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Minecraft: Java Edition - 1.20.5 Pre-Release 2

It's the start of a new week and we're coming right out of the gate with another pre-release for Minecraft: Java Edition 1.20.5! Apart from upping our pun-game in the Advancements department, this pre-release also fixes a slew of bugs and crashes.

Happy mining!

NEW FEATURES

ADVANCEMENTS

  • Snip it! advancement is renamed to Shear Brilliance

CHANGES

  • Using ctrl+pick block no longer lists "(+NBT)" in the item tooltip

UI

  • The animated Nether Portal texture is displayed when changing dimension to or from The Nether
  • The animated End Portal effect is displayed when changing dimension to or from The End

TECHNICAL CHANGES

  • The Data Pack version is now 40
  • Invalid data in packets sent from a server will now cause the game client to disconnect

DATA PACK VERSION 40

MODIFIED LOOT FUNCTIONS

SET_FIREWORKS

Fields explosions and mode have been grouped together as a sub-object

  • { "explosions": <list>, "mode": <mode>, <mode-dependent fields>} becomes {"explosions": {"values": <list>, "mode": <mode>, <mode-dependent fields>}}
  • New explosions field is now optional, while values field inside it is now mandatory

FIXED BUGS IN 1.20.5 PRE-RELEASE 2

  • MC-199973 - Wet wolf is rendered too dark compared to past versions
  • MC-259355 - Game crashes because /place sometimes does not check whether position is loaded and out of world
  • MC-265585 - Waterlogged barriers do not diffuse sky light
  • MC-265709 - Stonecutter outputs are broken past the 32nd row in the GUI (server only)
  • MC-265741 - Waterlogged barriers don't show up on maps
  • MC-266997 - Sky light doesn't update when breaking a shulker box while its (closing) animation is playing
  • MC-267352 - Singleplayer worlds don't load the player.dat when the "Player" tag is absent from level.dat
  • MC-267381 - Moving while sneaking is impossible with high generic.step_height attribute
  • MC-267414 - Scale attribute causes extreme TPS loss with the ender dragon
  • MC-267441 - When a player's generic.step_height attribute is set to more than two, attempting to step atop of more than two blocks may fail if there are blocks higher up
  • MC-268015 - Shulker bullets shot from shulkers don't account for the scale attribute
  • MC-268035 - True Type Font when changing Language causes error with Rendering overlay
  • MC-268064 - Armadillos that aren't rolled up can roll up during their death animation
  • MC-268257 - Equipping a carpet on a Llama doesn't play a sound
  • MC-268347 - Setting gravity higher than 0.84 allows you to jump up a block
  • MC-268804 - Wolves attacked while wearing wolf armor resets eating timer despite being at full health
  • MC-268810 - Ctrl+Picking chests still says (+NBT) even though NBT is replaced by components
  • MC-268854 - Firework explosions in items without a Type field are not correctly upgraded
  • MC-268858 - Buttons to enchant become enabled when placing wolf armor in an enchanting table
  • MC-268984 - Running /give command throws EncoderException
  • MC-269123 - Enabling or disabling a resource pack that changes a shader will not affect that shader until the resource pack is reloaded
  • MC-269161 - Stonecutter does not support multiple recipes with the same result item type
  • MC-269171 - The client is disconnected when receiving the system_chat packet containing deeply nested NBT data
  • MC-269173 - The server cannot send the client the system_chat packet containing deeply nested NBT data
  • MC-269300 - The "Alternatively, here's some we made earlier!" text is positioned too close to the header separator
  • MC-269304 - Horse armor renders incorrectly when worn by wolves
  • MC-269415 - set_fireworks "mode" is required even when "explosions" is optional
  • MC-269472 - Crash when table_bonus loot condition has empty chances list
  • MC-269619 - Scroller in Telemetry Data screen renders translucent pixels as opaque, unlike elsewhere
  • MC-269660 - arguments.item.predicate.unknown quotes are different
  • MC-269802 - Selecting a villager trade merges items with different components
  • MC-269932 - Item disappears when trying to trade using items with lower max stack count
  • MC-270003 - Ominous banners are not "pick block"-ed properly
  • MC-270049 - Enchanting table buttons and level icons render translucent pixels as opaque
  • MC-270116 - The minecraft:generic.fall_damage_multiplier attribute does not function for many mobs with nonstandard fall damage behaviour
  • MC-270117 - The calculation of fall damage for horses, donkeys, mules, zombie horses, skeleton horses, camels, llamas, trader llamas, and foxes disregards the minecraft:generic.safe_fall_distance
  • MC-270262 - You can see the world loading while in the process of entering it
  • MC-270265 - Blur slider does not say "OFF" when set to 0%
  • MC-270413 - A nbt copy of a block is ABSOLUTELY the same as the first nbt copy of the original and n (+nbt) display for tooltip of (a copy of)×n a block have an "Items" block data
  • MC-270559 - FreeType error: Unrecognized error: 0x62 (Loading glyph)
  • MC-270590 - Dropped items from creative mode get deleted when inventory is open
  • MC-270603 - Crash updating world: ClassCastException: RegularImmutableList cannot be cast to class com.mojang.datafixers.util.Pair
  • MC-270610 - Some new advancement titles are incorrectly capitalized
  • MC-270648 - Wolf armor with the curse of binding enchantment cannot be removed from wolves using shears in creative mode
  • MC-270679 - Clicking on text with run_command can cause EncoderException and will exit to multiplayer menu
  • MC-270712 - Cannot move while sneaking if attribute generic.step_height is set to 0
  • MC-270767 - Leather horse armor no longer prevents horses from freezing in powder snow

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.

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