ender Dragon fog effect is active the flash source in the sky is not visible and the brightness of the light affecting the world is reduced

Accessibility

• Multiple key binds that have the same key assigned to them can now work together, while before only one would work
  • For example, you can now bind D to Jump and Strafe Left to jump and strafe left at the same time
  • The red warning for assigning the same key to multiple key binds is changed to yellow
• The spectator hotbar menu key can now be rebound
  • It is part of a new Spectator category in the Key Binds screen, alongside the pre-existing Highlight Players key bind

Changes

• Formatting codes are now stripped from Code of Conduct files

World Border

• The World Border is now dimension-specific
  • This means that each dimension can have its own World Border size, position, etc.

Minor Tweaks to Blocks, Items and Entities

• Copper Torch and Copper Lantern colors are adjusted to make them more discernible to color blind players

UI

• Double-clicking a word in edit box now selects it

Block States

• Powered Shelves can now only connect to other Powered Shelves facing the exact same direction

Performance Improvements

• Particles outside of players view are not rendered anymore, which provides a performance improvement in some cases

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 86.0

Data Pack Version 86.0

• Added Mannequin entities
• The World Border is now dimension-specific

Mannequins

Added a new type of technical entity called minecraft:mannequin which can only be spawned with summon commands.

• A Mannequin is a Player Avatar without a connected Player
• Mannequins always show an "NPC" text where a Player's below_score score would show
• Mannequins function as Living Entities - they can hold and wear equipment, have attributes & effects, take damage, etc

Data Fields:

• profile - Which profile to show on the entity. This is either a Player profile (same format as a minecraft:profile component) or a Mannequin profile with the following fields:
  • texture - Namespaced ID of the skin texture to use
    • The skin is specified relative to the textures folder and with a .png suffix
    • e.g. entity/player/wide/steve will use the default wide Steve skin
  • cape - Optional namespaced ID of the cape texture to use
    • When specified, uses the same format as the texture field
    • Omitting this field means the Mannequin has no cape
  • elytra - Optional namespaced ID of the elytra texture to use
    • When specified, uses the same format as the texture field
    • Omitting this field means the Mannequin uses the cape texture, or if that is also omitted, the default Elytra texture when wearing Elytra
  • model - Optional model type, one of wide and slim
    • If omitted, wide is used
• hidden_layers - List of outer skin layers to hide
  • Valid entries: cape, jacket, left_sleeve, right_sleeve, left_pants_leg, right_pants_leg, hat
• main_hand - Which hand is the main hand of the Mannequn - one of left and right

Particles

• dragon_breath now optionally takes a power parameter (float, default 1.0), which is multiplied onto its initial velocity, after all randomness
• instant_effect and effect now optionally take power (float, default 1.0) and color (rgb, default 0xFFFFFF) parameters
• flash now requires a color parameter (argb)

Resource Pack Version 68.0

Shaders

• The following unused shaders have been removed:
  • core/position_color_lightmap.vsh
  • core/position_color_lightmap.fsh
  • core/position_color_tex_lightmap.vsh
  • core/position_color_tex_lightmap.fsh

Fixed bugs in 25w36a

• MC-223142 - Player can move while spectating a marker
• MC-225088 - Overworld surface is darker than before on low brightness
• MC-234737 - Typo in exception message: "EmtyPoolElement"
• MC-236508 - The title within the "Add Server" menu is displayed as "Edit Server Info"
• MC-237590 - The word "chunks" is improperly capitalized within the render and simulation distance sliders
• MC-238273 - "Locked by another running instance of Minecraft" lacks punctuation
• MC-249205 - "minecraft.used:minecraft.potion" increases by a value of two when using water bottles to create mud in creative mode
• MC-250062 - Several strings throughout the game contain comma splices
• MC-250193 - Server log does not use the string representation of a player's GameProfile on a disconnect during encryption
• MC-254052 - /locate doesn't work outside build limit
• MC-254668 - Pressing Escape on the death screen's title screen warning respawns the player
• MC-257792 - Output slot for trading menu is off-center
• MC-258191 - Root system feature allows hanging root vertical span of 0, causing error
• MC-259347 - Height limit warning message is shown when right-clicking the top of a block at the build height limit with a bucket
• MC-262370 - Some multiplayer strings are untranslatable
• MC-264962 - Strings that contain two inputs for a given action have inconsistent spacing and apostrophes
• MC-265807 - Mobs don't drown if their Air NBT is less than -19
• MC-277975 - The first line of the command execution warning in an item's tooltip is missing punctuation
• MC-278435 - Mushroom Fields biome doesn't generate pumpkin patches despite being specified in vanilla datapack
• MC-279123 - Some strings that reference Minecraft Realms use inconsistent or missing verb forms
• MC-279153 - Some strings that mention the base values of attributes are missing articles
• MC-279173 - The "chat.disabled.invalid_command_signature" string is missing an article before the word "Command"
• MC-279174 - The "gamerule.spawnChunkRadius.description" string is missing an article before the word "Amount"
• MC-279175 - Some multiplayer disconnection strings are missing articles and demonstratives
• MC-279176 - The "gamerule.commandModificationBlockLimit.description" string is missing an article before the word "Number"
• MC-279212 - Some narration strings are missing articles and possessive determiners
• MC-295829 - Test instance block GUI uses "Batch" instead of "Environment"
• MC-298605 - When creating a Water World superflat world, the player spawns at the bottom of the sea
• MC-299105 - Tears and Lava Chicken music disc 'desc' translations are unused
• MC-300055 - You get the advancement Wax On for changing the pose of a Copper Golem Statue while holding Honeycomb
• MC-300088 - Items placed by a copper golem in a double chest do not update redstone comparators reading the right side of the double chest
• MC-300109 - Lightning bolt does not remove oxidation from the lightning rod
• MC-300169 - The CustomName tag of a copper golem statue is not kept when mined
• MC-300192 - No darker trim for copper
• MC-300201 - Breaking a copper golem statue with a pose does not retain its pose
• MC-300416 - Copper golems' pathfinding to chests is biased to northwest
• MC-300558 - Copper golems can open locked chests without an appropriate key item
• MC-300729 - Incorrect or unusually obvious pixels on the weathered and exposed copper bars
• MC-300961 - The armor layer on husks no longer reflects their larger size compared to other humanoids
• MC-301099 - Copper chests worn on copper golems' heads are not visible
• MC-301250 - Upon exiting the gamemode switcher (F3+F4) while viewing the credits, the player still does not resume viewing the credits and instead remains in the end in a phantom state until they relog
• MC-301258 - Copper golem statues in the walking pose have a bit of their necks poking through their arms
• MC-301259 - Shelf align_items_to_bottom in block entity data doesn't work
• MC-301261 - The right arm of the copper golem statue isn't connected to its body
• MC-301276 - The hand animation no longer plays when shearing copper golems
• MC-301277 - Item frames with maps and paintings cannot share a corner anymore
• MC-301278 - The code of conduct screen renders carriage return characters
• MC-301283 - Sprint and sneak input can get 'stuck' if a screen is opened right as the input is pressed
• MC-301310 - The “Transfer Now” button in the realms menu renders outside the selection box
• MC-301312 - You cannot begin to use items while looking at copper golems
• MC-301324 - Sitting copper golem statue nose is rotated incorrectly
• MC-301330 - Malicious server can force client to remain stuck on code of conduct screen
• MC-301374 - Evokers can now spawn in Peaceful difficulty
• MC-301519 - Trying to use a command block while the "enableCommandBlocks" gamerule is set to false says "Command blocks are not enabled on this server" even if you're not on a server
• MC-301523 - Some gamerule description strings consist of inconsistent concluding punctuation, redundantly include “or not”, and are grammatically incorrect
• MC-301524 - The block breaking animation on banners now amplifies with each pattern applied
• MC-301546 - Bells do not display ringing animation when another bell is nearby
• MC-301577 - Block light sources produce shadows around themselves under skylight
• MC-301619 - Game mode translation key is used in the console message sent when a player tries to switch their game mode without permission

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.

Testing versions 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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