Minecraft 1.16 Pre-Release 1

1-16-pre1-launcher
Release: 4 years ago

It's time for 1.16 pre-releases!

Going forward you should mostly see bugs being fixed. Additionally, pre-releases doesn't necessarily tend to our usual cadence of releasing on Wednesdays, so keep an eye out!

New Features in 1.16 Pre-release 1

  • Added new "Fabulous" graphics option - uses per-pixel blending layers for some transparent elements

Changes in 1.16 Pre-release 1

  • You can now milk Cows and Mooshrooms in creative mode
  • You can now get stew from Mooshrooms in creative mode
  • When you use an empty bucket on water in creative mode, you now get a bucket of water. If you have a bucket of water in your inventory already, no additional water buckets will be added when you use your empty bucket on water.
  • When any villager is struck by lightning, the witch it is converted to will no longer despawn
  • Added gamerule universalAnger (disabled by default), which makes angered neutral mobs attack any nearby player, not just the player that angered them. Works best if you disable forgiveDeadPlayers.
  • Added gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers (enabled by default), which makes angered neutral mobs stop being angry when the targeted player dies nearby.
  • Zombified piglins no longer attack innocent bystanders (unless you enable gamerule universalAnger)
  • Zombified piglins stop being angry if the targeted player dies nearby (unless you disable gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers)

Technical Changes in 1.16 Pre-release 1

  • Smithing recipes can now be added or changed through data packs
  • Game will now detect critical datapack issues, like missing required tags and prevent world from being loaded

Data Pack Selection

  • Data packs can now be selected before world is created
  • "Copy world" option will also copy data packs present in source world

Pack Selection Screen

  • Packs can now be dropped directly on data and resource pack selection screens
  • Dropped files and directories will be copied to appropriate places

Smithing Recipes

There's now a smithing recipe type. Recipes of this type are used in the smithing table to upgrade one item type into another type, maintaining tags.

  • base - Ingredient specifying an item to be upgraded.
  • addition - Ingredient specifying valid items to trigger the upgrade.
  • result - Item specifying the resulting type of the upgraded item.

Fixed Bugs in 1.16 Pre-release 1

  • MC-4520 Aggressive neutral mobs become neutral when the world is reloaded
  • MC-9856 you cannot pick up buckets of water/lava in creative mode
  • MC-36322 Unable to milk cows in creative
  • MC-64623 Lightning bolts cannot be targeted by selectors
  • MC-69032 When a mob hits a zombified piglin, and that mob dies, the zombified piglins attack you
  • MC-90969 Cannot get mushroom stew from mooshrooms / milk from cows in creative mode
  • MC-106968 Snow golems aren't damaged by splash or lingering water bottles
  • MC-127004 Waterlogged blocks cause z-fighting when looking at them from a distance
  • MC-138675 Wither skulls inflict the Wither effect on players in Creative mode
  • MC-138713 "Two by Two" advancement does not require donkeys or mules
  • MC-158906 After sleeping in a bed, players aren't positioned in the center of a block
  • MC-159500 Hostile mobs attacking bees also cause the bees to attack players
  • MC-161969 Casting issue: Adding ender eyes to end portal frames at high distances causes particles to lose precision
  • MC-163950 Ice bordering water causes z-fighting issues from a distance
  • MC-164692 Entering a boat does not play the hand animation
  • MC-165669 Hand animation is playing when you're aiming at a block through the mob and use the spawn egg
  • MC-165734 Minecarts with furnace still display a hand animation with incompatible items when not on a rail
  • MC-166188 Bees still hitting player after death
  • MC-166524 Trying to dye a sheep with the same color as sheep displays hand animation
  • MC-167042 Casting issue: Campfire embers are generated at a point that loses precision at high coordinates
  • MC-167044 Casting issue: Enchanting table book does not open for the player at high distances in some cases
  • MC-167046 Casting issue: Lava ember particles and lava popping sounds lose precision on creation at high coordinates
  • MC-167047 Casting issue: TNT blocks ignited by other explosions lose precision at high coordinates
  • MC-167091 Casting issue: Water particles dripping from leaves lose precision at high coordinates
  • MC-167195 Bees anger towards players in survival when killed in one hit
  • MC-167971 Casting issue: Particles emitted by redstone repeaters lose precision at high coordinates
  • MC-168675 Settings that update after closing the video settings menu don't if you change the fullscreen setting
  • MC-170872 Casting issue: Nether biome particles suffer from precision loss
  • MC-170944 /locatebiome messages do not fit for all biome names
  • MC-171035 Casting issue: Particles from falling rain lose precision at high coordinates
  • MC-171037 Casting issue: smoke produced by lava during rain loses precision at high coordinates
  • MC-171663 Right-clicking on unemployed villagers sometimes cause hand animation to stop after a villager has a profession
  • MC-171683 Crimson and warped doors can't have transparent textures
  • MC-172259 Baby Hoglin/Zoglin have their head slightly above their neck, it seems that their head is partly floating
  • MC-172531 Small mobs get stuck in fence corners
  • MC-172610 When not aiming at a block through a ridable mob while using a spawn egg on it, the player starts riding the mob and a baby mob is spawned
  • MC-174815 Piglins don't automatically attack withers
  • MC-175028 Sometimes hoglins don't avoid warped fungus
  • MC-175215 Respawn anchors destroy blocks when detonated underwater
  • MC-175409 Soul speed "effect" stays when you levitate/fly off of soul sand or soul soil
  • MC-175476 Respawn anchor doesn't cull block faces
  • MC-175911 Soul Speed lasts after leaving soul blocks
  • MC-176041 Using a spawn egg on a strider while aiming at lava spawns both a baby and an adult strider
  • MC-176188 Striders are not damaged by splash or lingering water bottles
  • MC-176225 Accelerating a baby strider's growth does not display hand animation
  • MC-176470 Respawning in the nether does not de-aggro zombified piglins
  • MC-176637 Closing game during Mojang load screen causes NullPointerException
  • MC-176640 You can set your spawn point inside dangerous blocks
  • MC-178567 Shearing sheep does not display hand animation again
  • MC-178618 Feeding a flower to a brown mooshroom does not perform hand animation
  • MC-178961 /loot ... fish ... command no longer has any functionality
  • MC-179561 Retreating baby hoglins sometimes won't pathfind to the opposite direction of the player
  • MC-180111 Hoglins angered for reasons other than being attacked by the player ignore placed repellents.
  • MC-180922 Right clicking a mob with a spawn egg to spawn the baby variant doesn’t play the hand swing animation when not aiming at a block through the mob
  • MC-182308 Chicken jockeys cannot despawn
  • MC-182748 Casting issue: Redstone dust particles are generated at the wrong positions at high coordinates
  • MC-182883 Parity issue: Baby hoglins don't follow adult hoglins
  • MC-183766 Who Is Cutting Onions Improperly Capitalized
  • MC-183767 Incorrect filename for "Serious Dedication" advancement in vanilla data pack
  • MC-183792 piglin_loved item tag has unnecessary items
  • MC-183821 "Game Mode Switcher" bottom hint text isn't centered
  • MC-183825 New nether challenges don't grant experience points
  • MC-183893 Gold nugget isn't under #piglin_loved
  • MC-184679 Using custom world generation, temperature is written wrong
  • MC-184947 Carriage return symbol can be seen when importing or exporting world generation settings to or from certain worlds
  • MC-185095 "thrown_item_picked_up_by_entity" advancement trigger does not work for players
  • MC-185377 Bone mealing kelp creates a large field of particles, rather than only within the kelp's block space
  • MC-185480 Casting issue: Smoke particles emitted by campfires during rain form at the wrong positions at high coordinates
  • MC-186062 Warning "Could not find uniform named InSize in the specified shader program." when loading resources
  • MC-186064 Clouds render in front of everything for some users
  • MC-186067 Some structures' loot chests do not contain any items
  • MC-186071 Clouds are visible and don't render correctly when they are turned off
  • MC-186074 Particles render in the wrong order with transparent blocks when using certain graphics cards
  • MC-186075 GPU usage in latest snapshot significantly higher than before, causing lag or crash for some users
  • MC-186080 Entities, block entities, and items are rendered black on some graphics cards
  • MC-186088 Block hitboxes once again cause semi-transparent blocks not to render behind them
  • MC-186089 Functions load before entity tags do, causing loading errors.
  • MC-186101 Some commands in functions cause a NullPointerException
  • MC-186108 Enchantment glint does not render on dropped/thrown items
  • MC-186109 You can use multiplayer commands on a singleplayer world
  • MC-186124 Lightning bolt doesn't render
  • MC-186204 Items render in front of other entities, transparent blocks, and blocks with special renderers
  • MC-186253 Held translucent blocks make the water, clouds, particles, and placed translucent blocks behind them invisible in third person mode.
  • MC-186274 Purple light from Ender Dragon's Death doesn't appear
  • MC-186284 Player's point of view is upside down in 20w22a
  • MC-186314 Villagers become fixated on potential job site
  • MC-186335 Bees age calculation inside hive/nest is broken
  • MC-186455 Persistent villagers without experience can despawn after converting to a witch
  • MC-186464 Enabled data packs still show up in the "/datapack enable" list
  • MC-186478 Tag minecraft:tick doesn't work when joining a world
  • MC-186480 Inner parts of slime blocks and honey blocks disappear again while the block is moved by a piston
  • MC-186600 Nether gold ore is gray on a map
  • MC-186696 Totem of Undying causes red or blue tint in the screen when in F5 mode