Minecraft 1.21.6 Pre-Release 3

We've got another pre-release coming in hot! This time with a new advancement trigger and sound category but most importantly some much needed bug fixes.

New Features

Music and Sound

• Added new sound volume category called "UI" for sounds played by UI elements, like button clicks

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 80

Data Pack Version 80

• Added player_sheared_equipment trigger

New Triggers

Added minecraft:player_sheared_equipment

• Can Trigger when a player shears off a shearable equipment from an Entity
• Conditions:
  • item - Item that is sheared
  • entity - The entity that was sheared

Commands

Modified playsound

• Added new category ui
  • Sounds in this category will continue playing when paused, similarly to music

Fixed bugs in 1.21.6 Pre-Release 3

• MC-296371 - The entity shadows of happy ghasts are too small in relation to the size of their models
• MC-296374 - The entity shadows of ghastlings are too small in relation to the size of their models
• MC-296853 - The "Shear Brilliance" advancement is incorrectly given by shearing a lead off a wolf
• MC-297113 - Hotbar shown in loading terrain screen
• MC-297497 - The “Connection Lost” title isn’t displayed when being kicked from realms due to idle timeout
• MC-297972 - Dialog body content is misaligned
• MC-298353 - Ridden entities won't make the lead breaking sound when attached to a fence
• MC-298412 - Subtitles are no longer shown when the master volume is set to zero
• MC-298466 - When clicking the "yes" button to confirm command execution in a dialog, if the player is put into another dialog, the click sound from the "yes" button will not be played until it is closed
• MC-298492 - Disconnecting through dialog in configuration phase causes the client to crash.
• MC-298516 - While running /dialog clear and /dialog show every tick, pressing the warning button just after joining the world can crash the game
• MC-298520 - Items in slots now render behind the container title, mismatching 1.21.5 behavior

Get the Pre-Release

Pre-Releases are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Pre-Release, 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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