Minecraft Snapshot 20w15a

It's a wonderful day in Sweden today! The sun is shining and spring is in the air. And when I say "spring" I'm talking about pollen. Let's fix that by 1.) Staying indoors and 2) introduce a brand-new biome with a grain of basalt, blackstone, and magma cubes! To spice it up, we also have some new fine tunes for you to listen to while traversing the Nether. Enjoy the snap!

New Features in 20w15a

- Accessibility improvements - added a Piglin banner pattern - The Basalt Deltas biome was added to the Nether - Added soul campfires. Warm your buns with the heat of a thousand souls! - Added three new tracks of Nether music. cracked and chiseled nether stones, chiseled nether bricks, as well as quartz bricks! A new set of stone blocks, Blackstone, has been added. It is available in regular, polished, or polished brick variants. The new set includes Gilded Blackstone- This is a Blackstone that has been imbued with gold and will drop gold nuggets after being broken. Blackstone can be used for making furnaces and stone tools.

- Addition of "Line Spacing" chat and accessibility option - Added "Chat Delay" accessibility option

Basalt Deltas

Remains of volcanic eruptions, this biome has a high concentration of basalt columns and lava deltas When you walk through, you'll be surrounded by white ash flakes that flow in a slurry - Magma Cubes finally have a home to call home, spawning very frequently - A new block, Blackstone, can be found in large patches here

Nether Music

We're happy to announce that we've added three new tracks for the forthcoming Nether Update, all composed by the talented Lena Raine.

Rubedo will be played in the Nether Wastes Chrysopoeia will be played in the Crimson Forests

So Below will be performed in Soulsand Valleys as well as in Basalt Deltas.

Lena has two words to say about the music. More information will be available in a separate blog post.

- "One of the main instruments in Minecraft is the piano, and so one of my tasks to myself was to determine how far I could make the piano's sound until it resembled other things entirely-again the alchemical process." "I wanted each piece to feel like a progression , or a journey through the Netherworld. The Nether is stunning, but also frightening in its size and detail.

Take a portal to the Nether and then stay for a while and listen...

Changes in 20w15a

Dispenser is changed. - Soul sand can now also be used to create soul torches. Now, nether vegetation blocks (sprouts roots vines and fungusus) as well as fungusus (fungusus wart and wart blocks) can be composted. Walls can be connected to more things. (like iron bars, panes and even pickles!) - The best tool to break leaves is the hoe. - Mobs don't walk on magma blocks , or create campfires.

Dispenser Changes

- Dispensers can now saddle horses and pigs - Dispensers are now able to put horse armor on horses - Dispensers can now put carpets on llamas - Dispensers can now put chests on llamas, donkeys and mules - Dispensers can now shear a mooshroom. Dispensers can also shear snow golems

Technical Changes in 20w15a

- Tab completion for resource loc will match any portion after an _____ - Mob pathfinding-related optimizations

Fixed bugs in 20w15a

MC-171463 - Iron Bars don't fully connect to walls MC-172120 - Hoglins don't attempt to stay clear of fire MC-172209 Non-fire resistant mobs don't try to avoid walking into fire MC-172226 - Baby animals villagers, villagers, and zombie villager spawned by eggs that spawn on an adult creature always are the same version MC-172268 Bartering with a piglin by right-clicking will not show hand animation MC-174542 - Killing baby hoglins drops leather and porkchop MC-174559 - Baby hoglins/zoglins uses the same attack damage as an adult when they are spawned in certain cases MC-175030 Curse of Binding doesn't affect Piglins MC-175169 - Respawn Anchor can create ghost blocks when it explodes. MC-175176 Return portals in The End softlocks the game when /spawnpoint is used in The End MC-175256 - Screen is covered with a grey opaque texture when inside the transparent block MC-175274 "Quartz pillar" is translated as "White wool" ("Lana blanca" instead of "Pilar de cuarzo") in Spanish (Spain) (MC-175356).  plugins Piglins and hoglins don't avoid magma blocks MC-175538 - Fish/Swimming sounds are more loud than they should be MC-175566 Piglins with full inventories will drop the items they received MC-176095 - Striders don't have a fin in the strider.png texture file MC-176384 CompassItem checks twice to see if LodestonePos tag is present MC-176517 Striders are spawned in lava pockets in underground lava MC-176633 - Lime carpets are referred to as "acacia slab" in Spanish (Spain) The MC-177069 Dispenser cannot drop glowstones when not connected to an anchor to respawn MC-177085 A missing UUID field in attributes crash the game Zoglins aren't an undead mob MC-177225 - Tag minecraft:water before it was bound