Minecraft 1.16.210.53 Changelog

Powder Snow

• The powder snow block now emits particles when an entity is moving inside of it, or landing on it
• A freezing effect is gradually applied to the player and any mobs that are inside powder snow blocks
• Freezing effect is removed from any mobs or players that catch fire
• Players in survival mode can now turn damage from freezing effect on/off using game rule, e.g: "/gamerule freezedamage false"
• Mobs that have sunk into powder snow now can navigate through it
• Entities on fire now have their fires extinguished when stepping into powder snow
• Redstone dust, torches and item frames can no longer be placed on powder snow
• Gravity blocks no longer break when landing on powder snow
• While within powder snow blocks third person camera is no longer pushed to the inside of the character's head
• Mobs spawned inside Powder Block no longer have a risk of spawning underground
• Powder snow block is not present in Creative Inventory anymore
• Powder snow no longer stops projectiles in Bedrock
• Lightweight mobs now can climb and navigate through powder snow blocks
• Rabbits, silverfish and Endermites don't fall through powder snow blocks
• It is now possible to specify a list of blocks that an entity should avoid
• Goats are smart enough to avoid powder snow blocks when pathing
• An entity walking through powder snow will make the correct step sound regardless of which block is being walked on
• Wearing Leather Boots now allows entities to climb powder snow Blocks
• Powder snow Blocks have unique interaction sounds
• When the camera is inside a powder snow block fog is rendered around it and an overlay texture is rendered on it
• Buckets can be used to pick up and place powder snow
• Powder snow blocks have a slightly different texture than regular Snow blocks
• Entities can enter powder snow blocks, but their movement is slowed down while inside
  • Fall damage is ignored
• Leather boots make it easier for players to traverse powder snow
• Fixed occlusion for powder snow; adjacent blocks no longer appear transparent when inside powder snow

Nether Ambient Sounds

• Mobile players now experience ambient sounds in The Nether
• Be sure to update the Minecraft Original Music Pack via the Marketplace to hear these new sounds!

General

• Shulker Boxes no longer lose their inventory when undyed in cauldrons
• Added new logic for mobs dismounting rideables
  • This also introduces a more fine grained entity height check allowing different dismount places for entities of different heights
• The player will no longer dismount into liquids (lava or water) from rideables such as boats
• Added F11 as a keyboard shortcut for full screen mode
• Sign in failures now have a more helpful error message and provide error codes

Gameplay

• In all worlds created with the same seed, the same chest will now always generate the same content in the same order
• Double Chests placed at chunk borders don't become partially invisible and don't crash the title when they are opened
• Golden Apple and Enchanted Apple now have colored hotbar text when selecting them

Technical

• Added new slash command options for '/setblock', '/fill', and '/clone' commands for passing in a list of block states to set on the block being spawned
• Changing 'RideableComponent' property "rotate_rider_by" to function for custom mobs