Minecraft 1.16.2 Pre-Release 2

Minecraft 1.16.2 Pre-Release 2
Release: 4 years ago

We have now released the second pre-release for Minecraft 1.16.2, in which another round of bugs have been squished!

Changes in 1.16.2 Pre-release 2

  • Crimson and Warped Roots no longer require shears when mined

Technical Changes in 1.16.2 Pre-release 2

Execute Command

  • execute in now respects dimension scaling

Fixed bugs in 1.16.2 Pre-release 2

  • MC-69876 Pistons at Y=1 do not push downwards / at Y=254 do not push upwards
  • MC-124320 Endermen can pick up and place snowless snowy grass blocks
  • MC-130558 Item frames cannot be emptied if gamerule doEntityDrops is set to false
  • MC-134084 If gamerule sendCommandFeedback is disabled, /msg or /tell don't display the message to the sender
  • MC-136553 Dyes in creative inventory are in reverse order
  • MC-152037 Powered, activator and detector rails are deleted when pushed/pulled onto a block they cannot be placed on
  • MC-187357 Strongholds will not generate in floating_islands or caves preset
  • MC-189736 "distance" within predicate no longer works
  • MC-190552 Demo mode resets position and inventory upon launch
  • MC-190859 floating_islands or caves buffet worlds no longer generate strongholds and ender eyes do not locate previously generated strongholds after upgrading to 1.16
  • MC-192136 Lava damage works differently than in previous versions
  • MC-192236 Endermen can place blocks on top of item frames on the floor
  • MC-192371 Paintings in the same block space pop off when chunk loads
  • MC-192845 Block Event Lag in 1.16 is excessive
  • MC-194217 Lava sets nether vegetation on fire despite it being fire resistant
  • MC-194867 Minecarts come out the wrong side of a nether portal and lose momentum when coming back to overworld
  • MC-194953 Custom Biomes are not useable in Predicates
  • MC-195803 Mob kill statistics are formatted in reverse: "N killed you times"
  • MC-195851 "Hat" layer on helmets detaches from Piglins' heads while bartering
  • MC-196245 Charged creeper does not always drop skull if zombie variants are nearby
  • MC-196441 Stonecutter/Smithing Table recipes are not given after crafting a stack of more than one
  • MC-196469 F1 hides the nausea green tint
  • MC-196473 Pufferfish gives Nausea II instead of the maximum of Nausea I
  • MC-196653 Creating multiple datapack dimensions which reference the same dimension_type string causes "unregistered dimension" crash
  • MC-196743 Custom/modified biomes don't work in the overworld