Today we're releasing Snapshot 20w30a for Minecraft Java Edition in which we have tweaked Bastion Remnants and you given you the ability to place lanterns under water.

Changes in 20w30a

• Modified how respawn positions are chosen for beds and respawn anchors
• Lanterns can now be waterlogged
• Soul Lanterns can now be waterlogged
• Tweaked the Bastion Remnant chest loot
• Chests in Bastion Remnants are now more likely to be located on top of gilded blackstone

Respawn Block Positions

• 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

Technical Changes in 20w30a

• The sign edit screen will now initialize from existing sign text (should have no noticeable impact on vanilla)
• Tags can now have optional entries

Optional Tag 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
  ]
}

Fixed bugs in 20w30a

• MC-35765 - Viewing text in Right-to-Left language while in another language renders backward and non-connected
• MC-57869 - Some item tooltips use § for coloring, rendering them incorrect in right-to-left languages
• MC-116857 - Advancement descriptions use unnecessary capitalization on generic resource names
• 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-153195 - Mobs can drop items with duplicate enchantments
• MC-181925 - Unarmed vexes raise their arms in an offensive way when attacking
• MC-187344 - Fast graphics tooltip has incorrect ‘tree-leaves’ spelling
• MC-187379 - Text for pack.incompatible.confirm.new makes no sense
• MC-187380 - Incorrect grammar in en_us translation of pack.dropConfirm
• 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-188621 - Mojang “Production Manager” credit is indented further than other credits
• MC-188880 - Baby zombified Piglins riding on chickens aren’t positioned properly
• MC-189918 - Multiplayer warning uses “Mojang” instead of “Mojang Studios”
• MC-190102 - Some UI strings are not consistently capitalized
• MC-190288 - Fabulous and Fancy graphics tooltips have missing commas
• MC-191441 - Right-to-left text is rendered bottom-up in some cases
• MC-191562 - “Cancel” button overlaps “Done” button when uploading a world to Realms, making users unable to upload world
• MC-192296 - Spider Jockey from a spawner minecart crashes with"java.lang.IllegalStateException: Entity is already tracked"
• MC-193276 - Player floats slightly above strider while riding it
• MC-193339 - NullPointerException during shutdown when rcon enabled with no password
• MC-194263 - Large End Cities do not generate correctly/get cut off
• MC-194273 - Save data of new Nether biomes is lost when upgrading a world to 20w28a or above
• MC-194350 - Some feature configurations don’t load in a datapack (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: value already present: clh@77f95e19)
• MC-195052 - “angle” argument in spawnpoint command doesn’t use “minecraft:rotation” parser
• MC-195582 - Typing a colon twice or after a slash in chat when specifying a function/item/block/etc. in a command crashes the game

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.

Snapshots 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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• Head over to our feedback website or come chat with us about it on the official Minecraft Discord.