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Minecraft Java Edition - Snapshot 20W08A

19 February 2020

FIXED BUG IN 20W08A

  • MC-172078 - All villagers with saved memory disappear when upgrading to 20w07a

14 February 2020

Ahh, a freshly baked snapshot! It undoubtedly smells better than the piglins that we just added...

FEATURES IN 20W07A

  • Endermen can now pick up some of the new Nether blocks
  • Endermen will no longer pick up Netherrack
  • Gave Hoglins some actual functionality
  • Added Piglins
  • The Wither can now be summoned using soul soil as base
  • Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon and Netherite ingots can be used as the fuel for a beacon. Weird flex but ok.

ADVANCEMENTS

  • Piglins and Hoglins are now required for Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted

HOGLINS

  • Hoglins are big aggressive beasts that live in crimson forests in the Nether
  • They attack players on sight, so be careful, they can easily knock you off a ledge!
  • Hoglins drop pork and sometimes leather, but not willingly
  • You can breed Hoglins by feeding them crimson fungi, but do so at your own risk
  • Hoglins get hunted by Piglins sometimes, but they don’t go down without a fight!
  • Despite this, Hoglins and Piglin aren’t enemies – they are more like an ecosystem
  • Baby Hoglins like to pretend they are tough – but don’t worry, they are more like angry puppies with no teeth
  • Want to keep Hoglins off your back? Pro tip: Hoglins hate the smell of warped fungi!

PIGLINS

  • Piglins are an aggressive civilization that live in the Nether
  • They mostly hang around in crimson forests, but you might find
    some in the Nether wastes too
  • They think of players as target practice and will attack on sight
  • However, if you dress appropriately they will see you as a respectable figure, or tolerable at least
  • Piglins are suspicious of strangers and if they see you opening a chest, or mining a block of gold,
    they will assume that you’re stealing and will treat you accordingly
  • Piglins LOVE gold and get very distracted by gold items
  • Gold ingots are currency to Piglins and you can throw ingots at them or right-click them with an
    ingot to barter for various goods
  • Piglins sometimes get hungry and hunt Hoglins for food. Or they try at least. They results… vary.
  • Piglins prefer to hunt and fight in groups, and when a fight is happening everyone wants in
  • Piglins that somehow end up in the overworld become zombified fairly quickly
  • Piglins are creeped out by soul fire and zombified Piglins, and will stay clear whenever possible
  • Wither skeletons are a historic enemy and Piglins will attack on sight
  • Baby Piglins are not as dangerous, but they can be mischievous so watch your back
  • … and they like to play with baby Hoglins

FIXED BUGS IN 20W07A

  • MC-65951 - Armor stands fall through fences
  • MC-75328 - /clear doesn’t clear items in the inventory crafting grid
  • MC-79944 - Various statistics overflow at 32-bit integer limit
  • MC-89043 - Slime blocks moved by pistons often fail to bounce up the player
  • MC-93813 - Snow golems throwing snowballs play arrow shooting sound
  • MC-94094 - Snow golems don’t drop their pumpkin when sheared
  • MC-94730 - Endermen become passive when teleporting randomly during day while being aggressive
  • MC-132967 - Mushrooms show as green dots on map
  • MC-133088 - Missing translation string death.attack.magic.player
  • MC-135034 - Burning mobs are extinguished by snow in cold biomes, but not in snowy biomes
  • MC-148067 - Snow Golems Damaged by Snowfall in Mountain/Cold Biomes
  • MC-155977 - Enchanting a book makes the book lose its name
  • MC-160053 - Enderman keeps following the player after becoming neutral/passive
  • MC-166245 - No sound for shearing snow golems
  • MC-167561 - All players can make a dog stand up or sit down
  • MC-167692 - Infested blocks don’t spawn silverfish when blown up
  • MC-170816 - Debug Pie freezes in place when closing F3 menu and stays there
  • MC-170846 - Stacked walls create pillars when they should not, depending on the order of placement
  • MC-170848 - Hoglin and zombie pigman spawn eggs look identical
  • MC-170849 - Hoglin’s hitbox is way too small
  • MC-170852 - Breaking a warped or crimson doors drops two items in Survival mode
  • MC-170862 - Soul “Lights” do not update walls
  • MC-170869 - Soul fire lantern animation missing
  • MC-170881 - Fire doesn’t burn items
  • MC-170886 - Alt+F3 debug graph no longer functions
  • MC-170899 - Netherite cannot power beacons
  • MC-170939 - Walls don’t create pillars with string / tripwire above
  • MC-170951 - Cannot teleport entities outside of the world
  • MC-171023 - Walls don’t stack properly in some directions when placed next to blocks
  • MC-171211 - Observers no longer detect a piston base starting to retract
  • MC-171333 - Killing a hoglin does not grant the ‘Monster Hunter’/‘Monsters Hunted’ advancements
  • MC-172025 - Several misrotated blocks at snowy_medium_house_2

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

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