Minecraft Snapshot 23w14a

We are now releasing Snapshot 23w14a, containing changes to Sculk blocks and Enchanting Tables, a new Quick Play functionality, an updated logo for Java Edition, a new main menu panorama, and lots of bug fixes!

Happy mining!

Changes

• Changes to Sculk blocks
• Replaceable blocks no longer block the connection between Enchanting Tables and Bookshelves
• In the Desert Temple, the new room has more of its roof collapsed and one block of Suspicious Sand is always visible in the top layer
• Updated the Minecraft: Java Edition logo
• The main menu background is now a Trails & Tales panorama

Sculk Shrieker

• Waterlogging them will now silence their shriek sounds
• Added to the Redstone Blocks tab in the creative menu

Sculk Sensor

• For both normal and calibrated Sculk Sensors, the following changes have been made:
  • Default redstone output has been modified to be more reliable for distance calculations
  • Now strongly powers the block they are placed on

Calibrated Sculk Sensor

• Has an active cooldown of 1 second instead of 2 seconds
• Detects vibrations up to 16 blocks away instead of 8 blocks
• Accepts signals into the calibration input side more consistently with other Redstone components
  • For example, signals can now be received through a block

Technical Changes

• Signs with click commands can now be interacted with even if the Sign is not waxed
  • Signs with non-text chat components can no longer be edited
• Added new loot table function called reference
• Added support for Quick Play
• Removed the server & port arguments as their functionality has been replaced by Quick Play
• Changes to tags
• The resource pack version is now 14
  • Updated the sprite layout of minecraft.png
  • Removed the overriding minecraft.png from the Programmer Art resource pack
  • Updated the sprite layout of invite_icon.png

Loot tables

reference

New function reference allows functions to call sub-functions (similar to reference condition).Fields:

• name - location of function to call

Quick Play

• Added support for four new command line arguments that allow the game to be launched directly into a world
• quickPlayPath takes a specified path for logging (relative to the run directory)
  • If a path is provided the following will be logged upon joining a world:
    • type: is either singleplayer, multiplayer, or realms
    • identifier: represents the world you want to join
      • For singleplayer, the folder name of the world
      • For multiplayer, the IP address of the server
      • For realms, the Realms ID
    • port: represents the server port and is only logged for multiplayer
    • name: The name of the world
    • gamemode: The gamemode of the world
    • lastPlayedTime: The time you joined the world
  • Example:
    • --quickPlayPath "quickPlay/log.json" will resolve into .minecraft/quickPlay/log.json
• quickPlaySingleplayer, quickPlayMultiplayer and quickPlayRealms all take their respective identifier
  • If one of these arguments is provided, the game will try to launch directly into the given world
  • Examples:
    • --quickPlaySingleplayer "New World"
    • --quickPlayMultiplayer "localhost:25565"
    • --quickPlayRealms "1234"

Tags

• Added replaceable_by_trees, to better express blocks that are replaced when the tree grows through them
• Removed replaceable_plants since it was only used as a subset of the blocks for the tag above, and not as universally
• Added sword_efficient, to represent blocks that are broken slightly faster by a sword than normal

Fixed bugs in 23w14a

• MC-2474 - Transparent blocks placed between bookshelves and enchanting tables negate bonuses received from bookshelves
• MC-138358 - Levers on top of item frames Z-fighting with blocks in item frames
• MC-155084 - Horses' armor, reins, and bridles experience z-fighting
• MC-165773 - /execute run does not cause syntax error when arguments are missing
• MC-176309 - Illusioner has a few misplaced pixels left in their texture
• MC-203399 - Hoppers use the side texture on the bottom
• MC-203406 - Kelp and seagrass models appear to reference biome tints despite not using any
• MC-212271 - Glow squid and squid show Z-fighting
• MC-224433 - Clouds texture contains semi-transparent background
• MC-230792 - Cat's tail shows Z-Fighting
• MC-237556 - Legs of black cat model are white at the top
• MC-241314 - Filled cauldrons' bottom faces are still culled when they should not be
• MC-246459 - Drowned have some transparent pixels within their inner body texture
• MC-249514 - Button UV appears to be upside-down
• MC-251536 - Desert zombie villager feet still mismatch the sides of the feet
• MC-251537 - Desert (zombie) villager has solid-color on inner of arm, unlike other villagers
• MC-251538 - Desert villager missing some pixels for the sandals
• MC-252099 - Incorrect texture mapping in potted mangrove propagule (mirror effect)
• MC-254588 - Miscolored pixel on slowness effect icon
• MC-256419 - Incomplete commands run through aliases don't produce errors
• MC-256540 - The top texture of the camel's front left leg contains some redundant gray pixels
• MC-258939 - Non-atomic cached state can cause multithreaded crashes
• MC-259873 - Skeleton/Zombie Horse's chests are outdated
• MC-260036 - Can't plant cactus and sugar cane on suspicious sand
• MC-260042 - Cannot waterlog a decorated pot by using a water bucket or dispenser
• MC-260105 - The name tags of sniffers are partly inside their models
• MC-260152 - Sculk sensors are not activated by sniffers digging
• MC-260202 - The sound of using the brush isn't affected by blocks
• MC-260237 - Sniffers can sniff while panicking
• MC-260240 - Sniffers that are in love sometimes don't attempt to approach one another to breed
• MC-260347 - Falling suspicious sand does not break when reopening the world
• MC-260348 - Sniffers will never dig in normal mud despite being a "sniffer_diggable" block
• MC-260401 - When Brush is broken in offhand, the broken Particle is the Item in mainhand
• MC-260459 - Baby sniffers don't sound high pitched when sniffing
• MC-260467 - Torchflower is not grouped with other small flowers in the creative inventory
• MC-260478 - Torchflower crop hitboxes don't change in size according to their age
• MC-260527 - The coordinates of the sniffer "minecraft:sniffer_explored_positions" tag do not check the dimension
• MC-260778 - Sniffer tries to sniff out blocks outside the world border
• MC-260779 - Sniffers can dig into blocks outside the world border
• MC-260810 - Villagers can't pick up torchflower seeds, despite being able to farm torchflowers
• MC-261167 - Suspicious gravel does not have an assigned tool
• MC-261171 - You can't plant bamboo on suspicious gravel
• MC-261172 - Pitcher crop hitboxes don't change in size according to their age
• MC-261174 - Suspicious gravel is not part of the #overworld_carver_replaceables tag, causing carvers to not cut through it
• MC-261176 - Pitchers don't maintain the farmland used to grow it
• MC-261179 - Attempting to interact with a waxed sign plays a sound but displays no subtitle
• MC-261183 - Sniffer egg sound events are listed under "entity" instead of "block"
• MC-261186 - Entities don't recognize sniffer eggs as obstacles when pathfinding
• MC-261187 - Entities will often spin while pathfinding on top of sniffer eggs
• MC-261189 - Inconsistent naming of block states for sniffer and turtle eggs

Get the Snapshot

Snapshot 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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