Another snapshot is now available for Minecraft: Java Edition. This snapshot brings a few gameplay changes and some technical tidbits, such as the place command and cryptographically signed chat commands.

Enjoy!

Changes in 22w18a

• Allays now follow their liked player even if they can’t see them
• Allays will only lose track of a player if they are more than 64 blocks away
• The texture of the sonic boom particle has been updated
• Vibration listeners such as Sculk Sensors, Sculk Shriekers and Wardens now listen to the closest vibration instead of the first vibration in the tick

Technical Changes in 22w18a

• Banner patterns available in the Loom can now be controlled with tags (banner_pattern/no_item_required for no pattern item and banner_pattern/pattern_item/* for specific banner pattern items)
• Servers can now define different chat style formats for clients
• Removed the placefeature command
• Added the place command
• The bundled Java runtime has been upgraded to 17.0.3
• Removed loot table function set_goat_horn_sound
• Added loot table function set_instrument
• Chat from the /say, /msg, /teammsg, and /me commands are now all also cryptographically signed

Chat Types

• Different chat style formats can now be controlled by the server through the chat_type registry
  • These are synchronized to clients when they join the server
  • The translation key or translation format can be defined, like chat.type.text or %s says: "%s"
    • Chat can be similarly optionally narrated with a custom translation key or format
  • The entire message can have formatting applied, such as italics or a specific color (but currently not click or hover events)

Place Command

New command that replaces placefeature and can place features, jigsaws and structures at a given location. Syntax:

place feature <feature> [pos]
place jigsaw <pool> <start> <depth> [pos]
place structure <structure> [pos]

• feature: The namespaced id of a feature to try to place
• structure: The namespaced id of a structure to try to generate
• pool: The namespaced id of a template pool to start generating
• start: The namespaced id name of a jigsaw to use as the starting anchor
• depth: The maximum number of jigsaw connections to traverse during placement
• pos: The position to use as the origin for the generation (if omitted, ~ ~ ~ is used)

Loot Tables

New functions

set_instrument

Sets item tags needed for instrument items to a random value selected from a tag.

Parameters:

• options - a tag reference specifying the instrument options to randomly pick from

Fixed bugs in 22w18a

• MC-207935 - Simultaneous vibrations don’t trigger as expected
• MC-232009 - Minecraft does not resolve SRV records correctly
• MC-249021 - The invitation and news buttons aren’t consistently displayed within the realms menu
• MC-249129 - The walking animation of frogs doesn’t change in relation to their movement speed
• MC-249175 - Only one sculk vein drops when using a Silk Touch hoe on multiple in a single block space
• MC-249454 - Sculk Catalysts will spread sculk if a baby mob that does not drop experience dies around it
• MC-249732 - Allays lose picked up items on world restart
• MC-249740 - Allays leashed to a fence do not move and refuse to pick up items
• MC-249784 - Ancient Cities can be submerged in aquifers
• MC-249857 - Parity Issue: Allays don’t follow the player / note blocks as closely on Java
• MC-250139 - Snow layers cannot be placed on top of mud
• MC-250143 - Improper advancement description for “Sneak 100”
• MC-250144 - “Sneak 100” advancement includes sculk shriekers as a block that can “hear” the player
• MC-250145 - Warden/frogs continue animations when the game is paused
• MC-250163 - Warden can still detect things after it dies
• MC-250183 - Warden continues to roar when angered by an ignited creeper
• MC-250198 - Warden continues to roar when the target of the enraged warden suffers an unnatural death
• MC-250207 - Warden continues to roar at disconnected players
• MC-250216 - Warden continues to roar at targets in unloaded chunks
• MC-250218 - Warden continues to roar at despawned target
• MC-250244 - Warden continues to roar when the target enters the nether portal, end portal or end gateway
• MC-250245 - Warden sonic boom attacks can hit player even if the player has entered another dimension
• MC-250292 - Wardens can sometimes freeze when overwhelmed with enemies/attacks/sounds
• MC-250506 - Mangrove leaves can appear at a higher altitude when grown below y = 0
• MC-250557 - Allay permanently stuck trying to pick up item stack if its slots contain stack of the same type with differing NBT (and vice versa)
• MC-250864 - Game fails to load worldgen settings when .DS_Store files are present in datapack
• MC-250926 - There is a goat horn in the creative Destroy Item slot / all tabs within the creative inventory contain goat horns
• MC-250937 - User skins don’t load in singleplayer
• MC-250939 - Game crashes when a goat horn with an invalid sound variant is used / java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index <index> out of bounds for length 8
• MC-250954 - Player is assigned a new UUID in singleplayer
• MC-250974 - MinecraftClientHttpException when opening/creating a world

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.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

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