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Minecraft: Java Edition - Snapshot 21w17a

A delicious snapshot appears! This snapshot introduces some tweaks to the raw ore textures, a few copper changes, and the introduction of noodle caves in the Caves & Cliffs Preview datapack.

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CHANGES IN 21W17A

  • Small Dripleaves can now also be placed on Moss Blocks
  • Copper Ore drops 2-3 raw Copper when mined, or more when using a tool enchanted with Fortune
  • Copper Blocks are now crafted from 9 Copper Ingots
  • Tweaked the texture of raw Metal blocks

Click here for a full resolution image of the new raw ore textures in snapshot 21w17a. 

CHANGES TO THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW

Download the updated datapack here.

  • Large Ore Veins have been tweaked
  • Added noodle caves – thinner, squigglier, and more claustrophobic variant of spaghetti caves

Click here for a full resolution image of noodle caves in snapshot 21w17a.

LARGE ORE VEINS

  • Ore veins are now slightly rarer and slightly smaller (but they are still large!)
  • The ores in the vein are clumpier and less evenly distributed
  • If you are lucky you may find a raw ore block in the vein

FIXED BUGS IN 21W17A

  • MC-170443 - Banner copying recipe ignores existence of other items in crafting grid
  • MC-187664 - World border uses float to determine its size, making some border sizes inaccessible, and cannot be set to 30 million or beyond
  • MC-201269 - Constantly teleporting player to a phantom crashes the game/kicks the player
  • MC-203570 - Candles aren’t grouped in the recipe book
  • MC-203745 - Repeated teleport between dimensions causes the entity to duplicate on the client
  • MC-204031 - Waxed Cut Copper (any level of weathered) have two separate recipes in the recipe book
  • MC-214187 - Void platform generates multiple times
  • MC-214735 - Horse disappears when dying while riding it and reloading the world while it’s unloaded
  • MC-214838 - Big dripleaf stem remains after breaking a stem or leaf above it
  • MC-214865 - Floating islands world type generates extreme terrain
  • MC-219155 - Fishing line only starts on half distance between the fishing rod and bobber (Apple M1 only)
  • MC-219840 - You cannot unlock the recipe for Mossy Stone Bricks
  • MC-219842 - Recipes for mossy cobblestone and mossy stone bricks aren’t grouped
  • MC-220033 - (Parity issue) Hanging Roots can’t be waterlogged
  • MC-221560 - Copper/Coal Ore in Deepslate Patches aren’t Deepslate Ores
  • MC-222008 - Empty/missing template pool error grammar mistake
  • MC-222520 - Raw and Ore smelting previews aren’t grouped together
  • MC-223055 - Amethyst buds and cluster have an unused blockstate
  • MC-223792 - Shrinking world border with center past x/z 29999983 crashes the game

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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