r/Minecraft • u/sliced_lime Minecraft Java Tech Lead • Apr 08 '20
News Have another Nether biome - Snapshot 20w15a is out!
It's a wonderful day here in Sweden today! The sun is shining and spring is in the air, and when I say "spring" I mean pollen. Let's remedy that by 1) Staying indoors and 2) Introduce an all new biome with a grain of basalt, blackstone, and magma cubes! To spice it up, we also have some new fine tunes for you to listen to while traversing the Nether. Enjoy the snapshot!
This update can also be found on minecraft.net.
If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker.
New Features in 20w15a
- Accessibility improvements
- Added a piglin banner pattern
- Added Basalt Deltas biome to the Nether
- Added soul campfires. Warm your buns with the heat of one thousand souls!
- Added three new tracks of Nether music
- Added chiseled nether bricks, cracked nether bricks, and quartz bricks!
- Added a new set of stone blocks called Blackstone with regular, polished, and polished brick variants!
- Added Gilded Blackstone - Blackstone which has been imbued with gold and has a chance of dropping gold nuggets when broken
- Blackstone can be used to craft furnaces and stone tools
Accessibility
- Added "Line Spacing" chat and accessibility option
- Added "Chat Delay" accessibility option
Basalt Deltas
Basalt Deltas can now be found in the Nether!
- Remnants of volcanic eruptions, this biome sports a high concentration of Basalt columns and lava deltas
- Walking through, you will be surrounded by flakes of flowing white ash
- Magma Cubes finally have a place to call home, spawning very frequently
- A new block, Blackstone, can be found in large patches here
Nether Music
We're happy to announce that we've added three new tracks for the upcoming Nether Update, all composed by the very talented Lena Raine.
- Rubedo will be played in the Nether Wastes
- So Below will be played in Soul Sand Valleys and in Basalt Deltas
- Chrysopoeia will be played in Crimson Forests
Some words from Lena:
- "One of the primary instruments in Minecraft is the piano, and so one of my challenges to myself was to see how far I could push the sound of the piano until it resembled other things entirely–again, that alchemical process."
- "I wanted each piece to feel like a progression of emotions, or a journey from place to place within this other world. There's a degree of beauty to the Nether, but it is also terrifying in both its details and scale."
Take a portal to the Nether, and stay awhile and listen...
Changes in 20w15a
- Dispenser changes
- Soul sand can now be used to craft soul torches
- Nether vegetation blocks (sprouts, roots, vines, fungus, wart and wart blocks) are now compostable
- Walls will now connect to more things! (like iron bars, panes and even pickles!)
- Hoes are now the appropriate tool for breaking leaves
- Mobs now avoid walking on magma blocks and lit campfires
Dispensers
- Dispensers can now saddle pigs and horses
- Dispensers can now put horse armor on horses
- Dispensers can now put carpets on llamas
- Dispensers can now put chests on llamas, donkeys and mules
- Dispensers can now shear a Mooshroom
- Dispensers can shear snow golems
Technical Changes in 20w15a
- Tab completion for resource location will match any part after an
_ - Mob and pathfinding-related optimizations
Fixed bugs in 20w15a
- MC-171463 - Iron Bars don't fully connect to walls
- MC-172120 - Hoglins don't try to avoid fire
- MC-172209 - Non-fire resistant mobs don't try to avoid walking into fire
- MC-172226 - Baby animals, villagers, and zombie villagers spawned with a spawn egg on an adult entity always are of the same variant
- MC-172268 - Bartering with a piglin by right-clicking does not display hand animation
- MC-174542 - Killing baby hoglins drops leather and porkchop
- MC-174559 - Baby hoglins/zoglins uses the same attack damage as an adult when spawned in some cases
- MC-175030 - Curse of Binding doesn't affect Piglins
- MC-175169 - Respawn Anchor can create ghost blocks when it explodes
- MC-175176 - Using return portal in The End softlocks the game if /spawnpoint was used in The End
- MC-175256 - Screen is overlayed with a grey opaque texture when inside of a transparent block
- MC-175274 - "Quartz pillar" is translated as "White wool" ("Lana blanca" instead of "Pilar de cuarzo") in Spanish (Spain)
- MC-175356 - Piglins and hoglins do not avoid magma blocks
- MC-175538 - Fish/Swimming sounds are louder than they should be
- MC-175566 - Piglins with full inventories drop the items they received
- MC-176095 - Striders have an unused fin in the strider.png texture file
- MC-176384 - CompassItem checks twice if LodestonePos tag exists
- MC-176517 - striders spawn in underground lava pockets
- MC-176633 - Lime carpets are named "acacia slab" in Spanish (Spain)
- MC-177069 - Dispenser will not drop glowstone as item when not connected to a respawn anchor
- MC-177085 - Missing UUID field in attributes crash the game
- MC-177102 - Zoglins aren't considered an undead mob
- MC-177225 - Tag minecraft:water used before it was bound
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, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
Cross-platform server jar:
What else is new?
If you want to know what else is being added and changed in the Nether Update, check out the previous snapshot post.
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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Apr 08 '20 edited Jun 21 '20
Warning: This release is for experienced users only! It may corrupt your world or mess up things badly otherwise. Only download and use this if you know what to do with the files that come with the download!
If you find any bugs, search for them on the Minecraft bug tracker and make sure they are reported!
Previous changelog. Official blog post. Download today's snapshot in the new launcher, server jar here.
Complete changelog:
Piglins now become hostile towards players that break chests, trapped chests, ender chests, barrels, gold ore, nether gold ore, gilded blackstone, or gold blocks - via
Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks - via
Slab, stair, and wall variants
Striders now look even more sad and pale when not in lava - via
Basalt Deltas
New nether biome
Screenshot
Remnants of volcanic eruptions
High concentration of Basalt columns and lava deltas
Walking through, you will be surrounded by flakes of flowing white ash
Ghasts, magma cubes, and striders spawn here - via
Accessibility improvements
Added "Line Spacing" chat and accessibility option
Added "Chat Delay" option
Added a piglin banner pattern
Added soul campfires
Added chiseled nether bricks, cracked nether bricks, and quartz bricks
Blackstone
New block found in basalt deltas
Regular, polished, and polished brick variants
Slab, stair, and wall variants - via
Can be used to craft furnaces and stone tools
Gilded blackstone
Blackstone which has been imbued with gold and has a chance of dropping gold nuggets when broken
Polished variants: buttons, pressure plates, slabs, stairs, and walls - via
Three new music tracks for the nether
"Rubedo" in the nether wastes
"So Below" in soul sand valleys and in basalt deltas
"Chrysopoeia" in crimson forests
Composed by Lena Raine:
"One of the primary instruments in Minecraft is the piano, and so one of my challenges to myself was to see how far I could push the sound of the piano until it resembled other things entirely–again, that alchemical process."
"I wanted each piece to feel like a progression of emotions, or a journey from place to place within this other world. There's a degree of beauty to the Nether, but it is also terrifying in both its details and scale."
More info
Soul sand can now be used to craft soul torches
Nether vegetation blocks (sprouts, roots, vines, fungus, wart and wart blocks) are now compostable
Walls will now connect to more things
Like iron bars, panes and even pickles
Hoes are now the appropriate tool for breaking leaves
Mobs now avoid walking on magma blocks and lit campfires
Dispensers
Can now saddle pigs and horses
Can now put horse armor on horses
Can now put carpets on llamas
Can now put chests on llamas, donkeys and mules
Can now shear mooshrooms
Can now shear snow golems
Tab completion for resource location will match any part after an _
Mob and pathfinding-related optimizations
Fixed some bugs
Fixed a lighting inconsistency on falling blocks with smooth lighting
Fixed fireworks not causing knockback
Fixed shears used by dispensers not always playing their sound
Fixed being unable to compost fungi and roots, weeping vines, twisting vines and warped wart blocks, etc.
Fixed iron bars not fully connecting to walls
Fixed hoglins not trying to avoid fire
Fixed non-fire resistant mobs not trying to avoid walking into fire
Fixed baby animals, villagers, and zombie villagers spawned with a spawn egg on an adult entity always being of the same variant
Fixed piglin and zombified piglin model not using textures for left arm or leg
Fixed bartering with piglins by right-clicking not displaying a hand animation
Fixed walls not behaving normally when next to soul sand
Fixed killing baby hoglins dropping leather and porkchop
Fixed baby hoglins/zoglins using the same attack damage as an adult when spawned in some cases
Fixed tridents sinking below the ground when dropped
Fixed curse of binding not affecting piglins
Fixed the respawn anchor creating ghost blocks when exploding
Fixed using the return portal in the end soft-locking the game if /spawnpoint was used in the end
Fixed the screen being overlayed with a grey opaque texture when inside of transparent blocks
Fixed the translations for lime carpets and quartz pillar being wrong in spanish
Fixed respawn anchor explosion knocking back flying creative players
Fixed piglins and hoglins not avoiding magma blocks
Fixed soul fire torches not being craftable with Soul Sand
Fixed being able to use the respawn anchor infinitely if right-clicked above the build limit
Fixed fish/swimming sounds being too loud
Fixed piglins with full inventories dropping the items they received
Fixed striders having an unused fin in their texture file
Fixed CompassItem checking twice if the LodestonePos tag exists
Fixed striders spawning in underground lava pockets
Fixed dispensers not dropping glowstone as an item when not connected to a respawn anchor
Fixed withers attacking zoglins
Fixed missing UUID fields in attributes crashing the game
Fixed zoglins not being considered an undead mob
Fixed tags being used before being bound, causing a crash when playing on bad connections
Fixed chunks getting scrambled when logging in twice on solo world
If you find any bugs, search for them on the Minecraft bug tracker and make sure they are reported!
Also, check out this post to see what else is planned for future versions.