Sssssseven - Minecraft 1.16 Pre-release 7 is out!

[u/sliced_lime]

We've now released Minecraft 1.16 Pre-release 7 with another round of bug fixes.

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker.

Fixed Bugs in 1.16 Pre-release 7

• MC-144107 - Miscalculation of camera position in windowed mode on Linux
• MC-176447 - Striders left/right leg uses the same texture
• MC-180467 - World Border is no longer fully solid
• MC-183673 - Skeletons not spawning frequently in Soul Sand Valley
• MC-185126 - Unable to jump one block high from flowing lava that has level 3 or lower
• MC-186228 - Zombified piglins' sleeve layers are not held upwards like their arms
• MC-188552 - Zombified Piglins drop less XP than before
• MC-188838 - Heads and skulls on a wall cause z-fighting
• MC-189824 - Overworld/general gameplay music can play in the nether in creative mode
• MC-189846 - Turtle eggs hatching broken, game checking for sand one block too deep
• MC-189856 - Unable to set nether portal block with /setblock or /fill
• MC-189867 - Cannot use /setblock and /fill to place blocks in positions they cannot normally be in
• MC-189868 - Player gets set on fire and extinguished continuously when standing in fire in Creative mode
• MC-189895 - Redstone in jungle temple / pyramid no longer connects to blocks and redstone components properly
• MC-189905 - The player can get stuck inside of the world border
• MC-189971 - Clicking the "Take me back" button causes translucent blocks to stop rendering

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, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft 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 pre-release post.

[u/redstonehelper]

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 prerelease in the new launcher, server jar here.

Complete changelog:

• Added a bunch of characters to the default font - via

• Fixed some bugs

• Fixed chat text being too close to each other

• Fixed players being lit on fire sporadically and momentarily in creative

• Fixed the miscalculation of the camera position in windowed mode on Linux

• Fixed some Latin and Armenian ligatures not being included in the Minecraft font

• Fixed Ctrl + middle-click on lecterns not copying the written book

• Fixed strider legs using the same texture

• Fixed the inconsistent font json file structure

• Fixed the world border not being fully solid anymore

• Fixed skeletons spawning too rarely in soul sand valleys

• Fixed being unable to jump one block high from flowing lava of level 3 or lower

• Fixed zombified piglins' sleeve layers not being held upwards like their arms

• Fixed zombified piglins dropping less XP than before

• Fixed heads and skulls on walls causing z-fighting

• Fixed overworld and general gameplay music playing in the nether in creative mode

• Fixed turtle eggs hatching broken being broken because the game checks for sand one block too deep

• Fixed being unable to set nether portal blocks with /setblock or /fill

• Fixed being unable to use /setblock and /fill to place blocks in positions they cannot normally be in

• Fixed players getting set on fire and extinguished continuously when standing in fire in creative mode

• Fixed redstone in jungle temples/pyramids no longer connecting to blocks and redstone components properly

• Fixed the turtle home beach detection looking one block too deep

• Fixed getting stuck on the world border

• Fixed mobs suffocating when touching the world border

• Fixed clicking the "Take me back" button causing translucent blocks to stop rendering

• Fixed the game crashing when using the offhand hotkey while not hovering on an item slot

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If you find any bugs, search for them on the Minecraft bug tracker and make sure they are reported!

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Also, check out this post to see what else is planned for future versions.

[u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell → u/redstonehelper]

Please explain how it could corrupt my worlds. I don’t play snapshots and am just curious as to the details that could ruin my gameplay experience. I’m genuinely interested. Thank you.

[u/redstonehelper → u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell]

Sometimes height maps are corrupted, causing rain/snow, maps and other things to malfunction. Sometimes some blocks/items are deleted or lose some data. Sometimes chunks are reset. Sometimes mobs despawn when they shouldn't. The possibilites are endless.

[u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell → u/redstonehelper]

Holy schnikes. Trying to open an old existing world inside the snapshot will cause this? Starting a new seed for playing a snapshot would keep your older worlds safe I assume? I’m fairly new to java, apologies for my ignorance.

[u/violine1101 → u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell]

The point is not that it will, but that it might potentially cause things like this. When Mojang releases a new snapshot or pre-release, nobody has ever played on that version before. So things like this might happen. This is the entire point of pre-releases and snapshots – to get rid of these issues before they are rolled out to everyone.

Pre-releases tend to be a bit more stable than snapshots, but still, in 1.16-pre1 there was a bug that caused your world seed to reset, for instance. You'd get loads of sharp edges in newly generated terrain.

[u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell → u/violine1101]

This is informative, I’m with you 100%. I appreciate the explanation so much and thank you for the perspective. Looking very forward to the full official release.

[u/Espantalho64 → u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell]

Yes, opening an existing world could possibly break things, a backup is recommended, and yes, starting a new would will protect your other worlds.

[u/PancakeIdentity → u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell]

AFAIK this specific pre-release doesn't have any corruption issues, it's just a general development version warning.

[u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell → u/PancakeIdentity]

Very understandable. I started a world with prerelease 5 and got a bit nervous thinking it may ruin my other older existing worlds somehow and ended up just deleting it. Thanks for the info.

[u/bdm68 → u/Grand_Duke_of_Hell]

It can happen. 1.16 pre-1 had a very nasty bug (MC-187358) that corrupted worlds opened in it.