It's Monday and it's time for another pre-release! This one fixed a few bugs and crashes.

In case you missed our recent news, we just announced that we're releasing Caves & Cliffs Part I on June 8th. That's soon!

Update: we've now released 1.17 pre-release 3.

Note that a bug has snuck into this pre-release making the game warn about every world as if it was experimental. This will be fixed in the next pre-release.

CHANGES IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 3

Tweaked the textures of lit candles
Mobs rammed by goats will no longer retaliate
Axolotls and Glow Squids now only spawn in total darkness and where there's a natural stone block less than 5 blocks below the spawning space

THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW

Download the latest datapack.

FIXED BUGS IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 3

MC-203773 - Lightning rod is floating when held in third-person
MC-215946 - Game fatally crashed while exploring chunks (IllegalStateException: Accessing PalettedContainer from multiple threads)
MC-222223 - Baby axolotls despawn
MC-223147 - Vines aren’t rendered with /setblock
MC-223227 - Floating water caves in caves under the ocean
MC-224893 - Replacing Chunk Futures causes several issues
MC-225077 - Vines can spread upward to non-full blocks
MC-225344 - Cave generation seems to be broken at seemingly random chunk borders
MC-226441 - Lit candle texture doesn’t change when on cake
MC-226514 - Crash trying to start a world: Error: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot read field “u” because “â˜ƒ” is null
MC-226660 - “Double closing program” warnings upon closing the game
MC-226874 - Player’s owned player_head on mobs are flashing
MC-226956 - Gravity blocks do not break when doEntityDrops is set to false
MC-226970 - Stars are occluded by render fog
MC-227018 - Changing or reloading resource packs does not reload core shaders until reloading a second time

FIXED BUGS IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 2

MC-68129 - Smooth lighting doesn’t work properly underwater
MC-196298 - Arrows fired into the side of bamboo or pointed dripstone never despawn
MC-205840 - Smooth lighting behaves oddly on blocks covered with tinted glass
MC-213767 - Flowering azalea leaves ID is unintuitive
MC-220698 - The ExplosionPower of ghast fireballs is uncapped, causing a freeze / crash
MC-223602 - Glowing translucent entities often don’t merge their outlines with other glowing entities
MC-225190 - Tnt can be pushed with enchanted sword with knockback
MC-225911 - Slimes and Magma Cubes not interacting with player
MC-226470 - Nether Fossils generate on the nether roof above bedrock in soul sand valleys
MC-226561 - Facing away from signs with glowing text makes the text disappear or z-fight
MC-226576 - Unknown CPU on Debug menu.
MC-226782 - /debug start does not work as described

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.

Pre-releases can corrupt your world, so please make a backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar: