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Minecraft Java Edition - Snapshot 20W27A

It's time for another snapshot cycle as we make our way towards 1.16.2! This snapshot introduces the Piglin Brutes, and you might have heard about them in a Bedrock beta already. 

The Piglin Brutes will be the only feature addition of 1.16.2, the rest of these snapshots will be focused on fixing bugs.

NEW FEATURES IN 20W27A

  • Added Piglin Brutes!

PIGLIN BRUTE

  • Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastions and protect the treasures there
  • Unlike their cowardly and greedy counterparts, the Piglin Brutes cannot be distracted by gold and aren’t afraid of anything
  • Piglin Brutes attack players on sight, no matter how the player is dressed
  • Piglin Brutes wield axes and don’t need any armor, because they’re just that tough

CHANGES IN 20W27A

  • Zoglins can now be leashed
  • Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium

TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 20W27A

  • Small improvements to data and resource pack selection screens

FIXED BUGS IN 20W27A

  • MC-1058 - A dragon head is invisible if the entity wearing it is not in view
  • MC-2404 - Stepping down while sneaking allows falling off of blocks
  • MC-49476 - NBT “HideFlags” does not hide “Dyed” on leather armor
  • MC-68487 - Player heads of the same player always have the same skin texture, even if the saved texture data is different
  • MC-97507 - Using item which modifies the held item shows “Gear equips” subtitle
  • MC-145691 - Binding “Open/Close Inventory” to Tab only opens inventory
  • MC-150417 - Some items get stuck in soul sand when there is liquid above the soul sand
  • MC-167285 - Travelling into an end gateway with a platform on the other side while on a boat would instantly teleport you back
  • MC-171739 - Weeping and twisting vines, bamboo, and kelp can be replaced by “saplings” by breaking and placing the block at the same time
  • MC-173526 - All Minecarts can survive in lava
  • MC-178729 - Inconsistency: Red and brown mushrooms can’t be grown into huge mushrooms on nylium, while they can on all other “grass” blocks
  • MC-182652 - Ruined portals don’t always spawn with chest
  • MC-183663 - Farmer villagers don’t compost correctly
  • MC-183743 - Iron golem overpopulation
  • MC-185274 - Subtitles are still showing ‘‘Gear equips’’ when eating in snapshot 20w21a or newer.
  • MC-188473 - Resource pack screen no longer updates when adding or removing resource packs
  • MC-188969 - Having a suspicious stew in inventory prevents all types of suspicious stew from going into your inventory when milking brown mooshroom
  • MC-189909 - player_interacted_with_entity does not trigger if there is only one item and the item gets consumed
  • MC-190021 - Trying to mount a pig or strider while sneaking plays hand animation
  • MC-190266 - Players and other entities can catch on fire after logging on while riding a Strider in lava
  • MC-190274 - Collecting liquids in bottles on Creative mode is inconsistent with the new creative bucket mechanics
  • MC-190849 - Slime blocks can only push entities 5 blocks high instead of 6 blocks high as in 1.15.2
  • MC-191915 - While in a boat the elytra does not show as enchanted
  • MC-192894 - Transparency layers lose their auxiliary depth buffer ID when resized

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

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