Today's Caves & Cliffs snapshot is particularly shiny! You could almost say it's glowing... Oh wait, that's a squid.

New Features in 21w03a

• Added glow lichen!
• Added glow squid!

Glow Lichen

• A dim light source that generates in caves.
• Use shears to pick it up.
• Use bonemeal to spread it along block surfaces.
  

Glow Squid

• Glow Squids are well-lit and can be seen from even far distances!
• When killed, glow squids drop glow ink sacs.
• Glow ink sacs can be used on signs to make the text super visible, even at night! Works with colors!
• Craft a glow item frame by combining a glow ink sac with an item frame in a crafting table. Any item in a glow item frame is perfectly illuminated, even at night!
• Use an Ink Sac on a sign to remove the glow effect.
• Axolotls will attack any glow squids they see, so…be careful.

Changes in 21w03a

• Dripstone blocks can be crafted from 4 pointed dripstone.

Fixed bugs in 21w03a

• MC-9568 - Mobs suffocate / go through blocks when growing up near a solid block
• MC-89880 - Spawner with weight 0 crashes game
• MC-91522 - Shulker rendering position desync and generates ghost shulker when destroying shulker-ridden boat or minecart
• MC-92349 - Players can’t tempt animals with food while other players are closer to the animal
• MC-92867 - Setting Json text value to null throws exceptions and crashes
• MC-105344 - Shulkers in boats and minecarts do not sit up if previousely attached to blocks sideways
• MC-108717 - Shulkers can’t be pushed back
• MC-111196 - Using a monster spawner to spawn shulkers spawns white shulkers
• MC-113177 - Shulkers cannot be pushed inside non-solid blocks
• MC-119051 - Random transparent line in shulker box GUI texture
• MC-121897 - Gaps in an animation’s used frames throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
• MC-139265 - Shulkers do not teleport correctly when going through a portal
• MC-161334 - Shulker boxes cannot be opened if next to a shulker mob
• MC-168900 - Shulkers teleport with original dimension coordinates after passing through portals
• MC-183884 - Shulkers are afraid of being next to another shulker
• MC-186172 - Shulkers open into blocks when unable to teleport
• MC-190677 - Shulkers aren’t aligned to the grid for a split second after being spawned in
• MC-200195 - Boats don’t try dismounting you on land
• MC-202202 - Server is unable to prevent a player from dismounting a vehicle, causing a desync
• MC-203373 - Shulker bullet subtitles are not capitalized correctly
• MC-203571 - Right-clicking an empty bundle sometimes plays hand animation
• MC-204337 - Bundle use stat never increases
• MC-205076 - Game mode selection is ordered differently
• MC-206118 - “type” in loot table number providers is not optional anymore
• MC-206510 - Game crashes when trying to shift-click a chest into the inventory of a donkey whose chest is being removed
• MC-206550 - block.pointed_dripstone.drip_[liquid/cauldron] has no subtitles
• MC-206599 - Pointed dripstone can be placed atop each other, even if a player would be inside the hitbox of the lower dripstone
• MC-206923 - Dripstone subtitles are not capitalized properly
• MC-207250 - Dripstone caves biome name is not properly capitalized
• MC-207254 - Dripstone caves generate merging dripstones in impossible ways
• MC-207293 - Dripstone generated in dripstone caves can replace lava sources which looks weird
• MC-207335 - Mobs cannot spawn in Dripstone Caves
• MC-207388 - Issues with chunk rendering when height limit is large
• MC-207900 - Summoning "dust" or "dust_color_transition" particles kicks nearby players when on a server
  
• MC-208336 - ‘player’ sub-predicate of ‘entity_properties’ predicate only passes if game mode is specified
• MC-208611 - Shulkerboxes/bundles duplicate items when destroyed by two fire blocks simultaneously
• MC-208666 - Shulker boxes and bundles drop their items twice when thrown into a lava cauldron

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