Minecraft 1.16.200.52 Changelog

Goats!

We are excited to introduce the first Caves and Cliffs feature in this week's beta - The Goat! Goats will be behind a new Experimental Features Toggle - you will need to enable this to be able to test them out.

• The goat will spawn in extreme hills biomes for now, until we prepare a permanent place for them to live and practice their head-butting skills
• Goats are the mountain kings. They can climb mountains and rough terrain, and take reduced fall damage
• They love to jump - usually when you’re least expecting it!
• Beware! They are mischievous and might knock intruders off the mountainside!
• Goats may drop a horn item if they ram into a tree

Powder Snow!

• Added powder snow block
  • Enable the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle to test powder snow out in this week's beta!
  • This block is currently only available through the creative inventory
• Leather boots make it easier for players to traverse powder snow
• Entities can enter powder snow blocks, but their movement is slowed down while inside, and fall damage is ignored
• Goats are smart enough to avoid powder snow blocks when pathing
• Powder Snow blocks have a slightly different texture than regular snow blocks
• When the camera is inside a powder snow block fog is rendered around it and an overlay texture is rendered on it

Bug Fixes

Performance and Stability

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Large numbers of scheduled instant updates should no longer crash the game
• Fixed occasional crash when going through a portal or flying around
• Fixed a crash that would occasionally occur while flying or moving around the game world

General

• Only preview items will be shown in crafting screen when auto crafting an item on controller. This prevents rapid updates of the recipe book
• Fixed a bug where End Portal blocks were not removed after an End Portal Frame block is destroyed. Filled blocks other than end portal blocks will remain in place
• Fixed paperdoll such that it can now always be rotated with the mouse when in the dressing room

Accessibility

• Emote wheel now supports the screen reader
• Fixed a bug where UI screen reader did not read the screen title and shortcut buttons on the Invite to game Screen
• Fixed an issue where the screen reader was not reading updates often enough on some devices
• Fixed the screen reader so messages with controller icons in the Chat Screen are read correctly
• UI Screen Reader now reads the Open Chat Message while Text To Speech For Chat is turned off

Gameplay

• Double chests no longer lose contents when reloading the world
• Compass is no longer consumed when used on a Lodestone in creative mode
• Cocoa Pods generated in jungle now generate in the proper direction
• Signs no longer replace decorations when attempting to place in the same space as the decoration
• Right-clicking a snow block with a shovel no longer breaks the snow block
• Dirt paths (formerly grass path) can now be made by using a shovel on dirt, podzol, mycelium or course dirt (as well as grass)
• Updated the Netherite leggings texture
• Twisting Vines can no longer be placed on Composter blocks while sneaking

Mobs

• Villagers will no longer steal workstations from each other
• Mobs no longer randomly stop attacking and following their targets
• Piglins that are close together can no longer pick up the same item if it's dropped between them
• Mobs no longer spawn in Wither Roses
• Bees now only exit at the front of Bee Hives and Bee Nests

Commands

• /playsoundcommands now play the sound correctly for all players in range
• /effect command duration is now capped at 1,000,000 seconds
• Add ticking area commands performed in the same tick now disallow adding areas with the same name twice
• Placeholder text message for the /titleraw command success no longer returns to player
• FadeOutargument is no longer ignored in /title's times command
  
  

Graphics, Textures, and User Interface

• Update Zombified Piglin texture to remove flickering of loincloth
• "Classic Controls - Intense" font color now matches the surrounding text in VR Controls menu
• [X] button in Chat Settings is no longer present when using a controller
• Profile screen has been improved, now characters will be visible and can be selected or modified as soon as they load
• Fixed a bug where the visual focus indicator was lost when hovering on tabs
• Glowsticks no longer use placeholder textures (Education Feature)
• Loading screen tips won't display the key "tips.game.62"
• Avoid purchasing Realm if player cancels out of "Purchase History Needed" dialog

Scripting, Add-Ons, and Technical Changes

• Change set_block and set_block_at_pos to use BlockDescriptor when specifying block_type
• Items with the item lock component no longer cause the recipe book to show invalid recipe results

Blocks

• Added query.cardinal_facing_2d to get a ground plane direction that doesn't return up or down
• Added the ability to put block models into the models/blocks folder
• Added the ability for item triggers to send events to the block they are interacting with (when there is one such as on_use_on)
• Added the ability to query the interacted face for both interactions with blocks and using minecraft:on_use_on in an item. Face can be queried with query.block_face
• Fixed face occlusion with data driven blocks to properly account for unit cube transparent vs unit cube opaque
• Fixed a crash caused by heap corruption with entity_collision and pick_collision components
• Data-driven blocks no longer have their top faces rotated 180 degrees when carried or in inventory
• Mobs are no longer teleported back and forth outside solid objects if there is not enough space for multiple entities

Event Responses

• "add_mob_effect" and "remove_mob_effect" no longer throw content errors when valid effect names are passed in
• Added documentation for "remove_mob_effect" to make creators aware they can use the value "all" in effect to remove all mob effects from a target
• Fixed items not being placeable in additional horse equipment slots. Does not fix all equippable behaviors
• Inventory size on the minecraft:inventory component has to be increased to match the equippable slots in order for the server to accept the item placement
• The tooltip for item with item lock component will no longer show when game rule showtags is disabled