Minecraft 1.16.220 Changelog

Changes:

• Dye can now be used to change the color of sign text
  
  

Known Issues:

• Players are unable to see and join LAN sessions on Xbox without on Xbox Live Gold subscription
• Paintings appear invisible when placed
  
  

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to rename a map on an anvil while its second slot was occupied
• Fixed a crash when entering a Nether Portal and throwing a Bottle o' Enchanting at the same time
• Improved input latency on Windows 10 when VSYNC is enabled

Gameplay

• Fixed fog in Nether biomes not rendering properly in some Resource Packs
• Players with Visitor permissions now drop inventory on death

Mobs

• Fixed Drowned holding tridents backwards during attack
• Drowned will now swing their arms when throwing tridents
• Zombie, Zombie Villager, Husk, Pillager, and Vindicator now use correct bone to attach shields
• Mobs that pick up shields now place it in their off-hand
• Non-persistent mobs no longer despawn immediately after loading into the Nether

Blocks

• Projectiles now pass through Structure Void blocks
• Improved placement rules for placing blocks on sides of stairs, slabs, and Top Snow blocks
• Pistons and Sticky Pistons no longer appear black when Outline Selection is disabled

Accessibility

• Enabled screen narration with touch input on the new achievements screen
• Fixed a bug where the screen reader didn't read out default controller focus and checkbox state on the 'Online Play is not Rated' prompt
• Fixed a bug where the screen reader would read the wrong text while using VR

User Interface

• Enabled "Find Friends" button on Xbox
• Controllers are now able to select the "Button Mode" toggle in the Advanced Settings NPC screen in the Jurassic World pack
• The "Results" field for search within the marketplace inventory now updates properly between different sections within the screen
• The death screen is now visible when behind full-screen effects (on fire, standing in a portal, etc.) while playing in VR
• Fixed translucent rendering of occluded UI elements, also when viewing menus near blocks while playing in VR
• Selecting the featured offer on the profile screen now properly redirects to the complete list of featured offers
• Made the Sign In button text fit the button in Portuguese-BR
• The Storage menu on now uses lighter text color
• Fixed an issue where button textures weren't scaled properly when applying Resource Packs
• Enabled navigating to the Back button using only keyboard in some screens where it was not possible

Commands 

• Entity selectors no longer allow self-selection with cheats disabled
• The '/clear' command will now apply the correct "data" argument for the sapling item
• Command blocks in a command block chain will now list the correct amount of ticking areas when a new ticking area is added before listing
• Title command no longer duplicates % symbols in message
• Using teleport with the execute command now uses the dimension of the origin for its operations

Character Creator 

• Steve’s Pants no longer change the color of the bottom of feet when no footwear is equipped
• Fixed other players appearing as Steve in multiplayer
• Changing skins while in split-screen now properly saves for all local players and update properly for remote players
• Alex’s shirt no longer looks corrupted when equipped with different pants
• "Hooray!" emote will now display in the emotes section if already owned

Technical Changes and Fixes

• Renamed all references of Actor to Entity
• Renamed 'BlockPos' to 'BlockLocation'
• Added 'startSequence' to GameTest, which allows finer control over advanced test sequences
• GameTest sequence callbacks no longer take test as a parameter as the initial test object now lives as long as the whole test
• Updated Behavior Packs to require explicit module dependencies when using other native modules
• Identifiers within "render_controllers" will now be considered content errors if there is no render controller matching that name
• Entity json before version 1.16.100 will no longer give a content error for the deprecated field "minecraft:foot_size"
• modified condition in 'trident.animation_controllers.json' to allow mobs to enter  'wield_third_person_raise'
• Fixed an issue where loading into a world would cause continuous MoLang errors around "unhandled request for unknown variable"
• A black screen no longer covers the player icon in the pause menu in some worlds. Content creators no longer need to override both focus_border_frame.png and pause_screen_border.png for correct behavior
• Items can now have the "transparentattachable" tag applied to make attachable items not render for the player wearing them in the first person perspective
• Fixed an issue where V2 Villagers were not properly updating their MoLang variables on initialization

Updates to GameTest Framework

• Updated Blocks shorthand helpers to be camelCase
• Updated Blocks shorthand to only include vanilla blocks
• Added Blocks.get to fetch a block and return null if it doesn't exist
• Added BlockStates to enumerate all block states
• Added setState to Block to update its block state
• Added BlockPos class
• Added ItemStack class GameTest Module
• Added Tags to enumerate all built-in tags
• Updated all methods that took x, y, z position to take a BlockPos
• Exposed padding when registering game test
• Fixed issue where previous failed GameTest markers still show up in new worlds

Movement Prediction

• Fixed projectiles on third-party servers ignoring server movement packets
• The server will adjust the player's fall distance to take into account the client player's position when a player movement correction or anomaly is detected

Network Packets

• Changed cipher algorithm to AESGCM256 for UDP stream